Provides an advanced historical introduction to archaeological theory and methods. Designed to help students understand why certain issues have been and are important to the development of archaeology, especially American archaeology. Explores issues within the context of the history of anthropology and American society as a whole. Requisites: 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.
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. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
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 4470 and MUSM 4912/5912.
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 4735. Requisites: 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. Requisites: 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. Requisites: 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. Requisites: 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. Requisites: 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. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
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. Same as MUSM 6150, HIST 6150, and ARTH 6150. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of MUSM 5011 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.
Serves as an advanced introduction to the empirical and theoretical foundations of contemporary linguistic anthropology, with special emphasis on the ways in which culture and society emerge semiotically through language and discourse. Same as LING 6320. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
