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2013-2015 University Catalog 
    
2013-2015 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

American Studies

Courses are designated as AMST in the class schedule.

  
  • AMST 438 - American Minds: Images of Sickness and Health (3)


    Prerequisite: junior or senior standing. Historically explores cultural changes in American images of the healthy mind. Medical and legal views of insanity, Freud’s impact on American thought, literary treatments of madness, and psychological themes in American popular culture.
  
  • AMST 439 - American Photographs as Cultural Evidence (3)


    Prerequisites: junior or senior standing and AMST 201 . Cultural work of American photography, from the mid-19th century to the present. How photographs - especially the vernacular or everyday variety - have both reflected and shaped American beliefs, symbols and values.
  
  • AMST 440 - American Folk Culture (3)


    Prerequisite: junior or senior standing. American culture from the perspectives of particular folk groups and through the eyes of the “common” person, past and present. Interpretation of artifacts and oral traditions; relationships between regional, ethnic, and folk identity; modernization and folk consciousness.
  
  • AMST 442 - Television and American Culture (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.3. American television as an interactive form of cultural expression, both product and producer of cultural knowledge. Structure and content of television genres, and social-historical context of television’s development and use, audience response, habits and environments of viewing.
  
  • AMST 444 - The Built Environment (3)


    Prerequisite: junior or senior standing. How Americans have shaped and structured space from the 17th century to the present. Relationship between space, place, architecture and material culture; the interpretation of cultural landscapes and architectural styles; the changing meanings of the American home.
  
  • AMST 445 - Cold War and American Culture (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.3. The Cold War’s impact on American society and culture. Nuclear fear, McCarthyism, gender roles, family life, material culture, and the impact of containment, brinksmanship and détente.
  
  • AMST 447 - Race and American Popular Culture (3)


    Prerequisite: AMST 201  or completion of G.E. Category D.3. Examines literature, theater, sport, music and film, and asks: how has popular culture contributed to and challenged the social construction of race and ethnicity in the United States?
  
  • AMST 449 - The American West in Symbol and Myth (3)


    Prerequisite: AMST 201  or completion of G.E. Category D.3. Meaning of the West to American culture through analysis of cultural documents, such as explorer and captivity narratives, fiction, art and film. Perception of wilderness, Indians, frontiersmen and role of the West in creating a sexist national mythology.
  
  • AMST 460 - Bohemians and Beats: Cultural Radicalism in America (3)


    Prerequisite: AMST 201  or completion of the G.E. Category D.3. Ideas, activities and legacies of the creators of a “countercultural” tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries. Their critique of modern civilization, as well as their projects for self-transformation, social change and cultural renewal.
  
  • AMST 465 - The Culture of the American South (3)


    Prerequisite: AMST 201  or completion of G.E. Category D.3. Distinctive cultural patterns in the American South, past and present. Southern concepts of work and leisure; race and gender roles; political and religious controversies; literature and folklore; and the South as portrayed in the media.
  
  • AMST 468 - Culture in Turmoil: 1960s America (3)


    Prerequisite: junior or senior standing. Origins, manifestations and continuing significance of the turbulence in American culture associated with the 1960s. Accelerated changes that occurred (or seemed to occur) in cultural meanings of authority, achievement, patriotism, sexuality, technology and consciousness.
  
  • AMST 473 - Sexual Orientations and American Culture (3)


    Prerequisites: junior or senior standing, AMST 201 . Cultural construction of the very idea of a sexual orientation. Shifting meanings of erotic attraction and involvement in America, especially regarding people of the same sex, from the colonial period to the present.
  
  • AMST 476 - The Cultures of Early America (3)


    Prerequisite: AMST 201  or completion of G.E. Category D.3. Explores America’s various cultures and, through an analysis of visual, material and print culture, investigates the beliefs, ideologies and institutions through which early Americans created their worlds. Examines contemporary public memory of early America.
  
  • AMST 488 - Race, Sex and American Urban Culture (3)


    Prerequisite: AMST 201  or completion of G.E. Category D.3. Major urban spaces at key moments in the 19th and 20th centuries; ways that anxieties about race, gender, youth and sexuality have come to be identified with urban spaces and modern city life.
  
