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ANTHRO 1: Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology (ANTHRO 201)

Crosscultural anthropological perspectives on human behavior, including cultural transmission, social organization, sex and gender, culture change, technology, war, ritual, and related topics. Case studies illustrating the principles of the cultural process. Films.
Terms: Win, Sum | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI

ANTHRO 3: Introduction to Prehistoric Archaeology (ARCHLGY 1)

Aims, methods, and data in the study of human society's development from early hunters through late prehistoric civilizations. Archaeological sites and remains characteristic of the stages of cultural development for selected geographic areas, emphasizing methods of data collection and analysis appropriate to each.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI

ANTHRO 4: Language and Culture

Comparative approach, using examples from many languages. Emphasis is on generally non-Western speech communities. Topics include: the structure of language; the theory of signs; vocabulary and culture; grammar, cognition, and culture (linguistic relativism and determinism); encodability of cultural information in language; language adaptiveness to social function; the ethnography of speaking; registers; discourse (conversation, narrative, verbal art); language and power; language survival and extinction; and linguistic ideology (beliefs about language).
Terms: Aut | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors: Fox, J. (PI)

ANTHRO 6: Human Origins (ANTHRO 206, BIO 106, HUMBIO 6)

The human fossil record from the first non-human primates in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene, 80-65 million years ago, to the anatomically modern people in the late Pleistocene, between 100,000 to 50,000 B.C.E. Emphasis is on broad evolutionary trends and the natural selective forces behind them.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci
Instructors: Klein, R. (PI)

ANTHRO 7: Introduction to Forensic Anthropology

The application of anthropological and archaeological methods to forensics. Topics include the recovery and identification of individuals via skeletal and DNA analysis, reconstruction of premortem and postmortem histories of remains, analysis of mass graves, human rights issues, surveillance tape analysis, analysis of crime scene materials, and expert witness testimony. Legal and ethical dimensions.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER: DB-NatSci
Instructors: DeGusta, D. (PI)

ANTHRO 8N: The Anthropology of Globalization

Preference to freshmen. Anthropological approach to how cultural change, economic restructuring, and political mobilization are bound up together in the process of globalization.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3-4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors: Ebron, P. (PI)

ANTHRO 10SC: Darwin, Evolution, and Galapagos (HUMBIO 17SC)

Lessons from the study of flora and fauna in Galápagos from Darwin's time to today. Adaptation, sexual selection, speciation, and adaptive radiation. The challenges the Galapágos Islands pose for conservation.
Terms: Aut | Units: 2
Instructors: Durham, W. (PI)

ANTHRO 15: Sex and Gender

Commonality and diversity of gender roles in crosscultural perspective. Cultural, ecological, and evolutionary explanations for such diversity. Theory of the evolution of sex and gender, changing views about men's and women's roles in human evolution, conditions under which gender roles vary in contemporary societies, and issues surrounding gender equality, power, and politics.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI

ANTHRO 16: Native Americans in the 21st Century: Encounters, Identity, and Sovereignty in Contemporary America

What does it mean to be a Native American in the 21st century? Beyond traditional portrayals of military conquests, cultural collapse, and assimilation, the relationships between Native Americans and American society. Focus is on three themes leading to in-class moot court trials: colonial encounters and colonizing discourses; frontiers and boundaries; and sovereignty of self and nation. Topics include gender in native communities, American Indian law, readings by native authors, and Indians in film and popular culture.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI

ANTHRO 16N: Ethnographies of North America: An Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology

Preference to freshmen. Ethnographic look at human behavior, including cultural transmission, social organization, sex and gender, culture change, and related topics in N. America. Films.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors: Wilcox, M. (PI)
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