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Course Criteria
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6.00 Credits
No course description available.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: junior standing, instructor and dean permission required. Independent study is in-depth research or reading, initiated by the student and jointly developed with a faculty member, into a specialized area of accounting not otherwise covered by department course offerings. Variable credit is allowed for the course. This course will not count toward major requirements. Permission of dean required. Outcome: Students will demonstrate an in-depth understanding of a technical accounting topic.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior Standing. Scheduled classes are offered on an ad hoc basis. Specific titles, prerequisites and content will vary. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of specialized topics not otherwise covered by department regular course offerings.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the study of the biological history of the human species from its inception to the establishments of food producing societies. Outcome: Students will demonstrate understanding of basic biological principles (heredity, physiology, evolutionary mechanisms, ecology) in the context of their application to the human condition, as well as the role of cultural behavior in defining the distinctiveness of that condition.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses how multiple factors (beliefs, rituals, social structure, economic structure, political structure) integrate to define culture in the broad sense and how and why they vary among individual cultures (societies). Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate the skills and knowledge necessary to investigate the importance of culture and its variation.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines possible biological bases of modern human behavior, from a scientific and multi-disciplinary perspective, to explore questions regarding what comprises "human nature". Outcome: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how science is conducted, as well as interactions between science and culture, in the context of how evolutionary approaches to animal behavior may be applied to the study of human behavior.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to global human ecology and concentrates on how we as humans affect global ecosystems and how these changes can impact our behavior, health, economics, and politics. Outcome: Students will be able to draw connections between basic ecological processes and the global patterns of human population growth, health and disease, inequality and poverty, subsistence strategies, and land use and technology.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history of the concept of the biological race, the emergence of scientific racism, and modern human interpopulational biological diversity from an evolutionary perspective. Outcome: Students will recognize that modern humans are the product of ongoing biological evolution and that humans have, and are adapted to, a primary ecological niche which may render us maladapted to our modern life.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the issues of sex and gender within physical/biological anthropology. Outcome: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of human genetics, patterns of human heredity, the mechanisms of biological evolution, the nature/nurture debate, primate taxonomy and behavior, and early human fossil evidence and interpretation.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the cultures and civilizations that rose and fell in the distant past and examines the mechanisms that affect the development and decline of ancient societies. Outcome: Students will become familiar with the basic issues that surround the historical development of ancient civilizations and with the methods for analyzing and interpreting those social changes.
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