Cultures in Contact
ANT 326L (26750) Spring,
2004
Samuel M. Wilson
Introduction
Cultures in Contact" is a multi-disciplinary course which combines Historical, Anthropological, Geographical and Literary analyses of the continuing "contact period" in the New World. The issues addressed span the last 500+ years of cultural interaction in the Americas, looking especially at the processes of cultural interaction, competition, cooperation, and synthesis that have taken place among people from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Books: a course packet of readings is available at Abel's Copies, 715 W. 23rd St., Suite D, in Towers Court, behind University Towers (bring a hardcopy of the syllabus, a packet "ticket," or your UT fee receipt as proof of enrollment). Peter Nabokov (ed.) Native American Testimony is available at the UT Coop bookstore.
Requirements: Grades will be assigned on the basis of class participation, three exams, twelve short assignments, and two writing assignments. See the Assignments page for details.
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Students who miss exams or the due dates of assignments without notifying the professor or the Office of the Department of Anthropology (471-4206) in advance will, under most circumstances, not be allowed to take the exam and will forfeit that portion of their grade.
If you do not hand in a short "activity" report on the day it is due, you may hand it in the next class period. After that, the assignment will not be accepted without an adequate written explanation. Attendance and class participation make up part of your final grade, and so you would do well to consider it extremely important. The exams will cover both the reading material and our discussions in class.