ANTH 605 - Language, Religion, Politics

(3 units)

Examines ways that peoples around the world use religious discourse to mediate changing relationships between their local communities and global, social and political realities.

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall - Even Years

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. articulate and evaluate connections among local, national, and international contexts.
2. identify the complex elements important to members of a diverse cultural group or groups in relation to its/their history, values, politics, language and religious beliefs and practices.
3. identify, analyze, and interpret connections between localized events and their global contexts.
4. analyze and interpret information about cultural, linguistic and religious differences, rules, and biases in their own society or about non-dominant or marginalized groups.
5. articulate ways in which social identities such as race, class, and gender intersect in order to influence individual life experiences and/or perspectives and in turn, communicative behavior.
6. demonstrate knowledge of the history, customs, worldviews, and/or other cultural markers of 1 or more groups of national origin outside of the United States or of minority status within the United States, as they pertain to the intersection of religion, politics and language.
7. make connections between and apply theories from previous coursework within cultural and linguistic anthropology and/or other disciplines to the context/topic of the Capstone course.
8. critically examine how one’s configuration within intersecting social forces impacts one’s worldview.

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