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ANTHRO 301 Hunter/Gatherer Archaeology (1): Human biological evolution and cultural history of the Pleistocene epoch. Interrelationship of biology, environment, and culture from earliest hominids through appearance of Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
ANTHRO 302 Agriculture and Its Consequences (1): Beginnings of agriculture: domestication of plants and animals; dispersal of domesticates; long-term intensification of agriculture; environmental consequences of agriculture; related social and cultural transformations. Cross-cultural comparisons in Mesopotamia, Europe, Mesoamerica and North America. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
ANTHRO 303 Origins of Civilization (1): The archaeological evidence for the evolution of complex human societies. Topics include the origins of cities, the beginnings of writing, economic specialization, and the first civilizations in the Old and New worlds. Emphasis on cross-cultural comparisons of developmental trends in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, China, Mesoamerica and Andean South America.
ANTHRO 306 Evolution of Life Histories (1): The interplay of adaptive modification and phylogenetic constraint as revealed in patterns of relations of life history parameters in diverse species. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor and basic familiarity with regression.
ANTHRO 310 Evolution and Human Social Behavior (1): Application of evolutionary biological principles to the study of human social behavior and culture.
ANTHRO 311 The Indians of North America (1): Aboriginal cultures of northern Mexico, the continental United States, Alaska, and Canada. Languages, art, society, economies, and religious life of representative Indian tribes.
ANTHRO 312 Human Population Biology (1): Overview of current theory and research in human population biology; influence of ecological and social factors on aspects of human biology (metabolism, growth, nutritional status, disease patterns). Examination of how adaptation to ecological stressors (temperature, solar radiation, high altitude, diet/nutrition) promotes human biological diversity. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
ANTHRO 313 Anthropological Population Genetics (1): Principles of population genetics applied to primates. Mathematical models, analyses of small populations, and interaction of social and genetic processes in light of the shifting-balance theory of evolution. Prerequisites: ANTHRO 312 or permission of instructor.
ANTHRO 314 Human Growth and Development (1): Integrated biological and cultural perspective in human growth and development from infancy through adolescence; cross-cultural variation in developmental processes and outcomes.
ANTHRO 315 Medical Anthropology (1): Theories of interactions between culture and biology that affect human health. Beliefs and practices for curing illness and maintaining well-being. Cross-cultural study of infectious and chronic diseases, mental illness, infant/maternal mortality, poverty, gender.
ANTHRO 317 Human Evolution (1): Evolution of the human lineage, emphasizing the fossil record and the reconstruction of the phylogeny and morphological and behavioral adaptations of early hominids and their forebears.
ANTHRO 320 Peoples of Africa (1): Cultures of Africa; significant similarities and differences among the indigenous societies of the continent.
ANTHRO 321 Archaeological Field Methods (1): Practical training in archaeological field methods and techniques by participating in the excavation of a prehistoric site. Given in conjunction with Summer Archaeology Field School.
ANTHRO 322 Introduction to Archaeology Research Design and Methods (1): Regional and site specific approaches to the description and analysis of patterns in archaeological data, including settlement survey, site characterization, vertical excavations, and horizontal household excavations.
ANTHRO 325 Archaeological Methods Laboratory (1): Training in contemporary methods of analysis. Focus on one method (e.g., faunal, botanical, artifact, or soil analysis) or one technique (e.g., photography, survey, or sampling methods). May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
ANTHRO 328 The Maya (1): The archaeology of the Maya in Latin America; life and society in pre-Columbian Mayan civilization. Course will also touch upon the history of Mayan resistance to colonial and post-colonial domination (e.g., Zapatistas).
ANTHRO 330 Peoples of the World (1): Ethnography and comparative study of a regionally or historically associated group of cultures or a type of community defined in ecological, ideological, or other terms (such as utopian or marginal trading culture). May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
ANTHRO 332 The Anthropology of Reproduction (1): Trends in marriage and reproduction throughout the world, particularly the developing world and Africa. Conjugal strategies, adolescent fertility, natural fertility, birth spacing, contraception, abortion, fatherhood, child fostering, and adoption are examined.
ANTHRO 339 Material Culture (1): Anthropological studies considering the relationship between material objects and social life. Topics include theories of gifts and commodities, colonialism, ethnographic collecting and the relationships between culture and aesthetics. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
ANTHRO 341 Economic Anthropology (1): Economic organization as it relates to society and culture in small-scale, nonindustrialized communities. Traditional structures of primitive and peasant economies. Problems and processes of socioeconomic change and development at the community level.
