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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: ANT 144 or upper-division status. Folklore and folklife in the urban environment. The survival and reshaping of rural and Old World tradition. The function of folklore in the preservation of ethnic identity. Craft, industrial, and labor traditions. Festivals and celebrations of folklore in the media and popular culture. Folklore and technology.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 The application of anthropology and anthropological perspectives to contemporary community and world issues and problems. Focus on the practice of anthropology as a career outside academia, in social services, international relations, government positions, community organizing, etc. The relevance of anthropological principles in day-to-day life.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: Upper-division status. Overview of the anthropological study of culture and ecology-environmental anthropology-theevolutionary and comparative study of various cultures' relations, both biological and cultural, to their environments. Industrial and nonindustrial adaptations to and understandings of the environment. Humanto- nature relations, the study of place, and environmentalism.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: ANT 101 or permission of instructor. An anthropological perspective of some of the principal dilemmas of the contemporary world, including technological, demographic, ideological, and cultural problems, which provide much of the content of our daily news and have implications for the survival of our species.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: Upper-division status or permission of instructor. Expanded forms of anthropological representation (fiction, poetry, and film) and their relationship to traditional anthropological narrative forms. Comparison of humanistic and traditional ethnographic accounts of the same cultures. Literature-based representations of anthropological material.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0; 5 Prerequisite: ANT 100 or permission of instructor. The nature of early civilizations; possible factors involved in both their rise and fall. Old World civilizations studied: Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, China, the Aegean Islands, and Europe (Greece and Italy). New World civilizations examined: Mesoamerica and the Andes region of South America. Similarities and differences considered.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: ANT 101. Concepts of language and culture as symbolic systems. Introduction to phonetics, phonemics, morphemics, syntax, and semantics from a cross-cultural and cross-lingual perspective. Exploration of the relationship between grammatical structure and modes of perception and cognition as related to world views and systems of values, with special emphasis on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and the work of Chomsky.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0; 5 Prerequisite: One anthropology course. World religious beliefs and practices, and universal phenomena with many manifestations. The place of religion and spirituality in widely diverse cultures, including discussion of magic, trance, altered states, cults, Wicca, Santeria, voodoo, and late-twentieth-century religions.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: One course in the natural and social sciences, upper-division status, or permission of instructor. Cross-culture study of the role of individual variable genetic potentials and socioculturally variable norms. Structures of modal and deviant personalities.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisites: ANT 101, CRJ 101, or SWK 105, or permission of instructor. An evolutionary, comparative cross-cultural, and ethnographic approach to the anthropology of law and social control. Conflict resolution, legal culture in various cultural groups (egalitarian, peasant, "deviant" subcultures, industrialbureaucracies, the legal profession). Practical issues for the study of legal systems, legal and illegal behavior.
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