COURSE OFFERINGS
Please note, this is a tentative list of course offerings and is subject to change.
Last updated February 19, 2020.
For the most current listing, see http://websoc.reg.uci.edu/perl/WebSoc.
- Fall Course Offerings
- Winter Course Offerings
- Spring Course Offerings
- Summer Session I Course Offerings
- Summer Session II Course Offerings
Fall 2019 Course Offerings
Course Number |
Course Title |
2A |
Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology (Lec A - Bernal, V.) |
2A |
Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology (Lec B - Douglas, T.) |
2B |
Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Egan, J.) |
2C |
Intro to Archaeology (Drover, C.) |
10A |
Probability & Stats (Huffman, M.) |
25A |
Environmental Injustice (Fortun, K.). Course Website |
41A |
Global Cultures and Society (Douglas, T.) |
100A |
Ethnography and Anthropological Methods (Section A - Peterson, K.) Course Flyer |
100A |
Ethnography and Anthropological Methods (Section B - Hundle, A.) Course Flyer |
125A |
Economic Anthropology (Egan, J.) (xlist Econ 152A) |
132A |
Psychological Anthropology (O'Rourke, S.) |
134A |
Medical Anthropology (Hamdy, S.) (xlist Chc/Lat 178A) (MSTS Course) |
134B |
Cultures of Biomedicine (Fletcher, E.) |
134F |
Anthropology of the Body (O'Rourke, S.) |
139 |
Black Public Culture (Lecture A - Sojoyner, D.) |
139 |
Law and Violence (Lecture B - Al-Bulushi, S.) |
139 |
Islam in American (Hamdy, S.) This course is about the history of Islam and Muslims in the United States, with special attention to the role of slavery, extractive labor, migration, race, nationalism, citizenship, and the media. We will learn the core tenets of Islam and what wide varieties of Muslims believe and practice as they relate to institutions such as kinship, spirituality, and family life. We will pay attention to inequalities in the distributions of resources; to how particular cultural practices are depicted; and to how these intersect with race, class, national background, gender, and sexual orientation. |
149 |
Archaeology in the Islamic World (Straughn, I.) |
163A |
Peoples of the Pacific (Egan, J.) |
169 |
SE AS & SE AS Immigrants (Section A - Douglas, T.) |
169 |
Gold: Culture of a Barbarous Relic (Straughn, I.) |
180AW |
Culture, Space, Design (Anthro Major Seminar) (Section A - Marcus, G.) |
180AW |
Exploring Narrative (Anthro Major Seminar) (Section B - Varzi, R.) |
H190B |
Honors Field Research (Jenks, A.) |
Winter 2020 Course Offerings
Course Number |
Course Title |
2A |
Intro to Socio-cultural Anthro (Lec A) (Kim, E.) |
2A |
Intro to Socio-cultural Anthro (Lec B) (Egan, J.) |
2B |
Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Egan, J.) |
2D |
Intro to Language and Culture (Murphy, K.) |
10B |
Probability & Statistics (Staff) |
20A |
People, Cultures, and Environmental Sustainability (Egan, J.) 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. |
30A |
Global Issues in Anthropological Perspective (Douglas, T.) 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.) |
100A |
Ethnography and Anthropological Methods (Olson, O.) |
125X |
Transnational Migration (Chavez, L.) |
129 |
Anthropology of Debt (Straughn, I.) |
134A |
Medical Anthropology (Jenks, A.)(xlist Chc/Lat 178A)(MSTS Course) |
136K |
Anthropology of the Body (O'Rourke, S.) |
139 |
Critical Awareness & Social Justice (Peterson, K.) |
139 |
Global Mental Health (Fletcher, E.) |
139 |
Anthropology of Religion (Varzi, R.) |
139 |
Encounters and Identities (Douglas, T.) |
141A |
Ancient Civilization of Mexico and the Southwest (Drover, C.) |
169 |
Egyptomania (Straughn, I.) |
180AW |
Writing Ethnography (Anthro Major Seminar) (Zhan, M.) |
180AW |
Writing Sciences (Anthro Major Seminar) (Fortun, M.) |
H190C |
Honors Research Analysis (Jenks, A.) |
Spring 2020 Course Offerings
Course Number |
Course Title |
2A |
Intro to Socio-cultural Anthro (Lec A) (O'Rourke, S.) |
2A |
Intro to Socio-cultural Anthro (Lec B) (Douglas, T.) |
2A |
Intro to Socio-cultural Anthro (Lec C) (Egan, J.) |
2B |
Introduction to Biological Anthropology (Egan, J.) |
2C |
Intro to Archaeology (Straughn, I.) |
10C |
Probability & Stats (Staff)(Home Dept. is Soc Sci) |
41A |
Global Cultures & Society (Douglas, T.) (xlist IS 11) (Belongs to International Studies
this quarter) |
45A |
Science, Culture, Power (Fortun, M) |
100B |
Anthropology Careers (Richland, J.) 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.) 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/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. |
128B |
Race, Gender, and Science (Jenks, A.) |
128C |
Digital Cultures (Boellstorff, T.)(MSTS Course) |
129 |
