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AFC 244 - Dimensions of Racism [GEGA or GEKS]
This course examines various theoretical approaches to the concepts of race, ethnicity, and diversity. This course offers the opportunity to acquire an understanding of the interrelated dynamics that diversity of people, culture, religious beliefs, and ideologies play in the creation of new nations; how they can determine political and/or economic alliances; how they can shape or reshape the global order; how they can influence systems of exclusion and produce practices of intolerance.
Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation
Class-Level Restriction Undergraduate standing
Using the Afrocentric paradigm, a privileged critical theoretical framework and methodology to address relations of power and privilege, domination and oppression, concepts of superior and inferior civilizations, cultures, and societies that are difficult to deconstruct within traditional western perspectives, Dimensions of Racism prepares students to examine various theoretical approaches to the concepts of race, ethnicity, and diversity. The goal is to help students understand their culture and cultural practices and the interrelated dynamics that the diversity of peoples, cultures, and religious beliefs on the one hand; and ideological and political foundations of social stratification based on systems of power, oppression, and prejudice, on the other, play in the creation of new nations; how they can determine political and/or economic alliances; how they can shape or reshape the global order; how they can influence systems of exclusion and produce practices of intolerance. As such, in discussing these issues both at a national, international, and global level, this course meets the outcomes for Global Awareness .
Students will develop knowledge of ethnographic methods and techniques in social scientific research and Africology & African American Studies. In addition students learn how to develop research questions that reflect an understanding of the discipline in which they are asked; how to conduct cross-cultural analysis of data; and understand how knowledge is developed and disseminated from the perspective of the ontology and epistemology of race and the impact of its regulatory powers within society at national and international level. Students learn how to use social science methods of describing, exploring, explaining, and comparing to engage in the systematic study and understanding of societies and cultures and relations of power that govern and shape them. This course explores a broad range of topics and methods in the Social Sciences approach under the discipline of Africology both at national, international, and global level. As such, this course meets the outcomes for Knowledge of the Disciplines-Social Sciences .
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Students may earn credit towards Global Awareness (GEGA) or Knowledge of the Disciplines-Social Sciences (GEKS) , not both.
Updates Approved for GEGA and GEKS 1/2016, effective Fall 2016; New Course 11/14, effective Summer 2015
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AFC 313 - Contemporary Africa: The Struggle and Prospects for Development [GEGA]
This course serves as a survey of Africa’s contemporary political economy. In examining postcolonial developments, the course focuses on regional and national strategies for social transformation.
Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Fall, Winter, and Summer (online)
AFC 313 - Contemporary Africa: the Struggle & Prospects for Development is designed as a survey of Africa’s contemporary political economy. In examining post-colonial efforts at development, the course focuses on a cross-section of regional and national strategies for social transformation. Among subjects emphasized are economic cooperation and coordination initiatives on the continent, side by side with domestic and/or external constraints on national socioeconomic developmental efforts. The course also compares and contrasts Africa’s major socioeconomic trends and performances with those of Latin America & the Caribbean and Asia and Pacific regions. This course meets the Global Awareness category of the General Education program because its survey of the contemporary political-economic conditions of Africa will help to provide EMU students with a global perspective on forms of development in the contemporary world. Such a global perspective on development is all the more necessary, given the leadership role that the United States and Western Europe play within the international community.
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Equivalent Courses AAS 313
Previously listed as AAS 313
Updates Course Rotation added 8/2014; Prefix change 2/2013, effective Summer 2013
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AFC 351 - The Social Context of African American Health [GEKS]
Examines the health status of African Americans. Explores the interplay between environment, biology, and culture; folk and popular health practices; and the organization and delivery of health care.
Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Winter
Class-Level Restriction Undergraduate standing
AFC 351 applies an analysis of the social and cultural basis of health to the African American experience. To this end, the course provides a broad introduction to social science suppositions and techniques. AFC 351 moves well beyond the idea that medical care - its presence, absence or quality - is the singular or most critical factor determining the health of a people, community or society. It reveals the importance of social phenomena in disease resistance and health promotion. Historical shifts from the prominence of infectious to chronic diseases; the implications to health of chattel slavery, sharecropping, segregation, poverty and structured inequality; the relationship between psychosocial factors and disease, i.e., destabilized social settings that compromise resistance to disease; environmental racism; and the health status of African Americans as it relates to the organization of work, family structure and function, religious beliefs, the organization of medical care, lifestyle, consumer manipulation and post-industrial society are major issues addressed by the course.
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Equivalent Courses AAS 351
Previously listed as AAS 351
Updates Course Rotation added 8/2014; Change to prefix 2/2013, effective Summer 2013
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AGIN 212 - Introduction to Gerontology [GEUS]
This course is designed to provide an exploration of the diverse dimensions of gerontology by studying contemporary issues relevant to the field. Students will gain an understanding of the domains of theory, research, education, practice, policy and service, all of which help to define the diverse nature of gerontology.
Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Winter and Summer
This course introduces students to the study of aging. Older adults over the age of 55 comprise the largest and most diverse group within the U.S. This patchwork quilt of Americans represents a broad array of values, interests, and experiences that have significantly defined the nation. Through the study of aging, students begin to understand how differences among people have shaped the society we live. Concepts such as ageism are examined and how public policy has negatively and positively influenced the lives of the elderly. Sub-groups within the older population are explored as students learn how people throughout history have been disadvantaged based on race, ethnicity, gender, cultural and sexual identity and age itself. Trends are discussed that show how individual differences within this broad group help to re-define what it means to be an older adult. Students are challenged through reading and writing assignments that provide the foundation to enter into a larger discussion on the diverse and complex topics that impact aging in America. As such, this course meets the outcomes for a course in the Perspectives on a Diverse World - US Diversity category of the General Education program.
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Equivalent Courses GERT 212
Previously listed as GERT 212
Updates Approved for GEUS 10/15, effective Winter 2016; Course Rotation added 9/2014; Change to prefix 1/2013; Change to description 10/2011, effective Winter 2012
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AGIN 219 - Around the World in 80 Years: Adult Development Across Culture [GEGA]
Through the study of adult development, students will consider how the aging of the world’s population is affecting diverse cultures, societies - and families - across the globe. Issues of social justice and empowerment related to population aging will be addressed, particularly the social, economic, political and policy consequences.
Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Fall
Cross-Listed with SOCL 219
This Global Awareness course offers students the opportunity to examine diverse cultures and countries through a social and demographic reality shared across the world: population aging. While variances exist in lifespan, every society, and every country - whether industrialized Western or least industrialized African or Asian- is faced with the circumstance of adults living longer than ever before in their history. How each culture has historically dealt with and currently deals with its again population, as well as aging individuals, offers a lens for considering the diversities and commonalities of societies around the world. Through the study of again issues of global relations, social justice, and empowerment will be addressed, particularly the social, economic, political and policy consequences.
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Equivalent Courses SOCL 219
Previously listed as GERT 219
Updates Course Rotation added 9/2014, Edited create under 7/2014; Prefix change 1/2013
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ANTH 135 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology [GEGA or GEKS]
The study of human adaptations to natural and cultural environments focusing upon a variety of societies. The basic institutions of human society such as kinship, religion, law, politics and economics will be examined.
Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Fall and Winter
Class-Level Restriction Undergraduate standing
Anthropology is the global comparative study of human societies, both in terms of their development and in terms of their culture-specific expressions. Students learn how an anthropological cross-cultural perspective can improve understandings of cultural diversity, especially when addressing topics and perspectives that are difficult to understand from a purely western perspective. The course covers a broad range of topics traditionally approached by anthropologists, which address each of the outcomes for the Global Awareness requirement. By better understanding the factors contributing to cross-cultural similarities, differences, and interconnections, students learn to appreciate global diversity in development, ethnicity, language, subsistence, modes of gender, kinship, sexuality, religion, forced and voluntary migration and how contemporary globalization is influencing each of these topics.
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Updates Course Rotation updated 4/2017; Course Rotation added 12/2014; General Education Areas 7/2011
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ANTH 150 - Introductory Archaeology [GEKS]
A general survey of the field of archeology; the methodologies and analyses employed in the study of prehistoric cultures.
Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Fall and Winter
Class-Level Restriction Undergraduate standing
The course is designed as an introduction to the anthropological subfield of archaeology. In addition to general social science methods, the student will learn about archaeological survey and excavation techniques, the kinds of quantitative and qualitative data these produce, cross-cultural analyses, and social science theories that are tested with archaeological data. The course covers a broad range of topics traditionally approached by archaeologists, which contribute to an understanding of the human past and lessons for some of today’s major global issues. In the process of learning about archaeology, students also learn to appreciate how social science methods, in general, can produce knowledge and provide perspectives on social and political organization, power relationships, social change and contemporary global problems. Course assignments allow students to use general social science techniques with archaeological data to address these topics.
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Updates Course Rotation updated 4/2017; Course Rotation added 12/2014
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ANTH 212 - Peoples and Cultures of China [GEGA]
This course provides an overview of anthropological approaches to the study of both traditional and contemporary China, with an emphasis on conditions in the most recent decades. It pays particular attention to issues of family and social relations, gender and kinship, ethnicity, social inequality, and China in globalization.
Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Fall and Winter (offered irregularly)
Class-Level Restriction Undergraduate standing
This course satisfies a General Education Requirement in Global Awareness. China is one of the oldest civilizations and is the largest and fastest growing nation on earth. It is a country amidst a hurried and conflicted remaking and drastic transformation. With fifty-six ethnic nationalities, China has diverse cultures interacting in the global community that is confronting many of the same major issues as in other world regions. This course aims to provide students with the means of understanding the diversity of China’s peoples and cultures in the dual context of lived experience as well as informed analysis. It traces the enduring legacies of traditional China and observes the rapid economic and sociocultural change of contemporary China in the era of globalization. By studying Chinese cultures, students learn the diverse ways that cultures create and classify ethnicity, classes, kinship and genders, and how these differ from the West, especially the US. The course exposes students to culture-specific and cross-cultural patterns in the causes and consequences of social, cultural, and racial intolerance. Students successfully completing this course learn how to analyze and synthesize diverse sources of information, in order to make informed decisions on major issues confronting China and other world regions experiencing similar issues.
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Updates Updated course rotation 5/2017; Approved for GEGA 1/2017, effective Fall 2017; Change to prerequisites 6/2016, effective Fall 2016; Course Rotation 12/2014; New Course 4/2014, effective Fall 2014
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ANTH 214 - U.S. Racial and Cultural Minorities [GEUS]
An introduction to the study of U.S. diversity with particular reference to the African American and Hispanic, and European and Asian immigrants in the United States; racial myths, doctrines and movements; conflict and accommodation of majority and minority people; and proposed solutions of ethnic problems.
Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Fall and Winter
Cross-Listed with SOCL 214
Class-Level Restriction Undergraduate standing
This course is an introduction to the study of U.S. diversity in reference to majority-minority relations. Students will examine the characteristics of the racial, ethnic and subcultural factors leading to the emergence of specific minority groups in American society. The dynamics of discrimination and assimilation will be studied as they apply to major American ethnic and subcultural groups, and issues related to separatism vs. multiculturalism will be discussed in a cross-cultural, comparative framework.
This course provides students with the conceptual tools to analyze their experience of minority-majority status, and to trace the roots of such an experience by placing it in the context of American culture. Also, by applying social-science models to the understanding of the cultural, racial, ethnic and subcultural diversity found in the U.S. students will be able to more clearly assess the complexity of in-group and out-group perspectives on identity and discrimination, particularly in reference to intercultural competence.
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Updates Course Rotation added 12/2014
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ANTH 233 - Cultures of Mesoamerica and the Caribbean [GEGA]
A regional, historical and topical survey of Mesoamerica (Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras) and Caribbean cultures.
Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Fall and Winter (offered irregularly)
Class-Level Restriction Undergraduate standing
Mesoamerica and the Caribbean have diverse nations and cultures interacting in the global community that is confronting many of the same major issues as in other world regions. Students explore and compare cultures in both macro-regions, and further compare those cultures with cultures of North America. This course also emphasizes North American political and economical interconnections with Mesoamerica and the Caribbean: how those relationships have influenced the creation and character of national governments, alliances, and conflicts, and grass-roots cultural reactions. By studying Mesoamerican and Caribbean cultures, students learn the diverse ways that cultures create and classify races, classes, and genders, and how these differ from classifications in North America. Students are exposed to culture-specific and cross-cultural patterns in the causes and consequences of social, cultural, and racial intolerance. Students successfully completing this course learn how to analyze and synthesize diverse sources of information to make informed decisions on major issues confronting Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and other world religions experiencing similar issues.
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ANTH 237 - Native North American Cultures [GEUS]
A regional, historical and topical survey of aboriginal North American cultures.
Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Fall and Winter
Class-Level Restriction Undergraduate standing
This course introduces students to the diverse political economic and belief systems of indigenous North American cultures (primarily within the U.S. but also in Canada) and the historical and modern impacts of European colonial and U.S. government policies toward Native American peoples. Emphasized throughout the course are the differences among Euro-American political economies and associated ideologies and those of different Native American cultures. Students will learn and understand the historic creation and modern perpetuation of social intolerance, institutionalized racism, ethnocentrism, stereotyping and exclusion. In addition to outlining the causes and consequences of ethnic cleansing, genocide and refugee migrations in North America, the course also explores institutionalized attempts at forced “westernization” of Native Americans through reservation-allotment, missionaries, educational systems and other policies resulting in impoverishment, erosion of social organizations, and loss of culture. Students develop awareness and explanations for alternative cultural identities and values by comparing the varying social experiences and civil rights movements of Native Americans with those of other minority groups.
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ANTH 270 - Introduction to Forensic Anthropology
This introduction to the applied field of forensic anthropology will include an overview of the human skeleton, aspects of the biological profile, how to estimate the post-mortem interval, and the expectations of the forensic anthropologist as an expert witness. Students will gain an appreciation for the controversies and limitations of the field.
Disclaimer: The material covered in this course can be of a violent and graphic nature.
Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Fall and Winter
Cross-Listed with CRM 270
Class-Level Restriction Undergraduate standing
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Equivalent Courses CRM 270
Updates Course Rotation added 5/2017; New Course 3/2016, effective Fall 2016
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