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American Studies Courses are designated as AMST in the class schedule.
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AMST 407 - American Humor (3)
Cultural significance of various types of American humor in past and present settings. How humor reinforces existing culture and also serves as an index and agent of cultural change. Humor’s relationship to ethnicity, region, social class and sex.
Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.3 or graduate standing.
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AMST 408 - Gaming and American Culture (3)
Development and significance of outdoor, board and video gaming in America. Literary works, films, television shows, advertisements, manuals and material artifacts to understand how gaming has addressed larger social tensions and shaped American identity and culture.
Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.3 or graduate standing.
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AMST 409 - Consumer Culture (3)
Consumerism in America from the Boston Tea Party to today from an interdisciplinary perspective, using literature, music, clothing, advertisements and consumer-based social movements to analyze the power of consumer culture.
Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.3 or graduate standing.
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AMST 410 - The Office: White-Collar Work and American Culture (3)
Interdisciplinary exploration of history and culture of white-collar work through film, television, novels, ethnographies and historical works. Topics include: work and identity; gender, race and corporate hierarchy; work/life balance; corporate ethics; flexible work arrangements; and layoffs.
Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.3 or graduate standing.
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AMST 412 - Women, Race, and Ethnicity in American Culture (3)
Diversity of women’s experiences, focusing on historical and contemporary analysis of African American, Asian American, Latina and white ethnic women. Course materials include autobiography, fiction, visual and popular arts and feminist cultural criticism.
Prerequisite: AMST 201 .
Course not available for Graduate Credit
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AMST 413 - The Shifting Role and Image of the American Male (3)
Effect of economic, social, political and cultural changes on American males. Emphasizes 19th and 20th centuries.
Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.3 or graduate standing.
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AMST 416 - Southern California Culture: A Study of American Regionalism (3)
Regionalism as a concept and as a fact of American life. Theories of regionalism measured against a study of Southern California and one other distinct American region.
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AMST 418 - Food and American Culture (3)
Food and identities in America from the colonial era to the present, including explorations of American ethnic food, industrialization of food and contemporary food movements.
Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.3 or graduate standing.
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AMST 419 - Love in America (3)
Changes in the emotional lives of American men and women from the 17th century to the present. Enduring and innovative views on the nature of love and the cultural forces that shape its legitimate and illegitimate expression.
Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.3 or graduate standing.
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AMST 420 - Childhood and Family in American Culture (3)
Historical and contemporary culture study of childhood and family in America. The idea of childhood, changing concepts of child-rearing, growing up in the American past, the impact of modernization, mother and home as dominant cultural symbols.
Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.3 or graduate standing.
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AMST 423 - The Search for Community (3)
Historical transformation and modern reformulation of community in America; the relationship of the individual to the larger social group. Topics include freedom, need to belong, alienation and search for identity.
Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.3 or graduate standing.
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AMST 428 - American Monsters (3)
Interdisciplinary study of the monster in American culture. Monsters in historical context as reflection of fears and anxieties surrounding nature, science, gender, race, community, the body. Images of monstrosity in film, literature, folklore, television, performance art, youth culture.
Prerequisites: Completion of G.E. Category D.3 or graduate standing
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AMST 433 - Visual Arts in Contemporary America (3)
Visual phenomena in America as they reveal changes in recent American culture. The high arts (painting, sculpture) as contrasted with the low arts (advertising, television); the artist as innovator; alienation; the business world; and American values in art.
Prerequisite: AMST 201 or completion of G.E. Category D.3.
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AMST 438 - American Minds: Images of Sickness and Health (3)
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.
Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.3 or graduate standing.
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AMST 439 - American Photographs as Cultural Evidence (3)
Cultural work of American photography, from the mid-19th century to the present. How photographs - especially the vernacular or everyday variety - have reflected and shaped American beliefs, symbols and values.
Prerequisites: AMST 201 junior or senior standing.
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AMST 440 - American Folk Culture (3)
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.
Prerequisite: junior or senior standing.
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AMST 442 - Television and American Culture (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.
Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.3 or graduate standing.
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AMST 444 - The Built Environment (3)
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.
Prerequisite: junior or senior standing.
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AMST 445 - Cold War and American Culture (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 dêtente.
Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.3.
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AMST 447 - Race and American Popular Culture (3)
Using popular culture as a lens, examines theater, music and film, and asks: how has popular culture contributed to the social construction of race and ethnicity; how has it challenged and transformed racial and ethnic stereotypes?
Prerequisite: AMST 201 or completion of G.E. Category D.3.
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AMST 448 - American Popular Culture and the World (3)
Historical and contemporary study of American popular culture in a global context. Transnational influences on U.S. popular culture and impact of American culture around the world. Youth culture, film, music, sports, TV, literature, material culture.
