Oct 31, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

ANTH 376. Anthropology of Reproduction


Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 013742 Grading Basis GRD (C)

This course provides students with a critical and cross-cultural perspective on human reproduction. Examining how individuals draw on social and symbolic resources to sort out complicated private decisions, we will discuss how reproductive experiences are embedded in local, national and transnational politics. Topics covered may include: cross-cultural perspectives on childbearing and childlessness, kinship, and the globalization of new reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization. Prerequisite(s):  ANTH 195  or permission of the instructor.