Critical skills will be enhanced that will be useful to the student in everyday life. Besides exposure to the scientific approach, students will learn to take an anthropological approach to identifying the cultural values promoted by particular claims about the human past. Nothing is more inspiring than the real story of human experience in the most distant reaches of time, and nothing is more thrilling than scientific discovery. Students will be exposed to the most exciting current research in archaeology to develop an enlightened perspective on the importance of scientific research to life in the modern world. In this class students will be exposed to the basic principles of anthropology and the methodology of scientific archaeology.
Values are beliefs, principles, and ideals that guide behavior.
Societies tend to maintain the status quo when there is at least marginal consensus on values and truth. When there is dissonance between what we reason or perceive as truth and what we value, a condition for a social movement is met. In this course, we will explore the ways in which gender shapes the perpetration, experience, and response to crime, especially violent crime. The course has three main sections. In Part I we will discuss what gender is and how it shapes our experience of the social world.