General Calendar 2000-2001
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UNIVERSITY OF
REGINA General Calendar 2000-2001 |
ANTH 100 | ANTH 201 | ANTH 202 | ANTH 203 | ANTH 204 | ANTH 221 | ANTH 223 | ANTH 229AA-ZZ | ANTH 230 | ANTH 231 | ANTH 232 | ANTH 233 | ANTH 236 | ANTH 237 | ANTH 238 | ANTH 240 | ANTH 241-5AA-ZZ | ANTH 300 | ANTH 301 | ANTH 302 | ANTH 303 | ANTH 304 | ANTH 305 | ANTH 306 | ANTH 307 | ANTH 308 | ANTH 309 | ANTH 310 | ANTH 311 | ANTH 312 | ANTH 313 | ANTH 320-329AA-ZZ | ANTH 331 | ANTH 332 | ANTH 333 | ANTH 340 | ANTH 341 | ANTH 343 | ANTH 345 | ANTH 347 | ANTH 390-395AA-ZZ | ANTH 400 | ANTH 410AA-ZZ | ANTH 490-495AA-ZZ | ANTH 496-497AA-ZZ | ANTH 498-499
FACULTY
M. Calkowski (Dept Head)
V. Eichhorn
P. Gose
B.A. Rutherford
F. Slaney
Normally, ANTH 100 is regarded as a prerequisite to 200-level anthropology courses unless otherwise indicated. However, any student who, at the beginning of the second year, has declared a major in a field other than anthropology may seek approval from the head of the Anthropology Department to take any 200-level anthropology course without having taken ANTH 100. Students who obtain such approval will be responsible for any materials covered in ANTH 100 that are relevant to the course in question.
The general requirements for degrees in the Faculty of Arts are described on page 76.
BA
A major in anthropology must include the following:
1. ANTH 100, 202, 203, 300, 400
2. Three of ANTH 230-245
3. Four of ANTH 301-345, ANTH 410
4. Two additional courses in anthropology
Credit hours |
Anthropology major, required courses |
Student's record of courses completed |
3.0 |
ANTH 100 |
|
3.0 |
ANTH 202 |
|
3.0 |
ANTH 203 |
|
3.0 |
ANTH 300 |
|
3.0 |
ANTH 400 |
|
3.0 |
One of ANTH 230-245 |
|
3.0 |
One of ANTH 230-245 |
|
3.0 |
One of ANTH 230-245 |
|
3.0 |
One of ANTH 301-345, or 410 |
|
3.0 |
One of ANTH 301-345, or 410 |
|
3.0 |
One of ANTH 301-345, or 410 |
|
3.0 |
One of ANTH 301-345, or 410 |
|
3.0 |
ANTH course |
|
3.0 |
ANTH course |
|
42.0 |
Subtotal |
BA HONOURS
The honours program in anthropology must include the following:
1. All requirements of the BA degree
2. Three additional courses in anthropology at the 300- or 400-level
3. ANTH 498 and ANTH 499
Note: in order to meet the minimum requirements of the Faculty of Arts, students must take at least one 400-level anthropology course in addition to ANTH 400, 498, and 499.
