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This course examines Native American, Spanish, 以及公元100年至21世纪美国西南部的盎格鲁艺术和文化. It considers the effects of ethnicity, gender, 社区对地区艺术传统的认同，并将艺术品置于其材料中, religious, political, and economic contexts. Astronomical alignments, water, earth and sky, spirits and saints, 活着的人和他们的祖先——这些都是该地区艺术的主题. 重点放在仔细观察，个人分析和反思，以及合作学习. The course is designed for SMU-in-Taos. Many class days include field trips or interactive projects. Films, readings, 和幻灯片演讲为参观艺术家的工作室奠定了基础, archaeological sites, pueblos, churches, and museums. 动手的艺术项目很简单，不需要以前的艺术经验就能成功. 他们将帮助你理解我们在这门课上学习的艺术作品的技术和美学品质. Watch Course Video

Counts as an Honors course. Focuses on contemporary issues facing the American Southwest, 包括存在于特定群体背景下的社会问题, communities, cultures, and societies. Explores sociological issues relating to the environment, the media, poverty, immigration, food insecurity, education, crime, economic development, and health, among others. 社区参与将使我们能够探索陶斯地区社区面临的主要问题，以及解决这些问题的一些可能的解决方案.

Counts as an Honors course. This interdisciplinary course explores the history of New Mexico, from the pre-contact era to the present. In the first half of the class, 我们将考虑新墨西哥州连续和重叠的人类定居浪潮, from Pueblo Indians, to the Spanish Empire, the Mexican Republic, and the United States, 特别关注土著人民之间的复杂关系, Hispanos, and Anglo-Americans. Then we will turn to a handful of key topics that continue to define the so-called Land of Enchantment even today: religion and spirituality; the natural world (particularly New Mexico’s scarce water resources); and its enduring cultural symbolism as reflected in literature and film.

Counts as an Honors course and a Business Elective. 本课程将向学生展示如何利用基本的营销框架，并将其应用于与社会影响营销相关的细微差别. 在本课程中，“可持续性”一词将涵盖与地球和人类有关的问题.e. 环境问题和社会问题)，众所周知，这些问题在很多时候是相互关联的. In the beautiful natural environment of Taos, New Mexico, 学生将有机会参与4个既有环境使命又有社会使命的组织. After our site visits, 学生可以在课程期间选择他们想要关注的4个组织中的哪一个. Watch Course Video

本课程探讨人类学对理解跨文化的心理现象和心理体验的贡献. 它将研究关于文化相互作用的人类学理论, mind and self in various Western and non-Western societies. Child development, cognition, emotion, morality, altered states, 从跨文化的角度分析“脑科学”与心理健康和疾病. 通过医学和心理人类学的经典和现代作品的全面工作, 我们讨论社会环境——以及在这些环境中坚持的“好”的当地观念——如何影响一个人的日常生活和一个人对自己思想的体验, and with what consequences. 在心理人类学中，具有比较的视角是很重要的, and we will have readings and films from Africa, South America, Oceania, East Asia, South Asia, Europe, and the U.S. As this course is taking place in Taos, 我们将花一些时间关注西南部促进心理健康的传统方式, 包括普韦布洛人的视觉探索和阿帕奇人的青少年启蒙仪式. 该课程还将吸引学生关注该地区面临的一些心理健康挑战, including high rates of opioid abuse, 着眼于药物滥用根植于历史创伤的方式, such as land loss, for Hispanos and Native Americans in the region.

Counts as an Honors course. First, 本课程旨在向你介绍各种各样的宗教传统, communities and practices within the context of globalization. 我们将涵盖的主题包括宗教作为现代性时代的学术主题的兴起, religion as it relates to colonialism and national identities, religious expression in the media and in popular culture, 在全球化和移民的背景下改变宗教习俗和表达方式. 第二，本课程旨在向你介绍宗教学术研究的几种方法. 在整个课程中，我们将探索人们调查宗教历史的方式, practices and people. Finally, 本课程旨在培养学生分析复杂论证的能力和批判性讨论问题的能力, curiously, and civically. Watch Course Video

Counts as an Honors course. 这门跨学科的体验式课程探讨了西南地区食物和身份的交叉点. Through literary and scholarly texts, film, fine arts, pop culture, and experiences, students explore topics such as heritage and tradition, cultural contact and exchange, conquest, resistance and revolution, issues of gender, 以及对所谓的“美国西南部”的现代性和变化的反应.” Examines how technology (including agriculture, cooking technology, commercial farming, global trade networks, and social media) impacts the production, consumption, distribution, dynamics of power, and systems of meaning of food and eating in this region. Watch Course Video

Counts as an Honors course. 本课程以“谁是美国人”为主题，通过跨学科的视角考察美国历史的年表. Students learn about important moments in American history, specifically in New Mexico and the Southwest. They begin to understand the basic chronology of the country, 以及这个国家一些最具创造力和探索精神的人是如何理解和经历重大事件的. “谁是美国人”的主题是对几十年来美国居民的人权在何时何地受到尊重或不受尊重的重要检验. Open to all students. Watch Course Video