Crosslisted: AP/WMST 4502, GL/WMST 4502 Examines gender-based violence in its many forms, such as domestic violence, state violence, legal violence (punishment) and cultural violence (rituals) and analyzes the global context in which gender and power are constructed and violence against women is perpetuated and tolerated.
Examines conceptions of the self, and analyzes the consequences of oppression and various types of discrimination on self-determination, identity and the possibility of freedom from a feminist and anti-racist perspective.
Crosslisted: AP/COMN 3316 6.00 (prior to Fall 2012). Examines the interaction between television and culture by exploring the local and global impact of television, its structures, the medium and its effects. The place of television within the larger structure of society and culture will be examined. Audience response and other variables will be considered.
Crosslisted: AP/COMN 3315 6.00 (prior to Fall 2012). Examines the place of advertising within culture and society. It will focus on the analysis of advertising; the cultural triumph of the image; the democratization of luxury; the aesthetics of mass culture and the place of advertising within contemporary culture and society.
Crosslisted: AP/SOSC 3315, AP/COMN 3315 This course reviews the historical development of advertising. Careful attention is placed on the economic shift from production to consumption; the culture of consumption and other contributing factors.
Crosslisted: AP/HREQ 4410 This course surveys anthropology's attempts to confront, analyze, and reframe claims about the nature of human beings implicit in the discourse of human rights.
Examines how modern forms of communication have totally transformed the nature of advocacy and the social construction of knowledge in modern society. Specifically, it examines ways in which cultural norms are modified by the activities of social movements.
Crosslisted: AP/ANTH 3370 Examines the creation and perpetuation of the so called modern world as a dominant socio-cultural system through its increasing proliferation and use of extreme forms of organized violence. It also examines the existence and possibilities of non-violent alternatives.
Crosslisted: AP/SOSC 3659 The purpose of this course is to establish the analytical connections between the knowledge fields of criminology and human rights. Among the topics considered are human rights perspectives within criminology, human rights implications of policing, crime prevention, and state and corporate crimes, International Criminal Court, and international crimes such as genocide, war […]
Crosslisted: AP/SOSC 3658 This course examines how science and technology have altered the terrain of criminology and criminal justice. It focuses not only on the ways in which criminology has been constructed as a science, but also the ways in which technology has created new crimes, new forms of identity (e.g. data doubles), and new […]