65 courses with the subject ATY, 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.
Why are people different? In this course you will encounter the rich cultural diversity of people around the world today. Discover distinctive traditions from all around the globe and the common characteristics that unite us all as humans.
Human cultures exhibit diverse belief systems, economic structures, languages, social identities, and even eating habits. But why? This course provides a holistic approach to this question, including what culture is, how anthropologists study it, and how anthropology can be applied to solve local and global problems.
Why are humans, well, human? We have culture and language, we walk upright on two legs, we have populated nearly every habitat on Earth, and we exhibit diverse social and sexual behaviors. This course explores the human species through genetics, evolution, and the biology/behavior of nonhuman primates and humans.
Laboratory supporting ATY 153.
Go back in time more than 2 million years when our pre-human ancestors started making stone tools, tour the painted caves of Paleolithic Europe, explore the mysteries of Maya pyramids, and much more. This course introduces students to the clues archaeologists use to understand ancient societies before written histories.
This course uses the medium of visual anthropology, and in particular, documentary ethnographic film, to explore human cultural, social, and behavioral diversity around the globe in order to understand the human experience through an anthropological lens.
A survey of the cultures and biology of Neandertals, including their technology, diet, treatment of the dead, communication systems, genetic code, and ultimate demise some 30,000 years ago. Application of this knowledge to an understanding of the modern human cultural experience.
Using the scientific method and techniques from archaeology, students critically assess the evidence supporting popular myths such as sunken Atlantis, pyramid power, and extraterrestrial encounters.
The study of human difference around the world is called Anthropology. In this course you will see how anthropologists explore cultures around the world based on beliefs, behaviors, cuisine, medical practices, art, technology, language, social institutions, family structures, and elements of daily life.
Traditional ways of life of indigenous people of North America.
Critically examines human biological diversity and the notion of "race" from a biocultural perspective and through an historical lens to understand the role that race has played and continues to play within the field of anthropology with a focus on the American experience.
Study of the peoples of Africa emphasizing family, organization, religion, political organization, languages, and urbanism. Includes a study of African novelists.
Transformation and resiliency in North American indigenous complex cultures are explored using data drawn from art, archaeology, ethnohistory, anthropology, and oral histories. Northwest and southwest town cultures are compared/contrasted to the mound cultures of the mid-west/east. Their varied adaptive strategies for dealing with social, political, and climatic upheaval are revealed.
By examining present day and historical pandemics, this course will outline the relevance of archeological, biological, cultural, linguistic and applied anthropological approaches to understanding the role of outbreaks in shaping the human experience.
Examines key sociocultural issues through classic literary and cinematic works, emphasizing notions of modernity, the contemporary world, and the relationship they entertain; provides foundational reading and critical thinking skills.
A cross-cultural and evolutionary approach to the study of childhood from conception to adolescence that incorporates the five field perspective of anthropology.
Examines the primary genre and practice of cultural anthropology—ethnography—through a range of geographically and thematically diverse texts.
Anthropology offers key insight into the human experience. This course explores what constitutes anthropological data and introduces qualitative data analysis. As questions of evidence and authority are central within the sciences, this class will guide students through in-class methods workshops, outline academic writing styles, and foster improved scientific literacy.
Tribal and peasant groups with special emphasis on their place in contemporary Latin America.
Explores the art, architecture, religious beliefs, technologies, and political organization of the Pre-Columbian societies of Mesoamerica and South America such as the Maya, Moche, Aztec, and Inca.
A survey of the archaeology of stone-tool-using peoples from the first Paleolithic cultures to the agricultural revolution.
Examination of sacred and secular beliefs in cross-cultural perspective. Emphasis on symbols, ritual, and their functions.
This course examines the evidence from fossils, genes, and artifacts to outline the human evolutionary journey from an ape-like ancestor some six million years ago to the appearance, expansion, and eventual global dominance of our own species, Homo sapiens.
Introduction to the anthropology of music. Cultural analysis of music and sound in resistance, protest, and government. This course examines relationships between music, sound, and power. We will examine the connections between various types of power (political, resistance, religious, charismatic, etc.) and various types of sound (concert music, protest, chant, propaganda, etc.). The course will serve as an introduction to the anthropology of music. We will focus on multiple case studies and examine the role of music/sound in asserting, maintaining or challenging a variety of beliefs or ideologies. Students will complete a power/music/sound project of their own choosing.
Introduction to the musical traditions of Asia. Traditions are examined within their religious, philosophical and socio-political contexts allowing comparison of musical activity, concepts and sounds. No musical training required.
An overview of primatology—the study of prosimians, monkeys, apes, and humans. Involves in-depth study of selected primates as well as discussion of major theoretical issues and ways in which the study of nonhuman primate behavior helps illuminate human evolutionary history.
Methods of recovery and analysis of human remains in medicolegal contexts, including human and nonhuman skeletal material, decomposition, crime scene recovery, and skeletal signs of age, sex, and trauma.
Analysis and evaluation of methods, theories, and concepts necessary for recovery and interpretation of cultural information about past societies relevant for anthropological goals. Includes issues of historiography, epistemology, and ethics.
Provides students with an understanding of the basic research techniques utilized by physical anthropologists through hands-on experience and an introduction to the literature in the field.
Cultural anthropology methods provides hands-on opportunities to learn qualitative and quantitative methods in data collection and analysis. Students engage in data collection techniques, such as fieldnotes, participant and casual observations, interviews, dietary recall and photovoice. With time permitting we engage in some text and descriptive statistical analyses.
