This course is taught by McCue. This course is taught by Dominguez. So, however, have a good many other anthropologists. Students also read several ethnographies written by male and female anthropologists, and explore what difference gender might make in the construction of an ethnography. The course is designed with undergraduate anthropology majors who have had a course in women's studies in mind, but this is not a requirement.
Discussion is central to the course and informed participation influences grades.
Several small papers or projects and one longer research paper is required. The course is taught by Wolf. This is not a course on the treatment or prevention of alcoholism or alcohol-related problems. Rather, it is a medical anthropological examination of the variety of beliefs human beings have about alcohol and its consumption, and the range of behaviors they exhibit after they have consumed it. The course examines the biological effects of alcohol on human beings, various theories that have been proposed to account for human sociocultural variation, and the current state of medical anthropological research on alcoholic beverage use.