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ANTH Anthropology( Behavioral and Social Sciences) ANTH220 Introduction to Biological Anthropology; (4 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Life Science Lab (LL) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course.Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ANTH101 or ANTH220. Formerly ANTH 101. Human biological evolution, including the biology of contemporary human groups, non-human primate social behavior, and the fossil, biochemical, and molecular evidence for human evolution. Includes a laboratory study of human population genetics, biochemical variation, and anatomical diversity in modern and fossil human and non-human primate groups. Students must pay a $30 Lab Materials Fee. ANTH240 Introduction to Archaeology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Behavioral and Social Science (SB) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ANTH240 or ANTH241. Formerly ANTH 241. Exploration of the variety of past human societies and cultures through archaeology, from the emergence of anatomically modern humans to the more recent historical past. ANTH260 Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology and Linguistics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Behavioral and Social Science (SB) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ANTH102 or ANTH260. Formerly ANTH 102. Culture and social relationships in a wide variety of settings from small-scale to complex societies. An overview of how anthropology analyzes human behavior. Particular attention to the relationship between language and culture. ANTH320 Method and Theory in Biological Anthropology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F. Prerequisite: ANTH220 or permission of department. Not open to students who have completed ANTH425 or ANTH625. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ANTH320, ANTH425, or ANTH625. Theoretical and methodological overview of biological anthropology, including evolutionary anthropology, anthropological genetics, physiological anthropology, human biology, primatology, paleoanthropology, human biodiversity, and comtemporary selective challenges to modern humanity. Emphasis on core concepts and their research applications. ANTH358A (PermReq) Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant in Archaeology; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. ANTH358B (PermReq) Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant in Bio-Anthropology; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. ANTH358C (PermReq) Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant in Cultural Anthropology; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. ANTH363 Native Cultures of Mesoamerica; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ANTH363 or ANTH368M. Formerly ANTH 368M. Examination of the various indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere with a focus on the influence and effect of European contact on these cultural systems. Discussion of the cultural and social contrasts and complexities shared by the people in this region on local, regional, and national levels. ANTH366 Film Images of Native Americans; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Formerly ANTH 368F. An examination of how indigenous people of the New World have been presented to film audiences of the world. Development of an ethnographic understanding of Native Americans via the use of videos, films, and classroom discussion. ANTH368I (PermReq) Regional Ethnography: Peacebuilding, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, and International Development; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as GVPT354. ANTH386 (PermReq) Experiential Learning; (1-6 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. Prerequisite: permission of department. Recommended: completion of advanced courses in relevant subfield of anthropology. Junior standing. For ANTH majors only. ANTH398A (PermReq) Independent Study: Research Problems; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. ANTH398R (PermReq) Independent Study: Proseminar-Capstone Research; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Required course for ANTH students undertaking capstone research and/or thesis (must be taken concurrently with ANTH 476, ANTH 477, ANTH 486, ANTH 487). ANTH398T (PermReq) Independent Study: Proseminar-Capstone Thesis Writing; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. ANTH410 Theory and Practice of Health and Community Development; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Junior standing. Also offered as ANTH610. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ANTH410 or ANTH610. Introduction to the relationships between culture, health status and practices, and the design of community-based initiatives. The focus is on the use of anthropological knowledge and skills in the analysis of such relationships and in the design of community-based initiatives. Also offered as ANTH610. ANTH428Z Special Topics in Bioanthropology: Anthropology of Disease; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as ANTH689Z. ANTH440 Theory and Practice of Historical Archaeology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: ANTH240. Also offered as ANTH640. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ANTH440 or ANTH640. Historical archaeology enhances cultural heritage by providing voice for groups who were often unable to record their own histories, such as women, laborers, working class families, and enslaved people. The course provides insight into issues related to race, gender, and ethnicity as they relate to multicultural histories. Also offered as ANTH640. ANTH448Q Special Topics in Archaeology: The Archaeology of Modern Cities; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: ANTH240. Also offered as: ANTH689Q. ANTH448V Special Topics in Archaeology: Public Archaeology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as ANTH642. Click here for further course information ANTH450 Theory and Practice of Environmental Anthropology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Junior standing. Also offered as ANTH650. