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3.00 Credits
Considers accounting for investments, revenue recognition, statement of cash flows, basic financial statement analysis, accounting changes and error analysis, full disclosure in financial reporting and other important contemporary accounting issues. Case studies and computer applications. Senior status with all core courses completed.
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3.00 Credits
Basic concepts of sociocultural anthropology and study of cultural differences among peoples of the world. Poses questions about how lives are touched by media images and information, transnational markets, consumer desires, global ecology, conflicting aspirations, religious revivals, and rewritten histories.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to physical anthropology and the course of human evolution. Topics include cultural adaptation, natural history of the earth, the fossil hominid, human populations, and human ecology. Two hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week.
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3.00 Credits
History of human cultural development, from the stone tool and cave art of early modern Homo sapiens, through the growth of complex pre-industrial agricultural societies in the Near East, Europe, Africa, India and East Asia, and North and South America. Emphasis is on cultural forms as adaptations to the biocultural environment. Two hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week
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3.00 Credits
Examines speech as lived-in experience. Looks cross-culturally at communication embedded in particular cultures and imaginations; at code-switching, register, and other context-sensitive aspects of language use; at cultural categories and how they are employed in situations of uncertainty and in contests over meaning. Examines how speech shapes understanding of our humanity, our species' past, our relation to primates, and growth of our young.
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3.00 Credits
Relationships between magic and religion, witchcraft, sorcery, and the occult; taboo, power and the powers, divination, and healing; shamans and divine kings; cargo cults and messianic movements; voodoo and secret societies. Two hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Summer sessions only.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces core perspectives that distinguish anthropological approaches, their relation to other social and natural sciences, to philosophy and the humanities, and how they apply across different theories about meaning, structure, and agency in human social life and culture. Fall semesters.
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3.00 Credits
How anthropologists design and conduct research, form and test propositions about social life and culture, the methods used to gather and organize data, and issues in conducting research with human subjects. Spring semesters.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines sex and gender issues in societies around the world that have been brought into the web of the modern world. It focuses on the creation, maintenance, and change of cultural differences in gender; the work of culture in sexuality; and equality and inequality between the sexes in different societies. It examines our own commonsense understanding and practices, and the various critical stances of "feminism."
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3.00 Credits
A survey of archaeological/biological anthropological methods employed by archaeologists and biological anthropologists to investigate and interpret human skeletal remains to uncover causes and circumstances surrounding human death in both archaeological and International Criminal Justice sites. In the Anthropology Department laboratory, students will to learn how forensic scientists analyze the human skeleton (Human Osteology) and interpret clues from human remains. Hands-on, interactive projects will reinforce class concepts; readings will explore basics of forensic science, recent discoveries of human remains worldwide using forensic methods; forensic issues/analytical methods will be studied though various media resources. Students will conduct weekly Internet projects using the vast number of web-sites related to forensic research. Class information will be augmented by field trips to local forensic research facilities (i.e. Smithsonian)
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