ANTR 201. GLOBAL CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS. 5 Credits.

Satisfies: a BACR for social sciences.
Examines the flow of people, goods, images, ideas, and knowledge that cross borders of all kinds with greater rapidity and consistency in our increasingly interconnected world. Students deepen their understanding of and expand their exposure to cultural beliefs, traditions, practices, and values from communities throughout the world. The course considers the role that culture plays in some of the major social, political, economic, and religious tensions and conflicts.

ANTR 202. HUMAN EVOLUTION. 5 Credits.

Satisfies: a BACR for natural science.
Examines the biological process of evolution as it applies to humans and their recent ancestors; it does not debate the existence of evolutionary processes. Students learn about major events in human evolution and key fossil evidence that reflects them, including the development of bipedalism, increase in size and complexity of the human brain, increasing use of cultural solutions to respond to biological pressures, and nature and extent of ongoing human microevolution.

ANTR 203. LANGUAGE AND HUMAN BEING. 5 Credits.

Satisfies: a BACR for humanities and arts.
Explores the importance of language for understanding human beings. Studying language and its diversity allows us to better appreciate different cultures by giving us a sense of how people view the world differently. In the analysis of language, we learn about interpretation and philosophically-rich inquiry. This course explores several different cultures through the lens of language and the interpretive problems that anthropologists face in trying to understand them.

ANTR 204. ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE. 5 Credits.

Satisfies: a BACR for natural science.
Archaeology provides a useful case study for the practical application of natural science knowledge in support of the needs of disciplines both within and without the broader natural sciences. Students explore the archaeological sciences of remote sensing and probabilistic surveying, radiometric and isotope dating, fauna/floral analysis, climate reconstruction and change, reconstruction of subsistence patterns and population health, mortality and movements among others.

ANTR 266. GENDER, HEALTH AND MARGINALIZATION. 5 Credits.

Cross-listed: DSST 266, GWSS 266.
Pre-requisites: ENGL 201 or equivalent.
Satisfies: a BACR for social sciences.
This interdisciplinary course explores personal, social, and political concerns regarding gender and health, including public health practice, epidemiological research, health policy, and access to health services. It includes discussion of health and reproductive justice activism.

ANTR 296. EXPERIMENTAL COURSE. 1-5 Credits.

Experimental Course.

ANTR 299. DIRECTED STUDIES. 1-15 Credits.

Pre-requisites: permission of the instructor, department chair and college dean.
Directed Studies.

ANTR 301. CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: ENGL 201.
This course examines major concepts, theories and methods in cultural anthropology. Students explore how anthropologists analyze and interpret different cultural practices that manifest in an individual’s everyday life. By using ethnographic case studies of communities from throughout the world, the course addresses issues of identity, family, kinship, gender, race, class, ritual, belief and expression.

ANTR 303. LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: sophomore standing.
This course explores the human condition through the study of language in real-life social contexts. It explores language’s relationship to various forms of human action, as a constitutive feature of the building of human communities, and as a differentiating factor within human communities associated with stratification and inequality. Topics include performance, identity, and literacy. Basic ethnographic methods in the study of language-in-action will also be discussed.

ANTR 310. IDENTITY, ETHNICITY AND NATIONALISM. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: ENGL 201.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–global studies.
Explores cross-cultural questions of human social organization and its impacts on human self-understanding. It engages the study of self-identity, ethnic and other social identities, ethno-nationalism throughout the world to better understand how individuals and communities establish collective cohesion, create notions of group solidarity and organize politically. Finally, the course explores the consequences of building community on identity and its impact on human difference.

ANTR 311. POVERTY, INEQUALITY AND SOCIETY. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: ENGL 201.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–diversity.
Explores the nature of poverty and structural inequality in communities throughout the world. The course traces the historical development of gaps in power and privilege among people and communities that results in poverty, economic oppression, and social, political, and economic inequality.

ANTR 312. GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENT. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: sophomore standing.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–global studies.
Explores the nature of globalization as both a historical phenomenon and contemporary reality. Addresses how increasingly rapid sociocultural change around the world has led to an array of movements that are dissatisfied with and opposed to globalization. Examines how resistance to globalization has led to ethnic, nationalist, and class-based collective social, political, and economic actions throughout the world.

ANTR 313. IMMIGRANT AMERICA. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: sophomore standing.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–diversity.
International migration is reshaping politics, economics, and sociocultural landscapes in the United States. This course examines the newest immigrants in the U.S.—those arriving after 1965—and their U.S. born children. The prevailing trend and pattern of incorporation and multiculturalism are discussed. Theories of migration, transnationalism, and integration are examined, along with immigration policy in the U.S.

ANTR 321. MULTICULTURALISM IN ASIA. 5 Credits.

Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–global studies.
This course is an introductory survey of various Asian societies and cultural communities. The course explores the geography, cultural history, and contemporary diversity of people in Asia by focusing on a number of case studies of indigenous and immigrant minority groups and their distinct social experience.