Credit hours |
Anthropology Honours major, required courses |
Student's record of courses completed |
3.0 |
ANTH 100 |
|
3.0 |
ANTH 202 |
|
3.0 |
ANTH 203 |
|
3.0 |
ANTH 300 |
|
3.0 |
ANTH 400 |
|
3.0 |
ANTH 498 |
|
3.0 |
ANTH 499 |
|
3.0 |
One of ANTH 230-245 |
|
3.0 |
One of ANTH 230-245 |
|
3.0 |
One of ANTH 230-245 |
|
3.0 |
One of ANTH 301-345, 410 |
|
3.0 |
One of ANTH 301-345, 410 |
|
3.0 |
One of ANTH 301-345, 410 |
|
3.0 |
One of ANTH 301-345, 410 |
|
3.0 |
One of ANTH 410-497 |
|
3.0 |
300- or 400-level ANTH course |
|
3.0 |
300- or 400-level ANTH course |
|
3.0 |
ANTH course |
|
3.0 |
ANTH course |
|
57.0 |
Subtotal |
MINOR IN ANTHROPOLOGY
1. ANTH 100
2. 5 additional courses in anthropology
Credit hours |
Anthropology minor, required courses |
Student's record of courses completed |
3.0 |
ANTH 100 |
|
3.0 |
ANTH course |
|
3.0 |
ANTH course |
|
3.0 |
ANTH course |
|
3.0 |
ANTH course |
|
3.0 |
ANTH course |
|
18.0 |
Subtotal |
ANTH 100
Introduction to Anthropology
3:3-1
An introduction to the anthropological concept of culture, its uses in the explanation of human behaviour, and its impact on our understanding of human nature, language, and society. The course will explore cultural diversity through the comparative perspective that makes anthropology unique within the humanities and social sciences. It will also show how anthropologists analyse the connections between politics, economics, gender, kinship, and religion within particular cultures.
ANTH 201
Understanding Archaeology
3:3-1
An introduction to the discipline of archaeology: its purposes, problems, methods, and theories. A major aim of the course is to demonstrate archaeology as cultural anthropology concerning itself with earlier human cultures. The course will employ an approach drawing on archaeological examples ranging from the earliest pre-modern human cultures to the spectacular and well known early civilizations in order to demonstrate the nature of the discipline.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100
Note: This course is no longer offered and will be deleted in 2001.
ANTH 202
Anthropology of Language
3:3-0
An introduction to the anthropological study of language. Synchronic and diachronic perspectives in linguistic analysis. The relationships of language to mind, culture, and society.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or a linguistics course.
ANTH 203
Social Organization
3:3-0
An analysis of the political, economic, and ideological aspects of social organization, with particular emphasis on kinship, gender, and social stratification in non-industrialized societies.
Prerequisite: Any 100-level course in the social sciences.
ANTH 204
Human Evolution and Development
3:3-1
An examination of human origins and variation, covering such topics as the process and mechanisms of evolution and genetics. Emphasis on viewing evolution within its cultural, social, and ecological matrix.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or permission of department head.
Note: This course is no longer offered and will be deleted in 2001.
ANTH 221
Introduction to Prehistory of North America
3:2-1
Prehistory of North America from the appearance of humans in North America until European contact. The evolution of cultures in North America will be studied from an ecological perspective. Methodological issues will be examined.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100
Note: This course is no longer offered and will be deleted in 2001.
ANTH 223
Introduction to Prehistory of South America
3:3-0
Prehistory of South America from the earliest evidence of human presence to the development and ultimate collapse of the Inca State. Particular emphasis will be placed on the environmental and social phenomena responsible for the evolution of complex cultures including Chavin, Huari, Moche, Chimu, and Inca. Contemporary ecological and archaeological issues in South America will also be examined.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100
Note: This course is no longer offered and will be deleted in 2001.
ANTH 229AA-ZZ
Archaeology Area Studies
3:3-0
Archaeology of the peoples of a selected area. Area to be announced.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100
Note: This course is no longer offered and will be deleted in 2001.
ANTH 230
Ethnography of Southeast Asia
3:3-0
This course surveys the rich cultural diversity of Southeast Asia, ranging from the head-hunting and opium-growing tribal hill peoples to Hindu/Buddhist and Islamic civilizations. The course will provide some historical background to the area, and cover such topics as social and political organization, gender, religion, and aesthetics.
Prerequisite: One of ANTH 100, GEOG 100, HIST 100,
PSCI 101, SOC 100
ANTH 231
Andean Ethnography and Ethnohistory
3:3-0
This course traces the development of Andean cultures from the Inca empire through the Spanish colonial period and into the present. Special attention will be given both to the hybridization of "hispanic" and "indigenous" traditions and to the maintenance of boundaries between them. Topics covered will include political economy, state formation, social movements, class and racism, community organization, kinship, gender, religion, ritual, dance and music.
