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Summer 2013 (June 6-July 11)
MTWThF 10:00-11:30 am
ANT F302
Cultural Anthropology (revised syllabus)
Instructor: Prof. Pauline Strong
E-Mail: pstrong@austin.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-8524
Office: SAC 4.130
Office Hours: after class, & by apt.
Overview
Materials
This course is an introduction to cultural anthropology. It fulfills a Social
Science and Cultural Diversity requirement.
The main text:
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Goals
Students will emerge from the course with
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knowledge of the complexity and diversity of cultures and societies. an awareness of various theoretical and methodological approaches to communication, interpretation, and representation across cultures. an enhanced understanding of their own experiences as social and cultural beings.
Improved critical and analytical thinking skills.
A book of readings:
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This is a fast-paced course that covers a semester’s worth of material in less than five weeks. Students are expected to
Attend class regularly
Complete readings prior to the class for which they are assigned
Engage fully in class discussions and exercises
Turn in assigned work on time
Spradley & D.W. McCurdy.
Conformity & Conflict, 14 ed.
Pearson, 2012.
An ethnography:
Requirements
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J.T. Omohundro, Thinking Like
An Anthropologist. McGrawHill, 2008.
B. Knauft, The Gebusi: Lives
Transformed in a Rainforest
World. McGraw-Hill. 3rd ed.
McGraw Hill, 2012. (Previous editions are acceptable.)
Milestones
This class is graded on a +/- basis, using a standard scale. Grades will be based on:
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•
•
•
Three projects (45% of the final grade)
Two tests (20% of the final grade)
One final exam (25% of the final grade)
Attendance and class participation,
Including exercises (10%)
Cultural Anthropology (revised syllabus)
Test 1
June 17
Evaluation
June 13
Project 1 due
June 24
Project 2 due
June 28
Test 2
July 8
Project 3 due
July
MTWThF 10:00-11:30 am
ANT F302
Cultural Anthropology (revised syllabus)
Instructor: Prof. Pauline Strong
E-Mail: pstrong@austin.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-8524
Office: SAC 4.130
Office Hours: after class, & by apt.
Overview
Materials
This course is an introduction to cultural anthropology. It fulfills a Social
Science and Cultural Diversity requirement.
The main text:
•
Goals
Students will emerge from the course with
•
•
•
•
knowledge of the complexity and diversity of cultures and societies. an awareness of various theoretical and methodological approaches to communication, interpretation, and representation across cultures. an enhanced understanding of their own experiences as social and cultural beings.
Improved critical and analytical thinking skills.
A book of readings:
•
•
This is a fast-paced course that covers a semester’s worth of material in less than five weeks. Students are expected to
Attend class regularly
Complete readings prior to the class for which they are assigned
Engage fully in class discussions and exercises
Turn in assigned work on time
Spradley & D.W. McCurdy.
Conformity & Conflict, 14 ed.
Pearson, 2012.
An ethnography:
Requirements
•
•
•
•
J.T. Omohundro, Thinking Like
An Anthropologist. McGrawHill, 2008.
B. Knauft, The Gebusi: Lives
Transformed in a Rainforest
World. McGraw-Hill. 3rd ed.
McGraw Hill, 2012. (Previous editions are acceptable.)
Milestones
This class is graded on a +/- basis, using a standard scale. Grades will be based on:
•
•
•
•
Three projects (45% of the final grade)
Two tests (20% of the final grade)
One final exam (25% of the final grade)
Attendance and class participation,
Including exercises (10%)
Cultural Anthropology (revised syllabus)
Test 1
June 17
Evaluation
June 13
Project 1 due
June 24
Project 2 due
June 28
Test 2
July 8
Project 3 due
July