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Anthropology and Geography

Phd in anthropology, place, space, & adaptation.

The Department of Anthropology and Geography at Colorado State University offers a Ph.D program in anthropology focused on Place, Space, and Adaptation . This innovative PhD in anthropology builds on the diverse research interests of our faculty who specialize in cultural anthropology, archaeology, and biological anthropology as well as human and physical geography. The program provides students with the conceptual expertise and skills to address research questions that:

• sit at the intersection of anthropology and geography
• apply geographic methods to anthropological questions
• critically evaluate the impact of place and space on human/ecosystem adaptation

Our faculty are accessible and active mentors who will encourage PhD students to engage meaningfully in research on topics such as forced displacement and resettlement, disaster-driven relocations, health disparities, phylogenetic and paleobiogeography, and landscape archaeology among others. Graduates of our program will leave with training and skills that can be leveraged in both academic and non-academic settings.

Highly qualified candidates will receive three years of funding in the form of graduate teaching assistantships which cover the cost of tuition and provide a monthly stipend. All applicants to the PhD anthropology program are automatically considered for these assistantships. Seed grants for graduate research are provided by the Anthropology Scholarship Endowment on a competitive basis, and Student Research Scholarships are available to support research as well as travel to conferences. Students are also expected to obtain funding from outside resources to support their dissertation research.

Application Instructions

A complete application consists of the following:

• Admissions Form
• See instructions below.
• Previous institutions should submit official transcripts to CSU using institution code 4075.
• Students can submit unofficial transcripts with their application. However, official transcripts must be provided within the first semester before the student can register for their second semester of graduate work. Admission may be rescinded due to non-compliance.
• Scores must be less than five years old.
• The testing agency should submit scores to CSU using institution code 4075.
• Select an example of academic writing that shows your capacity for rigorous analysis and independent thought as well as your writing skills. MA/MS theses, published papers on which you are the lead author, and term papers are all acceptable.
• Letters from prior faculty familiar with your academic record are preferred.
• Letters should be submitted electronically by the authors.
• A third letter of recommendation is optional.
• Proof of English language proficiency is required for applicants from countries or United States territories where there are official languages other than or in addition to English.
• These are required of all applicants whose native language is not English or who have not received a Bachelors or MA/MS degree from an accredited college or university where the primary language of instruction is English. See CSU's English Proficiency guidelines for additional information.

The application deadline for the PhD program in Anthropology is January 15 for the fall semester of the same year. Late applications will not be accepted and new students are accepted for the fall semester only. Only applicants with an MA or MS degree in Anthropology/Geography or a closely related field will be considered. Application materials and instructions are available on the CSU Graduate School website.

Applicants to the PhD program in Anthropology must upload all supporting documents to their online applications via the Graduate School. Please do not send any materials directly to the Department of Anthropology and Geography.

The Statement of Purpose

We use the statement of purpose to assess the fit between applicants’ research interests and our program, as well as their potential for successfully completing a PhD. Applicants should clearly indicate how their interests relate to the program’s focus on place, space, and adaptation. In addition, applicants must describe their theoretical, topical, regional, and methodological interests in ways that make clear their fit with relevant faculty.

Applicants are required to contact relevant faculty to discuss their interests prior to submitting an application. NOTE: Teaching professors and instructors do not supervise graduate students. Please visit faculty pages to verify professors' titles. Applicants may also may wish to visit CSU before applying, which is welcomed but not required.

The statement should be between one and two pages in length, single-spaced text.

Program Requirements

Students will enter the program with roughly 30 credits of coursework from an MA or MS degree. The PhD program requires an additional 42 credits beyond the Master’s degree for a total of 72 credits of graduate work. These can include up to 12 credits for dissertation research and write-up.

• Place, space and adaptation
• Anthropological theory
• At least three credits in anthropology and three in geography
• Must include one course in each of the three subdisciplines of anthropology and one course from geography.
• If these specific requirements are met at the Master’s level, then the student can choose any courses relevant to their training.
• One elective or methods course ( 3 credits ) must be taken outside the Department.