Prerequisite: One of ANTH 100, GEOG 100, HIST 100, PSCI 101, SOC 100
ANTH 232
Ethnography of Sub-Saharan Africa
3:3-0
This course provides an ethnographic and historical overview of the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial processes that have shaped Sub-Saharan African societies. Topics covered will include peasant farming, labour migration, religion, witchcraft, social movements, kinship, development, gender, tourism, colonialism, ethnicity, politics, hunting-gathering, apartheid, and popular culture.
Prerequisite: One of ANTH 100, GEOG 100, HIST 100,
PSCI 101, SOC 100
ANTH 233
Ethnography of the Himalayas
3:3-0
This course surveys the Himalayas as a culture area, investigates the economic, social, and religious strategies of various Himalayan peoples, and traces the influences of Tibetan culture and Buddhism in the region. The course will provide historical and geographical overviews of the area.
Prerequisite: One of ANTH 100, GEOG 100, HIST 100, PSCI 101, SOC 100
ANTH 236
Ethography of Mesoamerica
3:3-0
An examination of the contemporary cultures and social organizations of the peoples of Central and Southern Mexico and Guatemala. The contemporary scene is viewed against a background of prehispanic and colonial period cultures of the area.
Prerequisite: One of ANTH 100, GEOG 100, HIST 100,
PSCI 101, SOC 100
ANTH 237
Ethnography of Europe
3:3-0
Comparative analysis of processes and directions of social and cultural change in a selected area of Europe, particularly since World War II.
Prerequisite: One of ANTH 100, GEOG 100, HIST 100,
PSCI 101, SOC 100
ANTH 238
Ethnography of India
3:3-0
This course is an ethnographic survey of rural and urban India. It will explore connections between hierarchical social organizations (such as caste) and "popular Hinduism." The processes of urbanization and industrialization, and the establishment of India as a nation state, will be related to the emergence of new social identities and organizations such as class. Other topics to be covered include jajmani exchange relationships, festivals, pilgrimage, sects and cults, aescetics, household and kinship systems.
Prerequisite: One of ANTH 100, GEOG 100, HIST 100,
PSCI 101, SOC 100
ANTH 240
Popular Culture
3:3-0
This course will survey the popular culture of "modern" societies, particularly as expressed through mass media, music, speech, dress, consumption and recreation. It will explore how popular culture overlaps with and diverges from elite and scientific discourses, and how it helps articulate such pervasive modern world views as individualism and nationalism.
Prerequisite: One of ANTH 100, GEOG 100, HIST 100, PSCI 101, SOC 100
ANTH 241-5AA-ZZ
Culture Area Studies
3:3-0
Ethnology of the peoples of a selected culture area. Area to be announced.
Prerequisite: One of ANTH 100, GEOG 100, HIST 100,
PSCI 101, SOC 100
ANTH 300
Theory in Anthropology I
3:3-0
An examination of the major ideas and prominent figures in the development of anthropological thought. Although other eras will be covered, emphasis will be placed on the period from 1850 to 1950.
Prerequisite: ANTH 202 and 203.
ANTH 301
Economic Anthropology
3:3-0
The study of human livelihood from various theoretical perspectives including substantivism, formalism, Marxism, and symbolic anthropology: cross-cultural approaches to production, circulation, and property; folk economic models and their relation to western economic theories.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 and any 200-level course in the social sciences.
ANTH 302
Political Anthropology
3:3-0
Political power and process in cross-cultural perspective, including societies without specialized political institutions: analysis of the social organization of factionalism, dispute and violence, class and ethnic conflict, state formation, the colonial experience and political problems of emerging nations, legitimation, hegemony and ideology.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 and any 200-level course in the social sciences.
ANTH 303
Urban Anthropology
3:3-0
A cross-cultural approach to the characteristics of urban society and the effects of urbanization on such aspects of human life as work, families or sense of community. Anthropological research methods, such as holism and participant observation, will be examined for their applicability by students engaged in their own urban ethnographic research projects.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or SOC 100, and any 200-level course in the social sciences.
