2012-2013 Academic Catalog 
    
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2012-2013 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ID 214 - Applying Anthropology: From Field Work to Action


This course introduces the field of applied anthropology and exposes students to what practicing anthropologists do, at home and abroad, including the areas of community development, health, agriculture, education, law and human rights, gender, microeconomics, advocacy, policy, language and culture. It explores how concepts in anthropology translate into action, and how an anthropological perspective on development is not only critical of its past, but insightful about its future. Much of the specific case material examined will be associated with areas in Latin America and the US-Mexico border where the instructor has worked, and the course will serve as excellent preparation for students planning to do field work. (1/2 unit, second half Spring)