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Course Descriptions

Students planning a program of study or concentration are urged to review program requirements and course descriptions before meeting with their advisors. Not all courses listed here are taught every year, and students should consult the Course Schedule on the Wheaton website for information about offerings in a particular semester. Courses are numbered to indicate levels of advancement as follows: 100–199, elementary or introductory; 200–299, intermediate; 300 and above, advanced. Departments often design new courses, either to be offered on a one-time basis or an experimental basis, before deciding whether to make them a regular part of the curriculum.  These courses are numbered 098, 198, 298 or 398.

Information is available online through WINDOW about prerequisites that must be completed before enrolling in a course, as well as the curriculum and general education requirements that a course fulfills. Most courses are offered for one course credit; a course credit at Wheaton is the equivalent of four semester hours.
 

African, African American, Diaspora Studies
  

  • AFDS 103 - Introduction to African, African American, Diaspora Studies

    An introduction to the study of Africa and its diaspora, primarily in the Americas, but also Europe. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach to a range of historical, literary, artistic, economic and political questions crucial to the understanding of the experiences of people of African descent.

    Credits 1



    Area
    Social Sciences

    Division
    Social Sciences

    Compass Attributes
    Social Science
  

  • AFDS 199 - Independent Study

    An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.

    Credits 0.5-1
  

  • AFDS 201 - Witnessing Contemporary African Society

    “Witnessing Contemporary African Society” is an intensive, interdisciplinary course designed to give students exposure to and an overview of one or more African countries normally South Africa and Botswana. Course activities and assignments include visits to political, economic, historical and cultural centers (e.g. townships, neighborhoods, museums and courts), meetings with local leaders and activists, lectures/seminars by local academics, and interactions with university students.

    Credits 1



    Foundation
    Beyond the West
  

  • AFDS 215 - Black Feminist Thought and Action

    The class will examine critical and theoretical issues in Black feminism from the 1960s to the present, focusing on the influential contemporary Black feminist intellectual tradition that emerged in the 1970s.  From this perspective, students will explore certain themes and topics, such as work, family, politics and community, through reading the writings of Black feminists. We will also study the ways in which women and men have worked together, toward the eradication of race and gender inequality, among other systems of oppression, which have historically subjugated Black women. Although emphasis will be placed on Black feminist traditions in the United States, at the end of the semester we will consider Black feminism in global perspective. 

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Cross listed with  

     

    Area
    Social Sciences

    Connection
    23007

    Compass Attributes
    Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars, Global Honors
  

  • AFDS 299 - Independent Study

    An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.

    Credits 1
  

  • AFDS 347 - Blackness, Futurism, and Supernatural Fiction

    This class will explore Black literary and cultural aesthetics that operate in speculative and science fiction. Students will read across media, including short stories, manifestos, journalism, critical theory, novels, music and film to engage and answer questions about the links between the African diaspora, cultural politics, technological development, communication systems, distant pasts and possible futures. 

    Prerequisites
    .  Minors by Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Cross-listed with  
  

  • AFDS 399 - Independent Study

    An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.

    Prerequisites
    Permission of instructor

    Credits 1

Anthropology
  

  • ANTH 101 - Human Evolution

    Discoveries related to human and cultural evolution are constantly changing our view of where we came from and how we got to be the way we are. This course considers the latest findings and controversies concerning evolutionary theory, our relationship to apes, our sexuality, bipedalism and capacity for language, the relevance of “race,” our links to Neanderthals, the development of what we call civilization and other topics.

    Credits 1



    Area
    Social Sciences

    Division
    Social Sciences

    Compass Attributes
    Social Science
  

  • ANTH 102 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

    This course explores cultural diversity in the contemporary world and introduces the ana­lytical and methodological tools that anthropologists use to understand cultural similarities and differences in a global context. This course will acquaint students with the extraordi­nary range of human possibility that anthropologists have come to know, provide a means of better understanding the culturally unfamiliar and offer a new perspective through which to examine the cultures that they call their own.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    A lab section must be selected with the lecture

    Area
    Social Sciences

    Connection
    20023

    Division
    Social Sciences

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • ANTH 198 - Experimental Courses

    Credits 1



    Area
    Social Science

    Division
    Social Science
  

  • ANTH 199 - Independent Study

    An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.

