Achievements and Plans for DDP Department of Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology AUCA

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Achievements and Plans for DDPDepartment of
Cultural Anthropology and ArchaeologyAUCA
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I Achievements 2005/06

• Curriculum revision
• Teaching
• Capacity building
• Outreach and recruitment

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Curriculum redesign

• courses and curriculum are being expanded and
  deepened in anthropological content
• improving the clarity, consistency and coherence
  of the requirements for the major and the
  systematic presentation of topics to students
• Creating an anthropology minor curriculum

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Teaching

• Aigerim Dyikanbaeva Introduction to
  Anthropology, Anthropology of Religion,
  Introduction to Anthropological Theory, and
  Folklore of Central Asia
• Nathan Light Contemporary Anthropological
  Thought, Political Anthropology, Gender, Field
  Research Methods, and Anthropology of East Asia

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Capacity Building

• Malika Masimova is being prepared to teach
  Anthropology of Gender and Economic and
  Anthropology
• Two other candidates for RS positions

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External Connections

• Internship development through NGO contacts
• Research and cooperative efforts with local NGOs
  (Aigine, Bashat-CBF)
• Colleagues from the region and abroad
• Potential ethnographic exchange program
• Work at Kansas University on archiving Kyrgyzstan
  field materials

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Recruitment and public awareness

• Brochure
• Interviews
• Presentations to incoming students
• Festival and conference
• AFP position opportunity advertising drew many
  additional applicants (H-NET, CESS)

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Department Activities

• Anthropology club and film series
• Fieldwork and excursions for students

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II Plans for AFP renewal 2006/7

• hire young and promising returning scholars with
  Western University diplomas
• attract international scholars to bring new
  teaching materials and methodologies, share their
  expertise and train faculty
• Expand network of NGOs that can provide
  internships for students

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Objectives

• Integrate capacity building and program
  development
• Teach new courses and expand the revised
  curriculum get approval of minor
• Develop potential as a base for foreign students
  and researchers to pursue coursework and carry
  out projects
• Develop ongoing field school
• Promote students further study of anthropology
• Connect with programs to promote student
  research and scholarship opportunities.

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RS Teaching

• Malika Masimova Anthropology of Economics,
  Migration and Globalization Critical Skills
  Anthropology of Kinship, Gender and Sexuality
• Another candidate Applied Anthropology Peoples
  and Cultures of Europe

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Areas for expanded training and internship
opportunities

• Applied anthropology that will be useful to NGOs
  and governmental organizations
• Find opportunities for exchange with foreign
  institutions that specialize in these areas

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Capacity building

• Analyzing potential relations and connections to
  programs and societies abroad curriculum,
  materials, faculty and students exchanges
• Expand contacts abroad for collegial networks to
  improve department resources
• Train the faculty and local community
  organizations in ethnographic methods
• Expand awareness of new disciplinary issues and
  approaches research methods and goals

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Continuity and communications

• Improved communication among stakeholders and
  participants
• Integrating the priorities and policies of the
  university, department, AFP, and other
  stakeholders in the process
• Seek a resource fellow who understands how to
  balance established programs and international
  considerations and possibilities.
• Goals feasible, consistent and ongoing

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Long term development and AUCA plans

• Departmental internationalization
• Field school
• Research base
• Exchanges
• Curriculum revision
• Expanded contacts with programs abroad for
  placement for recruitment for resources
• Promoting research and intellectual inquiry
• Improved professional opportunities, practical
  study and student motivation through internships