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ANTH 248: Peoples/World: Latin America
3.00 Credits
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Holistic survey of cultures of Latin America from pre-Columbian times to present. Processes of cultural change (including revolution), ethnic group relations, and functioning of contemporary societies.
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ANTH 251: Islam in N Africa: Hist/Cult
3.00 Credits
University of Alabama at Birmingham
This anthropology course is an introduction to the geographical and historical factors making up for the social unity and diversity of three countries of the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia). Topics covered are: The Arab conquest and Islamization of North Africa; Ibn Khaldoun and the tribal Kinship systems of North Africa; the French colonization of North Africa; the Wars of independence; the postcolonial politics of Arabization and the Amazigh question; the current etonography of the Maghreb; women s emanicipation; male and female rituals and honor codes; the secular and religious movements of the contemporary Maghreb; popular and formal Islam, etc.
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ANTH 262: Mythbusters! Arch hoaxes, doc
3.00 Credits
University of Alabama at Birmingham
This course will provide an in depth examination of a number of known and not-so-well known archaeological hoaxes throughout history, allowing the class to explore the myriad of social, legal, and economic pressures which precipitated such discoveries. The course will explore subjects like the shoroud of Turin, Atlantis, the Jesus Tomb, and the curse surrounding the discovery of King Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922. As part of the course, students will watch and evaluate a number of documentaries for the "truth" behind the story, and will follow ongoing media coverage of major archaeological discoveries.
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ANTH 285: Mapping Our World
3.00 Credits
University of Alabama at Birmingham
This course will focus on the historical applications of mapping and map-making. It will provide a background to geometric mapping and Geography using aerial photography, satellite remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and historical maps and related datasets. Students will be taught the importance of maps to a wide range of fields from a number of academic specialists. This will include the physical sciences (NASA atmospheric applications), biological sciences (environmental mapping), social sciences (crime mapping and archaeological mapping), health sciences (disease mapping), and humanities (religious mapping). Students will work in UAB labs and in broader Birmingham on learning ArcGIS and mapmaking skills, and will submit an e-Portfolio by the end of the semester. This course fulfills the QEP requirements in Quantitative Literacy (QL).
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ANTH 290: Study Abroad: Mexico
3.00 Credits
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Orientation to and popular culture in Chilapa; Mexican history and ethnology, regional history and ethnology, and local economy and human ecology.
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ANTH 292: Anthropology of Slavery
3.00 Credits
University of Alabama at Birmingham
This course is a mixed format including, lectures, student projects, and fieldwork at the Tannehill State Park slave quarters. The class will provide a broad cross-cultural perspective on different types of slavery that have existed across the globe (Americas, Africa, the Near East, Oceania) and examine slavery in the American South, especially Alabama. Issues of race, hierarchy, ethnicity, political, economy, religion, ideology, and social relations will be discussed.
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ANTH 299: Contemporary Global Issues
3.00 Credits
University of Alabama at Birmingham
This course explores anthropological perspectives, applications, and contributions to solving to contemporary world problems including: terrorism, warfare, genocide; global warming and sustainable development; global epidemic disease and new pandemics; torture and human rights abuses; global capitalism, sweatshops, and economic justice; poverty and hunger; illiteracy; child labor and child soldiers; and human population explosion.
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ANTH 303: The Conquest of Mexico
3.00 Credits
University of Alabama at Birmingham
This course examines the Spanish conquest of Mexico from both Spanish and indigenous perspectives. It further surveys the institutionalization of Spanish control over the fallen Aztec Empire and the broader intellectual and material consequences of the conquest.
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ANTH 304: Looking at Earth
3.00 Credits
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Maps as analytic tools in social, behavioral, and applied sciences. Theory and methods of cartographic representation, aerial and satellite image analysis, and geographic information systems. Principles, practical training in computer methods, and case studies from different regions of the earth. Prerequisite: Basic computer course and introductory course in social science.
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ANTH 305: World Prehistory
3.00 Credits
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Main events in evolution of culture from earliest times until advent of cities. Emergence of culture, development of food production, and appearance of states.
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