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6.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Examines a variety of relevant books and articles on feminist anthropological theory, an area in which the literature has expanded voluminously since the 1970s. Broad topical areas are as follows: Boasian Contributions to Feminist Anthropology; Women in the Field; Women and Work; and, the New Ethnography. (F)
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7.00 Credits
May be repeated; maximum credit 12 hours. Topics vary. (F, Sp)
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9.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Examines the origins and development of complex society and the institutionalization of social inequalities. Complexity is examined along a changing scale of sociopolitical organization, from small "egalitarian" societies to middle-range "chiefdoms" to large archaic states, using both archaeological and ethnographic examples. (S
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0.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate-level social science course. Examines women's involvement in economic development in Africa. Some consideration will be given to family structure and social stratification, as well as women's participation in the social, political and economic spheres. Avenues for viable social change will also be considered. No student may earn credit for both 4303 and 5303.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Survey course into the nature and distribution of Native American languages, with a focus on North and Meso America. Topics include the typology of native languages, language families and real features and cultural domains, and language contact. This course will not satisfy the foreign language requirements. No student may earn credit for both 4313 and 5313. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
1 to 4 hours. Prerequisite: graduate standing. May be repeated with change of content; maximum credit twelve hours. Intensive examination of new developments in the field of anthropological linguistics. Topics reflect interests of faculty, but may include issues of language revitalization, language shift, multilingualism, language and identity, storytelling traditions, language change, or language contact. No student may earn credit for both 4330 and 5330 on the same topic. (Irreg.)
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing. This course will consider demography, the study of human populations, from an anthropological perspective. The course will focus on critical discussion of the readings, which will cover theory, methods, and empirical case studies, and will emphasize small-scale societies, natural fertility populations, and developing countries. (Irreg.)
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6.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Course covers the history of theory in linguistic anthropology, starting with the early work of Boas, Sapir, and Whorf, and continuing with the writings of Levi-Strauss, Hymes, Basso, Silverstein, Bakhtin, and Hill. Surveys contemporary trends in discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and cognitive linguistics. Course is a required core course for anthropology graduate students.(F, Sp)
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9.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Introduces graduate students to research in medical, biological, linguistic, and sociocultural anthropology and archaeology that relates to the health and well-being of global indigenous populations, with an emphasis on the native peoples of the Americas. (F)
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0.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Examines human growth from a biocultural perspective. Human growth is shaped by genes and factors including physical environment, nutrition, disease, and activity. Topics include basic principles of growth and development; assessment methods; growth in primates and early hominids; ecological, genetic, and other factors influencing population variation in growth and the developmental basis of disease. (Irreg.)
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