Courses

    Same as ANTH 4380. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Same as ANTH 4390. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Focuses on the design of research including constructing empirical arguments and testing them, data gathering, site formation processes, field strategies (archival resources, mapping, field survey, surface collecting/recording, excavation and preliminary analysis) and artifact analysis as it relates to research design.

    Same as ANTH 4430.

    Same as ANTH 4440. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Explores the intellectual climate in which archaeology is practiced and how it influences archaeological research and reconstruction, laws, regulations, and ethical issues. Explores public use of and engagement with archaeology. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Same as ANTH 4500. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Same as ANTH 4520.

    Same as ANTH 4530. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Same as ANTH 4560.

    Same as ANTH 4570. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Reviews and critically examines the major theoretical perspectives for understanding the relationship between human social behavior and the environment developed in the social sciences, especially anthropology, over the last 100 years.

    Same as ANTH 4610.

    Restricted to graduate students. Same as ANTH 4630.

    Same as ANTH 4730.

    Same as ANTH 4750.

    Same as ANTH 4760. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Provides a graduate-level overview of analytic issues relevant to all phases of archaeological research and of the diversity of theoretical perspectives within the field as a whole. Course is required for all first-year graduate students in anthropology. Prerequisites: Restricted to Anthropology (ANTH) graduate students only.
    Provides an intense, graduate-level introduction to the discipline of cultural anthropology, with an emphasis upon critically assessing those methods, theories, and works that have shaped the field from the 19th century to the present time. Required of all first-year graduate students in anthropology. Prerequisites: Restricted to Anthropology (ANTH) graduate students only.
    Details the history of theory and practice in contemporary cultural anthropology, considering the development of major theoretical schools of thought and the integration of general social theory within anthropology. Required of masters students in cultural anthropology. Prerequisites: Restricted to Anthropology (ANTH) graduate students only.
    Discusses how biological anthropologists use evidence and concepts from evolutionary theory, human biology, and ecology to understand the evolution, diversification, and adaptation of human populations. Required of all first-year graduate students in anthropology. Prerequisites: Restricted to Anthropology (ANTH) graduate students only.
    Introduces incoming first-year graduate students to the history and current state of scholarship in anthropology from across the subdisciplines, through introduction to the research of individual faculty in the department. Required of all incoming graduate students. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Directed individual research based on a specific area of specialization. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.

    Same as ANTH 4930.

    Investigates key problems facing museum institutions and studies the staging and representation of historical knowledge, the ethics of collecting and display, the changing nature and uses of historical evidence, and relations between curatorial practice, collecting, and field work. Critically examines different approaches to museums and museology in various disciplines, both past and present. Prereq., MUSM 5011 or instructor consent. Same as MUSM 6150, HIST 6150, and ARTH 6150. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

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