|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
1.00 - 5.00 Credits
The use of the scientific method in anthropological research. Published papers from subfields illustrate effective research design, the formulation and testing of hypotheses, and comparative methods. Field exercises in interviewing, observation, and taking and using field notes. The ethics of field research and procedures for maintaining physical and mental health in the field. May be repeated for credit. 1-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)
-
1.00 Credits
Current topics and trends in cultural and social anthropology, cultural archaeology, and archaeology. 1 unit, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff)
-
1.00 - 15.00 Credits
Supervised work on a research project with an individual faculty member. May be repeated for credit. 1-15 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)
-
1.00 - 15.00 Credits
Supervised work for a qualifying paper, examination, or project with an individual faculty member. 1-15 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)
-
3.00 Credits
Provides graduate students with the opportunity to pursue their area of specialization in an institutional setting such as a laboratory, clinic, research institute, or government agency. 4-5 units, Aut (Staff), Win (Staff), Spr (Staff), Sum (Staff)
-
5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 206, BIO 106, HUMBIO 6.) The human fossil record from the first non-human primates in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene, 80-65 million years ago, to the anatomically modern people in the late Pleistocene, between 100,000 to 50,000 B.C.E. Emphasis is on broad evolutionary trends and the natural selective forces behind them. GER:DB-NatSci 5 units, Win (Klein, R)
-
4.00 Credits
The application of anthropological and archaeological methods to forensics. Topics include the recovery and identification of individuals via skeletal and DNA analysis, reconstruction of premortem and postmortem histories of remains, analysis of mass graves, human rights issues, surveillance tape analysis, analysis of crime scene materials, and expert witness testimony. Legal and ethical dimensions. GER:DB-NatSci 4 units, Spr (DeGusta, D)
-
3.00 Credits
Practical training in the collection and analysis of linguistic data from native speakers of a language largely unknown to the investigator. Documentation of endangered languages. Research goals, field trip preparation, ethics (including human subjects, cooperation with local investigators, and governmental permits), working in the community, technical equipment, and analytical strategies. Emphasis is on the use of recording devices and computers in collection and analysis. Prerequisite: introductory course in linguistics. 4-5 units, Spr (Fox, J)
-
3.00 - 5.00 Credits
How to think about media through its producers, audiences, and unexpected uses. Reception studies and the idea of a public as a selfaware audience or crowd. Social and textual analyses of popular culture. 3-5 units, Spr (Ahmad, T)
-
5.00 Credits
(Same as ANTHRO 277A.) Focus is on power, identity, and the politics of knowledge production. How transnational interactions influence Japanese identity. How anthropological knowledge has contributed to understanding Japanese culture and society. Gender, race and class; contemporary ethnographies. Modernity and globalization. Cultural politics, domestic work, labor management, city planning, ad images, anime, martial art, fashion, theater, leisure, and tourism. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-GlobalCom 5 units, not given this year
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|