Syllabus (preliminary and will change for post Irma schedule)
ANT 2000-U03 Intro Anthropology
Mondays 1:00pm - 2:50pm MMC Campus Owa Ehan 105
Prof. Hugh Gladwin
Email: gladwin@fiu.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3:30-4:45pm at BBC Office AC1 311 BBC [email first to check]
MMC by appointment (please email) and
after class Monday at MMC outside classroom
Communications: use Prof Gladwin’s FIU email address to communicate with him.
Do not use Blackboard messaging or phone.
Always put ANT2000 in the subject line of all emails to him or related to the class.
Class Attributes
UCC: Social Science Group One
This is a Global Learning designated course as of Summer Term 2015
Course Plan, Objectives, Requirements – to be discussed in first class
Required Text
Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology
James W. Spradley, David W. McCurdy, Dianna Shandy
ISBN:9780205990795, Pearson 2015
Preliminary Schedule and Text Assignment
Aug 28 -- [week 1] Introduction to class
Aug 28 -- [week 2] Culture and Ethnography, Ch 1-4
Sept 4 -- Labor Day no class meeting today [week 3]
Sept 18 -- [week 4] Language and Communication, Ch. 5-7
Sept 25 -- [week 5] Ecology and Subsistence, Ch 8-11
Oct 2 -- [week 6] Economic Systems, Ch 12-15
Oct 9 -- [week 7] Kinship and Family, Ch 16-19
Oct 16 -- [week 8] Midterm Exam
Oct 23 -- [week 9] Identity, Roles, and Groups, Ch 20-23
Oct 30 -- [week 10] Law and Politics, Ch 24-27
Nov 6 -- [week 11] Religion, Magic, and Worldview, Ch 28-31
Nov 13 -- [week 12] Globalization, Ch 32-35
Nov 20 -- [week 13] Using and Doing Anthropology, Ch. 36-39
Nov 27 -- [week 14] team ethography and global studies assignment
Dec 4 -- [week 15] Review for final exam
Dec 11 -- final exam date and time 12/11/2017, Monday 12:00PM - 2:00PM Owa Ehan 105 [week 16]
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