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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate Using a series of research exercises, students learn how to collect genealogies, gather censuses of research populations, conduct directed and nondirected interviews, map research areas, work with photographic data, collect life histories, observe as participants, write research proposals, and evaluate data. Ethical and methodological fieldwork problems are stressed throughout. Usually offered alternate falls.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate An introduction to research methods used within the field of anthropology, including ethnography, the distinctive tool of the field. Includes research design, data collection, quantitative and qualitative analysis. Ethics and pragmatics of research are discussed, including research funding and proposal writing. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: two courses in anthropology, or graduate standing.
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3.00 - 9.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with the same topic. Active participation in the excavation of an archaeological site. Training varies depending on the site, but usually includes site surveying, archaeological engineering, techniques of excavation, flora, fauna, and soil analysis, field laboratory practice, and on-site computer data processing. Usually offered every summer.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate Prerequisite: permission of instructor and department chair.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate An overview of both the history of cultural and social theories and methods and the contemporary concerns of anthropology. Usually required of all incoming graduate students; consult the department chair. Usually offered every fall.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate This course addresses developments and debates in anthropology over the last three decades, looking at how central concerns in anthropology are recast over time, as well as how new concerns emerge with new theory. The course grounds the central concept of culture in analyses that emphasize its relationship to historical process as well as class, race, and gender, and the use and abuse of the culture concept in struggles for identity, dominance, and liberation. Usually offered every spring.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate This course considers archaeology as a culturally-specific enterprise that is tightly integrated with other aspects of our modern-day, western materialist, capitalist system. Includes a review of archaeological theory, how archaeology creates knowledge about the past, and the context in which archaeological theory and practice developed. Reviews basic concepts about time, space, and material culture, and explores different theoretical currents: culture historical, processual, post-processual, feminist, and contemporary theory. Usually offered every fall.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate This seminar explores the disjunction between biological myths of race and gender and their social construction as credible institutions; the historical, economic, and political roots of inequalities; the institutions and ideologies that buttress and challenge power relations; and the implications of social science teaching and research for understanding social class, race, and gender discrimination. Issues of advocacy for social change are also explored. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Course Level: Graduate This seminar reviews current approaches to studies of narrative, life stories, and conversation, and the insights into social location, ideology, and claims to power which such studies disclose. Usually offered every spring. Prerequisite: graduate standing in anthropology and ANTH-631; or graduate standing in the TESOL master's program and 6 graduate credit hours in linguistics; or permission of instructor.
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