Alter(ed)native Approaches: Middletown Lives
ANTH 232
Fall 2013
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01
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| Certificates: Environmental Studies |
| Course Cluster: Service-Learning, Urban Studies |
In this town, there's a restaurateur who was a paratrooper, a minister who is a barber, a barista who's a glass blower, an unmarked house that was part of the Underground Railroad, the old factory where the modern baseball plate was invented, 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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| 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
Cerwonka, Allaine and Lisa H. Malkki, IMPROVISING THEORY: PROCESS AND TEMPORALITY IN ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK (Chicago) 2007.
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS: ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE MODERN WORLD. (Palgrave) 2003.
Uysse, Gina A. DOWNTOWN LADIES, INFORMAL COMMERCIAL IMPORTERS, A HAITIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST AND SELF-MAKING IN JAMAICA (Chicago) 2008.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Reading responses, independent research, 2 short papers, and a final research project. This course includes a volunteer component. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Students must have taken introductory courses in anthropology, African-American studies, American Studies or have had substantive exposure and engagement with 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: .M.W... 08:30AM-09:50AM; Location: ANTH6; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 12 | | SR major: 8 | JR major: 2 | | |
| Seats Available: 1 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: X | FR: X |
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