Department of Anthropology
Certificate in the Ethnography of Communication
Students on Summer 2021, Fall 2021, or Spring 2022 requirements ETHCOMACRT
Requirements
The certificate requires at least 24 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
- Introductory Sequence.
- Interpersonal Communication. One (1) course:
- ANTH-A 122 Interpersonal Communication
ANTH-A 122 Interpersonal Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the study of communication, culture, identity and power. Each student does original primary research. Covers a range of topics, including small group communication around the world and among high school and college students in the United States, gendered language, slang, verbal play, texting, and institutional language.
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Global Communication. One (1) course:
- ANTH-L 222 Global Communication
ANTH-L 222 Global Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the cultural assumptions around the world that underlie why some communicative acts occur smoothly, while others become contentious. Provides a set of analytical tools for understanding the cultural specificity of communication, and a basis for analyzing miscommunication cross-culturally.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Interpersonal Communication. One (1) course:
- Additional Elective Hours. Three (3) credit hours:
- ANTH-A 200 Topics in Anthropology of Culture and Society (Approved topics: "BAD LANGUAGE" (TPC 33))
- ANTH-A 208 Topics in the Anthropology of the Arts and Expressive Behavior (Approved topics: "ARTS POLITICS & GLOBAL ENCOUNTERS" (TPC 20); "SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK N ROLL" (TPC 15))
- ANTH-E 206 Chanting Down Babylon: Protest and Popular Culture in the Afro-Caribbean
- ANTH-E 208 Global Jazz, Reggae, and Hip-Hop: African Diasporic Music Beyond the African Diaspora
- ANTH-E 220 Performing Human/Nature: Defining Relationships with the Environment
- ANTH-E 270 Captivity Narratives
- ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
- ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
- ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
- ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
- ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective
- ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
- ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
- ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
- ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
- ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
- ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
- ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
- ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
- ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
- ANTH-L 208 Ways of Speaking
- ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
- ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
- ENG-R 212 Communicating Sustainability
- ENG-R 228 Argumentation and Public Advocacy
- ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
- FOLK-F 141 Urban Legend
- FOLK-F 205 Folklore in Video and Film
- FOLK-F 252 Folklore and the Humanities
- FOLK-F 253 Folklore and the Social Sciences
- FOLK-F 256 The Supernatural and Folklore
- FOLK-F 307
- HIST-E 340 African Popular Culture (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- HIST-J 300 (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- MSCH-F 392 Media Genres (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- MSCH-J 460 Topics Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
ANTH-A 200 Topics in Anthropology of Culture and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected topics in the anthropological study of social and cultural institutions. Emphasizes understanding and developing anthropological approaches to questions about social, economic, political, and historical relationships among groups and individuals in contexts across the globe. Course topics may utilize ethnographic, archaeological, linguistic, and historical information.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-A 208 Topics in the Anthropology of the Arts and Expressive Behavior
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to selected topics in the anthropology of art, performance, music, literature, folklore, belief, and ritual. Examines the methods anthropologists use to study the arts or other expressive behaviors and explores art and expression in a variety of cultural settings.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 206 Chanting Down Babylon: Protest and Popular Culture in the Afro-Caribbean
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores Afro-Caribbean popular culture as political protest against colonialism and its legacies, the failures of local government, and global-northern political, economic and other forms of domination. Explores grass-roots Afro-Caribbean popular culture as well as mass-media content such as recorded music, fiction writing and documentary film making.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 208 Global Jazz, Reggae, and Hip-Hop: African Diasporic Music Beyond the African Diaspora
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- With focus on jazz, reggae, and hip hop, this course links musical production and consumption in the African diaspora to issues of social identity. Among those aspects of social identity considered are race, nation, religion, class, and gender. The course investigates the spread of these musical genres around the world.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 220 Performing Human/Nature: Defining Relationships with the Environment
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Reflects on the complexity of human experience from personal, creative, and cultural perspectives using fiction, poetry, journalism, creative nonfiction, visual art, music, and films. Students explore others' and their own experience of what it means to be human, analyze and compare the tacit philosophies present in these works, and pose their original organizing frameworks. Emphasis on interpretive skills and theory building, testing, and revising these theories to incorporate the lived experiences of others.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 220 or CMCL-C 220.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 270 Captivity Narratives
