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3.00 Credits
Discusses and analyzes traditional Indian cultures from an anthropological perspective which includes patterns of subsistence, social organization and ideology. Culture change, conflict and the contemporary status of native groups are considered within the context of national political and legal policies. Falls. Prerequisite(s): AN 2210 or SO 2220.
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3.00 Credits
Concepts of illness, wellness, and healing reflect the societies and cultures in which they are found. Compares ways in which a variety of Western (e.g., France, Germany, United States) and non-Western (South American, African) societies and cultures think about and institutionalize health and illness. Selected topics include: changing health and nutritional status from human prehistory to the present, social and cultural definitions of health and illness, ritual healing practices, ethnomedicine, the relationships of social organization and stratification to health and illness; and the social and personal construction of medical knowledge. Not open to students who have taken Medical Anthropology. Fall of odd years. Prerequisite(s): AN 2210 or SO 2220. (WECO)
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3.00 Credits
Explores the production and exchange of material goods in food-foraging, tribal, chiefdom and state societies. Examines both formal economic and anthropological economic theories in order to understand non-Western exchange systems as well as Western industrialization, modernization and development and their impact on both traditional and developing societies. Case studies illustrate the wide variety of economies and their accompanying systems of social and symbolic relations. Fall of even years. Prerequisite(s): AN 2210 or SO 2220.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to Forensic Anthropology, which is the scientific study of the human skeleton and its application to the law. This includes the study of age, gender, stature, abnormalities, disease, pathologies, and trauma, along with all of the other evidence that can be learned from the study of human remains. Intensive handling and analysis of human bones. Springs. Prerequisite(s): AN 2300.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the dynamics of sociocultural change and applies anthropological concepts and methods to contemporary human problems. Spring of odd years. Prerequisite(s): AN 2210.
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3.00 Credits
Social theory helps us to understand society and how it works. It also provides frameworks for developing methodology for anthropologists and sociologists when conducting research. Looks at the connections between theories and methods (or practice) and analyzes major classical and modern theorists from Durkheim and Weber to Malinowski, Goffman and Geertz. Falls of odd years. Last offering Fall 2011. Prerequisite(s): AN 2210 or SO 2220. (WRCO)
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3.00 Credits
Purpose: to prepare students with the basic ability to design research and implement an actual study of social phenomena; to enable students to become more astute and critical consumers of social research studies. Skills learned include theory application and construction, operationalizing variables, evaluating strengths and weaknesses of research methodologies, determining causality, sampling, hypothesis formulation and testing, data collection, analysis and depiction, and proposal writing. May be taken as SO 4410. Falls. Prerequisite(s): MA 2300 or SS 3700 or SW 3700.
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4.00 Credits
Capstone course for majors; provides an overview of anthropological methodology and theory. Heavily emphasizes research and the practical applications of anthropology. Springs. Prerequisite(s): (AN 4400 or SO 4400) or (AN 4410 or SO 4410) and Junior or Senior standing as a major. (WRIT)(WRCO)
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1.00 - 12.00 Credits
Students engage in work programs and thereby apply knowledge gained from major and minor courses, areas or concentrations. Qualifications to be an intern are determined by the Department Chair and a faculty member who acts as a supervising professor. Once placed, student interns have both an immediate supervisor and a supervising professor. With permission.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Provides a more intense background in some aspect of anthropology through reading and research, supplementing previous courses or broadening the student's knowledge in some subject area not presently covered by AN courses. Consent required of the instructor who will supervise the independent study and the Department Chair.
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