  • AMST 499 - Independent Study (1-3)


    Supervised research projects in American studies to be taken with the consent of instructor and department chair. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • AMST 501 - Theory and Methods (3)


    The American Studies movement. Its conceptual and methodological development. The way this development was affected by and in turn reflected larger trends in the culture itself.
  
  • AMST 502T - Seminar: Selected Topics (3)


    A particular problem or topic as a case study in the use of interdisciplinary methods in American studies. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • AMST 596 - American Studies Teaching Tutorial (3)


    Prerequisite: AMST 501 . Preparation for community college or university teaching. Small group discussion, lecture-discussion, examinations, teaching strategies. Enrollment requires approval of American Studies graduate coordinator. Course may be repeated for credit, but may only count once on a graduate study plan.
  
  • AMST 598 - Thesis (3)


    Prerequisites: graduate standing in American studies and consent of graduate coordinator. Writing a thesis based on original research and its analysis and evaluation.
  
  • AMST 599 - Independent Graduate Research (1-3)


    Prerequisites: graduate standing in American studies and consent of graduate coordinator. May be repeated for credit.

Anthropology

Courses are designated as ANTH in the class schedule.

  
  • ANTH 100 - Non-Western Cultures and the Western Tradition (3)


    Changing views of people, nature and culture in Western civilization as related to the impact of non-Western influences, including the use and interpretation of data on non-Western peoples and cultures. One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 101 - Introduction to Biological Anthropology (3)


    Humans as biological organisms from an evolutionary perspective. Concepts, methods, findings and issues in the study of the Order primates, including the relationships among fossil monkeys, apes and humans, and the significance of genetic diversity in modern populations.
  
  • ANTH 102 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3)


    Nature of culture and its significance. Similarities and differences in human cultures. Analyses of family, economy, subsistence, religion, art and other aspects of culture in diverse societies. Central problems of cultural comparison and interpretation. One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 103 - Introduction to Archaeology (3)


    Relationship of archaeology, culture history and process, field methods and analysis of archaeological data; uses and abuses of archaeology. One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 105 - Introduction to Anthropology (3)


    Introduction to basic aspects of anthropology’s sub-fields (biological anthropology, archaeological anthropology, cultural anthropology and linguistic anthropology), and to an anthropological view of the world, which is grounded in a respect for cultural differences.
  
  • ANTH 300 - Language and Culture (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of General Education (G.E.) Category D.1. Language as a factor in culture. Trends in the study of language and culture. One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 301 - Primate Behavior (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 101 , ANTH 102 , PSYC 101  or completion of G.E. Category B.2. Anthropological study of the behavior of primates, including monkeys and apes with data collection in the wild and the laboratory; review and discussion of behavioral characteristics that are part of the primate heritage of humankind. One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 304 - Traditional Cultures of the World (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category C.2. Comparative, worldwide survey of traditional, selected and well-studied ways of life using ethnographic writings and films. Examines diverse ways of life, with an emphasis on small-scale societies. One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 305 - Anthropology of Religion (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category C.2. Beliefs and practices in the full human variation of religious phenomena, with an emphasis on primitive religions. Forms, functions, structures, symbolism, and history and evolution of religious systems. (Same as CPRL 305) One or more sections offered as televised course.
  
  • ANTH 306 - Culture and Art (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category C.2. Metaphysical and mystical systems underlying the “grammars” of the art, myths and rituals of various nonliterate and literate peoples and their development into creative experiences.
  
  • ANTH 308 - Culture and Aging: Anthropological Gerontology (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Anthropological discourse on diverse cultural conceptions of aging as they relate to gender, class, ethnic and religious categories. Cross-cultural comparison of culturally patterned time-table of life-cycle and age-grades for understanding the universals and variability in human aging.
  
  • ANTH 310 - Urban Anthropology (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 102 . Cross-cultural investigation of similarities and differences in urbanism with an emphasis on current theoretical and methodological perspectives in the study of urban social and cultural forms and processes.
  
  • ANTH 311 - Culture and Communication (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category C.2. How meanings are created, exchanged and interpreted in both traditional and modern cultures through language, myth and religion, art and architecture, and other means of communication.
  
  • ANTH 313 - Culture and Personality: Psychological Anthropology (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Relationship of culture to the individual. Child-training in non-western cultures. Survey of concepts, studies and research techniques in psychological anthropology.
  
