COURSE OFFERINGS
Please note, this is a tentative list of course offerings and is subject to change.
Last updated Dec. 18, 2020.
For the most current listing, see http://websoc.reg.uci.edu/perl/WebSoc.
- Fall 2020 Course Offerings
- Winter 2021 Course Offerings
- Spring 2021 Course Offerings
- Summer 2021 Session I Course Offerings
- Summer 2021 Session II Course Offerings
- Fall 2021 Course Offerings
- Winter 2022 Course Offerings
- Spring 2022 Course Offerings
Fall 2020 Course Offerings **Please note all Fall 2020 courses will be "Online/Remote"**
Course Number | Course Title |
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2A |
Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology (Lec A - Douglas, T.) (Satisfies GE Requirements
III & VIII) |
2A |
Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology (Lec B - Douglas, T.) (Satisfies GE Requirements
III & VIII) |
2B |
Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Egan, J.) (Satisfies GE Requirement III) |
2C |
Intro to Archaeology (Straughn, I.) (Satisfies GE Requirement III) |
10A |
Probability & Stats (Huffman, M.) |
25A |
Environmental Injustice (Fortun, K.). Course Website (Satisfies GE Requirements III & VII) |
41A |
Global Cultures and Society (Douglas, T.)(IS is the home department for this course) (Satisfies
GE Requirements III & VIII) |
125A |
Economic Anthropology (Egan, J.) (xlist Econ 152A) |
129 (Section A) |
Consumption & Culture (Straughn, I.) Our modern "society of the spectacle" often equates your consumption to your very humanity. Explores the ways in which our desire for things expresses our identity, politics, place within society, and how what we consume dominates social life. |
129 (section B) |
Anthropology of Work (Zarate, S.) The UCI campus has beautifully manicured landscapes. Our classrooms are always cleaned for us to learn together. But how often do we think of the work and workers required to make that happen? This course focuses on different kinds of labor that, although often crucial to our everyday lives, is devalued and made invisible by regimes of race, gender, and human exceptionalism. We will explore ethnographies that range from domestic work to transnational surrogacy to the entangled worlds of "human" and ecological labor. We will delve into theories of life, value, exploitation, and resistance as a way to think with but also beyond the category of labor. |
134A |
Medical Anthropology (Hamdy, S.) (xlist Chc/Lat 178A) (MSTS Course) (Satisfies GE
Requirement VIII) |
134C |
Food, Medicine, and Health (Olson, V.) |
134F |
Anthropology of the Body (Lecture A - O'Rourke, S.) |
136G |
Colonialism and Gender (Adjunct-Mallon Andrew, K.)(x-listed with IS 153D) |
139 (section A) |
Anthropology of the Paranormal (Lecture A - O'Rourke, S.) |
139 (section B) |
Law and Violence (Lecture B - Al-Bulushi, S.) |
162B |
Indians of North America (Drover, C.) (Satisfies GE Requirements VII) |
163A |
Peoples of the Pacific (Egan, J.)(x-listed with IS ) (Satisfies GE Requirements VIII) |
180AW |
"The Woman's Body" (Anthro Major Seminar) (Section A - O'Rourke, S.) (Upper Division
Writing Requirement) |
180AW |
Writing Sciences (Anthro Major Seminar) (Section B - Fortun, M.) (Upper Division Writing
Requirement) |
H190B |
Honors Field Research (Hamdy, S.) |
Winter 2021 Course Offerings
Course Number | Course Title |
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2A (Section A) |
Intro to Socio-cultural Anthro (Lec A) (Zhan, M.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III &
VIII) |
2A (Section B) |
Intro to Socio-cultural Anthro (Lec B) (Egan, J.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III &
VIII) |
2A (Section C) |
Intro to Socio-cultural Anthro (Lec C) (Douglas, T.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III
& VIII) |
2B |
Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Egan, J.) (Satisfies GE Requirement III) |
10B |
Probability & Statistics (Staff) |
20A |
People, Cultures, and Environmental Sustainability (Egan, J.) (Satisfies GE Requirement VIII) Anthropological consideration of global environmental sustainability from the perspective of human cultures and communities. Causes and consequences of population growth, natural resource management, environmental law, environmental ethics. Case studies emphasize tropical rain forests, arid lands of Africa and North America. |
41A |
Global Cultures & Society (Douglas, T.)(IS is the home department for this course)
(Satisfies GE Requirements III & VIII) |
45A |
Science, Culture, Power (Fortun, M) (Satisfies GE Requirement VIII) |
48 |
Archaeology or Aliens?: Conspiracy, Pseudoscience, and the Emergence of Civilizations (Straughn, I.) (GE III & VIII) Archaeology has inspired (and sometimes actively encouraged) various theories about aliens, lost civilizations, dark conspiracies, and mysterious technologies. Does such an intimate relationship with these fantastic notions undermine archaeology and its claims of authoritative knowledge about past cultures? |
100A |
Ethnography and Anthropological Methods (Olson, V.) Course Flyer |
121J |
Urban Anthropology (Nam, S.) (x-listed IS 153C) Cultural roles of urban centers and processes of urbanization in comparative perspective, focusing on both nonwestern, nonindustrial societies of past and present; the relationship between modern urban centers and Third World peoples. Migration, urban poverty, in Africa, Asia, Latin America. |