Prerequisite: AMST 201 or completion of G.E. Category D.3.
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AMST 449 - The American West in Symbol and Myth (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.
Prerequisite: AMST 201 or completion of G.E. Category D.3.
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AMST 451 - Fashion in American Culture (3)
Cultural politics of fashion in America. Uses of interdisciplinary sources, including material culture, visual arts, legal codes, protests, advertising, and popular culture to study the diverse meanings of fashion in the past and present U.S.
Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.3 or graduate standing.
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AMST 459 - Technology and American Culture (3)
Relationship between technology and culture in America from industrialization to the present. How technologies, such as the steam engine, automobile, atomic bomb and computer have both been shaped by larger cultural ideas, institutions, values and processes in America.
Prerequisite: completion of G.E. category D.3.
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AMST 460 - Bohemians and Beats: Cultural Radicalism in America (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.
Prerequisite: AMST 201 or completion of G.E. Category D.3.
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AMST 465 - The Culture of the American South (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.
Prerequisite: AMST 201 or completion of G.E. Category D.3.
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AMST 468 - Culture in Turmoil: 1960s America (3)
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.
Prerequisite: junior or senior standing.
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AMST 473 - Sexual Orientations and American Culture (3)
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.
Prerequisites: AMST 201 , junior or senior standing.
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AMST 476 - Cultures of Early America (3)
Variety of cultures of America and, through an analysis of visual, material and print culture, investigates the beliefs, ideologies and institutions through which early Americans created their worlds. Contemporary public memory of early America.
Prerequisite: AMST 201 or completion of G.E. Category D.3.
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AMST 488 - Race, Sex and American Urban Culture (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.
Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.3 or graduate standing
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AMST 495 - Internship in American Studies (3)
Learning experience for undergraduate majors or minors at any public or private institute to which an American Studies major is related.
Course not available for Graduate Credit
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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 a maximum of 6 units.
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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.
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AMST 502T - Seminar: Selected Topics (3)
A particular problem or topic as a case study in the use of inter-disciplinary methods in American studies. May be repeated once for credit with different topic.
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AMST 595 - Graduate Internship in American Studies (3)
Learning experience at any public or private institution to which an American Studies major is related.
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AMST 596 - American Studies Teaching Tutorial (3)
Preparation for community college or university teaching. Small group discussion, lecture-discussion, examinations and 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.
Prerequisite: AMST 501 .
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AMST 598 - Thesis (3)
Writing of a thesis based on original research and its analysis and evaluation.
Prerequisites: graduate standing in American Studies and consent of graduate coordinator.
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AMST 599 - Independent Graduate Research (1-3)
May be repeated for a maximum of 6 units.
Prerequisites: graduate standing in American studies and consent of graduate coordinator.
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Anthropology Courses are designated as ANTH in the class schedule.
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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 may be offered in any online format.
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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. One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
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ANTH 102 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3)
Nature of culture and its significance. Similarities and difference 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 may be offered in any online format.
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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 may be offered in any online format.
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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. One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
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ANTH 106 - Great Discoveries in Archaeology (3)
The world’s archeological heritage through great discoveries in archaeology. Using the scientific method to critically examine interpretations of the fantastic and mundane. Role of the past in contemporary society, and ethical questions facing archaeologists. One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
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ANTH 300 - Language and Culture (3)
Language as a factor in culture. Trends in the study of language and culture. One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.
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ANTH 301 - Primate Behavior (3)
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 may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: ANTH 101 , ANTH 102 , PSYC 101 or completion of G.E. Category B.1 or B.2.
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ANTH 304 - Traditional Cultures of the World (3)
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 may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category C.2.
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ANTH 305 - Anthropology of Religion (3)
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. One or more sections may be offered in any online format. (ANTH 305 and RLST 305 are the same course.)
Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category C.2.
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ANTH 306 - Culture and Art (3)
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. One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category C.2.
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ANTH 308 - Culture and Aging: Anthropological Gerontology (3)
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. One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.
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ANTH 310 - Urban Anthropology (3)
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.
Prerequisite: ANTH 102 .
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ANTH 311 - Culture and Communication (3)
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. One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category C.2.
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ANTH 313 - Psychological Anthropology (3)
Relationship of culture to the individual. Child-training in non-western cultures. Survey of concepts, studies and research techniques in psychological anthropology. One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.
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ANTH 315 - Culture and Nutrition (3)
Interrelationships among human nutrition, basic food resources, individual development and socio-cultural organization; includes assessment of student’s nutritional status, beliefs and practices relative to other cultures. One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: ANTH 101 , ANTH 102 .
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ANTH 316 - Anthropology of Sex and Gender (3)
Human sex and gender roles in cross-cultural perspective and the role that gender plays in human social organization. Topics covered include cultural construction of gender; homosexuality, rights of women, evolution and gender. One or more sections may be offered in any online format. (ANTH 316 and WGST 316 are the same course.)