ANTHRO 347 Political Anthropology (1): Cross-cultural study of political organization in stateless and state societies; analysis of authority and power structures and/or political processes. The state, its origin, and its changing role in developing countries.
ANTHRO 350 Anthropology of Religion (1): The human relationship with the supernatural; action patterns accompanying belief. The correlation between patterns of religion and other aspects of culture; comparison of nonliterate and historical religions.
ANTHRO 354 Gender and Anthropology (1): Cross-cultural survey of women's roles from biosocial, sociocultural, and politicoeconomic perspectives. Theory of gender inequality; emphasis on the Third World.
ANTHRO 355 Sexualities (1): Cross-cultural survey of sexuality from an anthropological perspective. Focuses on three periods in anthropology: the first half of the 20th century; the 1970s and 1980s; and the turn of the 21st century.
ANTHRO 360 Language and Culture (1): The relationship between language and culture; language as the vehicle of culture and the manifestation of thought.
ANTHRO 361 Talk as Social Action (1): Analysis of talk-in-interaction based on examination of audio and video recorded data and associated transcripts. Conversation, action, turn, sequence, relevance, social structure, qualitative methodologies.
ANTHRO 362 Advanced Methods in Quantitative Analysis (1): Advanced applications of univariate and multivariate statistics to anthropological research questions. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
ANTHRO 363 Language Variation and Change (1): Introduction to the study of language in its social context. Focus is primarily on quantitative sociolinguistics, and the frameworks and methods of analysis that sociolinguists working in this area have developed. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
ANTHRO 364 Pidgins, Creoles and Languages in Contact (1): Introduction to the study of Pidgin and Creole languages; such as Tok Pisin, Bislama, Hawaiian Creole English, Guyanese Creole English and Haitian Creole. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
ANTHRO 370 Anthropology in Historical Perspective (1): The relationship between description and theory; that is, between ethnography, the description of a culture, and ethnology, the theoretical analysis of human behavior cross-culturally. Surveys major theoretical developments in cultural anthropology from the mid-19th century to the present.
ANTHRO 372 Third World Urbanization (1): Urbanization processes in the Third World. Spatial development, wage labor, the informal sector, gender relations, rural-urban migration, and global and transnational interactions. Effects of these processes on socio-cultural practices.
ANTHRO 373 Power and Culture in American Cities (1): Overview of history and present realities of American urban life, with special focus on ethnographic knowledge and on key stratifications by class, race, ethnicity, gender, nationality, and sexuality, and on reconstitution of social and cultural relations, politics, and labor markets by recurrent streams of migration.
ANTHRO 374 The Anthropology of Complex Organizations (1): Recent research in organizational ethnography is examined by considering investigations in industrial ethnology and the anthropology of work, studies of public sector bureaucracies and research in multinational corporations.
ANTHRO 376 Socialization (1): Cross-cultural study of the intergenerational transmission of culture; processes by which social groups pass on social tradition and behavior to succeeding generations.
ANTHRO 377 Psychological Anthropology (1): Contemporary approaches to cross-cultural behavior research: ecocultural aspects of behavior development through maturation and socialization in human and non-human primates.
ANTHRO 378 Law and Culture (1): A critical and comparative perspective of legal documents and documentation. Review of relationships between law and culture, discourse and power, colonialism, representation, and the character of globalization. Prerequisites: An introductory course in anthropology.
ANTHRO 381 North American Prehistory (1): Cultural history of one or more areas of the continent from archaeological evidence.
ANTHRO 382 Households and Everyday Life (1): The role of households and everyday life in past and present societies throughout the world. Focus on people, gender, social relations and interpersonal relations. An archaeology course with heavy emphasis on theoretical perspectives from sociology and cultural anthropology.
ANTHRO 383 Environmental Anthropology (1): How humans have changed the environment, how they are currently changing it, and what can be done to halt environmental deterioration. Topics include tribal lifestyles, population trends, food supplies, consumerism, environmental regulation, ecological consciousness.
ANTHRO 384 Introduction to Zooarchaeology (1): Introduction to the study of animal bones from archaeological sites. Topics include identification, sampling, quantification, hunting economies, domestication, and herding systems in complex societies. Prerequisites: ANTHRO 301, ANTHRO 302, or permission of instructor.