  • ANTH 315 - Culture and Nutrition (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 101 , ANTH 102  or equivalent Interrelationships among human nutrition, basic food resources, individual development and socio-cultural organization; assessment of student’s nutritional status, beliefs and practices relative to other cultures. One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 316 - Anthropology of Sex and Gender (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Human sex and gender roles in cross-cultural perspective and the role that gender plays in human social organization. Topics include cultural construction of gender; homosexuality, rights of women, evolution and gender. (Same as WMST 316 ) One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 320 - Cultures of Europe (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Cultural survey of Europe, focusing on the peasant, national and pan-European traditions of Europe. Diverse anthropological approaches are used to examine changing boundaries of European identity from prehistory to the present “European Union.” One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 321 - Peoples of Native North America (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Native peoples of North America; origins, languages, culture areas, cultural history; the impact of European contacts.
  
  • ANTH 322 - Human Behavioral Ecology (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category B.2. Using modern evolutionary theory, students will examine human biological and cultural diversity through an analysis of comparative socioecology. Topics covered include reproduction and marriage, the family, childhood, population growth, and conservation. Computer labs utilizing eHRAF. (Same as BIOL 322 ) One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 325 - Peoples of South America (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Cultural survey of South America. Representative cultural areas before and after contacts with Western countries.
  
  • ANTH 327 - Origins of Civilizations (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category B.1 or B.2. Development of civilization in the Old and New Worlds in primary centers such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, China, Mesoamerica and Peru, and secondary centers such as the Aegean and Europe. One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 328 - Peoples of Africa (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Cultural survey of Africa. Description of selected cultures and aspects of culture before and after contact with non-Africans.
  
  • ANTH 329 - Peoples of the Caribbean (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Various ethnic groups of the Caribbean, focusing on the description and interpretation of African, European, Asian and Amerindian cultural elements.
  
  • ANTH 332 - Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category B.2. or D.1. Cross-cultural comparison of beliefs, values, expectations and socially defined roles for women in diverse societies. Changing role of women in industrial societies.
  
  • ANTH 333 - Anthropology of Childhood (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category B.2 or D.1. Using a biocultural perspective, examines the form and experiences of childhood using a comparative, evolutionary, cross-cultural approach. Topics: work and play; evolutionary and cultural influences on children’s development trajectories; role of children. Computer labs with eHRAF.
  
  • ANTH 340 - Peoples of Asia (3)


    Prerequisites: completion of G.E. Categories B.2. and D.1. Asian civilizations and cultural traditions: personality configurations in different culture areas; structure of Asian civilizations; and peasant, tribal and ethnic groups of Asia. One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 342 - Anthropology and Health (3)


    Prerequisites: completion of G.E. Category B.2 and D.1. Uses an evolutionary, comparative, and cross-cultural perspective to understand the process and conception of health in different times, places and societies. Topics include evolutionary medicine, health beliefs, health ecology, culture and health. Computer labs utilizing eHRAF. One or more sections offered online
  
  • ANTH 343 - Human Osteology (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 101  or equivalent. Techniques in basic identification of human skeletal remains. Aging, sexing, racing and stature reconstruction. For those interested in archaeology, hominid evolution and/or forensic science. (2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory) One or more sections offered online
  
  • ANTH 344 - Human Evolution (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 101  or completion of G.E. Category B.2. Advanced primate evolution; the origin of Homo sapiens as evidenced in the fossil record and through biochemical and molecular studies. Evolutionary theory and problems in human evolution. (2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory) One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 345 - Peoples of the Middle East and North Africa (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Interrelationship between culture, economy, political structure and belief system of selected cultures in the Middle East and North Africa.
  
  • ANTH 347 - Peoples of the Pacific (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Indigenous peoples and cultures of the Pacific Islands, including Tahiti, Hawaii and Australia. Forces and processes contributing to social change in island communities and current problems being faced by them. One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 350 - Culture and Education (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Transmission of values, implicit cultural assumptions and the patterning of education in cross-cultural perspective. American culture and development problems.
  
  • ANTH 360 - Contemporary American Culture (3)


    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1. Application of anthropological methods, categories of analysis and types of interpretation to American culture. Survey and critique of selected community studies and other kinds of relevant research.
  
