Course Catalog - 2024-2025

     

ANTH 409 - SLOW READING SEM

Long Title: SLOW READING SEMINAR
Department: Anthropology
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Description: This course is designed to develop "slow reading" techniques that allow students to carefully pursue lines of thought that emerge from a text. It is anchored in ethnographic texts and will require students to identify and explore the conceptual genealogies and intellectual conversations in which a text participates. We will explore the required texts and complement them with collectively defined thematics. The seminar will train student in different reading approaches all characterized by slow engagement. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 609. Repeatable for Credit.