ANTH 304
Anthropology of Gender
3:3-0
How different cultures make distinctions between female, male, and other gender categories; cross-cultural variation in gender definitions and roles; how gender shapes and is shaped by other aspects of culture and society.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 and any 200-level course in the social sciences.
ANTH 305
Anthropology of Religion
3:3-0
Religion will be examined in its functional relations to other aspects of culture, especially in relation to the contrast between "primitive society" and "civilization." Anthropological approaches to the study of magic, witchcraft, myth, ritual, ethics, religious movements and cults will be reviewed.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 and any 200-level course in the social sciences.
ANTH 306
Anthropology of Art
3:3-0
A cross-cultural and inter-cultural exploration of aesthetics. This course compares the role of art in our own society to aesthetic expressions in other societies. It will also explore connections between anthropology and modern art movements. Various aesthetic forms may be addressed, including visual and performing arts as well as architecture.
Prerequisite: Any 200-level course in the social sciences or art history.
ANTH 307
Anthropology of Ritual
3:3-0
How we distinguish ritual from other kinds of activity, the role of religious and secular rituals in social action, and the challenges they present to notions of articulate belief and rationality. The course will discuss the variety of rituals within and across cultures, and cover theories that explain them, including intellectualist, functionalist, and performative approaches.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 and any 200-level course in the social sciences.
ANTH 308
Symbolic Anthropology
3:3-0
Introduction to theories of symbolism and methods of interpretation in anthropology, including debates over rationality, language and culture, structuralism, metaphor theory, and pragmatism.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 and any 200-level course in the social sciences.
ANTH 309
The Anthropology of Personhood
3:3-0
An exploration of diverse cultural understandings of personhood. This course will locate Western ideologies of individualism and agency within a broader range of notions about the self provided by comparative ethnography. It will discuss "culture and personality" and life history approaches to personhood from the perspective of more recent developments in anthropology.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 and any 200-level course in the social sciences.
ANTH 310
Race, Ethnicity, and Nation
3:3-0
How anthropologists analyze notions of race, ethnicity, and nation as constructions of social difference and identity in the modern world. This course will critically explore the social processes that both naturalize and politicize issues of culture and group membership in modern nation states. It will also discuss how social scientific theories have been involved in these developments.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 and any 200-level course in the social sciences.
ANTH 311
Sociolinguistics
3:3-0
This course will focus upon the analysis and interpretation of language in its social and cultural contexts. Topics will include ethnographic semantics and context, the descriptive analysis of speaking, dialects and speech styles, languages in contact, bilingualism, and theory and method in current sociolinguistic research.
Prerequisite: Permission of the department head. (Students interested in languages or in linguistic theory are invited to seek permission to register for the course whether their academic backgrounds are in humanities, education, science, or social sciences).
Note: ANTH 311 is not regularly offered.
ANTH 312
Anthropology of Colonialism and Post-Colonialism
3:3-0
Cultural practices, servile labour systems, forms of rule, and indigenous responses to colonialisms and their influences in post-colonial settings. Ethnographic and historical accounts of colonialism and their relation to the academic perspective called "post-colonialism." Special emphasis is placed on understanding how colonial categories, practices, and identities have been formulated, resisted, and reconfigured in the lives of the (formerly) colonized and colonizing.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 and any 200-level course in the social sciences.
ANTH 313
Material Culture & Consumption
3:3-0
A study of the investment of social values in the material world, including the cultural politics of "styles" in architecture, interior decoration, dress, etc. Consumption is approached ethnographically, in relation to modern personhood, kinship, & household formation. Practices such as collecting are studied in terms of the cultural politics of value in various societies. Emphasis is placed on modernity, with reference to ethnographic records of material culture in pre-industrial societies.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 and any 200-level course in the social sciences.
ANTH 320-329AA-ZZ
Selected Topics in Anthropology
Variable credit: 1-3 hours.
Courses designed as required for groups of senior undergraduates.
