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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
(Fall & Spring; Yearly; 3.00 Credits; S,I) Dedicated to the proposition that there are many ways of being human, all of which are adaptations to particular sets of environmental and historical conditions. Trends and highlights of the human experience, both physical and cultural, are studied from a sociocultural perspective. Prerequisites: Freshman or Sophomore standing. Juniors and Seniors require the instructor's permission. No High School students are permitted.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall; Variable; 3.00 Credits; S) A cross-cultural study of social and cultural processes involved in the creation and maintenance of the social categories of race and ethnicity. Examines anthropological, historical, and legal texts as well as material from popular culture. Prerequisites: AN151 or AN254.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall; Yearly; 3.00 Credits; S,I) Through readings, lectures, films, and discussions about a variety of archaeological sites, from Alaska to Zimbabawe, students are introduced to our earliest ancestors, to the diversity of prehistoric cultures, and to the origins of Western civilization.
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3.00 Credits
(Either Semester; Variable; 3.00 Credits; S,I,CW) A study of the incidence and nature of cooperation, competition, and conflict in human cultures. Evidence will be drawn from archaeological, ethnological and ethological data. Prerequisite: AN151.
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3.00 Credits
(Variable; Variable; 3.00 Credits; CW,S) An examination of the social, economic and political lives of reservation and non-reservation American Indians set in the historical context of their minority treatment. Prerequisites; SO101 or AN151 or AN254.
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3.00 Credits
(Spring; Variable; 3.00 Credits; S) Occasional offerings in which students and a professor explore an area of specialized interest. Some themes include religion, gender, culture change, cultural ecology, frontiers and insider/ outsider. Prerequisites: AN151 or AN254. (A CAII course)
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3.00 Credits
(Variable; Variable; 3.00 Credits; S) A survey of the archaeological evidence in North America before 1492. Students learn about the diversity of groups, ranging in size from small bands of hunter-gatherers to highly complex societies, and how they exploited various ecological niches.
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3.00 Credits
(Variable; Variable; 3.00 Credits; CW,S,I) An introduction to the variation in human cultural systems. A cultural perspective is used to examine diversity in band, tribal, chiefdom, and state level societies. Prerequisites: AN 151 or AN 254 or permission.
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4.00 Credits
(Spring; Yearly; 1.00-4.00 Credits; S) Allows the department to offer special topics not normally offered. Departments may offer more than one special topic. Prerequisites vary by title.
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3.00 Credits
(Variable; Variable; 3.00 Credits; CW,S) Explores the major theoretical orientations of American and European Anthropology, including: functionalism, structuralism, social evolutionism, symbolic anthropology, as well as a consideration of Marxist, feminist and indigenous critiques. A capstone integrative experience for all upper level anthropology P.O.E.s.
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