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores ideas of freedom, containment and contact through a wide range of historical and fictive captivity narratives from the U.S. and beyond. Using perspectives from anthropology, literature and film, the course includes texts about slavery, prison, mental hospitals, and wartime kidnappings.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An ethnographic survey of a selected culture area or ethnic group.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the challenges that focusing on the mass media--including technologies, production processes, content, and reception--present for studying cultures. Explores the relationship between media and culture to understand people's experiences and conceptualization of time, space, communities, families, and identities.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 317 or CMCL-C 310.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the relation between stigma and taboo, specifically how stigmatized groups and taboo practices are marked by moral judgement. We examine theory and particular cases to identify strategies to combat moralizing logics as related to race, class, gender, and the body broadly speaking.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ethnographic study of how people learn to work in a range of real jobs around the world. Focuses on how people learn to do a job and get along with co-workers in different cultures. Shows how much a country's legal or economic policies can affect daily work lives.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Middle Eastern cultures are well known for their rich and diverse performance practices. Taking an ethnographic perspective, this course views performances as communicative events through which social relations are organized. It explores how performances both participate in local arrangements of power and constitute responses to colonialism, nationalism, and globalization.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 386 or CMCL-C 422.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Intensive examination of selected topics in anthropology. Emphasis on analytic investigation and critical discussion. Topics vary.
- Repeatability
- May be taken with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Cross-cultural exploration of communication systems, ranging from face-to-face interaction to mediated forms of communication, with an emphasis on their cultural foundations and social organization.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ANTH-E 415 and CMCL-C 415.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of contemporary Native American and global indigenous representation and communication, including oral performance and media. Explores the poetics and politics of media and performance in the context of indigenous histories, cultures, and experiences of colonization. Examines the use of performance forms as symbolic resources in literature, film, the Internet, music and television. Addresses intersections of gender, class and race in indigenous media worlds.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 422 or CMCL-C 430.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the role of culture in how democracies are practiced. Ethnographic focus varies and includes cross-cultural comparisons of political speech, voting, and democratic representation in different cultures. Particular attention is paid to the dilemmas surrounding the exportation of democracy, especially to the Middle East, Africa, South Africa, the Pacific, and the Balkans.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 432 or CMCL-C 446.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Different political systems are founded and maintained by varying combinations of overt violence and more subtle workings of ideas and ideologies. Through cross-cultural case studies, the course examines how coercion, persuasion, consensus, and dissent operate in and through the politics and performances of everyday life.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 437 or CMCL-C 417.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the everyday issues surrounding public speech in new media: how people establish appropriate behavior in new media and respond to new possibilities for deceptive behavior; how ideas of what counts as 'public' and 'private' change as the result of changes in the way communication circulates; why scholars believe public speech and democracy are so intertwined.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 438 or CMCL-C 429.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Uses an historical and ethnographic approach to study the films and related readings of Indian diasporic filmmakers from the 1980s to the present. Focuses on the films of two prolific feminist filmmakers, Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Visual art, music, dance, drama, and oral literature, viewed as structural entities, as aspects of human behavior, and in terms of their anthropological context.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Techniques of dance research, bibliographic and archival sources, historical and comparative studies, function and structure of dance, distribution of dance styles, and symbolic aspects of dance performance. A variety of dance forms will be considered in their social and cultural contexts.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ethnography is the defining core of social and cultural anthropology; field research is at the heart of ethnography. The definition and purpose of ethnography, the role of ethnographer, voice, ethics, and modes of presentation, standards, craft, art, and evaluation are examined through specific cases and exemplary ethnographies.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introduction to the field of linguistic anthropology, the social scientific study of language. Examines how languages reflect cultures, how language use reproduces culture(s), how linguistic categories relate to categories of thought, and how linguistic variation both reflects and shapes social categories such as gender, class, race, and ethnicity.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 208 Ways of Speaking
