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For anthropologists, disasters are not strictly natural events, but are catastrophes that are caused by societal practices that put certain groups of people at greater risk of harm than others during events like earthquakes and hurricanes. For this reason, disasters can be very informative about how societies function as well as their underlying problems. This class will teach students to identify and prevent the causes of disasters.
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This survey of our past examines the variety of human communities and societies. We focus on the "big developments"during the last three million years: the first use of tools and fire, the first appearance of religion and belief systems, the first art, the switch from foraging to farming (and its consequences), the growth of social inequality, and the first monuments, governments, states and empires.
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3.00 Credits
Our closest cousins, the primates, display a remarkable diversity of social behavior, reproductive behavior, positional behaviors and diets, and live in a wide variety of environments and ecosystems. This diversity will be reviewed, with an eye to understanding its origin in the past and its anatomical basis.
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3.00 Credits
(Same as WMST 220) This course is designed to introduce students to the variety of gender relations in different cultures around the world. Through reading about a number of different world areas, students will be introduced to questions of differing notions of what makes "men", "women" and other possible gender categories, to issues of different power relations, to cultural constructions of sexuality, and to the relationship of gender to everyday life.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the anthropologist's role in assisting law enforcers, coroners, etc., in assessing crime scenes (CSI). Bone estimators of age, sex, stature, ancestry; congenital and pathological identifiers; modern technological approaches including computer imagery and DNA sequencing. Case histories of forensic work, including mass graves, are reviewed.
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(University Core Curriculum) An introduction to humans as a biological species. Applies scientific method to exploring data on humans and our closest relatives, to better understand our place in the web of life as a biological organism. Includes genetics (particularly human genetics), evolutionary theory, primate behavior and evolution, human fossil record, and similarities and differences in modern humans, including blood groups, skin color, and disease susceptibility. $10 fee per student.
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended as an introduction to the theories, methods and goals of anthropological linguistics, focusing on the structure and use of language in cultural context. Will address questions about what language is, how languages are similar and different, how and why speech patterns vary within a speech community, and how languages change.
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3.00 Credits
Covers basic theories and methods used in archaeology to study lifestyles of past cultures through an examination of their tools, house and community remains, and art works. Includes methods of excavation, dating techniques, and other methods of analysis. Open to both majors and non-majors.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of current anthropological theories and methods for understanding human cultures from a comparative perspective; also examines human institutions such as religion, politics, and family cross-culturally. Although non-Western societies are em-phasized, comparisons with our own are treated as well.
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3.00 Credits
Basic concepts of anthropology are used to interpret the imaginary worlds of science fiction. Fictional alien cultures are examined to see how features of human biology, language, social organization, technology, etc. are patterned after or are different from known human cultures.
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