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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
1-6 credit hours (C,F). Offered summer. Designed to encourage students to enhance their academic programs through studying abroad. Arrangements must be made with a faculty member who will direct the study with preparatory instructions and final requirements. Prerequisites: Permission of department head.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (May be A,B or C). Offered occasionally. Examination of selected topics which are of current importance to anthropology. May be taken for a maximum of six hours credit toward the major.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. (A,B and C). Offered every three semesters. The course teaches students how to identify and solve anthropological problems with spatial dimensions. Hands-on experience is stressed in the acquisition, analysis, and display of spatial data using Geographic Information Systems software. Topics include the mapping of race and ethnicity, the spatial distribution of cultural variables, and human modification and use of the landscape. Prerequisites: GANTH 195, GANTH 196 or ANTH 197.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (B). Offered spring. An exploration of human behavior from an evolutionary perspective. Darwinism, life history theory and the fundamentals of heredity will be reviewed and employed in the analysis of human behavior from bipedalism to morality. Data from the fossil and archeological records, genetics, non-human primate studies, and ethnographic fieldwork will be used. Prerequisite: GANTH 196 or permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits (C,F). Offered fall and spring. Explores ethnographic methods and conventions of ethnographic writing through close reading, analysis and production of ethnographic texts. Students develop critical skills in assessing ethnographic practice by examining how ethnographies are shaped by authors' fieldwork experiences, intellectual traditions and theoretical perspectives. Students engage in fieldwork and craft their own ethnographic accounts. Prerequisite or corequisite: ANTH 375.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Latin America and the Caribbean were the first and largest parts of the Western Hemisphere to be populated by Africans. Afro-Latin America examines cultural formations Africans brought to these regions. Beginning with an overview of the slave trade, it examines the histories of Africans and African-descent people throughout Latin America, as well as contemporary Afro-Latin American culture(s). Prerequisites: One course in either Latin American or Africana studies (any discipline); upper-division status or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. This course will explore the theoretical and methodological questions that have been raised in the field of oral history related to evidence and objectivity, personal and collective memory, narrative structure, ethics and social justice. Throughout the course students will conduct multiple interviews in the Shenandoah Valley and prepare a final presentation based on this material. Prerequisite: HIST 395 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits (A,F). Offered spring. A review of the nature of inquiry, recent theory and the means by which archaeologist acquire, analyze, and interpret their data. In addition to practical training in methods of analysis used in contemporary practice, students will gain experience in designing, conducting and reporting archaeological research. Prerequisites: GANTH 195 and ANTH 197.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
1-6 credits, only 3 of which can apply to the major (May be A,B or C). Offered fall and spring. Students participate as course assistants in anthropology. Assistantships provide students with a sense of what it is like to teach an anthropology course by allowing them to work closely with faculty members through different phases of course preparation, presentation and evaluation. Assistantships also allow for a deeper understanding of course material by providing opportunities for student assistants to lead discussion and to help their peers review the material outside of the classroom. Prerequisites: Students must have junior/ senior standing, must have earned a grade of "B" or better in the course for which s/he will serve as assistant, and may register by faculty invitation only.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
1-6 credits (May be A,B or C). Offered fall and spring. Designed to encourage students to enhance their academic programs by employing and refining anthropological skills through internships in public or private agencies. Arrangements must be made with a faculty member who will oversee the internship. Prerequisite: By permission only.
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