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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 2316. A survey of urbanization throughout the world, with emphasis on urban adaptation of rural migrants and the phenomenon of urbanization in emerging nations. Three credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the subfield of linguistic anthropology. Examines the impact of linguistic structure on culture, socioeconomic factors in linguistic variation, intercultural and intracultural verbal and nonverbal communication. Also examines the theories and methods of descriptive anthropological linguistics applied to nonIndo-European languages and introduces the student to structural linguistic analysis. Required for majors. Three credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 2316. Sociocultural change resulting from contact of acculturation, question of acceptance and rejection, pressures toward change, the role of the individual, appraisal of anthropological information and theory in a changing world. Three credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the role of shamans, witches, diviners, cultic and magic belief systems, function of myth, ritual, religious symbolism, meaning of spirit possession, revitalization, and ancestor worship in tribal, peasant, and modern societies. Three credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
This course will survey the archaeology of Egyptian civilization, from the earliest settlement of the Nile River Valley through the conquest of Alexander the Great and his successors. The course will also consider the origins of the field of Egyptology as well as a number of key archaeological sites representing the lives of the elite as well as the ordinary citizens of the Nile River Valley. Three credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Practical experience consisting of at least 90 hours of supervised work in a private or public organization. The objective is for students to apply theoretical orientations and anthropological skills in a work situation. Three credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 15 hours of anthropology or consent of instructor. Selected topics concerning the contribution of anthropology to social services and social planning, especially in the fields of education, health care, law enforcement, and economic development. Three credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 1315 or consent of instructor. Forensic anthropology applied to knowledge of human variation to legal matters. The primary emphasis in this course will be human skeletal variation. The theoretical basis of sex determination, age estimation and ethnic origin classification based upon skeletal characteristics will be examined. Other issues such as fire death scene investigation, interval since death, and forensic archaeology also will be addressed. This course will be offered once a year. Dual-listed in the UALR Graduate Catalog as ANTH 5355. Three credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ANTH 1315 or 2316. Examines the range of theories used to describe and explain variability in sociocultural phenomena. Explores the organization of particular theories as well as issues that separate divergent theories. Major theoretical orientations to be explored include evolutionism, Marxism, Freudianism, structuralism, structural-functionalism, ethnoscience, diffusionism, historical particularism, cultural ecology, sociobiology, and cultural materialism. Required for majors. Three credit hours.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Working with individual instructors, upperlevel majors assist lower-level students by holding study sessions twice a week for those enrolled in ANTH 1300, 1315, or 2316 and performing other tasks determined through consultation with the instructor. Three credit hours.
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