Prerequisite:
ANT 100 or
ANT 110 or equivalent. Examine the variety of tools used in applied anthropology towards heritage resource management and Social Impact Assessment (SIA).
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or ANT 110. Examine transnationalism from an anthropological perspective, focusing on interactions between global and local forces and the implications of globalization and development for people’s everyday lives in sites around the world.
Study biologically and culturally determined gender role differences by comparing sex-related behavior in a variety of cultures.
A course in ethnographic writing focusing on methods of life history/life cycle research and analysis. Students will learn cultural interviewing techniques and will complete a written life history.
Deals with the cultural, historical, social, political and legal analysis of the status of contemporary American Indians in the United States.
Prerequisite:
ANT 100 or
ANT 120 or equivalent. Review field methods and laboratory techniques utilized in prehistoric archaeology. Topics include locational analysis, stratigraphy, typological analysis, dating techniques and research publication.
Prerequisites: ANT 100 or ANT 120, or equivalent. Study selected prehistoric American Indian cultures with an anthropological focus. This course covers the time from the peopling of the New World to European discovery.
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or ANT 120 or equivalent. A comparative study of the rise of state societies throughout the world with focuses on the Near East, Africa, Asia, South America and Mesoamerica.
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or ANT 120 or equivalent. Required laboratory arranged. Introduction to archaeological field methods through participation in an archaeology field experience for four weeks during the summer. Participation fee.
Prerequisite: ANT 130 or ANT 120 or CRJ 110 or equivalent. Required laboratory arranged. A course in human osteology emphasizing skeletal anatomy and the identification of age, sex, stature, pathology and race in skeletal material. Archaeological, paleontological and forensic applications will be presented.
Demographic perspective on human populations. Introduction to population processes of fertility, mortality, migration. Analysis of global patterns of demographic processes and the relation of the culture to population growth and decline.
Learn skills of measuring and analyzing information on human biological variability. Topics include the analysis of physique, habitual activity analysis, health screening and statistical techniques for describing samples of data.
Prerequisite:
ANT 100 or
ANT 110. Introduction to fieldwork methods in cultural anthropology. Study ethnographic techniques through first-hand investigation of other cultures.
The study of human health as a result of relationships within a population, between neighboring populations and among the life forms and physical components of a habitat.
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or ANT 110. Study of a theme or geographic area in cultural, biological, archaeological, or linguistic anthropology. Repeatable under different subtitles; maximum of 12 credits.