Syllabuses for Dr. Cohen's courses are available in the Anthropology Department.
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Cultural Anthropology -101- Introduction to Anthropology: Cultures in a Global Society (3) Lecture Basic concepts of sociocultural anthropology and study of cultural differences among peoples of the world. Poses questions about how lives are touched by media images and information, transnational markets, consumer desires, global ecology, conflicting aspirations, religious revivals, and rewritten histories. | |
Health, Culture & Society - An overview of recent theories and current research on health practices, introduction to issues in medical anthropology, and critical analysis of systems for delivering health care. | |
Migrants, Refugees & the Homeless - This course focuses on migrants, push/pull factors in population movements, with emphasis on the emigration/immigrant experience, "overseasmanship," and other skills and strategies of forced and voluntary migrants. | |
Ethnohistory - Methods and techniques of archival and other documentary research for anthropologists, historical method, and the writing of indigenous histories. | |
Ethnopsychology - The psychological strain in anthropology, with particular emphasis on issues of health, coping behaviors, altered mental states, folk knowledge and conceptions of mental states. | |
Applied Anthropology - A professional overview of issues and techniques in anthropology's fifth subfield, relations of practitioner research to other anthropology. |
08/06/2001