84 courses with the subject ANTH, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ANTH 105Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The study of human biological evolution and human population variation. This course introduces the history, theory, and methods of research in biological anthropology through lectures and hands-on exercises. Major topics include: geological time, classification, and the place of humans in the animal world; evidence for primate and human evolution; evolutionary theory and genetics; and discussion of the evolutionary forces involved in producing human population variation. This course addresses, in assignments and during class time, the following general education capabilities: critical thinking; using technology to further learning; quantitative reasoning; collaborative work; and effective communication. Course Note: Students who have taken ANTH 102 may not receive credit for ANTH 105. Distribution Area: Natural Sciences Course Catalog ID: 009650 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An introduction to the anthropological study of cultures, based on ethnographic descriptions and analyses of tribal, developing, and modern state societies. The course explores a variety of concepts and approaches to the study of culture, and participants acquire experience in critical reading, critical thinking, and analytic writing. Course Note: Students who have taken ANTH 103 may not receive credit for ANTH 106. Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences 290
ANTH 110LLabor and Working Class History in the United States
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (Includes P/F Option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines the history of labor and working people in the United States from the colonial period to the present. It explores the diversity of work and working-class experiences, the history of labor movements, labor conflicts, and the larger processes of social, economic, and political change that have affected work and workers. While work and organized labor receive central attention, the course gives equal consideration to the comparative dimensions of class and cultural identity, race and gender, immigration and ethnicity, family and community, technology, politics, and government policy. We will work to improve our skills in critical reading and writing. Lectures, readings, videos, and discussion explore the actions, 291
Credit(s): 4 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The course addresses issues of diversity through the use of cross-cultural/US-based readings and lectures. This material provides students with a backdrop against which they can begin to understand how culture (including their own) creates and sustains belief systems, including but not limited to constructions of race, class, and gendered systems of knowledge. Course Note: Please note: Students may receive credit either for this course or for ANTH C100 (Culture and Human Behavior), but not for both. Diversity Area: International Seminar: First Year Seminar Enrollment Requirements: Degree students only, with fewer than 30 credits when they entered UMass Boston. Students may complete only one 100G course (First Year Seminar). Course Catalog ID: 009970 Course Offer Number: 1
ANTH 120LSports and Inequality: Race, Class, Gender, and the Labor of Sweat
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores the place of sports in US history and culture. How have sports shaped US history/culture, and how has US history/culture shaped sports? As we read stories of races won, baskets made, fights fought, and players competing, we will explore sport-as-labor and focus on this main themes: the impact of immigration, industrialization, and urbanization on the games Americans played; the class origins of sports like baseball, boxing, football, tennis, and golf; sport and conflict between labor and capital; racial prejudice, gender exclusion, and integration in sport; athleticism and the evolving ideas about masculinity, femininity, and race; the links between sport, patriotism, and national identity; and sport as an arena for political protest. Course Note: LABOR 120L and ANTH 120L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: LABOR 120L Diversity Area: United States 293
ANTH 210LLabor and Working Class History in the United States
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines the history of labor and working people in the United States from the colonial period to the present. It explores the diversity of work and working-class experiences, the history of labor movements, labor conflicts, and the larger processes of social, economic, and political change that have affected work and workers. While work and organized labor receive central attention, the course gives equal consideration to the comparative dimensions of class and cultural identity, race and gender, immigration and ethnicity, family and community, technology, politics, and government policy. We will work to improve our skills in critical reading and writing. Lectures, readings, videos, and discussion explore the actions, opinions, identities, and experiences of diverse women and men. You will work on understanding and interpreting the materials. Short essays, in-class exams, and presentation will provide opportunities to develop your interpretations systematically and polish your writing skills. Course Note: LABOR 210L and ANTH 210L and HIST 210L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: LABOR 210L and HIST 210L Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity Area: United States Course Catalog ID: 036772 Course Offer Number: 2
