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May 03, 2024
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Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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SBS 379 - Tattoos, Makeup and Burkas
Tattoos Makeup and Burkas: This course provides students with an introduction to the western and non-western anthropological literature and film on cultural elements of distinction across cultures of the world. People all around the world use tattoos, piercing and makeup and dress codes are symbolic tools to represent their ideas of self, gender or as a means of gender, ethnicity, and class control domination. This course will challenge students to understand this phenomenon as a universal one, and to explore its ethical dimensions, fostering the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for them to recognize, and analyze the ethical problems inherent to symbolic representations of self, gender and power explored in the course.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better)
General Education: UDD Integrated Social Sciences
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 3
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