ANTR 322. ANTHROPOLOGY OF LATIN AMERICA. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: sophomore standing; ENGL 201 or equivalent.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–global studies.
This course is an introductory survey of contemporary cultures of Central and South America, including both aboriginal and peasant societies. Emphasis is placed on the merging and clashing of European, Indian and African, rich and poor and the continuing character of these conflicts into the present.

ANTR 325. ANTHROPOLOGY & AMERICAN INDIANS. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: sophomore standing.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–diversity.
Students develop an understanding of some of the core issues and arguments that continue to shape the relationships between American Indian communities, peoples, spaces, academics, and the discipline of Anthropology. Students survey Native peoples of the Plateau, examine the varied relationships of these Native peoples and Anthropology, and analyze postcolonial Anthropology and the contributions of American Indian scholars in the discipline.

ANTR 330. ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: junior standing.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–global studies.
Analyzes and contrasts the relationship between different human populations, their cultural practices, and the natural environment. The course discusses how both political and economic forces shape cultural practices, the relationship of capitalism and state formation to the natural environment, maladaptation and environmental problems, such as global climate change.

ANTR 332. ANTHROPOLOGY OF GENDER. 5 Credits.

Cross-listed: GWSS 332.
Pre-requisites: ENGL 201 or equivalent.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–diversity.
Examines notions of sex and gender from a cross-cultural perspective. Material covered includes understandings of gender, third genders, human sexuality, and the gendered nature of activities in both non-Western and Western societies.

ANTR 340. ANTHROPOLOGY OF FOOD AND NUTRITION. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: sophomore standing.
This course considers cultural and social significance of food by exploring the diverse ways in which people and communities across the world embed meaning in the types of foods consumed, the manner in which food is prepared and the ways in which meals are served. Topics may include hunger, malnutrition and famine, food security and food sovereignty, dietary patterns, commodification of foods and food-related social movements.

ANTR 342. MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: sophomore standing.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–global studies.
The course introduces students to cross-cultural perspectives and critical theories in anthropological studies of medicine. Special attention is given to diverse ways of understanding bodies, illnesses, and therapeutic practices in our changing world. Specifically, it compares non-medical models of disease causality and healing with biomedical establishments, and examines how social and technological inequalities shape health and health outcomes.

ANTR 350. WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: sophomore standing.
Provides a global review of archaeology beginning with the appearance of the first hominids (the Australopithecines) through the beginnings of agriculture and the advent of social stratification and culturally complex civilizations. Topics include an overview of human evolution, the first humans and their hunting-gathering lifestyles, the increasing specialization of hunter-gatherers, and the dawn of horticulture-agriculture.

ANTR 359. TOPICS IN ANTHROPOLOGY. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: sophomore standing.
A variable topics course exploring current interests and specific research foci in each of the four sub-fields of anthropology. Topics might include anthropological perspectives on contemporary issues; current research interests of specific faculty; further investigation of sub-topics included in large survey courses.

ANTR 401. ANTHROPOLOGY RESEARCH METHODS. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: ANTR 301 and ANTR 303. Prerequisites may be taken concurrently.
This course introduces the core research methods used by anthropologists to gather data for analysis and interpretation of biological and cultural phenomenon. Students gain practical experience in sampling, validity and reliability issues, interviewing techniques and methods of observation among others.

ANTR 408. ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: ANTR 301.
This course explores the historical development of anthropological theory from its inception to today. Major theoretical paradigms, perspectives and models concerning culture, social structure, history and evolution are addressed. Contemporary topics such as include agency and structure, subjectivity and reflexivity, postmodernism, hegemony, globalization and transnationalism are also addressed.

ANTR 455. ARCHAEOLOGY OF MESOAMERICA. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: ANTR 204, or permission of the instructor.
This course explores the archaeological and ethnohistorical record of peoples from Mexico, Central America, and Western South America.

ANTR 470. SOCIOLINGUISTICS. 3 Credits.

Pre-requisites: ANTR 303 or permission of instructor.
This course explores three interdisciplinary social science approaches to language: how language varies according to different social factors such as class and gender, interactive dimensions of language use in modern institutions such as hospitals and courtrooms, and applications of sociolinguistics to social issues such as multilingualism and language policy. This seminar course is lead by students; class discussions build off students’ presentations on assigned readings.

ANTR 490. SENIOR CAPSTONE ANTHROPOLOGY. 5 Credits.

Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–senior capstone.
This course joins together the diverse sub-fields and eclectic viewpoints of anthropology and its supporting disciplines with the aim of clarifying anthropology's practical uses. Students will share and discuss their inducement research projects with the goal of discovering and articulating the intersections of the various anthropological subfields represented.

ANTR 495. INTERNSHIP. 1-15 Credits.

Pre-requisites: permission of the instructor, department chair and college dean.
Internship.

ANTR 496. EXPERIMENTAL. 1-5 Credits.

Experimental.

ANTR 499. DIRECTED STUDY. 1-10 Credits.

Pre-requisites: permission of instructor, department chair and college dean.
Independent study in selected areas of anthropology.