The following courses will be offered during the Fall 2023 semester. Please see the BU Bulletin for the most up-to-date information regarding course offerings, meeting times, and locations.
CAS AN 571 Anthropology of Emotion
4 credits.
BU Hub Learn More Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy Social Inquiry II Creativity/Innovation
Advanced seminar on the study of emotion as culturally and historically specific experience, cognition and symbolic system. Focus on specific emotions including shame, anger, melancholy, hope, hate and love. Special attention to affect and the politics of emotion. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy, Social Inquiry II, Creativity/Innovation.
Section A1, FALL 2023 Sep 8th to Dec 8th
Parla
Independent
F
02:30:00 PM–05:15:00 PM
CGS 117B
CAS AN 588 Project Design and Statistics in Biological Anthropology
4 credits. CAS AN 102 or CAS BI 107 or CAS BI 108 or CAS AR 101; or consent of instructor.
BU Hub Learn More Scientific Inquiry II Quantitative Reasoning II Teamwork/Collaboration
This seminar teaches students project design and statistics using R and Rstudio. Students will become competent in coding, version control, data reports and commenting code, and implement both basic and advanced statistics to be used in student research projects. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Quantitative Reasoning II, Scientific Inquiry II, Teamwork/Collaboration.
Section A1, FALL 2023 Sep 7th to Dec 7th
Schmitt
Independent
R
03:30:00 PM–06:15:00 PM
CAS 335
CAS AN 593 Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology
4 credits. Either sem. junior or senior standing or consent of instructor.
Selected issues and debates in current anthropology. Topic for Fall 2023, Section A1: Migration, (Im)mobilities and Precarity. Addresses the regulation of human mobility and practices of inclusive exclusion in a globalized era and given the immediacy of climate displacement. Explores the interconnections between differentiated citizenship, economic precarity, cultural marginalization and political mobilization.
Section A1, FALL 2023 Sep 5th to Dec 12th
Parla
Independent
T
03:30:00 PM–06:15:00 PM
CAS 310