{"id":8,"date":"2010-07-13T15:11:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T15:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/anthropology\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T20:50:26","slug":"academic-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/academics\/academic-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"catalog-block catalog-department-listing\"><h3 class=\"catalog-program-title\">Anthropology<\/h3><p><em>Professor Hamilton (chair, winter semester and short term); Associate Professor Bennett (chair, fall semester); Assistant Professor Kariem; Visiting Assistant Professor Smith<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-c106b3c3-7fff-02c3-ed04-c353f9ccf3b0\">Anthropologists investigate meaning and power through field-based research in a variety of global settings. Anthropology offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of cultural variation with particular attention to race, gender, ethnicity, and social change. At Bates, the program emphasizes sociocultural perspectives.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-c106b3c3-7fff-02c3-ed04-c353f9ccf3b0\">Anthropology attempts to make sense, in a nonethnocentric manner, of everyday life in both familiar and distant settings. In this way, the discipline enables students to achieve cultural competence in the broadest sense of the term\u2014the ability to function effectively in complex environments, to analyze material from their own and other cultural perspectives, and to appreciate the value of human diversity. Some recent graduates have pursued careers in public health, medicine, community organizing, environmental law, international development, teaching, journalism, and museum work; some have gone on to graduate work in anthropology or archaeology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-017d87d5-7fff-24e7-a5a2-cba4b349be3a\"><span class=\"sc_courseinline\"><span class=\"code_bubble\" data-code-bubble=\"ANTH 101\">ANTH\u00a0101<\/span> Cultural Anthropology<\/span> is designed as an introduction to the discipline of anthropology and as preparation for more advanced courses. Most 200-level courses also admit first-year students, while reflecting a specific field within anthropology. The 300- and 400-level courses are open to all upper-class students, but the latter are especially designed for majors.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n\n<p>More information is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/anthropology\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anthropology department website<\/a>.<\/p><section class=\"catalog-section_curriculumtext\"><h5>Curriculum<\/h5><div class=\"sitemap\"><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.bates.edu\/departments-programs\/anthropology\/anthropology-major\/\">Anthropology Major<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.bates.edu\/departments-programs\/anthropology\/anthropology-minor\/\">Anthropology Minor<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/section><section class=\"catalog-section_planningtext\"><h5>Planning<\/h5><h2>Course Offering Plan<\/h2>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-e94b8a95-7fff-fba5-3f53-a08f7d04c1fb\">The Anthropology department provides the following list of possible course offerings for student planning purposes. The course list gives students valuable information regarding the variety and number of courses that will be offered in the future and is useful for students wishing to plan out their course of study over multiple years. The courses listed are not guaranteed to be offered and are subject to change. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Fall 2027<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n\t<li><span class=\"sc_courseinline\"><span class=\"code_bubble\" data-code-bubble=\"ANTH 101\">ANTH\u00a0101<\/span> Cultural Anthropology<\/span><\/li>\n\n\t<li><span class=\"sc_courseinline\"><span class=\"code_bubble\" data-code-bubble=\"ANTH 210\">ANTH\u00a0210<\/span> Ethnographic Methods<\/span><\/li>\n\n\t<li>TBD 200-level course<\/li>\n\t<li><span class=\"sc_courseinline\"><span class=\"code_bubble\" data-code-bubble=\"ANTH 312\">ANTH\u00a0312<\/span> Language Death and Revitalization<\/span> OR <span class=\"sc_courseinline\"><span class=\"code_bubble\" data-code-bubble=\"ANTH 371\">ANTH\u00a0371<\/span> Indigenous Women&#8217;s Social Movements in Latin America<\/span><\/li>\n\n\t<li><span class=\"sc_courseinline\"><span class=\"code_bubble\" data-code-bubble=\"ANTH 441\">ANTH\u00a0441<\/span> History of Anthropological Theory<\/span><\/li>\n\n\t<li><span class=\"sc_courseinline\"><span class=\"code_bubble\" data-code-bubble=\"ANTH 457\">ANTH\u00a0457<\/span> Senior Thesis<\/span><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3>Winter 2028<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n\t<li><span class=\"sc_courseinline\"><span class=\"code_bubble\" data-code-bubble=\"ANTH 101\">ANTH\u00a0101<\/span> Cultural Anthropology<\/span><\/li>\n\n\t<li><span class=\"sc_courseinline\"><span class=\"code_bubble\" data-code-bubble=\"ANTH 108\">ANTH\u00a0108<\/span> Medical Anthropology<\/span><\/li>\n\n\t<li><span class=\"sc_courseinline\"><span class=\"code_bubble\" data-code-bubble=\"ANTH 237\">ANTH\u00a0237<\/span> Indigeneity Today: Comparative Indigenous Identities in the US  and Russia<\/span><\/li>\n\n\t<li>TBD 200-level course<\/li>\n\t<li><span class=\"sc_courseinline\"><span class=\"code_bubble\" data-code-bubble=\"ANTH 333\">ANTH\u00a0333<\/span> Culture and Interpretation<\/span><\/li>\n\n\t<li>TBD 300-level course<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3>Fall 2028<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n\t<li>TBD First-Year Seminar<\/li>\n\t<li><span class=\"sc_courseinline\"><span class=\"code_bubble\" data-code-bubble=\"ANTH 101\">ANTH\u00a0101<\/span> Cultural Anthropology<\/span><\/li>\n\n\t<li><span class=\"sc_courseinline\"><span class=\"code_bubble\" data-code-bubble=\"ANTH 210\">ANTH\u00a0210<\/span> Ethnographic Methods<\/span><\/li>\n\n\t<li>TBD 200-level course<\/li>\n\t<li><span class=\"sc_courseinline\"><span class=\"code_bubble\" data-code-bubble=\"ANTH 441\">ANTH\u00a0441<\/span> History of Anthropological Theory<\/span><\/li>\n\n\t<li><span class=\"sc_courseinline\"><span class=\"code_bubble\" data-code-bubble=\"ANTH 457\">ANTH\u00a0457<\/span> Senior Thesis<\/span><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3>Winter 2029<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">\n\t<li><span class=\"sc_courseinline\"><span class=\"code_bubble\" data-code-bubble=\"ANTH 101\">ANTH\u00a0101<\/span> Cultural 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