42 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 101Introduction to Human Evolution (3 cr.)
An exploration of the scientific evidence related to the origins and evolution of human beings. Topics include the theories and processes of biological evolution, the biological and cultural bases of human variation, humans compared to other primates, and the fossil and archaeological record of human evolution over millions of years. Liberal arts Cardinal Core Curriculum Category: Natural World SUNY Framework: Natural Sciences and Scientific Reasoning Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
ANT 102Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction (3 cr.)
Cultural Anthropology is devoted to the study of human society in all of its diverse manifestations and across time and space. This course focuses on the dynamics and interpretation of culture and explores, from a cross-cultural perspective, how humans create diverse ways to survive, thrive and live in community with each other. Major areas of exploration include comparing our own cultural practices with others, culture change, and the impacts of globalization and global processes. Liberal Arts Cardinal Core Curriculum Category: Human Communities SUNY Framework: Social Sciences Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
This course covers major archaeological discoveries from around the globe that have helped shape our knowledge and understanding of the human past. Specific finds and sites will illustrate the varied, distinctive features and achievements of pre-industrial, non-Western cultures, as well as reflecting the intrigue and approaches involved in reconstructing and interpreting the evolution of human beings and their societies. Consideration is also given to the endangerment and conservation of important sites and monuments. Liberal arts Cardinal Core Curriculum Category: World Cultures SUNY Framework: World History and Global Awareness Semester(s) Offered: Varies
Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
In this course we will explore the process of technological development and the methods by which ancient people could have produced tools. During the course of this semester, we will attempt to document and produce technologies that were once commonplace (Stone tools, Basketry, Leather, Wood, Food etc.), which are relatively unknown. Students will experimentally recreate ancient technologies, using only the materials and implements that would have been available to a pre-industrial culture. Liberal Arts
Sophomore standing or higher Cardinal Core Curriculum Category: Individual Expression SUNY Framework: The Arts Semester(s) Offered: Varies
ANT 220Archaeology (3 cr.)
Introduction to method and theory of archaeology. Principles of site survey and excavation; techniques for dating prehistoric and reconstructing past environments; interpretations of social, economic, and ideological organization from archaeological remains; reconstruction of prehistoric events, and theoretical applications of archaeology to problems of culture change. Ethics of archaeological investigation. Liberal arts Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
An introduction to the ways that cultures approach medicine, disease, and the body. How do cultural ideas about health shape different approaches to diagnosis and treatment of illness? How do evolution, ecology, and resources shape different experiences and outcomes of disease? How do cultural distinctions like age, gender, ethnicity, and wealth affect human health? This course explores the many paths cultures take toward health and healing, illuminating the diversity of human medical systems and suggesting ways to improve our own. Liberal Arts Cardinal Core Curriculum Category: Human Communities SUNY Framework: Social Sciences Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
ANT 287Career Prep: Parlaying Anthropology and the Social Sciences for the Workplace. (3 cr.)
Learn about and position yourself for internships, work and careers using the skills you have learned in anthropology, the social sciences and beyond. Do outreach and networking, maintain and develop new internship opportunities, conduct informational interviews, write your resume, cover letters, and applications emphasizing your practical and analytical skills. Learn about the anthropological perspective and how to apply it in careers. Emphasis on anthropology and the social sciences can be leveraged for career success. Open to all students. Semester(s) Offered: Spring
Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
Cross-cultural perspectives on sexual expression and practices, including an examination of sexual attitudes and behavior in contemporary cultures. Goals of this course include investigating the degree to which, and the ways in which, human sexuality and gender are culturally constructed and patterned. This course will introduce students to the basic methods and concerns of the social sciences, focusing primarily on the relationship of the individual to society and the institutions and beliefs that shape sexual behavior. Liberal arts
Sophomore Standing Cardinal Core Curriculum Category: Human Communities SUNY Framework: Social Sciences Semester(s) Offered: Spring
ANT 307Tibetan Peoples and the Himalayas (3 cr.)
