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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Contemporary Issues in Japanese Society. Discusses a selected topic in depth and explores important issues in contemporary Japanese society.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Special Topics in Anthropology. Areas of current research interest presented by resident and visiting faculty.
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3.00 Credits
Evolutionary Perspectives on Gender. This addresses the relationship between biological influences on, and the cultural construction of, human behavior. It asks: How are women's and men's lives affected by biological processes and our primate past? Is evolutionary thinking about humans compatible with feminism?
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4.00 Credits
Descriptive Linguistics. A study of contemporary methods of linguistic analysis, with emphasis on data drawn from a wide variety of languages; in-depth analysis of a single language. Language universals, language types and field methods are discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Language and Society. A study of the place of language in society and of how our understanding of social structure, conflict and change affect our understanding of the nature of language.
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3.00 Credits
Language Patterns: Types and Universals. A survey of common patterns and constructions in language ranging from word order to case agreement, voice, aspect, relative clauses, interrogation and negation. Major themes include the unity and diversity of language and the techniques used to measure it.
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3.00 Credits
Applied Anthropology This upper-level seminar introduces applied anthropology methodology for community research. It combines classroom discussion, empirical fieldwork, data analysis, and ethnographic writing. Topics include statistical analysis, professional ethics, behavioral observation techniques, interview and survey techniques, report writing, digital representation, policy application, and grant-writing. Students will conduct small-scale collaborative research projects.
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3.00 Credits
Archaeological Conservation (I). An introduction to the theory and practice of archaeological conservation, including systems of deterioration, treatment and storage. The first semester emphasizes the material science and technological underpinnings of archaeological artifacts, the nature of the archaeological environment, and the deterioration of artifacts.
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3.00 Credits
Quantitative Research Methods in Anthropology. An introduction to the design and implementation of quantitative research in anthropology. Statistical methods covered include those used in describing and interpreting archaeological, biological, ethnographic, and linguistic data. This course focuses on exploratory data analysis, probability, sampling, hypothesis testing, correlation, and regression.
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3.00 Credits
Caribbean Archaeology The archaeology of western Atlantic islands for the period 1492-1900 AD. The pre-Columbian background, contact between indigenous and European groups, European settlement and island development will be examined through recent archaeological work on urban settlements military forts, commercial structures, sugar mills and others.
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