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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:
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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 |
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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.
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. |