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ANTH450 or ANTH650. An overview of contemporary application of cultural theory and methods to environmental problems. Topics include the use of theories of culture, cognitive approaches, discourse analysis, and political ecology. Case studies from anthropology, other social sciences, humanities, conservation, and environmental history are used to demonstrate the applied value of a cultural-environmental approach. Also offered as ANTH650. ANTH468K Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology: Race and Ethnicity in Brazil: A Social History; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as LASC448F. ANTH468L Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology: Medical Anthropology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. ANTH468M (PermReq) Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology: Applied Urban Ethnography 2: Research Design, Instrument and Training Modular Development, and Fieldwork; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisites: permission of department and students must have completed 60 credits. Focuses on the development of tools used in: (1) carrying out ethnographic research to inform the design, implementation, and evaluation of community based health and social initiatives; and (2) training others in the use of these tools. Ethnographic field exercises are also carried out to test these tools.For more information, please contact the ANTH department. ANTH468P Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology: Kinship and Social Organizations; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Cross-cultural study of customary social phenomena, as encountered through ethnographic inquiry. Attention on a wide sample of social behaviors and social structures, including those charateristic of complex, state-level socio-cultural systems. It will employ methods and insights deriving from historical data, as well as from those resulting from a wide range of intensive ethnographic inquiries. Also offered as ANTH688P. ANTH468X Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology: New Social Movements in Latin America; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. ANTH470 History and Philosophy of Anthropological Inquiry; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: ANTH220 or ANTH240 or ANTH260. Recommended: ANTH320 or ANTH340 or ANTH360 or ANTH380. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ANTH470 or ANTH397. Formerly ANTH 397. Important philosophical and historical aspects of anthropological theorizing. Attention will be given on the Ontological and Epistemological (the latter including Methodological) assumptions of the major camps and paradigms in anthropology over the past one hundred or so years, especially the last three decades. A focus on developments in cultural anthropology, while addressing the other subfields of anthropology. ANTH476 (PermReq) Senior Research; (3-4 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. For ANTH majors only. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ANTH476 or ANTH486. Capstone course in which students pursue independent research into a current problem in anthropology, selected with assistance of a committee of faculty. Research leads to the writing of a senior thesis in anthropology. ANTH477 (PermReq) Senior Thesis; (3-4 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. Prerequisite: ANTH476; permission of department. For ANTH majors only. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ANTH477 or ANTH487. Capstone course in which students write a senior thesis on independent research into a current problem in anthropology. The thesis is defined before a committee of faculty. ANTH486 (PermReq) Honors Research; (3-4 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. Prerequisites: permission of department; admission to University Honors Program or Anthropology Honors Program. For ANTH majors only. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ANTH486 or ANTH476. Capstone course in which students pursue independent research into a current problem in anthropology, selected with assistance of a committee of faculty. Research leads to the writing of an honors thesis in anthropology. ANTH487 (PermReq) Honors Thesis; (3-4 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. Prerequisites: ANTH486; permission of department; admission to University Honors Program or Anthropology Honors Program. For ANTH majors only. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ANTH487 or ANTH477. Capstone course in which students write a thesis on the results of independent research into a current problem in anthropology. ANTH498N Advanced Field Training in Ethnography: Ethnology of the Immigrant Life; (4 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. ANTH601 Applied Anthropology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. An overview of the history and current practices of applied anthropology. This includes relationships between applied anthropology and other major subfields of the profession; the interdisciplinary and public context of applied anthropology; and problems of significance, utility, and ethics associated with applied anthropology. Offered fall only. ANTH606 Qualitative Methods in Applied Anthropology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. An introduction to the use of ethnography and qualitative methods in applied and policy contexts. Qualitative methods discussed include informal and systematic approaches. Students undertake fieldwork in local settings to practice the qualitative methods and to develop analysis and report writing skills. Offered fall only. ANTH610 Advanced Studies in Theory and Practive of Health and Community Development; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Also offered as ANTH 410. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ANTH 610 or ANTH 410. Introduction to the relationships between culture, health status and practices, and the design of community-based initiatives. The focus is on the use of anthropological knowledge and skills in the analysis of such relationships and in the design of community-based initiatives. Also offered as ANTH410. ANTH616 Ethnographic Evaluation of Community-Based Initiatives; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ANTH616 or ANTH689E. Explores the use of ethnographic methods in the evaluation of community-based initiatives. Focuses on the roles of sub-cultural groups (sponsors, project personnel, target communities, evaluators, etc.) in the design, implementation, and evaluation of community-based initiatives, and the roles that anthropology and ethnography can play in such initiatives. Click here for more ANTH course information. ANTH640 Advanced Studies in Theory and Practice of Historical Archaeology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Also offered as ANTH 440. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ANTH 440 or ANTH 640. Historical archaeology enhances cultural heritage by providing voice for groups who were often unable to record their oun histories, such as women, laborers, working class families, and enslaved people. The course provides insight into issues related to race, gender, and ethnicity as they relate to multicultural histories. Also offered as ANTH440. ANTH642 Public Archaeology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Explores the uses and environments for archaeological work through a discussion of museum, electronic media, heritage settings, outdoor history museums, including the legal environment that offers protection for archaeological remains. The course exposes advanced graduate students to the majority of the cultural media within which archaeology is currently practiced. The interdisciplinary coure is a survey of the progress made within and beyond anthropology in understanding the function of heritage, public memory, tourism, and the other popular usesof material from the past, including the progress made in linguistics and psychology, and other cognitive disciplines in understanding the purpose of the past. Also offered as ANTH448V. ANTH650 Advanced Studies in Theory and Practice of Environmental Anthropology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Also offered as ANTH 450. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ANTH 450 or ANTH 650. An overview of contemporary application of cultural theory and methods to environmental problems. Topics include the use of theories of culture, cognitive approaches, discourse analysis, and political ecology. Case studies from anthropology, other social sciences, humanities, conservation, and environmental history are used to demonstrate the applied value of a cultural-environmental approach. Also offered as ANTH450. ANTH670 Current Developments in Anthropological Theory; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. A review of major contributions to anthropological theory, with a special emphasis on the relationship between practice and theory. Includes use of concept of culture in the four traditional subfields, fieldwork and grounded theory, and significant advances in general theory, symbolic anthropology, critical theory, and postmodernism. ANTH688A (PermReq) Current Developments in Anthropology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. ANTH688L Current Developments in Anthropology: Medical Anthropology; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. ANTH688P Current Developments in Anthropology: Kinship and Social Organizations; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Also offered ANTH468P. ANTH688X Current Developments in Anthropology: New Social Movements in Latin America; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. ANTH689A (PermReq) Special Problems in Anthropology; (1-6 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. ANTH689N Special Problems in Anthropology: Ethnology of the Immigrant Life; (4 credits) Grade Method: REG/S-F. ANTH689Q Special Problems in Anthropology: Modern World Archaeology of Cities; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/S-F. ANTH689V Special Problems in Anthropology: Applied Urban Ethnography 2: Research Design, Instrument and Training Modular Development, and Fieldwork; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/S-F. Focuses on the development of tools used in: (1) carrying out ethnographic reserach to inform the design, implementation, and evaluation of community based health and social initiatives; and (2) training other inthe use of these tools. Ethnographic field exercises are also carried out to test these tools. For more information please contact the ANTH department. ANTH689Z Special Problems in Anthropology: Anthropology of Disease; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/S-F. ANTH712 (PermReq) Anthropology Internship Analysis; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. Prerequisite: ANTH789. The preparation and presentation of internship results, and the development of skills in report writing and presentation. Includes the completion of a professional quality report or publishable paper based on the internship experience. ANTH788 (PermReq) Internship Research; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. ANTH789 (PermReq) Internship; (3-6 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
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