    Credits 0.5 - 1
  

  • ANTH 210 - Feast or Famine: The Ecology and Politics of Food

    This course concerns how food is produced, distributed and consumed. Topics covered include: how culture shapes taste, cuisine, nutrition and food production systems, as well as the ecological, economic and political factors that cause famine and food shortage. Films, case studies, guest speakers, action/service fieldwork and modeling exercises provide opportunities to think creatively about policy and action to increase food security for the most vulnerable at home and abroad. Students are expected to meet the challenge of bringing these issues into a forum for discussion on the Wheaton campus.

    Credits 1



    Area
    Social Science 

    Connection
    23002

    Division
    Social Science

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • ANTH 215 - Tanzania: Education and Development

    The course explores the considerable challenges facing countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Tanzania, one of the poorest countries on the continent, has a long history of trying to engineer development through educational change. Students are introduced to this rich history from the pre-colonial period to the present which includes: a look at traditional education systems in several of the 120 different cultures of Tanzania; the introduction of mission and colonial schools; ujamaa socialist education models in the 1960s-80s; and current attempts to make secondary school a universal right for all children. The program begins in the Northern International city of Arusha with its many museums, international war crimes tribunal court, and thriving markets to Kilimanjaro regional capital city Moshi town for a week of lectures and site visits to schools, coffee cooperatives, local industries, hospitals, and development projects. We then head for our base on Mount Kilimanjaro, a cultural heritage site and the only snow-capped mountain that straddles the equator. Our home for two weeks is Rongai, a town located in national forest conservation territory. The course is run like an intensive ethnographic field school.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Faculty led oversease trip.

    Permission of Program Coodinator

    Area
    Social Science

    Division
    Social Science

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Social Science, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • ANTH 225 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa

    This course takes a topical/historical approach to the study of sub-Saharan African societies. The diversity of unique African cultural features (in kinship, economy, politics and ritual) will be considered against the backdrop of historical interactions with Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia from the precolonial period to the present. Topics covered include: lineages and stateless societies, chiefdoms and long-distance trade, slavery, colonialism and underdevelopment, social movements and resistance, cosmology, warfare and stratification by ethnicity and gender.

    Credits 1



    Area
    Social Science

     

     

    Connection
    23001

    Division
    Social Science

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality
  

  • ANTH 226 - Anthropology of Art

    This course considers art as diverse as Maori canoe prows, Warhol’ Pop, aboriginal sand drawings, gang graffiti, Tibetan tangkas, children’ finger painting and Mapplethorpe’ photographs from an anthropological perspective, asking: Why do humans make art? How and why does art affect us and those of other cultures? What are the relationships between art, artists and society? Artists are encouraged to participate.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Open to Seniors, Juniors and Sophomores or Permission of Instructor.

    Area
    Social Science

    Division
    Social Science

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Social Science
  

  • ANTH 230 - Language and Culture

    Linguistic anthropology is concerned with the many ways that language and communication make us what we are as human beings and affect our daily social and cultural lives. Topics covered include: evolution of language; how language and culture affect the way we know the world; language acquisition; and language and communicative behaviors associated with social classes, races and genders.

    Credits 1



    Area
    Social Science

    Division
    Social Science

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Social Science
  

  • ANTH 235 - Peoples and Cultures of Latin America

    The course looks at the issues faced by peoples and cultures of Latin America primarily through the careful reading of ethnographies. The ethnographies, as well as the associated articles and films used in the course, highlight the social realities and history of Latin American region. In this course we focus on understanding the interconnectedness of the Americas, the relationship between gender and state development, multiple forms of violence (structural, gendered, political, symbolic and everyday), religious change, and the impact of migrations, as well as the legacies of historical constructions of race, gender and ethnicity.

    Credits 1



    Area
    Social Science

    Connection
    23003

    Division
    Social Science

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality
  

  • ANTH 245 - Indigenous Movements of Latin America

    This course takes a topical approach to contemporary challenges facing indigenous peoples in Latin America. The course uses recent ethnographic accounts to give us an in-depth understanding of the struggles, achievements and meaning-making practices of indigenous peoples in Latin America. We focus on identity-making practices of indigenous ethnic groups in their struggles within the states of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala and Mexico.

    Credits 1



    Area
    Social Science

    Connection
    23003

    Division
    Social Science

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Social Science
  

  • ANTH 246 - Imagining a Just World through Action

    The work of social justice is centuries-old, yet a just world remains elusive for the majority. Where and how do we begin to change our world? What should we do – or not do – to address injustice? Who gets to decide what social justice is? In this course, we study different approaches to enacting social justice, interrogate contemporary problems, and learn practical techniques to engage with each other and our communities. We explore global and local efforts for justice in political representation, gender, judicial processes, and knowledge creation. We will also learn through the experiential components of social justice practice.

