|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
Discussion-driven course focusing on the development of theoretical approaches to the understanding of human culture, behavior and practice. Students will also learn how, with the passing of time, successive generations of anthropologists rejected, built upon, or modifed the endeavors of their predecessors. Recent theoretical trends and the nature of anthropological writing will be examined. This course fulfills the Writing Intensive requirement for the Anthropology major.
-
3.00 Credits
People look different from each other. Can we be classified into races or do we follow some other pattern of variation? This provocative course will examine the role of heredity and environment in determining the world distribution of human biological traits. Students will study the adaptive significance of skin/hair/eye color, facial features, blood groups, body proportions, and other features. This course will also address the history of race biology studies and the far-reaching social and political motivation and implications of these early works. (B)
-
3.00 Credits
Is greed simply a part of human nature? do all humans simply have endless wnats and desires for material goods? More than a century ago anthropologists began questioning assumptions of classical Western economics, and began to show that societies have diverse values as people pursue wealth and the good life. The course design gives students insights into the variety of economic systems by tapping into ethnographic literature that has overtuned mainstream economic wisdom. Take a look at economics from a fresh and intriguing micro-level perspective that incorportates many other aspects of cultural life, including marriage and ecology. (C)
-
3.00 Credits
This class that will take the student on a tour of some of the world's most fascinating institutions, and teach the history and theory behind their development. The course will also focus on many of the activities that take place in museums that make them such a valuable asset to the scientific and educational communities. (C)
-
3.00 Credits
Anthropologists and historians research behaviors, origins, and traditions of human association with a variety of foodstuffs and foodways. We do so all in an effort to answer the "when", "how", and "why" questions connected to particular foods and the contexts in which eating them became appropriate and sought after. In this course we explore eating, foodstuffs, and cookery from nutritional, artistic, sensual, political, socioeconomic, and popular perspectives, among others. Students also explore Chicago's world cuisines by dining in and out in a variety of symposia, combining good eating and good thinking. (C)
-
3.00 Credits
Do all Muslims practice their faith in the same way? is there really only one type of Muslim society? Based on consideration of major Islamic beliefs, the history of Islamic expansion and civilization, and the cultures of contemporary Muslim societies, the thesis of this course is that there are numerous cultural approaches to Islam. Students learn by reading within and outside of anthropology to better inform themselves of contemporary issues and understandings of the dynamism that characterizes Islamic cultures. (C)
-
3.00 Credits
Mesoamerican peoples of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador can claim a heritage that reaches into antiquity. This course examines the beliefs and practices of the cultures of Mesoamerica from thePrehispanic past into the 21st century, including events that have eliminated, modified, or introduced new elements to Mesoamerican cultures and transformed their peoples. An element of this course includes how peoples originating from Mesoamerica may or may not maintain continuities after relocating to the United States. This course serves as an elective for the Mexican/Caribbean Studies minor. (A or C)
-
3.00 Credits
The primate lineage is over 50 million years old and exhibits some of the most striking anatomical adaptations found among mammals. This course will explore the adaptations that distinguish primates from all other mammals and will specifically focus on how different primate species have adapted to diverse habitats all over the world, including dense tropical jungle, secondary forests, harsh mountainous regions, open savanna, and flooded forests. We will examine the current theories of primate origins and explore details of diet and foraging, anti-predator strategies, locomotion and posture, reproduction, activity patterns, communication, and sexual selection primate in nonhuman primates. (B)
-
4.00 Credits
Forensic anthropologists have the task of determining the identity of human reamins. This lectur/lab course investigates the wealth of information that can be gleaned from the human skeleton and its elements. The laboratory section will cover stages of bone growth and remodeling, the identification of whole, fragmentary, and burned bones and teethm and the identification of human vs. nonhuman remains. The classroom sectioin will focus on methods of forensic analysis including the determination of age, sex, ancestry, and fingerprint analysis, decomposition variables and rates, and the diagnosis of pathology and trauma. (B)
-
3.00 Credits
This is an exciting and in-depth exploration of ancient Maya society form its origins to Spainsh contact. The course reviews chronologies, geography, and time periods used by Mayanists to help understand larger trends in Maya society. You will also evaluate issues and debates that currently exist within Maya studies. These include questions of economy, politics, social organization, religion, and ideology. Finally, the decipherment of the Maya script is examined. You will have the opportunity to critically examine a specific topic during the semester. (A)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|