Noel B. Salazar - Teaching experience

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• Anthropology of tourism and travel (available upon request)
• Anthropology of globalization (being updated)
• Introduction to socio-cultural anthropology (in progress)
• Anthropology and popular culture (in progress)

Teaching philosophy

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Spring 2007

Anthropology of tourism - Africa

PROTS (Professional Tour Guide School), Arusha, Tanzania

Guest lecturer

Spring 2006

Anthropology of tourism - Asia

AMPTA (Tourism School of Higher Learning), Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Guest lecturer

Fall 2005

This course focuses on people and communities of sub-Saharan Africa and on the ways people represent, reflect on, and react to various aspects and issues in their lives and the institutions which dominate their communities. Its main focus is on the history, contemporary expression, and inter-relationships among politics, religion, and aesthetic practice. As guest lecturers, members of Penn's African Studies community share their expertise with the class and introduce the University's Africa resources. Texts consist of weekly readings, films, and recordings; and class members are expected to attend several lectures outside of class.

Spring 2005

Public interest anthropology (ANTH 416/AFRC 416/WSTD 416)

Lecturer: Dr. Peggy Sanday (Anthropology)

Teaching Assistant

Because of its four-field, holistic approach anthropology is uniquely equipped to address a wide range of public and community service issues such as health, teen pregnancy, sexuality, domestic violence, ebonics, race, repatriation, and cultural heritage. Because of its emphasis on participant observation and seeing things from "the other's" point of view, anthropological methods are helpful to all professionals working in the U.S. public sphere, be it government, law, education, or health fields. This course introduces the student to public service issues, from the perspective of selected Penn anthropology faculty. Lectures will be given by faculty representing the four fields. With the course coordinator, students will be encouraged to pursue several public interest issues of their choice.

Fall 2004

Introduction to cultural anthropology (ANTH 002)

Lecturer: Dr. Greg Urban (Anthropology)

Teaching Assistant

This course introduces students to the concept of culture, the fundamental concept of anthropology, and a key focus of current debates about "multiculturalism." This course draws upon contemporary social issues, but emphasizes a solid grounding in classical anthropological theory. We shall be concerned especially with the range of variability in cultures around the world, and with the influence of culture on behavior, perception, and thought. A special feature of this class is its focus on the relationship of culture to the modern corporation, including processes of globalization.

Globalization in historical perspective (COLL 001)

Lecturers: Dr. Brian Spooner (Anthropology), Dr. Lee Cassanelli (History), Dr. Mauro Guillén (Management)

Discussion leader (CWiC course)

Globalization is one of the most comprehensive topics of our time - it affects almost everything in the modern world. It is also one of the most controversial. Everyone has something to say about it. Many wildly differing views have been published. By studying it in a course we are able to use a broad range of current information as a means of introducing the methods and concepts of social science, as well as disciplined thinking not only about the modern world in general but about day-to-day events as they occur in the course of the semester.

Writing multiculturalism (ANTH 146/WSTD 146)

Lecturer: Dr. Peggy Sanday (Anthropology)

Critical Writing in the Discipline Fellow (CWiD course)

Diversity is a fact of life, characteristic not only of the US national culture but of the global culture as well. This course introduces anthropological theories of culture and multiculturalism and the method of ethnography. Students will read and report on selected classic readings. After learning the basic concepts, students will be introduced to the method of ethnography. The core of the course will revolve around "doing ethnography" by writing ethnographic field notes on participant/observation of multiculturalism. Students can use their life experience, home communities, or Penn as their field of observation. The goal of the course is to introduce beginning students to public interest anthropology. No background in anthropology is required.

Summer 2004

PROTS (Professional Tour Guide School), Arusha, Tanzania

Guest lecturer

Spring 2004

This course concentrates on popular culture in sub-Saharan Africa . It examines the way people reflect on and represent various aspects and issues in their daily lives, in public media, and through a diverse range of performative and creative outlets. It explores the way cultural traditions are created, promulgated, and perpetuated. It looks at the way popular culture deals with pleasure and pain; identity, difference, and diversity; wealth and power; modernity and history; gender relations; suppression, resistance, and violence; and local versus global processes. In short, popular culture serves as a window through which to observe contemporary life. In the process notions of culture - high, low, folk, elite, mass, popular - and various manifestations of cultural practice and meaning are explored. Texts consists of weekly readings, films, and recordings.