125B |
Ecological Anthropology (Zarate, S.) Studies relationships between human communities and their natural environments. The role of environment in shaping culture; effects of extreme environments on human biology and social organization; anthropologist's role in studying global environmental problems, e.g., African famine, tropical rain forests destruction. |
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125U |
Migration, Nation, and Media (Chavez, L.) (xlisted Chc/lat 123 & SPPS 101A - Social
Pol and Public Service (SPPS)) |
139 (127C Regularize) |
Language and the Law (Richland, J.) Language and discourse are central features of law in any society. Whether as the subject of legal protection or exclusion, or as the mode of written law, oral argumentation, policing and enforcement, language and other forms of communication play a crucial role as the content and forms that constitute law and its social power. This course introduces students to significant works in linguistic anthropological and discourse analytic approaches to law, with particular emphasis on examples from the United States and Australia. The first weeks trace the theoretical and methodological origins of law and language studies in constructivist and interaction based approaches of sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. Following this introduction, three topics of law and society research are considered: the discourses of disputing and conflict talk, the texts of law and legislation, and lastly, law talk in cross-cultural perspective. The course will then review the contributions that language and language practices make in the U.S. criminal justice system – the role they play in the exercise of proper legal procedures, forms of linguistic evidence and the language practices of evidence collection, and language practices as the basis of certain kinds of criminally sanctioned behavior. |
128B |
Race, Gender & Science (Staff)(x-listed CHC/LAT 176) (Satisfies GE Requirement VII) Perfect for pre-health, science and social science majors wanting to appreciate how science and society interact. Race and gender as biological and socio-cultural constructs are examined. Questions explored: What is disease? What is science? What are social and biological differences? |
128C |
Digital Cultures (Boellstorff, T.) Explores cultural and political implications of the infotech revolution and the ways new media are used around the world, new cultural practices and spaces (e.g., cybercafes), debates surrounding the meanings of these new technologies, and their implications for transforming society. |
136K |
Anthropology of the Body (O'Rourke, S.) |
138 |
Prisons and Public Education (Sojoyner, D.)(xlist AfAm 159) |
139 |
Encounters and Identities (Douglas, T.) |
139 |
Nationalism, Extremism and the Right(Mahmud, L.) https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/32404 Do you love your country? This course examines ideologies of nationalism, patriotism, and citizenship, and their unique relations to gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and religion. Assigned readings will include classic texts on nationalism, as well as their feminist, postcolonial, and queer studies critiques. Specific topics addressed may include: metaphors of homeland, family, and domesticity; borders and movements; the relationship of gender and sexuality to conservative nationalist projects; love, terror, and the emotional life of nationalism; colonialism and imperialism; extremism, fascism, and the Right. Reading a variety of case studies, as well as theories of nationalism from anthropology and related fields, students will gain an understanding of nationalism as a cultural and political category. |
141A |
Ancient Civilization of Mexico and the Southwest (Drover, C.) |
147 |
Egyptomania (Straughn, I.) |
169 |
Captain Cook's Voyage (Marcus, G) (xlist HIST 183) (Seed, P.) This course traces the three famous voyages of Captain Cook in the Pacific Ocean during the later 18th century and through their contacts with diverse island peoples provide a perspective on how islands came to be occupied through technologies of sailing and navigation, how these people formed their own cultures, and how ocean and island ecologies affect their character even up to the present day. |
180AW |
Exploring Narrative (Anthro Major Seminar) (Varzi, R.) |
180AW |
Money, Sex, Power (Anthro Major Seminar) (Mahmud, L.) https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/32403
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H190C |
Honors Research Analysis (Peterson, K.) |
Spring 2021 Course Offerings **Please note all Spring 2020 courses will be "Online/Remote"**
Course Number | Course Title |
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2A (Section A) |
Intro to Socio-cultural Anthro (Lec A) (Kim, E.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III &
VIII) |
2A (Section B) |
Intro to Socio-cultural Anthro (Lec B) (Egan, J.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III &
VIII) |
2B |
Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Egan, J.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III) |
2C |