ANTH 220GIndigenous Peoples and Cultural Change in Amazonia
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course focuses on indigenous peoples of South America's Amazon region, and persistence and change in their cultures and histories, from 1500 to the present- especially in response to European colonizers, missionaries, modern states, and contemporary rain forest development. Participants consider the human rights issues involved, and critique conventional European representations of Amazonians, in ethnography, literature and film. Capabilities addressed: Critical reading, critical thinking, clear writing, academic self assessment, collaborative learning, information technology. Seminar: Intermediate Seminar Enrollment Requirements:
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course focuses on the rise and fall of the Maya civilization in Central America. It considers their origins; political, economic, and social organization; religion and ideology; their eventual collapse; and the contemporary Maya. Discussions include the latest theories and controversies in Maya studies. This course may be counted toward the anthropology major. Capabilities addressed: Critical reading, critical thinking, clear writing, collaborative learning, information technology, oral presentation, academic self assessment. Seminar: Intermediate Seminar Enrollment Requirements:
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course introduces students to the myths, mysteries, frauds, and fantasies of archaeology and the human past, such as Atlantis, alien visitations, Stonehenge, pyramids, astronomical alignments, pre-Columbian visits to the North American continent, anachronistic artifacts, and outright hoaxes. These claims - some real, some false, some misunderstood, some intriguing - will be examined closely to see how well the explanations use evidence and how valid the assumptions are that uphold them. Students will learn how to critically evaluate these claims in their empirical, political, historical, and cultural contexts as well as try to understand the agendas, personalities, motives, and politics behind some o f the more unsupportable claims. Course Note: Students my not receive credit for both ANTH 230 and ANTH 230G. Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences Course Catalog ID: 009675 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The Viking Age (c. 793-1050 AD) is best known as Scandinavian raids throughout coastal Europe. This course examines the archaeology of the societies behind the Viking raids from their origins in Late Iron Age Scandinavia, to their expansion into Europe and the British Isles, and on to the discovery of North America and the colonization of Greenland. In addition to covering the archaeology and history of Viking Age societies, the course presents and critically evaluates several anthropological themes which have been exemplified by Norse society: the Germanic mode of production, gift exchange and reciprocity, proto-world systems, gender and class identity, pagan religious systems and mythology, the archaeology of religious conversion, 297
ANTH 238Empire and Imperialism: From Rome to the War in Iraq
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This class examines the way empires and imperialism have influenced the course of human history and continue to shape the present. Students will be challenged to view the events of today's world within a deeper historical and cultural context in which imperial rhetoric has sought to characterize indigenous and colonized societies as backward and brutal. Through the examination of documentary and archaeological evidence, students will gain an in-depth understanding of the way imperial conquest has played and continues to play such a critical role in shaping the conflicts of the contemporary scene. Through class readings and a series of writing exercises students will gain competencies in the use of analytical concepts such as materiality, hybridity, diversity, and cross-cultural analysis. Distribution Area: World Cultures Course Catalog ID: 039497 Course Offer Number: 1
ANTH 240LWork, Environment, and Revolution in Latin America
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores the place of work, environment, and political struggle in the past and present of Latin America. How have struggles around work and environment shaped 298
ANTH 243LRethinking the Family: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Formerly: Rethinking the Family Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course analyzes the ways in which culture shapes perceptions of family. It explores narratives about how human family structures evolved, examines the increasing medicalization of reproduction and the body, and takes stock of the ways in which race, class, gender, and sexual orientation affect commonly held and frequently subscribed-to beliefs about what constitutes family. It illustrates the diversity of kinship definitions with ethnographic examples from the Iban of Indonesian Borneo, the Nyakyusa of East Africa, and other societies from the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the pacific Islands. Through an exploration of the pressures to which African American families have been subjected in the United States, it probes the ways in which the legacy of slavery shapes the possibilities and perceptions of contemporary families. Course Note: ANTH 243L and WGS 243L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: WGS 243L Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity Area: International Course Catalog ID: 000014 299
