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  • 3.00 Credits

    General survey of global archaeological sites, archaeological practice, and current issues in archaeology including intellectual property rights and the relationship between archaeology and world/regional cultural resources. Includes study of material culture, the archaeological record, survey and excavation, dating technologies, and subsistence patterns. Includes the examination of local archaeological sites/collections, pictographs, lithic techniques, indigenous land and resource management practices, indigenous knowledge of archaeological sites, including ceremonial, food gathering and processing, village sites, and contemporary use of culturally significant sites by local indigenous bands.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduces the fundamental methods in cultural anthropology including research design, participant observation, informant selection, organization of field notes, household and community questionnaires, structured and unstructured interviews, oral and life histories, case studies, focus groups, archival research and secondary data, and coding and analysis of qualitative data. Includes construction of research problems, research design, research implementation, preparation of human subject protocols, strategies of data collection and analysis, and report preparation.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Involves advanced students conducting ethnographic fieldwork in local health clinics or hospitals or with local communities with unique medical cultures. Examines patterns of health service utilization and access to clinical health care, as well as alternatives to clinical health care. Students, working collaboratively with either health care professionals and/or ethnic populations with special health care needs, such as immigrant or indigenous communities, document and analyze ethnographic data pertaining to the delivery and consumption of health care services and the generation of health care alternatives. A focused research question is examined through interviewing, participant observation, data collection, and analysis involving the community under study and specific health service providers. Service Learning course. Enrollment requirement: ANTH 200.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Involves field and quantitative ethnographic research regarding the health and health care practices of local farmworker communities. Students record work histories, living conditions, health behaviors, health histories, and use of clinical and non-clinical health care forms to assess the status of health and health care practices among local agricultural workers. Collaboration with the National Latino Research Center results in the production of an annual report on farmworker health in North County San Diego. Service Learning course. Enrollment Requirement: ANTH 200.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Examines the relationship between concepts of cultural competency and realities of cultural interface. Focuses on individual and community interaction with health care and other social institutions. Includes crosscultural capabilities, identification of needs and help-seeking behaviors; and the value of support networks. Examines economic and social barriers to services; institutional adaptation to diversity; and the role of community in decision-making. Students generate research questions and conduct case studies regarding cultural competency and cross-cultural capabilities. Enrollment Requirement: ANTH 200.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Students engage with local indigenous communities, conduct original research, and participate in the implementation of community goals relating to cultural awareness, preservation, and survival. Students learn anthropological and ethnobotanical methods, including participant observation, field research, ethnographic writing, documentation of plant uses, medicinal values, processing methods, plant lore, etc., while conducting communitybased field research with members of indigenous communities, such as the San Luis Rey band of Mission Indians and other local and transnational indigenous communities in the San Diego region. May be repeated for a total of eight (8) units. Course includes a service learning component. May not be taken for credit by students who have received credit for ID 370J.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Students perform archaeological research relating to local cultural resource management (CRM) and documentation. Students engage with professional archaeologists and Native American communities to learn site research methods and identification and documentation of material culture. Primary goals of this class include providing students with a general understanding of CRM and the legislation that drives CRM; exposing students to archaeological practice in a CRM context, and exposing students to various cultural viewpoints regarding recovered archaeology. Also offered as NATV 480. Students may not receive credit for both. Service Learning course. Enrollment Requirement: ANTH 200.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Students work with local Native American bands concerning cultural preservation and the monitoring of archaeological sites threatened by development. Students examine traditional land use management and the traditional knowledge associated with specific sites. Students learn site research methods, identification and documentation of material culture, interpretation of federal, state, county, city, and private documents including Environmental Impact Reports, California Environmental Quality Act, land use legislation, and assessment of cultural significance. Covers preservation options, ethics, and specific case studies. Also offered as NATV 481. Students may not receive credit for both. Service Learning course. Enrollment Requirement: ANTH 200.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Involves original anthropological research to be directed by instructor. Advanced students in anthropology propose an ethnographic and anthropological research project, or collaborate with original research project to gain experience in field research, data analysis, and write up. Together with ANTH 498C, may be repeated for a total of six (6) units
  • 3.00 Credits

    Involves original anthropological research in medicine or health care to be directed by instructor. Advanced students propose an ethnographic and anthropological research project, or collaborate with original research project to gain experience in field research, data analysis, and write up. Together with ANTH 499C, may be repeated for a total of six (6) units.
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