    Credits 1



    Area
    Social Sciences

    Division
    Social Sciences

    Compass Attributes
    Social Science, Structures of Power and Inequality, Taylor and Lane
  

  • ANTH 255 - Women in Africa

    What contributions have women made to the societies of Africa prior to colonialism? How and why did colonialism affect men and women differently? What are the implications of gender inequality for economic development in Africa today? These questions are consid­ered from ethnographic, autobiographical and fictional accounts. Gender, class and cultural identity will be focal points.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Cross-listed with      

    Area
    Social Science

    Connection
    23001

    Division
    Social Science

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality
  

  • ANTH 260 - Women and Development

    This course focuses some of the central development problems in the Global South (poverty, hunger, infectious disease, illiteracy) and how our thinking about these issues changed once women were entered into the development equation. The backdrop to the issues we will tackle is the re-organization of the global political economy and the way that different actors in the business of development (international bodies such as the UN and its subsidiaries, national governments, multinational corporations and trade bodies, NGOs and Aid agencies, and the local recipients of aid) understand the fundamental problems causing underdevelopment and the solutions that they affirm. While we will consider the big picture of development from the top down, our key focus will remain on how women and men in the Global South understand and cope with the key development challenges they face in a rapidly changing world.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Cross-listed with  

    Area
    Social Science

    Division
    Social Science

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • ANTH 265 - Medical Anthropology

    Medical Anthropology explores how socio-cultural and biological factors influence practices of health and well being. Students in the course will learn about (1) diverse experiences and cultural influences on the distribution of illness, (2) cultural breadth in prevention and treatment of sickness and healing processes, (3) ways to document and understand the social relations of therapy management, and (4) the potential social benefits of pluralistic medical systems.

    Credits 1



    Area
    Social Science

    Connection
    20085

    Division
    Social Science

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • ANTH 266 - Global Health: Power, Sex, and Gender

    Inequality shapes the ways that world health issues are experienced by individuals and communities across cultures. This course focuses on (1) how unequal access to power shapes reproductive health, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, and other forms of gender-based health disparities; and (2) how power imbalances shapes the knowledge produced in the growing field of global health. The course will provide students with an understanding of the ways gender shapes global health issues. In addition, the course introduces students to the culture that underpins biomedical and public health practice.

    Credits 1



    Area
    Social Sciences

    Division
    Social Sciences

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • ANTH 270 - Psychological Anthropology

    Shamanic cures, ecstatic trance, spirit possession, dream interpretation, identity negoti­ation and other psychological phenomena that pose challenges for anthropological expla­nation are examined in order to better understand the relationship between sociocultural context and individual experience and thought. Case studies from diverse cultural settings are bases for exploring contemporary issues and topics in this field.

    Credits 1



    Area
    Social Science

    Division
    Social Science

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Social Science
  

  • ANTH 275 - Peoples and Cultures of the Himalaya

    The Himalayan region provides extraordinary opportunities for pursuing fascinating issues that interest anthropologists everywhere, including the relationship between ecology and culture, the politics of gender, negotiating ethnic identity, religious diversity and interaction, and globalization. This region is also home to some of the most widely known fantasies about the ideal society, usually called Shangrila. This course uses intimate, detailed portraits of cultures and societies that the best of anthropology provides in order to examine these issues (and fantasies) in Himalayan contexts, while at the same time providing a broad overview of the enormous diversity to be found in the region and the challenges that those who live there share.

    Credits 1



    Area
    Social Science

    Division
    Social Science

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Social Science
  

  • ANTH 295 - Peoples and Cultures of South Asia

    Religious and ethnic diversity and conflict, ritual performance and festivity, caste, colonial­ism, cultural heritage, nationalism and modern struggles over sovereignty and development schemes are all features of South Asia that anthropologists find particularly interesting. This course explores the extraordinary cultural diversity of this region, which extends from the Himalayas to Sri Lanka and Pakistan to Bhutan in order to better understand the differenc­es and commonalities that divide and unite its peoples.

