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4.00 Credits
Three hours lecture; two hours laboratory (4) Prerequisites: ANSC 101 or permission of instructor This course considers the methods and theories that archaeologists use to interpret past lifeways of prehistoric and historic human cultures. Case studies of past cultures are also discussed to provide current information on these cultures and to serve as examples of archaeological research. The lab component will focus on giving students hands-on experience in basic field and laboratory methods in archaeology.
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4.00 Credits
Three hour lecture; two hours laboratory (4) Prerequisites: ANSC 101 or permission of instructor This course is an overview of biological anthropology. Biological anthropology studies the adaptations, variability, and evolution of human beings and their living and fossil relatives. Topics to be covered include basic genetics and heredity, primate behavior and taxonomy, human osteology, human evolution, human variation and adaptation, bioarchaeology, and forensic anthropology. The laboratory component provides students with hands-on experience with this material.
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4.00 Credits
Three hours lecture; two hours laboratory. Prerequisites: ANSC 101, 201, 301 or 302, STAT 200; or permission of instructor. Through hands-on training with real and demonstrative data sets, students will learn a wide range of quantitative analytical techniques most frequently used in the field of anthropology. Course topics include basic computer methods, concepts of sampling and probability, and univariate and multivariate statistical analyses.
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4.00 Credits
Three hours lecture; three hours laboratory. Prerequisite: ANSC 302 or ANTH 120, or permission of instructor. An examination of the human skeletal system, including discussions of the nature and functions of bone, techniques for the identifi cation of bone, and methods of study of human bone in an anthropological as well as forensic (legal) context.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours lecture. Prerequisites: ANSC 201, 301; or ANTH 122 or 222; or permission of instructor This course provides advanced training in field and laboratory methods in archaeology. It includes limited field investigations, training in the processing and analysis of both prehistoric and historic artifact collections, and the preparation of original reports summarizing these analyses.
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3.00 Credits
Three hour lecture. Prerequisites: ANSC 101 and 201, or ANTH 120, or permission of instructor. A survey of both living and past primates as unique members of the animal kingdom. It includes discussions of general primate characteristics, taxonomy of living primates, primate behavior and primate (including human) evolution.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours lecture. Prerequisites: ANSC 301 and ANSC 201, or ANTH 122, or permission of instructor. A survey of the worlds prehistoric cultures, from the earliest human cultures to the beginning of complex civilizations. The focus is on humans adaptation to their environment through culture and the changes in these adaptations over time.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours lecture. Prerequisites: ANSC 101 and sophmore standing, or permission of instructor. This course introduces students to the archaeological study of how human activities impact the natural environment. The course focuses primarily on a series of prehistoric case studies drawn from many regions of the world.
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3.00 Credits
Three hour lecture. Prerequisite: ANSC 101, ANSC 201, ANSC 301, and ANSC 302, or permission of instructor. The study of anthropological theories which provide explanations for human biocultural evolution and variation. Both classical and current theories in the Anthropological Sciences relating to behavior and biological evolution are examined and their relationships explored.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours lecture. Prerequisites: ANSC 201 and 301 or 302, or permission of instructor. Reviews the fossil evidence for human evolution, with an emphasis on past and present scientific principles governing the study of human origins and the interaction of culture and biology in human evolutionary development. The archaeological record as it pertains to our human past is also explored. Students will critically examine major controversies in human evolution from a biocultural perspective.
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