  • ANTH 370 - Anthropology of Non-Western Films (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 100 , ANTH 102  or ANTH 304 . Comparative analytical study of commercial and non-commercial films and videos made by non-western people. Films and videos considered as cultural artifacts that are particularly revealing of the ways people conceive of themselves and their cultures.
  
  • ANTH 380 - The Ancient Maya (3)


    Prerequisites: ANTH 102 , ANTH 103 . Archaeology and ethnohistory of the Maya area of Southern Mesoamerica. Problems of initial settlement of the area and the “rise” and dynamics of ancient Maya civilization.
  
  • ANTH 381 - The Aztecs and Their Predecessors (3)


    Prerequisites: ANTH 102 , ANTH 103 . Archaeological survey of principal Mesoamerica pre-Columbian cultures north and west of the Maya area. Aztecs and their predecessors, religion, art, architecture, intellectual achievements and the Olmec heritage. One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 382 - Archaeology of the Southwest (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 103 . Archaeological ruins of the American Southwest - remains of ancient pueblos and cliff dwellings. Prehistory, ethnohistory and ethnographic record of ancient and contemporary Native American peoples of the Southwest over the past 11,000 years.
  
  • ANTH 383 - Prehistoric North America (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 103 . Change, development and diversity of adaptations of North American Indian cultures prior to European colonization. Uses archaeological data to describe and explain long-term processes of cultural change during ancient times in North America. One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 400 - Qualitative Methods in Anthropology (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 102 . Qualitative methods used in the systematic analysis of culture; diverse methodologies used in various frameworks, including, but not limited to, semiotic, phenomenological and interpretive anthropology.
  
  • ANTH 401 - Ethnographic Field Methods (3)


    Prerequisites: ANTH 102  and six additional units of anthropology. Anthropological field research by students on various problems using participant observation techniques.
  
  • ANTH 402 - Museum Science (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 101 , ANTH 102 , ANTH 103 . Methods, principles and techniques used in natural history, and small scientific and historical museums. Subjects covered include scope of exhibit and research collections, care and repair of specimens, acquisitions, storage and preparation of presentations in anthropological, historical, biological and paleontological museums.
  
  • ANTH 403 - Archaeological Fieldwork (3)


    Prerequisites: ANTH 102  or ANTH 103  and consent of instructor. Excavation of a local archaeological site. Archaeological mapping, photography and recording. Laboratory methods of cataloging, preservation, description and interpretation of archaeological materials. May be repeated once for credit as an elective. (1 hour lecture, 6 hours laboratory) Saturday field sessions
  
  • ANTH 404 - Analytical Methods in Archaeology (3)


    Prerequisites: ANTH 103 , ANTH 403 . Employment of physical data-collecting techniques (e.g., photographic, paleomagnetic) in the field and the analysis of artifact collections and data from previous field operations in the laboratory. May be repeated once for credit as an elective. (1 hour lecture, 6 hours laboratory)
  
  • ANTH 406 - Descriptive Linguistics (3)


    (Same as LING 406 )
  
  • ANTH 407 - Anthropological Video Production (3)


    Prerequisites: six upper-division units of anthropology. Planning, shooting and editing videotapes relating to all sub-disciplines of anthropology. (1 hour lecture; 6 hours laboratory activities, demonstrations, and fieldwork)
  
  • ANTH 408 - Ethnogerontology (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 102 . Methods of ethnoscience and interpretive semiotics for analyzing cultural knowledge and domains pertaining to aging. Training in ethnographic cultural analysis of aging for the production of ethnographies that focus on the symbols, taxonomies, paradigms, and themes of aging.
  
  • ANTH 409 - Applied Anthropology (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 102 . Uses of anthropological skills and sensitivities in approaching contemporary human problems. Cultural change, organizational development, program planning and evaluation, the consultant’s role and professional ethics.
  
  • ANTH 410 - Anthropology of Organizations (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 102 . Cross-cultural examination of the diverse ways humans organize themselves in groups. Topics include voluntary and non-voluntary associations, gender- and age-based organizations, religious groups, environmental groups, health care organization and business organizations.
  
  • ANTH 412 - Culture Change (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 102 . Interrelations between cultural, social and psychological processes in the dynamics of culture growth and change. Impact of western technology on tribal and peasant societies. Anthropological contributions to the planning of directed sociocultural change in selected areas.
  
