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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Alcohol, Chemical Dependence Treatment Services Program (non-credit) |
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ACDTSP 007 - Practicum in Alcoholism / Chemical Dependency Rehabilitation
30 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Participants enroll in the practicum work under supervision in licensed alcoholism/chemical dependency treatment facilities with people in need of treatment.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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ACDTSP 012 - Massachusetts Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LADC) State Test/review
1 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Massachusetts Licensed Alcohol and Drug COunselor (LADC) State Test Review Workshop - Workshop prepares counselors to take State exam to obtain a Massachusetts State Licence and prepares for the International Consortium and Reciprocity Commission (CRC) process.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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ACDTSP 018 - Criminal Justice and Substance Abuse
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Students will learn how the two systems of addiction and criminal behavior overlap and examine the roles and responsibilities that have resulted in greater communication and interdependence among the courts, adult and juvenile justice professionals, and the alcohol and other drug abuse treatment professional. Many corrections agencies routinely provide substance abuse treatment services. Substance abuse treatment agencies provide court liaison and monitoring services. Case management of drug-involved offenders is provided by substance abuse treatment staff.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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ACDTSP 043 - Practice of Addictions Counseling
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides the student intern with the knowledge and skills necessary to provide addiction counseling that meets the standards of best practices within the field.
Enrollment Requirements:
Department consent
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ACDTSP 044 - Co-Occurring Disorders: Treating Substance Abuse and Mental Illness
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course teaches participants how to effectively integrate the treatment of substance abuse and mental illness.
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ACDTSP 045 - Pre-Sentence Investigation Specialist
4.5 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This is a Forensic Cours providing instruction in the preparing and writing of pre-sentencing investigation reports, assements, and evaluations, that provide valid and reliable information to assistin determining criminal justice sanctions.
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ACDTSP 053 - Certified Clinical Supervisor Specialist (CCSS)
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This distance learning course provides the theory base and techniques essential for effective clinical supervision in alcohol/drug counseling. This course covers the clinical supervision domains with a specific focus on ethnical and legal issues. This course prepares students for clinical supervision credentialing.
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ACDTSP 054 - Certified Co-Occurring Disorders Specialist (CCDS)
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This distance learning course provides students with the essential theories and techniques necessary to effectively treat people who have both a substance abuse and mental health disorder. The development of a co-occurring competency and the application of evidence-based approaches are current expectations of state, federal and private payers. This course prepares students for co-occurring disorders credentialing.
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ACDTSP 055 - Certified Criminal Justice Substance Abuse Specialist (CCSAS)
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This distance learning course provides students with the essential theories and techniques necessary to effectively treat people who have substance abuse disorder and are involved in the criminal justice system. In addition, this course provides students with information on successful collaboration of substance abuse professionals and criminal justice professionals. This course prepares students for criminal justice addictions credentialing.
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ACDTSP 056 - Prevention Specialist (PS) in Alcohol & Other Drugs of Abuse
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This 40 hour student-directed distance learning course offers training that leads to the Prevention Specialist (PS) credential offered by various credentialing boards across the US. Prevention Specialist is one of the fastest growing credentials in substance abuse counseling in the US and abroad. This course covers the five competencies that comprise the Prevention Specialist credential: planning & evaluation, education & skill development, community organization, public policy, and professional growth & responsibility. This course is offered in the Digital Chalk (DC) student directed distance learning platform.
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ACDTSP 059 - Gambling: The Hidden Addiction
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The purpose of this course is to provide the tools necessary to assess and treat problem gambling and to provide the CEUs necessary to apply for problem gambling credentialing, including the Massachusetts Problem Gambling Specialist Certification (MA-PGS). It is intended for the education of clinicians, addictions counselors, and other professionals interested in counseling problem gamblers. Treatment approaches are explained, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Brief Therapies, Gamblers Anonymous and other peer support groups, and psychopharmacology. The course also examines the neurochemistry of gambling activity and the relationship of neurostransmitters with gambling and other compulsive behaviors.
