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 102
INTRODUCTION TO ETHNOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
3, 3/0
Introduction to scientific ethnology and quantitative techniques used to describe, analyze, and test hypotheses within the distribution of linguistic and social characteristics of world nations. Linguistic characteristics include speech sounds, word shapes, morphemes, and word order. Social characteristics include marriage types, family forms, residence rules, descent, kinship types, community settlements, political organizations, subsistence systems, and religions.
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 203
HUMAN VARIATION
3, 3/0
Examination of and relationship between physical variations in human populations. Relationship between attributes and cultural patterns. Genetic basis of human evolution and variation. Ecological distribution of human physical varieties with special emphasis on modern human populations.
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 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
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
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 307
URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY
3, 3/0
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 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 320
HUMAN GROWTH IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
3, 3/0
The human growth pattern from both biological and cultural perspectives, utilizing a global approach. Growth studies, nutritional studies, anthropometric techniques, social and environmental factors that influence growth, the short- and long-term impact of the “cycle of poverty,” variation in growth among different populations.
ANT 321
PRIMATE BEHAVIOR
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT 100, ANT 101, or permissionof instructor.
Social behavior among nonhuman primates, with particular attention to monkeys and apes.
ANT 324
THE HUMAN SKELETON
3, 3/0
Skeletal remains of past human societies. Structure and function of the skeleton; methods used to determine age, sex, illness, and injury to the individual; reconstructing the population, demography, health status, growth patterns, and genetic affinities.
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/HEW 327
INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or ANT 101 or permission of instructor.
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 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 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 360
FOLKLORE OF WOMEN
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT 244 or upper-division status.
Survey of women’s folklore and contemporary culture. Includes the role of folklore in the formation of gender roles, women’s folklore as feminism, and women as traditional creative artists and performers.
ANT 362
URBAN FOLKLORE
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: CWP 101, CWP 102, ANT 244,or upper-division status.
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 375
HUMANISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Upper-division status or permission of instructor.
Expanded forms of anthropological representation (fiction, poetry, and film) and their relationship to traditional anthropological narrative forms. Comparison of humanistic and traditional ethnographic accounts of the same cultures. Literaturebased representations of anthropological material.
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.
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-twentiethcentury religions.
ANT 382
CULTURE AND PERSONALITY
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: One course in the natural and social sciences, upper-division status, or permission of instructor.
Cross-cultural study of individuals’ variable psychological and behavioral make-ups and potentials in the context of sociocultural norms. Structures of modal and deviant personalities.
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 402
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT 101 or ANT 102.
Intensive, comparative approach to the content and process of culture problems in the interpretation of cultural materials. Cross-disciplinary approaches.
ANT 405
HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THOUGHT
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT 101.
Important contributions in the development of anthropological theory from the pre-anthropological philosophers, such as Locke, to the present. Includes theories of Boas, Darwin, Kroeber, Lévi-Strauss, Malinowski, Rivers, Sapir, and Tylor. Required for all anthropology majors.
ANT 409
SOCIAL STRUCTURE
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ANT 101 or ANT 102.
Comparative study of social structure and human organization in different cultures. Includes kinship, government, and class.
ANT 411
AFRICAN FAMILY
3, 3/0
The family, kinship, and marriage among the peoples of Africa. Emphasis on the interrelationships of kinship with other aspects of culture.
ANT 412
SEMINAR IN ANTHROPOLOGY
3, 3/0
Critique of the literature in one of the four areas of anthropological research: physical anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, and linguistics. Research may be required.
ANT 415
SEMINAR IN ARCHAEOLOGY
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Survey of the field of archaeology that includes the examination of particular cultures, as well as discussion of major methodological and theoretical issues.
ANT 488
INTERNSHIP IN ANTHROPOLOGY
1, 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.
