UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
ANT 100
HUMAN ORIGINS
3, 3/0; NSIF
Introduction to physical anthropology and archaeology. Physical anthropology portion focuses on evolutionary theory and genetics, the human fossil record, and the study of nonhuman primates. Archaeology reconstructs past cultures. Discusses the basics of archaeological data and dating methods. Transformation from a hunting-and-gathering lifestyle to one based on food production and the consequences of this transformation, which include, in some instances, the development of complex sociopolitical institutions and state societies.
ANT 101
UNDERSTANDING CULTURE
3, 3/0; NWIF
Human behavior and culture; formation of personality; nature of social structure, interaction, and the satisfaction of human needs. Cross-cultural comparisons. Recommended as a first or second course in anthropology.
ANT 189
TOPICS COURSE
3, 3/0
Analysis of current areas of research interest in anthropology. Emphasis on using concepts and methods from the subfields of anthropology to study a specific problem or series of problems.
ANT 220
CASE STUDIES IN PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
3, 3/0
Introduction to physical anthropology through detailed examination of exemplary case studies covering a broad range of topics in physical anthropology. The process of inquiry in physical anthropology, including initial conception of the research question, methodology, results, and conclusions. Ethics of physical anthropology research.
ANT 244
FOLKLORE AND FOLKLIFE
3, 3/0; SSIF
Prerequisites: CWP 101, CWP 102.
Introduction to the major genres of folklore and folklife, and their function in contemporary society, including ethnic and occupational folklore, rites of passage and calendar customs, roots music, and traditional narratives. The relationship between folklore and popular culture.
ANT 250
HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
3, 3/0; AHIF
Prerequisite: ANT 100.
Archaeology of the United States from 1500 through the American Civil War. Material life and diversity of sociocultural experiences in the United States during this period.
ANT 300
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA
3, 3/0; DIIF, NWIF
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or permission of instructor.
Way of life of the original inhabitants of western North America; reconstructing life during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries using archaeology, historical documents, and oral tradition. Tribal nations of the Plains, Northwest Coast, Southwest, Great Basin, Plateau, and California. Effects of European exploration and colonization and the persistence of indigenous western North American peoples in the modern world.
ANT 301
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA
3, 3/0; DIIF, NWIF
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or permission of instructor.
The way of life of the original inhabitants of eastern North America. Reconstructing life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries using archaeology, historical documents, and oral tradition. Details of the early seventeenth-century Wendat/Huron, Haudenosaunee/Five Nation Iroquois, and Powhatan confederacies. Highlights the effects of European exploration and colonization, and the persistence of indigenous eastern North American peoples in the modern world.
ANT 303
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF EUROPE
3, 3/0; WCIF
Prerequisite: ANT101. Introduction to anthropology of Europe and European cultures. Discusses the traits and development of distinctive cultural features of European peoples through cultural histories of Europe in general and ethnographic case studies. Relates the development and influence of western civilization to other regions of the world.
ANT/AAS 305
PEOPLES OF AFRICA
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT101. Cross-cultural comparisons of indigenous and modern African nations. Emphasis is placed upon regional, linguistic, social, political, religious, economic, and aesthetic characteristics, as well as historic and recent population migrations on the African continent and the surrounding islands.
ANT 306
PEOPLES OF ASIA
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisite: ANT 101. Cross-cultural comparisons of indigenous and modern nations of Asia. Emphasis on regional, linguistic, social, political, religious, economic, and aesthetic characteristics as well as historic and recent population migrations on the Asian continent and surrounding islands.
ANT 307
URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT 101. Study of the origin and evolution of cities around the world, their impact upon the human family and other social relationships, and the physical environment. Early and recent viewpoints on life in cities, suburbs, and rural communities.
ANT 308
ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD
6, 0/0
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or permission of instructor.
Laboratory and field methods in archaeology. Opportunity for practical experience with various archaeological techniques.
ANT 310
MESOAMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: ANT 100. Overview of ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica, including Olmecs, Maya, Monte Alban, Teotihuacan, Toltecs, and Aztecs using archaeological evidence, hieroglyphic texts, iconography, and ethnohistorical sources. Comparative analysis of art, architecture, religion, political structure, economic and social organization of societies in Mesoamerica from archaic foraging groups through Spanish contact.
ANT 312
ARCHAEOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or permission of instructor.
Prehistory of North America beginning with earliest human presence, including the Paleo-Indian period; Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian in the East; periods comparable in time in the West.
ANT 315
RESEARCH METHODS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or ANT 101.
Research methods in cultural anthropology covering fieldwork, participant observation, sampling, measurements, documentation, and statistical and cross-cultural methods.
ANT 321
PRIMATOLOGY
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT 100, ANT 101, or permissionof instructor.