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ACDTSP 060 - Problem Gambling: Advances and Recertification
1 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The purpose of this course is to inform the participants about new developments in treating problem gambling based on evidenced-based and best practices. The course will provide 10 educational hours (1.0 CEU), which can be used to renew the Massachusetts Problem Gambling Specialist Certification (MA-PGS), as well as recertification in other States. It is intended for the education of clinicians, addiction counselors, and health professionals who want to keep up with the latest developments in problem gambling treatment. Participants will learn about new and updated assessment and screening tools, conceptual models, treatment approaches and theories, and the continuing impact of expanded legalized gambling.
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ACDTSP 061 - Clinical Supervision in Problem Gambling
5 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The purpose of this course is to provide the necessary clinical supervision required for problem gambling credentialing. This course provides the teaching and mentoring to help counselors develop their skills in providing treatment for gambling addiction disorders. This course will accommodate the variable requirements of credentialing boards across the states. The general requirements include the supervision in what are recognized as the key performance domains for problem gambling counseling: addiction theories, basic knowledge of problem and pathological gambling, gambling counseling practice, special issues in gambling,and professional issues.
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ACDTSP 062 - Performance Enhancing Drug Use in Athletes and Students
2 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course reviews the current research on the use of Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) in Today’s Athletes and Students. Participants will be able to identify populations most at risk for abusing PEDs, understanding the motivation behind the use and abuse of PEDs, examine the role of PEDs in sports and academia, become knowledgeable in the health consequences, and utilize PED use & abuse screening and treatment approaches.
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ACDTSP 064 - Substance Abuse Treatment Group Counseling
2 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The course helps counselors improve their skills in leading group counseling sessions for substance abuse treatment. Specific attention is given to adolescents, ex-offenders, marijuana dependence, and suboxone treatment. Participants will understand types of groups, confidentiality, client placement, group development, stages of treatment, training, and supervision.
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ACDTSP 065 - Peer Mentor/Recovery Coach Certificate: MH/DD/SAS
5 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This 50-hour distance learning course offers training leading to the Peer Mentor Certificate offered by various credentialing boards across the US, including the IC & RC. This course offers 10 hours of training in the domains of advocacy, mentoring/education, and recovery/wellness support and 16 hours in the domain of ethical responsibility. Peer mentoring or Recovery Coaching is a set of non-clinical, peer-based activities that engage, educate, and support an individual to make life changes to recover from mental illness and/or substance use disorder conditions. This training is offered for MH/DD/SAS po;ulations.
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ACDTSP 068 - Addictions Counselor Credentialing Practice Exams
2 Credit(s) | Independent Study |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course prepares students for state and national addictions counselor credentialing examinations.
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ACDTSP 069 - Licensed Alcohol Drug Counselor Test-Prep
1 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This 10-hour distance learning course prepares students for the Licensed Alcohol Drug Counselor (LADC) exam.
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ACDTSP 070 - Contemporary Ethical Issues for Counselors
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course requires the viewing of five webinars. The five webinars are: Cultural consideration for the ethically aware clinician, Ethics in the online world, Ethics violations: a guide for reporting and managing the process, Clinical supervision; ethical dilemmas and other challenges, and Cultural humility and Counseling Hispanic and Latino populations. The student is required to successfully pass an exam located on the UMB/ACEP/Digital Chalk Learning Platform.
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ACDTSP 071 - Ethics for Addictions Professionals
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This offering covers the material in the textbook: Ethics for the Addiction Professional by J. Berton, 2014. This book is required reading for the UMB Addictions Counselor Education Program (ACEP) Online Practicum. The student is required to successfully pass this exam located on the UMB/ACEP/DigitalChalk Learning Platform.
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ACDTSP 072 - The Role of Prevention in Addressing Opioid Overdose
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This offering requires the viewing of the webinar: The Role of Prevention in Addressing the Opioid overdose crisis, including a review of relevant data on overdose rates from prescription opioid and heroin use, risk factors and prevention strategies identified from the literature. The student is required to pass an exam located on the UMB/ACEP/DigitalChalk platform.
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ACDTSP 074 - Criminal Justice and Substance Abuse II Certificate Course
4 Credit(s) | Lecture | Credit/no credit
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
40 hour course continuation for Criminal Justice Certification
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ACDTSP 018
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American Studies |
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AMST 100 - American Identities
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
“What is an American?” The subject of this course is how the diverse identities of North Americans are constructed, defined, and explained. Through a variety of resources-including historical sources, material artifacts, fiction, poetry, film, and music explore individual, family, community, ethnic, class, gender, and racial identities in relation to regional, national, and transnational identities.
