|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
5.00 Credits
A survey of human prehistory from the origin of humans through the emergence of early civilizations, providing the foundation for understanding modern human societies. Attention is given to civilizations from both the Old World, including ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and India, and the New World, including the Maya, Inca and Aztec. Prerequisite:
-
5.00 Credits
A survey of basic field procedures used to locate, test, preliminarily evaluate, record, report and protect archaeological sites. Emphasizes the basics of field survey, mapping, testing and recording heritage. These archaeologically based techniques are used around the world, but we will consider how they can be applied in the Pacific Northwest to record and protect sites. Prerequisite: none - Suggest AnTh& 100 or AnTh 101, AnTh& 204 or AnTh 104.
-
5.00 Credits
A survey of federal historic preservation legislation, federal CRM legislation and regulations (especially Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA)), the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Native American concerns and traditional cultural properties, and cultural resources and the world wide web, and State CRM legislation and regulations. The overall goal is to train students in the laws pertaining to cultural and archaeological resources throughout the country and regionally. Prerequisite: none, Suggest AnTh& 100 or AnTh 101, AnTh& 204 or AnTh 104, ANTH111.
-
1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Laboratory analysis of excavated material from the Qwu?gwes Archaeological site and/or other sites as indicated in the schedule. Preparation and presentation of research papers in class and at professional conferences. Familiarity with archaeological collections, their processing and curation. Includes appropriate theory and methods. Prerequisite: Instructor's permission is required. Suggested classes include AnTh& 100 or AnTh 101, AnTh& 204 or ANTH104, ANTH280.
-
5.00 Credits
Explores the field practices and theoretical methods of archaeology, as well as the patterns of the archaeological record in our region and the world. Considers the cultural evolution of the last remaining highly sophisticated hunters/fisher/gatherer societies: the Northwest Coast Indian Cultures. Examines the record from the earliest hunter/gatherers through formative civilizations from a world perspective. This course was formerly known as ANTH 104, Introduction to Archaeology. Prerequisite: none.
-
5.00 Credits
Explores bio-cultural processes of human evolution, including the principles of inheritance, biological basis of human diversity, our mammalian/primate evolution, and our hominid roots and the outcome-our kind! Anthropological aspects of the biological and cultural nature of our species will be considered in an attempt to better understand why we are what we are and what we might become. This course was formerly known as ANTH 102, Introduction to Physical Anthropology. Prerequisite: none.
-
5.00 Credits
Explores the nature, growth and history of human cultures. Surveys the range of cultural phenomena including material culture, making a living, domestic life, kinship, economic exchange, social/political organization, social control, personality, art, religion, and applying anthropology in a contemporary world with special emphasis on non-western societies and the comparisons among traditions. This course was formerly known as ANTH 103, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. Prerequisite:
-
5.00 Credits
Focuses upon language as a distinctively human means of communication and social interaction. Explores the evolution and history of languages and dialects; applied linguistics; sociolinguistic; language and identity, and expressive forms cross-culturally. Examines the structure of language, including phonetics (sounds), morphology (word construction), syntax (word order), semantics (meaning), and pragmatics (actual usage). Introduces the ethnography of communication as a research methodology. This course was formerly known as ANTH 105, Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology. Prerequisite: none.
-
5.00 Credits
Provides a general view of the variations in the life ways of the Native Americans up to the late 1800's when the last of the Native American nations lost their independence. Places native populations in a broad comparative context, investigating the variation between the societies of the major culture areas of North America and their interaction with the European and American societies with whom they came in contact. This course was formerly titled Native American Cultures and Culture Context. Prerequisite:
-
5.00 Credits
Origins, development and a variation of Pacific Northwest cultures from the earliest migrations to contemporary times. Survey traditional native ways of life along coastal Washington, British Columbia, and Southeastern Alaska and their effects on current Northwest life styles. Explore the historical roots of contemporary regional issues concerning treaties and Indian rights. A previous anthropology class suggested. This course was formerly known as ANTH 220, Pacific Northwest Coast Peoples Past/Present. Prerequisite: none.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Cookies Policy |
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|