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NORTHEAST Integrated Curriculum Committee
Date: 9/22/2022
1.
Contact person: David Fazzino
Phone:
2.
570-389-4859
Email: dfazzino@bloomu.edu
Department: Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Sociology
Program: Anthropology
3.
Tracking # (For Provost office use only)
4.
CIP# (For Provost office use only)
5.
Select which actions you are requesting for _X_ Undergraduate __ Graduate
x☐ Course Modified for Integration
6.
☐ Course Not Previously Offered at any campus
Click modalities that the course may be offered (80% +)
☒Face-to-Face/In person ☒ Online (100%) ☐ Interactive TV ☐ Multi-modal
New University
Course Prefix
New University
Course Number
New University
Course Title
305
History of Anthropological Thought and
Theory
Current University
Course Number
Current University
Course Title
ANTH
Current University
Course Prefix
*Only list Current Courses that are equivalent to the New Course
BU: ANTHRO
470
Anthropological Thought and Theory
LHU:
MU:
1
New Course for Integrated University
7. Will the course be seeking General Education approval?
☒ No ☐ Yes (if yes, go to next section General Education Approval- click on this link)
8. Resources at Each Campus: List any resources, including faculty, facilities, technology,
equipment, or library resources necessary at each campus listed above.
The course will be offered within load of current faculty and will be available to all three
campuses. For face to face offering there are no additional resources needed beyond current
classroom technology. For online offering there are no additional resources needed.
Identify on which campuses the course is intended to be offered in the integrated university
(for administration use only):
☒ BU
X☐ LHU
X☐ MU
9. Identify Departments/Programs/Courses impacted by changes on this form (Identify any
programs/departments/courses that may be impacted by course changes. Contact programs,
departments to obtain support if you are offering a course that will impact their program:
None
10. Indicate Semester and Year Course will be implemented:
Fall 2023
11. Provide a rationale for how this course relates to the mission and goals of the related program:
A B.A. in Anthropology provides students with skills needed to understand social and cultural
systems, and helps them develop critical thinking, analytical, problem-solving, and presentation
skills necessary for professional success. The goals of the Anthropology program are to have
students be able to: 1. Identify diverse worldviews, 2. Describe anthropological theories, 3. Apply
ethical principles in research and practice, 4. Conduct research, 5. Demonstrate effective
communication skills, and 6. Evaluate the viability of diverse approaches to contemporary issues.
This course provides students with an in-depth consideration of the theoretical foundations in
anthropology (Program Goal 2) necessary to conduct research (Program Goal 4). The course
provides the necessary background to enable students to read and interpret anthropological texts
dealing with social phenomena, contemporary events, and diverse cultural worldviews and
lifeways (Program Goals 1 and 6). Students in the course will demonstrate effective
communication skills in their consideration and analysis of theoretical perspectives (Program Goal
5).
12. Abbreviated Title (for Master Schedule, Maximum 20 spaces):
Anthropology Theory
13. Course Description for Catalog (Maximum 75 words -start with an action verb.):
2
Surveys the leading methods and theories of anthropological and ethnological interpretation.
Emphasizes the concept of culture and its practical application to modem problems.
14. Credit(s): 3
Clock Hours: 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Recitation: hours Lab: hours
Contract Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 hours
Recitation: hours Lab: hours
15. Prerequisites (Courses completed prior to taking this course): ANT 120, ANT 130, ANT 140, or
consent of instructor.
16. Co-requisites (Courses which must be taken simultaneously with other courses):
None
17. Enrollment Restrictions (e.g., limited to majors in program XXX, restricted from majors in program
XXX, etc.): None
18. Repeatable: Can this course be repeated for credit as a multi-topic class, not just for a grade
change?
☒ No ☐ Yes: How many times is the course repeatable?
19. Dual-Level or Cross-Listed: Is this course dual-level? ☐Yes ☒No.
20. Estimated Frequency of Offering: Course will be taught once in a two-year cycle.
21. Recommended class size for student success: Provide the recommended class size number and a
clear rationale based on accreditation guidelines, discipline standards, or pedagogical limitations.
The recommended class size for student success is 25. This course is writing, presentation, and
discussion intensive. The recommended class size is to meet the needs of students by allowing for
meaningful classroom discussions, more personal communication, inclusion of all students in
assessment of performance in formal and informal presentation settings, and working with
students on a one-on-one basis, and it is based on review of students' performance.
