30 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 1010Cultural Anthropology3
Credit(s) | $18 Fee Anthropology is concerned with the documentation and interpretation of diverse social and cultural settings. The course will introduce students to the key concepts of cultural anthropology through the discussion and analysis of fieldwork studies from around the world. (Fall, Spring, Summer) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course explores basic evolutionary theory and human genetics from an anthropological perspective. It traces human evolution through time; compares humans to their closest living relatives, non-human primates; and examines the significance of modern human biological variations and adaptations. (Fall, Summer [As Needed]) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $6 Fee Anthropology trains and empowers students in ways unlike other disciplines. Our majors develop a particular set of skills that are as practical for use in diverse workplaces as they are essential to finding meaning in one’s professional life. Moreover, anthropology instills in its students an appreciation for human diversity that enables critical self-awareness and compassion for social Others. This one-credit course is designed to guide personal reflections about yourself, the purpose and benefits of your education in anthropology, and how this major can set you on a path toward a rewarding personal and professional future. Through short lectures, workshops, and facilitated discussions, this course will push you to interrogate your relationship to the discipline of Anthropology. Rather than simply exploring what you can do with anthropology, the fundamental question underlying this class considers how anthropology can shape your personal and professional future in rewarding ways. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course introduces the theories and methods of archaeology, a social, historical, and natural science. The focus of the course is on anthropological archaeology. (Spring, Summer) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course provides a comprehensive overview of the discipline of forensic anthropology. Forensic anthropology employs methods from biological anthropology, archaeology, and other disciplines to locate, identify, and interpret human remains. While these methods are useful in a variety of contexts, forensic anthropologists often work closely with law enforcement. This course will cover topics such as human decomposition processes, locating and recovering skeletal remains, skeletal anatomy, and interpretation of skeletal remains (e.g. age-sex estimation, height estimation, recognition of disease indicators in the skeleton). (Fall) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee Employing an anthropological perspective, this course examines the indigenous cultures of the Americas. The course addresses pre-contact culture history, colonialism, and contemporary struggles for political sovereignty and cultural preservation. (Fall - Even Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course surveys anthropological approaches to the study of language, emphasizing the relationship between language and world-view, and the social uses of speech. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee When, where, and why did cities, states, and empires first emerge? This course uses archaeological data and theories to explore the Neolithic Revolution, when humans first domesticated plants and animals, and its aftermath. How did the world change when humans embraced sedentism and urban life? What factors and conditions led to the formation of expansive states? What benefits and costs did these new forms of government bring to their subjects? How did the ruling classes hold on to and lose power? We investigate these issues by comparing and contrasting early states in Mesopotamia, Egypt, The Mediterranean, China, Central and South America. (Fall - Odd Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course will explore human variation from an anthropological perspective. It will provide a survey of human biological diversity, considering the origin and distribution of human anatomical traits, and the practical implications of human variation. Topics covered will include craniofacial variation, high-altitude adaptations, eugenics, skin color, racism, growth, and development. (Spring - Odd Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course introduces students to the theories and methods cultural anthropologists use to understand and study health, illness, health care, and health-seeking behavior from a cross-cultural perspective. (Fall, Summer) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course provides an introduction to the environmental, social, and economic factors of global health problems (and solutions). We will explore the Sustainable Development Goals using a case study approach. As a survey course in global health, this class will introduce important methodologies in community-based global health and the ethical implications of global health issues. (Spring - Odd Years, As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course will explore how the perspective provided by the biological theory of evolution helps to understand human and non-human animal psychology. Fundamental evolutionary principles will be introduced and their application to psychological theory and research carefully evaluated. Individual topics include romantic relationships, family dynamics, cooperation, clinical pathology, judgment and decision-making, and more. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course focuses on religion as a key societal institution and cultural practice. Ethnographic studies illustrate classical and contemporary theories on the meaning, function, and interpretation of religious experience. The intersection of religion and ethnicity, class, gender, and politics is explored. (Spring) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course addresses the relationship between food and culture. It examines food taboos and rituals, food and identity, health and nutrition, alcohol and drug use, feasting and fasting, hunger and obesity, and the global politics of food production and consumption. (Spring - Even Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course uses an anthropological perspective in order to investigate the relationship between sex; the biological attributes by which a person is deemed “male” or “female,” gender, and the norms and ideals associating appropriate roles; and behaviors and sexualities with men, women, and inter-gendered individuals. (Fall - Odd Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course will provide a broad overview of the study of non-human primates. We will explore primatology from anthropological and biological perspectives, incorporating psychological perspectives when relevant. Topics addressed will include primate evolution, taxonomy, behavior, cognition, and conservation. (Spring - Even Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course provides a survey of environmental anthropology. In particular, we are interested in how human relationships with environments over time, and in all parts of the globe, can impact our behavior, health, economics, and politics. To do this, we examine human-environment relationships from anthropological perspectives and research on the interrelationships between humans and environments. (Spring - Odd Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This variable topic course focuses on the anthropology of a different culture or geographical region. Anthropological topics will be covered to provide students with a deep appreciation of the archaeological, linguistic, social, and economic dynamics of a population or region. Repeatable with different topic up to 12 credits toward the major. Check department for upcoming topics. (Fall, Summer) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee What does it mean for a society to remember or forget? Cross-culturally, the past