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Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Students who have taken AMST 110G may not enroll in AMST 100
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AMST 101 - Popular Culture in America
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces students to the varieties of popular culture in America, including popular literature, live entertainment, radio, movies, and television. In-depth case studies of such particular forms of popular culture as humor and music are included. In class viewing and listening accompany case studies.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
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AMST 200 - Special Topics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
Various specialized topics are offered once or twice under this heading. Topics change from year to year and are announced before the beginning of each semester.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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AMST 201 - Latinos in the US
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course seeks to examine the development of people of Hispanic descent, and to understand how this history intersects important junctures in US history. The course explores such topics as the formation of Latino groups; emigration, migration, and settlement; the impact of Latinos on US culture; and the development of pan-ethnic identities.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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AMST 203 - The Thirties
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of American society and culture during the years from the Panic of 1929 to the attack on Pearl Harbor in December, 1941 using several kinds of evidence: the accounts of people who lived during the decade, the interpretations of historians, and the representations of artists, writers, and filmmakers. The objective of the course is to develop an idea of the main characteristics of American society and culture during the 1930s, a conception of the decade’s significance, and an increased understanding of the processes of historical and cultural analysis and interpretation.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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AMST 206 - The Sixties
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The course focuses on protest and the role of youth. Who protested and why? Was the phenomenon of the sixties an aberration or part of a larger radical tradition in America? What was the impact on the seventies? Readings are drawn from the works of participants in the student, black, feminist and peace protest movements, from the intellectuals who defended and attacked them, and from the growing body of retrospective, analytic, and historical literature which attempts to explain what really happened in that tumultuous decade.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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AMST 209 - The 1990s
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course studies American culture, society, politics, and social thought in the 1990s. From a stirrings of globalization to the fall of the Communist bloc; from the protests in Seattle to the overthrowing of apartheid in South Africa; from the racial uprisings in Los Angeles to the inertia of Generation X’s couch-surfing slackers; the 1990s were a decade marked by accelerating social, cultural, and political change, recorded by an increasingly omnipresent media. This course will study the decade in all its chaotic contradictions and inspiring innovation, particularly focusing on global contexts, generational shifts, emerging identities, and social upheaval.
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Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
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AMST 210 - American Society and Culture, 1600-1860
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Documents, diaries, letters, essays, fiction, and art, along with secondary historical and anthropological sources, are used to compare the dreams and realities of men’s and women’s lives in America from the first contact between European explorers and Native Americans up through the Age of Reform (1830-60). Topics include visions of landscape and nature; contrasting cultures of Indians and Anglo-Americans; family and “women’s place”; slavery; working class organization; and women’s rights.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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AMST 211 - U.S. Society and Culture, 1860-1940
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course traces the dreams and realities of men’s and women’s lives in the United States from the Civil War through the Great Depression. Topics include the Westward Movement, the Second Industrial Revolution, immigrants and the city, World War I, the great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance, and the emergence of a consumer society in the 1920’s. Among the materials analyzed in this course are primary sources such as photographs and paintings, film, short stories and poetry, letters and diaries, and public documents, as well as secondary-source analyses of specific themes and issues presented in scholarly historical essays.
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Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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AMST 215L - America on Film
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on the flowering of American cinema through decades of social, political, and cultural change. It examines both classic representations of “The American Experience” and films which challenge such classic representations. The relations between film and other arts, and between film, history, and ideology, are an ongoing concern. AMST 215L and CINE 215L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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AMST 223L - Asians in the United States
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This multidisciplinary course examines the social, historical, and structural contexts defining the Asian American experience from 1850 to the present. Topics include immigration, labor, community settlement, ethnicity, stereotypes, and race relations. AMST 223L and ASAMST 223L and SOCIOL 223L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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AMST 225L - Southeast Asians in the United States
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines issues arising from the resettlement of one million Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugees in the US since 1975. Topics include resettlement policies, adjustment and acculturation, changing roles of women and family, and the continuing impact of international politics. Media presentations and lectures by local Southeast Asian community leaders highlight the course. AMST 225L and ASAMST 225L and SOCIOL 225L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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AMST 228L - Asian Women in the United States
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Drawing on women’s voices in literature, sociocultural research, and historical analysis, this course examines the experience of Asian women in the United States from 1850 to the present. Topics include the transformation of Asian women’s traditional roles as part of the acculturation process; exclusion; changing roles within the Asian American family; resistance to oppression as defined by race, gender, class; and the continuing impact of international politics. AMST 228L and ASAMST 228L and SOCIOL 228L are the same course.