Intro to Archaeology (Drover, C.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III) What the heck is the archaeological record and why does it matter? This course explores how scholars and others derive knowledge of the past, examine cultural practices, and construct notions of heritage through the things we leave behind. Using case studies from across the globe students will learn how this field deploys various methods and theories in pursuit of the past and its peoples. |
2D |
Intro to Language and Culture (Murphy, K.) (Satisfies GE Requirement III) |
10C |
Probability & Stats (Staff)(Home Dept. is Soc Sci) |
30A |
Global Issues in Anthropological Perspective (Douglas, T.) (Satisfies GE Requirement VIII) Explores anthropological perspectives on issues of importance in an increasingly global society. Topics include emphases on ethnic conflict; identity; immigration and citizenship; religion and religious diversity; medical anthropology; legal anthropology; development and economic change; gender. |
41A |
Global Cultures & Society (Douglas, T.)(IS is the home department for this course)
(Satisfies GE Requirements III & VIII) |
100A |
Ethnography and Anthropological Methods (Hundle, A.) Course Flyer |
100B Cancelled |
Anthropology Careers (Richland, J.) Cancelled in Spring 2021 will be listed for Spring 2022 Gives students the skills and perspective needed to leverage undergraduate anthropology education in diverse career domains. Students explore different career domains (health care, tech development, environmental governance, etc.) and learn to represent themselves professionally. |
121AW |
Kinship and Social Organization (Egan, J.) (Upper Division Writing Requirement) Organization of social life primarily in preindustrial societies. Theories of kinship, marriage regulations, sexual behavior, and social roles. Comparisons of biological, psychological, sociological, and economic explanations of social organization. |
121D |
Cross-Cultural Studies in Gender (Mahmud, L.)(xlist IS 153B) (Fulfills GE VII Multicultural) https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/35974 Explores the construction of gender in national and transnational contexts. Special attention is given to how race, sexuality, class, and global inequalities shape different experiences of gender, and how gender structures political, institutional, and social life across the world. |
125 |
Anthropology of Debt (Straughn, I.) The United States has accumulated a $20+ trillion national debt. A commercial for
the financial company |
128A |
Science, Technology, Controversy |
132A |
Psychological Anthropology (O'Rourke, S.) (xlist Psych 173A)(MSTS Course) Cultural differences and similarities in personality and behavior. Child-rearing practices and consequent adult personality characteristics, biocultural aspects of child development and attachment, culture and behavior evolutionary models, politically linked personality, cognitive anthropology, psychology of narrative forms, comparative national character studies. |
134A |
Medical Anthropology (Hamdy, S.)(xlist Chc/Lat 178A)(MSTS Course)(Satisfies GE Requirement
VIII) |
134B |
Cultures of Biomedicine (Fletcher, E.) An introduction to the anthropolobical study of biomedicine and biotechnology. Topics include medicalization, experimentation and discovery, diagnosis, expertise, health activism, and biotechnology. |
136A |
Nationalism and Ethnicity in the Contemporary World (O'Rourke, S.)(xlisted with IS 153E)(Satisfies GE Requirement VIII) An exploration of the concepts of identity, culture, ethnicity, race, and nation through ethnographic cases, with a view to asking larger questions: how do people create nativeness and foreignness? How does "culture" get worked into contemporary racisms and nationalisms? |
136B |
History of Anthropological Theory (Douglas, T.) |
139 |
Global Themes in Sikh Studies (Hundle, A.) Sikh Studies is an interdisciplinary field of study that is connected to religious studies, Punjab/diaspora studies, and area studies field of South Asia studies. Most scholars agree that the question of "what is Sikh Studies" is an open one that is not self-evident. There have been debates, spanning the South Asian subcontinent and among diaspora intellectuals in the West, which have tried to fix and define what the field is, question what kinds of relations of power are bound up within it, and expand what its disciplinary and theoretical focus and geographical scope should be. In this course, we will approach "Sikh Studies" as a combination of the academic study of Sikhism (a religious, philosophical and ethical tradition), Sikh communities (collectivities organized around the tradition), and the always shifting and changing circumstances and possibilities of "Sikh life"—all according to global and interdisciplinary perspectives. As a class, we will attend to critical and contemporary topics in the field, with attention to the historical and continued development of the field. We will also attend to the development of the field via anthropological approaches and methodologies. |
139 |
