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3.00 Credits
Seminar through which students explore recent discussions within the discipline about the purpose and meaning of anthropological writing through reading different styles of ethnographic writing and through conducting ethnographic research themselves and writing up the results using different styles and forms. I, II
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3.00 Credits
General anthropological introduction to social institutions and cultural forms of the Arab countries of North Africa and the Near East; Israel, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan. Topics: ecology, Islam as faith, Islam as culture, traditional adaptive strategies, consequences of colonialism and rise of nation-states, impact of modernization, changing conceptions of kinship, ethnicity, and gender.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers the meaning and social implications of gender in human society. Cultural definitions of male and female gender categories, as well as associated behavioral and structural differentiation of gender roles are analyzed using current anthropological concepts and theories.
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3.00 Credits
World archaeology in the framework of major prehistoric cultural innovations. History, techniques, methods, and significance of archaeological research.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to antiquity of the American Indian, principal culture areas, and field methods and techniques incident to recovery of archaeological data and materials.
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3.00 Credits
P: MATH-M 14 or equivalent. Astronomical instruments and remote sensing of properties of planets; evolution of the Earth and the planetary system; physical properties of planetary bodies including comets, asteroids, and natural satellites; formation of planetary systems; extrasolar planets; origin of life. I, II
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3.00 Credits
P: MATH-M 14 or equivalent. The sun as a star, physical properties and evolution of stars, principles of spectroscopy as applied to astronomy, the major stages of stellar evolution, binary stars, variable stars, star clusters, gaseous nebulae, stellar motions and distribution, Milky Way and external galaxies, expanding universe, cosmic time scale, origin of elements. I, II
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3.00 Credits
P: MATH-M 115 or equivalent. Historical and philosophical development of our physical picture of the universe, evolution of galaxies, origin of the elements, cosmic distance scale, development of large-scale structure, and the earliest stages of the Big Bang.
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3.00 Credits
P: Calculus, PHYS-P 323 or equivalent. Selected topics in astrophysics such as celestial mechanics, astrobiology, stellar interiors, stellar atmospheres, stellar populations, galaxy dynamics, or cosmology.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to the methods and logic of science, and helps them understand the importance of science to the development of civilization and the contemporary world. Provides a context within which to evaluate the important scientific and technological issues of modern society. Interdisciplinary elements.
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