47 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 110Introduction to Archaeology3
This class serves as an introduction to archaeology and focuses on the material evidence of human behavior including artifacts of ancient hominin, modifications to landscapes, and a range of material culture generated by diverse human groups including those living in ancient cities and states. (Liberal Studies P1).
This course serves as an introduction to biological anthropology, which focuses on the understanding of evolution and biocultural variation resulting in human biological diversity both contemporary and throughout time. (Liberal Studies P1)
This course is a survey of anthropology that uses a critical-thinking approach for debunking popular-cultural hoaxes and pseudoscientific conspiracy theories.
This course serves as an introduction to the discipline of forensic anthropology, or the application of anthropology within a medicolegal context. As such, it will focus on basic approaches to forensic anthropological field and laboratory, primarily focusing on the search, recovery, and analysis of human skeletal remains to facilitate identification and reconstruct the death event.
This course is an intensive examination of the entire human skeleton. Students are expected to learn how to identify and side complete and fragmentary bones using bony morphology, features, and landmarks.
Hands-on experiential learning course in which students design, conduct, and assess the outcomes of experiments that explore aspects of archaeological data and past human behavior and technology.
This surveys the various disciplines involved in medicolegal death investigation as well as the death investigation process itself, primarily from the role of a medicolegal death investigator (MLI).
This course prepares students to apply archaeological method and theory within the context of forensic science. This course will cover the various systematic approaches to the search and recovery of human remains undertaken by forensic anthropologists and forensic archaeologists.
A history of the application of anthropological knowledge to human problems, with focus on engagement with a socially-just, decolonized, and environmentally sustainable anthropology.
Environmental anthropology is the study of human-environment relationships in all times and all places. This course will examine human ecological relationships in selected world areas.
Examination of the archaeological record in selected world areas; topics include the study of human evolution and comparison of the material record of ancient states.
Archaeological sites and materials provide primary evidence for discussing the Native peoples of what is now the Southeastern United States. Interpretations of Native cultures will be critiqued.
This course examines the evolutionary history of humans providing a detailed overview of human changes in biology and behavior over the last seven million years, ranging from the earliest hominins to the emergence of modern humans and their expansion across the earth.
This course will explore the discipline of bioarchaeology, or the examination of human skeletons from archaeological contexts. This class will focus on current theoretical and methodological approaches to the examination of stress, disease, trauma, subsistence, and biological distance.
This course will examine the biological variation in modern humans. It focuses on genetic, anatomical, and physiological differences both within and between populations arising from random and/or adaptive evolutionary processes.
This course is meant to serve as an introduction to reading and performing anthropological research. This course will discuss statistics, the scientific method, ethical research design, professional writing, and dissemination of research.
Present-day Cherokee skills of woodcarving, basketry, pottery making, and other parts of Cherokee culture and society. This course is cross-listed with ART 379. 1 Lecture, 5 Lab.
Theory and method; techniques of observation, description, interviewing, note taking, and analyzing data; planning and completing a field study. This course is cross-listed with SOC 380.
This course covers skeletal trauma analysis as it relates to the reconstruction of the death event. Course topics include bone biomechanics, bone fracture morphology, tool-mark analysis, and the interpretation of skeletal trauma to contribute to determination of the cause and manner of death.
This course explores the use of taphonomy in forensic anthropology. This course primarily focuses on estimation of the postmortem interval through the observation of soft tissue decomposition, as well as the examination of taphonomic modifications of the human skeleton to interpret medicolegal significance and reconstruct depositional history and the death event.
Archaeological study of past funerary practices to understand how archaeologists have interpreted them and why burials were performed the way they were.
Paleopathology is the study of diseases and related conditions in ancient remains. This course will teach students the processes of examining diagnosing pathological conditions on skeletal remains as well as the importance of understanding the cultural and environmental context of pathological skeletal remains.
This course will examine human-environmental relationships from 14,000 years on in the southern Appalachia bioregion that is called ‘Giduwagi’ by some traditionalist Cherokee people-‘soil that was placed here by a higher power.’ Numerous cultural traditions and influences will be studied-Cherokee, settler-colonial Appalachian, Affrilachian.
Comparative concepts of personhood, marriage, childhood, and cultural metaphors of embodied connection. Social organization of households through time.
Explores the archaeology and indigenous cultural history of the southern Appalachian region, with a particular focus on the Cherokee Indian experience. Emphasizes the roles of indigenous archaeologies and collaboration with descendant communities in scientific inquiry, and uses oral tradition, documentary evidence, and archaeological data to produce nuanced perspectives on Cherokee culture.
Race among humans is a socially constructed label with a biosocial history and biosocial implications. Marginalization of peoples has and continues to occur based on race with the assumption that race can be biologically defined. Despite the wide reaching effects of race and its assumed biological determinism, there is no biological evidence that supports differentiating people based on race. This course will demonstrate that point through the framework of biological anthropology. (Liberal Studies P1).
An introduction to archaeological approaches to recognizing, recording, and interpreting the human-environment interaction and the study of landscapes as part of the archaeological record. May include both case studies and field studies.
ANTH 450Endangered Languages and Language Revitalization3
This course provides an overview of the causes of language loss and attempts to revitalize indigenous languages in danger of no longer being spoken. Students will develop a broad knowledge of the issues that confront minority language communities, particularly Native American communities, who want to maintain and/or restore their indigenous languages and cultural practices. Students will make observational site visits to local Cherokee language revitalization programs and events.
Written application and permission of instructor and advisor. Credits: 1-3, R6
ANTH 483Anthropology Internship3
Application of academic training in an approved agency under faculty supervision. Credit toward anthropology major or minor limited to three hours. S/U grading. Nine hours per week per course.
Application of academic training in an approved agency under faculty supervision. Credit toward anthropology major or minor limited to three hours. S/U grading. Nine hours per week per course.
Application of academic training in an approved agency under faculty supervision. Credit toward anthropology major or minor limited to three hours. S/U grading. Nine hours per week per course.
This is an intensive outdoor course meant to provide experiential learning of forensic archaeological field methods. Forensic archaeological field methods include systematic searches for human remains and associated evidence, as well as meticulous recovery and documentation methods for both surface and subsurface scenes.
