(Offered as ANTH 200 and ASLC 200) In what ways are the experiences and perspectives of people in contemporary China different from those of people in other places and times, and in what ways are they similar?  What accounts for these similarities and differences? How can anthropology help us to understand China? What can the study of China contribute to anthropology? This course will help students answer these questions by reading, discussing, and writing about recent books and articles about China.

Limited to 25 students. Fall Semester. Professor Fong.

Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic, known as the “Spanish Caribbean,” share a history of slavery, colonialism, and migration. In this course, we examine the twentieth-century history of the islands and island nations, their relationship to the United States as empire since 1898, and the founding of their respective diasporas. We begin with a brief survey of the economic and political history of the nineteenth-century, comparing each place's local, regional, and international relationships with the Caribbean and the Atlantic.

A first course in reading fictional, dramatic, and lyric texts: stories, a major novel, one or more plays by Shakespeare, poems by Donne, Dickinson, Frost, and others.