ANTH 250LThe Hands that Feed Us: Food, Labor, Race, and Migration in the U.S
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores two broad inter-related questions. First, how has the labor required to bring food from seas, fields, factories and kitchens to our plates changed over time? And, second, how have workers in fields, factories, restaurants, and homes resisted and transformed the labor arrangements that have defined food production and consumption? These two broad framings necessarily lead us to explore other questions. How have race, gender, immigration and colonial dynamics shaped the division of labor across the food chain? What are the implications of emerging forms of resistance and solidarity on food, agrarian livelihoods, and the service industry? We will examine how patterns of inequality have manifested in spheres such as domestic unpaid food work, farms and food processing, retail, and hospitality. Along the way, we will consider opportunities to realize a food system that upholds equity and dignity for workers. Course Note: LABOR 250L and ANTH 250L are the same course. 300
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Using an anthropological perspective on culture, race, representation, and power, this course examines the deliberate measures and actions aimed at the annihilation of specific racial, ethnic, religious, political, and cultural groups. It focuses primarily on the causes of mass violence: the intellectual histories of societies where mass violence has occurred; how the 'enemy' is invented; why mass killings are carried our; and the psychology and motivations of perpetrators. This course concentrates on the 20th century but includes also other historical events for topical purposes. Distribution Area: World Cultures Diversity Area: International Course Catalog ID: 040695 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Film has become an important medium for recording and conveying information about human behavior. To what extent do ethnographic films present a complete and accurate 301
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: A cross-cultural exploration of dreams and dreaming across cultures, with general attention to the western Pacific, and the Mekeo people of Papua New Guinea in particular: review of the anthropology of dreams in the context of theoretical works by Freud and Jung, and recent neurobiological studies; and , the relationship of dreams to notions of the self, person, and individual. Course Catalog ID: 032379 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course examines the varieties of religious experience, ritual, and practice that fall under the rubric of `shamanism' and `shaman'. Originally a Tungus (Siberian tribal people) word, `shaman' has been extended to include diverse group of specialists: from midwives to Shamans, Priests, Sorcerers, Prophets, and New Shamans. All these religious practitioners use their skills to achieve direct communication with the spiritual realm. The course focuses on the shamanism that is integral to many indigenous religions, and how it aims to fortify relations between humans and the spiritual world in order to validate cultural knowledge, regulate human relations with the natural environment, diagnose and heal human suffering, and build community solidarity. Diversity Area: International Course Catalog ID: 039348 Course Offer Number: 1
ANTH 268Wine and Culture: An Anthropological Perspective
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course approaches wine, a cultural and traditional product, from an anthropological perspective. It explores how wine has contributed powerfully to human cultures. Topics considered include the construction of territories and local identities through wine, and the relation between wine and religion, family structures, social institutions, gender, identity, power, 303
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An in-depth study of selected African societies, examining traditional institutions, the colonial situation, and modernization. Distribution Area: World Cultures Diversity Area: International Course Catalog ID: 001132 Course Offer Number: 1
ANTH 277US Immigration: Contemporary Issues and Debates
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Large-scale post-1965 immigration to the U.S. has significantly reshaped national life. Immigrants from the Caribbean, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe have radically altered the way we think about cities, race, ethnicity, nation, and politics. Key themes covered include history, politics, and processes of immigration; class and race dimensions; transnationalism; immigrants in the economy; and comparative group experiences. Diversity Area: United States Course Catalog ID: 009745 Course Offer Number: 1
ANTH 279Peoples and Cultures of the Andes: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course is an introduction to the diverse cultures of the Andean region, which comprises the following countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. Topics considered include the significance of heritage, belief systems and religions, family structures, race relations, social and political institutions, and modes of production -- all considered from an anthropological perspective. The course's timeframe covers the entire modern era, from the 16th century to today. Distribution Area: World Cultures Diversity Area: International Course Catalog ID: 041220 308
