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3.00 Credits
Coastal and marine regions of the world in terms of human occupation, resource utilization, social organization, and human-environmental relationships. Identification of issues in traditional and contemporary management of coastal and marine ecosystems.
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3.00 Credits
The impact of cultural behavior on the acquisition, preparation, and consumption of potentially edible natural resources.
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3.00 Credits
Ecological, evolutionary, and biocultural aspects of human disease. Subjects include the ecology of infectious/parasitic disease pathogens and their human hosts, the evolution of human host-pathogen interactions, the impact of cultural and demographic change in human populations, and the effects of global environmental change on human disease patterns.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Ethnographic research methods and techniques including interviews, surveys, participant-observation, questionnaires, and dealing with human subjects. Supervised research practicing these skills in a field setting.
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3.00 - 9.00 Credits
Basic anthropological concepts taught in international settings using local examples. Taught abroad in a study tour format.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of key questions, concepts, and theories of human evolution. The first part of the course is devoted to how we learn about human evolution. The second part is a survey of the fossil record for human evolution illuminated by key theories and hypotheses.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to an application of physical anthropology focusing on human identification through analysis of bone. Students recognize and identify whole and fragmentary bones and teeth, and determine age, sex, stature, racial traits, disease, and trauma from the skeleton. Case studies, hands-on experience, and report writing are included.
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3.00 Credits
Human osteology is the study of our bones. Osteology is relevant to disciplines that depend on detailed knowledge of the human body, e.g., forensic anthropology and paleoanthropology. Students will learn to identify and describe bones and use a comparative approach to understand their function and evolution.
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3.00 Credits
The evolutionary history of the order Primates, a group of mammals that includes humans, apes, monkeys, and prosimians. Through the study of the fossil record, illuminated by the principles of modern evolutionary and ecological theory, we can reconstruct a broad outline of how primates originated and how they have diversified into more than 200 living species.
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3.00 Credits
Cross-cultural and comparative approaches to understanding how humans develop socially, psychologically, and physically across the entire lifespan.
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