Policymaking & Geopolitics (Al-Bulushi, S.) Despite the formal end of colonial rule, the forms of knowledge through which global policymaking is apprehended and explained continue to be dominated by Euro-American scholars, 'experts,' and paradigms. If and when people and places in the Global South receive attention, they are often analyzed only in relation to the strategic interests and practices of powerful states. As such, Global South populations provide the data for Global North-based theories but are rarely recognized as theorists or practitioners of policy and so-called 'global' challenges themselves. Through engagement with ethnographic work on the one hand, and Global South thought on the other, this course employs an interdisciplinary approach to decolonize the study of policymaking and geopolitics. |
139
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Disability & Culture (Riley, T.) This course delves deep into the study of disability and culture. It will critically examine the concept of dis-/ability and shed light on the ableism inherent in cultural formations of bodily differences. In addition to considering disability and theories of race, sex, gender, and sexuality, the course will examine key literature on the body in culture from anthropological and other perspectives, including history, philosophy, medicine, and media. Students will be asked to consider these perspectives in terms of how they intersect, and how they can be critically engaged with in a complex and unequal world. |
148 (Moved to Fall 2021) |
I Dig UCI (Straughn, I.) This course has an in person lab component, so it will not be offered this Spring. We will offer it for Fall 2021. An introduction to archaeological fieldwork through participation in an active excavation on campus. Students engage with research design and learn the foundational methods of archaeological recovery: survey, mapping, sampling strategies, documentation, excavation, artifact identification, and interpretation. |
180AW |
Writing Ethnography (Anthro Major Seminar) (Marcus, G.) |
180AW |
Urban Utopias-Dystopias (Anthro Major Seminar) (Nam, S.) originally listed as Urban Ethnography
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H190A |
Honors Research Design (Bernal, V.) Students design a research project and articulate its goals and significance. Written work consists of a research proposal describing the research questions, the relevant literature, methods of data collection and analysis, and ethical considerations |
H190W |
Honors Thesis Writing (Varzi, R.) Students draft a senior honors thesis (typically) with the following sections: problem statement, literature review, ethnographic background, and descriptions of the methods, results, and conclusions. |
Summer Session I 2021 Course Offerings **Please note all Fall 2020 courses will be "Online/Remote"**
Course Number | Course Title |
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2A |
Intro to Sociocultural Anthro (Lec A) (Cox, K.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III & VIII) What does grocery shopping tell us about politics? How can mimicking goats help us think about climate change? What do contemporary theories of sexual orientation teach us about autism advocacy? These are all questions for sociocultural anthropologists. In Anthro 2A, you'll learn to "think like an anthropologist" about topics including race, gender, disability, the environment, and healthcare, exploring these and other questions in the process. |
2B |
Intro to Biological Anthrpology (Egan, J.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III) Evolutionary theory and processes, comparative primate fossil record, human variation, and the adequacy of theory, and empirical data. |
25A |
Environmental Injustice (Fortun, K.)(Satisfies GE Requirements III & VII) Explores how pollution, climate change, and other environmental problems impact people around the world, often worsening social inequality. Students use social science frameworks to understand environmental problems, different interpretations of these problems, and how people have organized for political change. Anthro25A website | Anthro 25A poster | Anthro 25A video preview |
121AW |
Kinship & Social Organization (O'Rourke, S.) (Satisfies Upper Division Writing Requirement) Through narrated powerpoint lectures, readings, and documentary and narrative films, this course will study the organization of social life from preindustrial to postindustrial societies. Our focus will be on kinship, marriage, family life and the complexities of social roles and identities therein. We will delve into anthropology's classical theories of kinship, in addition to post-structural theories, intersectional feminism, and post/trans humanism. As this is an upper-division writing course there will be short, warm up writing assignments that all will share and comment on, and your main project will be a five page research paper on any topic in the study of kinship, marriage, and family life that you find most interesting. |
125A |
Economic Anthropology (Yolmon, N.) xlisted with Econ 152A "It's the economy, stupid." This was Bill Clinton's unofficial campaign slogan in 1992, as the US economy was heading into a recession. Today, once again, the economy as we know it is changing rapidly. This upper division seminar will explore how we learn to value objects (what's up with all the toilet paper hoarding?), how we act as economic subjects (how will immunity certificates influence our behavior?), and what the future of money could look like (will cash survive, or will digital currencies reign supreme?) This class will cover basic theories in Economic Anthropology while relating them to our post-COVID-19 world. Note: you do not need any math skills to take this class! |
