Social Science Undergraduate Degrees

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 3 hours / session This class is concerned with the boundaries between everyday life and another order of reality...

...subject we consider how symbols are created and structured; how they draw on and give meaning to different domains of the human world; how they are woven into politics...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session The normal syllabus for this class has been reorganized to focus primarily on the War in... Learn about: Cross Cultural...

...body, and mind. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session This course looks at medicine from a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on the human... Learn about: Medical training...

...gender roles are discussed in this section. We next look at sexuality, traditional and non-traditional marriage, parenting, divorce, family violence... Learn about: Cross Cultural...

...urban or rural life, etc. One goal of the class is to learn how to critically assess media and other popular representations of gender roles and stereotypes...

...we ask whether the logic of race might be changing in the world of genomics and informatics, and with that changed logic, how we can respond today to...

...Power: A New Social Analysis. "Power relations are both intentional and nonsubjective. ... [T]hey are imbued, through and through with calculation...

...taste, and touch as acceptable modes of knowing and knowledge production. We will assess cultural traditions that challenge scientific interpretations... Learn about: Cross Cultural...

...and literary classics as well as recent writing and films on the politics of food and agriculture. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session... Learn about: Cross Cultural...

...including first contact; gift exchange; gender, marriage, and kinship; law, morality, and cultural relativism; religion; race and embodiment... Learn about: IT Law...

...ranging from curiosity about "exotic" people to a concern with capturing "real life" to a desire for advocacy. Students will view documentaries about people both in the...

...with those from other historical periods? Are such changes positive, negative or simply inevitable? And, finally, how does the concept of the "global"... Learn about: Ms Word...

...the history of development itself, its underlying assumptions, and its range of supporters and critics. It considers the various meanings given to development...

...between humans and natural environments. It does so by focusing on conflict over access to and use of the environment as well as ideas about "nature"...

...ranging from alcohol to LSD, cocaine and ecstasy - and ask why different societies prohibit and sanction different drugs. We examine the use of mind-altering...

...whether they have clear-cut content and meanings; how they shape and are shaped by politics, economics, and social life. Lectures: 1 session /... Learn about: Social Science...

...architectural acoustics, and sound recording, as well as about the globalized travel of these technologies. Questions of ownership, property... Learn about: Sound Recording...

...automation and capitalist manufacturing; cybernetics and WWII operations research; artificial intelligence and gendered subjectivity; robots... Learn about: Artificial Intelligence...

...animal agency and intelligence, our moral obligations to animals, and the limits imposed on the use of animals. Students taking the graduate version complete additional assignments...