ANTHR 1101 - FWS: Culture, Society, and Power

Fall, spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

First-Year Writing Seminar.

Staff.

This First-Year Writing Seminar is devoted to the anthropological study of the human condition. Anthropology examines all aspects of human experience, from the evolution of the species to contemporary challenges of politics, environment, and society. The discipline emphasizes empirically rich field research informed by sophisticated theoretical understandings of human social life and cultural production. The diversity of anthropology’s interests provides a diverse array of stimulating opportunities to write critically about the human condition. Topics vary by semester.

Topics for 2016-2017 may include:

Fall	FWS: Paleofantasies	T. Volman
Fall	FWS: Age of Extinctions: Morality, Conservation, and Design	C. Dalyan
Fall	FWS: (Re)Performing the Caribbean: Identity, History, and the Nation	E. Guzman
Fall	FWS: Nuclear Imagination: Technologies & Worlds	V. Ialenti
Fall	FWS: Urban Biography: Writing the Intimate Lives of Cities	S. Sorrell
Spring	FWS: Asians in the New World	V. Munasinghe
Spring	FWS: Happiness as Project: Conversations on Mind, Time, and Politics	A.L. Cocora
Spring	FWS: Family Resemblance: Thinking the Social Through Metaphors of Kin	M. Saavedra Espinosa
Spring	FWS: No Science in the Wild: Anthropology’s Writing Inside Out	E. Stock