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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; consultation, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 002; relevant preparation in the life sciences; or consent of instructor. Covers methods of classical and population genetics applied to the understanding of evolution and variation in contemporary human populations.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 002 or consent of instructor. Explores human evolution in the first five million years; examines the fossil record and incorporates data from archaeology and genetics. Topics include hominoid evolution in the Miocene, origin models of the human lineage, and the first ancestral humans.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 002 or consent of instructor. Explores human evolution in the last two million years; examines the fossil record and incorporates data from archaeology and genetics. Topics include origins of genus Homo, world-wide dispersals, Neandertals, and origins of modern humans.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 002 or consent of instructor. Introduces quantitative research methods in biological anthropology. Topics include the history of scientific approach in American anthropology, statistics, data resampling, evolution, and variation.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 2 hours; discussion, 1 hour; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor. An in-depth study of the human skeleton, including bone biology, functional morphology, fragment identification, reconstruction, forensic methods, and curation techniques. Useful for anthropologists and those intending careers in medicine, physical therapy, and forensics.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 2 hours; discussion, 1 hour; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 155 or consent of instructor. Further study of the human skeleton, emphasizing applications in anthropological contexts and preparation for professional careers in archaeology, forensics, and paleontology.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 002 or consent of instructor. Introduces medical anthropology from the biological perspective. Explores topics on evolution, health, and medicine; human biological variation in relation to disease; bioarchaeology; and the history of health. Takes the integrative and multidisciplinary approach.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 001 or ANTH 001H or ANTH 002 or ANTH 003 or ANTH 005 or consent of instructor. Applies demographic theory and methods to problems in cultural, archaeological, and biological anthropology.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Examines critical medical anthropology. Focuses on the linkages between political economy, health, and healthcare systems in modern societies. Considers the effects of poverty, occupation, and environmental transformation in particular social contexts. Looks at four case studies: the political economy of HIV/AIDS, poverty, famine, and nuclear regulation.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): ANTH 001 or ANTH 001H or consent of instructor. Reviews the historical processes and regional circumstances that have governed relations between indigenous peoples and Latin American states. Studies concepts of nationalism, ethnicity, and the state in the context of indigenous efforts to resist assimilation and to gain limited autonomy. Compares with the problems and prospects of multiethnic societies worldwide. Cross-listed with LNST 161.
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