printer friendly pageANTHRO 178A: Culture, Narrative, and Medicine (HUMBIO 177C)
This course examines the ways in which medicine is practiced in diverse cultural contexts with narrative skills of recognizing, interpreting and being moved by the stories of illness. It is an examination of the human experience of illness and healing through narratives as presented in literature, film, and storytelling. We explore how cultural resources enable and empower healing and how narrative medicine can guide the practice of culturally competent medical care.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-CE, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Murphy-Shigematsu, S. (PI)
ANTHRO 180: Science, Technology, and Gender
Why is engineering often seen as a masculine profession? What have women's experiences been in entering fields of science and technology? How has gender been defined by scientists? Issues: the struggles of women in science to negotiate misogyny and cultural expectation (marriage, children), reproductive issues (surrogate motherhood, visual representations of the fetus, fetal surgery, breast feeding, childbirth practices), how the household became a site of consumerism and technology, and the cultural issues at stake as women join the ranks of scientists.
Last offered: Winter 2009
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender
ANTHRO 21N: The Anthropology of Globalization
Preference to freshmen. Anthropological approach to how cultural change, economic restructuring, and political mobilization are bound up together in the process of globalization.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 22: Archaeology of North America
Why and how people of N. America developed. Issues and processes that dominate or shape developments during particular periods considering the effects of history and interactions with physical and social environment. Topics include the peopling of the New World, explaining subsequent diversity in substance and settlement adaptations, the development of social complexity, and the impact of European contact.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
ANTHRO 31: Ecology, Evolution, and Human Health (ANTHRO 331A)
Ecology, Evolution, and Human Health Human ecology, environments, adaptation and plasticity, and their relationship to health and well-being considered in the broad comparative context. Topics include human population history, subsistence ecology, demography, reproductive decision making, urbanization, migration, infectious disease, the physiology of stress and the inflammatory response, social capital and social networks, nutrition, nutritional deficiencies, growth, and social inequalities. No prior course work in ecological or medical anthropology required.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 90D: Social Theory in the Anthropological Sciences
Required of majors. Foundational course in the history of social theory in anthropology from the late 19th century to the present. Major approaches to human culture and society: symbolic, social, material, and psychological. Questions about the role of theory in anthropology and how it can be applied to human issues. (HEF IV)
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 101: The Aztecs and Their Ancestors: Introduction to Mesoamerican Archaeology
The prehispanic cultures of Mesoamerica through archaeology and ethnohistory, from the archaic period to the Spanish conquest in the 16th century.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
ANTHRO 103: The Archaeology of Modern Urbanism
Seminar. Urbanism as a defining feature of modern life. The perspective of archaeology on the history and development of urban cultures. Case studies are from around the globe; emphasis is on the San Francisco Bay Area megalopolis. Cities as cultural sites where economic, ethnic, and sexual differences are produced and transformed; spatial, material, and consumption practices; and the archaeology of communities and neighborhoods.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 105: Ancient Cities in the New World (ANTHRO 205)
Preindustrial urbanism as exemplified by prehispanic New World societies. Case studies: the central and southern highlands of Mesoamerica, and the Maya region. Comparative material from highland S. America.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
ANTHRO 109: Archaeology: World Cultural Heritage (ANTHRO 209)
Focus is on issues dealing with rights to land and the past on a global scale including conflicts and ethnic purges in the Middle East, the Balkans, Afghanistan, India, Australia, and the Americas. How should world cultural heritage be managed? Who defines what past and which sites and monuments should be saved and protected? Are existing international agreements adequate? How can tourism be balanced against indigenous rights and the protection of the past?
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
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