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 | TTH 10:30AM-11:45AM |
| 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 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-216MT-01 | Multispecies Ethnography | 4.00 | MW 11:30AM-12:45PM |
| This course considers emerging strategies in Anthropology and allied disciplines for researching, witnessing, and documenting the full web of life, broadly conceived, within which human and non-human beings are entangled. We explore debates over non-human personhood and the rights of natural ecosystems, such as rivers, mountains, and the earth itself. Close attention is given to varied indigenous perspectives on reciprocal (and non-extractive) relations among diverse living beings, and the possibilities of intersubjective awareness across human and animal domains. |
| ANTHR-216WT-01 | Witchcraft and Healing | 4.00 | MW 10:00AM-11:15AM |
| This course explores the often-misunderstood concept of "witchcraft," past and present. "Witchcraft" is at times used to characterize nuanced cultural systems of power and healing, which seek to explain and redress suffering. In turn, many societies experiencing environmental insecurity, health crises, and rapid economic transitions have seen the rise of "witch-hunting" movements, from the Salem witch trials to present-day global conspiracy theories. We consider the causes and trajectories of these movements, which often promise collective redemption and salvation through the scapegoating of suspected malefactors, and examine alternative approaches to redressing injustice and misfortune. |
| ANTHR-235-01 | History of Anthropol. Thought | 4.00 | MW 07:15PM-08:30PM |
| This course offers a historical foundation for themes in contemporary social theory and ethnography. We build this foundation through readings of twentieth-century anthropological and critical theories, including historicism, interpretive anthropology, structuralism, feminism, and postcolonialism. The course encourages critical and creative responses to anthropology's history through readings that challenge the canon and through active engagement with primary documents revealing the field's social, ethical, and political contexts. |
| ANTHR-248-01 | Science, Feminism, and Mhc | 4.00 | TTH 10:30AM-11:45AM |
| Students in this course will develop a collaborative history and ethnography of cultures of science at Mount Holyoke College. Through archival and ethnographic research carried out across the semester, we will examine scientific education and knowledge production at Mount Holyoke in cultural perspective. The collaborative project will introduce students to two broader stories: a history of feminist activist and scholarly challenges to the power of the life sciences; and a history of feminist scientists' work to reform their own institutional cultures. The interdisciplinary field that emerged at the nexus of these two movements, feminist science studies, will offer critical frameworks. |
| ANTHR-316ET-01 | Adv. Sem. in Ethnomusicology | 4.00 | MW 03:15PM-04:30PM |
| Designed for music and non-music majors, this advanced seminar examines core theoretical and methodological issues in ethnomusicology and the debates that have shaped its practice since its origins in the early twentieth century as comparative musicology. Drawing on musical traditions from different parts of the world and supplemented by workshops conducted by visiting professional musicians, the course explores the interdisciplinary approaches that inform how ethnomusicologists study the significance of music "in" and "as" culture. Topics covered will include ethnographic methods, the intersection of musicological and anthropological perspectives, the political significance of musical hybridity, applied ethnomusicology, and sound studies. |
| ANTHR-316MD-01 | Museums/Dialogs/Social Repair | 4.00 | M 01:30PM-04:20PM |
| Museums increasingly are called to nurture courageous conversations about the most difficult challenges of the day. This course explores strategies for museum design, exhibition development, and public programming that promote meaningful, civil debate about such topics as climate change, environmental justice, and the biodiversity crisis; race and the legacies of slavery and social violence; indigeneity and cultural diversity; gender and sexuality, and the rights of non-human beings. What roles in turn might, and should, museums play in building partnerships and processes of social and ecosystem repair, restorative justice, and reconciliation across painful divides of history? Students will work closely with local museums, historical societies, libraries, and community organizations to develop innovative exhibitions and public programs that promote meaningful dialogues about inclusivity, belonging, and social justice. |
| ANTHR-316ME-01 | Political Anthr Middle East | 4.00 | W 01:30PM-04:20PM |
| This seminar focuses on anthropological studies of how power - both in its open and hidden forms - manifests itself and shapes everyday life in the contemporary Middle East. It explores how authority is established and contested in various domains including bureaucracy and the state; sexuality and the family; religion and civil society; markets and the media. We will trace how experiences of colonization, imperialism, modernization, nationalism, capitalism, occupation, war and revolt mold the conditions of living for peoples of the Middle East. We will also examine how specific forms of knowledge production attribute coherence to the region, allowing its imagination as an object of intervention in the name of development and security. |
| ANTHR-316RC-01 | Ethnographic Rsrch in Religion | 4.00 | T 01:30PM-04:20PM |
| With a focus on local religious communities, this course puts into practice the research methods, modes of analysis, and writing styles that characterize ethnographic fieldwork. We first consider prominent ethnographies of religious communities in the United States in order to better understand the specific questions, debates, and ethical challenges that this literature addresses. Students then gain hands-on experience with a variety of ethnographic methods through course field trips to local places of worship. Final projects are rooted in extensive independent ethnographic research with a religious community. |
| ANTHR-395-01 | Independent Study1 | Variable | |
| 1This course is variable credit: 1.00-8.00 credits.
1This course requires instructor permission
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| No description provided by host campus. |
