Courses

Evolution of humanity and culture from beginnings through early metal ages. Covers human evolution, race, prehistory, and rise of early civilizations. This course is taught through Continuing Education. Meets MAPS requirements for social science: general.

Surveys the world's major culture areas. Covers components of culture, such as subsistence, social organization, religion, and language. This course is taught through Continuing Education. Meets MAPS requirement for social science: general.

Surveys the social and economic patterns, ideas and values, and aesthetic achievements of the Tamils, a Hindu people who live in South India and Sri Lanka. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

Introduction to Tibetan culture, history, religion, and society from an anthropological perspective, including traditional as well as contemporary dimensions. Topics will include Tibetan Buddhism, politics, nomadism, gender, refugee issues, and the global Tibetan diaspora, all framed within the larger methods and concepts of cultural anthropology. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

Introduces the student to the varied peoples and cultures in the Caribbean region, emphasizing the historical, colonial, and contemporary political-economic contexts of their social structure and cultural patterns. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

Explores two American Indian cultures, Hopi and Navajo, and cultural interrelationships from the prehistoric through the contemporary period, using an integrated, holistic, and humanistic viewpoint. Same as ETHN 1123. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

Examines the geography, kinship, politics and religious values of a particular non-Western people in historical and contemporary context through an anthropological perspective. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

Explores the culture of the Maya of Central America, emphasizing their material adaptations, social organizations, ideals and values, and artistic achievements in the past and the present. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

Explores the culture of the Aztec people of Central Mexico: their subsistence, society, religion, and achievements, as well as the impact of the Aztec empire in Mesoamerica. Also reviews the clash of a non-western society with the western world with the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

Explores a small number of cultures in a specific sub-region of Africa from an integrated holistic viewpoint, emphasizing material adaptations, social patterns, ideas and values, and aesthetic achievements. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

Emphasizes the origin of the Egyptian culture, its importance, and its impact on other cultures. In addition, the different points of view of various scholars are discussed with a comparative study of the ancient Egyptian culture and modern culture of Egypt and the Middle East. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

Uses films and written texts to explore the concepts of culture and gender, as well as ethnicity and race. By looking at gender, ethnicity, and race cross-culturally, students will know how these concepts are constructed in their own society, as well as in others. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.

Explores important milestones in the development of human societies and cultures that live from the sea. Emphasizes the evolution of maritime adaptations associated with fishing and seafaring from more than 10,000 years ago through the present. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: historical context.

Examines origins of the world's first civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, Mesoamerica, and the Andes. Covers archaeology of ancient cities, trade, economy, politics, warfare, religion, and ideology. Seeks insights into general processes of cultural evolution. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: historical context.

Compares contemporary sociopolitical systems across cultures, from non-Western tribal groups to modern states. Introduces students to anthropological approaches for understanding and analyzing political forces, processes, and institutions that affect cultures such as colonialism, warfare, violence,ethnicity, migration, and globalization. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: contemporary societies.

Considers issues of vital importance to humans, both now and in ancient times. Topics such as food, death, sex, family, literacy, or power are explored to consider how ancient societal norms and attitudes evolved, and how they relate to modern culture. Draws on material and literary evidence to develop an understanding of the complexities of ancient life. Same as CLAS 2009. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: historical context.

Detailed consideration of human biology, the place of humans in the animal kingdom, primate ecology, and fossil evidence for human evolution. Credit not granted for this course and ANTH 2050. Required for ANTH majors. Approved for GT-SC1. Meets MAPS requirement for natural science: non-lab. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: natural science.

Continuation of ANTH 2010. Emphasizes genetics, human variation, and microevolution. Prereq., ANTH 2010. Credit not granted for this course and ANTH 2060. Approved for GT-SC1. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: natural science.

Lab in human osteology and musculoskeletal system emphasizing comparative primate morphology, adaptation, and the fossil record documenting the natural history of primates. Coreq., ANTH 2010. Approved for GT-SC1. Meets MAPS requirement for natural science: lab, when taken with ANTH 2010. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: natural science.

Experiments and hands-on exercises designed to enhance understanding of the principles and concepts presented in ANTH 2020. One two-hour class per week. Coreq., ANTH 2020. Approved for GT-SC1. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: natural science.

Studies the human skeleton and introduces techniques used to evaluate demographic variables. Applies techniques through evaluation of photographic images of an excellently preserved mummified skeletal population from ancient Nubia to reconstruct prehistoric patterns of adaptation and biocultural evolution. Offered through Continuing Education only. Recommended prereq., ANTH 2010.

Covers current theories in cultural anthropology and discusses the nature of field work. Explores major schools of thought and ethnographic fieldwork in a range of cultures studied by anthropologists. Required for ANTH majors.

Discusses history, basic concepts, techniques, and theoretical construction of archaeological field and laboratory investigations, as well as a general outline of world prehistory. Required for ANTH majors.

Studies analytical methods in archaeological research including those employed both in the field and in the laboratory. Deals with practical exercises illustrating many of the theoretical principles covered in ANTH 2200. Coreq., ANTH 2200.

Surveys naturalistic primate behavior. Emphasizes social behavior, behavioral ecology, and evolution as they lead to an understanding of human behavior. Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior). Prereqs., ANTH 2010 or EBIO 1210. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: natural science. Prerequisites: Requires pre-requisite course of ANTH 2010 or EBIO 1210. Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior).