Concentration in Culture and Communication

The Culture and Communication concentration in Anthropology offers students a program of study focused on communicative practices across a diversity of world cultures, modalities of embodied discourse, and the technologically mediated channels that increasingly connect people around the globe. Work in this area ranges from the micro-scale of everyday dialogue to the transnational scale of commerce, migrations, politics, and development. The program prepares students to bring critical thinking and holistic conceptual tools to an increasingly globalized workplace, where communicative practices vary across almost every conceivable dimension and where attention to relative cultural differences can mean the difference between communication and miscommunication, justice and injustice, and even life and death. Culture and Communication introduces students to theoretical approaches from linguistic anthropology, cognitive anthropology, and other anthropological subfields, and builds on interdisciplinary ties that include sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, conversation analysis, exchange theory, art, media, and mediated discourse analysis, preparing students to understand the impact of differing modes of expression, cultural styles, and interactional genres on the accomplishment of group tasks, the creation of human connections, and the building of a globally interconnected world.

For more information, or to begin the process of enrolling in this concentration, contact the Culture and Communication Concentration Advisor.

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Requirements

Fulfill all non-elective requirements for the B.A. in Anthropology, including the Linguistic Anthropology distribution requirement.
When choosing electives toward your Anthropology major, choose four as follows:

At least 2 (and as many as 4 if you like) must be courses that deal with culture-and-communication topics within the Anthropology Department. Courses that qualify are listed below as "Concentration Course List A."
Up to 2 classes (but you don't have to include any of these if you don't want) can be courses that deal with culture-and-communication topics from the perspective of other disciplines/departments. Courses that qualify are listed below as "Concentration Course List B."

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Culture and Communication Concentration Course List A

ANTH 2365 Art and Anthropology

ANTH 2400 Language and Culture

ANTH 2410 Sociolinguistics

ANTH 2415 Language in Human Evolution

ANTH 2420 Language and Gender

ANTH 2430 Languages of the World

ANTH 2440 Language and Cinema

ANTH 2470 Reflections of Exile: Jewish Languages and their Communities (also listed as MEST 2470)

ANTH 2660 The Internet is Another Country

ANTH 3170 The Anthropology of Media

ANTH 3171 Culture and Cyberspace

ANTH 3175 Native American Art

ANTH 3440 Language and Emotion

ANTH 3450 Native American Languages

ANTH 3455 African Languages

ANTH 3470 Language and Culture in the Middle East (also listed as MEST 3470)

ANTH 3480 Language and Prehistory

ANTH 3490 Language and Thought

ANTH 3680 Australian Aboriginal Art and Culture

ANTH 5190 Science and Culture

ANTH 5425 Language Contact

ANTH 5470 Language and Identity

ANTH 5475 Multimodal Interaction

ANTH 5480 Literacy and Orality

ANTH 5485 Discourse Analysis

ANTH 5490 Speech Play and Verbal Art

ANTH 5495 Discourse Prosody

AMST 2460 Language in the US

ASL 3450 Comparative Linguistics: ASL and English

EDHS 4300 Psycholinguistics and Communication

LNGS 2220 History and Structure of Black English

LNGS 2240 Southern American English

MDST 3140 Mass Media and American Politics

MDST 3300 Global Media

MDST 3701 New Media Culture

MDST 4704 Political Economy of Communication

SPAN 4202 Hispanic Sociolinguistics

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Culture and Communication Concentration Course List B

ANTH 2850 American Material Culture

ANTH 3070 Introduction to Musical Ethnography

ANTH 3272 The Anthropology of Dissent

ANTH 3340 Ecology and Society

ANTH 3370 Power and The Body

ANTH 4420 Theories of Language

ANTH 5220 Economic Anthropology

ANTH 5401 Linguistic Field Methods

ANTH 5410 Phonology

ANTH 5440 Morphology

ANTH 2541 Topics in Linguistics (Topics courses may also be listed as ANTH 3541 or 5541)

ANTH 5549 Topics in Theoretical Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology

ASL 4750 Topics in Deaf Studies

CLASS Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics

DRAM 2070 Public Speaking

EDHS 4030 Speech and Hearing Science

ENAM 2850 Folklore in America

ENMD 5010 Introduction to Old English

FREN 3030 Phonetics: The Sounds of French

FREN 4020 History of the French Language in its Social and Cultural Context

FREN 4035 Tools and Techniques of Translation

LING 3400 Structure of English

LING 5409 Acoustic Phonetics

LNGS 3250 Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Analysis

LNGS 5000 Linguistic Principles in Language Pedagogy

PHIL 3630 Philosophy of Language

PSYC 3110 Psychology of Language

PSYC 4112 Psychology and Deaf People

PSYC 4115 Multiculturalism in the Deaf Community

PSYC 4120 Psychology of Reading

PSYC 5355 Neurobiology of Speech and Language

RUSS 5030 Advanced Russian Grammar: Phonology and Morphology

RUSS 5032 Advanced Russian Grammar: Syntax

SPAN 3000 Phonetics (Spanish Phonetics)

SPAN 4201 Hispanic Dialectology and Bilingualism

SPAN 4203 Structure of Spanish

SPAN 4210 History of the Spanish Language

WGS 2300 Women and Gender in the Deaf World (also listed as ASL 2300)