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3.00 Credits
Recent courses have focused on social change in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa. This course may be repeated for credit for different selected topics. Prerequisites: ANTH 10400 or ANTH 12900 and either one 200-level anthropology course or junior standing and one other social science course. 3 credits. (Y)
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3.00 Credits
Recent courses have focused on social change in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa. This course may be repeated for credit for different selected topics. Prerequisites: ANTH 10400 or ANTH 12900 and either one 200-level anthropology course or junior standing and one other social science course. 3 credits. (Y)
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3.00 Credits
The origins and evolution of civilizations and other complex societies in two areas of the New World: prehistoric Mexico and Peru. The course focuses on select cultures, including the Maya, Aztec, and Inca, that followed different paths to achieve a high level of cultural development. Factors important in this development, including the environment, social systems, religion, and politics, are discussed. The course explores why these societies developed in order to grasp the relationships that hold a society together or tear it apart. Prerequisites: ANTH 10400 or ANTH 10700 and either one 200-level anthropology course or junior standing and one additional social science course. 3 credits. (S,E)
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3.00 Credits
Examination of society and culture in the modern state of Israel, with an emphasis placed on the interaction of ethnicity, politics, and religion. The course explores origins, self-definitions, and social interactions among diverse groups of Israeli citizens, including Jews from the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, and Arabs who define themselves as Palestinian, bedouin, and Druze. Topics to be addressed include historical foundations of Israel; immigration and creation of a national Jewish culture; destruction and displacement of Palestinian communities; popular culture; and military service, war, and occupation in the lives of Israeli Jews and non-Jews. While focusing on Israeli citizens, the course will acknowledge the interconnected lives of Palestinians striving to form their own state. Prerequisites: ANTH 10400 or ANTH 12900 and either one 200-level anthropology course or junior standing and one other social science course. 3 credits. (E)
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3.00 Credits
Examination of a major new career field in anthropology, comparing the activist role of the applied anthropologist with the research orientation of much of the discipline. Manner in which the perspectives, field methods, and cultural knowledge of anthropologists have been applied in planning, implementing, and evaluating economic and social change projects. Case studies documenting the complexity of projects suggest the risks, demands, and challenges of applied anthropology, as well as the potential for ethical conflict and failure. Prerequisites: ANTH 10400 or ANTH 12900 and either one 200-level anthropology course or junior standing and one other social science course. 3 credits. (F or S,Y)
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
This field course involves travel to an off-campus location to learn about one (or more) subdisciplines within the subfield of biological anthropology. Field schools may focus on anatomy, forensic anthropology, paleoanthropology, primatology, or another subdiscipline. Students will employ the methods used by researchers in the field and actively collect data. Students also will learn how to summarize data and present results. May be repeated up to a maximum of six credit hours. Additional costs to students will include travel to field site, living expenses, and research-related activities. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. 1-6 credits, depending on the nature of the field school. (IRR)
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1.00 Credits
This seminar examines the diversity and commonalties of Native women's voices and experiences in multiple cultural contexts. This course explores the representation and misrepresentation of Native women by missionaries, colonists, historians, writers, and anthropologists. Perspectives of Native women as anthropologists, authors, clan mothers, and storytellers are emphasized. Political, economic, and spiritual roles of Native American women are discussed, with an emphasis on the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois). Other topics include mythology, health and healing, and the contributions of Native women to the American feminist movement, human rights, and environmental activism. Prerequisites: ANTH 10400; two courses in the social sciences. 3 credits. (F,O)
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6.00 Credits
Experience in archaeological fieldwork. Training in the basic techniques of archaeological research design, reconnaissance, survey, mapping, excavation, and basic field laboratory methods. Use of a transit, laying out of grids, and identification of different kinds of archaeological data, such as ceramics, lithics, features, and ecofacts will be covered. Prerequisites: ANTH 10400 or ANTH 10700, and either a 200-level anthropology course or junior standing with one additional course in the social or natural sciences. Travel and living expenses will be responsibility of student. 6 credits. (SUM, IRR)
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1.00 Credits
Examination of the cultural dimensions of the sustainable use and management of natural resources in the context of global efforts to effect social change and economic development. Much of the focus is on less-developed countries' indigenous peoples, rural peasants, urban underclass, and their ethnoecologies. Critical attention is also paid to industrialized nations' impact on peoples and cultures of the third world and to their role as dominant forces in establishing global environmental policy. Included in the course are case studies of the United States' "culture of consumption," an examination of the relationship between development and the environment, and a discussion of public policy alternatives. Prerequisites: ANTH 10400 or ANTH 12900 and either one 200-level anthropology course or junior standing and one other social science course. 3 credits. (F or S,Y)
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3.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary approach to the study of poverty, combining sociology and anthropology. The course examines poverty in contemporary America from three perspectives: (1) the ethnographic perspective -- understanding poverty through anthropological case studies, which is the emphasis in the course; (2) the holistic perspective -- examining the social and cultural context in which poverty exists, searching for causal factors; and (3) the applied perspective -- evaluating policy and programs for dealing with or eliminating poverty. Cross-listed with SOCI 37600. Students may not receive credit for both ANTH 37600 and SOCI 37600. Prerequisites: ANTH 10400 or ANTH 12900; two courses in the social sciences. 3 credits. (IRR)
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