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3.00 Credits
Students in this interdisciplinary course will engage in the scientific study of language with particular reference to the relationships among the languages, thoughts, and cultures of speech communities living all over the world, including within the United States, France, India, Canada, Spain, Japan and Peru, among others. Additional course topics include the process of human language acquisition, structures of human language, bilingualism and the ways in which race, class, gender, and other social characteristics may be displayed through the use of language. This course is offered every other year, beginning in 2009.
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Prerequisites: ANTH 02203 This course covers the prehistoric and early historic cultural adaptations of the native peoples of the Americas. Emphases will be placed upon: current research trends and findings particularly in the last three decades; prehistoric cultural ecology; culture change and culture process; and current new and traditional controversies, from the earliest Native American hunter-gatherers to settled societies, animal and plant domestication, to the impact of colonization, and the impact of archaeological conservation. Students will research articles on discoveries and debates, prepare a research report, and apply learned archaeological methods in a simulated excavation. This course may not be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: One of the following; ANTH 02201, ANTH 02221,BIOL 02100, BIOL01.104, BIOL 01110, BIOL 01113, BIOL 01310 Students of Human Evolution will study anthropological genetics and, evolutionary theory, basics of primate and human skeletal anatomy, dating and excavation techniques and the fossil evidence of hominid evolution from 7 million years ago to the present. Recent discoveries and controversies will be discussed and evaluated. The course will be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
This is an ethnographic and archaeological survey of the native peoples of North America, emphasizing cultural diversity and adaptation. The course will cover the time span from the settling of North America to the present. It analyzes the present-day problems of reservation life, the contributions of Native Americans, and the Native American? place in society. Students will analyze issues affecting Native North Americans.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: BIOL 01110 or BIOL 10210 or ANTH 02201 This course examines the normal course of human physical growth and development and inter-populational differences in attainment of puberty and final adult height, weight and body shape. It also focuses on the effect of the environment, heredity, disease and nutrition in producing a variety of fat patterns, trunk/limb proportions and delays in growth in different human groups. Finally, students learn to assess critically different types of growth studies and methods of forecasting growth. This course may not be offered annually.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ANTH 02201 or BIOL 10210 Forensic Anthropology employs the methods of physical anthropology and archeology to identify human skeletal remains. Proper excavation technique for recovery of remains in order to fulfill the requirements of the legal system will be taught. Students will learn to determine age, sex, height, life history, cause of and time since death and population affinity from the human skeleton. There is a weekly Friday morning laboratory session in addition to classes. A weekend day-long excavation is required. Grading is based on homework, a case report, performance on exams and a final paper. This course may not be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ANTH 02202 This course examines the relation of human groups to their environments as mediated by culture. It emphasizes the interaction of significant variables in the natural habitat, technology, and social institutions. This course may not be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ANTH 02202 This course examines the impact of sexuality on the structure of human cultures, and on how sexuality and gendered behavior are expressed and employed in different cultural contexts. This course may not be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the diversity of magical and religious beliefs in human cultures and explores how religious systems are interconnected with environment, economics, politics, and family structures. Course material emphasizes use of a comparative approach to explore the relationship between culture, magico-religious practices, and spirituality. The course will be offered annually.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ANTH 02202 or ANTH 02310 This course traces the development of Maya culture from its earliest archaeological evidence to the eve of Old World contact, focusing on its adaptation to a variety of ecological settings, its interaction with other mesoamerican cultures, the development and transformation of city states, Mayan cosmology and world view, and the development of an indigenous system of writing. This course may not be offered annually.
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