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Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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AMST 235 - The Social History of Popular Music
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course analyzes the social forces, technological advances, and multicultural influences that have contributed to the development of US popular music, including Tin Pan Alley pop, blues, country, rhythm and blues, rock ‘n’ roll, rock, soul, punk, disco, rap, and heavy metal. Popular music is treated as commercial mass culture and discussed as a social indicator. Extensive use is made of audio and video recordings.
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Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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AMST 250 - U.S. Travel and Tourism
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Tourism is the world’s largest industry. We encounter tourists on Boston’s Freedom Trail, Harvard Square in Cambridge and on Cape Cod. In turn, we ourselves are tourists as we travel to Washington D.C., Disneyworld, and beyond. The tourist experience shapes our understanding of the past, our perceptions of ourselves and others, and our notions of the ‘authentic’ and the ‘exotic.’ Tourist encounters often place inequalities based upon class, race and ethnicity in sharp relief. Using history, anthropology, and cultural studies, this course explores the nature of tourism and how it affects and reflects U.S. culture.
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Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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AMST 260L - African-American Folklore
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the development and the significance of African-American folklore through study of its various genres: music, tales, legends, shorter verbal forms, material culture, folk belief, and folk humor. Emphasis is given to both African survivals and Indo-European influences in these genres. AFRSTY 260L and AMST 260L are the same course.
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Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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AMST 263 - The History of Hip Hop and Hip Hop as History
3 Credit(s) | Lacture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines how significant American cultural form is a vessel for understanding history and social issues. We will explore hip hop from numerous angles: its historical development, various ways of interpreting it textually, the social conversations it has hosted and the many cultural categories it has penetrated, including film and television, literature, fashion, and journalism. There will be several visitors to the class who are engaged in the Boston hip hop scene, and students will work with the hip hop archive that the Healey library has acquired as well as interacting with hip hop’s Boston manifestations. This is a hands-on, interactive course designed with the support of the Mellon Foundation.
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Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
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AMST 268L - The Italian-American Experience
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the cultural history of Italian-American communities from the early Twentieth century to present. The course will explore representations of Italian-Americans in literature,film and popular culture. Taught in English, no previous knowledge of Italian is required.
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Diversity Area: United States
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AMST 270L - Native Peoples of North America
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introductory survey of Native American societies and cultures. Emphasis is given to the descriptive comparison of selected Native American societies, on their histories, and on problems in cross-cultural understanding. The course focuses on pre-twentieth century cultures and history. AMST 270L and ANTH 270L are the same course.
