printer friendly pageANTHRO 271: The Biology and Evolution of Language (ANTHRO 171, HUMBIO 145L)
Lecture course surveying the biology, linguistic functions, and evolution of the organs of speech and speech centers in the brain, language in animals and humans, the evolution of language itself, and the roles of innateness vs. culture in language. Suitable both for general education and as preparation for further studies in anthropology, biology, linguistics, medicine, psychology, and speech & language therapy. Anthropology concentration: CS, EE. No prerequisites.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Fox, J. (PI)
ANTHRO 275: Human Skeletal Anatomy (ANTHRO 175, BIO 174, BIO 274, HUMBIO 180)
Study of the human skeleton (a. k. a. human osteology), as it bears on other disciplines, including medicine, forensics, archaeology, and paleoanthropology (human evolution). Basic bone biology, anatomy, and development, emphasizing hands-on examination and identification of human skeletal parts, their implications for determining an individual¿s age, sex, geographic origin, and health status, and for the evolutionary history of our species. Three hours of lecture and at least three hours of supervised and independent study in the lab each week.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Klein, R. (PI)
ANTHRO 276: Cultures, Minds, and Medicine (ANTHRO 176)
This workshop aims to bring together scholars from the social sciences, humanities, medicine and bio-science and technology to explore the ways that health and illness are made through complex social forces. We aim for informal, interactive sessions, full of debate and good will. We will meet every other week on Wednesday evening 5:30-7, starting on January 11, for dinner and conversation.May be repeat for credit. Class will meet on the following dates: Oct 9, 23, Nov 6. Dec 4. during the autumn quarter.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
6 times
(up to 6 units total)
Instructors:
Luhrmann, T. (PI)
ANTHRO 277: Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases (ANTHRO 177, HUMBIO 114)
The changing epidemiological environment. How human-induced environmental changes, such as global warming, deforestation and land-use conversion, urbanization, international commerce, and human migration, are altering the ecology of infectious disease transmission, and promoting their re-emergence as a global public health threat. Case studies of malaria, cholera, hantavirus, plague, and HIV.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Durham, W. (PI)
;
Jones, J. (PI)
ANTHRO 282: Medical Anthropology (ANTHRO 82, HUMBIO 176A)
Emphasis is on how health, illness, and healing are understood, experienced, and constructed in social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics: biopower and body politics, gender and reproductive technologies, illness experiences, medical diversity and social suffering, and the interface between medicine and science.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Kohrman, M. (PI)
ANTHRO 283B: Human Mobility and Adaptability (ANTHRO 183B)
Mobility, whether in the form of seasonal or permanent migration, is an ancient practice necessary for many subsistence strategies, including hunting-and-gathering and pastoralism. Many new forms of mobility have emerged and now it is nearly impossible to consider a patch of human society that is not engaged in or directly impacted by habitual, patterned geographic mobility. Today, almost everywhere in the world, people can get farther, faster; urbanization, environmental degradation, and civil unrest are driving groups of people who do not have a cultural tradition of nomadic migration to adopt a mobile lifestyle¿sometimes permanently, sometimes temporarily¿in search of new economic or resource opportunities. In this seminar course, we will explore modern patterns of human mobility and migration as adaptive strategies for predictably and unpredictably changing environments. Using a framework of biological and cultural adaptation, we will discuss the major types of current human mobility (e.g. nomadism, immigration, migrant labor, displacement) and how they influence and are influenced by social systems, resource access, and health.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Hazel, M. (PI)
ANTHRO 285: Medical Anthropology of Contemporary Africa (ANTHRO 185)
In this course we will examine the place of Africa in global health discourses while reading in-depth histories and ethnographies of the varied causes and consequences of some of the most difficult problems facing African countries today. We will study the effects of colonialism and conflict on health, explore the military and humanitarian connections in the fight against HIV/AIDS, weigh the risks and benefits of population genetic studies on African populations, examine biomedical interventions on, and erasures of, local health problems, and query the role of violence, memory, insecurity, and power in daily life on the continent.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Fullwiley, D. (PI)
ANTHRO 293B: Master's Thesis Writing Seminar
May be repeated for credit.
| Repeatable
for credit
ANTHRO 299: Senior and Master's Paper Writing Workshop (ANTHRO 199)
Techniques of interpreting data, organizing bibliographic materials, writing, editing and revising. Preparation of papers for conferences and publications in anthropology. Seniors register for 199; master's students register for 299.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Ghani, A. (PI)
ANTHRO 299: Directed Individual Study
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Bird, D. (PI)
;
Bird, R. (PI)
;
Durham, W. (PI)
;
Ebron, P. (PI)
;
Ferguson, J. (PI)
;
Fox, J. (PI)
;
Fullwiley, D. (PI)
;
Garcia, A. (PI)
;
Hodder, I. (PI)
;
Hunt, P. (PI)
;
Inoue, M. (PI)
;
Jain, S. (PI)
;
Jones, J. (PI)
;
Klein, R. (PI)
;
Kohrman, M. (PI)
;
Luhrmann, T. (PI)
;
Malkki, L. (PI)
;
Meskell, L. (PI)
;
Rick, J. (PI)
;
Robertson, I. (PI)
;
Seetah, K. (PI)
;
Tambar, K. (PI)
;
Voss, B. (PI)
;
Wilcox, M. (PI)
;
Wolf, A. (PI)
;
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
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