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploration in comparative perspective of the social use of language, with a focus on the interrelationships among verbal form, social function, and cultural meaning in ways of speaking.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 208 or CMCL-C 229.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to performance as a communicative practice, focusing on performance as a special artistic mode of communication and performance and as a special class of display events in which the values and symbols of a culture are enacted before an audience.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 314 or CMCL-C 313.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Current issues in linguistic anthropology, designed to acquaint the student with readings and points of view not covered in the introductory courses. Topics such as languages of the world, variation in language, problems in linguistic structure, and culture and communication. Topic varies.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This seminar explores how language is used to accomplish economic, political, and sociocultural ends in Central Eurasia. Topics covered include multilingualism; regional ethnolinguistic categories; the relationship between language policy and nationalities policy; gendered language; code choice in interactions; the politics of translation; poetics; standardization; and language shift, endangerment, and revitalization.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 410 or CEUS-R 492.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ENG-R 212 Communicating Sustainability
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- 'Sustainability' is the capacity to negotiate environmental, social, and economic needs and desires for current and future generations. Traces historical and global discourses of sustainability; defines key terms and frames sustainability; engages related concepts of democracy, citizenship, and community; and develops critical thinking, research, and communication skills.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 212 or ENG-R 212.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ENG-R 228 Argumentation and Public Advocacy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Reasoning, evidence, and argument in public discourse. Study of forms of argument. Practice in argumentative speaking.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 228 or ENG-R 228.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This class is grounded in the perspective that symbolic and natural systems are mutually constituted and therefore, the ways we communicate about and with the environment are vital to examine for a sustainable and just future. The focus of the class may vary to engage topics such as environmental tourism or environmental disasters.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 348 or ENG-R 348.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
FOLK-F 141 Urban Legend
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Urban legends are modern adaptations of older stories told in daily discourse, depicted in television, film and novels. Explores the defining features of urban legends: their cultural history, themes and role as cultural commentary; their popularity on the internet, in the news, and in popular culture.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
FOLK-F 205 Folklore in Video and Film
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Acquaints students with a few of the current systems of folk belief diffused, reinforced, and, in some cases, originated by film and video, both in the form of the documentary and the feature-length drama. Aids students in the process of thinking and writing critically about the content, meaning, and social function of these modern forms of information systems.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
FOLK-F 252 Folklore and the Humanities
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Basic theoretical approaches to the study of folklore, emphasizing the relationship to other humanistic disciplines such as literary and religious studies and history.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
FOLK-F 253 Folklore and the Social Sciences
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Basic theoretical approaches to the study of folklore, emphasizing the relationship to other social science disciplines such as semiotics and anthropology.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
FOLK-F 256 The Supernatural and Folklore
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines patterns of belief and the features of supernatural folklore to understand the nature of surviving and declining tradition. 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. Emphasis on the ethnography of belief systems.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
HIST-E 340 African Popular Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- African popular culture (music, sports, fashion) is the lens used to explore how Africans responded to and shaped life under colonial rule and after independence. We consider questions like: What is the relationship between popular culture and politics? How does popular culture change how we think about colonialism and independence?
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
MSCH-F 392 Media Genres
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Topic varies. Analysis of typical genres, such as westerns, situation comedies, documentaries, etc. Problems of generic description or definition: themes, conventions, iconography peculiar to given genres.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 392 and MSCH-F 392.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
MSCH-J 460 Topics Colloquium
- Credits
- 1–4 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- At least junior standing; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Topical seminar in journalism dealing with changing subjects and materials from term to term.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for credit up to 4 times.
- Elective Requirements.
