Timeroom: Fall 2024

Durham Liberal Arts :: Anthropology

ANTH 645 (01) - Cultural Sustainability and the Role of Public Archaeology

Cultu Sustain & Public Archaeo

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 16407

In archaeology, the sustainability movement has encouraged increased outreach and education in an effort to make archaeology relevant to the public and to sustain past lifeways, especially cultural traditions threatened of being erased in our increasingly homogenized and globalized world. Students will be introduced to this field and experience for themselves how to translate academic archaeology to the masses through public programming, from designing museum exhibits to participating in "open archaeology" education for the public.

Section Comments: Cultural Sustainability and Public Archaeology

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Eleanor Harrison-Buck

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024	W	2:10pm - 5:00pm	HUDD 118

Durham Liberal Arts :: Anthropology

ANTH 685 (01) - Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Gendr, Sex, HIV Sub-Sahara Afr

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 16229

HIV/AIDS has been defined as one of the exceptional global pandemics of the Millennium. This course traces the rise and global spread of HIV and AIDS and the introduction of antiretroviral therapies and preventions in sub-Saharan African and its Diasporas with a focus on sex and gender. Includes findings on heterosexual and LGBTIQA individuals, couples, and communities and perspectives on: kinship, marriage, love, transactional sex, reproduction, contraception, gender-based violence, and activist movements. Uses ethnographies and health sciences databases.

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Casey Golomski

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024	TR	11:10am - 12:30pm	HS 124

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Durham Liberal Arts :: Anthropology

ANTH 697 (03) - Special Topics

Spc Top/Hist Bioarchaeology

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 16230

Occasional or experimental offerings. May be repeated for different topics. Operates on a seminar format.

Section Comments: Historical Bioarchaeology

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 411 or ANTH 412 or ANTH 415

Repeat Rule: May be repeated up to unlimited times.

Equivalent(s): ANTH 697W

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Alexander Garcia-Putnam

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024	MW	11:10am - 12:30pm	HUDD 118

Additional Course Details:

Historical Bioarchaeology

This special topics course will focus on the field of bioarchaeology; that is, the study of human remains from archaeological contexts to answer questions about the human past. Thematically, this course will focus broadly on the America’s at and after European contact and colonialism but will also draw on global case studies to showcase the breadth of what the field considers ‘historical’. In fact, we will dig into the very term ‘historical’ and discuss its uses, issues, and delve into paths forward. This course examines the use of archival and ethnohistoric sources in concert with human skeletal data, we will discuss the benefits and difficulties of working with these paired datasets. Sometimes skeletal data are incomplete, and historical sources are valuable in helping fill in the gaps, while at the same time, history and historical texts are inherently biased, and the bioarchaeological record can corroborate, refute, or broaden a historical narrative.

Durham Liberal Arts :: Anthropology

ANTH 699H (08) - Honors Senior Thesis

Honors Senior Thesis

Credits: 4.0 or 8.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 3
CRN: 16231

Independent work in the library or field; recommended for, but not confined to, majors intending to pursue graduate studies; required for honors candidates. Contact staff to obtain approval and arrange supervision prior to senior year. 4 or 8 credit 2 semesters, 8 credits required for honors; an IA grade (continuous course) given at end of first semester.

Department Approval Required. Contact Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits.

Equivalent(s): ANTH 699

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course, Honors course

Instructors: STAFF

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024		Hours Arranged	TBA

Durham Liberal Arts :: Anthropology

ANTH 785 (01) - The Anthropology of Dreams and Dreaming

Dreams and Dreaming

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 13524

This course emphasizes the "dream theories" of indigenous societies and how beliefs and practices associated with dreaming are integrated into cultural, ontological, political, economic, and religious systems. Western theories are also examined from within a comparative perspective--from basic Freudian models to contemporary scientific debates about the neurological origin and significance of dreaming.

Classes not allowed in section: Freshman

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Robin Sheriff

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024	W	3:40pm - 6:30pm	HS 250B

Durham Liberal Arts :: Art History

ARTH 400 (01) - Topics in Art History

Topics in Art History

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 30
CRN: 16617

Art History will be presented thematically. At least three distinct chronological periods will be treated; students will develop research skills and give oral presentations. Topics will vary: "Art Writers: Their Sources and Their Effects;" "Rome from Romulus to the Fascists;" "Cults of the Original and Cultures of the Copy." Repeatable up to a maximum of 12 credits with different topics. May count towards Architectural Studies Minor if papers take the appropriate emphasis.

