printer friendly pageANTHRO 22: Archaeology of North America
Why and how people of N. America developed. Issues and processes that dominate or shape developments during particular periods considering the effects of history and interactions with physical and social environment. Topics include the peopling of the New World, explaining subsequent diversity in substance and settlement adaptations, the development of social complexity, and the impact of European contact.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
ANTHRO 33: Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CSRE 196C, ENGLISH 172D, PSYCH 155, SOC 146, TAPS 165)
How different disciplines approach topics and issues central to the study of ethnic and race relations in the U.S. and elsewhere. Lectures by senior faculty affiliated with CSRE. Discussions led by CSRE teaching fellows.
Terms: Win
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Brody, J. (PI)
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Fullwiley, D. (PI)
ANTHRO 112: Public Archaeology: Market Street Chinatown Archaeology Project (ANTHRO 212, ASNAMST 112)
This internship-style course centers on the practice and theory of historical archaeology research and interpretation through a focused study of San Jose¿s historic Chinese communities. The course includes classroom lectures, seminar discussion, laboratory analysis of historic artifacts, and participation in public archaeology events. Course themes include immigration, urbanization, material culture, landscape, transnational identities, race and ethnicity, gender, cultural resource management, public history, and heritage politics. The course includes required lab sections, field trips, and public service. Transportation will be provided for off-site activities.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
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Units: 4-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Pezzarossi, G. (PI)
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Voss, B. (PI)
ASNAMST 112: Public Archaeology: Market Street Chinatown Archaeology Project (ANTHRO 112, ANTHRO 212)
This internship-style course centers on the practice and theory of historical archaeology research and interpretation through a focused study of San Jose¿s historic Chinese communities. The course includes classroom lectures, seminar discussion, laboratory analysis of historic artifacts, and participation in public archaeology events. Course themes include immigration, urbanization, material culture, landscape, transnational identities, race and ethnicity, gender, cultural resource management, public history, and heritage politics. The course includes required lab sections, field trips, and public service. Transportation will be provided for off-site activities.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
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Units: 4-5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Pezzarossi, G. (PI)
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Voss, B. (PI)
ASNAMST 261B: East Goes West: Transnational Asia/Pacific Spatial Geographies (AMSTUD 261B, ENGLISH 261B)
East goes west as a metaphor to invoke the conceptions of fantasy and desire that play out in transnational scope. What attracts diasporic Asian/American subjects to the locations that they travel to, whether it be an identified homeland with which a character attaches a strong affinity, or to a new country where the promise of economic possibilities await?
Terms: Win
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Sohn, S. (PI)
Sohn, S. (PI)
ASNAMST 265: Writing Asian American History (AMSTUD 265, HISTORY 265, HISTORY 365)
Recent scholarship in Asian American history, with attention to methodologies and sources. Topics: racial ideologies, gender, transnationalism, culture, and Asian American art history. Primary research paper.
Terms: Spr
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Chang, G. (PI)
CHILATST 180E: Introduction to Chicana/o Studies
Historical and contemporary experiences that have defined the status of Mexican-origin people living in the U.S. Topics include the U.S./Mexico border and the borderlands; immigration and anti-immigration sentiment; literary and cultural traditions; music; labor; historical perspectives on Mexicans in the U.S. and the Chicano movement; urban realities; gender relations; political and economic changes; and inter- and intra-group interactions. Sources include social science and humanities scholarship.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
COMPLIT 142: The Literature of the Americas (AMSTUD 142, CSRE 142, ENGLISH 172E)
A wide-ranging overview of the literatures of the Americas innncomparative perspective, emphasizing continuities and crises that are common to North American, Central American, and South American literatures as well as the distinctive national and cultural elements of a diverse array of primary works. Topics include the definitions of such concepts as empire and colonialism, the encounters between worldviews of European and indigenous peoples, the emergence of creole and racially mixed populations, slavery, the New World voice, myths of America as paradise or utopia, the coming of modernism, twentieth-century avant-gardes, and distinctive modern episodes--the Harlem Renaissance, the Beats, magic realism, Noigandres--in unaccustomed conversation with each other.
Terms: Win
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
CSRE 117S: History of California Indians (HISTORY 250A)
Demographic, political, and economic history of California Indians, 1700s-1950s. Processes and events leading to the destruction of California tribes, and their effects on the groups who survived. Geographic and cultural diversity. Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American periods. The mission system.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-ED
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
CSRE 142: The Literature of the Americas (AMSTUD 142, COMPLIT 142, ENGLISH 172E)
A wide-ranging overview of the literatures of the Americas innncomparative perspective, emphasizing continuities and crises that are common to North American, Central American, and South American literatures as well as the distinctive national and cultural elements of a diverse array of primary works. Topics include the definitions of such concepts as empire and colonialism, the encounters between worldviews of European and indigenous peoples, the emergence of creole and racially mixed populations, slavery, the New World voice, myths of America as paradise or utopia, the coming of modernism, twentieth-century avant-gardes, and distinctive modern episodes--the Harlem Renaissance, the Beats, magic realism, Noigandres--in unaccustomed conversation with each other.
Terms: Win
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Greene, R. (PI)
;
Saldivar, R. (PI)
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