Prerequisites: completion of G.E. Category D.1.
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ANTH 321 - Peoples of Native North America (3)
Native peoples of North America; origins, languages, culture areas, cultural history; the impact of European contacts. One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.1; for anthropology majors, completion of G.E. Category D.1 or any ANTH course in G.E. Category D.1.
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ANTH 322 - Human Behavioral Ecology (3)
Examines human biological and cultural diversity through an analysis of comparative socioecology using modern evolutionary theory. Topics covered include reproduction and marriage, the family, childhood, population growth and conservation. Computer labs utilizing eHRAF. One or more sections may be offered in any online format. (ANTH 322 and BIOL 322 are the same course.)
Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category B.2.
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ANTH 325 - Peoples of Central and South America (3)
Cultural survey of South America. Representative cultural areas before and after contacts with Western countries. One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.
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ANTH 327 - Origins of Civilizations (3)
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 may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.1; for anthropology majors, completion of G.E. Category D.1 or any ANTH course in G.E. Category D.1.
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ANTH 328 - Peoples of Africa (3)
Cultural survey of Africa. Description of selected cultures and aspects of culture before and after contact with non-Africans. One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.
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ANTH 329 - Peoples of the Caribbean (3)
Various ethnic groups of the Caribbean, focusing on the description and interpretation of African, European, Asian and Amerindian cultural elements. One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.
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ANTH 332 - Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspectives (3)
Cross-cultural comparison of beliefs, values, and expectations related to gender roles in diverse societies. Changes in social definitions and perspectives of gender in the contemporary world.
Prerequisite: G.E. Category B.2 or D.1.
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ANTH 333 - Anthropology of Childhood (3)
Using a biocultural perspective, examines the form and experiences of childhood using a comparative, evolutionary, cross-cultural approach. Work and play, evolutionary and cultural influences on children’s development trajectories, role of children. Computer labs with eHRAF.
Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category B.1, B.2 or D.1.
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ANTH 340 - Peoples of Asia (3)
Asian civilizations and cultural traditions: personality configurations in different culture areas; structure of Asian civilizations; and peasant, tribal and ethnic groups of Asia.
Prerequisite: completion of General Education Categories B.1 or B.2 and D.5
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ANTH 342 - Anthropology and Health (3)
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.
Prerequisite: completion of General Education Category B.1 or B.2 and D.1.
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ANTH 343 - Human Osteology (3)
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)
Prerequisite:ANTH 101 .
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ANTH 344 - Evolutionary Anthropology (3)
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. One or more sections may be offered in any online format. (2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory)
Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or completion of G.E. Category B.1 or B.2.
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ANTH 345 - Peoples of the Middle East and North Africa (3)
Interrelationship between culture, economy, political structure and belief system of selected cultures in the Middle East and North Africa. One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.
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ANTH 347 - Peoples of the Pacific (3)
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 ore more sections may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.
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ANTH 350 - Culture and Education (3)
Transmission of values, implicit cultural assumptions and the patterning of education in cross-cultural perspective. American culture and development problems. One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.
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ANTH 370 - Anthropology of Non-Western Films (3)
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.
Prerequisite: ANTH 100 , ANTH 102 or ANTH 304
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ANTH 380 - The Ancient Maya (3)
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.
Prerequisites: ANTH 102 , ANTH 103 .
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ANTH 381 - The Aztecs and Their Predecessors (3)
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 may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisites: ANTH 102 , ANTH 103
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ANTH 382 - Archaeology of the Southwest (3)
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.
Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category C.1 or D.1.
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ANTH 383 - Prehistoric North America (3)
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 may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.1; for anthropology majors, completion of G.E. Category D.1 or any ANTH course in G.E. Category D.1.
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ANTH 401 - Ethnographic Field Methods (3)
Anthropological field research by students on various problems using participant observation techniques.
Prerequisites: ANTH 102 and six additional units of anthropology.
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ANTH 402 - Museum Science (3)
Methods, principles and techniques used in natural history, and small scientific and historical museums. Scope of exhibit and research collections, care and repair of specimens, acquisitions, storage and preparation of presentations in anthropological, historical, biological and paleontological museums.
Prerequisite: ANTH 101 , ANTH 102 or ANTH 103 .
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ANTH 403 - Archaeological Fieldwork (3)
Excavation of a local archaeological site. Archaeological mapping, photography and recording. Laboratory methods of cataloging, preservation, description and interpretation of archaeological materials. Saturday field sessions. May be repeated once for credit as an elective. (1 hour lecture, 6 hours laboratory)
Prerequisites: ANTH 103 or graduate standing.
