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Course Criteria
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6.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 2303 and graduate standing. Covers the linguistic, social and cultural factors involved in contact-induced language change and language shift, and on the main trends and literature in revitalization and maintenance of endangered languages. Students gain experience in practical applications of language revitalization, focusing on languages of the Americas. No student may earn credit for both 4063 and 5063. (Irreg.)
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7.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing. This graduate seminar embraces an approach to the anthropology of religion that is both interdisciplinary and rooted in particular places and historical contexts. The goal is to provide grounding in traditional approaches to the subject that will serve as a framework for practice-oriented ethnography of contemporary religion in various contexts. (Irreg.)
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8.00 Credits
Prerequisite; graduate standing. Introduces students to the basics of quantitative analysis in the field of anthropology. Topics include parametric and non-parametric measurements of significance and association, mulitvariate techniques, and concepts useful to anthropologists such as spatial analysis and sampling. (Irreg.)
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 5223. Introduces students to different unit and levels of sociocultural analysis. Students will be required to address a series of research problems as a means of understanding sociocultural analysis. (Irreg.)
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing. This course focuses on language use in larger discourse and cultural contexts and how language is used to conduct the social life and the dynamics of culture. Topics include topic and focus, deixis, reported speech, speaking styles, strategies, and genres, and language and ethnicity. (F)
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6.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Focuses on the study of the things people make and the broader social contexts in which objects are used, circulated, made meaningful, and consumed. Methods and theories developed in the fields of geography, folklore, cultural anthropology, archaeology, and related social sciences will be examined. No student may earn credit for both 4163 and 5163. (F)
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9.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 2503, graduate standing. The study of biological adaptations of human populations to environmental conditions. Human adaptability as a subfield of physical/biological anthropology will be examined from historical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives. No student may earn credit for both 4193 and 5193. (Irreg.)
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Survey of ethnographic methods in anthropological research, with weekly fieldwork assignments and writing exercises. First half of class devoted to current theoretical debates, including the post-modern controversy and literary issues in classic ethnography. Second half of class devoted to hands-on research, including participant-observation, interviews, field notes, databases, and linguistic elicitation. (Irreg)
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing and Anthropology major or graduate standing and permission of instructor. Survey of anthropological theorists and theories of culture (evolutionary, functional, cognitive, ecological, structural, symbolic, etc.) and their impact on research methods in each of the four fields of anthropology and related disciplines. Emphasis will be given to a discussion of primary texts written by the major theorists. (F)
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5.00 Credits
Designed to introduce students to the community in applying anthropological field techniques and theory. while gaining training in method and theory in class, students will be given assignments to execute in community settings. Particular emphasis will be placed on ethnicity, gender and seniority as ethnological parameters. No student may earn credit for both 4253 and 5253. (Irreg.)
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