Mar 29, 2024  
2021-2022 University Catalog 
    
2021-2022 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


Prefix and Course Index 

 

Aging Studies

Courses are designated as AGNG in the class schedule.

  
  • AGNG 508 - Social and Ethical Issues in Aging (3)


    Social and ethical issues facing an aging society. Ethical terminology, ethical decision making and social implications of ethical issues related to such topics as nursing homes, caregiving, suicide and intergenerational equality.

    Prerequisite: Gerontology, Sociology or Public Health graduate standing.

    Graduate-level

  
  • AGNG 526 - Public Organizational Theory and Behavior (3)


    Management-oriented analysis of organizational behavior. Treatments of decision-making, leadership, communication, group dynamics and ethical aspects of organization. Applying theories of administration and systems management to public and volunteer programs and services. (POSC 526 and AGNG 526 are the same course).

    Corequisite: POSC 509 ; or Prerequisite: POSC 320  or POSC 509 .

    Graduate-level

  
  • AGNG 535 - Program Planning and Evaluation (3)


    Comprehensive theories and methods for planning and evaluating health promotion programs. Techniques for collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data. Skills for measuring effectiveness of health promotion programs. (PUBH 535 and AGNG 535 are the same course)

    Prerequisite: student must be a graduate, postbac undeclared, or postbac credentials.

    Graduate-level

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • AGNG 545 - NonProfit and Societal Marketing (3)


    Applying marketing techniques to social change and nonprofit organizational contexts. Apply marketing resources and tools to address the challenges inherent in such organizations. (MKTG 545 and AGNG 545 are the same course.)

    Prerequisite: MKTG 519 .

    Graduate-level

  
  • AGNG 593 - Research Methods in Gerontology, Project Development (3)


    Research processes and problems in gerontology; more detailed study of applied research, including program evaluation in the field of gerontology.Development of a project to conclude in AGNG 594 as a culminating experience.

    Prerequisite: Graduate standing.

    Graduate-level

  
  • AGNG 594 - Research Methods in Gerontology, Completion of Master’s Project (3)


    Culminating experience of MSG students. Utilize secondary data to engage in the scientific method to explore and analyze an original and individualized research question, completing all chapters of the capstone master’s project.

    Prerequisite: AGNG 501.

    Graduate-level

  
  • AGNG 595 - Gerontology Internship (3)


    Supervised experience in organizations that serve older adults and their families. May be repeated once for credit. Requires classified status in M.S. in Gerontology program, and consent of instructor and Program Coordinator.

    Prerequisite: Gerontology graduate standing.

    Graduate-level

    Department Consent Required
  
  • AGNG 597 - Project (3-6)


    Under the direction of a faculty member, a topic that integrates learning in the program with an applied area of student’s interest will be selected; a major project on the topic will be developed and submitted. May be repeated once for credit. Requires classified status in the M.S. in Gerontology Program, and consent of instructor and Program Coordinator.

    Prerequisite: Gerontology graduate standing.

    Graduate-level

    Department Consent Required
  
  • AGNG 598 - Thesis (3-6)


    Individual research under supervision, reported in a thesis and defended successfully in an oral examination conducted by a faculty thesis committee. May be repeated once for credit. Requires classified status in the M.S. in Gerontology degree program, and consent of instructor and Program Coordinator.

    Prerequisite: Gerontology graduate standing.

    Graduate-level

    Department Consent Required
  
  • AGNG 599 - Independent Study in Gerontology (1-3)


    Individualized study with an instructor whose recognized interests are in the area of the planned study. Conferences with the instructor as necessary; work will culminate in one or more papers. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 units.

    Prerequisite: completion of M.S. in Gerontology core courses.

    Graduate-level

    Department Consent Required

American Studies

Courses are designated as AMST in the class schedule.

