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4.00 Credits
Theoretical foundations and methods used to conduct quantitative analysis in anthropology. This course includes a laboratory component where students practice methods learned in lecture. Topics include: research design, ethics, human subjects protection, research design sampling, GIS/Mapping, interviewing, questionnaires, and computer aided data analysis.
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3.00 Credits
Sociocultural patterns of human environmental interaction, applied research on and policy solutions to environmental problems in the western and non-western worlds.
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3.00 Credits
Prehistoric cultures and cultural developments in the United States and Canada from the first settlement to late prehistoric times; regional cultural developments.
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3.00 Credits
Major pre-Colombian cultures of Mexico and Central America from earliest times until the Spanish conquest (Aztecs, Mayas, etc.); rise of towns, ceremonial centers, cities, states, and empires; development and elaboration of area and regional cultural traditions; selected problems in Mesoamerican prehistory.
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3.00 Credits
Follow-up study of excavated materials; artifact description, measurement, and analysis by students.
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3.00 Credits
Functions of the arts in culture and relationship of art to other aspects of culture; arts of Pacific, African, native North American, and other cultures.
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3.00 Credits
Aboriginal cultures of Middle America; economic, social, political, and religious aspects of traditional and contemporary Aztec, Maya, and other Mesoamerican Indian cultures.
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3.00 Credits
Examines how the content of thought or knowledge is created, organized, and distributed in human communities. Topics include taxonomies, schemas, and models of cultural knowledge.
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3.00 Credits
Ethnographic examination of Celtic Europe. Brief look at Pre-Celtic Europe followed by appearance of Celts, earliest written descriptions of Keltoi, invasion of the insular Celts, linguistic differences between Celts. Description of Celtic culture from written and folkloristic sources, and modern ethnographies leads into Celtic influence in modern global economy.
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3.00 Credits
Insight is gained into nonwestern mental processes, how syncretistic religions can act as transcultural psychiatric therapy, and why western psychiatric diagnoses may not apply to people in other cultures. The student is to develop an understanding of the historical development of a theoretical orientation.
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