At the UW, I teach courses at
all levels:
Current quarter
ENVIR 300 Environmental Studies: Synthesis and Application, a Program on the Environment upper-division core course
Archive
- ANTH 406/SISEA 406, China's Environment, an exploration of environmental issues in China.
- ANTH 210, Introduction to Environmental Anthropology.
- ANTH 565 Ethnography as Science and Literature, 2007 core course for doctoral students in Sociocultural Anthropology.
- GEN ST 391 Preparing to Do Research as an Exchange Student in Sichuan, for students planning to go on the UW-Sichuan exchange.
- ANTH 469e/FISH 497a/SMA550c Sustainability, an experimental seminar taught in Spring 06 with Robert Francis from the School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences
- H A&S 220-221-222 The Earth. An experimental, three-quarter honors course. Taught jointly with Professor David Battisti.
- ANTH 525 Translation and Culture. A graduate seminar, a new version for 2003 of the "Practice and Theory of Translation" below.
- ANTH 100, Introduction to Anthropology. A project-based approach.
- ANTH 565, Theory in Sociocultural Anthropology, from evolution to ethics, this time built around the Yanomami.
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GEN ST 391,Learning about China through Environmental Studies,
An UW World Wide Program for students in the University of Washington/Sichuan University Exchange program to learn about China through studying environmental questions.
- ANTH 399, Junior Honors Seminar A course designed to help juniors already accepted into the Anthropology Honors Program prepare to write their senior theses.
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H A&S 262,Through the Looking Glasses,
An honors program core
course about the way China and the Euro-American West have viewed each other from the time of Matteo Ricci
to the
Present
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H A&S 350, The Practice and Theory of Translation,
a junior-senior honors seminar about how to translate well
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ANTH 370/SISEA 370, Han Chinese Culture and Society,
an introduction
to the cutlure and society of China's Majority
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ANTH 470/SISEA 470, Minority Peoples of China,
an introduction to the minorities of China and the ways they interrelate with the majority
Han
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H A&S 350, The Crisis in the American Family,
an examination of the public discourse on the family in America.
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ANTH 436 Comparative Family Organization, A lecture course
about the history, the variation, and the present status of the family.
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ANTH 447/SISEA 445, Religion in China, an
overview lecture course on Chinese religion.