Additional credits for dissertation work, independent study, or electives ( 12 credits )

The Student Handbook describes the policies, procedures, and program requirements for students who are enrolled in the Ph.D Program at CSU

Anthropology and Geography Ph.D Handbook, Spring 2023 edition (PDF)

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• AnthroSource Contains articles from American Anthropological Association (AAA) publications including journals, newsletters and bulletins. It has the current issues for many of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications, and a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003.
• Anthropology Plus (EBSCO) Indexes journal articles, essays, reports, commentaries, and edited works in the fields of cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology as well as ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture from the late 19th century to the present.

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2024-2025 academic catalog, anthropology, ma, introduction.

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The unique intellectual challenge of anthropology is to integrate knowledge from many disciplines for a global understanding of cultural and biological diversity in the past and the present. Individual courses in cultural anthropology, biological anthropology and archaeology cut across lines of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Because of this integrative perspective on the human condition, and the training provided in objectively assessing biological, cultural patterning and social interaction, an advanced degree in anthropology provides a versatile base for career development.

Students in our terminal Master's program have the benefit of receiving the faculty's full attention. Our program is unique in several respects. First, for students wishing to find employment after their MA, the department offers a mentorship program that pairs them with alumni who have forged careers in students' fields of interest. Second, our program also offers students a range of opportunities for professional development that are unusual in programs that focus on PhD students. For students considering the possibility of doctoral-level work in anthropology, the department has an excellent record in placing students in top-tier graduate programs. Students with residency in 14 states are eligible for in-state tuition, and funding opportunities in the form of Teaching Assistantships and graduate fellowships are available to students on a competitive basis. MA students may pursue the thesis or non-thesis option.

The University of Colorado Denver Department of Anthropology provides outstanding graduate education in anthropology, giving students a broad yet thorough grounding in three (out of the four) subfields of anthropology as well as specialized instruction in one or more of a number of research orientations and/or geographic area concentrations. These orientations encompass the areas of research and application in which department faculty have substantial expertise.

These degree requirements are subject to periodic revision by the academic department, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences reserves the right to make exceptions and substitutions as judged necessary in individual cases. Therefore, the College strongly urges students to consult regularly with their Anthropology faculty advisor to confirm the best plans of study before finalizing them.

Some students may benefit from adding a specific skills-based certificate program onto their graduate program. For example: archeology students may wish to gain expertise in Geographic Information Systems through the GIS certificate offered through the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, while medical anthropology students may benefit from the certificate in public health offered through the School of Public Health. Graduate-level courses in certificate programs can often fulfill elective requirements in the anthropology program.

One doctoral program at the CU Denver campus that may be of particular interest to graduates of the anthropology MA program is the PhD in Health and Behavioral Sciences . It is highly interdisciplinary and a natural extension of a master's degree in medical anthropology.

Graduate Education Policies and Procedures apply to this program.

Program Requirements

• Students must complete a total of 30-36 credit hours. 
• Students must complete a minimum of 30-36 graduate (5000 and above) level credit hours.
• Students must earn a minimum grade of B- (2.7) in all courses that apply to the degree and must achieve a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0. Courses taken using P+/P/F or S/U grading cannot apply to program requirements.
• All credits for the degree must be completed with CU Denver faculty. A maximum of 12 credits of relevant graduate work may be transferred from another university with the program director's approval. 
• Students must comply with all Graduate Education Policies and Procedures

Program Restrictions, Allowances and Recommendations

• The university allows up to seven years to complete a master's degree, but students are strongly discouraged from spending more than four years. While it is possible to finish the MA in two years, most of our students work part-time, which limits the time they can dedicate to the program; most finish within three years.
• Thesis track students must complete a minimum of 30 total credits and non-thesis track students must complete a minimum of 36 credits.

Your graduate anthropology education begins by taking ANTH 5810 Integrating Anthropology plus two core courses each from two sub-disciplines of Anthropology. After completing this core, you will select from among the specialized elective courses in the research concentrations described in more detail below. You will work closely with an advisor in selecting the range of courses appropriate both to a problem orientation and to your career objectives.

As an approved substitution, students may take:

ENVS 5600 Applied Statistics for the Natural Sciences MATH 5830 Applied Statistics PUAD 5003 Research and Analytic Methods RSEM 5100 Basic Statistics RSEM 7100 Advanced Methods of Qualitative Inquiry SOCY 5183 Seminar: Quantitative Data Analysis  

Approved E lectives outside of Anthropology

Students are encouraged to explore specialized elective courses in the research concentrations described in more detail below. You will work closely with an advisor in selecting the range of courses appropriate both to a problem orientation and to your career objectives.

Archaeology

The archaeological studies program concentrates on the study of past human societies using archaeological data collected in field and museum settings. While a quantitative and scientific approach is emphasized, the theoretical perspectives employed draw heavily from political economy and cultural ecology. The department offers a variety of theoretical, methodological and area courses, which may be supplemented by others in the geography and environmental sciences and history departments. Internships are available in local museums and historic preservation offices in the Denver metropolitan area.

Biological Anthropology

The biological anthropology concentration is concerned with modern human biological diversity and the past evolutionary history that has led to such diversity. Students in this concentration develop a firm understanding of the evolutionary processes that lead to physical and behavioral variation in humans and nonhuman primates. The concentration also emphasizes the theoretical and quantitative methods used to explore and explain this variation. Students may take courses in diverse areas including evolutionary biology, genetics, ecology, ethnobiology, epidemiology, nutrition, medical anthropology, paleoanthropology, paleontology and primatology. Because biological anthropology is multidisciplinary in nature, students are encouraged to consider courses offered outside the department.

Medical Anthropology

Our MA program in cultural anthropology offers a unique focus on Medical Anthropology. Medical anthropology is a sub-discipline of anthropology that includes the study of all aspects of health, illness and disease in human communities and populations. It draws on all of the perspectives that distinguish anthropology as a unique discipline: the analysis of human evolution and adaptation; cultural development, expressions, and variability; and historical change and continuity.  Medical anthropology takes as its subject a broad range of specific topics, including the study of health care systems, factors that affect the distribution and determinants of disease in populations, maternal and child health, nutrition and food habits, human development, political ecology, health policy, health disparities, community-driven wellness practices, visual storytelling, social media designed to promote health equities, and language and communication in health care contexts.

Faculty members take a variety of theoretical approaches to the topic, but our program is distinguished by its applied and engaged perspectives. A particular strength of our program is its integration of theoretical knowledge with community- and field-based training opportunities and challenges. We prepare students for careers in nonprofit and community groups, non-governmental organizations, advocacy, public health, health care institutions, and health sciences research; our graduates also attend doctoral programs at selective institutions. Courses in the department are complemented by electives in other departments (sociology, biology, psychology, history, geography, political science) and programs on the CU Denver campus (public affairs, education, health administration) and at the Anschutz Medical Campus (Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Pharmacy and Nursing).

Students who are earning their MA with a concentration in Medical Anthropology may also want to consider simultaneously earning a  certificate offered through the CU School of Public Health . 

Note: Students are encouraged to take elective courses in GIS mapping (geography), ecology (biology/anthropology), public policy, public health, epidemiology and biostatistics as it is relevant to their course of study.

Non-Thesis Option

This track is defined by additional course work in lieu of a thesis. The decision to pursue the non-thesis option should be made by the semester following the completion of 18 credit hours.

The non-thesis option allows students to pursue their own educational goals through the selection of additional courses that fit their interests. We strongly encourage students who choose this option to consider an internship position arranged around an area of expertise or the development of a skill-set. The internship may be in a governmental agency or non-governmental organization in Colorado, the U.S. or internationally. Successful completion of an internship will be acknowledged on the transcript of the MA program.

Non-Thesis students must complete a portfolio according to  this rubric.

Thesis Option

Students pursuing the thesis option must develop a topic and research proposal that specifies their plans in the semester after their completion of 18 credit hours.

A thesis is characterized by three factors: it is based in a research question or problem; it involves original research; there is a fully developed research proposal. A thesis can also encompass a range of format alternatives to the traditional thesis (e.g. article submitted for publication to a peer-reviewed journal, or a video production, internship or museum exhibit, each generally accompanied by a companion paper developing a theoretical or problem-oriented question).

The thesis is a major requirement for those in the MA in anthropology thesis track. The thesis should demonstrate the student's ability to apply knowledge and skills gained from the anthropology department's curriculum. A desirable goal for an excellent thesis would be a work of sufficient rigor and quality that it could be considered for publication. Original data collection ("fieldwork") is recommended but not required for the thesis. Analysis of secondary data-whether quantitative, qualitative, visual or other formats-is perfectly acceptable as long as the research is informed by a clearly articulated research question and under-girded by a research proposal.    

The traditional thesis is a single document that often incorporates a literature review, definition of a problem, discussion of methods to address the problem, the subsequent research activity and results. However, the student may design a thesis with different emphases, in consultation with their advisor. For example, the goal may instead be a more compact paper submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. Other thesis plans may combine some research activity such as a video production, museum exhibit or an internship, with an accompanying paper.   

The thesis must be defended before a committee of three faculty, at least two of whom need to be on the Department of Anthropology faculty (which includes senior instructors and research faculty). The structure of the thesis is largely determined by the Graduate Education Policies and Procedures; i.e., a thesis must conform to the rules.

• Introduction and statement of the problem: Should include a one sentence statement of the problem on the first page, and a discussion of its significance (i.e., why is it important that this topic be researched). 
• Literature review covering theoretical and topical material.
• Research design and methods including a data analysis plan. Note: Wenner-Gren and National Science Foundation both provide good models and templates for the research proposal. Those in the medical anthropology track might want to consider following the NIH model, depending the nature of their research questions and career goals.
• All students proposing to work with humans or data on modern humans must apply for and receive approval from the Human Subjects Research Committee before they begin their research. Note: most of the material for the application will be drawn from the research proposal.           
• The draft sent to the student's committee must be substantively complete: All references must be in the text and properly formatted in a references cited section; there should be no "track changes" comments in the text; the text should be formatted according to Graduate Education requirements.
• Given the complexity of faculty and student schedules, consultation on a defense date should be done as far in advance as possible.
• There must be a minimum of three weeks between the agreed-upon date for the defense and distribution of the draft thesis defined as defensible by the student's chair. If you would like feedback from your committee members before the defense, you should plan to distribute the thesis at least 4 weeks before the defense date. Note: If you intend to graduate the same semester you defend your thesis, you must schedule, successfully defend, and complete all recommended changes in accordance with  CU Denver thesis and dissertation guidelines . This effectively translates to having the thesis completed and "defensible" before the middle of the semester.

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The Department of Anthropology and Geography houses a diverse faculty that includes cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, biological anthropologists, and geographers whose scholarship spans the breadth of human experience.

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Our robust programs teach students critical thinking, cutting-edge research methods, collaborative approaches, and analytical skills to prepare them for graduate study or work in a variety of careers.

Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Innovation Double Major ANTH & WEST Anthropology Minor Linguistics Minor Certification Program Centers & Research Field Schools Internships

Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology

About the Degree Program

The undergraduate program enables students to concentrate in any one or more of the four main subfields of anthropology (archaeological anthropology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, or linguistic anthropology) through both theoretical and applied courses.

Our majors graduate with critical thinking skills and a strong grasp of interdisciplinary potential as well as hands-on experience in lab, field, and/or community outreach work.

For more information about individual courses, see  https://anthropology.uccs.edu/courses .

Bachelor of Innovation in Museum Practice and Heritage Management

The Bachelor of Innovation (BI) program combines academic studies and professional training to prepare students for a variety of careers in museums, galleries, science/historical/cultural centers, or similar institutions.

The major is composed of a Museum and Gallery Management core, Art History core, VAPA interdisciplinary classes, and LAS General Education courses and is structured for students to gain a depth of understanding about museum studies and art history and a breadth of other arts disciplines, business, and entrepreneurship. 

