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3.00 Credits
Please see departmental website for detailed information. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester Spring Semester
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Sources, range, and maintenance of human biological variation, using case studies of populations from throughout the Western hemisphere. Impact of changing fertility and mortality; biological effects of social and geographic isolation; inbreeding analyses; relations of assimilation to admixture, problems in correlating ethnicity, race, and appearance; ethnic differences in disease risk. Prerequisites Anthropology 20 or one biology course. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Natural Sciences
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3.00 Credits
Interplay of the act of eating with its biological and cultural correlates. Topics include subsistence strategies, sex differentials in food intake, and the nutritional impact of modernization; hunger and malnutrition in the developing world; historical and symbolic attributes of food, including taboo, valences, and national cuisines; and the relation of normal and abnormal eating behavior to gender and cultural norms of attractiveness. Prerequisites One lower-level anthropology course or permission of instructor. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: Second Summer Semester
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(Cross-listed as Archaeology 128.) An introduction to the archaeology of pre-Columbian cultures of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. Focus is on the origins of village life, the development of social complexity, emergence of states, ritual, religion, and culture collapse. Cultures studied include the Olmec, the Maya, the Zapotec, and the Aztec through artifacts, architecture, murals, inscribed monuments, hieroglyphs, and codices. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course meets the following culture options: Hispanic Culture Native American Culture This course is offered during the following semesters: Spring Semester
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3.00 Credits
The development of anthropological thought in American, British, and French schools of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Historical, evolutionary, materialist, functionalist, structuralist, and symbolic perspectives. Prerequisites One introductory anthropology course or permission of the instructor. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester
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3.00 Credits
Mid-level course exploring how religious practice and identities are shaped in specific histories, localities, and diasporas in two or more non-western world civilizations. Topics include theories of religion, "religious" ideas and practices among peoples who do not use Western concepts of "religion" or "belief," politics of religious experience, and religion in the construction of personhood, communities, and ethnic, national, and diasporic identitPrerequisites Sophomore standing or permission of instructor. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course meets the World Civilization Requirement
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(Cross-listed as Religion 134.) Various approaches to myth, ritual, and symbol including functionalist, structuralist, and psychological. Topics include dreams, landscape shamanism, and fairy tales, along with issues of performance, representation, authenticity, and history. Prerequisites Sophomore standing. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Humanities Social Sciences This course meets the World Civilization Requirement This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester
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3.00 Credits
Development of visual anthropology from early travel documentary forms to more recent multivocal works on video. Relationship between written and visual documents. Viewing classic ethnographic films as well as contemporary films that challenge the classic genre of ethnographic films. Special attention to ethical issues in visual anthropology. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: First Summer Semester
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3.00 Credits
Mid-level exploration of social dynamics of interpersonal communication and interaction between language and culture. Examination of linguistic theories, structuralist and semiotic approaches, and discourse analysis. Topics may include gender, ethnicity, race, bilingualism, language acquisition, oral narrative and testimony, organization of informal speech communication, and impact of language on other areas of Anthropology. May include a fieldwork-based project on language use. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: First Summer Semester
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of how people and states repair lives, rebuild social communities, establish accountability, and promote justice and redness after mass violence and atrocities. Examination of transitional justice mechanisma ( truth commissions, tribunals, reparations, apologies) and local practices of redress and reconciliation from an anthropological perspective. Students communicate with and conduct research for the transitional justice organizations and programs in Africa and Asia. Course includes lectures, visits, oral presentations, research projects, web-based discussions, films. Prerequisites One sociocultural anthropology course or permission of instructor. This course meets the following distribution requirements: Please note: If more than one distribution area is listed, the course can be used to satisfy ONE area only. Social Sciences This course is offered during the following semesters: Fall Semester
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