Why is it important to study Tibetan history and culture? Tibet is both emblematic of 20th century colonization and neglect by the international community and unique for its cultural contributions to the world in the global age. Who is the Dalai Lama? Why is Buddhism so important? Who are the Tibetans? Where is Tibet? We consider these and other questions from a critical anthropological perspective on history, culture, international politics and global processes. Liberal Arts
One Course in any CCC category except Quantitative Reasoning or POI. Cardinal Core Curriculum Category: World Cultures SUNY Framework: World History and Global Awareness Semester(s) Offered: Varies
ANT 308Forensic Anthropology (3 cr.)
Introduction to the uses of anthropology in the investigation of human remains associated with unexplained deaths, including those from crime scenes, with a focus on skeletal remains. Topics include archaeological aspects of data recovery, and physical anthropology techniques used in identifying age, sex, stature, “race” and individual identity as well as analysis of trauma, pathology, cause of death and time elapsed since death. Course includes lab practicum with skeletons. Liberal arts
ANT 101 or SOC150 or SOC250 or any biology course. Semester(s) Offered: Every other Year
ANT 310Language and Culture (3 cr.)
Structure, patterns and regularities of language, comparing the language families and showing the mutual influence of language and culture. Liberal arts
We take a critical anthropological perspective to gain insight into the socio-cultural development of human rights. We explore their historical, cultural, political and legal parameters at the local, national and international levels. Our questions include: What are human rights, what are their historical roots, and how did they become embedded in our collective consciousness? How has human rights thinking in law and practice developed institutionally? We consider how human rights are deployed as a medium of moral, social and political power. Liberal arts
Any course in a CCC category except Quantitative Reasoning and Natural World. Cardinal Core Curriculum Category: World Cultures SUNY Framework: World History and Global Awareness Semester(s) Offered: Varies
ANT 323Peoples and Cultures of Latin America (3 cr.)
Introduction to the diversity and complexity of the peoples and cultures throughout Latin America. Special focus will be on the intersection of history, environment, politics, religion, gender, race, class, ethnicity, human rights, climate change and nationalism in post-colonial Latin America. Critical exploration of global processes and how current cultural, political and economic transformations are impacting indigenous, immigrant, and other critical sectors of contemporary Latin American society. Liberal arts
Sophomore standing or higher. Cardinal Core Curriculum Category: World Cultures SUNY Framework: World History and Global Awareness Semester(s) Offered: Every other Spring
ANT 325Archaeology of Latin America (3 cr.)
This course will focus on the ancient people of Latin America from the earliest occupations of humans in the Americas to the Colonial Period. Topics will be organized by regions: Caribbean, Mesoamerica, Central America, and South America. By looking at Latin America we can begin to understand the cultures across 16 thousand years and 20 million square kilometers, so we can better understand our own place and the role Latin America has in the world. Liberal Arts
ANT 104 or ANT 220 or POI Semester(s) Offered: Varies
ANT 328Archaeological Site Excavation (6 cr.)
Excavation of an actual archaeological site. Practical experience in field archaeology including techniques of survey, excavation, preservation, reconstruction and laboratory analysis of ancient materials. May be repeated for a total of 12 credits. Liberal arts
ANT 220 or POI. Felony Questionnaire Required Fees: Archaeological Site Fee $30.00 Semester(s) Offered: Summer
ANT 329Geographic Information Systems in Anthropology (3 cr.)
Cultural data can be understood spatially, and Geographic Information Systems, as a tool, can be used to make spatial patterns explicit and testable. Spatial patterning can make relationships clear that were once not. This course applies archaeology; culture, health and bioethics; museums and anthropology; and transnational and global issues within GIS. This course will include an orientation to GIS, and students will create projects on cultural data to define spatial relationships. Liberal Arts
Sophomore standing or POI Cardinal Core Curriculum Category: Quantitative Reasoning SUNY Framework: Mathematics and Quantitative Reasoning Semester(s) Offered: Every Other Fall
ANT 332The Archaeology of Death (3 cr.)
Death is the great leveler, and the recognition and memorialization of death is a human universal. The way in which ancient and modern human societies’ experience the death process is culturally defined. This course will examine the dead and the undead in a number of prehistoric, historic and modern case studies. The focus of the class revolves around the means by which humans individually and collectively ritualize the death process, both in terms of the quick and the dead. Liberal arts
Sophomore standing or POI. Cardinal Core Curriculum Category: World Cultures SUNY Framework: World History and Global Awareness Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
ANT 333Coastal and Aquatic Archaeology (3 cr.)
