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ANTH 250: Latin American Archaeology
3.00 Credits
Northeastern Illinois University
Interested in the roots of Latin American culture? This course provides an introduction to ancient indigenous civilizations that rose in three different geographic regions of Latin America: The Maya of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico; the Mexica or Aztec of the Central Mexican Highlands; and the Inka of the Andes Mountains of Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador. The dramatic impact of Spanish contact and onquest on native populations will also be covered. This course is broadly comparative and relies heavily on visual media to convey essence of prehistory and early history of Latin American civilization. (A)
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ANTH 252: North American Archaeology
3.00 Credits
Northeastern Illinois University
Prehistory of Native Americans (American Indians) in the United State and Canada, evolution of their cultures from the Ice Age to the seventeenth Century A.D. through examination of their artifacts. Extensive use is made of visual materials to illustrate cultural development. (A)
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ANTH 261: Biology Of Behavior
3.00 Credits
Northeastern Illinois University
Why do we act the way we do? Are we at the mercy of our genes or does environment shape our behavior? This engaging course looks at the nature/nurture debate and will evaluqte claims of the biological basis of behavior. Topics discussed include: communication and the origins of language, hormonal and genetic influences on behavior, sociobiology and the evolution of behavior, possible universals of human nature, and the use and misuse of biology to justify or condemm human behavior. Special emphasis on critical review of popular media claims of the biological basis of behavior. (B)
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ANTH 306: The Rise Of Complex Societies: The Archaeology Of State Formation And Urbanization
3.00 Credits
Northeastern Illinois University
This course provides an in-depth, comparative exploration of the emergence of social hierarchy and centralized political formations in the Old and New Worlds. Students will become familiar with the political institutions, economic structures, and religious traditions of the world's earliest "civilizations" in the Americas, the Near East and China while probing anthropological theories on the rise of cities and states. Students will develop an understanding of the varied factors which drove parallel or divergent forms of social complexity and will partake in arcaeological problem-soling involving both method and theory. (A or C)
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ANTH 307: Anthropology Of Gender, Sexuality And The Body
3.00 Credits
Northeastern Illinois University
The course introduces students to approaches to gender in cultural anthropology, focusing especially on the body as the site where these historically and culturally specific notions of difference and indentity are realized. Course materials address a variety of gendered bodily experiences cross-culturally and investigate the ways they are implicated in notions of masculinity and femininity. Course topics include initiation practices and other means of attributing sex/gender identities; reproduction and fertility control; beauty and body image; health and illness; warfare and violence; and sexuality and sexual orientation. (C)
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ANTH 309: Egyptian Archaeology
3.00 Credits
Northeastern Illinois University
The study fo ancient Egyptian society and culture, traced from the late Predynastic through the New Kingdom periods with emphasis on the archaeological evidence: settlement patterns, monuments and other artifacts in their spatial and tempral contexts. Slides and other illustrative mateiral are used extensively. (A)
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ANTH 310: Middle Eastern Archaeology
3.00 Credits
Northeastern Illinois University
Study of ancient cultures on the Middle East, emphasizing Greater Mesopotamia, the region of the Tigirs-Euphrates River drainage, from prehistoric times to the fifth century B.C.; artifacts, monuments, and settlement patterns of ancient Mesopotamian societies. Slides and other illustrative materials are used extensively. (A)
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ANTH 313: Witchcraft And Sorcery
3.00 Credits
Northeastern Illinois University
Study of some of the supernatural explanations of evil with major empahsis on the description of the various forms of these beliefs and the reasons, both conscious and unconscious, for these beliefs. Examples are drawn from the non-Western world, medieval through seventeenth century Europe and Old and New England.
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ANTH 314: Anthropology Of Religion
3.00 Credits
Northeastern Illinois University
Study of the ways that religions, both past and present, act to support or alter the social systems or sub-systems with which they are associated. the ways that individuals respond to the value systems and world views of varios religions are examined, as well as the individual motivations for adherence to the various religions. (C)
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ANTH 315: Greek Archaeology: Bronze Age
3.00 Credits
Northeastern Illinois University
Cultural remains of Classical Greece are used to reconstruct society from 1000 B.C. to 336 B.C. Extensive use is made of color slides of sites and artifacts. (A)
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ANTH 315 - Greek Archaeology: Bronze Age
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