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 2021-2022 may include:

Term	Title	Instructor
Fall	FWS: Gleaning and the Ethics of Leftovers	A. Bize
Fall	FWS: Archaeology of Food	N. Russell
Fall	FWS: Technoscience and Medicine in Africa	R. Ciribassi
Fall	FWS: Violence, Power, and Media in the Americas	A. Mohamed
Fall	FWS: Anthropological Perspectives of Technological Worlds	S. Posner
Fall	FWS: Culture on Tour	C. Rechtzigel
Fall	FWS: Within and Beyond Prison Walls: Security, Safety and Survival	T. Senapaty
Fall	FWS: Cans to Cultured Meats-Food Technology, Risk, and Society	A. Sheng
Fall	FWS: Writing Water in the US-From Wild Rivers to Toxic Lakes	R. Odhner
Fall	FWS: Decolonizing “The Gaze” in Documentary Film	N. Nesvaderani
Spring	FWS: Trickster Embodiments	S. Langwick
Spring	FWS: Anthropology of Outer Space	R. Ciribassi
Spring	FWS: Studying Religiosity	K. Fox-Knudtsen