A study of ancient human-environment interaction in coastal, marine, and freshwater ecosystems. Archaeological and ecological exploration of the relationship between cultural and natural systems. An examination of ancient human impacts to coastal ecosystems and their relationship to modern ecological issues. Liberal arts
ANT 101 or ANT 102 or ANT 104 or ANT 220 . Semester(s) Offered: Fall
ANT 335Plagues, People, and History (3 cr.)
This course will examine epidemic diseases within a biological and historical context. Topics covered include catastrophic infectious disease and the human body’s response, biological change over time, how scientists discovered the causes and developed controls for infectious disease, and the ways in which plagues and human culture interact to shape societal values, traditions, and institutions. Issues such as the impact of sedentism, malnutrition, disease constructs, warfare, and poverty on the behavior of infectious pathogens will be covered, including examples from Ancient (Greek, Roman, Egyptian), Medieval and Modern Ages. Liberal Arts
Sophomore Standing or POI Cardinal Core Curriculum Category: Human Communities SUNY Framework: Social Sciences Semester(s) Offered: Varies
ANT 336Civilization and Health (3 cr.)
Examination of the relationship between cultural/biological factors and human health and disease, including topics such as group structure and size, the transition from hunter/gatherers (nomadism) to agriculturalists (sedentism), the rise of urban society, and the environmental and social factors that accompany different economic strategies. Problems of nutrition in the past and the evolution and history of infectious diseases will be examined as well as the recent emergence of new diseases. Methods of analyzing prehistoric health, and the problems with these methods, will be discussed. Liberal arts
This course explores the interaction between human cultural systems and the minds they inhabit. How do the norms and categories of different cultures shape the emotional experience of individuals? Is there a common mental framework that all human beings share, or are we fundamentally separated by the contexts in which we develop? Conversely, how do basic cognitive and emotional patterns shape the cultures that humans create? Examples are drawn from a wide range of ethnographic and theoretical contexts. Liberal Arts
Sophomore standing or higher, or ANT 102 , or PSY 101 , or POI Cardinal Core Curriculum Category: Human Communities SUNY Framework: Social Sciences Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
ANT 340Anthropology of Religion (3 cr.)
Wherever we find people, we find religion - ideas, symbols, and practices that connect our own experiences to the essential nature of the universe. Sometimes these are manifest as formal institutions, sometimes as complexes of myth, magic, and beliefs about spirits. This course explores the broad range of forms that religion can take. It considers how religion may have originated; the structure of ritual and myth; ideas about shamanism, healing, ghosts, and ancestors; and how religions change. Liberal arts
Sophomore standing or higher, or ANT 102 , or POI. Cardinal Core Curriculum Category: World Cultures SUNY Framework: World History and Global Awareness Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
ANT 354Cultural & Historical Perspectives on US Education (3 cr.)
This course explores educational patterns in socialization and schooling and brings a comparative and historical anthropological perspective to contemporary US American K-12 education. We examine the role that education plays in the transmission of particular knowledges, histories, values and attitudes to young members of society and the ways that the educational system may serve as an agent of social change and/or of stasis. We use a cross-cultural perspective to gain insight into other systems and to the particularities of the US educational system. Liberal arts
Sophomore standing or higher. Cardinal Core Curriculum Category: U.S. Identities SUNY Framework: U.S. History and Civic Engagement Semester(s) Offered: Varies
ANT 362Global Issues (3 cr.)
Application of anthropological and global perspectives to problems including economic inequality, poverty, food insecurity, gender discrimination, environmental degradation, ethnic conflict, war and violence. Liberal arts
Sophomore standing or higher Cardinal Core Curriculum Category: World Cultures SUNY Framework: World History and Global Awareness Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
ANT 368Anthropology of Food (3 cr.)
