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3.00 Credits
Course traces rise of world's first major civilizations from emergence of Homo sapiens to the advent of written history. The emergence of food production, social inequality, cities and conquest states in each world area will be examined, as will the major anthropological theories devised to explain them. Emphasized is diversity of world civilizations, the variety of paths to civilization taken around the globe, and especially "non-western" civilizations of sub-Saharan Africa, the Far East and the Americas.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the relationship between language and culture in multilingual and multicultural societies throughout the world. Topics include: language practices (i.e. name giving in Africa, oral tradition of the Caribbean, use of proverbs), language attitudes towards dialects, multilingualism and identity, the immigrant experience, effects of language contact (i.e., language mixing and borrowing), and language planning and choice in multilingual societies.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of languages spoken in different regions of the world, including Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Students will examine similarities and differences in sounds, words, sentences/grammar, and writing systems of a variety of languages. Students will learn about grouping of languages into language families.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 1105. Utilizing both ethnographic studies and contemporary surveys, this course provides an overview of the African continent, its archaeology, prehistory, and culture history, but with a focus on the great diversity of contemporary cultures and the impact of modern political and economic developments since 1960, i.e., the post-colonial era. The course concludes with a look at contemporary efforts to maintain cultural traditions in the context of rapid technological change, the penetration of Western cultures and the disruptions brought by processes of economic globalization.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 1105. Anthropology is the study of humankind in its entirety, and it has a long, contentious history of development as a discipline. Theories have come and gone into and out of fashion, often paralleling social changes and mores in their countries of origin. What began as speculation by Greek scholars eventually resulted in a rigorous science, only face harsh criticism from time to time for "de-humanizing" its subject matter. Some anthropologists wish to focus on Culture and the wide sweep of its "evolution, while others feel we must gather data on the histories of individual cultures down to the level of minutia. Regardless of how they have tried to go about it, anthropologists have always wanted to know what makes cultures "tick." In particular, what makes them change, or what makes them choose to change. What do we all have in common as humans, and what is the best way to unlock the black box that culture appears at times to resemble.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 1105. An examination of social inequality, the long-term evolution of increasingly complex social hierarchies, and social stratification (based on class, estate, caste) throughout history. Features a historical review of anthropological theories devised to track and characterize levels of social inequality, and to identify the forces and processes that build and maintain status hierarchies. Ethnographic literature will be used to illustrate cases where access to high status is based upon such varied factors as kin relations, gender, ethnicity, wealth, and social prestige.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 1107 with a minimum grade of A. Offers students closely directed hands-on learning and practical experience in the many aspects of anthropological research. Usually involves participation in faculty ethnographic, biological, archaeological and/or museum-related research. May involve project design, field work, laboratory work museum curation and/or project administrative tasks.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Department Chair Approval. May be taken up to four times for a maximum of six semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 1105. An overview of major sociological and anthropological studies of the structure, function and evolution of religious thought and behavior including contributions of Marx and Engels, Durkheim, Weber, Freud, Malinowski, Levi-Strauss, Marvin Harris, Clifford Geertz and many others. Religion will be studied as an aspect of human sociocultural systems with political, economic and psychological implications and that has cognitive, emotional, social and moral components. This will be based on efforts at classification of types, comparison and contrasts of belief systems, ritual and myth.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 1105 or ANTH 1106 with minimum grade of B. Students learn how artifacts and other field samples are processed before they finally come to rest in a museum or other repository; emphasizes the importance of precision and thoroughness required to properly conserve, analyze and curate a broad variety of material culture and documentation for perpetuity using standardized, state-of-the-art techniques.
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