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  • ANT 305: Quantitative Anthropology

    4.00 Credits
    Cleveland State University

    Sampling, research methods, and practical applications of parametric and non-parametric statistical procedures to anthropological analysis.
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  • ANT 310: Human Osteology

    4.00 Credits
    Cleveland State University

    Introduction to the structure and function of the human musculoskeletal system. Familiarization with methods used in the excavation, identification, analysis, and preservation of prehistoric human skeletal remains. Includes consideration of anthropological vs. forensic perspectives, goals, and applications. Lecture content and lab exercises focus on quantitative and qualitative methods used to analyze growth and development of the skeleton, age and sex estimation, stature reconstruction, race determination, paleodemography, paleopathology, and the methods of assessing nutritional status of earlier human groups.
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  • ANT 311: Medical Anthropology

    4.00 Credits
    Cleveland State University

    Anthropological approaches to the study of disease in Western and Nonwestern societies. Emphasis on beliefs in the supernatural, folk medicine, scientific vs. non-scientific medicine, and modern approaches to epidemiology.
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  • ANT 312: Primate Behavior

    4.00 Credits
    Cleveland State University

    Focus on the marked diversity and adaptive significance of primate behavior in nature. Dietary patterns and feeding strategies, locomotor adaptations, reproductive behaviors, territoriality, social organization, predator pressure, interspecific competition, parental investment, play behavior and learning, and primate intelligence are explored within the framework of evolutionary ecology, zoology, and geographic distribution. The extent to which primate behavior studies shed light on the evolution of human behavior is also examined.
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  • ANT 313: Human Paleontology

    4.00 Credits
    Cleveland State University

    Fossil evidence of hominid evolution and the development of contemporary human origin theories are explored in a historical, ecological, and geochronological framework. Lectures consider benefits and liabilities of analogistic, deterministic, and gender-oriented models posited to explain the evolution of behavioral and anatomical characteristics unique to humans. Laboratory exercises acquaint students with methods used to identify, analyze, and interpret key morphological and behavioral trail complexes which serve as the basis for reconstructing the phylogeny of the Hominidae.
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  • ANT 320: Anthropology of Religion

    4.00 Credits
    Cleveland State University

    Study of the universal components and structures of the institutions of religion and religious experience. Comparison of the diversity of religions in the traditional and modern milieux.
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  • ANT 321: Psychological Anthropology

    4.00 Credits
    Cleveland State University

    Anthropological approach to the study of personality, emphasizing comparison of social and cultural factors that produce culturally variable attitudes and beliefs about the nature of the social, environmental, and supernatural worlds of the individual. Topics include the structure and dynamics of symbolic expression, ecologies of stability and stress, and types of adaptive and maladaptive coping processes in the contexts of social change and modernization.
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  • ANT 322: Writing About Culture

    4.00 Credits
    Cleveland State University

    Prerequisites: ENG 101 and ENG 102. Reading and analysis of first-person accounts, scientific narratives, ethnographies, ethnologies, and anthropological fiction. Examination of how various writing styles affect communication among and between social scientists.
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  • ANT 323: Visual Anthropology

    4.00 Credits
    Cleveland State University

    Students are urged to take ANT 100 Human Diversity or ANT 102 Study of Culture before taking this course. Introduction to the production and use of ethnographic videos and films in anthropological research and teaching. Course explores both theory and application; theory topics include ethics of production, issues of perspective, adequacy of representation, authorship and authority. Theoretical knowledge is applied in the editing of an ethnographic video from the instructor's field footage.
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  • ANT 324: Anthropology of Gender

    4.00 Credits
    Cleveland State University

    Students are urged to take ANT 100 Human Diversity or ANT 102 Study of Culture before taking this course. Exploration of the cultural construction of gender in a variety of human societies from an anthropological perspective. Includes an examination of the different ways in which males and females are thought of, treated, and expected to behave in different cultural settings, taking into account aspects of gender systems such as division of labor, stratification, gender roles, and their variation throughout the life cycle.
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