  • ANTH 414 - Economic Anthropology (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 102 . Ethnology and ethnography of economic life, principally in non-Western societies; operation of systems of production and distribution within diverse cultural contexts. One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 415 - Anthropology of Tourism (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 102 . Tourism and travel as cultural practices. Domestic and international tourism; perspective of hosts and travelers; global economy and tourism; souvenirs, artifacts and symbolic landscapes; tourism as pilgrimage.
  
  • ANTH 416 - Anthropological Linguistics (3)


    Nature and functions of language; language structure and change; classification of languages; use of linguistic evidence in anthropology. (Same as LING 416 )
  
  • ANTH 417 - Life Quests (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 102 . Contemporary ways to wisdom and humanness in cross-cultural and historical perspectives. New and comparative approaches to understanding the life cycle, development and fulfillment of individual personalities.
  
  • ANTH 418 - GIS and Archaeology (3)


    Prerequisites: ANTH 103  or equivalent course and junior or senior standing. Introduction to the use of Geographic Information Systems as they apply to the study of archaeology. Spatial analysis of past cultural remains from anthropological perspectives. One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 419 - Anthropology of Risk (3)


    Prerequisites: ANTH 101 , ANTH 102 , ANTH 103  and junior or senior standing. Ecological context of risk, cultural and behavioral responses to resource insecurity, the culture construction of risk, health outcomes in relation to risk-prone and risk-averse behavior, and social differentiation and risk.
  
  • ANTH 420 - Visual Anthropology (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 100 , ANTH 101 , ANTH 102 , ANTH 103  or equivalent. Development of the field of visual anthropology and the changing and diverse approaches to the use of visual media in representing and interpreting other cultures.
  
  • ANTH 427 - Archaeology of Settlement Patterns (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 103 . Introduction to settlement pattern studies in archaeology. Dispersion of aggregates and households within communities, and communities within regions, as a way to study political, social and economic organization in past societies.
  
  • ANTH 430 - Archaeology of Household Space (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 103 . Households, domestic architecture and use of space in the archaeological and ethnographic record from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives. Topics include cultural difference in residential dwellings, use of space, residence patterns, households, gender and ritual spaces.
  
  • ANTH 435 - Anthropology of Death and Mortuary Practices (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 102  or completion of G.E. Category C.2. Cultural practices relating to death. Burial practices, beliefs about the afterlife and memorialization of the dead in diverse cultural contexts, both contemporary and ancient. Integrates archaeological, linguistic, cultural and biological data in a holistic approach.
  
  • ANTH 441 - Human Variation (3)


    Prerequisites: ANTH 343 , and ANTH 301 ANTH 322  or ANTH 344 . Processes underlying and the theories for the existence of the present variation between and within human populations. Genetics of human populations and the significance of racial classifications. (2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory)
  
  • ANTH 442 - Medical Anthropology (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 342 . Human health and disease and their relationship to cultural practices, beliefs and environmental factors; histories of various diseases as factors of cultural change; health care delivery systems. One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 443 - Advanced Topics in Human Osteology (3)


    Prerequisites: ANTH 344 , ANTH 301 , ANTH 322  or ANTH 343 . Analytical methods stressing morphological examination of human bone in a laboratory setting (determination of human, prehistoric; analysis of fragmented and commingled remains; basic identification and report writing; pathological conditions). For those interested in archaeology, hominid evolution and/or forensic science.
  
  • ANTH 445 - Quantitative Methods in Anthropology (3)


    Prerequisites: Anthropology major or minor and junior or senior standing. Develops skills and knowledge in the application of quantitative methods in anthropological research. Students learn an integrated approach to research design, data collection, data management, and data analysis through hands-on training.
  
  • ANTH 451 - Advanced Human Evolution (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 322 , ANTH 344  or BIOL 274 . Uses life history theory to examine evolutionary ecology of human behavior. Topics include the human life course, resource acquisition, parenting and fertility. Computer labs utilizing eHRAF. (Same as BIOL 451 )
  
  • ANTH 452 - Human Fossil Record (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 301 , ANTH 322  or ANTH 344 . In-depth and detailed analysis of fossil evidence for human evolution using fossil cast material and computer aided virtual models. Modern evolutionary theory used to interpret the fossil evidence and understand hominin phyologeny.
  