ANTHRO 386 Methods in Human Biology Research (1): Laboratory-based introduction to international research in human biology and health; methods for assessing nutritional status, physical activity, growth, cardiovascular health, endocrine and immune function.
ANTHRO 389 Ethnographic Methods and Analysis (1): Descriptive, naturalistic study of the culture of human social groups. Data gathering through observation and interview. Data analysis for ethnographic reporting.
ANTHRO 390 Topics in Anthropology (1): Advanced work in areas of developing interest and special significance in anthropology. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
ANTHRO 391 Archaeology, Ethics, and Contemporary Society (1): Ethical issues in the practice of archaeology; focus on developing archaeological materials relevant to contemporary society.
ANTHRO 396 Advanced Archaeological Field Methods (1-2): Complex excavation and survey procedures, including topographic map making, surveying a grid system, and drawing excavation profiles. Prerequisites: ANTHRO 321 and ANTHRO 322 in the Summer Archaeology Field School or comparable field training elsewhere.
ANTHRO 401-1,2,3,4 The Logic of Inquiry in Anthropology (1)(1)(1)(1): Advanced introduction to the core of anthropology for beginning graduate students.
ANTHRO 422 Archaeological Thought in Historical Perspective (1): Advanced introduction to archaeological research as a process in which theoretical constructs shape research designs.
ANTHRO 424 Seminar in Biological Anthropology (1): Presentation and discussion of topics in biological anthropology, including graduate student and faculty research interests, new literature, and reports on current meetings.
ANTHRO 461 Methods of Linguistic Anthropology (1): Methods and techniques of linguistic anthropology, such as componential semantic analysis, linguistic ethnography (ethnoscience), systematic lexicography, and the use of informants and interpreters.
ANTHRO 470 History of Anthropological Theory (1): Social/cultural anthropology during the past 150 years; philosophical and historical roots of the subject.
ANTHRO 472 Seminar in Political Anthropology (1): Anthropological approaches to cross-cultural study of politics and political organization. Themes include evolutionary and historical frameworks; political processes; kinship, ethnicity, and religion; political change, colonialism, and the world system.
ANTHRO 473 Seminar in Economic Anthropology (1): Anthropological approaches to the study of economic life. Case studies and theoretical works address the development of economic anthropology and its relationship to the rest of the discipline and to other social sciences.
ANTHRO 474 Seminar in Religion and Values (1): Philosophical and methodological problems that relate to cultural anthropology. Approaches to the analysis of cosmology, ritual, and myth; comparison of scriptural and nonscriptural religions.
ANTHRO 475 Seminar in Contemporary Theory (1): Recent trends in social theory. Examines work from outside as well as within anthropology, as it has contributed to debate within the discipline: e.g., structuralism, practice theory, postmodernism.
ANTHRO 486 Evolution and Biological Anthropology (1): History of evolutionary thought; the development of biological anthropology.
ANTHRO 490 Topics in Anthropology (1): Presentations by department faculty on contemporary topics of importance to the development of anthropology. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
ANTHRO 496 Bridging Seminar (1): Advanced course designed to integrate topics from the four subfields of anthropology (archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology). May be repeated for credit.
ANTHRO 499 Independent Study (1-3) : Permission of instructor and department required. May be repeated for credit.
ANTHRO 510-1,2,3 Faculty Colloquium (0)(0)(1): Faculty, visitors, and advanced graduate students present lectures on the state-of-the-art in anthropology, based on their own research.
ANTHRO 570 Anthropology Seminar (1): Special topics. May be repeated for credit with change of topic.
ANTHRO 590 Research (1-3) : Independent investigation of selected problems pertaining to thesis or dissertation. May be repeated for credit.
ANTHRO 595 Field Study in Anthropology (1-4) : Research experience in anthropological fieldwork to complement theoretical education and to prepare graduate students for advanced field research.
Related Courses
MUSICOL 323 Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology (1): Introduction to the field of ethnomusicology, its history, bibliographical resources, methods, and theories.
MUSICOL 326 Music of Asia (1): An upper division/graduate level course exploring the musical traditions of South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. Characteristics of instruments and instrumental ensembles, sound structures, theatrical traditions, and vocal performance will be among the major topics.
MUSICOL 423 Seminar in Ethnomusicology (1): Selected topics; application of ethnomusicological techniques to research projects. Prerequisites: MUSICOL 323.
POLI_SCI 453 Modern Africa (1): Interdisciplinary survey of current conditions in Africa; the place of Africa in the modern world.
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