Winterim Anthropology Program in Kathmandu, Nepal Location: Kathmandu, Nepal Date: December 18, 2001 - January 14, 2002 (tentative) Course/credit: 6 hours of upper division or graduate credit in anthropology Cost estimate: approximately $4,600, including airfare, transportation, housing, food, and credit hour (tuition) fees Deadline: October 30, 2001 Prerequisite: a basic understanding of cultural anthropology. If you do not, you must do a little pre-trip reading. In the course reader I have included three chapters from a basic cultural anthropology textbook, including a survey of the culture history of South Asia, for your review Contact: OIE (studyabroad.carbon.cudenver.edu) or professor Craig Janes (Craig.Janes@cudenver.edu) Location This short, travel-study trip is an INTENSIVE course oriented around a three week experience in Nepal, in which we will be challenged to employ our ethnographic sensibilities, skills, and senses of humor to pack in a lot of experiential learning in a very short period of time. The course involves a 6-day long stay in a small village 1 hour east of Kathmandu, home-stays with Nepalese families in Kathmandu, and a 5-day trek in the Thak Khola Valley, in Mustang District, Nepal. Objectives for the course are: 1. To learn about the history and cultures of Nepal, including something of politics, art and architecture, and religion. 2. To learn something of what it is to "do anthropology"; that is, the basic techniques of anthropological fieldwork. 3. To learn something of what counts as local culture in an increasingly delocalized world, to understand the processes of globalization, and how the "Western gaze" is part of what maintains (and makes economically productive) differentness in places like Nepal. Course and Credits Information The program grants 6 hours of upper division and/or graduate credit. While in Nepal, we will accomplish program objectives through formal classroom sessions, and by use of different fieldwork "techniques" (including living with local families) as we take on a series of researchable questions on tourism, modernity, social organization, health, etc. (see below). But the course encompasses more than we will be able to do while traveling. Before leaving Denver, you should review a set of required readings, and after returning in January we will hold a class debriefing, potluck and slide-fest. You will be asked to produce a 15 page ethnographic or research report (i.e., term paper) and you will submit a variety of field-based exercises in which you will process your travel experiences. We hope that by being attentive both to the lectures and reading materials, and by opening yourself up to the experiences of being in a very different place, culturally, while you are engaged in fieldwork activities, you will be able to delve beneath the colorful surfaces exposed to tourists with an eye toward discovering something other than a tourist might (not that there are any secret truths that await to be discovered, but only that things are perhaps not always as they seem). For more information on the program, course syllabus and trip itinerary visit professor Craig Janes website at http://thunder1.cudenver.edu//anthro/winterim/index.html Accommodation The course involves a 6-day long stay in a small village one hour east of Kathmandu, home-stays with Nepalese families in Kathmandu, and a 5-day trek in the Thak Khola Valley, in Mustang District, Nepal. Transportation The costs associated with transportation to and from Denver and within Nepal are included in the cost of the program. Program costs The program cost for the winter 2001 - 2002 will be approximately $$4,600, including airfare, transportation, housing, food, and credit hour (tuition) fees.