Begins with the environment and describes the earliest inhabitants and the Olmec civilization, then shifts to the earliest Maya and the emergence and collapse of classic Maya civilization. Compares and contrasts the societies of lower Central America. Recommended prereq., ANTH 2200. Same as ANTH 5224.
Applies geological principles and instruments to help solve archaeological problems. The focus is on site formation processes, soils, stratigraphy, environments, dating, remote sensing, and geophysical exploration. Environmental and ethical considerations are included. Recommended prereq., ANTH 2200. Same as ANTH 5240. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Archaeological evidence for Native American ways of life on the North American Great Plains from the initial peopling of the region into the 19th century. Recommended prereq., ANTH 2200. Same as ANTH 5270. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Surveys archaeological approaches to ecology, economy, and landscape: glaciation, geomorphology, and other physical processes creating and affecting sites and regions; environmental reconstruction; theories of human-environment interaction; landscape formation by forager, agricultural, and complex societies; and ideologically structured landscapes. Recommended prereq., ANTH 2200. Same as ANTH 5330. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Surveys archaeological theories and methods within the context of the history of archaeology. Includes archaeological approaches to data recovery, analysis, and interpretation as well as an overview of cultural resources management and ethical issues in contemporary archaeology. Recommended prereq., ANTH 2200. Recommended restriction: students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Students participate in archaeological field research or conduct laboratory analysis of archaeological materials and data. Students work with faculty on archaeological research projects with a field or lab focus, depending on the project undertaken. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Recommended prereq., ANTH 2200. Recommended restriction: students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Same as ANTH 5350.
Uses diversity of approaches to the analysis of ancient stone tools, including fracture mechanics, lithic technology, materials, heat treatment, and functional analysis. Percussion and pressure-flaking experiments are performed. Recommended prereq., ANTH 2200. Same as ANTH 5380. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Method and theory of archaeology, emphasizing the interpretation of materials and data and the relationship of archaeology to other disciplines. Recommended prereq., ANTH 2200. Same as ANTH 5390. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Archaeology of ancient Egypt in light of recent excavations; the history of excavations of the different sites; and the art of ancient Egypt through time. Same as ANTH 5420. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Designed as a practicum, introduces students to research and practice in museum anthropology, utilizing the extensive anthropology collections at CU-Boulder Museum. Students will gain skills in primary and secondary research, collections and object research and narrative story development for the exhibition of anthropological material culture. Same as ANTH 5470 and MUSM 4912/5912.
Examines goals of international agencies that support development in underdeveloped countries. Anthropological perspective is provided for such issues as urban planning, health care and delivery, population control, rural development, and land reform. Same as ANTH 5500. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Covers the historical foundations for contemporary global change, addressing colonialism, global outsourcing, and cultural imperialism, with a particular emphasis on gender, class, and consumerism. Recommended prereq., ANTH 2100. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Critically examines the pivotal schools of 20th century social theory that have shaped modern sociocultural anthropology, including the ideas of cultural evolutionism, Marxism, Durkheim, Weber, Freud, structuralism, postmodernism, and contemporary anthropological approaches. Includes primary readings and seminar-style discussion. Recommended prereq., ANTH 2100. Same as ANTH 5530. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Examines fishing methods, peoples, societies, and cultures, emphasizing anthropology's role in shaping fisheries management and development policy. Same as ANTH 5570. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Focuses on the Holocaust during the Third Reich, which involved the murder of millions of people, including six million Jews. Reviews the Holocaust's history, dynamics, and consequences as well as other genocides of the 20th century, using an anthropological approach. Same as JWST 4580. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Cultural factors determine states of health and illness in both Western and non-Western societies. The transition from traditional to modern status creates new problems including population growth, aging, changing patterns of morbidity, mortality and health care, and new socioeconomic consequences. Recommended prereq., ANTH 2100. Same as ANTH 5610. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Explores the nature of ethnic conflict, nationalism, and cultural citizenship in different contexts, including the United States. Is the nation-state dead? What effect do extranational and transnational organizations/institutions (e.g., European Union) have on the development of nationalism? Through the exploration of contemporary theory and case studies, this class will address these important contemporary concerns. Recommended prereq., ANTH 2100. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Examines the issues of current concern in the study of East African pastoral peoples. The first half of the course is devoted to historical perspectives and the second half explores the transition from subsistence to market oriented economies. Recommended restriction: students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Anthropology (ANTH) majors only.
Explores the culture of Tibet in both historical and thematic manners, considering the long-term development of Tibetan cultural practices and institutions as well as many of the abrupt changes introduced to Tibet in the 20th century. Topics covered include region, politics, gender, warfare, poetry and literature, and life under Chinese rule and as refugees around the world. Recommended prereq., ANTH 2100. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Anthropology (ANTH) majors only.
Course work built around theme of research design as a means of integrating previous training in the field of anthropology as well as providing an opportunity to perform creative scientific investigations. The course prepares students to write an honors thesis in ANTH 4720. Required of students doing Anthropology departmental honors. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Introduces students to the political cultures and societies of Latin America. Through historical and ethnographic text, and documentary and non-documentary cinema, this course will explore class relations, ideology, and resistance from the conquest to the present. Recommended prereq., ANTH 2100. Same as ANTH 5730. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Investigates global processes as they affect local (Cuban) experience. Draws on texts from anthropology, history, policy, literature, film and music. In the process, students will learn how long-standing patterns regarding race, color, class and gender relations have evolved in(to) the socialist, and now the "post-socialist", context. Same as ANTH 5735. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.
Thematically surveys theoretical and ethnographic issues that have been important in understanding Brazil. Read and write critically about textual and visual representations of Brazil presented in the course. Recommended prereqs., ANTH 2100 and three or more cultural anthropology courses. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Intensive analysis of major issues in anthropological research on South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka), including kinship, gender, marriage, caste system, religion and ritual, ethnic conflict, and social change. Recommended prereq., ANTH 2100. Same as ANTH 5750. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