136K |
Woman and the Body (Wenger, S.)(Satisfies GE Requirement VII) Probes culture and politics of the female body in contemporary American life. Focusing on "feminine beauty," examines diverse notions of beauty, bodily practices, and body politics embraced by American women of different classes, ethnicities, and sexualities. |
Summer Session II 2021 Course Offerings **Please note all Fall 2020 courses will be "Online/Remote"**
Course Number | Course Title |
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2A
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Intro to Sociocultural Anthro (Palmer, J.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III & VIII) One-celled animals are the only ones who experience reality as it is. For the rest of us, our senses get censored. Culture mediates between human senses and the world. So, what if we became experts at "seeing" culture itself? Imagine being blind, then acquiring some blurry vision, then getting glasses to correct that vision and seeing clearly for the first time. What would the next step be? X-ray vision? Nope. It would be... Socio-Cultural Anthropology! |
2D |
Language & Culture (Middleton, C.)(clmiddle@uci.edu) (Satisfies GE Requirements III) Specifically designed to be taken online and asynchronously, this course explores what the study of language can reveal about ourselves as bearers of culture. After introducing some basic concepts, this course examines how cultural knowledge is linguistically organized and how language might shape our perception of the world. Using examples from around the world and the United States, this course will examine how language affects cultural domains, such as community, identity, power, and media. No previous knowledge of anthropology or linguistics is necessary. |
30A |
Global Issues Anthropology Perspective (Kohler, G.) (Satisfies GE Requirement VIII) Explores anthropological perspectives on issues of importance in an increasingly global society. Topics include emphases on ethnic conflict; identity; immigration and citizenship; religion and religious diversity; medical anthropology; legal anthropology; development and economic change; gender. |
125X |
Transnational Migration (Zelnick, J.)(jzelnick@uci.edu)(xlisted with CHLT 161 - Chicano/Latino Studies (CHC/LAT) (Satisfies GE VIII)(virtual remote, hybrid asynchronous/synchronous) Why do people migrate? This course will examine anthropological theories about the causes and continuation of international migration. Using detailed empirical studies and ethnographies, we will explore the following themes: citizenship and nationality; transnationalism; the law; nationalism, nativism, racism, and discrimination; refugees and asylum; race, gender, and class; and deportation. While examples will be drawn from the United States, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe, particular focus will be placed on the U.S.-Mexico border and Southeast Asian American migration. |
128B |
Race, Gender & Science (Wilkinson, A.)(xlisted with CHLT 176) (Satisfies GE Requirement VII) Perfect for pre-health, science and social science majors wanting to appreciate how science and society interact. Race and gender as biological and socio-cultural constructs are examined. Questions explored: What is disease? What is science? What are social and biological differences? |
134A |
Medical Anthropology (Hamdy, S.) (xlist Chc/Lat 178A) (MSTS Course) (Satisfies GE
Requirement VIII) |
162A |
Peoples and Cultues of Latin America (Richart, R.)(rrichart@uci.edu)(Satisfies GE Requirement VIII) This course introduces students to the culturally and linguistically diverse geographic
region now known as Latin America, and to some of the works and debates that comprise
Latin American cultural anthropology. For the most part, this class directs its attention
to contemporary Latin |
Fall Quarter 2021 Course Offerings
Course Number | Course Title |
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2A (Section A) |
Intro to Socio-cultural Anthro (Lec A) (Douglas, T.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III
& VIII) Virtual Remote |
2A (Section B) |
Intro to Socio-cultural Anthro (Lec A) (Egan, J.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III &
VIII) Virtual Remote |
2B |
Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Egan, J.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III)
Virtural Remote |
2C |
Intro to Archaeology (Straughn, I.) (Satisfies GE Requirement III) Virtual Remote |
10A |
Probability & Stats (Huffman, M.) Virtual Remote |
25A |
Environmental Injustice (Fortun, K.)(Satisfies GE Requirements III & VII) Hybrid course for Fall 2021 Explores how pollution, climate change, and other environmental problems impact people around the world, often worsening social inequality. Students use social science frameworks to understand environmental problems, different interpretations of these problems, and how people have organized for political change. Anthro25A website | Anthro 25A poster | Anthro 25A video preview |
41A |