- Elective. Three (3) credit hours:
- ANTH-A 200 Topics in Anthropology of Culture and Society (Approved topics: "BAD LANGUAGE" (TPC 33))
- ANTH-A 208 Topics in the Anthropology of the Arts and Expressive Behavior (Approved topics: "ARTS POLITICS & GLOBAL ENCOUNTERS" (TPC 20); "SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK N ROLL" (TPC 15))
- ANTH-E 206 Chanting Down Babylon: Protest and Popular Culture in the Afro-Caribbean
- ANTH-E 208 Global Jazz, Reggae, and Hip-Hop: African Diasporic Music Beyond the African Diaspora
- ANTH-E 220 Performing Human/Nature: Defining Relationships with the Environment
- ANTH-E 270 Captivity Narratives
- ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
- ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
- ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
- ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
- ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective
- ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
- ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
- ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
- ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
- ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
- ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
- ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
- ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
- ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
- ANTH-L 208 Ways of Speaking
- ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
- ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
- ENG-R 212 Communicating Sustainability
- ENG-R 228 Argumentation and Public Advocacy
- ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
- FOLK-F 141 Urban Legend
- FOLK-F 205 Folklore in Video and Film
- FOLK-F 252 Folklore and the Humanities
- FOLK-F 253 Folklore and the Social Sciences
- FOLK-F 256 The Supernatural and Folklore
- FOLK-F 307
- HIST-E 340 African Popular Culture (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- HIST-J 300 (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- MSCH-F 392 Media Genres (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- MSCH-J 460 Topics Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
ANTH-A 200 Topics in Anthropology of Culture and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected topics in the anthropological study of social and cultural institutions. Emphasizes understanding and developing anthropological approaches to questions about social, economic, political, and historical relationships among groups and individuals in contexts across the globe. Course topics may utilize ethnographic, archaeological, linguistic, and historical information.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-A 208 Topics in the Anthropology of the Arts and Expressive Behavior
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to selected topics in the anthropology of art, performance, music, literature, folklore, belief, and ritual. Examines the methods anthropologists use to study the arts or other expressive behaviors and explores art and expression in a variety of cultural settings.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 206 Chanting Down Babylon: Protest and Popular Culture in the Afro-Caribbean
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores Afro-Caribbean popular culture as political protest against colonialism and its legacies, the failures of local government, and global-northern political, economic and other forms of domination. Explores grass-roots Afro-Caribbean popular culture as well as mass-media content such as recorded music, fiction writing and documentary film making.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 208 Global Jazz, Reggae, and Hip-Hop: African Diasporic Music Beyond the African Diaspora
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- With focus on jazz, reggae, and hip hop, this course links musical production and consumption in the African diaspora to issues of social identity. Among those aspects of social identity considered are race, nation, religion, class, and gender. The course investigates the spread of these musical genres around the world.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 220 Performing Human/Nature: Defining Relationships with the Environment
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Reflects on the complexity of human experience from personal, creative, and cultural perspectives using fiction, poetry, journalism, creative nonfiction, visual art, music, and films. Students explore others' and their own experience of what it means to be human, analyze and compare the tacit philosophies present in these works, and pose their original organizing frameworks. Emphasis on interpretive skills and theory building, testing, and revising these theories to incorporate the lived experiences of others.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 220 or CMCL-C 220.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 270 Captivity Narratives
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores ideas of freedom, containment and contact through a wide range of historical and fictive captivity narratives from the U.S. and beyond. Using perspectives from anthropology, literature and film, the course includes texts about slavery, prison, mental hospitals, and wartime kidnappings.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An ethnographic survey of a selected culture area or ethnic group.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the challenges that focusing on the mass media--including technologies, production processes, content, and reception--present for studying cultures. Explores the relationship between media and culture to understand people's experiences and conceptualization of time, space, communities, families, and identities.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 317 or CMCL-C 310.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the relation between stigma and taboo, specifically how stigmatized groups and taboo practices are marked by moral judgement. We examine theory and particular cases to identify strategies to combat moralizing logics as related to race, class, gender, and the body broadly speaking.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ethnographic study of how people learn to work in a range of real jobs around the world. Focuses on how people learn to do a job and get along with co-workers in different cultures. Shows how much a country's legal or economic policies can affect daily work lives.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Middle Eastern cultures are well known for their rich and diverse performance practices. Taking an ethnographic perspective, this course views performances as communicative events through which social relations are organized. It explores how performances both participate in local arrangements of power and constitute responses to colonialism, nationalism, and globalization.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 386 or CMCL-C 422.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Intensive examination of selected topics in anthropology. Emphasis on analytic investigation and critical discussion. Topics vary.