Standing with Standing Rock (Richland, J.) In April 2016, a group of leaders, citizens, and supporters of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Nation began a year-long standoff against U.S. and North Dakota government officials and representatives of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Standing Rock Sioux Nation and their allies opposed construction of the pipeline, which skirted their tribal lands, claiming that it threatened their water sources, ceremonial sites and was approved without proper legal vetting. Over the course of its existence the standoff would swell to tens of thousands of participants, many of whom who would square off in sometimes peaceful, sometimes violent confrontations with state and private police forces, and thereby draw national attention to the Mni Wiconi/ #NODAPL movement, but also to the rights Native American peoples in the U.S. more generally. Understanding what happened, and is happening, with Standing Rock, demands a deeper consideration of the forces of law, politics, economics and culture have shaped the history of US relations with Native Americans and their nations. This class takes the occasion of the Standing Rock/Mni Wiconi/#NODAPL movement and its circumstances to introduce students to the history and contemporary shape of US relations to Native American peoples, their legal, political, and socioeconomic opportunities and constraints, and how Native Nations today are working to articulate, in their own terms, their status in the United States and the world. |
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. |
134N |
Disease, Health, and Inequality (Jenks, A.) |
136B |
History of Anthropological Theory (Douglas, T.) |
138 |
Prisons and Public Education (Sojoyner, D.)(xlist AfAm 159) |
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
|
Anthropology of Social Services (Fletcher, E) Social service organizations offer health care, housing, food assistance, childcare subsidies, and many other forms of community assistance. Together, these organizations form safety nets for some historically marginalized groups. This upper-level course will examine anthropological research on social service provision and poverty in the United States. We will consider the cultural, moral, and political dilemmas associated with efforts to "rehabilitate" and to otherwise provide care for those in crisis. Students will be introduced to current anthropological theory, research methods associated with institutional ethnographies, and case studies of poverty, housing precarity, justice involvement, and health inequities. |
139 |
Comics & Medicine (Hamdy, S.) More and more patients have narrated their illness experiences in comics format, exploiting the medium to push beyond textual representations of pain and suffering. Visualizing illness offers therapeutic effects both for producer and reader and helps to make medical experiences more accessible and understandable to others beyond their own immediate experiences. In this class we will explore major medical anthropology themes through comics, including chronic illness, social determinants of health, mental health, disability, and medicalization. We will analyze how the comics medium lends new insight into different medical experiences and we will also work to produce our own comics to bring greater awareness to issues of health and social justice. No artistic experience or talent is required. |
148 |
I Dig UCI (Straughn, I.) 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. |
149 |
Cognitive Archaeology (Drover, C.) Cognitive archaeology is the attempt to reconstruct the Ideology of prehistoric cultures from material remains. While challenging, aspects of ritual, magic, religion, cosmology, iconography and epigraphy are reflected in the material remains of all cultures. |
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 |
180AW |
Writing the City (Anthro Major Seminar) (Nam, S.) We come to know about cities in a variety of ways, not only through the act of travel but through the narratives we read. The city has made possible new modes of experience, novel encounters between people, as well as the chance to tell stories differently. The travelogue has long relayed to readers, near and far, the rich textures of places and people often considered remote and exotic. Of course, these representations are not impervious to power and are shaped by two foundational issues: what gets represented and who gets to do the representation? Because of its methods and its objects of study, anthropological writing is also deeply enmeshed with narrating cities as well as place (landscapes and built environments) more broadly. This majors' seminar explores how writers have tried to capture the experience of city life across disciplines and literary genres. We won't focus on a correct form of representation but instead to engage with the how and the what of representation. As a writing course, the course will be organized on critical reading and writing schools through a series of essays and in-class writing exercises. |
H190A |
Honors Research Design (Hundle, A.) 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 (Jenks, A.) 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 2019 Course Offerings
2A
|
Intro to Sociocultural Anthro (Lec A) (Palmer, J.)
