Based on Eastern Daylight Time - the time on the ship is ahead EDT by the number of hours listed below:
-Norway (+6 Hours)
-Russia (+8 Hours)
-Denmark (+6 Hours)
-Belgium (+6 Hours)
-Italy (+6 Hours)
-Turkey (+7 Hours)
-Greece (+7 Hours)
-Croatia (+6 Hours)
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Courses
I can't believe how close this trip is...I'm almost done with the semester! Here are the courses I know I am taking:
-Global Studies (SEMS 101)
Global Studies is an interdisciplinary course that focuses on the countries visited and is tailored especially to meet the global and comparative approach of Semester at Sea. In addition to providing basic information about the countries on the itinerary, Global Studies also provides a meaningful framework by which to compare data, examine issues, and develop concepts. The theme for the Summer 2008 Global Studies course is “Europe: East and West.”
-ANTH 232Z: Ritual and Belief
This course covers selected topics in the anthropology of religion, focusing upon themes relevant to the countries visited by Semester-at-Sea, but including references to ethnographies of the non-Western world. Key topics include: problems in defining religion cross-culturally; the religious, the aesthetic, the scientific; religious evolution; the religious representation of life, death, sex, morality and gender; the relation between cosmology and magical practice; the work of the symbol in ritual practice; myth and ritual in legitimation of the state; the conflict of faith demands in multicultural society.
-ANTH 239Z: Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
The term 'woman' suggest that all women everywhere, as a result of inhabiting the same body type, are in some way the same. This course explores the ways in which gender is constructed and social arrangements make the lives of women very different from palce to place. Three main themes will shape the varied data available to us in documenting the lives of women: 1) the evolution of women's status along with sociocultural evolution, from egalitarian foraging societies to the state; 2) the social preoccupation with the female body, including practices controlling menstruation, reproduction, sexuality, and extraordinary modifications of female visibility and appearance, and 3) social action by women to reproduce, manage, manipulate, contest and resist these social strucutres. Specific topics and illustrations of these themes will be drawn from the cultures visited by Semester-at-Sea.
-Global Studies (SEMS 101)
Global Studies is an interdisciplinary course that focuses on the countries visited and is tailored especially to meet the global and comparative approach of Semester at Sea. In addition to providing basic information about the countries on the itinerary, Global Studies also provides a meaningful framework by which to compare data, examine issues, and develop concepts. The theme for the Summer 2008 Global Studies course is “Europe: East and West.”
-ANTH 232Z: Ritual and Belief
This course covers selected topics in the anthropology of religion, focusing upon themes relevant to the countries visited by Semester-at-Sea, but including references to ethnographies of the non-Western world. Key topics include: problems in defining religion cross-culturally; the religious, the aesthetic, the scientific; religious evolution; the religious representation of life, death, sex, morality and gender; the relation between cosmology and magical practice; the work of the symbol in ritual practice; myth and ritual in legitimation of the state; the conflict of faith demands in multicultural society.
-ANTH 239Z: Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
The term 'woman' suggest that all women everywhere, as a result of inhabiting the same body type, are in some way the same. This course explores the ways in which gender is constructed and social arrangements make the lives of women very different from palce to place. Three main themes will shape the varied data available to us in documenting the lives of women: 1) the evolution of women's status along with sociocultural evolution, from egalitarian foraging societies to the state; 2) the social preoccupation with the female body, including practices controlling menstruation, reproduction, sexuality, and extraordinary modifications of female visibility and appearance, and 3) social action by women to reproduce, manage, manipulate, contest and resist these social strucutres. Specific topics and illustrations of these themes will be drawn from the cultures visited by Semester-at-Sea.
Monday, April 7, 2008
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