Course Descriptions
AH 300C History of the Spanish Borderlands
TR 930A - 1050A Dr. Sara
Sundberg
This course examines the American
colonial past
from the viewpoint of the Spanish
who explored,
settled, and developed the southern
rim of the North
American continent between the time
of Ponce De
Leon’s explorations in 1513 and Mexico’s
independence in 1821. The interactions
and conflict
took place between Spanish and native
Americans
and Spanish and other Europeans and
U.S. citizens
as they competed for control the area.
The legacy of
the Spanish Borderlands for American
history and
culture is also considered.
Course requirement for
undergraduates include two exams and
two book
critiques or a five page research
paper based upon
research conducted at the K. State
Historical
Society.
AH 300D Women of the Old West
T 200P - 450P Dr. Joyce Thierer
Whether they were brought over from
China as prostitutes, come from Ohio to earn their fortunes in the gold
rush, or were translating for fur traders, women were very much a part
of what we now consider the Old West. Popular culture and most historians
ignored teh role of women, but we now know that not only were women involved
in resisting settlement and the explortion of the West, but the diversity
of their ethnicity, their roles, and their feelings about the geography
they inhabited was as immense as teh area itself. They were cowgirls,
homesteaders, Lakota, German, Yankees, proper ladies, slaves, businesswomen,
Mexican, Mormon, school teachers, doctors, suffragists, laundresses, singers,
lonely, fearful, empowered, and confident. Each student will be able
to focus on an area of her or his choosing.
AN 300A Urban Legends
MWF 100P - 150P Dr. Deborah
Zelli
Are you hooked on urban legends?
Want to know
whether those email cookie recipes
are for real?
Curious about famous hoaxes, ones
that fooled even
the experts? This course offers
everything you ever
wanted to know about urban legends—what
are
they? Why do they persist?
Where do they come
from? How do they spread?
And, perhaps most
importantly, why do we tell them?
Using
anthropology and the methods of folklore,
we’ll look at
the types of urban legends, the way
they’re told, and
what they tell about society’s fears
and concerns.
Urban legends have a lot to say about
sex, race
relations, and social structure.
AN 300B Anthropology of Women
TR 1100A - 1220P Dr. Deborah
Zelli
Contact Instructor for additional
information.
AN 300ZA Picturing the Natives
Online Course Dr. Deborah
Zelli
Do you enjoy movies, art, music, and
pictures from
faraway places? Ever wonder
just how accurate they
are? Or what exotic places are
really like? Visual
images of distant lands are exotic
peoples have long
captured the interest of Western culture.
Since the
turn of the century, the general public
has satisfied
this hunger through National Geographic
magazine.
Supplementing these photos and articles
were the
works of famous artists such as Gaugin.
More
recently, the public has turned to
film and television
for the illusion of experiencing far
away lands.
Supplementing this interest has been
a resurgence of
the ethnic in pop culture. This course
will use popular
film, novels, music, and magazines
to better
understand the construction of the
exotic and the
consequences of these constructions
for indigenous
peoples.
AR 500C South & Meso American
Art
MWF 1100A - 1150A Sarah Scher
This course will offer a survey of
the art and
architecture of Mesoamerica and Peru
in their social,
political, and religious contexts.
The course will
detail the antecedents and flowering
of the three great
Pre-Columbian civilizations:
the Maya, the Aztec,
and the Inca.
EG 520 Australian Outback in Literature
and Film
R 600P - 850P Dr. James Hoy
This course, through fiction, poetry,
and film, will
examine the historical and cultural
milieu of the
Australian Outback, comparing its
mythical import to
that of the American West.
EG 598 Hughes and Hurston
TR 930A - 1050A Dr. Gary
Holcomb
Hughes and Hurston takes as its subject
the fiction,
drama, poetry, and other writings
of Black
Renaissance authors Langston Hughes
and Zora
Neale Huston. Students will
read widely in Hughes’s
renowned poetry, fiction, and political
writings, as
well as reading critical and biographical
works about
Hughes. The course will also
engage with works by
and about Hurston, with a particular
interest in
understanding the author in terms
of her place in the
black feminist literary tradition,
and her role in giving
voice to rural Southern black women.
The student
will be given two essay exams and
assigned two
research paper.
GB459 B Field Biology in Mexican
Tropics
M 500P - 550P D Moore
GE354 Cultural Geography
TR 930A - 1050A Ellen Hansen
This course will examine people and
their ways of life
around the world. It will focus
on geographic ideas,
issues and tools that influence the
ways we see the
world, including: the ways people
adapt to
environments and how we continue to
transform the
earth; our “sense of place”; human
movement;
population and how we organize ourselves
spatially;
and how global interdependence is
becoming one of
the most important features of human
activities. All
of these elements of the course are
considered within
the context of larger issues such
as how gender roles
and ideologies, class, and race/ethnicity
influence
the socioeconomic structures of the
world’s regions.
SO 300A Urban Legends
MWF 100P - 150P Dr. Deborah
Zelli
Are you hooked on urban legends?
Want to know
whether those email cookie recipes
are for real?
Curious about famous hoaxes, ones
that fooled even
the experts? This course offers
everything you ever
wanted to know about urban legends—what
are
they? Why do they persist?
Where do they come
from? How do they spread?
And, perhaps most
importantly, why do we tell them?
Using
anthropology and the methods of folklore,
we’ll look at
the types of urban legends, the way
they’re told, and
what they tell about society’s fears
and concerns.
Urban legends have a lot to say about
sex, race
relations, and social structure.
SO 300C Sociology of Gender
MWF 200P - 250P J BORST
Contact Instructor for additional
information.
SO 300E Anthropology of Women
TR 1100A - 1220P Dr. Deborah
Zelli
Contact Instructor for additional
information.
SO 300ZA Picturing the Natives
Online Course Dr. Deborah
Zelli
Do you enjoy movies, art, music, and
pictures from
faraway places? Ever wonder
just how accurate they
are? Or what exotic places are
really like? Visual
images of distant lands are exotic
peoples have long
captured the interest of Western culture.
Since the
turn of the century, the general public
has satisfied
this hunger through National Geographic
magazine.
Supplementing these photos and articles
were the
works of famous artists such as Gaugin.
More
recently, the public has turned to
film and television
for the illusion of experiencing far
away lands.
Supplementing this interest has been
a resurgence of
the ethnic in pop culture. This course
will use popular
film, novels, music, and magazines
to better
understand the construction of the
exotic and the
consequences of these constructions
for indigenous
peoples.
Last Updated April 20, 2006