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Class Detail:
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FA 2010
Anthropology, Cultural
ANTHRCUL
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First Year Seminar in Anthropology
Section
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What Do We Do All Day? Understanding Work
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Course Note:
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A small seminar designed to introduce entering students to the discipline of Anthropology, its history, and to the concept of "culture," which is at the heart of anthropological research methods and theories. Students will develop analytical and intellectual skills that will help them understand and negotiate the complex world we live in, and to become familiar with the evolutionary processes responsible for humans in all their diversity.
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Credits:
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3
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Requirements & Distribution:
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Other:
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FYSem
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Waitlist Capacity:
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unlimited
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Consent:
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With permission of instructor.
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Advisory Prerequisites:
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Enrollment restricted to first-year students, including those with sophomore standing.
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Other Course Info:
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May not be included in an Anthropology concentration.
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Repeatability:
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May not be repeated for credit.
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Primary Instructor:
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Gursel,Zeynep D
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(real time availability for all sections)
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How do individuals and their communities attach meaning to working and not working? This course is a cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary introduction to the many different ways of understanding labor as an everyday practice. We will look at how work is represented in popular culture from song lyrics and popular TV shows and movies, to ethnographic writing and documentary films. Assignments for this class will include interviewing a wide variety of people about their work experiences and visits to worksites.
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Course Syllabi
Syllabi are available to current LSA students. IMPORTANT: These syllabi are provided to give students a general idea about the courses, as offered by LSA departments and programs in prior academic terms. The syllabi do not necessarily reflect the assignments, sequence of course materials, and/or course expectations that the faculty and departments/programs have for these same courses in the current and/or future terms.
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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)
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ISBN: 0609807072
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Gig Americans talk about their jobs, Author: ed. by John Bowe ..., Publisher: Three Rivers Press 2001
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Required
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ISBN: 1565843428
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Working : people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do, Author: Studs Terkel., Publisher: New Press 1999
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Required
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ISBN: 0805088385
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Nickel and dimed : on (not) getting by in America, Author: Barbara Ehrenreich., Publisher: Henry Holt & Co. 1st Holt P 2008
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Required
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ISBN: 0393930688
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The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism : the Talcott Parsons translation interpretations, Author: Max Weber ; edited by Richard Swedberg., Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. 1st ed. 2009
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Required
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