ANTH 3170 America: An Anthropological Perspective

INSTRUCTOR CONTACT:

Dr. Timothy Webmoor
Email: timothy.webmoor@colorado.edu

ABOUT THE COURSE:

Historical and contemporary aspects of American life are considered from an anthropological perspective. Approved for Arts and Sciences core curriculum: United States context.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

1. Understand anthropology’s unique approach to studying culture

2. Comprehend ethnography’s strengths as a methodology

3. Be familiar with how “stuff” actively shapes American culture

4. Be exposed to aspects of American culture that are taken for granted and little known

REQUIRED COURSE MATERIALS:

1. dana boyd. 2014. It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.

2. Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez. 2010. Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effects On Our Lives. Palgrave MacMillan, New York.

3. Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz. 2011. Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

4. Sharon Traweek. 1988. Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

There will be four films made available through the D2L course website.

GRADING:

Online Discussion Participation (4 total) 25 points
Midterm Exam 20 points
Ethnographic Notebooks 30 points
Final Essay 25 points
Total 100 points

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Hours

Monday – Friday
8:00am to 5:00pm

Location

We are located at the corner of University Avenue and 15th Street in a white brick building.

Map

1505 University Avenue
University of Colorado Boulder
178 UCB
Boulder, Colorado
80309-0178