Submit a Master Course Syllabus – (see attached)
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General_Education_Approval
Locate the required Curricular Theme, Program Goal, and Learning Objectives and Desired Outcomes for
your selected area of this program in the General Education Plan (click on this link).
GE-1: Select the Curricular Theme and Program Goal you are applying from the drop down below (click
on the words Choose an item, then click on the arrow and select one option):
None
Choose an item.
GE-2: How does your course fit into the General Education Curricular Theme and Program Goal to which
you are applying (be sure to address all of the required areas of the selected Program Goal)?
N/A
GE-3: List the Course Specific SLOs that correspond to the General Education SLOs of the relevant
Curricular Theme and Program Goal and explain how your course will meet each one of these Course
Objectives. Please be specific and use examples to align in column two and to demonstrate how this will be
implemented in column three.
Course Specific Student Learning
Objectives (SLOs)
General Education Student
Learning Objectives (SLOs)
How do the methods and
structure of the course provide
students with the opportunity
to meet each aligned pair of
General Education and Course
Specific SLOs?
Submit the Master Course Syllabus (including assessment) in addition to this form to be considered for
General Education approval.
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Signatures
Required
Signatures
Name
Date
Department
Chairperson
David Fazzino
9/22/2022
By typing my name in the box above, I am electronically signing this form. Dean, ICC Chair, and
President/Designee will sign to indicate approval directly in SharePoint.
5
MASTER COURSE SYLLABUS
NORTHEAST Integrated Curriculum Committee
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
DATE PREPARED:
September 21, 2022
PREPARED BY:
David Fazzino
DEPARTMENT:
Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Sociology
Program:
COURSE PREFIX & NUMBER (without space in-between):
ANTH305
COURSE TITLE:
History of Anthropological Thought and Theory
CREDIT HOURS:
3
RECOMMENDED CLASS SIZE: 25
PREREQUISITES/CO-REQUISITES:
ANT 120, ANT 130, ANT 140, or consent of
instructor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION FOR CATALOG: Surveys the leading methods and theories of
anthropological and ethnological interpretation with special emphasis on the concept of
culture and its practical application to modem problems.
10. CONTENT DESCRIPTION: The following areas of study will be included:
1. Historical Foundations of Anthropological Theory
a. Nineteenth-Century Unilineal Evolutionism
b. Foundations of Sociological Thought
2. Early Twentieth-Century Theory
a. Historical Particularism
b. Functionalism and Structural-Functionalism
c. Culture and Personality
3. Theory at Mid-Century
a. Cultural Ecology and Neoevolutionary Thought
b. Cultural Materialism
c. Structuralism
d. Ethnoscience and Cognitive Anthropology
4. Recent and Emergent Trends in Anthropology
a. Sociobiology
b. Feminist Anthropology
c. Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology
d. Post-Modernism
e. Resistance Theory
f. Praxis and Applied Anthropology
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g. Transnationalism, Globalization, and Diasporas
11. & 12. TABLE: STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND STUDENT ASSESSMENT.
Choose an item.
11. Course Specific Student
Learning Objectives (SLOs)
General Education Student
Learning Objectives (Complete
this column for GE courses
only)
Students analyze the theoretical
foundations in anthropology
necessary to conduct research.
12. Student Assessment
(suggested))
Students will discuss and write
essays related anthropological
theory and demonstrate an
understanding of theory’s
relevance to research.
Students will differentiate
various theorists and theories
through quizzes and
examinations.
Students demonstrate an
understanding of
anthropological theory to be
able to read and interpret
anthropological texts dealing
with social phenomena,
contemporary events, and
diverse cultural worldviews and
lifeways.
Students demonstrate effective
communication skills in their
consideration and analysis of
theoretical perspectives.
Students will discuss and write
essays related to the
application of anthropological
theory and social phenomena,
contemporary events, and
diverse cultural worldviews
and lifeways.
Students will actively
participate in classroom
discussions.
Students demonstrate
proficiency in theoretical
7
knowledge and application in
seminar style discussions of
anthropological theory and
use of Socratic method by the
instructor.
Students write essays
demonstrating understanding
of theorists, theoretical
perspectives, and the
relevance of theory in relation
to contemporary issues.
13. METHODS:
In a traditional classroom setting, the course is taught in a lecture format, supplemented with
classroom discussion, homework assignments, in-class assignments and activities, quizzes, and
exams.
In a distance education or multi-modal setting, the course makes use of available university
classroom management software, and other supplementary web-based applications. The
instructor may utilize a variety of methods including the use of discussion boards, recorded
lectures, online video and audio, group projects. Exam proctoring may be required at the
discretion of the individual instructor.