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 999 / total completions: 99 Description: The study of special topics in anthropology. Course Note: Consult department's description of current offerings to find out about the topics being explored this semester. May be repeated for credit. Course Catalog ID: 001131 Course Offer Number: 2
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This is a collaboratively taught interdisciplinary course on a variety of issues related to Human Rights as discourse and practice. It covers the emergence and institutionalization of human rights discourse in the 20th century, and examines its transformations and extensions into various social, economic, political and cultural realms globally. Topics include critique of Western and normative human rights, policies of indigenous people and women's rights, and cognitive and practical implementations of human rights. Course Note: ANTH 295L and WGS 295L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: WGS 295L Distribution Area: World Cultures 309
Formerly: ANTH 413 Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: A course about reconstructing a human life from what may remain after death. Methods of determining age, sex, ancestry, and stature will be explored, along with what pathologies, anomalies, trauma, and personal habits can be deduced from bony and soft tissue remains. How the evidence garnered from fossils, comparative anatomy and behavior, tissue reconstruction, and our understanding of human growth and development will be used to further understand the nature of the physical and social person. An applied science used in criminology, archaeology, and elsewhere. Enrollment Requirements: Pre-Req: ANTH 105 or BIOL 111 or Permission of Instructor Course Catalog ID: 001130 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Epidemiology is the study of disease occurrence and patterns. This course will cover various aspects of epidemiology as applied to human populations, including types of disease and their natural histories, ways of measuring disease occurrence and frequency, ways of studying disease rates and causes, and social disparities in disease burdens. Epidemiology is a foundational area for almost all public health-related work. Understanding how to read, interpret, and conduct epidemiological research will be essential tools for PAMA students looking to pursue careers in public health fields. Course Catalog ID: 009797 Course Offer Number: 1
ANTH 330Archaeology of colonialism in Native North America
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course introduces students to the archaeological and anthropological study of colonialism and North America's indigenous people who confronted its various forms during the last 500+ years. The course focuses on how archaeologists use material culture, architecture, food remains, landscapes, and oral histories- -as well as a variety of historical documents- -to understand Indigenous responses to, engagements with, struggles within, and survival through these complex periods. Examples will be drawn from across the diverse regions, Native peoples, and colonial fronts (e.g., English, Spanish, Russian, French) that characterize the past few centuries of North America's history. Distribution Area: World Cultures Course Catalog ID: 037696 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An introduction to historical archaeology, from its initial development to future directions. Topics include the subfields which comprise historical archaeology and their interrelationships; the contributions, both substantive and methodological, of historical archaeology to the field of archaeology; and industrial and historic sites in North America. Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ANTH 107 or HIST 265 Course Catalog ID: 009684 314
ANTH 341Archaeological Method and Theory with Laboratory
Credit(s): 4 Component(s): Lecture and Laboratory Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An introduction to the theory and application of scientific methods in archaeology. Emphasis is given to the ways that the material record of past human activity is formed, from the earliest cultures to those in historic times, and to the recovery and analysis of archaeological data through laboratory and field techniques drawn from geoscience, biology, chemistry, and archaeology. Distribution Area: Natural Sciences Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or ANTH 107 Course Catalog ID: 009689 Course Offer Number: 1
ANTH 343LAfrican Diaspora Archaeology: Uncovering Roots, Routes, and Resistance
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course is an introduction to African Diaspora archaeology, a burgeoning area of study within the sub-discipline of historical archaeology. Students will explore the concept of diaspora as a means to critically understand the factors underlying the forced dispersal of African people. Participants will consider how archaeological studies of the African diaspora have yielded alternative interpretations of the black past. Throughout the semester, students will examine how archaeologists have investigated the physical and culture landscape, foodways, ritual and religion and objects from everyday life to reveal the ways the black people have resisted and responded to enslavement and other forms of racial oppression. Course Note: ANTH 343L and AFRSTY 343L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: AFRSTY 343L 315
ANTH 346Culture, Globalization, and the Environment