Global Cultures and Society (Douglas, T.)(IS is the home department for this course)
(Satisfies GE Requirements III & VIII) Virtual Remote |
100A |
Ethnography and Anthropological Methods (Peterson, K.) Course Flyer Virtual Remote |
128B |
Race, Gender & Science (Riley, T.)(x-listed CHC/LAT 176) (Satisfies GE Requirement VII) Virtual Remote Perfect for pre-health, science and social science majors wanting to appreciate how science and society interact. Race and gender as biological and socio-cultural constructs are examined. Questions explored: What is disease? What is science? What are social and biological differences? |
134A | Medical Anthropology (Riley, T.) (xlist Chc/Lat 178A) (MSTS Course) (Satisfies GE
Requirement VIII) Virtual Remote Introduces students to cross-cultural perspectives and critical theories in anthropological studies of medicine. Special attention is given to diverse ways of understanding bodies, illnesses, and therapeutic practices in our changing world. |
134F | Anthropology of the Body (Lecture A - O'Rourke, S.) Virtual Remote Examines human bodies as both biological and socio-cultural entities and explores the relationship among mind, body, and society cross-culturally. Topics include embodiment; race, sex, gender and the body; somatization; control of the body; commodified bodies; and hybrid/cyborg bodies. |
139 (Section A) |
Science & Myth (Fortun, M.) (Course is awaiting GE approval) Hybrid course for Fall
2021 |
139 (Section B) |
Disability & Culture (Riley, T.) (In person course for Fall 2021) This course delves deep into the study of disability and culture. It will critically examine the concept of dis-/ability and shed light on the ableism inherent in cultural formations of bodily differences. In addition to considering disability and theories of race, sex, gender, and sexuality, the course will examine key literature on the body in culture from anthropological and other perspectives, including history, philosophy, medicine, and media. Students will be asked to consider these perspectives in terms of how they intersect, and how they can be critically engaged with in a complex and unequal world. |
139 (Section C) | Encounters and Identities (Douglas, T.) Virtual Remote This course is an examination of how cultural anthropologists have examined and critiqued the concept of racial and ethnic identity, particularly within the United States. Through lectures, class discussion, readings and videos, students will engage the various intersections of identity constructs such as race, nation, gender, and socio-economic class. In this course an emphasis will be placed on various theoretical developments in the discipline such as post-modern and post-colonial approaches to the study of contemporary identity formation. Course materials will draw from a wide range of sources beginning with the European conquest of the Americas in the 16th century and concluding with anthropological research from the late 20th and early 21st centuries. |
139 (Section D) | Law and Violence (Lecture B - Al-Bulushi, S.) Hybrid course for Fall 2021 What does it mean to act, govern, or protest in the name of 'humanity'? What sense can we make of the idea that compassion, violence, and the law are so intimately intertwined in today's world? As states, NGOs, and international institutions are increasingly preoccupied with the question of 'security,' this class will grapple with the reality that seemingly benign entities (e.g. the United Nations) are tasked with managing and policing the populations they claim to serve. We will critically engage with the idea of a purportedly universal 'humanity,' and with the notion of humanitarianism as an ethos, a set of laws, and a form of power. At the same time, we will grapple with questions of solidarity and justice, studying the convergences and divergences between imperial and anti-imperial invocations of 'humanity.' Drawing on ethnographic texts, we will explore the cultivation of sensibilities about grievable life, and consider how race, gender, and class shape policies and popular struggles that contend with how violence is named and how it is addressed. |
139 (Section E) |
Urban Anthropology (Sojoyner, D.)(dsojoyne@uci.edu) (x-listed IS 153C) Virtual Remote The urban anthropologist, out in the big city, clawing amidst the calamity and multiple layers that add complexity to people's lives. However, what is the point of urban anthropology? Rather than an existential question, an emphasis of this course is to cull through the history of the field and understand the very oft-problematic stance of urban anthropology to racialized, gendered and sexed populations in the United States. With a firm grasp of the history, we will then move forward and analyze the somewhat uneven development of the field through the lens of urban anthropological texts. Immersed within the belief that a multifaceted analysis is needed to analyze the field of urban anthropology, this course is designed to introduce students to both the methodological and practical impact(s) of conducting and writing ethnography. |
139 (Section F) |
Comics & Medicine (Hamdy, S) Virtual Remote More and more patients have narrated their illness experiences in comics format, exploiting
the |
148 | I Dig UCI (Straughn, I.) This course has an in person lab component.