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Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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AMST 278L - U.S. Documentary Photography
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines U.S. documentary photographs as constructions of the past that articulate the social and political assumptions of their times. We will assess the impact of these photographs on their contemporary audiences and how they have shaped Americans’ collective memories of such events as the conquest of the West, mass immigration, the Great Depression, and 9/11. AMST 278L and ART 278L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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AMST 285 - Food in American Culture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the cultural history and meanings of “American” foodways at home and abroad from the colonial period to the present. It considers how nation, region, gender, ethnicity, race, religion, global politics, and corporate America affect food production and consumption. It explores how the histories of immigration, industrialization, suburbanization, and globalization have transformed what, how, where, and why Americans eat, as well as how American food is perceived throughout the world.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
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AMST 301L - Childhood in America
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An interdisciplinary treatment of conceptions and practices of child nature and nurture in the United States, viewed in the context of American culture and history. The course begins with an historical overview of child life in America, with special attention to Puritan New England, nineteenth century industrialization and urbanization, and twentieth century trends. In treating contemporary childhood, the course examines mainstream patterns of the middle and working classes, both rural and urban; African-American child and family life; Hispano-American child and family life; enculturation among selected American Indian groups; the importance of gender as a variable in childhood experience; and the growing importance of formal institutions-such as schools, youth organizations, and medical institutions-as environments for young people. Children’s own cultural constructions, in the form of games and folklore, are also considered. The course concludes with an examination of selected policy issues affecting children, such as child abuse, medical intervention, day care, and the Children’s Rights Movement. AMST 301L and ANTH 301L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
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AMST 310 - Television in American Life
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The American experience with television and its cultural, political, and economic implications. Topics include technological innovation, entrepreneurship, the changing cultural content of “prime-time” programming, and public broadcasting cable system capabilities.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
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AMST 311L - American Oral History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores oral history interviewing, texts, and films, within the context of efforts to create a fully representative social and cultural history of the US. Students design individual or group oral history projects, to capture the experiences and perspectives of people formerly regarded as “unhistorical”-in particular, women, working class people, immigrants, people of color, and gays and lesbians. (Satisfies the research requirement for women’s studies majors.) AMST 311L and WGS 311L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
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AMST 312 - The United States & the Middle East since 1945
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course seeks to elucidate the current crises in the Middle East in terms of their root in policies pursued by the United States after World War II and by analyzing public attitudes toward the region embedded in religious and popular culture.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
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AMST 315L - Asian American Cinema
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the independently-produced films and videos by Asian American filmmakers and artists. Asian American independent cinema first emerged as early as the 1910s, but developed most significantly in the civil rights era and closely connected to both the Asian American political movement and the development of the Third World Independent filmmaking. This class begins with an exploration of the early history of Asian and Asian American son the American screen and then shifts to consider the role of Asian Americans behind the camera. We explore the post- 1960s production of Asian American film and video, ranging from documentary and narrative features to experimental, avant-garde, and short video. This is a hands-on, interactive course designed with the support of the Mellon Foundation.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: International
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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AMST 325L - Sexual Identities in American Culture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course studies the history of sexual identities in the twentieth-century United States, with a particular emphasis upon the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities, through the study of cultural texts such as novels, songs, films, and poems. Topics covered in the course include homosexuality in the turn-of-the-century United States, sex in the Harlem Renaissance, sexual politics in the Depression years, purges of gay women and men in federal employment during the cold war and sexual liberation in the 1960s and 1970s. AMST 325L and WGS 325L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102 and a minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor
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AMST 335 - Music And Politics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course treats popular music as a social indicator, examining the relationship between popular music and various social issues, problems, and movements. It is organized thematically, addressing such topics as racism, sexism, censorship, social change, consciousness raising, and the impact of globalization. The course draws on historical and contemporary readings at the intermediate and advanced levels. There is extensive use of audio and video recordings to explicate various themes and issues.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
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AMST 349L - The Cold War: Rise and Fall
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the shifting US and Russian images of each other during the rise and fall of the Cold War. It focuses in particular on the way that issues of difference play out in the US/Soviet/Russian encounter, and on the emergence of public perceptions which linked struggles for racial, gender, and social equality with Communism and its agents. AMST 349L and HIST 349L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: International
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
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AMST 350L - Race, Class, and Gender: Issues in US Diversity
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course deals with the interrelationship of race, class and gender, exploring how they have shaped the experiences of all people in the United States. Focusing on race, class and gender as distinct but interlocking relationships within society, the course examines both the commonalities and the differences that different historical experiences have generated. AFRSTY 350L and AMST 350L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
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AMST 352L - Harlem Renaissance