Study of living prosimians, monkeys, and apes, including taxonomy, social organization, feeding and ranging, community ecology, and conservation; field studies of natural populations.
ANT 323
Anthropology of Disease
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: ANT 100 or instructor permission. Study of ill health from an anthropological perspective. Biological anthropology; how cultural activities contribute to the spread of disease; how disease manifests itself in the archaeological record; how the language used for disease impacts thinking about disease; how anthropologists contribute to the fight against disease. Understanding epidemiological concepts via current events.
ANT 324
THE HUMAN SKELETON
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT 100. Hands-on experience with natural human skeletons to learn all bones, landmarks, and features of the bones; how to determine the side of the body the bone came from, determine if a bone is from a male or female, estimate age at death, and estimate stature of the individual.
ANT 325
FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT 324.
Forensic applications of the recovery and identification of human skeletal remains. Determination of age, sex, and ancestry. Also taphonomy, differentiating human from animal remains, analysis and significance of traumas, and search and recovery techniques.
ANT 326
THE HUMAN FOSSIL RECORD
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or permission of instructor.
Human evolution as derived from the fossil record. Examination of major fossil hominid discoveries, their interpretation, and their place in the development of the human species.
ANT 327
INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisite: ANT 101. An overview of the history and development of concepts and practices of medicine worldwide. Theories and procedures in illness, sickness, health and well-being in and from a variety of cultural perspectives, historical and contemporary, East and West. Stone Age, folk, shaman, traditional Western and herbal medicine, including healing and religion, homeopathy, and anthropological study of health-care institutions.
ANT 329
WORLD PREHISTORY
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or upper-division status.
Overview of the major developments in human culture as inferred from the archaeological record. Past cultures of hunter-gatherers, the first farmers, and early civilizations will be described, as well as their legacy for the modern world.
ANT 330
PACIFIC ISLANDERS
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisites: ANT 101, sophomore status, or permission of instructor.
Introduction to Pacific Islanders, including origins, languages, ecology, cultural identity and agency, political struggles. Experience of indigenous communities. Representations of the Pacific originating inside and outside the region. Encounters and transformation by first inhabitants, explorers, missionaries, colonists, and recent global flows of people, culture, and capital.
ANT 332
Women and Men in Prehistory
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: ANT 100 or instructor permission.
Gender, the cultural construction of gender roles, the impact of gender roles on social structure, the reflection of gender and gender roles on the material culture of past human societies. Overview of concepts including gender, sex, gender role, alternative genders and historical development of gender archaeology. Variation in gender roles in a range of prehistoric societies, with emphasis on ancient civilizations. Archaeological resources relating to gender including art and iconography, burial patterns and human remains, settlement patterns and architecture, and craft production and division of labor.
ANT 340
WOMEN IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: One course in the natural or social sciences, upper-division status, or permission of instructor.
The study of women’s position, with attention to political, social, and cultural influences on female status in a cross-cultural perspective.
ANT 341
ART AND CULTURE IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: One course in art, one course in the natural and social sciences, or permission of instructor.
Selected examples of prehistoric art and of the art of Native Americans, Oceania, and Africa. Includes the present renaissance in art among these peoples and in these areas.
ANT 344
FOLKLORE & FANTASY IN POPULAR CULTURE: FROM MIDDLE-EARTH TO HOGWARTS
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: CWP 102 or equivalent, upper class standing. How J. R. R. Tolkien, the creator of modern fantasy writing, based his "mythology for England" on the work of 18th and 19th century folklorists. Influence of the work of myth scholars, primarily Joseph Campbell, on George Lucas and other film makers in the "Star Wars" trilogies and similar films and television series. Creation of folk groups (fandoms) based on fantasy novels and films, especially since the rise of the Internet.
ANT 350
GLOBAL MARRIAGE PRACTICES
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT 101 or SOC 100.
Cross-cultural and comparative study of marriage practices through an examination of kinship, gender, and economy. Interdisciplinary materials in anthropology, sociology, history, and popular culture.
ANT 362
URBAN FOLKLORE
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT 244.
Folklore in the urban environment. The role of folklore in the creation and preservation of ethnic, occupational, and community identities. Folklore in the media and popular culture.
ANT 365
PRACTICING ANTHROPOLOGY
3, 3/0
The application of anthropology, and anthropological perspectives to contemporary community and world issues and problems. Focus on the practice of anthropology as a career outside academia, in social services, international relations, government positions, community organizing, etc. The relevance of anthropological principles in day-to-day life.
ANT 367
CULTURE AND ECOLOGY
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Upper-division status.
Overview of the anthropological study of culture and ecology—environmental anthropology—the evolutionary and comparative study of various cultures’ relations, both biological and cultural, to their environments. Industrial and nonindustrial adaptations to and understandings of the environment. Human-to-nature relations, the study of place, and environmentalism.
