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General Anthropology- July Session 2010 ANTH 100/300: MTWRF 3:20-5:20, FRA 106 Instructor: Meghan Farley Webb, [email protected] Office: Fraser 612 Office Hours: Wednesdays 2-3, Thursdays 5:30-7:30, & by appointment Catalogue Description: Lecture and discussion cover the four primary fields of Anthropology: Biological Anthropology, Linguistics, Social Anthropology, and Archeology. Concepts and approaches to each field, using past and present examples from around the world will be examined with an emphasis on the unity of the anthropological approach. Learning Objectives: To increase students’ understanding of the anthropological approach to the study of societies. To explore the field methods associated with each of the four fields. To critically engage with important anthropological concepts such as evolution, race, ethnicity, civilization, and kinship. To survey the contributions of key anthropologists. Required Texts: Kottak, Conrad 2010 Window on Humanity: A Concise Introduction to General Anthropology. 4th ed. New York: McGraw/Hill. Outside Readings: On occasion throughout the course, you will be required to read outside materials available on Blackboard. Bucholtz, Mary 2007 Word Up: Social Meaning of Slang in California Youth Culture. In A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication: Essential Readings. Leila Monaghan and Jane E. Goodman, eds. Pp.242-267. Malden: Blackwell. Renfrew, Colin and Paul Bahn 2004 Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice. 4th ed. New York: Thomas & Hudson. - Chapter 1: “The Searchers: The History of Archaeology” (pp. 21-52) - Chapter 2: “What is Left?: The Variety of Evidence” (pp. 53-58) Tannen, Deborah 2007 Preface and “Put Down that Paper and Talk to Me”: Rapport-Talk and Report-Talk. In A Cultural Approach to Interpersonal Communication: Essential Readings. Leila Monaghan and Jane E. Goodman, eds. Pp.179-194. Malden: Blackwell. 1 Course Requirements and Policies: Blackboard I will use Blackboard to help manage this class. I will post announcements and make reserve readings available as PDF files. It is expected that students will check the course’s Blackboard page daily. Attendance Summer offerings are condensed versions of semester-long courses. Attendance is crucial to students’ abilities to do well on exams and class assignments. I will record attendance daily. Students missing more than six (6) classes automatically fail the course. However, attendance alone does not guarantee success in the course. Participation In order to fully participate in discussions and activities students must have thoughtfully prepared for class. Please complete the day’s assigned readings before coming to class. Cell Phones, Laptops, & Other Electronic Devices Please silence all electronic devices prior to entering the classroom. Laptops are to be used for note taking purposes only. Texting, watching movies, and playing on Facebook are not appropriate classroom activities and are disruptive of the learning process. Academic Honesty I take academic honesty seriously. Academic misconduct is unacceptable and will result in a zero for the assignment and/or other official university action. The university’s official policy on this is available at https://documents.ku.edu/policies/governance/USRR.htm#art2sect6. Provision of this URL serves as notice that students will be fully sanctioned for engaging in academic misconduct of any kind. In-Class Activities Throughout the course we will explore core concepts through hands-on in-class activities. These activities are available on Bb. Students must print out these activities and bring them to class the day listed on the syllabus. Write-ups for in-class activities are due at the beginning of following class meeting (unless otherwise noted). The collaborative nature of in-class activities prevents students from being able to complete them outside of class time. However, I will drop the lowest grade earned on in-class activities before calculating final grades. Late Papers and Make-Up Policies Students are to turn in papers and assignments at the beginning of the class on the day that they are due. Only hard copies will be accepted for grading. Late assignments will be accepted with a grade reduction of ten points per calendar day. In-class activities cannot be made up (see above). 2 If a student must miss a test due to severe illness or other emergency contact the instructor immediately to discuss the possibility of a make-up exam. ANTH 300 Those students enrolled in ANTH 300 must complete, in addition to those assignments required for ANTH 100, a writing assignment and a class presentation on an influential anthropologist. As we will discuss the work of these anthropologists as we make our way through the term, due dates for the presentations will vary (see sign up sheet on Bb). The due date for the paper will be Friday, July 30. The class presentation should be no more than 10 minutes and the paper should be 5-7 pages long. More specific instructions are available on Bb. Grading Students’ final grades will be determined using the rubrics below. Attendance Participation Midterm Exam Final Exam Write-ups for In-Class Activities Writing Assignment ANTH 100 ANTH 300 10% 15% 25% 35% 10% ----- 10% 15% 20% 25% 5% 25% Students’ grades will be calculated on a standard scale: 92-100:A 90-91: A88-89: B+ 82-87: B 78-79: C+ 72-77: C 70-71: C68-69: D+ 60-61: DBelow 60: F Course Schedule Week 1 (July 6-9) T: Introductions, Chapter 1: What is anthropology? Physical Anthropology W: pp. 48-51, Chapter 4: Evolution, Genetics, and Human Variation In Class: Primordial Soup Activity (Bb) R: Chapter 5: The Primates F: Chapter 6: Early Hominins 3 80-81: B62-67: D Week 2 (July 12-16) M: Chapter 7: Genus Homo In Class: Hominid Taxonomy Activity (Bb) Archaeology T: History of Archaeology (Bb) W: pp. 52-56 & The Variety of Evidence (Bb) In Class: Formation Processes (Bb)* In Class: Classroom “Digging” (Bb) R: Chapter 8: The First Farmers & Chapter 9: The First Cities and States Linguistics & Language and Culture F: Chapter 10: Language and Communication & International Phonetic Alphabet (Bb) Week 3 (July 19-23) M: MIDTERM T: Tannen & Bucholtz (Bb) In Class: Language and Ideology (Bb) Cultural Anthropology W: pp. 57-70 Methodologies & Chapter 2: What is Culture In Class: Visual Anthropology (Bb) R: Chapter 11: Making a Living & Chapter 12: Political Systems F: Chapter 13: Families, Kinship, and Marriage In Class: Mapping Kinship (Bb) Week 4 (July 26-30) M: Chapter 14: Gender & Chapter 17: Ethnicity and Race T: Chapter 15: Religion W: Chapter 16: The World System and Colonialism R: Chapter 18: Applying Anthropology & Chapter 19: Global Issues Today F: FINAL & Final Paper 4