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| Semester: | Fall 2025 |
| Number: | 0103-105-002 |
| Instructor: | Brian Mooney |
| Days: | Monday Wednesday 2:25 pm - 3:40 pm |
| Note: | Traditional In-Person Class |
| Location: | Garden City - Hy Weinberg Center 131 |
| Credits: | 3 |
| Status: | This Course is Filled to Capacity |
| Course Materials: | View Text Books |
| Description: |
Students will gain strategies for understanding and responding critically to the concepts of culture and society through ethnography and multidisciplinary sources. The course looks at cultural categories, social institutions, structures of power, including race, racism, justice, gender, and socio-economic class and how these inform peoples' everyday lives and choices. (Learning Goals:G;Distribution Reqs:Social Sciences) |
| Learning Goals: |
Through course materials that are anthropologically grounded but multidisciplinary in scope, and through assessments that include peer group work, students will:1) acquire greater comfort in thinking and writing critically about the concepts of culture and society;2) go beyond given explanations and assumptions about behaviour, including the categories of race, gender, and class; and cultural variations;3) demonstrate more nuanced interpretations of cultural practices and societal responses to racism, justice, hierarchies of power, and variations in human behaviour. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here. |
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