An introduction to archaeological fieldwork through participation in an active excavation on campus. Students engage with research design and learn the foundational methods of archaeological recovery: survey, mapping, sampling strategies, documentation, excavation, artifact identification, and interpretation. |
162B | Indians of North America (Drover, C.) (Satisfies GE Requirements VII) Virtual Remote A survey of indigenous peoples in North America including the Arctic, Subarctic, Pacific Northwest, Northeast, Southeast, Plains, Southwest Great Basin and California environmental zones. Contact period subsistence, social organization, geographic distributions, and political organization. Post contact sovereignty, self-determination, intergovernmental relations; cultural continuity, development of environments/resources and culture change. |
163A | Peoples of the Pacific (Egan, J.)(x-listed with IS 158B ) (Satisfies GE Requirements
VIII) This is a hybrid course for Fall 2021 The cultural history and recent developments among the Pacific peoples of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, New Guinea, and Australia |
H190B | Honors Field Research (Jenks, A.) Students begin or continue ethnographic field research and gain experience with a variety of data collection methods, including participant-observation, interviews, surveys, and the study of archival and documentary materials |
180AW (Section A) | Exploring Narrative (Anthro Major Seminar) (Varzi, R.)(Upper Division Writing Requirement)
This is a Hybrid course for Fall 2021. Please make sure you will be able to attend
on campus if requested by the instructor. Exploring Narrative is a writing workshop in which we will be reading form a selection of narrative styles and genres to the end of becoming better writers. We will explore ethnography, storytelling, expository essays, books on writing and participating in various writing exercises while working on a single writing project throughout the term. |
180AW (Section B) | "The Woman's Body" (Anthro Major Seminar) (Section A - O'Rourke, S.) (Upper Division
Writing Requirement) Virtual Remote This writing seminar will apply intersectionality to investigate the woman's body in the context of the politics of representation. We will critically analyze how the woman's body is represented in different media formats and their various genres. With short assignments we will experiment with writing about these relations of power in different genres. Your project for the seminar will be a research paper that critically examines the representation of the woman's body in a specific media example of greatest interest to you. |
Winter Quarter 2022 Course Offerings
Course Number | Course Title |
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2A (Section A) |
Intro to Socio-cultural Anthro (Lec A) (Kim, E.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III &
VIII) |
2A (Section B) |
Intro to Socio-cultural Anthro (Lec A) (Douglas, T.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III
& VIII) |
2B |
Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Egan, J.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III) |
20A |
People, Cultures, and Environmental Sustainability (Egan, J.) (Satisfies GE Requirement VIII) Anthropological consideration of global environmental sustainability from the perspective of human cultures and communities. Causes and consequences of population growth, natural resource management, environmental law, environmental ethics. Case studies emphasize tropical rain forests, arid lands of Africa and North America. |
100A |
Ethnography and Anthropological Methods (Douglas, T.) Course Flyer |
121D |
Cross-Cultural Studies in Gender (Mahmud, L.) (Fulfills GE VII Multicultural) https://canvas.eee.uci.edu/courses/24194 Explores the construction of gender in national and transnational contexts. Special attention is given to how race, sexuality, class, and global inequalities shape different experiences of gender, and how gender structures political, institutional, and social life across the world. |
121J | Urban Anthropology (Nam, S.)
Cultural roles of urban centers and processes of urbanization in comparative perspective, focusing on both nonwestern, nonindustrial societies of past and present; the relationship between modern urban centers and Third World peoples. Migration, urban poverty, in Africa, Asia, Latin America. |
New 125AW (Fortun) | Interdisciplinary Environmental Justice Research (meets with Grad course) (Fortun, K.) waiting for approval will count for upper division writing |
125A | Economic Anthropology (Egan, J.) (xlist Econ 152A) Economic systems in comparative perspective: production, distribution, and consumption in market and non-market societies; agricultural development in the third world. |
128A | Science, Technology, Controversy (Riley, T.)
Explores ways in which the social sciences conceive of science as a sociocultural practice. Emphasis on literature in Science and Technology Studies (STS), especially writings that concern the relationship of science to space and place, power, and politics. . |
134A | Medical Anthropology (Riley, T.) (xlist Chc/Lat 178A) (MSTS Course) (Satisfies GE
Requirement VIII) Introduces students to cross-cultural perspectives and critical theories in anthropological studies of medicine. Special attention is given to diverse ways of understanding bodies, illnesses, and therapeutic practices in our changing world. |
136K |
The Woman and the Body (O'Rourke, S.)(Satisfies GE Requirement VII) Probes culture and politics of the female body in contemporary American life. Focusing on "feminine beauty," examines diverse notions of beauty, bodily practices, and body politics embraced by American women of different classes, ethnicities, and sexualities. |
138 |
Prisons and Public Education (Sojoyner, D.)(xlist AfAm 159) |
139 (Section A) |
Sexualities & Culture (Riley, T.)
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139 (Section B) | Encounters and Identities (Douglas, T.) This course is an examination of how cultural anthropologists have examined and critiqued the concept of racial and ethnic identity, particularly within the United States. Through lectures, class discussion, readings and videos, students will engage the various intersections of identity constructs such as race, nation, gender, and socio-economic class. In this course an emphasis will be placed on various theoretical developments in the discipline such as post-modern and post-colonial approaches to the study of contemporary identity formation. Course materials will draw from a wide range of sources beginning with the European conquest of the Americas in the 16th century and concluding with anthropological research from the late 20th and early 21st centuries. |
141A | Ancient Civilization of Mexico and the Southwest (Drover, C.) The prehistory and cultural evolution of the civilization which originated in Mexico, including the Olmecs, Aztecs, Toltecs, Maya, and Zapotec, as well as the Pueblos of the Southwestern U.S. Topics include the origins of food production and of the state. |
149 (Section A) |
Archaeology of California (Lowman, C.)
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149 (Section B) |
Migrants and Migration in Archaeology (Lowman, C.)
