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3.00 Credits
Anthropology of the Future
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3.00 Credits
Anthropology of Death
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3 s.h. Introduction to the comparative, cross-cultural study of gender. Part One focuses on the life cycle, including evolution and biological development, sexuality and reproduction, parenting and bonding, and nutrition. Part Two views women and men cross-culturally, comparing their roles and responsibilities in diverse settings. Prerequisite: SoS. ( LA)
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3 s.h. This course introduces students to the application of cultural anthropology's techniques and knowledge to practical issues and policy making. Students will examine the history of applied anthropology and examples from fields such as international and domestic economic development, health, education, business, historic preservation, and many other topics. Students will engage in hands-on projects which vary from semester to semester, but which typically require data collection, analysis, and report preparation tasks. ( LA, WS2) Prerequisites: SoS, ANTH 100 or ANTH 130 or ANTH 140.
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3 s.h. This course examines the major forms of cultural identity-totemism, ethnicity, race, and nationalism-from an anthropological perspective. We will examine how people create, maintain, and use cultural identities; how context influences the form and content of identities; and contempoary issues associated with the ethnic relations of transnational migration, nationalist movements, and the emergence of new postcolonial ethnic identities. The readings include theory and ethnographic case studies. The course includes several writing assignments. ( LA, S2) Prerequisite: ANTH 100.
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3 s.h. Globalization refers to the growing interconnectedness of the world's people economically, politically, socially, and culturally through the spread of mercantilism, capitalism, and the technologies and institutions that they have produced. This course explores this important and ongoing phenomenon ethnohistorically, ethnographically, and theoretically; introduces students to the political economy perspective in anthropology; critically examines the idea of bounded and independent cultures, societies, and nations; and illuminates the processes and consequences of globalization for peoples in various circumstances around the world. The readings include general overviews by anthropologists and ethnographic case studies. The course includes several writing assignments. ( LA) Prerequisite: ANTH 100.
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3 s.h. This course explores the concept of civilization and its opposite, the primitive or savage, from anthropology's unique cross-cultural perspective. We will examine how these paired concepts figure prominently in the origin and development of anthropology, and how anthropology ultimately challenges the validity of both. This intellectual history touches upon the ideologies and social consequences of progressivism, romanticism, colonialism, neocolonialism, environmentalism, indigensim, the New Age, neoconservativism, and traditionalist social movements. The course is lecture based and includes several writing assignments. ( LA) Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or ANTH 105 or ANTH 140.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. An introduction to the study of nonhuman primate behavior, biology, and ecology, with broad coverage from prosimians to apes. Topics include classification, evolution, communication, social organization, and cognition. Includes laboratory and field studies of selected species. ( LA) Cross-listed as PSYC 230. Prerequisites: ANTH 100 or 130 and/or PSYC 100.
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3 s.h. This course examines the biological impact of culture change within the human species over the past 12,000 years, focusing primarily on changes in health and disease and demography in foraging, agricultural, and industrial societies. Topics include: principles of epidemiology, the ecology of disease, principles of demography, health and demography of foraging societies, the transition to agriculture, the rise of civilization and urbanism, culture contact, the epidemiologic and demographic transitions of modern times, and contemporary and future issues. ( LA) Prerequisite: SoS.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. This course examines the ways in which human genetic variation in the world today can be used to reconstruct the past history of human populations. The course is structured around a series of specific case studies of events in human evolutionary history, with particular emphasis on events that took place during the past 15,000 years. Topics include: ape-human ancestry, the origin of modern humans, the fate of the Neandertals, the origin of the first Americans, the origin of farming in Europe, the origin of the Polynesians, the genetic history of African Americans, the population history of the Jews, and the relationship between cultural identity, ancestry, and genetic variation. ( LA) Prerequisite: SoS.
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