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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Social Science Core) Focuses on the study of human persons as makers of tools, rules, and moral judgments, and provides a comparison of the ways in which people inWestern and non- Western countries make sense of their experience and of their environment.
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1 semester, 3 credits ( Natural Science Group II Core) This course is an introduction to human evolution and racial variation,with consideration of population dynamics,Darwinian theory, classification and interpretation of fossil evidence, as well as the evolution of culture during the Ice Ages.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Social Science Core) This course introduces the student to the methods, theory, and interpretation of prehistoric archaeology, focusing on the evolution of human cultures, their subsistence technologies, and forms of social organization and ideology as revealed by the archaeological record, from the end of the Ice Ages to the rise of early civilizations in both the Old and NewWorlds.
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1 semester, 3 credits ( Social Science Core) This course focuses on peoples, cultures, and environments in the frontier areas of northern Mexico and Central America as well as in the heartland regions of Mexico-Guatemala. Study will include islands of theWest Indies in that sector of the Caribbean which is socially and culturally related to Central America.
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1 semester, 3 credits ( Social Science Core) This course studies peoples and cultures of South America. A range of groups from tribal Indian through peasants to urbanites will be considered. Rural-urban relationships and those between people and their environments will be examined.Those islands of the Caribbean whose social and cultural characteristics are shared by the northern coastal portions of South America will be included.
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1 semester, 3 credits ( Social Science Core) This course concentrates on contemporary Native Americans: environmental setting, ways of life, historical experience, and cultural background. Attention is given to native life on and off the reservations, including governmental policies, and to present means of expressing indigenous cultural identity and of preserving or revitalizing traditional culture patterns in areas such as arts, religion, technology, and view of the world.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Social Science Core) The most general forms of religion and magic including the belief in spirits, souls, and impersonal supernatural power are studied.The relationship between culture change and religion is considered with special reference to religious syncretism, revitalization movements, altered states of awareness in sacred context, and the interest in the occult.
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1 semester, 3 credits ( Social Science Core) This course considers urban form, the types of urban growth, relationships between urban centers and outlying districts, and urbanization, in various parts of the world. It focuses especially on appreciation of neighborhood and city, the environmental impact of the city, and the application of anthropological research to contemporary issues (e.g., poverty, redevelopment) in urban living.
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1 semester, 3 credits ( Fine Arts Core) Art, aesthetic expression, and social standards for judging artistic products and process are examined in cross-cultural perspective. Data are drawn from Oceania, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, as well as from the folk art of Europe. A variety of art forms, such as ritual symbols; pottery; basketry; wood, stone, and bone carving; and dwellings; textiles; and bodily adornment, will be studied.
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1 semester, 3 credits This course studies religious pilgrimages in historical, cultural, and social contexts. Our purpose is to reveal the richness and profundity of religious experience through consideration of the persons, places, symbols, and processes associated with these sacred journeys. Examples of medieval, post medieval, and contemporary pila grimages will be drawn fromAsia, Europe, and the Americas.
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