    Credits 1



    Area
    Social Science

    Connection
    20032

    Division
    Social Science

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Social Science
  

  • ANTH 298 - “Ecuador, from the Andes to the Amazon: Understanding How We Look at the Natural World and Biodiversity”

    This 18-day interdisciplinary study abroad cross-listed course combining perspectives and approaches from two disciplines: Biology and Anthropology. The course will offer students an integrated and immersive learning experience set at multiple sites in Ecuador, including the University of San Francisco in Quito (USFQ) in the Andes mountains, the Mindo cloud forest, the town of Coca at the edge of the Amazon, and deep in the Amazonian rainforest at Tiputini Biodiversity Research Station. Students will also be introduced to the historical approaches to scientific biodiversity research in the Amazon and Andes. Students will engage in participant observation of current scientific research as they undertake hands-on projects and interviews, visit multiple cultural and ecological sites, attend interactive talks by local community members, and have a chance to work with USFQ faculty members. Ultimately, students will understand how scientists have and continue to explore the rich ecosystems and biodiversity of the Andean mountains and Amazon forest.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Faculty-lead Short-term Study away program.  Offered Summer 2023. 

    Area
    Social Science 

    Division
    Social Science 

    Compass Attributes
    Social Science, Sophomore Experience
  

  • ANTH 298 - Global Motherhood

    Designed in a reproductive justice framework, Global Motherhood draws on insights from gender studies, history, cultural anthropology and medical anthropology to explore the ways in which motherhood is theorized and experienced by parents who identify as mothers in distinct cultures, countries, and centuries. In the course students will explore diverse experiences of family formation, pregnancy, birth, infant feeding, and approaches to child-rearing and meet mothers from different cultures (in person and/or via Zoom visits to the classroom) to learn about their experiences first hand. This course will be of particular interest to students in Public Health, Pre-Health, WGS, Anthropology, and Nursing.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Cross listed with WGS 298 Gobal Motherhood. 

    Area
    Social Science

    Division
    Social Sciences

    Compass Attributes
    Social Science
  

  • ANTH 298 - Inequality and Health

    Health outcomes are shaped by socioeconomic inequalities worldwide. This course introduces students interested in medicine, public health, public policy, and the study of race and racism to the use of a cultural lens to understand how people experience and are affected by health inequalities in their everyday lives. Case studies will be drawn from contexts all around the globe.

    Credits 1
  

  • ANTH 298 - Power, Sex, Gender and Global Health

    This course explores cultural diversity in the contemporary world and introduces the analytical and methodological tools that anthropologists use to understand cultural similarities and differences in a global context. This course will acquaint students with the extraordinary range of human possibility that anthropologists have come to know, provide a means of better understanding the culturally unfamiliar and offer a new perspective through which to examine the cultures that they call their own.

    Credits 1
  

  • ANTH 298 - Qualitative Methods for Sociocultural and Public Health Research

    This course will teach you how to understand human experience and worldviews through qualitative research. The course is for those interested in ethnographic study, applied research, and community and public health research. We will cover a number of different research methods, including participant observation, proxemic analysis, survey and sampling techniques, interviewing, material culture analysis, photographic elicitation, content analysis, netnography, network analysis, workplace studies, and life histories.  We will be concerned throughout with the ethical issues that such research imposes; the connections between reading and writing and looking and listening; the challenges of building a framework for analyzing data; and how to use research that others have done to build questions and guide your own research. Over the course of the semester you will learn how to construct a research proposal and practice different techniques to answer questions and learn about situations that are of particular interest to you. 

     

    Credits 1



    Compass Attributes
    Sophomore Experience
  

  • ANTH 298/398 - Global Motherhood

    Designed in a reproductive justice framework, Global Motherhood draws on insights from gender studies, history, cultural anthropology and medical anthropology to explore the ways in which motherhood is theorized and experienced by parents who identify as mothers in distinct cultures, countries, and centuries. In the course students will explore diverse experiences of family formation, pregnancy, birth, infant feeding, and approaches to child-rearing and meet mothers from different cultures (in person and/or via Zoom visits to the classroom) to learn about their experiences first hand. Final applied group projects will connect students to issues of importance to a group of mothers. This course will be of particular interest to students in Public Health, Pre-Health, WGS, Anthropology, and Nursing. The course will meet requirements for Taylor and Lane, Structures of Power and Inequality, and/or Global Honors.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    This course is cross listed with .  It is offered at both the 200 and 300-level. 

    Division
    Social Sciences

    Compass Attributes
    Social Science
  

  • ANTH 299 - Independent Study

    An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.
  