- Repeatability
- May be taken with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Cross-cultural exploration of communication systems, ranging from face-to-face interaction to mediated forms of communication, with an emphasis on their cultural foundations and social organization.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ANTH-E 415 and CMCL-C 415.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of contemporary Native American and global indigenous representation and communication, including oral performance and media. Explores the poetics and politics of media and performance in the context of indigenous histories, cultures, and experiences of colonization. Examines the use of performance forms as symbolic resources in literature, film, the Internet, music and television. Addresses intersections of gender, class and race in indigenous media worlds.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 422 or CMCL-C 430.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the role of culture in how democracies are practiced. Ethnographic focus varies and includes cross-cultural comparisons of political speech, voting, and democratic representation in different cultures. Particular attention is paid to the dilemmas surrounding the exportation of democracy, especially to the Middle East, Africa, South Africa, the Pacific, and the Balkans.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 432 or CMCL-C 446.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Different political systems are founded and maintained by varying combinations of overt violence and more subtle workings of ideas and ideologies. Through cross-cultural case studies, the course examines how coercion, persuasion, consensus, and dissent operate in and through the politics and performances of everyday life.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 437 or CMCL-C 417.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the everyday issues surrounding public speech in new media: how people establish appropriate behavior in new media and respond to new possibilities for deceptive behavior; how ideas of what counts as 'public' and 'private' change as the result of changes in the way communication circulates; why scholars believe public speech and democracy are so intertwined.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 438 or CMCL-C 429.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Uses an historical and ethnographic approach to study the films and related readings of Indian diasporic filmmakers from the 1980s to the present. Focuses on the films of two prolific feminist filmmakers, Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Visual art, music, dance, drama, and oral literature, viewed as structural entities, as aspects of human behavior, and in terms of their anthropological context.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Techniques of dance research, bibliographic and archival sources, historical and comparative studies, function and structure of dance, distribution of dance styles, and symbolic aspects of dance performance. A variety of dance forms will be considered in their social and cultural contexts.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ethnography is the defining core of social and cultural anthropology; field research is at the heart of ethnography. The definition and purpose of ethnography, the role of ethnographer, voice, ethics, and modes of presentation, standards, craft, art, and evaluation are examined through specific cases and exemplary ethnographies.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introduction to the field of linguistic anthropology, the social scientific study of language. Examines how languages reflect cultures, how language use reproduces culture(s), how linguistic categories relate to categories of thought, and how linguistic variation both reflects and shapes social categories such as gender, class, race, and ethnicity.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 208 Ways of Speaking
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploration in comparative perspective of the social use of language, with a focus on the interrelationships among verbal form, social function, and cultural meaning in ways of speaking.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 208 or CMCL-C 229.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to performance as a communicative practice, focusing on performance as a special artistic mode of communication and performance and as a special class of display events in which the values and symbols of a culture are enacted before an audience.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 314 or CMCL-C 313.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Current issues in linguistic anthropology, designed to acquaint the student with readings and points of view not covered in the introductory courses. Topics such as languages of the world, variation in language, problems in linguistic structure, and culture and communication. Topic varies.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This seminar explores how language is used to accomplish economic, political, and sociocultural ends in Central Eurasia. Topics covered include multilingualism; regional ethnolinguistic categories; the relationship between language policy and nationalities policy; gendered language; code choice in interactions; the politics of translation; poetics; standardization; and language shift, endangerment, and revitalization.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 410 or CEUS-R 492.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ENG-R 212 Communicating Sustainability
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- 'Sustainability' is the capacity to negotiate environmental, social, and economic needs and desires for current and future generations. Traces historical and global discourses of sustainability; defines key terms and frames sustainability; engages related concepts of democracy, citizenship, and community; and develops critical thinking, research, and communication skills.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 212 or ENG-R 212.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ENG-R 228 Argumentation and Public Advocacy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Reasoning, evidence, and argument in public discourse. Study of forms of argument. Practice in argumentative speaking.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 228 or ENG-R 228.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This class is grounded in the perspective that symbolic and natural systems are mutually constituted and therefore, the ways we communicate about and with the environment are vital to examine for a sustainable and just future. The focus of the class may vary to engage topics such as environmental tourism or environmental disasters.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 348 or ENG-R 348.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
FOLK-F 141 Urban Legend
