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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with SOANPERT · returned 10 results
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AFST 215 Contemporary Theory in Black Studies 6 credits
This course examines the work of a major theorist in the Black intellectual tradition within the last seventy years. Students are invited to take a dedicated dive into primary scholarship by focusing on a figure such as bell hooks, Derrick Bell, Angela Davis, Charles Mills, Saidiya Hartman, Frank Wilderson, Maya Angelou, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and/or Cornel West. Students should expect an opportunity to examine primary scholarship and build analytical skills to trace themes and methods. This year’s focus will be on ethical, social, and political theory of bell hooks (1952 – 2021).
- Spring 2022, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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AFST 215.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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AFST 215.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Chielo Eze 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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AFST 330 Black Europe 6 credits
This course examines the history and experiences of people of African descent and black cultures in Europe. Beginning with early contacts between Africa and Europe, we examine the migration and settlement of African people and culture, and the politics and meaning of their identities and presence in Europe. Adopting a comparative perspective, we consider how blackness has been constructed in various countries through popular culture, nationalism, immigration policy, and other social institutions. We further consider how religious, gender, and immigrant identities inform notions of blackness. We conclude by examining contemporary Black European social movements.
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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AFST 330.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Daniel Williams 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 402 10:10am-11:55am
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ARCN 111 Archaeology of the Americas 6 credits
This class will examine how archaeologists know the past, focusing on North and South America. The course is organized by themes including migration (first peopling of the Americas, trans-Atlantic slave trade), early cities (Caral in South America, Teotihuacan in Central America, Cahokia in North America), and the environment (domestication, over hunting). Remember–the past is not something natural and static that waits to be “discovered.” The past changes depending on who gets to tell the story–it is not neutral! Whose past is legitimate? Which voices get heard or ignored? In this course, you will find out!
- Winter 2022, Spring 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
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ARCN 111.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 8:30am-9:40am
- FAnderson Hall 121 8:30am-9:30am
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ARCN 111.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 11:10am-12:20pm
- M, WAnderson Hall 122 11:10am-12:20pm
- FAnderson Hall 121 12:00pm-1:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 122 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ARCN 211 Coercion and Exploitation: Material Histories of Labor 6 credits
What do antebellum plantations, Spanish missions, British colonies in Australia, mining camps in Latin America, and Roman estates all have in common? All are examples of unfair/unfree and forced labor in colonial and imperial settings. This class will review archaeological, archival, and ethnographic cases of past coerced and exploitative labor, and compare them with modern cases such as human trafficking, child slavery, bonded labor, and forced marriage. Case studies include the Andes under Inka and Spanish rule, North American and Caribbean plantations, British colonial Australia, and Dutch colonial Asia.
- Winter 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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ARCN 211.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 8:15am-10:00am
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ARCN 246 Archaeological Methods 6 credits
As a field that is truly interdisciplinary, archaeology uses a wide range of methods to study the past. This course provides a hands-on introduction to the entire archaeological process through classroom, field, and laboratory components. Students will participate in background research concerning local places of historical or archaeological interest; landscape surveying and mapping in GIS; excavation; the recording, analysis, and interpretation of artifacts; and the publication of results. This course involves real archaeological fieldwork, and students will have an opportunity to contribute to the history of the local community while learning archaeological methods applicable all over the world.
