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Majors and Courses of InstructionSociology/Anthropology359. Social Inequality (Staff)(Not offered 2011-2012)Examination of social and economic inequality; its causes, characteristics, and consequences. Specialattention to trends in contemporary American society. Prerequisite: 110 or 117 or consent ofinstructor.360. Cultural and Social Change (Yalçinkaya)Focuses on the holistic analysis of change and development in Latin America, Asia, and Africa.Overviews of the acculturation, modernization, and world system/dependency approaches tochange and underdevelopment are presented. Case studies focusing on the impact of modernity ondeveloping countries are discussed and analyzed. F.363. Organizational Structure and Design (Staff)(Not offered 2011-2012)Analysis of organizational structure and processes. The past and present role of management inlarge organizations receives special attention. Case studies are employed to illustrate and applyorganizational theory. Also listed as EMAN 363.365. Ethnographic and Documentary Film and Filmmaking (Howard)This course equips students with the basic knowledge and skills to produce their own ethnographic/documentary film. Students explore film theory from the field of visual anthropology and fromfilmmakers’ written reflections on the processes involved in completing particular film projects.Students view a series of early, classical, and contemporary documentaries to critique filmmakers’representation of cultural difference, and to consider cinema verte vs. explicit message, the strengthsand limits of the notion of objectivity, the ethics of filmmaking, and concerns about audiencereaction. Each student learns camera use and film editing techniques to complete a documentary. F.367. Human Ecology (Peoples)The diverse ways in which human cultures interact with their environments, focusing especiallyon how environmental, technological, and demographic factors affect cultures. The evolution ofsocial/cultural adaptations and their consequences for changes in human ways of life are examined.Impacts of ancient societies and civilizations on the natural environment are covered. F.375. Seminar in Feminist Anthropology (Howard)(Offered every four years)This course considers methodological, and theoretical issues explored by feminist anthropologistsin the United States and around the world. We focus on various gender systems that result in powerand powerlessness, both personally and collectively. We examine a diversity of perspectives ongender and the experiences of people across rigid social boundaries (such as class, race, ethnicity,sexual identity and ability/disability) in search of a more humane, inclusive social change. Also listedas WGS 499C.379. Social Theory (Yalçinkaya)After over a century from the birth of modern sociology, sociological analysis still relies on ideasand questions posed by founders of the discipline. Much of the conceptualization of contemporarysocial issues is still grounded in perspectives developed by early social thinkers whose ideas shapedmodern sociology. This course is an introduction to both classical and contemporary sociological263