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Fall Courses
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May Be Subject To Change:
Should there be any discrepancies between the course list below and the official course list provided by the Registrar's Office, the official listing will govern.
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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 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 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 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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| 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 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 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 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. |
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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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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| SOCI 2000. Principles of Sociology. An introduction to the concepts, principles, and topics of Sociology. |
| 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 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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