printer friendly pageANTHRO 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. Dates of meetings will be listed in the notes section in the time schedule.
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.
Last offered: Autumn 2013
ANTHRO 278: Evolution and Conservation in Galapagos (ANTHRO 178)
The contribution of research in the Galapagos Islands to our current understanding of evolution and conservation. Writings from Darwin to Dawkins, as they reveal patterns and processes of evolution including selection, adaptation, speciation, and coevolution. Current conservation strategies in the archipelago, and urgent measures needed today before unique species and adaptations are lost.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Durham, W. (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: Win
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Kohrman, M. (PI)
ANTHRO 286: Culture and Madness (ANTHRO 186)
'Madness' lends insight into the construction of the normal and abnormal; the boundaries of reason and unreason; the epistemological relation of mind and body, and the management of difference and disease. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, this course explores the fundamental questions madness poses to subjectivity, culture and modernity.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Garcia, A. (PI)
ANTHRO 298B: Digital Methods in Archaeology (ANTHRO 98B, ARCHLGY 98B)
This is a course on digital technologies in archaeology used for documentation, visualization, and analysis of archaeological spaces and objects. Emphasizes hands-on approaches to image manipulation, virtual reality, GIS, CAD, and photogrammetry modeling methods.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Rick, J. (PI)
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:
Poggiali, L. (PI)
ANTHRO 299: Directed Individual Study
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Bird, D. (PI)
;
Bird, R. (PI)
;
Curran, L. (PI)
;
Durham, W. (PI)
;
Ebron, P. (PI)
;
Ferguson, J. (PI)
;
Fox, J. (PI)
;
Fullwiley, D. (PI)
;
Garcia, A. (PI)
;
Hansen, T. (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)
;
Thiranagama, S. (PI)
;
Voss, B. (PI)
;
Wilcox, M. (PI)
;
Wolf, A. (PI)
;
Yanagisako, S. (PI)
ANTHRO 300: Reading Theory Through Ethnography
Required of and restricted to first-year ANTHRO Ph.D. students. Focus is on contemporary ethnography and related cultural and social theories generated by texts. Topics include agency, resistance, and identity formation, and discourse analysis. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Garcia, A. (PI)
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