  
  • AMST 101 - Introduction to American Culture Studies (3)


    Concepts of interdisciplinary culture studies, focusing on analyzing cultural change in complex, literate society. American culture, including cross-cultural comparisons. Topics include popular culture, subcultures, regionalism, myths and symbols, and culture and personality.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • AMST 131 - Explore Core: Migrant Lives (3)


    Differing sociocultural experiences of different migrant groups. How immigration as a process impacts physical, cognitive and socioemotional development of migrants’ children. Educational experiences of migrants and implications for schools and society. (CAS 131, AMST 131 and READ 131 are the same course)

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

  
  • AMST 201 - Introduction to American Studies (3)


    With the concept of culture as a unifying principle, focus is on four separate time periods in order to provide the framework for an understanding of American civilization. Several different kinds of documents will be used to illustrate the nature and advantages of an interdisciplinary approach.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • AMST 300 - Introduction to American Popular Culture (3)


    Historical exploration of popular culture in America as it reflects and contributes to the search for meaning in everyday life. Heroes, myths of success, symbols of power, images of romance, consumerism, race and sexual identity.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • AMST 301 - American Character (3)


    Cultural environment and personality. Extent to which there have been and continue to be distinctly American patterns of belief and behavior. Similarities, as well as class, ethnic, sex and regional differences among Americans.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • AMST 318 - Hollywood and America: Using Film as a Cultural Document (3)


    Hollywood as a cultural institution. Concentrating on the films of selected periods, the course analyzes Hollywood’s ability to create and transmit symbols and myths, and legitimize new values and patterns of behavior.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

  
  • AMST 320 - Women in American Society (3)


    Socio-cultural history of women and women’s movements in American society. Emphasis on 19th and 20th centuries. Cultural models of American womanhood - maternal, domestic, sexual, social - their development and recent changes.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • AMST 324 - American Immigrant Cultures (3)


    Investigates American immigrant communities, both historical and contemporary, to better understand how their experiences helped shape the meaning of being American. Explores immigrant cultures through literature, music, film, oral history and photographs using interdisciplinary methods.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category C.1 or C.2.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • AMST 332 - Science and Modern America (3)


    Interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship between science and culture in the American past and present. Topics include questions of trust, ethics, objectivity, power and identity in developing scientific knowledge in health and medicine, the environment, and technology.

    Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category B.1 and B.2.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

  
  • AMST 345 - The American Dream (3)


    Interdisciplinary analysis, in settings both historical and contemporary, of the myth and reality surrounding the notion of America as a land of unparalleled and unlimited possibilities, especially in the achievement of personal material success.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category C.1 or C.2.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • AMST 346 - American Culture Through Spectator Sports (3)


    Shifting meaning of organized sports in changing American society. Includes analysis of sports rituals, symbols and heroes. Focus is on the cultural significance of amateur and professional football, baseball and basketball.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

  
  • AMST 350 - Seminar in Theory and Method of American Studies (3)


    Understanding and appreciation of methodology, theories of society and images of humanity as they affect American studies contributions to scholarship. Fulfills the course requirement of the university upper-division baccalaureate writing requirement for American Studies majors.

    Prerequisites: AMST 201 , AMST 301 .

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

  
  • AMST 377 - Prejudice and American Culture (3)


    Concepts and methods of American culture studies as tools for better understanding the origins and appeal of intolerance, past and present. Particular focus on racism, ethnic and religious bias, sexism and homophobia.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

  
  • AMST 390 - Disability and American Culture (3)


    Changing meaning, history and experience of disability in American culture through scholarly readings, memoir, film, photography and other cultural documents. Disability in relation to identity, stigma, discrimination, media representations, intersectionality, gender and sexuality, work, genetic testing, and design.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

  
  • AMST 395 - California Cultures (3)


    How various cultures - Native American, European, Latino, Asian, African American - have interacted in California’s past and present. Topics include: cultural diversity in frontiers and borderlands; shifting meanings of gender; function of regional and racial myths.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • AMST 401T - Proseminar in American Studies (3)


    Relationship between theory and application. Analytic readings and research. Check the class schedule for topics being considered. May be repeated once for credit with different topic.

    Prerequisites: AMST 201 , AMST 301 .

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • AMST 403 - Creative Work in American Studies (3)


    Cultivate a creative mentality in American Studies. Explore non-academic representations of cultural research and how to communicate interdisciplinary knowledge using creative forms. Historical fiction, graphic novels, musical expression, documentary film, podcasting, material culture, personal narrative.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.2 or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • AMST 404 - Americans and Nature (3)


    Shifting attitudes toward the natural environment among a range of Americans over time, from native inhabitants and early colonists to rural and urban dwellers today. Agrarian expansion, industrialization, transcendentalism, tourism, humans’ roles in natural disasters and history of environmental activism.

    Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • AMST 405 - Images of Crime and Violence in American Culture (3)


    Cultural analysis of meanings ascribed to law and order, authority, violence and punishment in the American past and present. Examined in selected symbols, images, traditions and realities.

    Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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. (AMST 412 and WGST 412 are the same course.)

    Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • AMST 416 - Southern California Culture: A Study of American Regionalism (3)


    A focus on Orange County’s diverse history and culture.

    Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • AMST 425 - Americans at Work (3)


    Explores a range of occupations, from factory worker to investment banker, nanny to drug dealer, mortician to exotic dancer. Considers the meaning work holds for those who perform it and the structures, cultures, and histories of particular occupations.

    Prerequisite: POSC 100  or HONR 201B .

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.

    Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.

    Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • AMST 444 - American Placemaking (3)


    How Americans have shaped and been shaped by their spaces. Topics include how spaces become places, how space and race construct each other, how inequality has been built into our cultural landscapes and the impact of place on American culture.

    Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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 dente.

    Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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: Completion of G.E. Category D.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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: Completion of G.E. Category D.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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: Completion of G.E. Category D.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • AMST 454 - American Nightlife (3)


    Development of nightlife in American society and culture. Topics include the meaning of night, evening labor, prohibition, gender roles, sexuality, race, material culture, ballroom culture, music, cinema and urban cultures.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.2 or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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: Completion of G.E. Category D.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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: Completion of G.E. Category D.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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: Completion of G.E. Category D.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.

    Prerequisite: Completion of G.E. Category D.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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: Completion of G.E. Category D.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.2, POSC 100  or HONR 201B ; or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • AMST 489 - Digital America (3)


    Examines practices of digital participation in American culture from the 1960s to the present. Advanced study (in historical context) of the cultural, social, and political impact of personal electronic and digital communications devices, the internet, social media, and applications.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.2 or graduate standing.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 units, only 3 of which may be applied to American Studies upper-division electives.

    Prerequisite: AMST 201 .

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate 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.

    Graduate-level

  
  • 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 once for credit with different topic.

    Prerequisite: graduate standing.

    Graduate-level

  
  • AMST 595 - Graduate Internship in American Studies (3)


    Learning experience at any public or private institution to which an American Studies major is related.

    Graduate-level

  
  • 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 .

    Graduate-level

    Department Consent Required
  
  • AMST 598 - Thesis (3)


    Writing of a thesis based on original research and its analysis and evaluation. Requires consent of graduate coordinator.

    Prerequisite: American Studies graduate standing.

    Graduate-level

    Department Consent Required
  
  • AMST 599 - Independent Graduate Research (1-3)


    May be repeated for a maximum of 6 units. Requires consent of graduate coordinator.

    Prerequisite: American Studies graduate standing.

    Graduate-level

    Department Consent Required

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.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • ANTH 300 - Language and Culture (3)


    Language in the context of culture. The symbolic nature of language, speech as performance, non-verbal communication, gendered speech and bias in language. Language acquisition, language change and loss, and factors leading to the invention of writing.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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.

    Prerequisites: ANTH 101 , ANTH 102 , PSYC 101  or completion of G.E. Category B.1 or B.2.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category C.2.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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. (ANTH 305 and RLST 305  are the same course.)

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category C.2.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • ANTH 306 - Culture and Art (3)


    Explores different types of creative expression and arts within the cultural context of diverse societies, including such forms as painting, weaving, stories, myths, music, dance, masks, body decoration and sculpture, among others.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category C.2.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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 social and cultural forms and processes in urban populations.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category C.2.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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.

    Prerequisites: ANTH 101 , ANTH 102 .

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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. (ANTH 316 and WGST 316  are the same course.)

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • ANTH 321 - Peoples of Native North America (3)


    Native peoples of North America; origins, languages, culture areas, cultural history; the impact of European contacts.

    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

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category B.2.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • ANTH 325 - Peoples of Central and South America (3)


    Cultural survey of South America. Representative cultural areas before and after contacts with Western countries.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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.

    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

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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: completion of G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

  
  • 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 G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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 G.E. Categories B.1 or B.2 and D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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 .

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

  
  • ANTH 344 - Sex, Evolution and Human Nature (3)


    Evolutionary theory and human evolution; the primate origins of humanity, the evolution of human nature, and the evolutionary foundations of human behavior and cognition.

    Prerequisite: ANTH 101  or completion of G.E. Category B.1 or B.2.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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.

    Prerequisite: completion of G.E. Category D.1.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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.

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

  
  • ANTH 383 - Archaeology of 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.

    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

    Undergraduate Course not available for Graduate Credit

    One or more sections may be offered in any online format.
  
  • 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.

    400-level Undergraduate Course available for Graduate Credit

 

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