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course will focus on the interrelation between globalization and the environment in a cross cultural perspective. It will examine the rise of globalization from its colonial antecedents to the modern global era and its multiple effects on local populations and their environment. Topics include environmental institutions, global discourses of environmentalism, environmental movements., media, climate change, and finally, understanding the complex and dynamic nature of engagements between `the local' and `the global'. Course Catalog ID: 035503 316
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course is designed to introduce students to a variety of research methodologies, present core concepts in critical Indigenous studies, and demonstrate how to implement ethical practices into any research design. Intended for students who are interested in initiating their own research projects in the future, the course is structured to enable those with little prior knowledge of Indigenous research methods to plan, document, and revise an original project and appropriate research questions. This course is international in focus with some readings from Indigenous scholars in Australia, New Zealand, Palestine, Scotland, and more (i.e. settler or colonized states). Literature is drawn from Indigenous scholars and case studies from communities such as Ahkwesa¿hsne Mohawk, Nga¿ti Awa and Nga¿ti Porou iwi Aboriginal Australians, and Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Dakota, just to name a few. This course builds on students¿ preexisting experiences, preferred methods of inquiry, and research interests so that they gain a deeper understanding of the skills and tools required for the social sciences and humanities disciplines more broadly but can be applied in many disciplines, even those unrelated to Native studies. Finally, this course will also introduce students to several beneficial technologies and software programs for use in research for general literature reviews and bibliography compilation, collaborative analysis of qualitative data, and digital humanities projects. Course Note: ANTH 347L and NAIS 347L are the same course. This course is cross-listed as: NAIS 347L Distribution Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences Diversity Area: International Semester(s) typically offered: Spring Course Catalog ID: 042042 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: How is social anthropology used to solve human problems? This course considers anthropological research and intervention in such fields as business management, communications, health care, parks and recreation, urban development, education, and mental health. Special attention is given to the ethical dilemmas encountered by practicing anthropologists. This course helps students assess the relevance of social science training to later career choices. Course Catalog ID: 009814 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: For anthropology and other disciplines, the concept of diaspora helps us understand the role of forced and voluntary dispersal of African people in terms of experience, interpretation, and activism. In this course, the arts are our lens onto the diverse experiences of people of African descent, including how Black people live their histories of movement and also have responded to and resisted racial oppression as they have been rooted and routed across space and time. The course examines different forms of art (primarily visual and performing arts), what they mean to artists producing them, how they are categorized in institutions and communities, and how they illuminate ways of anchoring community and identity to place. The course takes us comparatively across global, national, and local (Boston) spaces in order to illuminate how people(s) use arts to express aesthetic, moral, spiritual, and philosophical dimensions of what it means to be human. The overall approach is drawn from Anthropology - the science of the study of culture - but we also draw from analyses in history, art history, activism, and community development/empowerment. Geographic areas covered include Africa, North America, and the Caribbean. Distribution Area: Arts Diversity Area: International Course Catalog ID: 040561 Course Offer Number: 1
ANTH 358Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The social environment is widely recognized to play a critical role in shaping patterns of health and disease within and across populations. Understanding the processes through which the social environment "gets under the skin" to influence health has become an important question across medical and social science fields, including anthropology. This course will explore key social determinants of health being explored by medical and bio-cultural anthropologists, including: socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, neighborhood environments, social relationships, and political economy. Mechanisms through which these factors are hypothesized to influence health, such as stress and access to health resources and constraints, will be discussed, as well as the ways in which these mechanisms operate within communities and across the life- course. An overarching theme of the course will be how social factors that adversely affect health are inequitably distributed, contributing to marked health disparities. Distribution Area: Natural Sciences 320