Developments in history of Western thought and study of culture leading to the emergence of anthropology as a scientific field.
Validity and reliability, variables and constants, independence and dependence, scales, frequency distribution and graphs, variance of central tendency and dispersion, probability, hypothesis testing, difference between means, analysis of variance, comparison of samples, simple regression correlation analysis, and analysis of frequencies.
This course applies archaeological, geographical, and historical evidence to examine the cultural consequences of European expansion as deduced from landscape, material culture, and documentary studies. The “Columbian exchange,” or transfer of people and their plants, animals, material goods, ideas, diseases, and institutional systems within diverse landscapes is explored.
The anatomy of disasters examined from both anthropological and sociological perspectives. Case studies are presented through several conceptual lenses for clarifying individual, social, cultural, and political responses to catastrophic events.
A survey of verbal and non-verbal behavior cross-culturally. Emphasis on the use of language in the speech community, gestures, body language, expressive behavior, verbal art, and language learning.
An anthropological survey of cults, brainwashing, conspiracies, conspiracy theories, and the process of identity construction, initiation, and cultural practice as socio-cultural phenomena.
A survey and exploration of the way that law produces culture and culture produces law through witch-hunts, European and American witch trials, and significant legal cases in American Law.
Opportunity for advanced students to study in depth topic or issue of special interest.
An analysis and critique of modern economics from the perspective of Economic Anthropology. Anthropologists provide a formal and substantive critique of Smith’s “invisible hand,” and Marx’s unilineal “historical materialism.” Using case studies, this course examines how Economic Anthropology addresses environmental issues, health disparities, structural racism, and neoliberal development policy.
Overview of theory and skills needed to work as an applied archaeologist in the public sector. Topics include cultural resource management and public outreach projects.
Applied Anthropology emphasizes the application of anthropology to the needs of communities, organizations and institutions in attempts to aid real life problems and issues. Applied anthropology relates to activism, advocacy, and community-based, engaged, participatory, practicing, and public anthropologies. Working together we examine ways one specializes in an applied career.
The course examines the paradox of hunger in an abundant world from historical and contemporary perspectives by reviewing industrialized agriculture, genetic engineering, impacts on health and the environment, and local efforts to achieve sustainability of the agro-food system.
Survey of the archaeology of South America from earliest evidence of human habitation up to the arrival of the Spanish. Emphasis placed on the Andean area of western South America.
Historical archaeological approach documenting the American experience for immigrant, enslaved, and freed African, Chinese, Irish, and other workers who crossed the seas, contributing to American culture.
This course examines complex political organizations and power relations since the emergence of inequality. Archaeological and historical examples will be compared to evaluate competing models of political development.
Through material culture this course examines gender in prehistoric, classical, and historic societies as an integral aspect of human societies and the social relations in families, communities, and complex polities.
Through an anthropological lens we examine how humans shape the environment and the environment shapes its inhabitants from different cultures, genders, locations, and social classes. From various approaches to the cultural and environmental interface we examine land and natural resource use, social and environmental justice, climate change, ethnobotany, and sustainability.
Detailed coverage of anatomical structures on bone and methods involving inventory, description, data collection, and analysis of human remains. Topics include functional and comparative skeletal anatomy, bone microstructure, and physiology.
Laboratory supporting ATY 453.
An overview of primatology and of methods for studying the behavior of prosimians, monkeys, and apes. Involves experience in data collection, computerized data analysis, and producing a scientific report.
Exploration of the importance of water for human and environmental health. This course draws on critical medical anthropology to situate resource inequity in its political, environmental, and cultural context. We explore anthropological and human geographical contributions to global water, sanitation, and hygiene initiatives.
Investigation of indigenous cultural development in North America from earliest Paleo-Indian evidence to the European Contact Period, with special emphasis on the archaeology of southeastern North America including North Carolina.
Medical anthropology covers a range of topics that focus on sickness and healing, and access to healthcare from various bio-cultural practices. We draw from cultural and political ecologies of disease, ethnomedical systems, social construction of illness and social production of health, structural violence, syndemics and global health.
Exploration of emergent and re-emergent infectious disease in a global context. This course draws on critical medical anthropology and situates infectious disease in its political, environmental, and cultural context. We explore anthropological contributions to public health and infectious disease prevention.
Advanced training in research methods in Historic Archaeology, involving on-site training in field, laboratory, and library components of Historic Archaeology.
The identification and analysis of animal bones in archaeological contexts.
Methods, techniques, and theories of archaeological field investigation. Includes site survey, mapping, systematic sampling, and controlled excavation.
Instruction on proper treatment of material recovered through archaeological investigation. Includes classification, statistical manipulation of data, seriation, and analysis of spatial and temporal dimensions. Attention to special analytical techniques (e.g., C14 dating, chemical analysis, faunal analysis) with stress on ecological interpretation.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor; 3.30 GPA in the major; 12 s.h. in the major;
A capstone seminar focusing on current issues in anthropology, how they relate to the discipline, and their significance to anthropology's role in today's world.
Opportunity for students to have directed instruction on problems of special interest.
Opportunity for students to have directed instruction on problems of special interest.
Faculty supervised practicum experience in an off campus setting. Host organization will provide the student with applied experience directly relevant to a specific subfield of anthropology.
Opportunity for advanced students to study in depth topic or issue of special interest.
A capstone seminar focusing on current issues in anthropology, how they relate to the discipline, and their significance to anthropology's role in today's world.
Source: University of North Carolina at Greensboro's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
