Examine the variety of tools used in applied anthropology towards heritage resource management and Social Impact Assessment (SIA).
(ANT 100: with minimum grade of D- or ANT 110: with minimum grade of D-)
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.
(ANT 100: with minimum grade of D- or ANT 110: with minimum grade of D-)
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.
This course uses multiple theoretical perspectives to provide a cultural analysis of conflict and war and their gendered effects on women, men, and other genders across the globe.
Deals with the cultural, historical, social, political and legal analysis of the status of contemporary American Indians in the United States.
Review field methods and laboratory techniques utilized in prehistoric archaeology. Topics include locational analysis, stratigraphy, typological analysis, dating techniques and research publication.
(ANT 100: with minimum grade of D- or ANT 120: with minimum grade of D-)
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.
(ANT 100: with minimum grade of D- or ANT 120: with minimum grade of D-)
Required laboratory arranged. Introduction to archaeological field methods through participation in an archaeology field experience for four weeks during the summer.
(ANT 100: with minimum grade of D- or ANT 120: with minimum grade of D-)
Covers cultural resource management, heritage law, outreach and education, stewardship of cultural heritage, research aimed at helping communities and solving practical problems, and building and maintaining relationships with the public.
May concurrently take ANT 120: with minimum grade of D-
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.
(ANT 120: with minimum grade of D- or ANT 130: with minimum grade of D- or CRJ 110: with minimum grade of D-)
Anthropological perspectives and methods are used to critically examine the assumptions and actions underlying social and environmental contemporary human problems as well as those involved in efforts to address them.
This course explores biocultural human variation and human adaptations to their cultural and physical environments. We discuss which human variations result from genes, culture, and/or environment.
(ANT 120: with minimum grade of D- or BIO 100: with minimum grade of D- or BIO 110: with minimum grade of D-)
Provides a framework for understanding anthropological approaches to the study of belief systems as well as the nature of faith and religious experiences in some of the world's religions.
(ANT 100: with minimum grade of D- or ANT 110: with minimum grade of D-)
This course examines behavior among living primates in order to make inferences about human and hominim behaviors.
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.
Introduction to fieldwork methods in cultural anthropology. Study ethnographic techniques through first-hand investigation of other cultures.
(ANT 100: with minimum grade of D- or ANT 110: with minimum grade of D-)
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.
Study of a theme or geographic area in cultural, biological, archaeological, or linguistic anthropology.
(ANT 100: with minimum grade of D- or ANT 110: with minimum grade of D-)