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course approaches economic behavior, ideas and institutions using two of the hallmarks of anthropology: field-based methods of data collection and cross-cultural comparison. Through ethnographic case studies, anthropological theory and first-hand observation, we will consider the embeddedness of the economy in complex socio-cultural systems, ideological and institutional. A range of systems of production, distribution and consumption in contemporary and past economies will allow students to systematically critique familiar economic ideas and institutions. Topics will include reciprocity and redistribution, traditional markets, notions of scarcity, affluence and fairness, the regulation of economic behavior by formal and informal institutions, the economic division of labor and the interface between modern and traditional economies. Distribution Area: World Cultures Enrollment Requirements: Sophomore Standing or Permission of Instructor Course Catalog ID: 009831 Course Offer Number: 1
ANTH 361LIndigenous Film and Critical Visual Studies
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: This course explores the ways in which filmmakers have engaged with the notion of ingenuousness primarily through feature film and documentary forms over the last 40 years. The course will look at films directed, produced and written by indigenous and non-indigenous film- 321
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An anthropological analysis and interpretation of myth, using texts from a variety of world cultures, including African, ancient Middle Eastern, Native American, Amazonian, Mediterranean and other traditions as primary materials. The course offers an overview of central problems and issues in the anthropological study of myth, and emphasizes the importance of examining myths within their socio-cultural settings. The course also considers some of the important theoretical perspectives that have been developed within anthropology for the study of myths and folklore. Distribution Area: World Cultures Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits or permission of instructor. Course Catalog ID: 009843 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Although human mortality occurs in all societies, it is understood and defined differently within various settings. This course examines how culture influences the way people respond to the fact of death. Key themes include: the analysis of funeral rituals; religion and art in relation to death; cultural dimensions of mourning; and the relationship between social organization and death. 324
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: The study of language and culture as systems of shared symbols and meanings in which verbal and nonverbal social interaction takes place. Special emphasis is given to the relationship of language to culture and on the social role of language in human life. Students are introduced to methods for analyzing social behavior and its underlying cultural principles. Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisite: ANTH 106 Course Catalog ID: 009779 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: An in-depth discussion of current research in biological anthropology based on the reading of primary material from the recent literature. The course is oriented toward the study of human populations and focuses on important controversies and major research trends in a variety of areas including skeletal biology, nutrition, genetics, epidemiology, and evolutionary theory. Course Catalog ID: 009856 Course Offer Number: 1
ANTH 444Cooperative Education for Anthropology Majors
Credit(s): 3-6 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 12 / total completions: 4 Description: Through the Cooperative Education Program anthropology majors may be placed in paid work situations either directly related to the field of anthropology or where anthropological concepts, theories, and/or methods can be explored. In conjunction with the work experience, students undertake a learning project under the direction of a faculty member. This project is based on a prospectus approved by the faculty advisor, which should include appropriate readings, field observation, and written work equivalent to a 3-credit, classroom-based course. Course Note: Note: This course may not be counted toward the anthropology major distribution requirement. Course Catalog ID: 009864 Course Offer Number: 1
Credit(s): 3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Not repeatable Description: Instruction in how to develop a comprehensive plan for research on a Latino Studies topic with significant public policy implications. Review of research design procedures, literature assessment, problem definition, use of range of qualitative and quantitative research methods drawn broadly from the social sciences. Enrollment Requirements: Department consent consent required for enrollment: Department Course Catalog ID: 033029 Course Offer Number: 1
ASAMST 227GL - Multicultural Expression and Celebration: U.S. Ethnic Festivals and ASAMST 353L - Community Economic Development in the U.S.: Class, Race, Ethnicity
Credit(s): 1-3 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 999 / total completions: 99 Description: Advanced students may conduct independent research under the supervision and guidance of members of the faculty. 329
Credit(s): 3-10 Component(s): Lecture Grading Basis: Graded (includes P/F option) Repeatable for credit: Repeatable - total credits: 999 / total completions: 99 Description: A supervised sequence of field research in archaeology. This research involves continuous study in a field situation directed by a professional anthropologist. The course may include attendance at field schools directed by qualified faculty outside the University, with permission of the department. Course Note: No more than six credits from field research courses (483, 484, 485, 486) can be applied toward the major. Course Catalog ID: 009898 Course Offer Number: 1