Introduction to cultural diversity and the methods used by anthropologists to account
for it. Family relations, economic activities, politics, gender, and religion in a
wide range of societies. Stresses the application of anthropological methods to research
problems.
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2A
|
Intro to Sociocultural Anthro (Lec B) (Egan, J.)
Introduction to cultural diversity and the methods used by anthropologists to account
for it. Family relations, economic activities, politics, gender, and religion in a
wide range of societies. Stresses the application of anthropological methods to research
problems.
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2B
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Intro to Biological Anthrpology (Egan, J.)
Evolutionary theory and processes, comparative primate fossil record, human variation,
and the adequacy of theory, and empirical data.
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25A
|
Environmental Injustice (Fortun, K.)
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.
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41A
|
Global Cultures & Society (Mclaughlin-Alcock, C.)
Offers a general overview of the rise of global interdependence in political, economic,
demographic, and cultural terms. Considers what drove people from relative isolation
into intensified intercourse with one another, and investigates the consequences of
this shift..
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136K
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Woman and the Body (O'Rourke, S.)
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.
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138
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Prisons and Public Education (Sojoyner, D.)(xlist AfAm 159) Looks at the connections between schools and prisons in the United States. Students learn about ideas that push beyond common trope of the "school to prison pipeline." |
Summer Session II 2019 Course Offerings
2A
|
Intro to Sociocultural Anthro (Lec A) (Cox, K.)
Introduction to cultural diversity and the methods used by anthropologists to account
for it. Family relations, economic activities, politics, gender, and religion in a
wide range of societies. Stresses the application of anthropological methods to research
problems.
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2A
|
Intro to Sociocultural Anthro (Lec B) (Chavez, L.)
Introduction to cultural diversity and the methods used by anthropologists to account
for it. Family relations, economic activities, politics, gender, and religion in a
wide range of societies. Stresses the application of anthropological methods to research
problems.
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2D
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Language & Culture (Kohler, G.)
Explores what the study of language can reveal about ourselves as bearers of culture.
After introducing some basic concepts, examines how cultural knowledge is linguistically
organized and how language might shape our perception of the world.
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41A
|
Global Cultures & Society (Wrapp, Melissa.)
Offers a general overview of the rise of global interdependence in political, economic,
demographic, and cultural terms. Considers what drove people from relative isolation
into intensified intercourse with one another, and investigates the consequences of
this shift.
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134A
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Medical Anthropology (Jenks, A.)
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.
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162A
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Peoples and Cultues of Latin America (Richart, R.)
Surveys the prehistory of Latin America and its indigenous cultures, emphasizing the
impact of colonial rule, capitalism, and twentieth-century transformations. Emphasis
on communities from several countries. In some years, emphasis on comparisons between
the Latin American and Caribbean experiences.
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