During the first week of course preregistration for spring and fall
terms, you may register for a total of four academic courses,
including a maximum of two Five College courses. This limit does not
apply during the add/drop periods. However, According to Amherst
College policy, students may register for a maximum of two Amherst
College courses per semester.
| Course | Title (click to view description) | Credits | Meeting Info |
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| ANTHR-105-01 | Intro to Cultural Anthropology | 4.00 | MW 11:30AM-12:45PM |
| Introduces the analysis of cultural diversity, including concepts, methods, and purposes in interpreting social, economic, political, and belief systems found in human societies. |
| ANTHR-105-02 | Intro to Cultural Anthropology | 4.00 | MW 03:15PM-04:30PM |
| Introduces the analysis of cultural diversity, including concepts, methods, and purposes in interpreting social, economic, political, and belief systems found in human societies. |
| ANTHR-105-03 | Intro to Cultural Anthropology | 4.00 | TTH 03:15PM-04:30PM |
| Introduces the analysis of cultural diversity, including concepts, methods, and purposes in interpreting social, economic, political, and belief systems found in human societies. |
| ANTHR-105-04 | Intro to Cultural Anthropology | 4.00 | TTH 01:45PM-03:00PM |
| Introduces the analysis of cultural diversity, including concepts, methods, and purposes in interpreting social, economic, political, and belief systems found in human societies. |
| ANTHR-216AU-01 | Peoples/Cultures of Australia | 4.00 | MW 11:30AM-12:45PM |
| Indigenous peoples of Australia have long been objects of interest and imagination by outsiders-for their ceremonial practices, social structures, religious forms, aesthetic expressions, and relationships to land. This course will explore how Aboriginal peoples have struggled to reproduce and represent themselves and their lifeways on their own terms -- via visual media (pigment designs on bark, acrylic paintings on canvas); performances (cultural festivals, plays, other forms); archival interventions (photographic, textual, digital); museum exhibition; and various textual genres (autobiography, fiction, poetry). We will examine "traditional" and "contemporary" productions as all part of culture and culture-making in the present, emphasizing that this is ongoing and intercultural work. |
| ANTHR-216BE-01 | Black Ethnographers | 4.00 | MW 01:45PM-03:00PM |
| The aim of this class is to underscore the significance of Black perspectives and contributions within the field of anthropology. Black anthropology, and especially Black feminist anthropology, has historically been sidelined within anthropological discourse. In this course, we will collectively challenge this historical erasure by centering the work of Black ethnographers. By delving into works spanning continental Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, students will begin to understand the vast impact Black ethnographers have had both in and outside the field of anthropology. |
| ANTHR-216HR-01 | Anthropology and Human Rights | 4.00 | TTH 10:30AM-11:45AM |
| This course explores anthropological approaches to human rights -- a key theme of transnational politics and international law. Anthropologists have contributed to discussions on human rights since the UN Declaration and the field has provided a vibrant platform to analyze ideologies, politics, and practices surrounding human rights. We will survey an array of anthropological studies that approach human rights from the perspective of cultural relativism, contextualization, advocacy, and practice. Students will gain a critical perspective on the seemingly universal rhetoric of human rights by learning how it produces diverse effects in places such as Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. |
| ANTHR-216RC-01 | Representing Race | 4.00 | MW 11:30AM-12:45PM |
| This class takes a ~look~ at the components of racial representation in audio-visual media: How can ideas and theories be conveyed or communicated through a visual mode? What ethical concerns emerge when representing others in different media? Drawing from written texts, documentaries, graphic novels, and artwork, we will explore the myriad ways media creatives construct racial representations, and question the perceived boundary between research and art. Starting with early anthropological film, this class will move through both conventional and nontraditional material that is used to tell stories, make political statements, and represent people's lived experiences. |
| ANTHR-240-01 | Medical Anthropology | 4.00 | MW 10:00AM-11:15AM |
| This course provides an introduction to medical anthropology. Core topics will include: the culture of medicine, the interaction of biology and society, the experience of illness, caregiving, addiction, violence, and humanitarian intervention. We will explore how ethnographic research and social theory can enrich understanding of illness and care, raising issues for and about medicine and public health often left out of other disciplinary approaches. Throughout, we will emphasize the vantage point of the local worlds in which people experience, narrate, and respond to illness and suffering, and the ways in which large-scale forces contribute to such local experience. |
| ANTHR-275-01 | Research Methods | 4.00 | TTH 09:00AM-10:15AM |
| Topics include research design, ethical dilemmas, and the relationship between academic research and community based learning. Applied fieldwork and presentations are an integral part of this course. |
| ANTHR-316CA-01 | Carbon Christianity | 4.00 | T 01:30PM-04:20PM |
| This seminar investigates the multiple connections between modern forms of Christianity and fossil fuels. The course begins with a consideration of recent scholarship that details how workers' everyday experiences in coal mines and oil fields profoundly shaped their religious sensibilities. We then examine how fossil fuel companies funded many of the most significant Christian institutions in the United States-both liberal and conservative -- during the twentieth century. Finally, the course will reflect on contemporary Christian responses to climate change, both those that seek to halt the burning of fossil fuels and those that deny it is taking place. |
| ANTHR-316EX-01 | Experimental Ethnography | 4.00 | TH 01:30PM-04:20PM |
| Above all else, ethnography is a form of writing. Its formal properties range widely, running a gamut that transects art criticism, speculative fiction, travel writing, memoir, science writing, and poetry. But the genre's soul is an imaginative experiment: transporting one world into another. Ethnographers, then, share practices of representation and evocation with the arts. This course introduces the craft of imaginative ethnography, paying central attention to writing that refuses the (social) sciences' stodgy conventions. We will reflect on experiential shapes of reading -- what does ethnography do for or to us? -- as we recompose ourselves as a collective of ethnographic experimentalists. |
| ANTHR-350-01 | Issues in Contemp Anth Theory1 | Variable | M 07:15PM-10:05PM |
| 1This course is variable credit: Five College students must obtain instructor permission to register.
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| This course explores the major theoretical frameworks developed and debated by anthropologists of the past two decades. It covers core issues in anthropological epistemology, the relationship of ethnography to social and cultural theory, trends in anthropological analysis, and the place of anthropological theory in broader academic and public discourses. |
| ANTHR-352-01 | Digital Cultures | 4.00 | W 01:30PM-04:20PM |
| In the last decades, digital media have become integral to our quotidian lives as well as to myriad translocal processes. "New" technologies are hailed in celebratory narratives of democratization and participation, access and innovation, enchantment and possibility; and newly-available gadgets, devices, and platforms are taken up with great speed and facility. This course is designed to ethnographically explore "the digital," as both a site and subject of scholarly inquiry, in which we think through how this form is shifting the ways in which we know ourselves, our social networks, our bodies, and the dynamic cultural and political contexts in which we live. |
| ANTHR-395-01 | Independent Study2 | Variable | |
| 2This course is variable credit: 1.00-8.00 credits.
2This course requires instructor permission
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| No description provided by host campus. |
| ANTHR-395-02 | Independent Study3 | Variable | |
| 3This course is variable credit: 1.00-8.00 credits.
3This course requires instructor permission
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| No description provided by host campus. |
