I, II. Explanation of culture and related concepts. Development of generalizations concerning social, economic, political, and ritual organization, based chiefly on comparative study of various traditional societies. Includes a brief survey of linguistics. Gen. Ed. VB, VC, or VII (SBS).

A. Anthropology of human cultures through time and over space, using archaeological and ethnographic methods to understand the multifaceted study of cultural change.Gen. Ed. VA, VC, or VII (SBS).

I, II. General survey of the human biological species and its evolution, emphasizing the study of genetics, osteology, primate behavior and biology, fossil populations, and comtemporary human biological variation. 2 Lec/2 Lab. Gen. Ed. E-4A.

A. Prerequisite: ANT 201 or departmental approval. A detailed analysis of primate and human development emphasizing human development emphasizing the fossil evidence of the fossil evidence of human evolution.

A. Prerequisite: ANT 120 or 200. Anthropological exploration of religious belief systems across cultures and time. Analyzes the intersection of religion with subsistence strategies, economic systems, political systems, and gender structures. Topics include magic, witchcraft, sorcery, monotheism, polytheism, possession, and health.

A. Prerequisite: ANT 120 or 200. This course provides an introduction to the material culture of North America's recent past. Lecture is combined with hands-on exercises using historic artifacts and documentary sources.

A. Prerequisite: ENG 102 or 102R, 105(B), or HON 102. Explores the cultural richness and diversity of North America’s First Peoples over time and geography. Topics include indigenous cultural landscapes and worldviews, treaties, reservation life, and the many continuing impacts of colonization, such as health.

A. Prerequistie: ANT 120 or ANT 200. A basic but comprehensive introduction to North American archaeology from the earliest peopling through European Contact.

A. Prerequisitive: ANT 120 or ANT 200. Comprehensive survey of applied anthropology theories, methods, and approaches. Based on extensive cross-cultural case materials, examines the historical, current, and potential applications of anthropological perspectives to social problems.

A. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Sociocultural anthropological perspective on the study of language. Cross-cultural topics include the role of language in creating and maintaining cultural norms in gender, indigeneity, ethnicity, class and power, and race and racism.

A. Prerequisite: ANT 120 or ANT 200 or sophomore standing. Examines food’s role and impact on humankind through archaeological, biological, cultural, and linguistic anthropological perspectives. Includes issues related to environmental health, social autonomy, and food’s intersection with gender, race, ethnicity, class, and indigeneity.

A. Prerequistie: ANT 120 or ANT 200 or departmental approval. Topics vary. Offered occasionally. May be retaken to a maximum of nine hours, provided the subject matter differs each time.

A. Prerequisite: ANT 120 or ANT 200. Survey of Federal legislation for the management of cultural resources and the repatriation of human remains and other materials to descendant Native American tribes. Global heritage issues also addressed.

A. Prerequisite: ENG 102 or 102R, 105(B), or HON 102. Explores and compares the cultural heritage and colonial experiences of ancient and contemporary Indigenous civilizations of the western hemisphere through archaeology, ethnography, and historical sources.

a. Prerequisite: ANT 201 or departmental approval. Topics vary. Offered occasionally. May be retaken to a maximum of nine hours, provided the subject matter differs each time.

A. Prerequisite: ANT 201 or departmental approval. The local human and biological impact of conservation programs affecting primate communities throughout the world. Topics include forest fragmentation, historical perspectives on conservation, agroforestry, ecotourism, ethnography, and disease.

A. Prerequisite: ANT 201 or departmental approval. Ecological relationships within primate communities. Students collect, organize, and analyze behavioral data, and examine primate social structure, habitat use, diet, locomotion, seasonality, plant-primate interactions, and predator-prey relationships.

A. Prerequisite: ANT 120 or ANT 200 or departmental approval. Topics vary. orrfered occasionally. May be retaken to a maximum of nin hours, proved the subject matter differs each time.

A. ANT 120 strongly recommended. Exploration of health, healthcare, and healing cross-culturally. Through medical anthropology theory and methods, apply critical perspectives to the health status of populations, the distribution of health in societies, and health outcomes.

A. Prerequisite: ANT 201, ANT 385, or departmental approval. Forensic osteology and dentistry ; (including demographic methods, pathology, and practical methods of collecting human physical evidence) ; and the role of the expert witness. 2 Lec/2 Lab.

A. Prerequisite: ANT 201 or departmental approval. Analysis of individual skeletal remains, focusing on functional anatomy and bone physiology, disease and injury, and nutrition. Includes introductions to bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, and biocultural reconstruction.

A. Prerequisite: ENG 102, ENG 102R, HON 105 (B), or HON 102; and ANT 120, ANT 200, ANT 201, or ANT 330. Examines how anthropologists understand, study, interpret, and write about a complex, interdisciplinary, critically important, “wicked” problem. Instructor chooses the semester's wicked problem. Integrates professionalism and career development. Credit will not be awarded to students for both ANT 394 and 394W.

A. Prerequisites: ANT 120, ANT 200, ANT 201 and Junior standing. A capstone investigation of past and present practices and theories used to interpret data from each of anthropology's four subdisciplines. Professionalism in anthropology also integrated.

A. Prerequisite and/or Corequisite: ANT 200 with a minimum grade of "B," ANT 470, or departmental approval. This course pairs senior anthropology majors with professional archaeologists for on-the-job training. Practicum options may include federal and state governments, private archaeological consultants, and anthropology museums.

A. Prerequisite: ANT 120, 200, or 201, and departmental approval. Practicum experience in which students will utilize their knowledge of anthropology in an applied setting. May be retaken to a maximum of 6 hours.

A. Prerequisite: Minimum grade of “B” in ANT 201 or departmental approval. Learn biological anthropology field methods while conducting a research project. Collect and analyze biological anthropology data. May be retaken to a maximum of six hours, provided the subject matter differs each time.

A. Prerequisite: ANT 200 with a minimum grade of “B,” or departmental approval. A hands-on study of archaeological field methods including excavation techniques as well as some laboratory analysis of archaeological remains. May be retaken to a maximum of twelve hours.

A. Prerequisite: ANt 200 with minimum grade of “B,” or departmental approval. Familiarizes students with processing, analysis, and interpretation of archaeological materials. This course has a laboratory component where students will work with archaeological materials.

A. Prerequisite: student must consult with the faculty supervisor have the independent study proposal form approved by faculty supervisor and departmental chair prior to enrollment.

A. Prerequisite: ANT 120, ANT 200, ANT 201, and departmental approval. A directed research experience for anthropology majors that integrates a research experience with the students’ professional development and the production of a substantive deliverable product (e.g., poster or conference presentation). May be retaken to a maximum of 6 hours.