SOAN 349: Frontiers & Borders
MW 2:45-4:00, Alumni 108
Colgate University
 Spring 2005 Professor Thomas Hall
 NEW Office:  B3 Alumni, x7042, email:  tdhall@mail.colgate.edu
 OFFICE HOURS:  M 4-5, TU 2-3, W 11-12, & by appointment
Last Updated 1-06-05
Welcome to SOAN 349:  Frontiers and Borders
A New Course!

Course Description: 
This course will be one of "discovery". Students will read about various frontiers, then work together to develop a theory or explanation of frontiers. Subtopics will be racial/ethnic conflict and continuity, ethnogenesis (creating new ethnic groups and/or identities), transformations of ways of making a living, shifting boundaries, etc. Frontiers will range of the last 3,000 years all over the world, with a strong emphasis on the western US and Asia. Students should have had at least one relevant course: SOAN 212, SOAN 309, SOAN312, SOAN 337, SOAN 363, or a SOAN, History, or NAST course on Native America.

UPDATE FOR THIS VERSION BY PROF. HALL:
For some idea about what this course will be about you might check out my Frontiers & Borders course [Soc 301] at DePauw [http://fs6.depauw.edu:50080/~thall/301bfro02hp.htm].  The contents will be different, a few readings will repeat, but many are new [see Course Texts Page].  The overall course structure will be similar.  I will be updating other entries between now and the start of the term.

tom hall

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