Anthropology at UNCG

New Courses - Fall 2009

ATY 355: Medicine, Disease, and Slavery.

Instructor: Prof. Carlina de la Cova

11:00-12:15 Tuesdays and Thursdays

This course will provide students with an interdisciplinary understanding of the health of enslaved African Americans during the nineteenth century by focusing on the experiences and dynamics of the relationship between health, medicine, healing, and disease among slaves and their masters in the Antebellum American South.

ATY 311/SOC 311: Reading Culture and Society

Intructors: (Team-taught by Prof. Sarah Wagner (Anthropology) and Prof. Sarah Daynes (Sociology)

2:00-3:15 Tuesdays and Thursdays

This course examines key sociocultural issues through classic literary and cinematic works, emphasizing notions of modernity, the contemporary world, and the relationship they entertain; provides foundational reading and critical thinking skills.

ATY 589: Violent Conflict and Its Aftermath

Instructor: Prof. Sarah Wagner

12:30-1:45 Tuesdays and Thursdays

This course examines violent conflict, its causes and effects, as well as attempts to rebuild post-conflict societies, focusing on the lived experiences from examples such as the Holocaust, Rwanda, and former Yugoslavia.

ATY 547: Myth, Magic and Religion

Instructor: Prof. Arthur Murphy

2:00-3:15 Tuesdays and Thursdays

This course will explore they symbols and rituals of myth, magic and religion in a cross cultural perspective. Particular attention will be paid to how symbolic and ritualistic systems support and maintain economic, kinship and political systems.