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on major texts of the Harlem Renaissance within contexts of modernism, history, and the development of an African American literary tradition. The course will examine how literature creates and represents real and “imagined” communities and will explore the diverse and often contradictory roles that literature plays in shaping, resisting, and reinforcing cultural discourses. AFRSTY 352L and AMST 352L and ENGL 352L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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AMST 353 - Latino/a Border Cultures
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to the field of border studies, this course investigates the linguistic, cultural and historical meanings of the concept of “border” for several Latino/a groups, particularly Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans, and Cuban Americans. While attending to the distinct histories of the groups in question, the course also looks for cultural and artistic links which connect Latino people.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
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AMST 355L - Black Popular Culture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course requires students to engage with Black/African diasporic cultural products intended for a mass audience. The macro-contents of American and global consumer capitalism and the micro- categories of ethnicity, gender, and sexualities are used as a framework for the critical analysis of production, consumption, and reception of African American popular culture in the US and abroad. AFRSTY 355L and AMST 355L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
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AMST 360 - Work, Society, and Culture in Modern America
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course has a double focus: the history of work in the modern US, and the cultural representations (fiction, movies, television, music, and others) that people have made of their working lives. All manner of work-from domestic service to farm labor-is considered. Above all, this course examines how work functions as a “way of life” in American cultural history.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
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AMST 372L - American Women Writers and American Culture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the significant contribution that women writers have made to the creation and development of an American national literature and culture. Points of emphasis include studying representative writers from different historical periods; examining the structures, forms, themes, concerns, and cultural contexts of individual works; and examining the relation of women’s writing to American culture. AMST 372L and ENGL 372L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
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AMST 375 - Best Sellers in American Society
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
“Best sellers” have shaped American views of science and nature; molded American business behavior; affected Americans’ notions of the past and their expectations of the future; and shaped public perceptions of gender, class, race, and ethnicity. In this course, we will read popular works, both fiction and nonfiction, published over the past century and a half and discuss the ways in which these books have influenced our images of our society and ourselves. The best sellers we will examine are those which were extremely popular with large sections of the public and/or influential in changing public opinion on major social issues. Readings for the course include Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Gone with the Wind, The Power of Positive Thinking, Silent Spring, The Feminine Mystique, and the novels of Stephen King.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
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AMST 376L - Women of Color
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives on a variety of theories, themes, and issues related to the experiences of women of color in both U.S. and global contexts. It examines the genealogies, practices, and agendas of women of color “feminisms,” and promotes a dialogue about the interactive impact of race, class, and gender on women’s lives. AMST 376L and WGS 376L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
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AMST 380 - Kennedys Of Boston
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides a background on the Kennedys and their times. It analyzes some of the political and cultural processes of which the Kennedys were a part, and in particular traces the rise of the Kennedy family in the context of the Boston Irish. Audio-visual material is used where appropriate to examine the role played by the media, that is, print, film, and television, then and now, in forming popular images of the Kennedy family.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
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AMST 383L - Masculinities
Formerly Men’s Lives in the US
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores how boys and men construct and perform gender in the U.S. This course investigates the production of masculinities in various institutional contexts such as family, school, work, and sports. This course examines the diverse experiences of boys and men by unpacking the intersections of masculinities with other systems of power such as race, class, and sexual orientation.
AMST 383L and SOCIOL 383L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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AMST 394L - Women in US Social Movements
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A selective survey of the motivations, strategies, experiences, and accomplishments of US women who have been activists in a variety of social movements during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students have the opportunity to do a research project on an activist in any of several movements, including, among others, anti-slavery, birth control, civil rights, gay and lesbian liberation, labor, peace, socialism, suffrage, temperance, and women’s liberation. AMST 394L and WGS 394L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor.
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AMST 402L - American Visual Cultures
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores the historical, cultural, and aesthetic importance of visual images in shaping ideas about empire, race, gender, class, work, and nation in American culture. We will think about our reasons for looking and how different historical contexts change how and why we look as consumers. We will learn how to interpret and analyze visual evidence from a variety of forms, including film cartoons live performance, photographs, and print advertising, from the mid-nineteenth century through the twenty-first. AMST 402L and ART 402L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: A minimum of 60 credits and two AMST courses or permission of instructor.
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AMST 405 - The Immigrant Experience
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Through letters, essays, autobiography, fiction, film, oral and written history, the course explores the historical and cultural issues raised by native-born Americans (Anglos) and immigrants (Aliens) who were involved during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in defining the sometimes agonizing process of becoming an American. Representative documents reveal a variety of conflicting views about the process and meaning of Americanization: from the defensive essays of Anglo-Saxon supremacists, through Jane Addams’ sensitive witness of immigrant life, the letters, diaries and accounts of immigrants, and two works of immigrant fiction.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: A minimum of 60 credits and two AMST courses or permission of instructor.