  • ANTH 301 - Seminar in Anthropological Theory

    This seminar provides a selective survey of the past one hundred years of anthropological theory, with a particular focus on the contributions of American, British and French theorists in the development of anthropological paradigms that are now most important in the discipline. These include evolutionary, functionalist, historical particularistic, culture and personality, structuralist, symbolic/interpretive, ecological materialist, Marxist world systems, feminist, poststructuralist, practice and postmodernist theory, which will all receive major attention. Readings may include primary theoretical texts, classic and contemporary ethnographies and biographical materials on a number of influential anthropologists.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Open to Sophmore, Junior and Senior Anthroplogy Majors or Permission of Instructor

     

    Area
    Social Science

    Division
    Social Science

    Compass Attributes
    Social Science
  

  • ANTH 311 - Violence Against Women

    This seminar explores the nature of violence against women, focusing on current research on woman battering, rape, child sexual abuse and pornography. Students will compare theoretical approaches and will critically examine empirical research. The impact of race, ethnicity and class on the abuse experience are considered. A major part of the seminar involves original research by students on an issue of their choice. The semester will culminate in a symposium on violence against women organized by seminar members.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Cross-listed with  and  

    Permission of Instructor

    Area
    Social Science

    Division
    Social Science

    Compass Attributes
    Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • ANTH 333 - Economic Anthropology

    The seminar explores capitalism and alternative forms of economic organization, chal­lenging students to reconceptualize “economy” as a cultural system. Students compare nonmonetized economic relations in different societies and interactions between economic cores and peripheries. This reconceptualization informs a critical understanding of the implications for participation in the global economic system and its impact on the rest of the world.

    Prerequisites
     

     

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Open to Sophomore, Junior and Seniors or Permission of Instructor

    Area
    Social Science

    Division
    Social Science

    Foundation
    Beyond of the West

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality
  

  • ANTH 350 - The Social Life of Gender

    Societies differ considerably (over time and through space) in the way that gender is linked to sexuality and how these categories are assigned value, meaning, and power.  This course offers a cultural and historical perspective on how gender is linked to sex and is inscribed in hierarchy and inequality.  We begin by considering how cultural constructions of gender are deeply embedded, enacted, and contested in family/kinship systems with many variations.  Through readings focused on specific historical and ethnographic cases, films, and two short fieldwork assignments we will interrogate assumptions about the evolution of gender inequality, compare cultures that incorporate non-binary sex/gender systems, and examine how the social life of gender implicates sex role identity and performance in public (education, medicine, workplace, political sphere) as well as private (families, networks, community organizations) institutions.  Following Foucault, cases of particular interest will be those undergoing rapid, economic, political and technological change.

    Prerequisites
     or  

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Cross-listed with  

    Area
    Social Science

    Connection
    23006

    Division
    Social Science

    Foundation
    Beyond the West

    Compass Attributes
    Global Honors, Social Science, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars
  

  • ANTH 357 - Indigenous Religions

    An exploration of the rituals, myths and symbols of indigenous religions and the interconnection between these religious forms and native ways of life. Focuses on Native North American religious traditions, but indigenous religions in Africa, Australia and Latin America will also be considered.

    Prerequisites
    One 200-level Religion course or Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Cross-listed with  

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Compass Attributes
    Humanities
  

  • ANTH 398 - Global Motherhood

    Designed in a reproductive justice framework, Global Motherhood draws on insights from gender studies, history, cultural anthropology and medical anthropology to explore the ways in which motherhood is theorized and experienced by parents who identify as mothers in distinct cultures, countries, and centuries. In the course students will explore diverse experiences of family formation, pregnancy, birth, infant feeding, and approaches to child-rearing and meet mothers from different cultures (in person and/or via Zoom visits to the classroom) to learn about their experiences first hand. This course will be of particular interest to students in Public Health, Pre-Health, WGS, Anthropology, and Nursing.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    This course is cross listed with WGS 398 Global Motherhood.  From time to time, departments design a new course to be offered either on a one-time basis or an experimental basis before deciding whether to make it a regular part of the curriculum.  Last offered Spring 2023.

