Appalachia has always had strong global connections, environmentally, economically, and culturally. Current cultural and political economic issues in the region will be examined in comparative perspective through studying related histories and concerns of communities in Appalachia and other mountain regions, including social and economic marginalization within nation-states, resource extraction, low-wage work, migration, and environmental challenges.
Guided practical experience in teaching, supplemented with group discussions of teaching practice and selected reading on lecture technique, course development, test writing and other skills for participation in the professoriate. May be repeated to a maximum of three credits.
This graduate seminar explores food as fundamental to human existence in a variety of ways. We eat to maintain life - and the nutritional characteristics of human diets shape the development and health of individuals and populations. But, for the most part, humans do not eat nutrients, humans eat food, and food consumption and production is an intensely cultural, social, and political activity. We will explore food and nutrition from all these perspectives.
This course will provide students with an understanding of the ethical dimensions of social science research. Students will learn about the ethics guidelines of different social science disciplines and discuss case studies illustrating the kinds of ethical dilemmas that researchers may encounter. The course will also examine such topics as procedures of the Institutional Review Board and the protection of human subjects; ethical implications of community-based and/or participatory research; and the relationship between ethics, research methodologies, and modes of documentation.
An in-depth disucssion of theory and method of the various approaches to cultural and social factors in the etiology, distribution, and treatment of mental illness. Data from non-Western and Western cultures are examined.
Theoretical frameworks for the analysis of political systems and processes. The seminar explores politics as action and systemic process in contemporary, prehistoric, and historical contexts. Students are expected to formulate research questions and discuss current theory in a critical fashion.
A study of interrelationship among populations, organization, environment, technology and symbols. The course focuses on recent anthropological contributions to the understanding of ecological relationships both now and in the past, including how people exploit the environment and how resource exploitation results in environmental change.
This course examines contemporary issues and theory in the archaeology of a particular region of the world. Students may take this course up to 9 credit hours under a different region each time course is offered. Repeatable for up to 9 credit hours.
This course takes a cross-cultural approach to understanding how reproduction and associated phenomena (family formations and the social use of technologies) comprise arenas where broader political debates become played out, and social relations become created and contested. Ethnographic case studies include cross-cultural constructions of the body, parenthood, and kinship relations; and we examine how the state, social movements, legal/medical experts, and lay persons struggle to appropriate reproductive potentials for their own needs.
This course number is to allow for new and experimental classes to be introduced into the architectural curriculum on an ad hoc basis. The course, if adopted on a permanent basis, will be formally proposed for addition to the College curriculum and assigned a new, permanent number. May be repeated to a maximum of twelve credits under different subtitles.