In a distance education setting: This course may be taught online using synchronous or
asynchronous methods based on the instructor.
In a multi-modal setting: (1) the course is taught in a lecture format on-campus and students
can participate in person or in zoom, or (2) flex plus zoom format where in one part of the
course students can participate in person or in zoom, and the second part will be a zoom-only
class.
14. COURSE ASSESSMENT:
The program curriculum committee will assess the objectives of course assessment and recommend
changes so that the course better reflects the goals of the program. Course assessment will also be
conducted in coordination with and/or upon the request of the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and
other relevant bodies. Essays will be reviewed collectively to assess student understanding of key
anthropological theories.
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15. SUPPORTING MATERIALS- SAMPLE TEXTS (Recommended):
Appadurai, A. (1988). Introduction: Place and voice in anthropological theory. Cultural
anthropology, 3(1), 16-20.
Bolles, L., Gomberg-Muñoz, R. , Perley B.C., & Brondo, K.V. (2022). Anthropological Theory for
the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Approach Reprint Edition. University of Toronto Press.
Erickson, P. A., & Murphy, L. D. (Eds.). (2013). Readings for a history of anthropological theory.
University of Toronto Press.
Ellen, R. (2010). Theories in anthropology and ‘anthropological theory’. Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute, 16(2), 387-404.
Moberg, M. (2018). Engaging anthropological theory: a social and political history. Routledge.
Hahn, R. A., & Kleinman, A. (1983). Biomedical practice and anthropological theory: frameworks
and directions. Annual review of anthropology, 305-333.
Harris, M. (2001). The rise of anthropological theory: A history of theories of culture. AltaMira
Press.
McGee, R. J., & Warms, R. L. (2007). Anthropological theory: An introduction. McGraw Hill.
Moberg, M. (2018). Engaging anthropological theory: a social and political history.
Routledge.
Moore, H.L., & Sanders T. (2014). Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology. WileyBlackwell.
Narotzky, S. (2020). The production of knowledge and the production of hegemony:
anthropological theory and political struggles in Spain. In World Anthropologies (pp. 133156). Routledge.
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NORTHEAST Integrated Curriculum Committee
Date: 9/22/2022
1.
Contact person: David Fazzino
Phone:
2.
570-389-4859
Email: dfazzino@bloomu.edu
Department: Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Sociology
Program: Anthropology
3.
Tracking # (For Provost office use only)
4.
CIP# (For Provost office use only)
5.
Select which actions you are requesting for _X_ Undergraduate __ Graduate
x☐ Course Modified for Integration
6.
☐ Course Not Previously Offered at any campus
Click modalities that the course may be offered (80% +)
☒Face-to-Face/In person ☒ Online (100%) ☐ Interactive TV ☐ Multi-modal
New University
Course Prefix
New University
Course Number
New University
Course Title
305
History of Anthropological Thought and
Theory
Current University
Course Number
Current University
Course Title
ANTH
Current University
Course Prefix
*Only list Current Courses that are equivalent to the New Course
BU: ANTHRO
470
Anthropological Thought and Theory
LHU:
MU:
1
New Course for Integrated University
7. Will the course be seeking General Education approval?
☒ No ☐ Yes (if yes, go to next section General Education Approval- click on this link)
8. Resources at Each Campus: List any resources, including faculty, facilities, technology,
equipment, or library resources necessary at each campus listed above.
The course will be offered within load of current faculty and will be available to all three
campuses. For face to face offering there are no additional resources needed beyond current
classroom technology. For online offering there are no additional resources needed.
Identify on which campuses the course is intended to be offered in the integrated university
(for administration use only):
☒ BU
X☐ LHU
X☐ MU
9. Identify Departments/Programs/Courses impacted by changes on this form (Identify any
programs/departments/courses that may be impacted by course changes. Contact programs,
departments to obtain support if you are offering a course that will impact their program:
None
10. Indicate Semester and Year Course will be implemented:
Fall 2023
11. Provide a rationale for how this course relates to the mission and goals of the related program:
A B.A. in Anthropology provides students with skills needed to understand social and cultural
systems, and helps them develop critical thinking, analytical, problem-solving, and presentation
skills necessary for professional success. The goals of the Anthropology program are to have
students be able to: 1. Identify diverse worldviews, 2. Describe anthropological theories, 3. Apply
ethical principles in research and practice, 4. Conduct research, 5. Demonstrate effective
communication skills, and 6. Evaluate the viability of diverse approaches to contemporary issues.
