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World Cultures
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Spring Semester 2008Dr. Timothy James ScarlettAssistant Professor of ArchaeologyDepartment of Social Sciences Office Hour: Wednesday, 11-12 am. and by appointment on campus or downtown over good cups of joe at the Cyberia Cafe. Course Schedule and CalendarWeek 1:Introductions and the Culture Concept January 16Lecture Notes: Culture Concept Marston, Chapter 1 WC Guide: vii-xiii WC Guide: Media Guides to Film, Theatre, and Music January 18Lecture Notes: Culture, Continued Week 2:Regional Perspectives: Culture, Environment, Globalization January 21Martin Luther King Holiday, no class
January 23WC Guide, Senocak "The Concept of Culture ..." pp. 146-148 Lecture Notes: Globalization and the Environment and also:
(Canceled due to snow) January 25Black Robe Week 3:United States and Canada January 28Marston, Chapter 6 WC Guide: Atwood, Bodine, pp. 117-126 Lecture Notes: North America January 30Snow Day, No Class
February 1Lecture Notes: American Urban, American Suburban
(Canceled due to snow) Week 4:Latin America I February 4Marston, Chapter 7 Lecture Notes: Latin 1 February 6: class ends at 4 P.M.Lecture Notes: Latin 2 February 8No Class, Winter Carnival Recess Week 5:Latin America II February 11Lecture Notes: Jamaica and Ska
February 13Exam 1 February 15
City of God Week 6:Small Scale Societies February 18Marston, Chapter 11 (skim all, read sections about aboriginal peoples) Lecture Notes: Ecosystem Peoples February 20Lecture Notes: Indigenous People in the Globalized World February 22Rabbit Proof Fence: Assignment Week 7:Europe February 25Marston, Chapter 2 WC Guide: Huntinton, "Clash of Civilizations", p. 101-113. Lecture Notes: Europe I February 27Lecture Notes: Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: Plantations, Mercantile Capitalism, Globalization, and Colonialism: Notes, Outline February 29Lecture Notes: Europe II
Week 8:Europe March 3Before the Rain March 5Exam 2 March 4-5San Jose Taiko March 7No Class- Exchange for Rozsa Center Performances Week X:March 10, 12, 14No Class- Spring Break Recess Week 9:Middle East, Southwest Asia, and North Africa Marston, Chapter 4 WC Guide: Senocak, "Orient and Occcident", p. 143-145 March 17Lecture Notes: Southwest Asian Crossroads March 19Lecture Notes: Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan March 21West Beirut
Week 10:Africa II Marston, Chapter 5 March 24:Lecture Notes: Sub-Saharan Africa March 26:Lecture Notes: Afropop! March 28:Mama Africa I March 29The Klezmer Conservatory Band Week 11:Africa III March 31Mama Africa II April 2Wonders of the African World April 4Exam 3
Week 12:East Asia Readings Marston, Chapter 8 Re-read WC Guide, pp. 14-15 April 7
Lecture Notes: East Asia April 9Lecture Notes: Modernism, Post-Modernism, and Japanese Anime April 11Shower April 10The Cherryholmes Bluegrass Band
Week 13:South Asia Marston, Chapter 10
April 14Lecture Notes: Anime continued... Paprika
April 16Lecture Notes: South Asia I April 18Monsoon Wedding
Week 14:South Asia and Final Thoughts April 21Lecture Notes: South Asia II April 23Lecture Notes: Globalization, Cultural Relativism, and Cultural Diversity April 25Exam 4 Week 15:April 28No Comprehensive Final Exam
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