The structure of symbols, the natural and social elements they draw on, their social use, and the messages they convey. Students learn to record and analyze myth and ritual. Readings drawn from world mythologies, central texts of Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and classics of scientific thought. Analysis of medical practice as a cultural system, focusing on the human, as opposed to the biological, side of things. Also, examines how we and people in other cultures think of disease, health, body, and mind.
Subject material describes how identity and difference are inescapably linked.
Subject studies legal reasoning, types of law and legal systems, and relationship of law to social class and social change. Emphasis on the profession and practice of law including legal education, stratification within the bar, and the politics of legal services. Investigation of emerging issues in the relationship between institutions of law and science. You must enter the HASS-D lottery to take this subject. Exploration and conquest.