Bachelor of Arts Double Major in Anthropology and Women's & Ethnic Studies

The double major program with Women’s and Ethnic Studies (WEST) allows students to synthesize WEST’s intersectional approach to cultural responsiveness, critical thinking, and community engagement with Anthropology’s holistic approach to understanding human history, behavior, and society. The program encourages students to embrace these diverse methods to pursue pressing social questions through an interdisciplinary analysis of human life and the multivalent processes that shape culture, power, and social position.

Minor in Anthropology

About the Anthropology Minor Program

The minor in Anthropology gives students an introduction to three of the four traditional subfields while allowing students to concentrate their studies in one of the four subfields:

• Archaeology
• Biological Anthropology
• Cultural Anthropology
• Linguistic Anthropology

This can be an excellent add-on to a related major that enhances student success in graduate studies or on the job market. 

Interdisciplinary Linguistics Minor

About the Linguistics Minor Program

Housed in the Department of Anthropology, the Interdisciplinary Linguistics Minor incorporates coursework in linguistic anthropology, philosophy, English, and ASL with the opportunity to expand into history, communication, or Classics.

Students learn about many aspects of human language, one of the principal bases for human knowledge and social behavior. 

Cognitive Archaeology Certification

About the Certification Program

Study the evolutionary development of cognition in humans and other primates through CCA’s 12 different online courses taught by professors from UCCS and by experts from all over the world.

Upon successful completion of any four courses, UCCS will award an official Certificate in Cognitive Archaeology at the undergraduate or graduate level.

Anthropology Centers & Research

Two research centers are housed within the UCCS Department of Anthropology--the Center for Cognitive Archaeology and the Seyhan Dwelis Curation Facility. 

The Center for Cognitive Archaeology (CCA) provides graduate and undergraduate students at UCCS and throughout the world the opportunity to study the evolutionary development of cognition in humans and other primates through the lenses of psychology, anthropology, and philosophy.

The Seyhan Dwelis Curation Facility is a state-approved repository that meets 36 CFR 79 federal requirements. The Curation Director and staff curate and manage collections obtained during the course of archaeological investigations by the UCCS Department of Anthropology and other artifacts related to UCCS history. We also curate collections obtained from various projects by other agencies in accordance with state and federal regulations that relate to the research interests of the Department of Anthropology faculty.

Anthropology Field Schools

Field schools are opportunities for undergraduates to participate in guided research in different subfields of anthropology, acquiring skills in a range of research methods through active fieldwork.

While field schools are excellent opportunities for all our students, field experience is required for archaeology-track students who intend either to pursue a career in CRM/survey archaeology upon graduation or to attend graduate school in archaeology.

Anthropology Internship Opportunities

Internship opportunities abound in the Department of Anthropology, from research assistantships working directly with faculty on funded research projects to internships in the Seyhan Dwelis Curation Facility or externships with local museums, government agencies, and other local organizations. For more information, contact the department or work specifically with department faculty.

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As part of the MA degree, students earn between six and 18 credit hours in a research concentration.

The biological anthropology concentration within the graduate program is concerned with modern human biological diversity and the evolutionary history that has led to that diversity. Students in this concentration develop a firm understanding of the evolutionary processes that lead to physical and behavioral variation in humans and non-humans, and quantitative methods used to explore and explain this variation. Students may take courses in diverse areas including evolutionary biology, genetics, ecology, ethnobiology, epidemiology, nutrition, medical anthropology, primatology and paleontology. Additionally, because biological anthropology is multidisciplinary in nature, students are encouraged to consider courses offered outside the department's curriculum.

We do not have a program in forensic anthropology .  

