Fall 2020
ANTH 62: First-Year Seminar: Indian Country Today
Dr. Valerie Lambert
This course examines current topics in American Indian country today through the use of films and interactive case studies.
ANTH 63-001: First-Year Seminar: The Lives of Others: Exploring Ethnography
Dr. Towns MiddletonÂ
Can we truly access, understand, and represent the lives of others? In this class, students take on these questions by taking up the practice of ethnography, a research method consisting of entering into a community, interacting with its members, observing social life, asking questions, and writing about these experiences.
ANTH 64: First-Year Seminar: Public Archaeology in Bronzeville, Chicago’s Black Metropolis
Dr. Anna Agbe-DaviesÂ
In the early 20th century millions of African Americans migrated to large northern cities. The Phyllis Wheatley Home for Girls was run by black women to provide social services for female migrants to Chicago starting in 1926. The course combines elements of archaeology, anthropology, and history to study their lives.
ANTH 89: First-Year Seminar: Special Topics
Dr. Glenn Hinson
Special topics course; content will vary each semester. Honors version available
ANTH 89-036: First-Year Seminar: Special Topics
Dr. Florence Babb
Special topics course; content will vary each semester. Honors version available
ANTH 89: First-Year Seminar: Special Topics
Dr. Don Nonini
Special topics course; content will vary each semester. Honors version available
ANTH 102: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Dr. Angela Stuesse
An introduction to non-Western cultures studied by anthropologists. Includes an in-depth focus on the cultural and social systems of several groups.
ANTH 406: Native Writers
Dr. Valerie Lambert
Exploration of a broad selection of writings by native or indigenous scholars from tribal societies throughout the world. Seeks to understand the hopes, dreams, priorities, and perspectives of native peoples as expressed by and through their writers.
ANTH 439: Political Ecology
Dr. Don Nonini
Examines environmental degradation, hunger, and poverty through the lens of power relationships, particularly inequality, political and economic disenfranchisement, and discrimination. Discussion of global case studies, with a Latin American focus.