47 courses with the subject ANT, 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.
ANT 104Freshman Anthropology Colloquium1
An orientation to the discipline of anthropology and our department, campus, and community. Students learn about anthropological history, ethics, and professional associations; departmental and campus resources; and their rights and responsibilities on campus and in the discipline. Students learn foundational project management and organizational skills for professional success. When Offered: Fall
This course introduces students to the vast and fascinating sweep of human biological and cultural evolution. The first half of the course addresses evolutionary theory and the evidence for human evolution derived from human genetics and biological diversity, primate behavior, and paleoanthropology. The second half presents archaeological theories and methods, and develops a narrative of cultural evolution from the earliest tool making, to the rise of the great ancient civilizations, to current issues in prehistory. When Offered: Fall, Spring
This course is designed to introduce students to the concept of culture. Subjects range from tribal politics and economies, to the evolution of sex, love, and marriage, and the nature of religion. It emphasizes that human beings are culturally dependent beings, that cultural diversity is rooted in our struggles to preserve our ethnic, tribal, and individual identities while adapting to changing environmental circumstances. When Offered: Fall, Spring
Religions manifest themselves in a diversity of human expressions. This course will provide an introduction to religious phenomenon as they coalesce around philosophy and theology, art and aesthetics, space and place. We will explore religions as a means of sharing, living and expressing the sacred through art, geography, and culture. Methodologies from anthropology and the history of religions, psychology and sociology, textual studies and ethno-musicology will guide our investigation into a variety of religious communities. No tradition, theorist, or discipline will be covered comprehensively; instead, we will make a cursory investigation of several of the world’s major and minor traditions.
Signature courses are small, seminar-style courses provide opportunities for students to discuss engaging issues while developing critical thinking, information literacy and both written and oral communication skills. Each class is focused on a unique subject but all classes are about intellectual curiosity, making campus connections and learning how to thrive in the SUNY Oswego community. Learning objectives include critical thinking, communication, intercultural knowledge, and campus engagement. When Offered: Not on a regular basis.
This course introduces students to the biological basis of human evolution and adaptability. It addresses issues of genetics and human evolution, modern population dynamics, human adaptability in different environments, human diversity, survey of the primates, and primate behavior.
This course explores sex and gender as these concepts are socially and culturally constructed within and across multiple cultures. Emphasizing critical and thoughtful reading, analysis, and discussion, the course addresses how shared understandings of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and class affect people’s identities, opportunities, and experiences in their social worlds.
Nine social and behavioral science hours including ANT 112 OR SOC 100 OR GWS 200; or instructor permission.
ANT 301Selected Topics3
This course provides students with the opportunity to learn about topics in Anthropology that are not currently included in the regular curriculum. Each section of this course is devoted a specific topic chosen by the instructor.
Nine social and behavioral science hours including ANT 111 OR 112 OR SOC 100; or instructor permission.
ANT 302Teaching Anthropology I1-3
This course offers qualified and promising students the opportunity to participate in the construction and execution of an anthropology course. Under the instructor’s guidance, the student aids in test construction and evaluation, and introduces various pedagogical strategies. The student gains experience in conducting review sessions, teaching a lesson, and evaluating textbooks. As a result of these and other activities, anthropology students are able to gain practical experience in writing, speaking, organizing, and evaluating that will stand them in good stead whether they go to graduate school or immediately enter the workforce.
ANT 303Conservation and Ethical Treatment of Nonhuman Primates3
This course examines the diversity of nonhuman primates, their behavior, and intelligence. Included are a survey of primate growth and development, behavioral ecology, cognitive abilities, and social structures as well as social, political and ecological issues involved in conservation and ethical treatment of primates in captivity and the wild.
Upper division standing and one of the following: BIO 101, BIO 120, BIO 207 OR ANT 111, or instructor permission. Equivalent Course: BIO 303
ANT 304Anthropology in Practice1
Cohort organizes the Anthropology in Practice yearly visitors’ series. Students select, invite, and host practicing anthropologists from industry, government, civil society, and academia to speak about their work and career trajectories. Students complete professionalization exercises such as resume and portfolio preparation and establishing professional social media presence.
