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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
Topics assigned on an individual basis covering personal research or study in the designated area. Topics assigned on an individual basis covering personal research or study in the designated area. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
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2.00 Credits
Topics assigned on an individual basis covering personal research or study in the designated area. Topics assigned on an individual basis covering personal research or study in the designated area. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of topics at the nexus of modern human biological research in growth and development and the evolutionary record of hominid subadults. Prerequisite: ANTH 2307 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive examination of an important problem in anthropological research selected by the instructor. May be repeated for credit whenever the topic varies.
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3.00 Credits
Selected topics, to include anthropological theory, population and cultural ecology, semiotics, and humanistic anthropology. May be repeated for credit with departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
This advanced course introduces students to key concepts in Visual Anthropology. This course highlights the contribution of anthropological methods in theorizing the visual as an everyday site for the construction of nationalist, gender, ethnic, and class identities. Readings are drawn from diverse geographical regions. Visual material discussed in class will include ethnographic films, art, graphic novels, comics, illustrated magazines, virtual exhibitions and soap operas. Assignments include a writing and research component, and team-based exercises.
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3.00 Credits
Relationships among power, identity, and culture in cross-cultural perspective. Traditional political systems, political symbols and rituals, gender and power, and the relationship between domination and resistance. How culture influences the ways in which men and women get power, use power, and resist power.
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3.00 Credits
Covers the cultural development in Mesoamerica during the past 12,000 years, from hunting and gathering lifeways, through the rise of complex societies, to the Spanish conquest. Students will examine the steps from which the early inhabitants of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Hondurus and El Salvador developed into the great civilizations of Ancient Mesoamerica. In this course students will trace the emergence of Olmecs, Zapotecs, Maya, Toltecs, and the Aztecs and explore the factors that contributed to their appearance and decline. New approaches, theories, and recent discoveries within the field of Mesoamerican archaeology will be examined.
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3.00 Credits
Selected topics, to include examination of specific archaeological cultures of the Old World, archaeological theory, and archaeology and pseudoscience. May be repeated for credit with departmental permission.
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3.00 Credits
Zooarchaeologists study animal remains (primarily bones, teeth, and shells) from archaeological contexts to understand past human economic strategies and ecological circumstances. This course introduces the important issues and analytical techniques of zooarchaeology, and provides hands-on experience in an integrated laboratory and lecture format. Topics include skeletal and taxonomic identification, taphonomic processes, mortality profiles, biometric analyses, and the application of optimal foraging theory. ANTH 2339 or special permission of the instructor required.
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