This course provides students with an in-depth consideration of the theoretical foundations in
anthropology (Program Goal 2) necessary to conduct research (Program Goal 4). The course
provides the necessary background to enable students to read and interpret anthropological texts
dealing with social phenomena, contemporary events, and diverse cultural worldviews and
lifeways (Program Goals 1 and 6). Students in the course will demonstrate effective
communication skills in their consideration and analysis of theoretical perspectives (Program Goal
5).
12. Abbreviated Title (for Master Schedule, Maximum 20 spaces):
Anthropology Theory
13. Course Description for Catalog (Maximum 75 words -start with an action verb.):
2
Surveys the leading methods and theories of anthropological and ethnological interpretation.
Emphasizes the concept of culture and its practical application to modem problems.
14. Credit(s): 3
Clock Hours: 3
Lecture: 3 hours
Recitation: hours Lab: hours
Contract Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 hours
Recitation: hours Lab: hours
15. Prerequisites (Courses completed prior to taking this course): ANT 120, ANT 130, ANT 140, or
consent of instructor.
16. Co-requisites (Courses which must be taken simultaneously with other courses):
None
17. Enrollment Restrictions (e.g., limited to majors in program XXX, restricted from majors in program
XXX, etc.): None
18. Repeatable: Can this course be repeated for credit as a multi-topic class, not just for a grade
change?
☒ No ☐ Yes: How many times is the course repeatable?
19. Dual-Level or Cross-Listed: Is this course dual-level? ☐Yes ☒No.
20. Estimated Frequency of Offering: Course will be taught once in a two-year cycle.
21. Recommended class size for student success: Provide the recommended class size number and a
clear rationale based on accreditation guidelines, discipline standards, or pedagogical limitations.
The recommended class size for student success is 25. This course is writing, presentation, and
discussion intensive. The recommended class size is to meet the needs of students by allowing for
meaningful classroom discussions, more personal communication, inclusion of all students in
assessment of performance in formal and informal presentation settings, and working with
students on a one-on-one basis, and it is based on review of students' performance.
Submit a Master Course Syllabus – (see attached)
3
General_Education_Approval
Locate the required Curricular Theme, Program Goal, and Learning Objectives and Desired Outcomes for
your selected area of this program in the General Education Plan (click on this link).
GE-1: Select the Curricular Theme and Program Goal you are applying from the drop down below (click
on the words Choose an item, then click on the arrow and select one option):
None
Choose an item.
GE-2: How does your course fit into the General Education Curricular Theme and Program Goal to which
you are applying (be sure to address all of the required areas of the selected Program Goal)?
N/A
GE-3: List the Course Specific SLOs that correspond to the General Education SLOs of the relevant
Curricular Theme and Program Goal and explain how your course will meet each one of these Course
Objectives. Please be specific and use examples to align in column two and to demonstrate how this will be
implemented in column three.
Course Specific Student Learning
Objectives (SLOs)
General Education Student
Learning Objectives (SLOs)
How do the methods and
structure of the course provide
students with the opportunity
to meet each aligned pair of
General Education and Course
Specific SLOs?
Submit the Master Course Syllabus (including assessment) in addition to this form to be considered for
General Education approval.
4
Signatures
Required
Signatures
Name
Date
Department
Chairperson
David Fazzino
9/22/2022
By typing my name in the box above, I am electronically signing this form. Dean, ICC Chair, and
President/Designee will sign to indicate approval directly in SharePoint.
5
MASTER COURSE SYLLABUS
NORTHEAST Integrated Curriculum Committee
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
DATE PREPARED:
September 21, 2022
PREPARED BY:
David Fazzino
DEPARTMENT:
Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Sociology
Program:
COURSE PREFIX & NUMBER (without space in-between):
ANTH305
COURSE TITLE:
History of Anthropological Thought and Theory
CREDIT HOURS:
3
RECOMMENDED CLASS SIZE: 25
PREREQUISITES/CO-REQUISITES:
ANT 120, ANT 130, ANT 140, or consent of
instructor.
COURSE DESCRIPTION FOR CATALOG: Surveys the leading methods and theories of
anthropological and ethnological interpretation with special emphasis on the concept of
culture and its practical application to modem problems.
