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| ANTH 1031. Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology. A general introduction to Anthropology emphasizing different forms of society and culture. Cultures within and outside the Western tradition will be examined, ranging from small-scale to more complex pre-industrial societies. |
| ANTH 2200. Communities. (same as SOCI 2200) An interdisciplinary examination of the concept of Community. Readings will include community studies from North America and Europe.
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| ANTH 2210. Communication and Culture. (same as SOCI 2210) An examination of verbal and non-verbal systems of communication, and the influence of language on human cognition.
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| ANTH 2230. Newfoundland Society and Culture. (same as FOLK/SOCI 2230) The Sociology and Anthropology of the island of Newfoundland. The focus is on social and cultural aspects of contemporary island Newfoundland. |
| ANTH 2240. Canadian Society and Culture. (same as SOCI 2240) A descriptive and analytic approach to the development of Canadian culture and society |
| ANTH 2270. Families. a comparative and historical perspective on the family as a social institution, the range of variation in its structure and the determinants of its development. |
| ANTH 2280. The City. (same as SOCI 2280) Examines urban life around the world and through history. The city as habitat and as spectacle. |
| ANTH 2300. Newfoundland Folklore. (same as SOCI 2300) A survey of the various types of Folklore: tale, song, rhyme, riddle, proverb, belief, custom, childlore and others, with stress on their function in the Newfoundland community culture. Individual collection and analysis of materials from the students' home communities, supplemented by data form M.U.N Folklore and Language Archive. |
| ANTH 2410. Classics in Social and Cultural Anthropology. An examination of selected milestone monographs, ground-breaking studies for subdisciplinary specialties, and major syntheses. |
| ANTH 2412. Threatened Peoples. an examination of key social and cultural factors involved in the global extinction of small-scale societies; the intrusive influences that jeopardize small-scale societies, such as disease; economic and military incursion; the role of international non-governmental agencies in aid of threatened peoples; and the role of the anthropologist in this human crisis. |
ANTH 2500. Folk Literature (same as FOLK 2500). is an examination of the major genres of folk literature: folk narrative, folk poetry and song, folk drama, and the traditional generic forms within folk speech. An introduction to the textual, comparative and contextual methods of analysis. The literature discussed will be international in scope. - Prerequisite: FOLK 1000 or 2000, or Anthropology 1031.
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ANTH 3053. Anthropology of Religion. (same as RELS 3053)- Prerequisite: Six hours of ANTH credits at the 1000 or 2000 level.
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ANTH 3083. Cultural Crisis and the Environment. An examination of social and cultural aspects of dilemmas in the use of renewable and non-renewable resources such as animals, arable land, forests, fisheries, air, water, fossil fuel, and nuclear energy. Special attention to Third World and marginal populations.- Prerequisite: Six credit hours in ANTH at the 1000 or 2000 level.
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ANTH 3140. Social Movements. (same as SOCI 3140) An examination of social movements which challenge prevailing social institutions and cultural values. Social movements considered may include religious cults and sects, millenarian movements, attempts at utopian and communal living, feminism, labour and revolutionary movements.
- Prerequisite: Six credit hours in Soci/Anth at the 2000 level.
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| ANTH 3241. Regional Studies: The Atlantic. An examination of a diversity of Algonquizn-speaking Aboriginal cultures and society in the Atlantic Canada region, with specific emphasis on the Passamaquoddy (USA), Wampanoag (USA), Mi'kmaw, Maliseet and Innu. The course draws upon anthropology but is interdisciplinary in nature, considering indigenous self-definition of each Aboriginal society. Themes for discussion include: ethnography, identity, and political and social issues. |
ANTH 3314. Gender. (same as SOCI 3314) An examination of biological, psychological, social and cultural aspects of gender, with an emphasis upon contemporary directions of change in sex roles.- Prerequisite: Six credit hours in Soci/Anth at the 2000 level.
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ANTH 3520. The Early Ethnohistory of North America's Native People. (same as HIST 3520) The North American native response to early European contact and initial settlement. Particular attention will be paid to cultural change resulting from adoption of European goods, participation in the fur trade, the introduction of European disease, and the adaptation to a permanent European presence.- Prerequisite: Six credit hours in S/A courses at the 2000 level. It is also advisable to complete Hist 1100 and Hist 1101 before attempting this course.
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ANTH 3525. The Later Ethnohistory of North America's Native People. (same as HIST 3525) Examines Indian and Inuit cultural history of the 18th and 19th centuries, including the fur trade, resistance and accommodation to European expansion, the emergence of revitalization movements, demographic changes, and population shifts. Special emphasis will be placed on the ethnohistory of the native peoples of what is now Canada and northern United States.- Prerequisite: Six credit hours in S/A courses at the 2000 level. It is also advisable to complete Hist 1100 and Hist 1101 before attempting this course.
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ANTH 4071. Social and Cultural Aspects of Health and Illness. (same as Soci 4071)- Prerequisite: Six credit hours in Soci/Anth at the 2000 level.
