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4.00 Credits
An anthropology course that combines research and field work to study past and present food preferences and taboos in different parts of the world, as well as locally. Focus is on how food is related to physical, biotic, and social environments which includes studying food practices of different ethnic, class and religious groups. The field study component allows students to visit food sites along the Wasatch Front with a particular interest in creative methods of production, marketing, and distribution of foods. $20 fee required for field trip food samples. May be taken as an elective in Environmental Studies. Open to all students with no prerequisites.
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2.00 Credits
Looks at past and present food preferences in different parts of the world, and how they are related to the way people interact with their physical, biotic, and social environments.
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2.00 Credits
Research foods available along the Wasatch Front. Look at food as it is related to different ethnic, class, and religious groups. Includes studying the production, marketing, and distribution of foods in the region and impacts on the physical, biotic, and social environments.
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2.00 Credits
This course looks at paranormal phenomena through the lens of anthropology both within American culture and cross-culturally. It includes the study of how they function in societies to reduce conflict, explain the unexplainable, promote the status quo, and demonize "the other." Students also learn about various scientific investigations into paranormal activity. The paranormal in this course covers a wide array of topics which include spiritual entities such as ghosts, demonology, extraterrestrials, psychic abilities, cryptids, and magic, to name only a few.
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2.00 Credits
Field trips are organized, speakers are brought in, and students develop and conduct research on paranormal phenomena in the Salt Lake Valley. This could consist of meetings with "ghost busters," trips to haunted areas, and visits with psychics, or those who practice magic. Students learn ethnographic research skills when they find these subjects in their community, conduct interviews and make observations.
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4.00 Credits
This class combines two of the four sub-fields that make up the discipline of anthropology. It helps students explore prehistory and the evolutionary development of our species through the study of paleoanthropology, primatology, and archaeology, or the study of material remains. Students learn about variation in past and present humans, human types, and non-human primates, both biological and cultural. In the process, they learn how different evolved forms and behaviors are the product, of physical, biotic, and social environments. No prerequisites. Open to all students in all majors. Can be chosen as an alternative to WCSBS 116 as one of the requirements for anthropology minor.
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4.00 Credits
Discusses prehistoric, historic, and modern day American Indian populations. Includes a survey of major archaeological sites and historical reports of the effects of European expansion on indigenous populations. Topics also include the social impact of 20th and 21st-century policy changes, issues surrounding sovereignty, and cultural differences and similarities among groups, generations, and urban/rural dwellers. No prerequisites. Open to all students in all majors.
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4.00 Credits
A light-hearted, cross-cultural look at death and dying. Looks at how these universal cultural concerns are part of integrated systems of meanings and behaviors within larger socio-cultural environments. Take part in field trips to examine institutions in the community related to death and dying and then conduct individual research on a topic related to something of particular interest. No prerequisites. Open to all students in all majors.
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4.00 Credits
Looks at the environment from a bio-cultural perspective, exploring the interconnections of the social, biotic and natural environments. Prehistoric, historic and present day cross-cultural evidence is examined to understand how social categories such as class, ethnicity, gender and religion shape human activity, which in turn affects other species and the physical environment. These relationships cause environmental change leading to a further shaping of human society. Specific issues are addressed such as how ideas about how different cultures relate to their environments in different ways. For example, the displacement of people due to the designation of national parks or game preserves is a topic of interest, as well as the impact of the changing environment on human diseases, ecotourism, and environmental social movements. Students work in groups to learn about policy solutions to environmental problems and then identify and carry out projects on particular areas of interest. No prerequisites. Open to all students in all majors.
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4.00 Credits
Students learn about global stratification and how power relations and population pressures affect the movement of people, information, symbols and commodities under different circumstances, in different parts of the world. They become aware of the meanings of culture and how it creates identity by providing various populations a way to build on nationalism, ethnicity, and/or to develop and maintain transnational groups. Social categories, such as ethnicity, class, sexuality, gender and religion are discussed, and how they affect the experience of migration and globalization, along with the politics of rebellion, warfare, and peace. Students work in groups to research various policies that have been implemented to address concerns resulting from globalization. They then work individually on a research project focusing on one region where they look at the impacts of globalization. These studies might consist of an analysis of the interrelationship of changing patterns of subsistence and consumption, migration, and socio-politico organization and identity. They then create policy for the region to reduce systemic impacts. No prerequisites. Open to all students in all majors.
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