The first of two courses that together provide a systematic review of major anthropological theories from the origins of the discipline to today. This course focuses on the intellectual and social origins of anthropology and its early theoretical frameworks from antiquity to the 1960s
ANT 112 (minimum grade of C-); or instructor permission. Equivalent Course: ANT 210
ANT 309Anthropological Theory, Part II3
The second of two courses that together provide a systematic review of major anthropological theories from the origins of the discipline to today. This course focuses on the major anthropological theories, concepts, and debates from the 1960s to today.
ANT 308 (minimum grade of C-); or instructor permission.. Equivalent Course: ANT 211
ANT 310Research Methods3
This course introduces students to research methods used in anthropological research, both qualitative and quantitative. The scientific method will be discussed in detail and put in its historical and cultural context. Ethnographic methods will be detailed and discussed in the first portion of the course; how such methods are used to collect, analyze, and report on cross-cultural data will be explored. The use of quantitative methods in various contexts (e.g., human populations, forensic skeletal evidence) will comprise the second portion of the course.
Nine hours of social or behavioral science, including ANT 111 OR 112 OR SOC 100 OR PSY 100 or instructor permission
ANT 311Ethnographic Methods3
A practical introduction to carrying out ethnographic research in the anthropological tradition. Students critically review the epistemologies, ethics, and politics of empirical ethnographic research while conducting field exercises that culminate in a professional portfolio of work samples. Readings draw from across the social sciences and professions, focusing on interpretive and applied anthropology. Emphasis throughout on qualitative literacy, or how to judge the rigor and soundness of qualitative empirical research.
This course includes a thorough introduction to the design and management of databases in social sciences and humanities. Emphasis is placed on applying basic principles of flexible database organization, avoiding common pitfalls, and creating a database. This class will give students first-hand experience with archaeological and museum collections database examples.
SUS 115 or ANT 111 or ANT 112; or instructor permission.
ANT 331Digging Up the Past: Humans and the Environment Through the Ages3
This course examines changes in the human relationship with the environment associated with the evolution from hunting and gathering, to farming, to complex states. It focuses on population growth, environmental degradation, and depletion of resources in ancient societies such as those of the Egyptians, Sumerians, and Maya, and our own.
Nine social and behavioral science hours or instructor permission.
ANT 335Experimental Archaeology3
This course explores the role of imitative experiments in contemporary archaeology. These experiments bring the past to life by replicating ancient technology and site formation processes and provide a valuable supplement to more conventional methods of data recovery and analysis. Examples include making and testing the operation of replicas of Neolithic stone axes, Upper Palaeolithic lamps and ancient Mesoamerican pottery kilns, transporting heavy objects such as Easter Island statues and reconstructing Iron Age houses and farms.
Upper division standing and nine hours of social and behavioral sciences or instructor permission.
ANT 337Archaeology, Historic Preservation, and Cultural Resource Management (CRM)3
This is an introduction to the history, current legislation, and practice of historic preservation and Cultural Resource Management (CRM) in the United States. Emphasis is placed on the use of historical, archaeological, and other anthropological data to evaluate historic resources and properties under current federal and state legislation.
This course includes a thorough introduction to the current history of Mesoamerica and its major civilizations based on archaeology, art history, and ethnohistory. Emphasis is placed on the use of archaeological data and models to make inferences about Mesoamerican history. This course will also include in-class activities designed to give students first-hand experience in interpreting archaeological evidence.
Upper division standing; or instructor permission.
ANT 339Archaeology of the American Southwest3
This course includes a thorough introduction to the current history of the United States Southwestern Region and its major cultures and population centers based on archaeology, art history, and ethnohistory. Emphasis is placed on the use of archaeological data and models to make inferences about Southwestern history. This course will also include in-class activities designed to give students first-hand experience in interpreting archaeological evidence.
Upper division standing; or instructor permission.
ANT 341Archaeology of the Old World3
This course includes a thorough introduction to the current history of many of the areas of the Old World and its major civilizations based on archaeology, art history, and ethnohistory. Emphasis is placed on the use of archaeological data and models to make inferences about the major ancient civilizations. This course will also include in-class activities designed to give students first-hand experience in interpreting archaeological evidence.
Upper division standing; or instructor permission.
