Comprehensive Planning Studio

Anthropology Field Study SL Course

COURSE CURRICULUM SCHEDULE The 2016 archaeological field school will continue investigations designed to identify, investigate, and interpret the physical remains of Fort St. Joseph (20BE23) and contemporaneous sites in the St. Joseph River valley of southwestern Michigan. This year we will expand our excavations on the floodplain (Fort St. Joseph—20BE23) and continue to explore adjacent areas. Students in the field school will receive instruction in surveying techniques, proper field excavation, artifact processing and analysis, and interpretation of findings as part of a long-term program devoted to exploring colonial interactions between Native Americans and Europeans in the North American fur trade….

Community-based archeology: Research with, by, and for indigenous and local communities

The past two decades have brought important changes to the ways archaeologists engage with indigenous, descendant, local communities and the public at large. This book outlines the principles of CBPR and demonstrates how CBPR can be effectively applied to archeology. It provides theoretical discussions as well as practical examples of CBPR in archeology. Atalay, S. (2012). Community-based archeology: Research with, by, and for indigenous and local communities. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. Full Text.

Urban Life and Culture

COURSE DESCRIPTION AND PURPOSE This applied anthropology course is a cross-cultural study of urbanization, urbanism, and human problems associated with metropolitan environments. Major emphasis is given to the ethnography of city life and its relationship to the practical applications of urban research, especially in the contexts of globalization and neoliberalism. Selected readings from recent, book-length urban ethnographies written by anthropologists will be used as models for presenting coherent and readable syntheses of theory, methods, and analysis of various urban issues and experiences of urban life. Documentary videos carefully selected to illustrate the diversity of urban life and culture will also…

Researching American Culture

Required Texts Lynd, Robert S., and Helen Merrell Lynd. 1929. Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. Lassiter, Eric Luke (ed)., 2004. The Other Side of Middletown. Alta Mira Press. Spradley, James. 1979. The Ethnographic Interview. Other Readings Spradley, James. 2000. “You Owe Yourself a Drunk” (optional text) **There will also be readings and other resources posted online which you can access via Blackboard Course Objectives and Learning/Service Learning Expectations Examine American culture from an anthropological perspective Identify the relation between ideals of American culture and people‘s diverse realities as Americans develop strategies and…

THE GOOD SOCIETY

WEB PAGES: www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~akeene and www.umass.edu/csl THIS IS WHAT YOU SHALL DO: Love the earth and the sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and the crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyranny and argue not concerning God. …Walt Whitman   A holistic approach to education would recognize that a person must learn how to be with other people, how to love, how to take criticism, how to grieve, how to have fun as well as how to add and subtract, multiply and divide It would address the…

Dying: The Final Stage of Living

Department of General Studies Spring Semester 2003 “Dying: The Final Stage of Living” PROFESSOR: Dr. Kathryn D. Marocchino COURSE HOURS/LOCATION: Thursday: 19:00 21:50 PM, in CLS 102 REQUIRED TEXTBOOK: The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying by DeSpelder & Strickland, Mountain View: Mayfield Publishing Company, 2002 (6th edition) REQUIRED ACTIVITIES: Ten (10) hours of mandatory community service through Vallejo’s Kaiser Permanente Hospice Program (dates and hours to be determined and coordinated through Kaiser) PREREQUISITE: English Composition EGLI 00 (may be taken concurrently) OFFICE HOURS: W/Th: 11:00 13:00 and T/W/Th: 14:30 17:00 (by appointment) in the Community Service Learning Center (located…

Cultural Anthropology

Course Objectives: This course is designed to give students an in-depth introduction to cultural anthropology, a scientific discipline using diverse theories focusing on unique cultural adaptations of human populations around the world. We will explore the concept of culture, by surveying different theoretical orientations such as evolutionism, functionalism, structuralism and ecological anthropology. We will then apply these different orientations to different subsystems of culture, politics, economics, religion, kinship, health and education. Throughout the course we will examine issues of race, ethnicity, multiculturalism, nationalism, and internationalism, with a sharp focus on Hawai'i, the Pacific Islands, Asia and the Americas. My ethnographic…

Introduction to The Theory and Practice of Archaeology

About this class: Archaeology is teamwork, and succeeds best when people cooperate, share each other s work assignments and contribute together to achieve the project s goals. Several of the course assignments have been designed with that in mind. It is my hope that we can constitute ourselves on the model of an archaeological team, working together to achieve the common goal: becoming archaeologists in theory and practice. COURSE GOALSAn introduction to the theory and practice of archaeology; i. e., how and why archaeology is done and what can be learned from it. A. Introduction to the theoretical framework that…