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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
An intensive study of a particular subject or problem in anthropology to be announced prior to registration. The course may be conducted on either a lecture-discussion or a seminar basis. Prerequisite: As announced in the course schedule. Course Type(s): None
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3.00 Credits
A survey of main, pre-modern culture areas in North, Central, and South America, and the Caribbean: native civilizations and other native cultures; peasant cultures of Europeanized America; African influences in and around the Caribbean. Descriptive overview with emphasis on the diversity of cultural experiences and achievements. May be taken independently from Anthropology 204. Note that the prerequisite is waived when this course is taken in fulfillment of the Cross-Cultural Studies requirement. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103. Course Type(s): CC
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3.00 Credits
A survey of main culture areas in Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Pacific Islands before westernization and/or modernization: emphasis on native and peasant cultures; some aspects of indigenous civilizations and recent, national cultures. Descriptive overview with emphasis on the diversity of cultural experiences and achievements. May be taken independently of Anthropology 203. Note that the prerequisite is waived when this course is taken in fulfillment of the Cross- Cultural Studies requirement. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103. Course Type(s): CC
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3.00 Credits
Analyze the history of the family through fiction, monographs, articles, and primary documents. It will explore how the family developed, why it persisted, and the many forms it has taken. Consider how family size and structure, roles, functions, and power dynamics have varied, not only according to historical era, but also along class, ethnic, regional, religious, and national lines. Also listed as Gender Studies 218 and History 218. Course Type(s): GS
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3.00 Credits
Behavior of the human species' closest relatives with emphasis on chimpanzees, other apes, and Old World monkeys; social life, ecological adaptations, psychological mechanisms; evolutionary origins of human behavior. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103. Course Type(s): None
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3.00 Credits
Evolution of human behavior with emphasis on features that distinguish humans from other primates; social life, ecological adaptations, psychological mechanisms; implications for contemporary human behavior. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103. Course Type(s): None
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3.00 Credits
A social and cultural survey of representative peoples in South America and the Caribbean, emphasizing the comparative study of economic, political, social, and religious organization. Note that the prerequisite is waived when this course is taken in fulfillment of the Cross-Cultural Studies requirement. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103 or 113. Course Type(s): CC
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the cultural, social and linguistic diversity of Pre-Columbian North American societies; problems of contemporary Indian groups. Also listed as History 264. Course Type(s): CC
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Australia, New Guinea, Polynesia and other Pacific Islands; prehistory, race, ecology, society, and culture; historical developments following European contact. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103 or 113. Course Type(s): None
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to historical archaeology, the archaeology of the modern world (c. 1492+). It focuses on archaeological sites in the United States. Students are introduced to the various written and material sources that historical archaeologists use to interpret the recent past, including artifacts, vernacular architecture, grave markers, documents, photographs, and other visual sources. Archaeological field methods are also introduced with a minimum of one class period spent excavating an archaeological site. Also listed as History 266. Prerequisite: Anthropology 103 or History 103. Course Type(s): WT
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