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169 (Section A) |
Captain Cook's Voyage (Marcus, G) (xlist HIST 183) (Seed, P.) This course traces the three famous voyages of Captain Cook in the Pacific Ocean during the later 18th century and through their contacts with diverse island peoples provide a perspective on how islands came to be occupied through technologies of sailing and navigation, how these people formed their own cultures, and how ocean and island ecologies affect their character even up to the present day. |
H190C |
Honors Research Analysis (Jenks, A.)
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Spring Quarter 2022 Course Offerings
Course Number | Course Title |
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2A (Section A) |
Intro to Socio-cultural Anthro (Lec A) (Zhan, M.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III &
VIII) |
2A (Section B) |
Intro to Socio-cultural Anthro (Lec A) (Douglas, T.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III
& VIII) |
2A (Section C) |
Intro to Socio-cultural Anthro (Lec A) (Egan, J.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III &
VIII) |
2B |
Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Egan, J.) (Satisfies GE Requirements III) |
2C |
Intro to Archaeology (Drover, C.) (Satisfies GE Requirement III) |
2D |
Intro to Language and Culture (Murphy, K.) (Satisfies GE Requirement III) |
30A | Global Issues in Anthropological Perspective (Douglas, T.) (Satisfies GE Requirement
VIII)
Explores anthropological perspectives on issues of importance in an increasingly global society. Topics include emphases on ethnic conflict; identity; immigration and citizenship; religion and religious diversity; medical anthropology; legal anthropology; development and economic change; gender. |
60 new sikh studies course |
Sikh Religin, Culture and Ethnicity (Hundle, A.)
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100B | Anthropology Careers (Nam, S.) Gives students the skills and perspective needed to leverage undergraduate anthropology education in diverse career domains. Students explore different career domains (health care, tech development, environmental governance, etc.) and learn to represent themselves professionally. |
121AW | Kinship and Social Organization (Egan, J.) (Upper Division Writing Requirement)
Organization of social life primarily in preindustrial societies. Theories of kinship, marriage regulations, sexual behavior, and social roles. Comparisons of biological, psychological, sociological, and economic explanations of social organization. |
125Z |
Arabs and Muslims in the US Offers a critical academic study of Islam in America, focusing on the core tenets of belief, the diversity of practices, and historical transformations that have taken place since the arrival of Muslims in the United States. |
128B |
Race, Gender & Science (Riley, T.)(x-listed CHC/LAT 176) (Satisfies GE Requirement VII) Perfect for pre-health, science and social science majors wanting to appreciate how science and society interact. Race and gender as biological and socio-cultural constructs are examined. Questions explored: What is disease? What is science? What are social and biological differences? |
129 | subject American Material Culture actual Title TBD (Lowman, C.) |
129 | Museums & the Heritage Industry (Lowman, C.) |
132A |
Psychological Anthropology (O'Rourke, S.) (xlist Psych 173A)(MSTS Course) Cultural differences and similarities in personality and behavior. Child-rearing practices and consequent adult personality characteristics, biocultural aspects of child development and attachment, culture and behavior evolutionary models, politically linked personality, cognitive anthropology, psychology of narrative forms, comparative national character studies. |
134A | Medical Anthropology (Hamdy.) (xlist Chc/Lat 178A) (MSTS Course) (Satisfies GE Requirement
VIII) Introduces students to cross-cultural perspectives and critical theories in anthropological studies of medicine. Special attention is given to diverse ways of understanding bodies, illnesses, and therapeutic practices in our changing world. |
134B |
Cultures of Biomedicine (Riley, T.) An introduction to the anthropolobical study of biomedicine and biotechnology. Topics include medicalization, experimentation and discovery, diagnosis, expertise, health activism, and biotechnology. |
136G |
Colonialism & Gender (Riley, T.) An anthropological enquiry into the ways colonial relations of power have been structured and gendered throughout the world, and to what effect. Examines the social locations of men and women in the everyday exercise of colonial and imperial power. |
139 (Section A) New sikh studies course |
Global Themes in Sikh Studies (Hundle, A.)
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139 (Section B) |
Policymaking & Geopolitics (Al-Bulushi, S.) |
139 (Section C) |
Plants, People & Power (Olson, V. & Peterson, K.) |
139 (Section D) |
Anthropology of the Paranormal (Lecture A - O'Rourke, S.) |
139 (Section E) | Museums & the Heritage Industry (Lowman, C.) |
180AW (Section A) |
Anthro Majors Writing Seminar (Mahmud, L.) |
180AW (Section B) |
Anthro Majors Writing Seminar "Disabilty & Society" (Boellstorff, T.) |
H190A |
Honors Research Design (Marcus, G.) |
H190W |
Honors Thesis Writing (Staff) |
259A |
Anth 259A Dissertation Writing Seminar |