Section Comments: Special Topic - "Art Writers, Their Sources and Effects"

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credits.

Equivalent(s): ARTS 400

Only listed colleges in section: Liberal Arts

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course, Fine&PerformingArts(Discovery)

Instructors: Patricia Emison

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024	MW	3:40pm - 5:00pm	PCAC A204

Additional Course Details:

We will read a variety of authors as a way of learning about how the history of art offers both a history of society and of human concerns that bridge (or partially bridge) differences of time and place. Different kinds of writing will be sampled, and a range of art will be analyzed.

Durham Liberal Arts :: Art History

ARTH 678 (01) - Romanesque and Gothic Art

Romanesque and Gothic Art

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 25
CRN: 16658

From the fall of the Roman Empire to the fourteenth century, through plague and destruction, glory and honor, heaven and hell, this course tackles the culmination of medieval artistic development, focusing especially on major architectural monuments and their sculptural programs. Treating also the art of tombs, relics, manuscripts, and devotional painting. Connections between social, religious, and art history are emphasized.

Equivalent(s): ARTS 678

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Jacqueline Lombard

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024	TR	11:10am - 12:30pm	PCAC A204

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Durham Liberal Arts :: Art History

ARTH 686 (01) - Sex and Sensuality in 18th-Century Art

Sex & Sensuality in 18th-C Art

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 25
CRN: 16210

European art of the "long" eighteenth century (1680-1815) experienced radical shifts in aesthetic, social, and political orientation: from the splendors of absolutism to the austere neoclassicism of revolutionary art. This course explores painting and sculpture (and works in other media) in relation to the development of a public sphere, the emergence of individualism, the invention of personal domestic comfort, the introduction of women to artistic power, the scientific revolution, and the birth of global consumer culture.

Equivalent(s): ARTS 686

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Susan Wager

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024	MW	11:10am - 12:30pm	PCAC A204

Additional Course Details:

This course explores European art from the reign of Louis XIV through the French Revolution—a period marked by the birth of modern ideas about individualism, the senses, liberty, love, sex, and the family. We will explore how these social and intellectual transformations were reflected in the subject matter and materiality of paintings and prints, and in the sensuous objects and furnishings that helped define the modern domestic interior as a space of comfort, convenience, privacy, and intimacy.

Durham Liberal Arts :: Art History

ARTH 695 (01) - Topics in Art History

Topics in Art History

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 25
CRN: 14233

Topics and prerequisites to be announces before registration. May be repeatable twice with different topics.

Section Comments: Special Topic: Realism

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits.

Equivalent(s): ARTS 695

Cross listed with : ARTH 795.01

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Patricia Emison

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024	MW	5:10pm - 6:30pm	PCAC A204

Additional Course Details:

695: Realism and its alternatives in art and film, a comparison of Renaissance and twentieth-century imagery and its commentary. TR 5:10-6:30

Investigating the creation of imagery just shy of documentary, this course will include early Fellini and preceding pictures on the theme of performance, the history of realistic war imagery from Callot to the 1930 All Quiet on the Western Front and beyond, slow films that explore the elapse of real time and parallel investigations of temporality in 3- and 2-dimensional arts. Some 21^st century work will be included and for contrast, some fantastical examples.

Durham Liberal Arts :: Art History

ARTH 795 (01) - Understanding Art History: An In-Depth Overview

Understanding Art History

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 5
CRN: 14236

Art history is by its nature interdisciplinary, and so this course, while it is intended as the capstone for art history majors, also welcomes voices (and eyes) from other disciplines. We will look at a variety of case studies addressing works of art and architecture, and students will research their own topics, in an effort to understand better the strengths and weaknesses of art historical thought, both past and present.

Equivalent(s): ARTS 795

Cross listed with : ARTH 695.01

Attributes: Writing Intensive Course

Instructors: Patricia Emison

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024	MW	5:10pm - 6:30pm	PCAC A204