Each student is expected to READ ALL ASSIGNED MATERIAL, whether it is COVERED IN CLASS or NOT. You must TAKE GOOD NOTES on ALL READINGS and LECTURES, as well as REVIEW these once each week in preparation for classroom discussions and examinations.  Knowledge of basic terms, concepts, theories, vocabulary and key personalities is required.

1. Vigorous class participation.   This will include giving an oral report in class on one chapter from one of the following monographs, Frances Bearden's The Aztecs of Central Mexico:  An Imperial Society, due 03/02 and 03/04.  This will count as ten percent of your course grade.  Prepare well.

2. Study groups. To be explained in class. Three persons per group.

3. Quizzes:  May be given at any time throughout the semester without warning.  Be prepared daily!

4. Controversial essay.  Imagine that you were hired by the SIUE Anthropology Department.  Your job is to help students your age and rank who attend school on a Navaho Reservation in Ganado, Arizona near Windowrock.  Up-to-date books are rare, yet Indian youth hunger for accurate information. They have heard of two great anthropological monographs, Francis F. Bearden's The Aztecs of Central Mexico:  An Imperial Society.   Imagine the Department of Anthropology at SIUE has hired you as a teaching assistant for their distant learning experiment. Your job is to study this monograph and write an interesting, informative, exciting and if possible humorous review of one of these books. Remember that English is not the mother tongue of your students, so keep your language clear, simple,  unambiguous, and easy to understand. Your review should try to make your Navajo students excited by and interested in anthropological issues.  This may help to keep their minds active until their tragic circumstances on their reservations improve or they can find jobs elsewhere.  Give them the help that you would want if you were in their shoes.
    Ambitious students may want to spice up their reviews by reading additional material, such as R.C. Padden's book The Hummingbird and the Hawk on Aztec history and culture.  Reading more widely and including a discussion of these works in your internet report will be given extra credit.  For additional extra credit, or for students who want to know more about their Navajo audience I would recommend reading one or more of  the following books;  Ruth M. Underhill, The Navajos, Clyde Kluckhohn and Dorothea Leighton, The Navajo and Peter Iverson's The Navajo Nation.  Writing a three page book review of any of the three books on the Navajo cited above will earn extra credit.
    Please purchase a clean folder and print or type your full name, the course title and the course number on a separate title page.  In your review raise interesting questions, such as "Why did the Aztec engage in cannibalism?,"  "What purpose did the large Aztec pyramids service, i.e. were they tombs, altars, etc.?," Did the Aztec have social classes?"  "Did the Aztec worship one god or many gods?"  "Where the Aztecs cannibals?"  "Why do some cultures permit human sacrifice, i.e. is there a food shortage oris this purely ritualistic?"  Also use five KEY WORDS correctly (identified by bold type in the Haviland textbook) from reading, such as cannibalism, ritual sacrifice, polytheism, religious syncretism, theocratic state, social classes, etc.  Your argument should contain five to seven major points that support your thesis with evidence.  Use examples and or quotations three lines or longer from the book that you read to illustrate each point, where possible.  After demonstrating that you understand what you read, then write a page that shows that you can use this information by relating it to what you are learning in at least one other class, through reading, or from personal experience.  At the very end of your review you can offer your opinion and state whether you liked or disliked the book and whether you agreed or disagreed with the author and explain why, so that your Navajo students will understand why you hold your views
    This assignment is worth 30% of your total grade. A FIRST DRAFT is due in class for peer review on February 23, 1999. Individual conferences are scheduled for March 22nd through the 26th, 1999. The FINAL PAPER is DUE April 1, 1999 in class.
 
5.   Examinations.  There will be three examinations. The first exam exam is February 11,1999. The second exam is April 15,1999.  Your final examination begins at 8:00 on Monday May 3, 1999.
 
6.  Quizzes.  May be given at any time. One class period in advance notice is customary.
 
7.  Grading.  A letter grade "C" indicates acceptable performance; a grade of "B" indicates excellent performance; and an "A" is reserved for outstanding performance that demonstrates originality and an ability to apply what has been learned in this course to daily life or to other courses.
 
8.  Summary of Grade:
 

a. Class participation	10%
Due dates:  03/02 and 03/04
b. Controversial book review essay	30%
Due dates: 02/23, 3/22 - 3/26,04/01
c. Examinations:
1. First exam 2/11	20%
2. Second exam 04/15	20%
2. Final exam 05/03	20%
TOTAL	100%

 

9. Text used: All students are expected to have their own copies of the following text which are available from the SIUE textbook store and rental center.
a. William A. Haviland.  Anthropology.  Eighth Edition.
b. Aaron Podolefsky and Peter J. Brown.  Applying Anthropology:  An Introductory Reader.  5th
c.  Francis F. Berdan.  The Aztec of Central Mexico:  An Imperial Society.
d.  John Hostetler and Gertrude Enders Hungtington.  The Hutterites in North America.

These books are also available from the SIUE Textbook Rental Center and the SIUE library.