informs the present and shapes the future. But how do people learn about their cultural pasts and how does that knowledge shape their daily lives? This course studies how different societies construct, maintain, or erase the past. We will consider what it means to remember through careful study of memory sites, discourses, images, narratives, and practices. The first course section will focus on theories of memory and the ethnographic methods anthropologists use to study those memories. The next course section consists of cross-cultural explorations of the important ways in which memory practices vary. This course is designed to give students hands-on experience with memory research. In addition to targeted lectures and interactive discussions, students will complete individual and collaborative assignments that require them to apply class concepts to the people and places in their communities. (Spring - Even Years [As Needed]) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This class surveys anthropological approaches to cultural dreamscapes. Students will learn how conceptions instrumental to dreaming differ between societies and what these differences signify about the experience of personhood. The course explores how ethnotheories of dreaming found in diverse regions relate to a wide range of cultural dynamics, such as history, gender, religion, memory, politics, selfhood, and more. Through study of these dynamics, students will learn how dream narratives capture the culture of a time and place. Course material is organized to offer a holistic account of dreaming and integrates perspectives from anthropology, psychology, history, and women’s studies. Through the application of analytical methods developed in anthropology, students will learn to apply ideas about the self and culture to their own lives, causing them to think critically about their own cultural positionality and the selfhood forms they naturalize. (Fall - Odd Years [As Needed]) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This seminar provides an overview of the major theoretical schools in cultural anthropology and archaeology and introduces students to fundamental research methods practiced within anthropology. The course employs a historical perspective, moving from the 19th through the 21st centuries. Theories from each era are matched with examples of appropriate methodologies, showing their interrelation. (Fall) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee ANTH 4030 examines the stewardship of cultural resources on public lands and the presentation of archaeological information to the public. In this course we explore the broad range of laws that govern archaeological research on public lands. We also address field methodology and artifact analysis; site and artifact preservation; interpretation and ethics. We conclude by investigating a variety of approaches for presenting archaeology to the public. Throughout the course, we consider how best to manage archaeological resources, collaborate effectively and ethically with descendant communities, and bring the past in to the present. (Fall [As Needed]) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course looks at human society as related to so-called “development” and humanitarian aid in the broader context of globalization. Social scientists focus on the local-level processes and experiences, and work to situate those in the larger, macro-level settings. This class will address important themes: 1) cross-cultural and historical perspectives on global relationships; 2) humanitarian aid through political and economic lenses; and 3) community-based approaches to development. (Summer) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This variable-topic course focuses on the practice of doing anthropology. This course is designed to help students make the transition from term paper research to critical (and largely self-directed) research projects. The topic of the course is variable, with an emphasis on a topic that is important to the community in which the project is conducted. Although the course is also intended to examine in detail a particular topic, the primary objective of the seminar is to introduce students to research methods and practices common in Applied Anthropology, and to help students think about how they might use these in their own future endeavors. Repeatable with different topic up to six (6) credits toward the major. Check with department for upcoming topics. (Spring) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $6 per credit Fee Occasionally, anthropology faculty will offer courses on a special area of interest or a particularly timely topic under this course number. The class schedule and handouts in the department will provide further information on each Special Topic course. (Fall, Spring, Summer) [Graded Letter] Repeatable for Add’l Credit? Yes
Credit(s) | $6 per credit Fee Practical experience in anthropology. No more than nine (9) credit hours will be applied to one’s major, three (3) to a minor; remaining credit hours will be counted as elective hours outside the major or minor. (Fall, Spring, Summer) [Pass/Fail]
( ANTH 1010 or ANTH 1020 or ANTH 2030 ) and instructor permission -
ANTH 4960Archaeology Field Methods3-6
Credit(s) | $6 per credit Fee This course introduces students to archaeological survey and excavation techniques, as well as analysis and interpretation of archaeological artifacts and remains. In addition to practical hands-on training, there will be occasional field-trips and lectures on regional prehistory, history, geology, and ecology. Up to six (6) credits of Archaeology Field Methods may be counted toward the Anthropology major or minor. (Fall, Summer - Odd Years) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee This course is designed to give students hands-on experience with constructing original ethnographic research projects and implementing them using a variety of field methods. Through this course, students will study a wide array of methodological case studies from which to build on when completing their own research. Each week, students will learn both practical skills and the many theoretical underpinnings of doing ethnographic research, including cross-cultural considerations and ethical implications of specific methods; techniques for conducting successful interviews; recording quality fieldnotes and navigating the challenges of participant observation; and more. Learning by doing will be a priority through the application of a unique combination of research methods tailored to fit each student’s particular project, which can include some of the following: map-making, perusal of local archival resources, constructing kinship charts, shadowing, interviewing, collecting life histories, dream analysis, participant observation, and designing a survey. At the completion of this course, students will analyze their ethnographic data and synthesize it in a formal research paper. (Summer) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee After selecting a faculty supervisor, students have two options: 1) a practicum involving an internship, service learning and/or civic engagement experience(s) with cultural research and cultural problem analysis; or 2) a research project in which one defines a topic, conducts research, and prepares findings. (As Needed) [Graded Letter]
Credit(s) | $18 Fee ANTH 6030 examines the stewardship of cultural resources on public lands and the presentation of archaeological information to the public. In this course we explore the broad range of laws that govern archaeological research on public lands. We also address field methodology and artifact analysis; site and artifact preservation; interpretation and ethics. We conclude by investigating a variety of approaches for presenting archaeology to the public. Throughout the course, we consider how best to manage archaeological resources, collaborate effectively and ethically with descendant communities, and bring the past in to the present. (Fall [As Needed]) [Graded Letter]
