A brief intensive or hands on experience based in Indigenous knowledge and methods. Variable topics.

In this course students examine Indigenous perspectives of education, knowledge, and learning. Students will gain an understanding of the present-day and historical relationships between educational institutions, policies, practices, and Indigenous communities. By engaging with present day efforts of educators, programs, and institutions that incorporate and employ traditional knowledges in educational pedagogy, students will be able to analyze how policy, practice, and lived-experience impact Indigenous education. Students will also develop a deeper understanding and practical skills in supporting and promoting teaching practices and pedagogies that value and support a diverse educational community. Students should take either AIS 530 or AIS 630 but not both.

This course surveys human biological and cultural diversity through time and space. You will learn about questions like: how did humans evolve? and how do anthropologists collect and interpret information about human beings and their ancestors?

Goal Areas:

GE-05, GE-08

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

A general survey of the evolution of human society from the earliest times to the development of written languages. Topics include the evolution of tools, the agricultural revolution, and the origins of urban life.

Goal Areas:

GE-05, GE-10

This anthropology course explores the areas of anatomical forensic science. Students will learn the techniques and methodology involved in collection, preservation, and analysis of evidence pertaining to human remains. The course will include such subjects as analysis of skeletal trauma, victim identification, bite-mark analysis, and crime scene recovery methods. Ethnics and standards in medico-legal investigations will also be stressed.

Goal Areas:

GE-03

A comprehensive examination of modern archaeological theory methods and activities, focusing on American archaeology. Emphasis will be given to data collection, data analysis, and museology. Lab included.

Goal Areas:

GE-03, GE-10

An introduction to the study of human biological evolution and variation. This course focuses on evolutionary theory, mechanisms of evolutionary change, and the fossil record of human evolution. Lab included.

Goal Areas:

GE-03

This introduction to cultural anthropology covers cultural diversity and organization by examining several examples in detail. Both anthropological methodology and theory will be important parts of this course.

Goal Areas:

GE-08

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

Language provides not only communication but identification of oneself and one's group. Humans are extremely sensitive to language, dialect, jargon, and slang. An understanding of language and its relationship to culture is basic to any understanding of human beings.

Goal Areas:

GE-05, GE-08

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

What qualifies a word as bad? How does profanity, cursing, and swearing evolve across time and vary across cultures? Where does the power of these bad words come from? What relationship do these words have to issues of gender, race, and class? This course examines the historical evolution and modern usage of obscenities to answer these questions.

Goal Areas:

GE-07, GE-09

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

Survey of human cultures through a variety of classic and contemporary anthropological writing and film. Students write weekly reflections. Written work is shared, discussed, and revised.

Goal Areas:

GE-05

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

Fear and how we depict it in popular culture. Course examines folklore traditions and how they translate in contemporary storytelling formats.

Goal Areas:

GE-05, GE-08

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

People all around the world use tattoos, piercing, makeup and dress codes as symbolic tools to represent their ideas of self, or as a means of gender, ethnicity, and class control and domination. This course looks at how people express connection to and disconnection from culture through body art practices.

Goal Areas:

GE-05, GE-08

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

Sex and our relationship with it. This course examines the topics of sex, sexuality, and gender by exploring the diverse range of sexual cultures of the world in the past and the present. Attention is given to the role of language, biology, culture, and the archeological record of societies's fascination with sex.

Goal Areas:

GE-05, GE-07

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

Courses to be offered just one time or on an irregular basis according to topic demand for a general interest, sophomore level course.

Individual study at an introductory level on the topic of student's choice. Designed for students who wish to pursue independent study at the freshman-sophomore level rather than the more advanced level of the 499 individual study.

Prerequisites:

Consent

This course examines the methodologies of all four fields of Anthropology. Students will gain practical experience in various methods that professionals utilize on a regular basis within the discipline. Discussions of the issues surrounding various anthropological methods will be part of this course.

Prerequisites:

ANTH 101

An in-depth study of ancient Egypt, focusing on the relationship between cultural development and the unique Egyptian environment of the time. Emphasis will be placed on the interpretation of archaeological discoveries in the area.

An examination of the ecology, behavior and biology of living primates.

Prerequisites:

ANTH 101 or ANTH 220 or consent

This course focuses on studying the diversity of human societies using environmental approaches such as evolutionary/ecological perspectives and systems modeling. Case studies will be drawn from Native American cultures.

The variability and universality of human religious expression are explored in specific cross-cultural contexts.

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

This course emphasizes the wealth of ethnographic information which may be captured by visual media. You will learn how to interpret the final product and how to recognize the limitations of visual presentations.

A survey of the people and cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa examining the rich sociocultural diversity of the continent over time.

Language is powerful. What we say, how we say it, where we say it, and to whom we say it matters. This course explores the connection between power, language, performance, and identity. The relationships between language, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic class are explored by investigating historical and present day sources of language practices and events.

Diverse Cultures:

Purple

This class focuses on the application of anthropology in the business and organizational domains using a cultural lens. It will provide students with a clearer view of the culture of the business world as well as tools to aid in understanding the business culture and that of their clientele.