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0.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 2503, graduate standing. Provides an understanding of human biological variation from an evolutionary, historical, and anthropological perspective. An examination of the history of classification of human variation, including concepts of race; the genetic basis of variation, including variation in discrete and complex traits; population-based variation; and human behavioral genetics. No student may earn credit for both 4603 and 5603. (Irreg.)
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 5013. This course will familiarize the student with morphological and syntactic phenomena from a large array of languages. Morphological processes, inflectional and derivation, grammatical categories, and problems in morphemic analysis will be covered. Syntactic phenomena covered includes cliticization, noun incorporation agreement, valence, causation, subordination structures, and head/dependent and word order typologies. (Sp)
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. This course is an introduction to field methods in linguistic anthropology,with emphasis on the preliminary phases of documenting indigenous languages. Course begins with the elicitation of basic vocabulary before progressing to the analysis of sound patterning, grammatical patterning, and elementary sentence structures. Also covers the development of writing systems for previously unwritten languages. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 5623 or permission of instructor. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Continued exploration of field methods in linguistic anthropology, with emphasis on developing the materials for a dictionary, grammatical description and morphology and syntax of language introduced in 5623. Also covers computerized databases. (Irreg.)
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing. The study of people and plants in the past. Discussion of types of anthropological questions that can be answered, the types of data studied, and the analytic approaches used. Emphasis will be on macroplant remains, mostly seeds and woods, and development of basic laboratory skills. Laboratory (Irreg.)
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7.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 5223 and graduate standing. Explores historical and contemporary thinking about culture and mental illness, and examines classic formulations of the relationship between anthropology and psychiatry. (Irreg.)
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8.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Graduate standing. The interactions between humans and their environments are critical for human survival and have been of anthropological interest for decades. Prehistoric human ecology is studied through a variety of approaches. Along with a discussion of human ecology as a set of theoretical approaches, we will deal with specific case studies. The class is not focused upon paleoenvironmental reconstructions nor is it a lab course dealing with analysis of environmental data. (Irreg.)
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9.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Graduate standing. The goal of this seminar is to provide a supportive space for discussing the craft of writing, sharing tips for organizing data, and critiquing drafts of works in progress. Every student will be required to circulate thesis chapters, which will form the texts for the seminar. (Irreg.)
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Prerequisite: graduate standing. Addresses systematic ways of describing and recording soils and/or geological deposits in which archeological sites are found. Skills emphasized in class will be applicable to evaluating the taphonomic integrity of buried archeological sites and to preliminarily assessing their age and the environmental conditions during and after their habitation by people. (Sp)
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Provides an overview of the complex scientific and cultural interface between sex, gender, and health. Topics covered include gender identity and biological sex, various life cycle issues such as birth, sexual maturity, reproduction, and post-reproductive years. No student may earn credit for both 4723 and 5723. (Sp)
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