The course is centered on the factors that determine our choice of diet. Students will examine the history of human’s relationship to food from the discovery of fire to corporate marketing and U.S. government food policy. Students will study the history and nature of the U.S. agricultural system, the meaning that food has in our lives and its religious and ceremonial significance. We will examine the global expansion of industrial food production and its effects on health, well-being, and food justice. Liberal arts
Sophomore standing or POI. Cardinal Core Curriculum Category: U.S. Identities SUNY Framework: U.S. History and Civic Engagement Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
ANT 373The Anthropology of Travel & Tourism (3 cr.)
Tourism is one of the world’s largest industries and is a major vehicle for bringing people from diverse socio-cultural, political, ethnic, and economic backgrounds into contact with one another. This course will consider, from an anthropological perspective, the complex relationships between hosts and guests, and will consider the multiple ways in which travel and tourism serve as vehicles for change and discovery for both. Liberal Arts
ANT 102 or LAS 111 or SOC 101 or POI. Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring; Every Three or Four Semesters
ANT 377Immigrants, Exiles, Refugees, and Transnational Communities (3 cr.)
This course explores the global forces that are driving contemporary movements of people across international borders and the transnational communities that result. anthropological case studies from Latin America, the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa, and Asia provide students with a critical understanding of the qualitative experiences of transnational and forced migration, or displacement, on origin, and countries of settlement. The course will consider the social, cultural, political, and economic contexts in which the population movements occur, as well as the complex cultural and political processes associated with integration, assimilation, alienation, deportation, and repatriation. Liberal arts
ANT 102 or CAS 111 or HIS 132 or LAS 111 or PSC 220 or POI. Semester(s) Offered: Spring
ANT 380Doing Cultural Research (3 cr.)
This is a hands on course on qualitative/ethnographic methods of research. Students gain practice in using these methods. Interviewing skills, observation and participant-observation, focus groups, and other approaches are introduced. A research proposal is the culminating assignment, which may be used to conduct independent research or as the basis for a future project. Liberal arts Cardinal Core Curriculum Category: Human Communities SUNY Framework: Social Sciences Semester(s) Offered: Spring
Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
ANT 405Anthropology Laboratory and Analysis (1-6 cr.)
Anthropologists of all specialties practice laboratory analysis and are actively collecting, organizing, and interpreting data about humanity. This course will teach the methods of data processing, organization, analysis and interpretation. It may be offered with particular focuses, including Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Ethnography, Forensics, Linguistics, and Cultural Anthropology. The key aspect to this course will be active laboratory analysis and research with real-world data and collections. Liberal Arts
ANT 101 or ANT 102 . Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
ANT 452Topics in Biological Anthropology (3 cr.)
The Topics course in Biological Anthropology is designed to provide students the opportunity to investigate, at an advanced level, the biological history of human beings. All courses offered under ANT452-Topics in Biological Anthropology, require that students participate in lab and seminar content that examines the diverse areas of Biological Anthropology as a discipline. May be repeated with a different topic for a total of 6 credits. Liberal arts
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6 credit hours in ANT or POI. Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
ANT 453Topics in Archaeology (1 to 3 cr.)
Topics of current interest in Archaeology for discussion and research. May be repeated for credit with a different topic. Liberal arts Semester(s) Offered: Fall
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Anthropology students undertake original anthropological research on a topic of their choice, putting into practice ethnographic research skills and anthropological analysis. This is the advanced writing course (AWR) for the major and involves peer review, writing revision, and final project write-up and oral presentation. Liberal arts
ANT 380 or POI. Meets Advanced Writing Requirement Semester(s) Offered: Fall
ANT 487Internship Seminar (3 cr.)
The seminar provides a community of practice, as well as scholarly and practical support, for students undertaking an internship that uses a social sciences perspective and a focus on community engagement. It is open to all students involved concurrently in an internship (need not be an anthropology internship) who would like faculty guidance and peer support while they hone their skills in social research and analysis. We use an anthropological perspective that is transferable to many other disciplines. Liberal Arts
Assist instructor in planning, preparation, class discussion, tutoring, and/or group projects. Each student and instruction will complete a contract specifying the student’s duties. Can be repeated for different courses.
Project individually arranged by student and faculty sponsor. Requires completion of the Independent Study form and approval by the Faculty Sponsor, Academic Advisor, Department Chair and Academic Dean.
