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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics include historical archaeology, artifact analysis, archaeology of the Chesapeake, archaeology of the Potomac Valley, Aztec, Inca, and Maya, and archaeology and politics.
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Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate All significant ideas about the nature of human culture center on issues of cultural stability or change, and stability itself is often a result of change. As anthropology focuses on today's world, an understanding of culture change is especially important. This course explores ways to understand culture change. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: ANTH-251 and one additional course in cultural anthropology, or graduate standing.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate Explores the field of cultural resources management and preservation. This course examines the range of resources - from archeological sites to historic structures to living communities - that are often given protected status and the reasons for such protection. Also considers the benefits to society of this protection, along with the available policies, processes, and laws that are utilized in the preservation effort. Usually offered alternate springs. Prerequisite: ANTH-253 or ANTH-531, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate Discussion of the way that anthropologists have used and developed the concept of class as a way to understand patterns of social inequality. The variation in relationships of class to economic, social, and political structures in different societies and how class experiences and struggles influence and are influenced by the cultural norms and values in different social systems. Prerequisite: ANTH-251 and one other course in cultural/social anthropology, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate Ethnicity has become a universal means for groups to defend their interests, avoid alienation, and create powerful rituals of self-preservation and defense. This course examines ways that groups in complex societies and new nations use ethnicity and nationalism to express and enact community and identity, similarity and difference, peaceful social relations, warfare, and genocide. Prerequisite: one course in social or cultural anthropology.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics in comparative perspectives on the interrelationships of cultural and linguistic patterns in different societies. Case studies focus on language variation and pluralism as related to verbal creativity, social hierarchies, gender diversity, language history, and colonialism and nation building. Usually offered alternate summers. Prerequisite: one course in anthropology or linguistics, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate This course traces shifting relationships among governments, anthropologists, and ordinary people. Readings and class discussions explore the rise of "applied" anthropology as part of the processes of colonialism and capital accumulation. Also covered are colonial encounters, immigration and internment, neocolonialism, and structural adjustment. Usually offered every fall.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate Explores efforts to build an applied anthropology which advances popular struggles for economic freedom, human rights, and social justice while maintaining a critique of state power. The course also examines how such work engages conventional approaches to research, publication, and career advancement, and suggests pathways to alternative anthropological careers. Usually offered every spring.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate Anthropological approaches to the analysis of economic development and change, with attention both to development theory and to practice. Development problems as perceived at the local level, contemporary development concerns, and the organization of development agencies and projects are considered. Usually offered every fall.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. The application of anthropological method and theory to solving problems in contemporary society. Rotating topics include inequality and change in education, health, culture and illness, public archaeology, and anthropology of human rights. Usually offered every spring.
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