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"The greatest single contribution a university can make to a student is an awakening to the diversity of possibilities in the world, and you simply can't study anthropology without expanding your horizons" (Kurt Schweigert, UND Anthropology Grad, '74).
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Our Mission
Anthropology is the study of human life, including its cultures, behaviors, and biology in the past and present. The Department of Anthropology’s mission is to provide students with theoretical and methodological training in anthropology, preparing them to skillfully practice and apply the scientific and humanistic perspectives unique to our discipline. Students will receive a strong academic foundation in the broad sub-fields of anthropology (cultural anthropology, archaeology, and physical/biological anthropology).
After joining our program, students can expect to reflect on their world view(s) and their relationships to others as they enter an increasingly complex and diversified world.
Our program prepares students for graduate study and/or entrance into the global market place where they will understand the importance of and apply holistic, integrative, and comparative anthropological approaches in their careers and everyday lives. |
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Global Visions |
The Global Visions Film Series continues its 6th year at UND this fall, further exploring the themes of human rights, human dignity, and cultural variation. The Global Vision Film Series (GVFS) is a forum that promotes diversity in North Dakota through screening award winning national and international films. The GVFS is sponsored by the students of the Anthropology Club in the Department of Anthropology, and is partially funded by the Multicultural Awareness Committee. Their goal is to provide the university and the Grand Forks community with the opportunity to experience films of exceptional quality from around the world, providing a broader understanding of and appreciation for the breadth, variety, and commonality of the human family. Many faculty across disciplines assign GV films as extra credit assignments for students.
Six foreign films will be screened this fall. All films begin at 7 p.m. on alternating Tuesday’s between September 28th and December 1st. |
Next Upcoming Film: |
Sangre de Mi Sangre
Showing on: 11/17/2009
The most chilling image in “Sangre de Mi Sangre,” Christopher Zalla’s grim, incompletely realized story of identity theft and betrayal among illegal Mexican immigrants in the shabbier streets of Brooklyn, shows 17-year-old Pedro (Jorge Adrian Espindola) moments after he is booted from the truck that has smuggled him from Puebla to New York City. Winner of the 2007 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, the film brings home what it’s like to be in illegally in another country. Penniless, speaking no English, robbed of his backpack, he has only the supposed address of his father, Diego (Jesus Ochoa), whom he has never met. As he cowers, dazed and shivering in the truck depot, the lights of Manhattan’s skyscrapers glitter behind him like icy jack-o’-lantern teeth. “Sangre de Mi Sangre” which won the grand jury prize at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, is the directorial debut of Mr. Zalla, a Kenyan-born, Spanish-speaking New Yorker who studied film at Columbia University. Stephen Holden, The New York Times, May 16, 2008
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Additional films on the following dates will also be screened: |
- Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)
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09/28/2009 |
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- Let the Right One In (2008)
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10/06/2009 |
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10/20/2009 |
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
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11/03/2009 |
- Sangre di Mi Sangre (2008)
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11/17/2009 |
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12/01/2009 |
All films are shown in the Lecture Bowl, located on the second floor of the Memorial Union on the campus of the University of North Dakota. The series, free and open to the public. A suggested donation of $1.00 is encouraged, but not required. For further information call 701-777-4718. |
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