Sep 28, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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ANTH 4720 - History of Anthropological Thought
This course explores the ideas, actors, and institutions that have shaped the history of anthropological thought. The course considers how power-laden encounters between western and non-western societies framed the conceptions of human culture, society, economy, religion, politics, law, and personhood that continue to shape the horizons of anthropological thought today. Through examination of the historical development of the discipline, the course addresses the complexities of anthropology’s analytical tools in the present.
Requisites: (ANTH 1010 and ANTH 2010 and ANTH 2020) and (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to identify fundamental themes and debates in the history of sociocultural anthropology.
- Students will be able to describe and explain how past definitions and uses of anthropological concepts and theories influence the intellectual concerns of contemporary anthropologists.
- Students will be able to describe and evaluate how anthropology responds to changes in the outside world.
- Students will be able to articulate the significance of anthropological theory in the contemporary world through reference to their own experience.
- Students will be able to apply anthropological theory from a particular historical and sociocultural context to a new situation.
- Students will be able to use anthropological theory to reflect on the biases and assumptions that inform their own thoughts and perspectives.
- Students will be able to frame a discussion, orally and in writing, through multimodal communication that critically and accurately engages anthropological arguments.
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