Course Details

This course takes an Anthropological perspective on Chicago and presents numerous opportunities for experiential learning through hands-on research. The course examines historical and cultural perspectives, with attention to communities and neighborhoods as important sites of everyday life. The history, multiculturalism, diversity, and inequality in Chicago present instructive opportunities to analyze themes of community, power, and social change.

Outcomes: Students will: learn more about history and culture across Chicago, through archival research and experiential learning in different neighborhoods; learn more about different forms and methods of anthropological inquiry and ethnographic research; develop critical perspectives on theoretical approaches central to Anthropology; prepare a comprehensive, theoretically informed poster incorporating original ethnographic data.