ANTH 515

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Seminar in Anthropology

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Credit: 2 OR 4 hours.

Analysis of selected topics of special interest in anthropology.

May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours in the same or subsequent semesters.

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CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
65206	Online Lecture	FH	2:00PM -4:50PM	T	n.a.	Harrison, F	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Decolonizing Knowledge Section Info: This course examines the multiple streams, sites, and positionalities of contestation, rethinking, and renewed knowledge production that have contributed to the theory, methodology, praxis, politics, and poetics associated with the “decolonizing generations.” Anthropologists around the world, in dialogue with each other and with thinkers from other fields, are probing the interplay of knowledge and power in light of problems germane to modernity/coloniality, including white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and accumulation by exploitation and expropriation in racial capitalism. These scholars dare to re-imagine possibilities for knowledge otherwise beyond the confining boundaries of the cognitive empire toward regenerative landscapes for epistemic equity. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
68025	Lecture-Discussion	J	3:00PM -5:50PM	M	Davenport Hall	Davis, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Anthropological Ethics Section Info: This course will provide an overview anthropological ethics including both a history overview and contemporary best practices. Drawing on research and examples from across all subfields (archaeological, biological/forensic, linguistic, and cultural) as well as areas like medical anthropology, queer anthropology, and animal studies, this seminar will examine how the discipline of anthropology has been shaped by engagements with ethics as they relate to research, teaching, and service. It will provide an opportunity for graduate students to engage key critical scholars, ethics statements, and prevailing and emerging models in research methods that seek ethical knowledge production as well as assisting students to develop, clarify, and justify the research ethics and methods they adopt and practice to reach their research and professional goals. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign. Restricted to PHD:Anthropology -UIUC.
30177	Lecture-Discussion	KC	3:00PM -5:50PM	W	Davenport Hall	Calhoun, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Digital Qualitative Methods Section Info: This graduate seminar explores qualitative methods that can be applied to the study of digital communities, cultures, and phenomena. The course will focus on approaches that have been applied in the (overlapping) subfields of sociocultural, linguistic, media, and digital anthropology; approaches in related fields including media studies, communication, and science and technology studies will also be introduced. Students will compare methods for studies conducted entirely in digital contexts and studies with hybrid digital/in-person components. Students will also engage the specific ethical considerations of data collection, analysis, and representation choices when working in digital contexts. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
51080	Online	MK2	12:30PM -1:50PM	TR	n.a.	Koven, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Language, Culture & Identity Section Info: We will discuss how people use language in ways that signal a range of interactional and socio-cultural meanings. We will explore a number of classic and contemporary approaches that address how language use both seems to “reflect” and create interpersonal and sociocultural contexts.More specifically, we will cover a range of approaches to the study of the relationships between language use and processes of social identification, often understood in terms of seemingly more durable, broader-level rubrics, such as ethnicity, race, class, gender, sexuality, the nation-state, diaspora, generation, etc. Although no previous background is required for this course, students must be willing, however, to read, synthesize, and discuss material from a range of disciplines. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.