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Offered each semester. Cross-cultural, global, comparative, and critical perspectives on human behavior and culture. Diversity of human cultures from hunter-gatherers to industrialized city dwellers. Implications of sociocultural analysis of economic, social, political, symbolic, and religious systems.

This course introduces the student to the manner in which customs and institutions of society have developed and functioned among the great variety of human groups which have existed on our planet. Central to the course (and to Anthropology) is the concept that the customs of any given people form a complex, integrated whole or culture, and that cultures are, in large measure, the result of the past and will in turn shape the future experience. We will study basic institutions such as family, economy, religion, and education by examining them through different historical stages. Emphasis will be on Austrian culture. This course includes a field trip to the South Tyrol Museum of Archeology in Bolzano, Italy where the remains of the 5300 year-old Iceman "Otzi" are on exhibit.

The University of New Orleans International Summer School program has a mandatory class attendance policy. All students are required to attend class for all morning classes and any required afternoon and/or weekend fields trips and lectures. No unexcused absences are allowed. However, LFU students who have to miss a UNO class due to LFU examinations in the first two weeks of our program, can receive one excused absence for this. Any further unexcused absences will result in an academic penalty. Each faculty member determines the penalty for missed classes. Most professors deduct a letter grade for each additional missed class day. For details, please refer to your course syllabi, which will be distributed on the first day of class. Mail: Center-New-Orleans@uibk.ac.at

Die Anrechnung der Kurse der UNO-IBK International Summer School muss von den Studierenden selbst vorab mit den zuständigen StudiendekanInnen geklärt werden. Diese allein entscheiden über die Anerkennung der belegten Kurse für das jeweilige Studienfach. Es wird empfohlen, sich einen Vorabbescheid über die Anerkennung der Kurse ausstellen zu lassen.