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Semester: Spring 2012
CRN: 33503
Location: SS 258
Professor: Gilbert Quintero
Description:
Special Anthropology Course Offering Gives UM Students Hands On Experience Conducting NIH Research
This spring semester (2012) marks the third installment of a unique anthropology course that teaches undergraduate and graduate state of the art ethnographic field research methods in the context of an investigation funded by the National Institutes of Health. This Honors course, Ethnographic Field Methods (ANTY 431), introduces students to applied ethnographic research methods as part of an Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA). Students will be exposed to a range of research skills, data collection and management techniques, research ethics, analysis, and dissemination activities. The study investigates the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into collegiate alcohol and drug use behaviors. The specific aims of this project are: To describe how college students use ICTs to organize, document and evaluate social gatherings involving alcohol and drug use; to document and analyze how college students employ ICTs to enact protective strategies related to alcohol and drug use; and to identify potential modes of alcohol and drug abuse prevention that incorporate collegiate ICT practices.
Course Instructor:
Gilbert Quintero, Ph.D., Professor
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Semester: Spring 2012
CRN: 35595
Location: FA 302
Professor: Dr. Arielle Rittersmith
Description:
ANTY 491/ SSEA 495/ MANS 495: Globalization and Overseas Chinese
MW: 2:10 - 3:30 PM
'Globalization does not necessarily or even frequently imply homogenization or Americanization... Different societies appropriate the materials of modernity differently.' -Arjun Appadurai
Despite the common inpression that globalization is a product of Euro-American 'modernity' (mistaken as a synonym for 'westernization'), global interconnectedness has long been fostered by international trade, conquest, colonialism, development, migration, exploration, and other forms of travel. This course seeks to challenge the simplistic divisions between 'East' and 'West', particularly with reference to transnational Chinese networks and the dissemination of Chinese cultural practices such as Chinese food and medicine.
This course satisfies SSEA Minor Requirements.
