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3.00 Credits
Human linguistic principles of phonology, morphology, and grammar to construct a framework for understanding the operation of language in cultural context. The functions of human language in structuring ideological, economic, and political realms.
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3.00 Credits
Marginalization plagues sub-populations in almost every large city. An anthropological view of this problem and its origins, presented through readings, discussions, lectures and field trips.
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3.00 Credits
The range of sounds produced by the speakers of the world's languages. An introduction to phonetics, with a focus on acoustically-oriented methods used in contemporary phonetics.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the prehistoric record worldwide which examines the evolution of human complexity and culture through non-written form of evidence from the archeological record.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to give students an understanding of issues related to social and processes in Latin American and Caribbean societies, with emphasis on history, class, gender, ethnicity, religion, politics and power, family and migration processes as well as literary and artistic creations. We will begin our study by analyzing the sociohistorical 'production' of these regions, subject formation and processes of political organizing.
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3.00 Credits
The global prehistoric record, with emphasis on the development of social complexity and ancient states.
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3.00 Credits
The macroevolution of humans using the fossil record of vertebrates, including the development of uniquely human behavioral and anatomical adaptations, and of diversity in living populations.
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3.00 Credits
Human biological adaptation to different environments and stress is examined anthropologically within an evolutionary framework. Mechanisms of adaptation to temperature extremes and other climatic variables, high altitude, disease, nutritional stress, urbanization, extraterrestrial conditions, and other environmental challenges are described in relation to biological and behavioral variations among human populations. The limits of human performance and human adaptive potential in the present and future are explored.
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3.00 Credits
Human biological diversity is viewed historically within a cross-cultural, evolutionary framework. Patterns of variation in human morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical, genetic, and behavioral characteristics are investigated in peoples living in different environments throughout the world. Observed differences among human populations are discussed with reference to traditional theories of racial taxonomy and modern perspectives in human classification.
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3.00 Credits
Origins and evolution of human behaviors as determined by fossil and archaeological evidence, primate research, and the cross-cultural analysis of behavioral variations in contemporary societies. The interaction of human biological and behavioral evolution.
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