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AMST 410 - Cultural History of U.S. Media
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This capstone course will explore the historical emergence of selected media: the Penney Press in the 1830s, film 1896-1932, radio 1928-1960, and television 1948-1977. Examining these media in the period of emergence will show how each relied on and challenged prior forms of conveying information and telling stories, reshaping boundaries between fictional and the real.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: A minimum of 60 credits and two AMST courses or permission of instructor.
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AMST 430 - Music & Amer Lit
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
What special insight into American literature can be gained by linking literary texts to musical ones? This course examines the various ways in which popular musical forms, tropes, performance styles, mythologies (and so forth) have shaped, and been shaped by, twentieth-century American literature. Musical genres considered include blues, hip hop, punk, Tex-Mex, soul, and country. Weekly responsibilities include intensive and systematic listening as well as reading assignments.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: A minimum of 60 credits and two AMST courses or permission of instructor.
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AMST 440L - United States in a Global Context
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will situate thhe United States in a global context by considering US and non-US perspectives on key events of the twentieth century. Special focus: Public, media/arts as well as government perspectives. AMST 440L and HIST 440L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: A minimum of 60 credits and two AMST courses or permission of instructor
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AMST 470L - New England Literature and Culture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of the New England literary tradition from about 1850 to the near present. How have writers and critics contested their differing versions of native grounds and reinvented the New England idea in their works? Consideration of such topics as Native American culture, Puritanism and Transcendentalism, slavery and Abolitionism, immigration and ethnicity, nationalism and regionalism, industrialization, and popular culture. AMST 470L and ENGL 470L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: A minimum of 60 credits and two AMST courses or permission of instructor
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ANTH 105 - Introduction to Biological Anthropology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The study of human biological evolution and human population variation. This course introduces the history, theory, and methods of research in biological anthropology through lectures and hands-on exercises. Major topics include: geological time, classification, and the place of humans in the animal world; evidence for primate and human evolution; evolutionary theory and genetics; and discussion of the evolutionary forces involved in producing human population variation. This course addresses, in assignments and during class time, the following general education capabilities: critical thinking; using technology to further learning; quantitative reasoning; collaborative work; and effective communication. Students who have taken ANTH 102 may not receive credit for ANTH 105.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
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ANTH 106 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to the anthropological study of cultures, based on ethnographic descriptions and analyses of tribal, developing, and modern state societies. The course explores a variety of concepts and approaches to the study of culture, and participants acquire experience in critical reading, critical thinking, and analytic writing. Students who have taken ANTH 103 may not receive credit for ANTH 106.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
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ANTH 107 - Intro To Archaeology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The study of the past through scientific analysis of the traces left behind by humans. This course introduces the history, theory, and methods of archaeological research through lectures and hands-on projects. Archaeological data are then used to examine such major transformations of human cultural evolution as the domestication of plants and animals and the origins of complex civilizations. Students prepare a paper suitable for the Writing Proficiency Requirement Portfolio. Students who have taken ANTH 102 may not receive credit for ANTH 107.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
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ANTH 120L - Sports and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, and the Labor of Sweat
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores the place of sports in US history and culture. How have sports shaped US history/culture, and how has US history/culture shaped sports? As we read stories of races won, baskets made, fights fought, and players competing, we will explore sport-as-labor and focus on this main themes: the impact of immigration, industrialization, and urbanization on the games Americans played; the class origins of sports like baseball, boxing, football, tennis, and golf; sport and conflict between labor and capital; racial prejudice, gender exclusion, and integration in sport; athleticism and the evolving ideas about masculinity, femininity, and race; the links between sport, patriotism, and national identity; and sport as an arena for political protest.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
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ANTH 210L - Labor and Working Class History in the United States
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the history of labor and working people in the United States from the colonial period to the present. It explores the diversity of work and working-class experiences, the history of labor movements, labor conflicts, and the larger processes of social, economic, and political change that have affected work and workers. While work and organized labor receive central attention, the course gives equal consideration to the comparative dimensions of class and cultural identity, race and gender, immigration and ethnicity, family and community, technology, politics, and government policy. We will work to improve our skills in critical reading and writing. Lectures, readings, videos, and discussion explore the actions, opinions, identities, and experiences of diverse women and men. You will work on understanding and interpreting the materials. Short essays, in-class exams, and presentation will provide opportunities to develop your interpretations systematically and polish your writing skills.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: United States
