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This course will introduce students to theoretical frameworks, controversies, methods, and other topics of community-based research and practice in the anthropological tradition. Students will understand the history of applied anthropology, critiques of anthropology coming from the global south, and critical epistemological approaches of contemporary engaged researchers and practitioners.

This course introduces incoming graduate students in anthropology to the philosophies, research issues, and day-to-day practices of the department of anthropology at UMass Amherst. Basic skills in writing research proposals, cv's, and formulating career goals are emphasized. Enrollment is restricted to incoming students in the Department of Anthropology.

This course is open to students who are engaged or wish to be engaged in organizing for more democratic societies and institutions. The class is offered in conjunction with the Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture series, which will host talks on the theme of "oligarchy" throughout the academic year. Students will attend (synchronously or asynchronously) 4-5 events in the series. We will meet together to talk about diverse historical and contemporary iterations of and struggles against oligarchy, with an emphasis on how these events might inform our own collective struggles.

This course is designed for people who are actively attempting to teach, conduct research, or do social change work in a way that engages and cultivates the knowledge of marginalized communities. Organized efforts of marginalized people to produce collective knowledge and to make their knowledge matter have bubbled up in and been transported to many places and spaces across the globe, from rural Chiapas to rural Denmark, Appalachia to the Bronx, Brazil to Tanzania, the World Bank to the World Social Forum.

Research in preparation for Senior Honors Thesis. Prior arrangement with the Department Honors Coordinator and University Honors Program required.