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Secial topics for Spring Quarter 2008:

ANTH 3703, Museums and Public Culture

MW, 2:00 - 3:50

Instructor: Christina Kreps, ckreps@du.edu

A critical introduction to how cultures and peoples are presented in museums, festivals, tourism venues and the popular media.  The course introduces students to the historical and contemporary role of museums and anthropology in public culture and the importance of both in civic life.

ANTH 3702, Seminar in Anthropology:  Medical Anthropology

MW, 10:00 - 11:50

Instructor: Courtney Lee,

This course introduces students to medical anthropology, a growing subfield of anthropology that explores human health and illness across space and time.  The course is designed to offer a comparative perspective on health and illness through engagement with a broad range of topics, theoretical perspectives, and key thinkers in the field.  The focus will be on the exploration of human life as simultaneously biological, social, cultural and symbolic.  To do this, we will be looking at Western biomedical systems of healing as well as non-Western healing systems, and at local interpretive aspects of illness as well as larger structural impacts on illness and human suffering.  Lastly, we will learn how it is that medical anthropologists address these issues of health and illness.