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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/ seniors. P/NP or letter grading. M115A. World Perspective. Historical archaeology requires appreciation of historical sources, archaeology, and material culture. Thematic emphasis, with exploration of breadth of discipline both in Old World and Americas. M115B. American Perspective. Emphasis on historical archaeology in North America, particularly to some practical applications.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as History M164A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Preparation: one prior course in African history at UCLA. Designed for juniors/seniors. Survey of nondocumentary sources of early African history, with emphasis on archaeological evidence from origins of humanity until A.D. 1600. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, four hours. Designed for Anthropology, Applied Linguistics, and Communication Studies majors. Evolution, functions, design, and diversity of animal communication systems such as bird song, dolphin calls, whale song, primate social signals, and human language. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, three hours. Comparative analysis of role of environment, history, and culture in structuring of patterns of same-sex erotic behavior in Asia, Africa, Middle East, Pacific, Caribbean, and aboriginal America. P/NP or letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; fieldwork, two hours. Requisite: course 33 or Linguistics 20. Study of language as aspect of culture; relation of habitual thought and behavior to language; and language and classification of experience. Holistic approach to study of language, with emphasis on relationship of linguistic anthropology to fields of biological, cultural, and social anthropology, as well as archaeology. (Core course for linguistics field.) P/ NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 9 or 33 or Ethnomusicology 20A or 20B or 20C or World Arts and Cultures 20. Aesthetics of jazz from point of view of musicians who shaped jazz as art form in 20th century. Listening to and interacting with professional jazz musicians who answer questions and give musical demonstrations. Analytical resources and historical knowledge of musicians and ethnomusicologists combined with those interested in jazz as cultural tradition. P/NP or letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Basic information on Black American English, important minority dialect in U.S. Social implications of minority dialects examined from perspectives of their genesis, maintenance, and social functions. General problems and issues in fields of sociolinguistics examined through case-study approach. Letter grading.
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5.00 Credits
(Same as Applied Linguistics and TESL M161W and Communication Studies M123W.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H or English as a Second Language 36. Relationship between language and human body raises host of interesting topics. New approaches to phenomena such as embodiment become possible when body is analyzed, not as isolated entity, but as visible agent whose talk and action are lodged within both processes of human interaction and rich settings where people pursue courses of action that count in their lives. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Seminar, four hours. Exploration of process of socialization through language, and socialization to use language across lifespan, across communities of practice within single society, and across different ethnic and socioeconomic groups. Examination of ways in which verbal interaction between novices and experts is structured linguistically and culturally. Letter grading.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 9. Examination of understandings of kinship in cross-cultural perspective and impact of kinship on interpersonal relationships, gender roles, and sociocultural systems. Readings from popular materials and formal ethnographic accounts. P/NP or letter grading.
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