Current Quarter Spring 2009

• ENVIR 450: Growing Stuff: the Ecology, Economy, and Politics of Resource-Extraction Ecosystems. A field course linking local ecosystems with ecological and environmental issues.


• GEN ST 391 Preparing to Do Research as an Exchange Student in Sichuan, for students planning to go on the UW-Sichuan exchange.

Archive

• ANTH 470/SISEA 470, Minority Peoples of China, an introduction to the minorities of China and the ways they interrelate with the majority Han


• ANTH 370/SISEA 370, Han Chinese Culture and Society, an introduction


• ANTH 525/H A&S 397B Resilience in Socioecological Systems a seminar on resilience theory in ecology, how it might apply to society, and whether it is practically useful or not.


• ENVIR 300 Environmental Studies: Synthesis and Application, a Program on the Environment upper-division core course


• 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.
  
  
• 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.

• 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.
• 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
   
• H A&S 350, The Practice and Theory of Translation, a junior-senior honors seminar about how to translate well


• H A&S 350, The Crisis in the American Family, an examination of the public discourse on the family in America.


• ANTH 436 Comparative Family Organization, A lecture course about the history, the variation, and the present status of the family.


• ANTH 447/SISEA 445, Religion in China, an overview lecture course on Chinese religion.