Sophomore priority
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Science with Lab
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ARCN 246.52 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:15pm-3:00pm
- TArboretum OTHER 3:10pm-5:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARCN 246.53 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLanguage & Dining Center 104 1:15pm-3:00pm
- WArboretum OTHER 3:10pm-5:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARCN 246.52 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤
- Size:11
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 10:20am-12:05pm
- TAnderson Hall 122 1:45pm-5:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARCN 246.53 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤
- Size:11
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 10:20am-12:05pm
- WAnderson Hall 122 1:45pm-5:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARCN 246.52 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 10:10am-11:55am
- TAnderson Hall 121 1:00pm-5:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARCN 246.52 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 8:15am-10:00am
- TAnderson Hall 121 1:00pm-5:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARCN 246.52 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 10:10am-11:55am
- TAnderson Hall 122 1:15pm-5:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARCN 246.53 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 10:10am-11:55am
- WAnderson Hall 122 1:15pm-5:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARCN 395 Archaeology: Science, Ethics, Nationalism and Cultural Property 6 credits
This seminar course will focus on a wide range of contemporary issues in archaeology, including case studies from many continents and time periods that shed light on archaeological theory and practice. Specific course content varies. The course serves as the capstone seminar for the Archaeology Minor; enrollment is also open to non-minors.
- Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Fall 2023
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ARCN 395.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤 · Mary Savina 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- TAnderson Hall 122 1:15pm-5:00pm
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ARCN 395.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Alex Knodell 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- THAnderson Hall 122 1:00pm-5:00pm
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ENTS 250 Food, Forests & Resilence 6 credits
The course will explore how the idea of sustainability is complicated when evaluated through a socio-ecological framework that combines anthropology and ecology. To highlight this complexity, the course is designed to provide a comparative framework to understand and analyze sustainable socio-ecological propositions in Minnesota and Oaxaca. Key conceptual areas explored include: coupled human-natural systems, resilience (ecological and cultural), self-determination, and social justice across stakeholders. The course includes a series of fieldtrips to nearby projects of interest. This course is part of the OCS winter break Oaxaca program, involving two linked courses in fall and winter terms. This class is the first class in the sequence.
Winter Break Program in Oaxaca Mexico
- Fall 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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One of the following is recommended: Environmental Studies 110, Sociology/Anthropology 110, Sociology/Anthropology 250, Biology 210, History 170 or History 205
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ENTS 250.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Daniel Hernández 🏫 👤 · Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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GWSS 200 Gender, Sexuality & the Pursuit of Knowledge 6 credits
In this course we will examine whether there are feminist and/or queer ways of knowing, the criteria by which knowledge is classified as feminist and the various methods used by feminist and queer scholars to produce this knowledge. Some questions that will occupy us are: How do we know what we know? Who does research? Does it matter who the researcher is? How does the social location (race, class, gender, sexuality) of the researcher affect research? Who is the research for? What is the relationship between knowledge, power and social justice? While answering these questions, we will consider how different feminist and queer studies researchers have dealt with them.
- Winter 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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GWSS 200.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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GWSS 200.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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GWSS 200.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 1:15pm-3:00pm
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GWSS 200.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 402 10:10am-11:55am
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LTAM 220 Eating the Americas: 5,000 Years of Food 6 credits
Food is both a biological necessity and a cultural symbol. We eat to survive, we “are what we eat,” and delicious foods are “to die for.” What does this all mean in the context of Latin America, which gave us the origins of peanut butter (peanuts), spaghetti sauce (tomatoes), avocado toast (avocados), french fries (potatoes), and power bowls (quinoa)? In this class, we will explore the long history humans have had with food in Latin America, drawing from archaeology, ethnohistory, and anthropology to explore the relationship between food, culture, power, identity, gender, and ethnicity.
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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LTAM 220.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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SOAN 312 How Rude: (Im)politeness and (Dis)respect in Language 6 credits
Expressions of politeness and impoliteness differ between societies. From smiling at strangers to addressing a woman as “ma’am,” what is polite in one setting can be strange or antagonistic in another. This course focuses on cross-linguistic expressions of (im)politeness and (dis)respect, but also touches upon non-verbal behavior and communication. Older cross-cultural literature has focused on the positive valuations of politeness, deference, and respect in language. By balancing past scholarship with recent works on linguistic impoliteness and disrespect, we’ll explore language’s role in social relations, from creating harmony to sowing conflict. Expected preparation: prior Sociology/Anthropology course or instructor permission is recommended.
- Spring 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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SOAN 312.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Cheryl Yin 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 305 10:10am-11:55am