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3.00 Credits
Evolutionary Psychology is a new inter-disciplinary field that studies how our preferences, emotions, and ways of thinking and behaving have been shaped by natural selection. This course discusses how our minds and behavior have evolved to cope with problems of survival, mating and parenting, cooperation, conflict, and status competition.
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3.00 Credits
All of human experience before the last 10,000 years passed in this way of life. What is known about it? Survey of ecology, economics, technology, political and social organization, and religion among recent hunting and gathering people. Implications for human evolution are examined.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of anthropological research on the relationships between environment and human behavior.
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3.00 Credits
Adolescence represents a formative yet vulnerable period of human life. We are no longer children, yet far from being competent adults. We have social motivations that may lead us into danger, and we find ourselves treated differently by everyone' from familiar adults in our lives to society at large. This life stage represents a pivotal moment for developing relationships with friends, mentors and others that can sustain us' in continued interaction or in memory'throughout life. Adolescence is also a critical risk period for developing lasting mental health and substance abuse problems. Why does such a formative yet vulnerable period exist in human life? How can we learn to socially and emotionally thrive in adolescence? We will investigate these questions through (1) learning how not only humans across cultures and time, but our closest living relatives bonobos and chimpanzees and a handful of other species (e.g. dolphins, elephants), experience learning and vulnerability during adolescence and (2) through building mentoring relationships with young adolescents (8th graders) via partnership with the Salt Lake Center for Science Education. The latter will include leading 8th-graders during a 2-day, 3-night field trip at the University's Bonderman Field Station in Rio Mesa. This course is 3-credits and has no pre-requisites.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers students a unique opportunity to gain experience in museum collections at the state-of-the-art Natural History Museum of Utah (NHMU) with professional staff in the Anthropology division. Students will get to explore career options in museum studies, archaeology, ethnography, collections and records management, and archival sciences. Students will be trained in the proper handling and care of museum objects, protocols used in collections work, and collections management. Projects will encompass artifact and associated records cataloging, archiving, collections care, and EMU database training.
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3.00 Credits
Topics Vary. These courses do not count as topical or geographical requirements for the major. A total of 2 courses (6 credits maximum) are allowed towards the major.
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3.00 Credits
Prior to ten thousand years ago, nearly all humans made their living by foraging and hunting. Now nearly all people who produce their own food practice some form of agriculture. The rest of us exchange various services for our food. We will study how this change took place from the following fields: history, economics, and evolutionary biology.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers some central topics in anthropology: sex, family and kinship in cultures ranging from tribal to modern. The first half of the course covers major topics and theories, including evolutionary roots of kinship and the incest taboo, descent groups, marriage and marriage rules, and folk theories, rituals, and symbols involving where babies come from and what kinship is. The second half of the course is a tour of kinship around the world, covering Melanesia, Amazonia, Africa, East Asia, the Middle East, and the West, and including how kinship systems have developed historically, and how they affect and are affected by modernization.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Internship applications are available from the Academic Advisor for students who acquire an internship placement on their own that is directly related to their major. To apply, students should submit the application along with a resume, 1-2 page proposal and the signature of a faculty member who agrees to monitor student learning and grade the student. An academic component is required, such as keeping a journal/reflection, assignments, readings and/or a final paper, which should tie the internship into coursework and anthropological theory/practice and should be outlined in the proposal. Internships must be approved by the Academic Advisor and Department Chair. May count towards an Anthropology elective or topical requirement and may be repeated twice for a total of 6 credit hours. Prerequisites: Sophomore, Junior, OR Senior Standing AND ANTH 1010.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
A maximum of six credit hours allowed toward major requirements.
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