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The examination of selected societies, culture areas, or social institutions, or theoretical topics to illustrate the anthropological perspectives to problems of applied anthropology, culture process, change, and development. Topic will vary from semester to semester. May be repeated for credit.

 This course engages UNO Innsbruck students, who typically encounter people vilified as “Gypsies” in Innsbruck and during their extracurricular travels across Europe, in a critical examination and deconstruction of cultural stereotypes. The course materials move students through and beyond the social and economic marginalization of Roma in Europe to a “thick” ethnographic understanding of their history (e.g. the Roma Holocaust) and culture, (e.g. purity beliefs), without romanticizing or essentializing them. Ethnographic works track the Roma migration from India to Europe and then on to the Americas. The course also allows students to learn about the systemic discrimination faced by the Roma on a daily basis through a Facebook page maintained by the instructor, Project INDROMA.

Required Fieldtrip - Dachau, Germany: This fieldtrip is designed to allow the students to learn firsthand about the Roma Holocaust and step into the horrific experiences of Roma internees at Nazi concentration camps, including their role as human subjects in cruel and senseless medical experiments. (This fieldtrip is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, July 8).

Voraussetzung: Anwesenheit bei der Vorbesprechung am 31. Mai 2017 um 17:00 Uhr im Raum 4U102b 

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.