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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. An introduction to issues in medical anthropology, explores the interaction of biology and culture in the production of health and illness. We will engage in comparative study and consider the diversity of ideas and practices that constitute health and illness across cultures and societies. The goal is to understand health and illness as products of cultural and social practice. ( LA, CPA) Prerequisite: ANTH 100 or ANTH 130.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. This course examines women's and men's experiences of reproductionin anthropological perspective, including childbearing, childbirth, menarche, and menopause across cultures and societies. Emphasizes reproduction as a cultural and social experience. ( LA)
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. This course provides a chronological history of human origins and evolution over the past six million years, with major emphasis on evolutionary trends as reflected in human biology, life cycle, and culture. Topics include the divergence of ape and human lineages, the origin of bipedalism, dental evolutionary trends, the origins of culture and technology, the geographic dispersion of early humans, the origin of language, the origins of archaic and modern humans, the origin of art and symbolic behavior, and the rise of agriculture and civilization. ( LA) Prerequisite: ANTH 130.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. This course is a survey of human prehistory in the Old World (Africa, Asia, and Europe) from the beginnings of stone-tool culture in Africa 2.5 million years ago through the development of complex societies during the past 6,000 years. In particular, this course focuses on the relationships between prehistoric humans and their environments, the aspects of culture that distinguish each area, and the origins of and explanations for sedentism, food production, and complex society in the Old World. ( LA) Prerequisite: ANTH 140.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. An examination of prehistoric populations in North America, from the peopling of the New World to contact. Emphasizes description, analysis, and interpretation of regional cultural sequences and systems from an archaeological perspective. ( LA) Prerequisite: ANTH 140.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. A survey of the prehistoric and early historic cultures of Mesoamerica, with particular focus on the first people in Mesoamerica, emerging agricultural traditions, and the civilizations of the Olmecs, Toltecs, Mayans, and Aztecs. Topics include the relationship between Mesoamerican past and present, cultural traditions, and the relationship of Mesoamerica to other cultures across the world. ( LA, HO2) Prerequisite: ANTH 140.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. Surveys the pre-Columbian history of the Andean region of South America, and investigates archaeological approaches to understanding that history. Outlines the development of Andean cultures from initial peopling of the continent to the fall of the Inca Empire at the time of European conquest. The Inca and several prehistoric cultures are examined in detail, such as Chavin, Moche, and Tiwanaku. Simultaneously explores select topical issues, such as human-environment interactions, plant and animal domestication, the emergence of inequality, gender, mummies and ancestor worship, art as communication, and the rise and collapse of states and empires. ( LA, HO2) Prerequisites: SoS and ANTH 100 or ANTH 140.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
1-6 s.h. Various topics in cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, or archaeology. Consult department or current schedule of classes for specific offering. May be repeated for credit if different topics are offered. ( LA) Prerequisite: varies with content of course.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
1-3 s.h. Individual study (reading and/or research related to any aspect of Anthropology) under the sponsorship of a faculty member with conferences and written report(s). ( LA) Prerequisites: SoS and permission of instructor. ANTH 312 Exhibiting Cultures in Museums 3 s.h. What are some of the challenges that museum professionals face when creating representations of other cultures? By studying several examples of exhibits in various institutions, students will gain appreciation for these challenges. In this class, we will discuss theories, methodology and issues in representing other cultures in a museum setting. The format for this class will be readings, film and lectures. Participants will be challenged to work together as an exhibit team for a small, culminating project. This course will provide practical experience to students interested in pursuing post-graduate education in museum studies and/or a career in the field. ( LA, WS2) Prerequisite:s SoS, ANTH 100 or ANTH 130 or ANTH 140.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. An introduction to language as a cultural phenomenon, stressing its importance as the means by which we transmit culture to others. Surveys the relationship between linguistic and cultural processes including how language affects thought, and how beliefs and values influence language; how languages grow and change; the relationship between language evolution and human evolution; language and social factors; and how the elements of language form coherent systems of communication. ( LA) Prerequisites: JrS, ANTH 100 or PSYC 100 or SOCL 100 or SPCH 100 or LING 150, and 3 s.h. of 200-level social science.
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