    Area
    Social Sciences

    Division
    Social Sciences

    Compass Attributes
    Social Sciences
  

  • ANTH 398 - Research Methods for Understanding Culture and Health

    This seminar focuses on the fundamentals of ethnographic research design and methodology as they relate to anthropological and public health research. Students will learn to define a topic, formulate research questions, conduct a literature review, draft a proposal, conduct participant observation, carry out ethnographic interviews, design surveys, and create fieldnotes. We will discuss and practice these methods in real-world contexts, formulating research questions and practicing the methods best suited to answer those questions through a semester-long collaborative class project. The course culminates in the design of an individual pilot project and proposal.

    Credits 1



    Division
    Social Science

    Compass Attributes
    Social Science
  

  • ANTH 399 - Independent Study

    Independent study supervised by a member of the Anthropology Department.
  

  • ANTH 401 - Senior Seminar

    A semester of directed research in which students explore topics of their own choice through original research as a capstone to the major. Students meet regularly in a seminar setting, which provides a framework in which to discuss the many stages of the research process and offer collaborative support to peers.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Open to Senior Majors or Permission of Instructor

    Area
    Social Science

    Division
    Social Science

    Compass Attributes
    Social Science
  

  • ANTH 499 - Independent Research

    Open to majors at the invitation of the department.
  

  • ANTH 500 - Individual Research

    Open to majors at the invitation of the department

    Credits 1



    Compass Attributes
    Social Science

Arabic
  

  • ARBC 101 - Elementary I

    This course provides the first-time learner with basic knowledge and skills in Ara­bic.

    Credits 1



    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language
  

  • ARBC 102 - Elementary II

    A continuation of 101.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    An additional hour of conversation per week will be required and will be scheduled with the professor.

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language
  

  • ARBC 199 - Independent Study

    An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.

    Credits 0.5 - 1
  

  • ARBC 201 - Intermediate I

    During this course,students will review chapters 1-10 that are in Book I . Get tested on it before going to Book II, Al-Kitaab. Emphasis will be on learning new vocabulary, writing, reading and speaking will be applied in every class. Instructor will teach materials from the textbooks, CDs, DVDs, cultural events and articles, movies and the instructor personal experience as a native speaker. Speaking Arabic will be encouraged at each class.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    An additional hour of conversation per week will be required and will be scheduled with the professor.

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language
  

  • ARBC 202 - Intermediate II

    A continuation of 201.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    An additional hour of conversation per week will be required and will be scheduled with the professor.

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language
  

  • ARBC 299 - Independent Study

    An opportunity to do independent work in a particular area not included in the regular courses.

    Prerequisites
    Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1
  

  • ARBC 301 - Advanced Arabic

    Students at this level have a broader range of vocabulary, more fluency in speaking, and more advanced skills in Arabic than students at the regular Intermediate Arabic level. The main objective of this course is to move students in a short period of time across the threshold of the high intermediate level of proficiency and provide opportunities and learning strategies towards the advanced level of proficiency. This level is characterized by extensive readings and discussions on a multitude of political, social, cultural, and literary topics. Listening activities focus on authentic materials of considerable length and content. At this level, students learn colloquial dialects mostly Levantine. The objective is to equip students with the necessary conversational skills that would enable them to engage in meaningful discourse with educated Arabs in a medium that is not considered artificial or unfamiliar in the Arab World.

    Prerequisites
    ARBC 101, ARBC 102, ARBC 201 and ARBC 202 or Permission of Instructor

    Credits 1



    Notes
    Course taught at Stonehill College.  Students are responsible for their own transportation

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Humanities
  

  • ARBC 302 - Advanced Arabic

    Students at this level have a broader range of vocabulary, more fluency in speaking, and more advanced skills in Arabic than students at the regular Intermediate Arabic level. The main objective of this course is to move students in a short period of time across the threshold of the high intermediate level of proficiency and provide opportunities and learning strategies towards the advanced level of proficiency. This level is characterized by extensive readings and discussions on a multitude of political, social, cultural, and literary topics. Listening activities focus on authentic materials of considerable length and content. At this level, students learn colloquial dialects mostly Levantine. The objective is to equip students with the necessary conversational skills that would enable them to engage in meaningful discourse with educated Arabs in a medium that is not considered artificial or unfamiliar in the Arab World.

    Prerequisites
    ARBC 101, 102, 201 and 202 or Permission of Instructor.

    Credits 1



    Notes
    This course is taught at Stonehill College.  Students are responsible for their own transportation.

    Area
    Humanities

    Division
    Arts and Humanities

    Foundation
    Foreign Language

    Compass Attributes
    Foreign Language, Humanities
  

History of Art
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Astronomy
  
  
  
 

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