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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to a full four-field approach to the anthropological study of human beings. Students will survey the ways that humans shape and live within the cultural realms through historical, environmental, biological and cultural (social) factors. The importance of context in research will be emphasized in this course, with key concepts, sub-discipline content, approaches and questions relating to cultural, biological and linguistic anthropology, plus archaeology introduced. In addition, specific categories of key vocabulary, theoretical orientations, methods, and practices will be provided as a general introduction to what it means to be human.
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3.00 Credits
This course aims to promote understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity. Sociological and anthropological perspectives will be used to examine socio-cultural diversity, the challenges and opportunities it presents, and its importance in our dynamic contemporary world. The course also emphasizes processes such as workplace diversity and long-term trends in cultural pluralism, which are transforming our everyday experiences and identities.
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3.00 Credits
Emphasizing the role of anthropology as a primary creator and contributor historically to our understanding and use of the terms race and racism, this course focuses on how biological and cultural conceptions of race intersect both in the United States and globally. Historical and comparative approaches will be used to trace how early perspectives of race and racism evolved politically, socially, continuing to this day. One specific focus will be to demonstrate how racism perpetuates inequalities that give rise to health disparities throughout the world.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the evolving position of women in society and the role of gender in shaping opportunities and experiences. Through various cultural and theoretical perspectives, students analyze how women's rights and roles change and how gender influences power, status and meaning.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the major institutions of family, education, economic, and political systems as they define, provide for, and frequently limit women. The course addresses women's issues throughout many cultures of the world and considers how women's gender intersects with race, religion, and sexual orientation.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the human way of life by recognizing and evaluating cultural adaptations to natural and social environments. The cultural organization of non-western and western cultures including indigenous and modern societies is analyzed with emphasis upon subsistence patterns, social structure, languages, belief systems, family and kinship, personality, culture change and applied anthropology.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the physical diversity of human populations - the young and old, male and female, large and small, and people of broadly varying ancestry. Scientific study of differences among human populations in skeletal anatomy, dentition, hair, certain soft tissue and DNA can be useful in understanding and debunking historical prejudices, understanding how natural selection operates, and to identify victims from their remains. Students will examine actual human bones and gain understanding of how physical evidence can be applied to subjects ranging from archaeology to judicial proceedings.
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3.00 Credits
Participation observation has been, and continues to be, the primary method used by anthropologists in evaluating culture. Students who take this course, either as a supplement to having taken introductory cultural anthropology or as an alternative to typical cultural anthropology courses, will actively participate in either ethnographic fieldwork and/or presentations based upon individual visual essays presented, and thus, a very broad exploration of experiential learning in anthropology will be presented.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces North American Pre and Post-Contact History from an anthropological lens: by examining selected traditional Native American cultures from the perspectives of Native peoples with emphasis on change through time.
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3.00 Credits
Belief systems exist in all societies around the world and shape our experiences as humans. Students will examine methods used by anthropologists to interpret and illuminate belief systems in diverse cultural environments.
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