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ANTH 4072. Social and Cultural Aspects of Death. (same as SOCI 4072) Covers topics which may include: symbolic meanings and values attached to death; cultural and historical variations in the management of death, e.g., treatment of the 'terminally ill', burial rites, the mourning process, and th esocial fate of survivors, together with the social and psychological meanings of these behaviours.- Prerequisite: Six credit hours in Soci/Anth courses at the 2000 level.
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| FOLK 1000. Introduction to Folklore. The role that tradition plays in communication, art and society will be discussed through and examination of folklore materials from Newfoundland and the English-speaking world. Readings and "listenings" will emphasize the use of folklore in context, e.g., the proverb in speech and folksongs in childrearing. Students will be urged to analyze the traditions in their own lives through special assignments. |
| FOLK 2100. Folklore Research Methods - An Introduction. This course is designed to provide the basic introduction to the research resources, tools and methods regularly employed in the area of Folklore. On the one hand, the course will examine what types of Library and Archive resources can be useful to the folklorist and, on the other hand, it will explore how folklorists in fieldwork situations should handle people, and how they can capture for posterity a record of the interviews that they have conducted and the events they have observed. |
| FOLK 2230. Newfoundland Society and Culture. (same as ANTH/SOCI 2230) The Sociology and Anthropology of the island of Newfoundland. The focus is on social and cultural aspects of contemporary island Newfoundland. |
| FOLK 2300. Newfoundland Folklore. (same as ANTH 2300) A survey of the various types of Folklore: tale, song, rhyme, riddle, proverb, belief, custom, childlore and others, with stress on their function in the Newfoundland community culture. Individual collection and analysis of materials from the students' home communities, supplemented by data form M.U.N Folklore and Language Archive. |
| FOLK 2401. Folklife Studies. An examination of the traditional cultures of Europe and North America with special reference to Newfoundland. A selection of the following areas will be covered: settlement patterns, architecture, work and leisure patterns in the folk community, calendar customs, rites of passage, folk religion, folk medicine, language and folk culture, folk costume, foodways and folk art. |
FOLK 2500. Folk Literature. generic forms within folk speech. An introduction to the textual, comparative and contextual methods of analysis. The literature discussed will be international in scope. - Prerequisite: FOLK 1000 or 2000, or Anthropology 1031
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| FOLK 3130. Greek / Roman Mythology. This courses offers a comparative study of specific myths and folktales of Greece and Rome as embodied in the literary and artistic remains of the ancient world with reference to their origins and their influence on later art and literature. Same as CLASSICS 3130. |
| FOLK 3450. Language and Play. An examination of such forms as the rhyme, riddle, proverb and proverbial saying, game, etc. Emphasis on problems of function and classification. Material will be chiefly from the British and North American traditions. Collecting will be encouraged. |
| FOLK 3606. Folklore and the Supernatural. attempts to understand the nature of surviving and declining tradition by examining patterns of belief and the features of supernatural folklore,. The course focuses on the phenomenological features of supernatural traditions; explanatory frameworks and their internal logic; means of developing and maintaining belief; functions and structures of belief traditions; and relationships between genres of belief. The general approach of this course is ethnographic, focussing on the ethnography of belief systems. |
| FOLK 3830. Foodways. This course uses both theoretical and practical perspectives to examine historic and contemporary approaches to the supply, storage, preparation, and serving of food. |
| FOLK 3850. Material Culture . (same as Archaeology 3850) An examination of various interpretive theories of objects and cultural products. Problems of defining the artifact will be discussed, as well as the strengths and limitations of using objects in historical and ethnographic research. Questions discussed include form, design, decoration, diffusion, and the role of the creator of the object. Besides folkloristic work on material culture, a variety of interdisciplinary approaches will be considered. Emphasis will be on the material folk culture of Newfoundland and its European antecedents. |
| FOLK 3910. Occupational Folklife. This course uses interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives on work and occupations to explore the role of tradition in contemporary occupational groups and work settings. |
| FOLK 3930. Folklore and Popular Culture. is an examination of the transitional processes involved in the development of folk societies to mass cultures with regard to folklore and the products of popular culture. In addition, sensory and technological media theories will be scrutinized and evaluated in conjunction with cultural comparisons of the qualities and functions of: folksong, disc recordings and the radio; folktales, television melodrama and popular film; folk art and popular "techno-art" forms. |
| FOLK 4480. Folklore and Oral History (same as HIST 4480). (same as HIST 4480) A seminar which deals with the issues of oral sources, particularly those which have a traditional dimension, for the study of history. It will discuss the methods developed by Vansina, Dorson, and others for evaluating the historical meaning of oral traditions in literate and non-literate cultures. The uses of oral testimony in the study of traditional modes of life and work such as fishing and farming will be considered. The use of oral traditions in the study of social and political history will also be discussed. |
HIST 1100. Introduction to History. An introduction to the study and writing of history which will emphasize the concepts of history through a thematic approach to the history of western civilization from ca. 1300 to the eighteenth century. - Note: This course may not be taken for credit by students who have completed History 1000
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| HIST 1101. Introduction to History. An introduction to the study and writing of history which will emphasize the concepts of history through a combination of research and writing within a thematic approach to the history of western civilization from eighteenth century to the twentieth century.