ANT 342Archaeology of South America3
This course serves as an overview of archaeological studies in South America. It covers groups from 15,000 years ago into the colonial period (AD 1532-1821) and explores how archaeological research is conducted. Discussions of archaeological research will emphasize distinct theoretical approaches, the use of various methods, and how archaeological studies and cultural heritage relate to present day communities.
Nine social and behavioral science hours including ANT 112 OR COG 166 OR LIN 100 OR SOC 100 or instructor permission.
ANT 345Sociolinguistics3
This course explores the relationships between language and society. It examines the circumstances which lead to variations in linguistic behavior within societies and its social significance. Emphasis is given to the effects of gender, age, class, and ethnic differences on verbal and written forms of expression.
Nine social and behavioral science hours including one of the following ANT 112 OR LIN 100 OR SOC 100 or instructor permission. Equivalent Course: LIN 345
ANT 355Medical Anthropology3
Introduction to theory and practice of anthropologist working with medical personnel or investigating health related personnel or investigating health related problem in a cross-cultural perspective.
Nine hours of social or behavioral sciences including ANT 111 OR 112 OR SOC 100 OR BIO 101; or instructor permission.
ANT 356The Haudenosaunee until 18153
This course begins with an examination of Haudenosaunee prehistory and traces the development of the cultural patterns that characterized their society at the time of contact. Archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic data are used to elucidate the social, political, religious, and economic components of traditional Haudenosaunee life and to explain the changes that resulted from interactions with Europeans. The issues confronting Haudenosaunee communities today are examined from the perspectives of both the Haudenosaunee themselves and their non-Native American neighbors.
Nine social and behavioral science hours including ANT 111 OR 112; or instructor permission.
ANT 372Peoples and Culture of China3
A review of the major patterns of Chinese culture. The use of archaeological, historical, linguistic, ethnographic and other sources, to establish an outline of the growth and development of the Chinese state. Attention will be given to the idea of China as a ‘donor’ culture, as well as the nature and impact of social change in present-day Chinese society.
Nine social and behavioral science hours including ANT 112, or instructor permission.
ANT 374Contemporary Africa3
An overview of Africanist topics including kinship, family life, political structure, ecological management, and belief systems. Emphasizes the cultural diversities and global connectedness of the African continent and contrasts these to outside perspectives that historically homogenized and marginalized Africans. Ethnographic case studies chosen to illustrate different topics and groups.
Upper Class standing AND any one of: ANT 112; SOC 100; CRJ 101; PSY 100; ECO 101; SUS 115; GLS 200; OR Instructor Permission
ANT 375North American Indians3
A survey of North American Indians including brief descriptions of their prehistory, accounts of their life in the past, the historical changes they have experienced, and discussion of their current life-styles, government policies and problems.
This course includes a thorough introduction to the modern practice and profession of historic preservation and archaeology through a real-life excavation in a prehistoric and/or historic site. Emphasis is placed on the design of modern field research and practical experience conducting field survey, mapping, and modern excavation and artifact recovery and analysis. This course provides hands-on activities to give students direct field experience in the design and completion of an archaeological dig at a local historic site including the processing and curation of recovered materials to museum professional standards. Students will survey, excavate, analyze recovered materials, and complete interpretive narratives that are the basic requirements for professional archaeology and historic preservation.
Evolutionary human development has been paralleled by the evolution of diseases that have been exclusive to or shared with their human host and others. Diseases have shaped our biological and social development. The development and impact of various diseases on human behavior and biology have been significant and enduring. It is the relationship between disease and human behavior and the dynamics of this association that will be established and reviewed.
Nine social and behavioral science hours including ANT 111 OR 112 or instructor permission.
ANT 388Paleoanthropology: Fossils and People3
This course explores the richness of the fossil record of human evolution from the earliest hominoids to the origins of bipedality to the emergence of the expanded brain, the development of abstract mental capacities, and the persistence and eventual extinction of our species’ closest relatives. Instruction revolves around the peer-reviewed scientific literature, with students engaging with both classic and groundbreaking recent articles in a seminar format. In addition to direct access to skeletons and fossil casts, students become well-versed in the distinct scientific methodologies and techniques utilized by paleontologists. Such approaches include not only traditional analyses, but also paleoecology, paleoclimatology, isotope analysis, ancient DNA extraction, paleoproteomics, and cutting-edge developments in related fields, enabled by a flexible curriculum that targets new publications in real time.