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Urban legends are modern adaptations of older stories told in daily discourse, depicted in television, film and novels. Explores the defining features of urban legends: their cultural history, themes and role as cultural commentary; their popularity on the internet, in the news, and in popular culture.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
FOLK-F 205 Folklore in Video and Film
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Acquaints students with a few of the current systems of folk belief diffused, reinforced, and, in some cases, originated by film and video, both in the form of the documentary and the feature-length drama. Aids students in the process of thinking and writing critically about the content, meaning, and social function of these modern forms of information systems.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
FOLK-F 252 Folklore and the Humanities
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Basic theoretical approaches to the study of folklore, emphasizing the relationship to other humanistic disciplines such as literary and religious studies and history.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
FOLK-F 253 Folklore and the Social Sciences
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Basic theoretical approaches to the study of folklore, emphasizing the relationship to other social science disciplines such as semiotics and anthropology.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
FOLK-F 256 The Supernatural and Folklore
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines patterns of belief and the features of supernatural folklore to understand the nature of surviving and declining tradition. 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. Emphasis on the ethnography of belief systems.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
HIST-E 340 African Popular Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- African popular culture (music, sports, fashion) is the lens used to explore how Africans responded to and shaped life under colonial rule and after independence. We consider questions like: What is the relationship between popular culture and politics? How does popular culture change how we think about colonialism and independence?
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
MSCH-F 392 Media Genres
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Topic varies. Analysis of typical genres, such as westerns, situation comedies, documentaries, etc. Problems of generic description or definition: themes, conventions, iconography peculiar to given genres.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 392 and MSCH-F 392.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
MSCH-J 460 Topics Colloquium
- Credits
- 1–4 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- At least junior standing; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Topical seminar in journalism dealing with changing subjects and materials from term to term.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for credit up to 4 times.
- Advanced Electives. 15 credit hours:
- ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
- ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
- ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
- ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
- ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
- ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
- ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
- ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
- ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
- ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
- ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
- ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
- ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
- ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
- ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
- FOLK-F 307
- HIST-E 340 African Popular Culture (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- HIST-J 300 (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- MSCH-F 392 Media Genres (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- MSCH-J 460 Topics Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An ethnographic survey of a selected culture area or ethnic group.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the challenges that focusing on the mass media--including technologies, production processes, content, and reception--present for studying cultures. Explores the relationship between media and culture to understand people's experiences and conceptualization of time, space, communities, families, and identities.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 317 or CMCL-C 310.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the relation between stigma and taboo, specifically how stigmatized groups and taboo practices are marked by moral judgement. We examine theory and particular cases to identify strategies to combat moralizing logics as related to race, class, gender, and the body broadly speaking.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ethnographic study of how people learn to work in a range of real jobs around the world. Focuses on how people learn to do a job and get along with co-workers in different cultures. Shows how much a country's legal or economic policies can affect daily work lives.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Middle Eastern cultures are well known for their rich and diverse performance practices. Taking an ethnographic perspective, this course views performances as communicative events through which social relations are organized. It explores how performances both participate in local arrangements of power and constitute responses to colonialism, nationalism, and globalization.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 386 or CMCL-C 422.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Intensive examination of selected topics in anthropology. Emphasis on analytic investigation and critical discussion. Topics vary.
- Repeatability
- May be taken with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of contemporary Native American and global indigenous representation and communication, including oral performance and media. Explores the poetics and politics of media and performance in the context of indigenous histories, cultures, and experiences of colonization. Examines the use of performance forms as symbolic resources in literature, film, the Internet, music and television. Addresses intersections of gender, class and race in indigenous media worlds.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 422 or CMCL-C 430.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the role of culture in how democracies are practiced. Ethnographic focus varies and includes cross-cultural comparisons of political speech, voting, and democratic representation in different cultures. Particular attention is paid to the dilemmas surrounding the exportation of democracy, especially to the Middle East, Africa, South Africa, the Pacific, and the Balkans.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 432 or CMCL-C 446.