  • ANTH 453 - Human Evolutionary Anatomy (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 301 , ANTH 322  or ANTH 344 . Uses an evolutionary framework to conduct in-depth and detailed examination of the structure and function of human anatomical systems, their interaction, and their evolutionary histories and how those histories affect health in modern populations.
  
  • ANTH 454 - Primate Conservation (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 301 , ANTH 322  or ANTH 344 . Uses behavioral ecology and life history theory to understand issues surrounding conservation of non-human primates. Develop theoretical background crucial to understanding the population dynamics and ecological principles driving primate conservation strategies.
  
  • ANTH 455 - Behavioral Observation (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 301  or completion of G.E. Category B.5. Prepares students to conduct advanced behavioral observation research from an anthropological perspective. Research design, data collection techniques, ethical and other considerations unique to varied data collection settings, computerized resources and literature resources. Incorporates service learning.
  
  • ANTH 456 - Hormones and Behavior (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 101 , ANTH 301 , BIOL 171  or completion of G.E. Category B.5. How hormones influence the development and activation of behavior, and how behaviors, in turn, regulate neural and endocrine physiology. Integrates evolutionary, developmental and clinical perspectives gleaned from studies of humans, nonhuman primates and other animals. (Same as BIOL 456 )
  
  • ANTH 460 - Public Archaeology (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 103 . Analyzes new archaeological methods, current research specializations, and responsibilities of archaeologists, including Cultural Resource Management (CRM). Review of local, state and federal legislation affecting the protection and preservation of archaeological sites and other cultural resources.
  
  • ANTH 461 - California Archaeology (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 103 . Evolution and development of native California tribes over a 13,000-year time span based on archaeological and anthropological data. Follows a temporal and regional approach covering prehistory, ethnography and early history of native California cultures.
  
  • ANTH 463 - Archaeofaunal Analysis (3)


    Prerequisites: ANTH 103 . Method, theory and lab work in analyses of archaeofaunal remains recovered from archaeological sites and reconstruction of prehistoric subsistence patterns and pale environments based on faunal remains. Topics include vertebrate skeletal identification, taphonomy, subsistence studies and quantification.
  
  • ANTH 470 - Survey of Anthropological Films (3)


    Prerequisites: ANTH 100 , ANTH 101 , ANTH 102  or ANTH 103 ; ANTH 420  recommended. Survey and analysis of the uses of film and video in anthropological research, teaching, theory, methodology. Films are studied for their anthropological content, and as artifacts of western culture, which reveal significant aspects of that culture.
  
  • ANTH 476 - Archaeological Investigations (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 102  or ANTH 103 . Methodology and practice of archaeological fieldwork. May be repeated for credit. (1 hour lecture, 6 hours laboratory)
  
  • ANTH 480 - History of Anthropology (3)


    Prerequisites: ANTH 101 , ANTH 102 , ANTH 103 . Principal contributions of anthropologists 1850-1950; evolutionary, diffusionist, historical, particularist, configurationalist, and culture and personality approaches in anthropology. One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 481 - Contemporary Anthropology (3)


    Prerequisites: ANTH 101 , ANTH 102 , ANTH 103 . Anthropologists from 1950-present; neoevolutionist, sociological, structuralist, psychological and symbolic approaches. One or more sections offered online.
  
  • ANTH 482 - Globalization and Culture Change (3)


    Prerequisite: ANTH 102  or completion of G.E. Category D.1. Interrelations between global, cultural and social processes that affect culture change, including transnationalism, migration, technology, media (including social media), tourism, development and other factors related to globalization. Anthropological contributions to theory and practice through selected examples in applied anthropology.
  
  • ANTH 490T - Undergraduate Seminar in Anthropology (3)


    Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Topics in anthropology. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • ANTH 491 - Internship in Anthropology (3)


    Prerequisites: 18 upper-division units in anthropology and/ or related fields Career opportunities. On-the-job training under faculty supervision in museum, industry or governmental service. One or more papers required. May be repeated for credit for a total of six units.
  
  • ANTH 497 - Cultural Investigations (3)


    Prerequisites: ANTH 102  and ANTH 401  or equivalent. Methodology and practice of cultural fieldwork. May be repeated for credit. (1 hour lecture, 6 hours laboratory)
 

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