This course explores the processes and consequences of globalization. By investigating the rapid flow of capital, people, goods, images, and ideologies across cultures, societies, and nations, it pays careful attention to ideas about culture, modernity, tradition, colonialism/post-colonialism, capitalism, identity change, nationalism/transnationalism, Diaspora, and the creation of a “global culture.”
See the section, CURRICULUM INFORMATION, of this Catalog for college wide guidelines for Independent Study. The department also requires junior standing, completion of eighteen hours of antropology and permission of instructor.
ANT 402Teaching Anthropology II1-3
This course is for students who have taken ANT 302. However, this course, while requiring the activities of the student, carries with it higher expectations for performance and participation. This course offers qualified and promising students the opportunity to participate in the construction and execution of an anthropology course. Under the instructor’s guidance, the student aids in test construction and evaluation, and introduces various pedagogical strategies. The student gains experience in conducting review sessions, teaching a lesson, and evaluating textbooks. As a result of these and other activities, anthropology students are able to gain practical experience in writing, speaking, organizing, and evaluating that will stand them in good stead whether they go to graduate school or immediately enter the workforce.
ANT 410Issues in Anthropology: History, Theory, Methods4
This course integrates history, method, and fact in anthropology from the 18th century to the present. It stresses the development of theories of culture, structure, and change in their historical contexts, and examines methods of collecting, processing, and interpreting data as they relate to various theoretical stances. It encourages critical thought about contemporary arguments on the nature of humans. It involves the student in short methods projects.
ANT 310 and upper division standing, or instructor permission.
ANT 430Advanced Archaeology3
This course focuses on contemporary archaeological method and theory, with special emphasis on experimental archaeology and the application of statistical methods and computers to data acquisition, presentation and interpretation. Students will conduct a computer-based “virtual” dig that will lead to the analysis and interpretation of data from an actual site.
ANT 230 and upper division standing or instructor permission
ANT 442Races and Minorities3
Majority-minority relations; biology of race, stratification variables of power, prestige, wealth; emphasis on development, function, and institutionalization of prejudice and discrimination.
Upper division standing and fifteen social and behavioral science hours including ANT 112 OR SOC 100 or instructor permission. Equivalent Course: SOC 442
ANT 451Human Osteology4
Dead men do tell tales. In this course, students gain an in-depth knowledge of human skeletal anatomy (osteology), which is crucial for work in bioarchaeology, forensics, anatomy, medicine and more. Anthropometric methods will be demonstrated to estimate age-at-death, sex, stature, and ancestry and medico-legal and archaeological applications will be outlined.
Upper division standing and fifteen social science credits including ANT 112, or instructor permission.
ANT 454Advanced Forensic Anthropology3
Students in ANT 454 will delve into a detailed exploration of Forensic Anthropology methods and casework. In depth study of age determination, trauma assessment, ancestry, and scene recovery techniques will be some of the focal points. The most recent issues and technologies in the field will also be presented and discussed. Hands on laboratory assignments throughout the course will augment the students’ learning experience.
This course examines human and nonhuman primate growth and development from conception to maturity through an evolutionary and cross-cultural perspective. Students investigate genetic, social, and ecological influences on growth, including individual and population variations and secular trends. Particular focus on prenatal development, pregnancy, infancy and breastfeeding, reproductive ecology, and menopause.
Nine social science credits including ANT 111, or BIO 203; or instructor permission.
ANT 498Internship1-12
A course designed for upper division students who wish to take part in a semester long internship related to their academic major, minor, or career interest area. Students will work in a position for the purpose of testing academic learning in a work situation.
Upper division standing, a minimum 2.5 GPA. Acceptance of experience through EXCEL: Experiential Courses and Engaged Learning, an approved position description filled out by Site Supervisor and permission of the student’s major academic advisor and sponsoring faculty member. Clear learning objectives and academic assignments appropriate for the position and credits being earned.
ANT 499Independent Study1
Individual study in the field of anthropology under the direct supervision of a department faculty member.
See the section, CURRICULUM INFORMATION, of this Catalog for college wide guidelines for Independent Study. The department also requires senior standing, completion of twenty-four hours of anthropology and permission of instructor.
Source: State University of New York at Oswego's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
