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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
(Same as World Arts and Cultures M23.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; activity, one hour. Survey of selected Native North American cultures from pre-Western contact to contemporary period, with particular emphasis on early cultural diversity and diverse patterns of political, linguistic, social, legal, and cultural change in postcontact period. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Exploration of issues in outreach and retention of students in higher education, especially through student-initiated programs, efforts, activities, and services, with focus on UCLA as case. May be repeated twice for credit. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course M10 or Sociology 1. Comparative and historical study of political, economic, and cultural change in indigenous North American societies. Several theories of social change, applied to selected case studies. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Recommended preparation: some knowledge of medical anthropology and/or history and contemporary situation of first peoples of North America. Examination of different perspectives related to health and healthcare of Native North Americans (within present boundaries of U.S. and Canada) in relation to cultural, social, political, and economic aspects of changing historical context. Concurrently scheduled with course CM268P. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 8. Intended for students interested in conceptual structure of scientific archaeology. Archaeological method and theory with emphasis on what archaeologists do and how and why they do it. Consideration of field strategies, stratigraphy, chronological frameworks, and other crucial principles of archaeological analysis and interpretation. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 8. Method and theory with emphasis on archaeology within context of anthropology. Themes include theoretical developments over last 50 years, structure of archaeological reasoning, and selective survey of work on problems of general anthropological interest. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 8. Development of Paleolithic cultural traditions in Europe, Africa, Asia, and New World. Emphasis on ordering and interpretation of archaeological data, Pleistocene geology and chronology, and relationship between human cultural and biological evolution. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Prehistory of North American Indians; evolution of Indian societies from earliest times to (and including) contemporary Indians; approaches and methods of American archaeology. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 8 or 9. From earliest Californians through 10,000 years of history, study of diversity in California's original peoples. Aspects of technology, ideology, ecology, and social/political organization. Historic impacts on California Indians by Euro-Americans. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Examination of prehistory of American Southwest from 11,000 years ago to historic times. Emphasis on describing and explaining cultural variation and change, employing evolutionary perspective. Special attention to advent of farming and settled towns, large-scale interactive networks, abandonment of Four Corners area, and historic cultures. P/NP or letter grading.
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