Anthropology

This course is a three-week intensive experiential course in Ghana, West Africa that features concentrated study, lectures, roundtables, field trips, and interactions with the people of Ghana. The course involves an in-depth examination of Ghanaian history, culture, governance, family and society, gender issues, and development challenges. The course also includes language instruction, language practice situations in the field, dance lessons, drumming lessons, and field excursions to culturally and historically significant sites in Kumasi, Cape Coast, or other areas. It also introduces a host of practical skills and information to help with adjustment to and living in Ghana. The course is comprised of 45 hours of lectures and over 30 hours of field interactions.

This course examines Japanese culture and thought from the Buddhist perspectives, making constant references to both common and different features in the ways of thinking between Chinese and Japanese peoples, and also to how Japanese Buddhism and culture including Zen Buddhism, tea ceremony, Japanese cuisine, and other cultural activities became a global phenomenon after the 19th century. T

This course provides a general introduction to medical anthropology. It first focuses on how humans have biologically adapted to diseases in their environment; then it examines the multiple ways in which medicine, illness, healing, and mental illness are conceived in different societies. The purpose of the course is to demonstrate the diversity of medical practices to understand the socio-cultural aspect of medicine in general.