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SCS 4000. Interdisciplinary Seminar in Social/Cultural Studies Seminar. Through faculty presentations, assigned reading and group discussions the students will learn ho to engage and evaluate the broad debates within Anthropology, Folklore and sociology. Rather than focus on narrow substantive material from the disciplines, this seminar will emphasize the larger shifts and challenges which have led to new topics and methods of analysis within the social sciences.
- Prerequisite: 90 credit hours.
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SCS 4100. Issues in Cultural Studies. This course represents an examination of the concept of culture, as it is presently used within Anthropology, Folklore and Sociology. Particular attention will be paid to the area of Cultural Studies, and the ways in which that approach has re-energized an interest in the role of culture in modern society.
- Prerequisite: 90 credit hours
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| SCS 4950. Independent Project in Social/Cultural Studies. Under the supervision of a faculty member, students will independently carry out approved projects of direct relevance to social and cultural phenomena, and prepare reports of their findings. (See http://www.swgc.mun.ca/soc_cultural/Pages/project.aspx for more details and titles of previous projects.) |
| SOCI 2000. Principles of Sociology. An introduction to the concepts, principles, and topics of Sociology. |
| SOCI 2100. Social Inequality. introduces the subject of social inequality and stratification, examines social inequality in historical perspective, reviews major theories about social inequality, and considers key social developments in contemporary societies in the area of social inequality. |
| SOCI 2120. Technology and Society. An examination of the role of technology in society. topics may include the emergence of modern technological society, the impact of new technologies on social organization and culture, and the institutionalization of science and production of scientific knowledge. The course also explores the ideological functions of science and technology in advanced industrial societies as well as the question of "the domination of nature."
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| SOCI 2200. Communities. (same as ANTH 2200) An interdisciplinary examination of the concept of community. Readings will include community studies from North America and Europe. |
| SOCI 2210. Communication and Culture. (same as ANTH 2210) An examination of verbal and non-verbal systems of communication, and the influence of language on human cognition. |
| SOCI 2230. Newfoundland Society and Culture. The Sociology and Anthropology of the Island of Newfoundland. The focus is on social and cultural aspects of contemporary island Newfoundland. |
| SOCI 2240. Canadian Society and Culture. (same as ANTH 2240) A descriptive and analytic approach to the development of Canadian culture and society |
| SOCI 2270. Families. a comparative and historical perspective on the family as a social institution, the range of variation in its structure and the determinants of its development. |
| SOCI 2280. The City. (same as ANTH 2280) Examines urban life around the world and through history. The city as habitat and as spectacle. |
SOCI 3040. Introduction to the Methods of Social Research. Objectives of the course are (1) to introduce basic concepts underlying research in the social sciences, and (2) to make students familiar with some techniques that are useful in the analysis of a wide range of sociological data and that represent a good foundation for later study of more advanced techniques.- Prerequisite: Six credit hours in Soci/Anth at the 2000 level.
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SOCI 3140. Social Movements (same as ANTH 3140). is an examination of social movements which challenge prevailing social institutions and cultural values. Social movements considered may include religious cults and sects, millenarian movements, attempts at utopian and communal living, feminism, labour and revolutionary movements.
- Prerequisite: Six credit hours in Soci/Anth courses at the 2000 level.
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SOCI 3150. Classical Social Theory. An introduction to the work of major 19th- and early 20th-century social theorists including Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Freud.- Prerequisite: Six credit hours in Soci at the 2000-level.
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| SOCI 3160. Contemporary Social Theory. An exploration of selected topics from issues in contemporary social theory, including theories of feminism, the state, the environment, culture, organization, and communication |
SOCI 3290. Deviance. Major sociological theories and methodological tea\chniques central to the study of deviance and crime are outlined and evaluated. The distribution, attirbutes, and explanations of a variety of forms of deviance are examined. These may include violence, sexual deviance, delinquency, addiction, mental disorder, theft, organized crime, political deviance and corporate deviance.- Prerequisite: Six credit hours of Sociology at the 2000-level
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SOCI 3314. Gender and Society. (same as ANTH 3314) An examination of biological, psychological, social and cultural aspects of gender, with an emphasis upon contemporary directions of change in sex roles.- Prerequisite: Six credit hours in Soci/Anth at the 2000-level.
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| SOCI 3395. Criminal Justice and Corrections. Provides an introduction to the operation of the Canadian criminal justice system. Topics to be examined may include the origin, nature and utilization of criminal law, policing, adult and juvenile courts, sentencing, correctional institutions, and community based corrections (probation, parole, community service). Criminal justice policy formulation and application are also discussed. |
SOCI 4071. Social and Cultural Aspects of Health and Illness. (same as Anth 4071)- Prerequisite: Six credit hours in Soci/Anth at the 2000-level.
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SOCI 4072. Social and Cultural Aspects of Death. (same as ANTH 4072) Covers topics which may include: symbolic meanings and values attached to death; cultural and historical variations in the management of death, e.g., treatment of the 'terminally ill', burial rites, the mourning process, and th esocial fate of survivors, together with the social and psychological meanings of these behaviours.- Prerequisite: Six credit hours in Soci/Anth at the 2000-level.
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