Lesson Plan
This content outline is tentative and subject to change at any time.
Assignments will be added.
| Day | Date | Class # | topic | assignments |
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| Mo | 23 Aug | 1 | Introduction: Cultural Encounters |
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| We | 25 Aug | 2 | Relationship of Language and Culture |
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| Mo | 30 Aug | 3 | ||
| We | 1 Sep | 4 | "Cultural Relativity" and "Linguistic Relativity" | Boas: "The Aim of Anthropological Research" |
| Mo | 6 Sep | Labor Day | no class | |
| We | 8 Sep | 5 | Symbols, Signs, and Meaning in Culture | Kramsch, chapter 2 |
| Mo | 13 Sep | 6 | Lévi-Strauss: "The Science of the Concrete" excerpt | |
| We | 15 Sep | 7 | Cooperative Construction of Culture | Kramsch, chapter 3 |
| Mo | 20 Sep | 8 | Geertz: "Thick Description" Assmann: Cultural Memory excerpt |
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| We | 22 Sep | 9 | Oral Culture | Kramsch, chapter 4 | Mo | 27 Sep | 10 | Ong: Orality and Literacy excerpt |
| We | 30 Sep | 11 | Writing and Print Culture | Kramsch, chapter 5 |
| Mo | 4 Oct | 12 | ||
| We | 6 Oct | 13 | ||
| Mo | 11 Oct | 14 | MIDTERM | |
| We | 13 Oct | 15 | Cultural Identity | Kramsch, chapter 6 |
| Mo | 18 Oct | 16 | Anderson: Imagined Communities excerpt Said: Orientalism excerpt |
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| We | 20 Oct | 17 | Politics of Culture | Kramsch, chapter 7 |
| Mo | 25 Oct | 18 | Hobsbawm: Nations and Nationalism since 1780 excerpt Orwell:; "Politics and the English Language" |
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| We | 27 Oct | 19 | Human Geography | Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population excerpt |
| Mo | 1 Nov | 20 | Sauer: "Cultural Geography" | |
| We | 3 Nov | 21 | Tanzania: a case study and history | Mo | 8 Nov | 22 | Tanzania: languages and influences |
| We | 10 Nov | 23 | Tanzania: cultural production -- politics, traditions | |
| Mo | 15 Nov | 24 | Tanzania: art, architecture, everyday life | |
| We | 17 Nov | 25 | Language and Translating Cultures | Benjamin: "The Task of the Translator" |
| Mo | 22 Nov | 26 | Language and Cultural Philosophy | individualized research presentations Anyone who misses class will receive a 0 for a grade. |
| We | 24 | Thanksgiving break | no class | |
| Mo | 29 Nov | 27 | Cultural Evolution | Wiliam James: "Great Men, Great Thoughts, and the Environment" individualized research presentations |
| We | 1 Dec | 28 | Richardson and Boyd: Not by Genes Alone excerpt | |
| Tu | 7 Dec, 2:45 pm to 4:45pm | Final | ||