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ANTH 404 - Analytical Methods in Archaeology (3)
Employing physical data collecting techniques (e.g., photographic, paleomagnetic) in the field, and analyzing 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)
Prerequisites: ANTH 103 or graduate standing.
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ANTH 406 - Descriptive Linguistics (3)
Sounds (phonology), forms and meanings (morphology), and syntax of languages. Examples and problem-solving in various languages. (ANTH 406 and LING 406 are the same course.)
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ANTH 407 - Anthropological Video Production (3)
Planning, shooting and editing videotapes relating to all sub-disciplines of anthropology. (1 hour lecture; 6 hours laboratory activities, demonstrations and fieldwork)
Prerequisite: six upper-division units of anthropology.
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ANTH 408 - Ethnogerontology (3)
Methods of ethnoscience and interpretive semiotics for analyzing cultural knowledge and domains pertaining to aging. Training in ethnographic cultural analysis of aging for producing ethnographies that focus on the symbols, taxonomies, paradigms and themes of aging.
Prerequisite: ANTH 102 .
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ANTH 409 - Applied Anthropology (3)
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.
Prerequisite: ANTH 102
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ANTH 411 - The Anthropology of Human Rights (3)
Introduces students to the study of human rights from anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives. Students will examine human rights issues and specific cases of human rights abuses within the context of international and ethno-specific domains.
Prerequisite: ANTH 102
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ANTH 414 - Economic Anthropology (3)
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 may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: ANTH 102 .
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ANTH 415 - Anthropology of Tourism (3)
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.
Prerequisites: ANTH 102 .
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ANTH 416 - Anthropological Linguistics (3)
Nature and functions of language; language structure and change; classification of languages; use of linguistic evidence in anthropology. (ANTH 416 and LING 416 are the same course.)
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ANTH 418 - GIS and Archaeology (3)
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 may be offered in any online format.
Prerequisite: ANTH 103 or graduate standing.
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ANTH 419 - Anthropology of Risk (3)
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.
Prerequisites: ANTH 101 , ANTH 102 , ANTH 103 ; junior or senior standing.
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ANTH 420 - Visual Anthropology (3)
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.
Prerequisites: ANTH 100 , ANTH 101 , ANTH 102 , ANTH 103
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ANTH 425 - Lithic Analysis (3)
Prerequisite: ANTH 103, or consent of the instructor; or graduate standing. Teaches students about key theoretical and methodological facets of prehistoric lithic (stone) artifact analysis. Through readings, discussions, and lab practicums students will learn how archaeological lithic analysts infer pertinent technological, behavioral, and social information about the past.
ANTH 103 or Graduate Standing
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ANTH 427 - Settlement Patterns (3)
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.
Prerequisite: ANTH 103 or graduate standing.
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ANTH 430 - Archaeology of Household Space (3)
Households, domestic architecture and use of space in the archaeological and ethnographic record from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives. Cultural differences in residential dwellings; use of space; residence patterns; households; gender; ritual spaces.
Prerequisite: ANTH 103 or graduate standing
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ANTH 431 - Mesoamerican Cultures (3)
Cultural survey of Mesoamerican cultures from the colonial period to the present. Mesoamerican cultures are examined within the context of the Pre-Hispanic past, the impact of colonization, interactions with states and empires, and contemporary issues.
Prerequisite: ANTH 102 or completion of G.E. Category D.1 or D.2.
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ANTH 435 - Anthropology of Death and Mortuary Practices (3)
Cultural practices relating to death. Burial practices, believes about the afterlife and memorializing the dead in diverse cultural contexts, both contemporary and ancient. Integrate archaeological, linguistic, cultural and biological data in a holistic approach.
Prerequisites: ANTH 102 or completion of GE category C.2 or D.1, or graduate standing.
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ANTH 441 - Human Variation (3)
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)
Prerequisite: ANTH 343 ; ANTH 301 , ANTH 322 or ANTH 344
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ANTH 442 - Medical Anthropology (3)
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.
Prerequisite: ANTH 342 .
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ANTH 443 - Advanced Topics in Human Osteology (3)
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.
Prerequisites: ANTH 343 ; and one of ANTH 301 , ANTH 322 or ANTH 344 .
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ANTH 445 - Quantitative Methods in Anthropology (3)
Develops skills and knowledge in the application of quantitative methods in anthropological research. Integrated approach to research design, data collection, data management and data analysis through hands-on training.
Prerequisites: Anthropology major or minor and junior or senior standing.
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ANTH 451 - Advanced Evolutionary Anthropology (3)
Uses life history theory to examine the evolutionary ecology of human behavior. Human life course, resource acquisition, parenting and fertility. Computer labs utilizing eHRAF. (ANTH 451 and BIOL 451 are the same course.)
Prerequisites: ANTH 322 , ANTH 344 or BIOL 274 .
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