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Social & Cultural Anthropology

Course of Study

M.A. Course Requirements (36 units)

Core Courses (30 units)
• Building Alliances Across Differences
• Critical History of the Human Sciences
• Engendering and Reframing Development
• Anthropological Research Methods
• Understanding Global Systems
• Cross-Cultural Issues in Social and Environmental Justice
• Language and Culture
• Applied Advocacy Research: Postcolonial and Feminist Practices
• Reading and Writing Culture
• Integrative Seminar
• Directed Elective

Elective Courses (6 units)

Ph.D. Course Requirements (36 units)

Core Curriculum (30 units)
· Representations of the Other
· Engendering and Reframing Development
· Advanced Seminar on Social Thought
· Postcolonial Studies
· Applied Advocacy Research: Postcolonial and Feminist Practices
· Directed Seminar in Research
· Academic Writing or Teaching Skills
· Reading and Writing Culture
· Three Directed Electives
 
Electives (6 units)
Language Requirement (0 units)
Comprehensive Exams (0 units)
Dissertation (0 units)

Sample Anthropology Electives

• Women, Culture, Social Change
• History and Imagination of 20th Century Revolutions
• Colonization: Remembering Silenced Histories
• Contemporary Issues in Medical Anthropology
• War and Peace: Alliance and Confrontation
• Advanced Seminar: Critical Social Thought
• Marx/Freud; Nietzsche/Foucault
• Ecology and Social Change
• A Genealogy of Social Movements
• Race and Racism in the United States

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