10. CONTENT DESCRIPTION: The following areas of study will be included:
1. Historical Foundations of Anthropological Theory
a. Nineteenth-Century Unilineal Evolutionism
b. Foundations of Sociological Thought
2. Early Twentieth-Century Theory
a. Historical Particularism
b. Functionalism and Structural-Functionalism
c. Culture and Personality
3. Theory at Mid-Century
a. Cultural Ecology and Neoevolutionary Thought
b. Cultural Materialism
c. Structuralism
d. Ethnoscience and Cognitive Anthropology
4. Recent and Emergent Trends in Anthropology
a. Sociobiology
b. Feminist Anthropology
c. Symbolic and Interpretive Anthropology
d. Post-Modernism
e. Resistance Theory
f. Praxis and Applied Anthropology
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g. Transnationalism, Globalization, and Diasporas
11. & 12. TABLE: STUDENT LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND STUDENT ASSESSMENT.
Choose an item.
11. Course Specific Student
Learning Objectives (SLOs)
General Education Student
Learning Objectives (Complete
this column for GE courses
only)
Students analyze the theoretical
foundations in anthropology
necessary to conduct research.
12. Student Assessment
(suggested))
Students will discuss and write
essays related anthropological
theory and demonstrate an
understanding of theory’s
relevance to research.
Students will differentiate
various theorists and theories
through quizzes and
examinations.
Students demonstrate an
understanding of
anthropological theory to be
able to read and interpret
anthropological texts dealing
with social phenomena,
contemporary events, and
diverse cultural worldviews and
lifeways.
Students demonstrate effective
communication skills in their
consideration and analysis of
theoretical perspectives.
Students will discuss and write
essays related to the
application of anthropological
theory and social phenomena,
contemporary events, and
diverse cultural worldviews
and lifeways.
Students will actively
participate in classroom
discussions.
Students demonstrate
proficiency in theoretical
7
knowledge and application in
seminar style discussions of
anthropological theory and
use of Socratic method by the
instructor.
Students write essays
demonstrating understanding
of theorists, theoretical
perspectives, and the
relevance of theory in relation
to contemporary issues.
13. METHODS:
In a traditional classroom setting, the course is taught in a lecture format, supplemented with
classroom discussion, homework assignments, in-class assignments and activities, quizzes, and
exams.
In a distance education or multi-modal setting, the course makes use of available university
classroom management software, and other supplementary web-based applications. The
instructor may utilize a variety of methods including the use of discussion boards, recorded
lectures, online video and audio, group projects. Exam proctoring may be required at the
discretion of the individual instructor.
In a distance education setting: This course may be taught online using synchronous or
asynchronous methods based on the instructor.
In a multi-modal setting: (1) the course is taught in a lecture format on-campus and students
can participate in person or in zoom, or (2) flex plus zoom format where in one part of the
course students can participate in person or in zoom, and the second part will be a zoom-only
class.
14. COURSE ASSESSMENT:
The program curriculum committee will assess the objectives of course assessment and recommend
changes so that the course better reflects the goals of the program. Course assessment will also be
conducted in coordination with and/or upon the request of the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and
other relevant bodies. Essays will be reviewed collectively to assess student understanding of key
anthropological theories.
8
15. SUPPORTING MATERIALS- SAMPLE TEXTS (Recommended):
Appadurai, A. (1988). Introduction: Place and voice in anthropological theory. Cultural
anthropology, 3(1), 16-20.
Bolles, L., Gomberg-Muñoz, R. , Perley B.C., & Brondo, K.V. (2022). Anthropological Theory for
the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Approach Reprint Edition. University of Toronto Press.
Erickson, P. A., & Murphy, L. D. (Eds.). (2013). Readings for a history of anthropological theory.
University of Toronto Press.
Ellen, R. (2010). Theories in anthropology and ‘anthropological theory’. Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute, 16(2), 387-404.
Moberg, M. (2018). Engaging anthropological theory: a social and political history. Routledge.
Hahn, R. A., & Kleinman, A. (1983). Biomedical practice and anthropological theory: frameworks
and directions. Annual review of anthropology, 305-333.
Harris, M. (2001). The rise of anthropological theory: A history of theories of culture. AltaMira
Press.
McGee, R. J., & Warms, R. L. (2007). Anthropological theory: An introduction. McGraw Hill.
Moberg, M. (2018). Engaging anthropological theory: a social and political history.
Routledge.
Moore, H.L., & Sanders T. (2014). Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology. WileyBlackwell.
Narotzky, S. (2020). The production of knowledge and the production of hegemony:
anthropological theory and political struggles in Spain. In World Anthropologies (pp. 133156). Routledge.
9