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3.00 Credits
Mountains and highlands of the world in terms of past and contemporary human adaptations, utilization, and impacts on natural resources. Emphasizes indigenous cultures, mountain ecosystems, biodiversity, tourism and change, and management of mountain cultural and natural resources. Special focus on Himalayas, Andes, and Alps.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of ethnic and cultural diversity, and issues of gender, race, class, and culture within Mexican society. Consideration will also be given to the historical, political, economic, and social experiences of Mexican ethnic and cultural groups with special attention to their diversity and unity.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Environmental, chronological, preservational, and analytical methods and techniques of archaeological research.
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4.00 Credits
Theories, policies, and operational procedures in the management of natural history collections, including higher category classification, identification, field collecting, accessioning, preparation, curation, and data management.
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3.00 Credits
Supervised work experience with a natural history collection. Students will learn techniques and other procedures for curating materials in a collection of their choice under the direction of collection personnel.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of archaeological evidence for the transition from foraging to farming and herding throughout the world, its causes, and its consequences. Emphasis is on evidence obtained from archaeological studies of human, plant, and non-human animal remains from archaeological sites in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Effects of conservation and development in coastal Guanacaste Province. Students will visit national parks, resorts, and local communities to examine conservation and development issues. Course assignments will focus on integrating what students are learning experientially with literature on the political ecology of conservation and development.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of theories and methods used to study the relationship between humans and their environment. Emphasis is on subsistence strategies and environmental reconstructions based on archaeological evidence and the techniques of zooarchaeology, paleobotany, and paleonutrition.
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3.00 Credits
Ethnobotanical research, with focus on knowledge and utilization of the plant world in traditional societies. Comparisons of societies in tropical forest ecosystems and evaluation of issues relating to intellectual property rights and traditional peoples' knowledge of plant species with potential economic value.
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3.00 Credits
Prehistoric and early historic aboriginal cultural variation in Eastern North America.
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