In this course, we will examine feminist theorizations, critiques, and accounts of gender and sexuality in the context of nation-state formations, colonization, globalization, and migration. We will interrogate how the gendered body becomes a target of violence, regulation, and objectification, but also functions as a site of resistance. We will also examine how the body serves as a marker nation and identity, and a locus generating knowledge, both scientific and experiential.

Food, drink, fuel, pharmaceuticals, clothing, cosmetics, construction material, furniture? Plants and their byproducts are everywhere we look. How have plants become so ubiquitous to human life? How have plants been used, adapted, processed, and sold over the course of history? How can studying plants and their interactions with humans provide a different perspective on the past, and insight into the future? This course explores how humans have made plants ?work,? and how these working plants have, in turn, shaped the world in which we live.

This course is designed to support and continue the education of the student facilitators of Grassroots Community Organizing (Anthro 380). It involves close reading and course preparation based around the curricular readings each week, as well as rigorous engagement with the texts provided by UACT?s community organizing partners. Lesson planning, commenting on student papers, written debriefs of classes, and engaging with community partners are also requirements of the course.

This course examines how marginalized communities organize to address racial, economic, political, and environmental injustice. A highly skilled student facilitation team, grassroots community partnerships, and an Alternative Spring Break trip enable a unique learning community.

Review of contemporary human variation in demography, morphology, physiology, and genetics. Emphasis on explaining, not just categorizing, the differences. Inter- and intra-population variation around the globe.

Introduction to major issues in anthropological theory. Focus on key concepts in the discipline, important authors, and development of and debates over theoretical issues. Required for and limited to anthropology majors; satisfies the Junior Year Writing requirement for anthropology majors.

Community groups and networks of organizers, activists, and developers coalesce around efforts to create cooperative, democratic, and socially just ways of being in the world involving "alternative" economies: things like cooperatives, land-trusts, community-owned finance, fair trade networks, and so on. These projects are both grounded in local communities and linked into global networks including the solidarity economies movement aimed at creating economies that put people and planet before profit. This class will work with two solidarity economy networks in Massachusetts.

The prehispanic Mesoamerican culture process. The origins, growth, development, and partial colonial reconstruction of these unique native American societies. The intellectual history of Mesoamerican archaeology.

In this course, we will analyze the patterns and processes of human growth and development. We will focus on how factors such as evolution, health and disease, genetics, diet and nutrition, ethnicity, racism, socio-economic status, political policies, pollution, and the overall environment in which a child grows can impact human growth around the world. This course will be discussion-based with multiple writing assignments and exams. Critical thinking skills will be required to unpack complexities across the biological, behavioral, and socio-cultural aspects of growth.

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