Satisfies the Cultural Requirement

This course will bring the ethnographic and cross-cultural foci of anthropology to an enhanced understanding of the matrix of constructed identities, global processes, and representations of history and place that comprise cultural experience in South Carolina. We will discuss how South Carolina is situated within regional, national, and international discourses of place and identity, and we will examine critically notions of marginality and entitlement by, for example, class, racialization, gender, region, accent, occupation and religion. Students will have the opportunity to apply the course concepts in local contexts through fieldtrips, and will complete a group project related to cultural experiences in South Carolina.