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Different political systems are founded and maintained by varying combinations of overt violence and more subtle workings of ideas and ideologies. Through cross-cultural case studies, the course examines how coercion, persuasion, consensus, and dissent operate in and through the politics and performances of everyday life.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 437 or CMCL-C 417.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the everyday issues surrounding public speech in new media: how people establish appropriate behavior in new media and respond to new possibilities for deceptive behavior; how ideas of what counts as 'public' and 'private' change as the result of changes in the way communication circulates; why scholars believe public speech and democracy are so intertwined.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 438 or CMCL-C 429.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Uses an historical and ethnographic approach to study the films and related readings of Indian diasporic filmmakers from the 1980s to the present. Focuses on the films of two prolific feminist filmmakers, Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Visual art, music, dance, drama, and oral literature, viewed as structural entities, as aspects of human behavior, and in terms of their anthropological context.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Techniques of dance research, bibliographic and archival sources, historical and comparative studies, function and structure of dance, distribution of dance styles, and symbolic aspects of dance performance. A variety of dance forms will be considered in their social and cultural contexts.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ethnography is the defining core of social and cultural anthropology; field research is at the heart of ethnography. The definition and purpose of ethnography, the role of ethnographer, voice, ethics, and modes of presentation, standards, craft, art, and evaluation are examined through specific cases and exemplary ethnographies.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to performance as a communicative practice, focusing on performance as a special artistic mode of communication and performance and as a special class of display events in which the values and symbols of a culture are enacted before an audience.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 314 or CMCL-C 313.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Current issues in linguistic anthropology, designed to acquaint the student with readings and points of view not covered in the introductory courses. Topics such as languages of the world, variation in language, problems in linguistic structure, and culture and communication. Topic varies.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This seminar explores how language is used to accomplish economic, political, and sociocultural ends in Central Eurasia. Topics covered include multilingualism; regional ethnolinguistic categories; the relationship between language policy and nationalities policy; gendered language; code choice in interactions; the politics of translation; poetics; standardization; and language shift, endangerment, and revitalization.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 410 or CEUS-R 492.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This class is grounded in the perspective that symbolic and natural systems are mutually constituted and therefore, the ways we communicate about and with the environment are vital to examine for a sustainable and just future. The focus of the class may vary to engage topics such as environmental tourism or environmental disasters.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 348 or ENG-R 348.
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-E 340 African Popular Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- African popular culture (music, sports, fashion) is the lens used to explore how Africans responded to and shaped life under colonial rule and after independence. We consider questions like: What is the relationship between popular culture and politics? How does popular culture change how we think about colonialism and independence?
- Fall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
MSCH-F 392 Media Genres
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Topic varies. Analysis of typical genres, such as westerns, situation comedies, documentaries, etc. Problems of generic description or definition: themes, conventions, iconography peculiar to given genres.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 392 and MSCH-F 392.
- Fall 2024CASE AHcourse
MSCH-J 460 Topics Colloquium
- Credits
- 1–4 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- At least junior standing; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Topical seminar in journalism dealing with changing subjects and materials from term to term.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for credit up to 4 times.
- Elective. Three (3) credit hours:
- Additional Requirements.
- Anthropology. 18 credit hours must be in Anthropology (includes the Introductory Sequence courses).
- Residency. 18 credit hours must be completed in courses taken though the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
- Certificate GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
- Certificate GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the certificate—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Certificate Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the certificate.
- Certificate Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 9 credit hours in the certificate must be completed at the 300–499 level.
- Certificate Residency. At least 9 credit hours in the certificate must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
Certificate Area Courses
-
Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:
- Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken—as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent—except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
- Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception
This program of study cannot be combined with the following:
- Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology (ANTHBA)
- Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Linguistics (ANTHLNGBA)
- Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Anthropology (LINGANTBA)
- Certificate in Global Human Diversity (GLHMDVACRT)
- Minor in Anthropology (ANTHMIN)
- Minor in Archaeology (ARCHMIN)
- Minor in Medical Anthropology (MEDANTHMIN)
- Minor in the Anthropology of Food (FOODMIN)
- [Name unavailable] (ETHCOMMMIN)
Exceptions to and substitutions for certificate requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.