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ANTH 211 - Human Origins
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to the study of man”s biological origins with emphasis on the fossil record, primate analogues of human behavior, and the variety and diversity of modern man including the adaptive significance of this variability.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or ANTH 105
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ANTH 230 - Archaeological Myth & Mystery
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces students to the myths, mysteries, frauds, and fantasies of archaeology and the human past, such as Atlantis, alien visitations, Stonehenge, pyramids, astronomical alignments, pre-Columbian visits to the North American continent, anachronistic artifacts, and outright hoaxes. These claims - some real, some false, some misunderstood, some intriguing - will be examined closely to see how well the explanations use evidence and how valid the assumptions are that uphold them. Students will learn how to critically evaluate these claims in their empirical, political, historical, and cultural contexts as well as try to understand the agendas, personalities, motives, and politics behind some o f the more unsupportable claims. Students my not receive credit for both ANTH 230 and ANTH 230G.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
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ANTH 232 - The Viking World
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Viking Age (c. 793-1050 AD) is best known as Scandinavian raids throughout coastal Europe. This course examines the archaeology of the societies behind the Viking raids from their origins in Late Iron Age Scandinavia, to their expansion into Europe and the British Isles, and on to the discovery of North America and the colonization of Greenland. In addition to covering the archaeology and history of Viking Age societies, the course presents and critically evaluates several anthropological themes which have been exemplified by Norse society: the Germanic mode of production, gift exchange and reciprocity, proto-world systems, gender and class identity, pagan religious systems and mythology, the archaeology of religious conversion, and cultural contact in the preindustrial world.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
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ANTH 238 - Empire and Imperialism: From Rome to the War in Iraq
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This class examines the way empires and imperialism have influenced the course of human history and continue to shape the present. Students will be challenged to view the events of today’s world within a deeper historical and cultural context in which imperial rhetoric has sought to characterize indigenous and colonized societies as backward and brutal. Through the examination of documentary and archaeological evidence, students will gain an in-depth understanding of the way imperial conquest has played and continues to play such a critical role in shaping the conflicts of the contemporary scene. Through class readings and a series of writing exercises students will gain competencies in the use of analytical concepts such as materiality, hybridity, diversity, and cross-cultural analysis.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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ANTH 247 - Ancient Cities & States
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course compares the processes of state formation in major civilizations, including Mesopotamia, Early Dynastic Egypt, Shang China, Aztecs of Mesoamerica, Inca of Peru. Recent archaeological and historical data are used to explore cross-cultural themes such as the provisioning of cities, role of religious ideology, social organization of land and labor, and gendered dimensions of power and social identity.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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ANTH 256 - Anthropology of Mass Violence
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Using an anthropological perspective on culture, race, representation, and power, this course examines the deliberate measures and actions aimed at the annihilation of specific racial, ethnic, religious, political, and cultural groups. It focuses primarily on the causes of mass violence: the intellectual histories of societies where mass violence has occurred; how the ‘enemy’ is invented; why mass killings are carried our; and the psychology and motivations of perpetrators. This course concentrates on the 20th century but includes also other historical events for topical purposes.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
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ANTH 260 - Anthropology On Film
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Film has become an important medium for recording and conveying information about human behavior. To what extent do ethnographic films present a complete and accurate record of cultural reality and to what extent do they project a filmmaker’s romantic vision of ‘message’? Examples of ethnographic film are viewed and discussed in light of these questions.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
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ANTH 262 - Dreams & Dreaming
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A cross-cultural exploration of dreams and dreaming across cultures, with general attention to the western Pacific, and the Mekeo people of Papua New Guinea in particular: review of the anthropology of dreams in the context of theoretical works by Freud and Jung, and recent neurobiological studies; and , the relationship of dreams to notions of the self, person, and individual.
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ANTH 263 - Environmental Anthropology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on people’s complex relationships to their environment. It examines different anthropological approaches to analyze human adaptive strategies to diverse ecosystems around the world from a historical and cross-cultural perspective. It will also examine the different strategies and knowledge systems that humans develop for managing their resources. Finally, the course looks at the rise of political ecology as a perspective to analyze the role of power relations, institutions and ideas of nature in environmental change and conservation.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
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