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3.00 Credits
This course explores the music of various cultures around the world. Using the case study approach, students will learn about the music and sociology of selected regions that may include West Africa, Asia, India, and the American Southwest. Students will undertake fieldwork in San Antonio to gain practical experience in ethnomusicological fieldwork. This is an introductory course appropriate for non-majors as well as music students. No prior musical experience is required, but students without musical backgrounds must learn a vocabulary of terms for describing musical sound. (Also listed as MUSC 1351.)
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3.00 Credits
This course provides potential anthropology majors a comprehensive understanding of anthropology as an academic discipline, focusing on anthropologists and what they do. Rather than read a text or abstract debates, the class studies specific anthropologists and the classic ethnographies they wrote, looking at how each work was shaped by the particular life and time of the author. Classic studies will be chosen from each of the major periods in anthropology's history: from functionalism and structuralism to more recent work in Marxist, feminist, and interpretive anthropology.
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3.00 Credits
Human evolution studied through fossil and archaeological evidence; description and explanation of modern human biological variation; and the study of non-human primates in order to develop perspectives on the human capacity for culture.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the Hebrew Scriptures from the perspective of the social sciences in order to understand the structure and organization of societies that are described in the literature of ancient Israel. (Also listed as RELI 1351.)
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3.00 Credits
The seminar will analyze humans' relationship with the natural environment. It will first focus on cultural adaptation to natural resources, with case studies drawn from African foragers, South American gardeners, and Asian farmers. The course will also analyze the effects of contemporary development, focusing on the destruction of the rainforest. The class will try to create new models for development from indigenous peoples' use of tropical resources.
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1.00 Credits
Participation in an approved excavation in the Mediterranean world, Western Europe, or the Near East. Students will be expected to receive instruction in excavation techniques and in the recording and study of the site and the material. Two weeks' work will normally be counted as equivalent to 1 credit, up to a maximum of 3 credits. (Also listed as CLAS 4-72.)
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3.00 Credits
Field work experience in a setting arranged and approved by the student, professor, and agency selected. Supervision and guidance must be provided in the field.
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6.00 Credits
Individual research in selected areas. A student may repeat the course for a maximum of six semester hours. A project proposal must be submitted to and approved by the professor supervising the research prior to registration.
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9.00 Credits
Occasional courses will be offered on current events or desired topics that students bring to the attention of the Department Chair. A student may repeat this course if the topics are different. A maximum of nine semester hours can be taken in ANTH 3-91 or 3394.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the cultural influences on contemporary Latin American dance, including dances of European, African, or mestizo origin, such as the cumbia, samba, tango, waltz criollo, polka, salsa, merengue, and vallenato, as well as indigenous dances such as the cueca, huayno, diablada, and morenada. This course will be taught entirely in Spanish and will include demonstrations of the several dance steps. (Also listed as INTL 3120.) Prerequisite: SPAN 2302 or the equivalent.
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