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3.00 Credits
The course examines the ways in which anthropologists have been thinking and writing about food. Archaeological dietary records for early humans and for other early primates are explored to highlight human dietary adaptations and to investigate how dietary changes have contributed to cultural and biological variation.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the topic of globalization as conceptualized by cultural anthropologists, examining the spread of capitalist economic principles into cultures in which other logics regulate economic and social life. The course draws on ethnography, political economy, public health, and ecology to explore how populations resist, appropriate, and exploit the perils and opportunities of globalization.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces theory and principles of genetically based evolution. It reviews fossil evidence for human evolution and competing ideas about the specific pathways to modern humans. It emphasizes the genetic unity of humankind and the universal features that underlie individual and cultural diversity.
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1.00 Credits
Corequisite: ANT 2511. This laboratory provides students an opportunity to observe, handle, and measure archaeological artifacts, skeletal material, and copies of important fossil hominids. Weekly exercises strengthen students' understanding of the scientific procedures used to interpret the nature and causes of human evolution.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the concept of race from the perspective of biological and cultural anthropology, beginning with the study of modern human biological variation and its clinical distribution. This biological patterning is then contrasted with the social categories of race. The final section of the course covers the history of the concept of race, the ways humans culturally construct divisions in different societies, and the continuing effects of racial concepts on science and on modern cultures.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANT 2100. This fundamentals course provides an overview of objectives, field strategies, basics of laboratory analysis, interpretative approaches to the record, and what the threats to archaeological/cultural resources are. This includes a brief overview of the history of archaeology and the changes in strategies used to examine the prehistoric and historic archaeological records. An emphasis is placed upon developing an understanding of the fundamental objectives and methodologies used in modern anthropological archaeology.
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3.00 Credits
This course outlines the major events in human cultural and social evolution and includes a brief presentation of general archaeological methods and objectives. The course focuses on the evolution of civilization in the Middle East, Europe, China, Africa, and the Americas.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the world's cultures by major geographic regions. The purpose is to familiarize the student with the range and variety of the human condition and at the same time instill in the student a respect and admiration for humankind. Lectures, readings, and visual materials are utilized.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANT 2511. This course is an introduction to forensic anthropology as a scientific discipline within the field of anthropology, examining what happens to a body immediately after death, the process of decomposition, and taphonomic changes. The course also examines what is required of a forensic investigation of such a body from search to documentation, collection, processing, and lab analysis.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to and examination of human language, its relation to perception and cognition, and its role in social interaction. This will include verbal as well as nonverbal communication modes, their variety and complexity, the evolution of language, and language change.
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