Course Schedule

Class 1
  At-home Assignments (Completed before the start of Class)
·        Overview of syllabus and class expectations

 

 

Today we are learning…

·       What is globalization and why is it important to understand?

·       Qualitative and quantitative methods

☐Ensure you have access to the Commons

☐Check what email you are using in CF, and change if necessary

☐Skim Introduction

 

 

Class 2

At-home Assignments (Completed before the start of Class)
Today we are learning…

·       What is sovereignty and how can we measure/track it?

·       How does it relate to globalization and a history of colonialism?

 

☐Study Plan is due at the start of class

Yarimar Bonilla- Sovereignty on AnthroBites

 

 

 

Class 3

At-home Assignments (Completed before the start of Class)
Today we are learning…

·       What is borderization and how do anthropologists study it?

·        How does it relate to globalization and space?

☐ Alejandro Grimson- The Politics of Borders in South America and Buenos Aires

 

 

 

Class 4

At-home Assignments (Completed before the start of Class)
Today we are learning…

·        What we mean by culture, and how it relates to violence against women

·        Why misrepresenting culture in human rights reports is problematic

☐ Sally E. Merry- Globalization and Human Trafficking

 

 

 

Class 5

At-home Assignments (Completed before the start of Class)
Today we are learning…

·        About cultural appropriation

·        How intersectionality can help us understand the intersection of race, gender and class

·        How touristscapes are tied to colonial histories

☐ Erica L. Williams- Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements

 

 

 

Class 6

At-home Assignments (Completed before the start of Class)
Today we are learning…

·        How we can measure migration rates

·        How issues of security are racialized

 

☐ Jason De León: Wrap on: Immigration in AnthroPod

☐ Jason De León: Decoding Stories of Border Crossing

 

 

Class 7

At-home Assignments (Completed before the start of Class)
Today we are learning…

·       how health disparities worldwide can be linked to inequality

·       why intersectional approaches to health are important

 

☐ Elizabeth Hoover- Underlying Conditions: Elizabeth Hoover & Stéphanie Larrieux

 

 

Class 8

At-home Assignments (Completed before the start of Class)
Today we are learning…

·       how development projects and human rights abuses are related

·       how “progress” relates to cultural globalization

 

Madiha Tahir- Special Feature “The Military Present” Episode 2