For a complete list of Anthropology Courses being offered in Fall '00 and for the times and availability of the following courses, consult the University Schedule of Courses . Prerequisites are listed for any course that requires them, many upper level courses do not. 158 Fundamentals of the Anthropology of Visual Communication. This course has been designed for anthropology majors specializing in the studies of visual communication, but it is also useful for sociology, FMA, and mass communication majors. Course consists of required readings, screenings, and active class participation.
Students keep a journal and write several short papers.
Although the course, as indicated, has a particular emphasis on genetics, the influence of environmental effects will be especially appreciated in this course, as the impact of culture is so dramatic, even with respect to human genetic evolution. 212 Medical Anthropology Professor White An integration of the cultural and biological perspectives on health, disease, and therapies developed from the anthropological study of human diversity. We will then consider the recent move toward interpretive and symbolic approaches to studying power and will discuss the contributions made by feminist theory. Ethnographies will be supplemented with articles by such authors as Talal Asad, Clifford Geertz, James Scott, Stephen Gregory, Sharon Hutchinson, Ida Susser and others. This course critically reviews the relationships between ethnographic film and indigenous forms of self-representation in video, film, photography and art.