Alter(ed)native Approaches: Middletown Lives
ANTH 232
Spring 2008
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01
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| Course Cluster: Service-Learning |
In this town, there's a restauranteur who was a paratrooper, a florist who is a playwright, a minister who is a barber, a farmer who is an optician, an unmarked house that was part of the Underground Railroad and a landfill with stories to tell. Working with different community partners and integrating a wide range of methods from the humanities to the social sciences, this course seeks to identify, interpret and document various (un)known stories and histories of people, places and spaces in contemporary Middletown. Our primary theoretical aim is to consider what is interdisciplinary? How can it be put into practice? And what is its potential for the making of public engagement and scholarship? To this end, we take a contemplative approach to learning to raise fundamental epistemological and pedagogical questions concerning research as praxis. In the process of this engagement, we will create a public anthropology project intended to benefit our broader community and environment. This is a service learning course. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Interpretation, Writing |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS ANTH |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ANTH)(ENVS-MN)(ENVS) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Bochner, Arthur and Carolyln Ellis, ETHNOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING (Altamira) 2002.
Cerwonka, Allaine and Lisa H. Malkki, IMPROVISING THEORY: PROCESS AND TEMPORALITY IN ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK (Chicago) 2007.
Madison, Soyini D. CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY: METHOD, ETHICS, AND PERFORMANCE (Sage) 2005.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, SILENCING THE PAST: POWER AND THE PRODUCTION OF HISTORY (Beacon) 1996.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly reading responses, independent research, 3 short papers, and a final research project. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Students must have taken introductory courses in anthropology, African-American studies, or have been exposed to social analysis.
Students will work on a single project over the course of the semester that will require substantive revisions. |
| Instructor(s): Ulysse,Gina Athena Times: ..T.R.. 10:30AM-11:50AM; Location: ANTH6; |
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