Moodle at Eckerd College 2024-25 Academic Year

Further development of language skills with emphasis on advanced grammar, increased vocabulary, and competency with authentic texts and media materials. Prerequisite: AB 202.

Examines significant contributions of women artists from the medieval period to today and explores feminist/revisionist critiques of traditional art history. No prerequisites.

This course examines the art production, classical techniques, and specialized materials used to create Renaissance drawings from the workshops of pioneering Renaissance artists throughout Europe, from the fourteenth to early seventeenth centuries. (Prerequisite AH 103A)

This course will develop the idea that the environment has been a significant focus in culture and can be analyzed from the perspective of the imagery of film, video, and other visual media. This course meets T/R 6:30 - 8:00 pm, and during all the evenings of Eckerd's Environmental Film Festival, on February 21, 22, 26, 27, 28 and March 1, 2025. After the festival the class will meet biweekly.

Emergence of a new literary and artistic movement within the African-American community in the 1920's and how it affected other social movements in American society. African-American History I and II helpful but not required.

A study of human population and cultural diversity as a function of geographic distribution. Culture regions and cultural landscapes examined in an environmental perspective, with particular attention to ethnicity, diffusion, and adaptation.

Overview of human osteology in a forensic context, including search and recovery. Explores techniques for analyzing human skeletons, including the determination of sex, age, stature, ancestry, pathology, and personal identification. Discussion of criminal cases.

A multidisciplinary, contemporary overview of the peoples and cultures, achievements and challenges faced in Latin America.

Relationship between health and culture in contemporary societies worldwide. Examination of beliefs and practices related to health, illness, and healing in present-day cultures.