ANT 370
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT 101 or permission of instructor.
An anthropological perspective of some of the principal dilemmas of the contemporary world, including technological, demographic, ideological, and cultural problems, which provide much of the content of our daily news and have implications for the survival of our species.
ANT 377
ANCIENT CIVILIZATION
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or permission of instructor.
The nature of early civilizations; possible factors involved in both their rise and fall. Old World civilizations studied: Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, China, the Aegean Islands, and Europe (Greece and Italy). New World civilizations examined: Mesoamerica and the Andes region of South America. Similarities and differences considered.
ANT 380
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT 101.
Concepts of language and culture as symbolic systems. Introduction to phonetics, phonemics, morphemics, syntax, and semantics from a cross-cultural and cross-lingual perspective. Exploration of the relationship between grammatical structure and modes of perception and cognition as related to world views and systems of values, with special emphasis on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and the work of Chomsky.
ANT 381
RELIGION, MAGIC, AND CULTURE
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisite: One anthropology course.
Descriptions and analysis of world religious beliefs and practices, universal phenomena with many manifestations. Examination of the place of religion and spirituality in widely diverse cultures, including discussion of magic, trance, altered states, cults, Wicca, Santeria, voodoo, and late-twentieth-century religions.
ANT 385
VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY
3, 3/0;TSIF
Prerequisites: ANT 101 or SOC 100. How technology of the still camera transformed relationship to imagery, perception of time and movement through splitting and flattening of representations into "realistic" images. Basics of still cameras as a research tool; how to collect informants' images as data. Meaning, use of images, representations, and power of visual data.
ANT 388
FOLKLORE AND TECHNOLOGY: AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: Upper class standing.The richness and diversity of American roots music, with emphasis on the relationship of roots music to folklore and popular culture. Ways in which mediated transmission and technology have contributed to the development of and dissemination of roots music.
ANT 389
TOPICS IN ANTHROPOLOGY
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: One course in the natural or social sciences, upper-division status, or permission of instructor.
Analysis of current areas of research interest in anthropology. Emphasis on using concepts and methods from the subfields of anthropology to study a specific problem or series of problems.
ANT 400
ANCIENT MATERIALS
3, 3/0; TSIF
Prerequisite: ANT 329 or ANT 312. The study of technology and production in its broadest sense. Raw materials used to create material culture as defined archaeologically, such as stone, bone, wood, clay, and metal. Datasets from ethnographic and archaeological films and reports; hands-on experimental archaeology projects. How archaeologists use material culture as evidence for past human behavior, e.g., measurement of lithic flakes, creating typologies of ceramic shards.
ANT 405
HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THOUGHT
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT 101. Important contributions in the development of anthropological theory to the present. Includes theories of Boas, Kroeber, Lévi-Strauss, Malinowski, and Tylor.
ANT 412
SEMINAR IN ANTHROPOLOGY
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT 101. The concept of culture and ethnographic research. Value of cultural anthropology and ethnographic research and theier relevance to problems faced by people today. Intellectual, social, and political trends that have shaped the development of the field of cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropological theory, research design, research practice.
ANT 415
SEMINAR IN ARCHAEOLOGY
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Prerequisites: ANT 328 or ANT 312. Value of archaeology and its relevance to the problems faced by people today. Benefits from archaeology and how they are achieved. Intellectual, social, and political trends that have shaped the development of the field of archaeology. Archaeological theory and research design in depth. Negotiating between the different stakeholders in archaeological projects. Oral and written communication of archaeological findings.
ANT 418
SEMINAR IN PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: CWP 102; ANT 100; upper class standing; or instructor permission. Value of physical anthropology and its relevance to the problems faced by people today. Benefits from physical anthropology and how they are achieved. Intellectual, social, and political trends that have shaped the development of the field of physical anthropology. Physical anthropological theory and research design in depth. Negotiating between the different stakeholders in physical anthropological projects. Written communication of physical anthropological findings.
ANT 488
INTERNSHIP IN ANTHROPOLOGY
1-12, 0/0
Prerequisites: Anthropology major or minor, upper-division status, departmental approval.
Supervised fieldwork in community agencies, organizations, and milieus where students develop and apply practical and anthropological knowledge and skills. Students interact in diverse cultural settings, and experience and establish connections of potential use in the job market. Preparatory conferences, ongoing seminars with the faculty supervisor, a log/journal of the field experience, and a final report.
GRADUATE COURSES
ANT 590
INDEPENDENT STUDY
3, 0/0
ANT 690
MASTER'S PROJECT
3, 0/0
ANT 695
MASTER'S THESIS
6, 0/0