Prerequisite: Any 200-level course in the social sciences and permission of department head.
ANTH 331
Field Methods in Archaeology
6:
Conducted on a 40-hour maximum per week contact basis, this course is designed as a fieldwork practicum to teach basic research methods in field archaeology. Students will learn the basic methods of archaeological field research through archaeological survey, excavation, and basic laboratory procedures.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 and one other archaeology course (ANTH 201, 221, 223, 226, 229, or 332), or permission of instructor
Materials cost: $150.00
Note: This course is no longer offered and will be deleted in 2001.
ANTH 332
Theory and Method in Archaeology
3:2-1
The techniques and methods of archaeological research, both in the field and laboratory, for the systematic collection and interpretation of data. The application of new technology and ideas from other disciplines is emphasized.
Prerequisite: Any 200-level archaeology course or permission of department head
Note: This course is no longer offered and will be deleted in 2001.
ANTH 333
Ethnographic Research
3:3-0
This course will explore how socio-cultural anthropologists do ethnographic fieldwork, and the methodological, epistemological, and ethical issues they encounter in such research. Topics covered may range from the technical aspects of participant observation, ethnographic interviewing, and the writing of fieldnotes, to the broader issues of how a researcher's point of view and relation to the community under study influence the creation of ethnographic knowledge.
Prerequisite: One of ANTH 202, 203, 230-245, SOST 203, or permission of department head
ANTH 340
Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems
3:3-0
The contribution of anthropological methods and principles to the search for practical and ethical solutions to contemporary social and administrative problems involving intercultural communication and social change.
Prerequisite: Any 200-level course in the social sciences or permission of department head
Note: ANTH 340 is not regularly offered.
ANTH 341 (formerly ANTH 205)
Anthropology of Education
3:3-0
(Cross-listed with EFDN 307)
Concepts and methods of anthropology will be utilized for consideration of problems of education from a cross-cultural perspective. The course examines how the culture of a community permeates the educational process, patterning the value orientations, interaction patterns, and content of learning.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or SOC 100, and any 200-level course in education or the social sciences
Note: This course is no longer offered and will be deleted in 2001.
ANTH 343
Medical Anthropology
3:3-0
The comparative study of medical systems and how they interact with their social and cultural context, including such issues as the healer-patient relationship, the sociocultural construction of health and illness, and medical pluralism.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 and any 200-level course in the social sciences
ANTH 345
Cultural Resource Development and Administration
3:3-0
An examination of the problems and achievements in the development and management of prehistoric cultural resources, and of federal and provincial policy and legislation in the administration of public archaeology, including the role of community associations involved in heritage conservation.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 and any 200-level course in the social sciences
Note: This course is no longer offered and will be deleted in 2001.
ANTH 347
Anthropology of Development
3:3-0
A critical study of international development from an anthropological perspective. Special attention is paid to historical and cultural constructions of development at local, national, and global levels. Theories to be covered include modernization, dependency theory, neo-liberalism, and development as discourse. Topics to be discussed include structural adjustment policies, political ecology, gender and development, social movements, and non-governmental organizations.
ANTH 390-395AA-ZZ
Directed Reading and Research
Variable Credit:1-3 hours
Courses designed for individual students.
Prerequisite: Permission of department head
ANTH 400
Theory in Anthropology II
3:3-0
An overview of the principal schools of thought that have shaped the work of anthropologists since 1950.
Prerequisite: ANTH 300.
ANTH 410AA-ZZ
Anthropology Seminar
3:3-0
A seminar devoted to the study of special topics in anthropology. Topics to be announced.
Prerequisite: A 300-level course in anthropology and permission of department head
ANTH 490-495AA-ZZ
Directed Reading and Research Variable Credit:
1-3 hours
Courses designed for individual students.
ANTH 496-497AA-ZZ
Special Topics in Anthropology Variable Credit:
1-3 hours
Courses designed as required for groups of students.
ANTH 498-499
Honours Thesis
3:3-0
An original exposition of a topic approved by the department.
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