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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Summarizes the history of archaeology, beginning with its classical and European antecedents. Examines the major trends of seventeenth- through twentieth-century archaeology. Explores major archaeologists and sites, emphasizing the New World. Relates history of archaeology to history of science.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Examines the development and demographic characteristics of human populations in the prehistoric and ethnographic record.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Work is important because it produces the goods and services that make our lives possible, including raising children, growing food, producing knowledge and meaning, and making things. Nothing we strive to understand is more important, and this is one of those areas of research that is intuitively understood by those we study. Considers how work output is measured, work as it relates to illness, physical work capacity, fertility, food, and behavior. Course format is mixed lecture, laboratory, and seminar.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Topics vary. May be taken more than once for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: APY 48 or permission of instructor Corequisites: None Type: SEM Recent advances in genetic technology have presented the scientific and lay communities with ethical and legal problems yet to be resolved. Provides an opportunity for informed discussions of such issues relating to contemporary human/medical genetics.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Explores Mayan civilization from its earliest beginnings to the current situation. The seminar begins with the pre-classic roots of Mayan civilization, then moves through classic splendor, post-classic turbulence, the European invasion, and into the current period of rebellion and ethnic resurgence. Students select a particular geographically and linguistically distinctive Mayan population and trace the group historically through artifacts, written records, life histories, and ethnographies. Student activities include active class participation in discussions and preparation of an annotated bibliography on a key aspect of Mayan civilization.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: one course with substantial evolutionary biology content Corequisites: None Type: LEC Explores the application of evolutionary theory and method to modern human populations. Among the topics are heritability of biological and behavioral variables, developmental biology and natural selection, biological distance, biogeography and race, adaptive theory, adaptation to environmental change, and such emergent problems as crowding, hunger, epidemic disease, and global warming. Specific topics may vary depending on developments within the profession.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Analyzes urban communities in cross-cultural perspective, the role of cities in large social cultural systems, utility of anthropological techniques in understanding complex communities, and contemporary American urban adaptations and research.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Introduces ecological anthropology or cultural ecology. Examines interrelations of social and cultural systems with the biotic and physical environment, including exploitative and subsistence systems (such as land use, land tenure, and settlement patterns).
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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Explores the culture and social organization of health-care systems in the United States, including mainstream allopathic medicine and nursing, as well as more alternative healing modalities, such as faith healing, chiropractic, New Age healing, and so forth. Gives students a specifically anthropological understanding of health care in American society. This anthropological perspective draws attention to the many diverse components of health care in the United States, from high-tech advanced medical science to faith healing.
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