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Human childbirth, human locomotion, biomechanics, anatomy

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ANTH 1030 (3) Principles of Anthropology 1

Evolution of humanity and culture from beginnings through early metal ages. Covers human evolution, race, prehistory, and rise of early civilizations. This course is taught through Continuing Education.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sciences MAPS Course: Social Science

ANTH 1040 (3) Principles of Anthropology 2

Surveys the world's major culture areas. Covers components of culture, such as subsistence, social organization, religion, and language. This course is taught through Continuing Education.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences MAPS Course: Social Science

ANTH 1100 (3) Exploring a Non-Western Culture: The Tamils

Surveys the social and economic patterns, ideas and values, and aesthetic achievements of the Tamils, a Hindu people who live in South India and Sri Lanka.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: Human Diversity Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-Global Perspective Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences Departmental Category: Asia Content

ANTH 1105 (3) Exploring a Non-Western Culture: Tibet

Introduction to Tibetan culture, history, religion, and society from an anthropological perspective, including traditional as well as contemporary dimensions. Topics will include Tibetan Buddhism, politics, nomadism, gender, refugee issues, and the global Tibetan diaspora, all framed within the larger methods and concepts of cultural anthropology.

ANTH 1110 (3) Anthropology of Japan: Culture, Diversity, and Identity

Focusing on diverse facets of lived experience, this course introduces students to the cultural anthropology of contemporary Japan. Students will gain an understanding of the anthropological fieldwork process, theoretical issues within cultural anthropology, and key debates in Japanese studies about Japanese identity and internal diversity.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: Human Diversity Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-Global Perspective Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 1115 (3) The Caribbean in Post-Colonial Perspective

Introduces the student to the varied peoples and cultures in the Caribbean region, emphasizing the historical, colonial, and contemporary political-economic contexts of their social structure and cultural patterns.

ANTH 1120 (3) Exploring a Non-Western Culture: Pueblo Indians of the Southwest

Examines the geography, kinship, politics and religious values of Pueblo Indian peoples of the US Southwest in historical and contemporary context through an anthropological perspective. Specific details of Pueblo Indian languages, cultures, and histories are used to illustrate basic ideas and debates in anthropology including: the concept of culture, the influence of language on thought, the grounding of culture in human biology, religion and reason, the nature of oral traditions, and archaeological interpretation.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: Human Diversity Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-U.S. Perspective

ANTH 1125 (3) Exploring Cultural Diversity in the U.S.

Examines the geography, kinship, politics and religious values of various cultures in the United States in historical and contemporary context through an anthropological perspective. Check with department for semester offerings.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-U.S. Perspective

ANTH 1140 (3) Exploring a Non-Western Culture: The Maya

Explores the culture of the Maya of Central America, emphasizing their material adaptations, social organizations, ideals and values, and artistic achievements in the past and the present.

ANTH 1141 (3) Indigenous Imperialism on the Andes: The Inca Realm and its People

Uses archaeological and anthropological approaches to the study of non-Western imperialism examining the origins of inequality and marginalization in Indigenous pre-European empires and their maintenance during European colonialism. We will use the Inca Empire, the largest Indigenous political system of the American continent by 1530 AD. Learning about the Indigenous and Spanish cultural heritage of South America will equip the students to appreciate present-day Latin America societies with an anthropological perspective.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-Global Perspective Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 1143 (3) Civilization, The Early Years: Ancient Mesopotamia in the Second Millennium BC

Introduces you to the peoples and cultures of ancient Mesopotamia during the second millennium B.C. In conjunction with the political history of shifting dynasties, wars, and power struggles, we will examine a number of issues in various cultural contexts. These include the interplay of texts and archaeological data in reconstructing the past; societal `collapse¿-what it is and what it isn¿t; legitimation of power; Mesopotamian mythology, and the role of women. Previously offered as a special topics course.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 1145 (3) Exploring a Non-Western Culture: The Aztecs

Explores the culture of the Aztec people of Central Mexico: their subsistence, society, religion, and achievements, as well as the impact of the Aztec empire in Mesoamerica. Also reviews the clash of a non-western society with the western world with the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors.

ANTH 1150 (3) Exploring a Non-Western Culture: Regional Cultures of Africa

Explores a small number of cultures in a specific sub-region of Africa from an integrated holistic viewpoint, emphasizing material adaptations, social patterns, ideas and values, and aesthetic achievements.

ANTH 1155 (3) Exploring Global Cultural Diversity

Examines the geography, kinship, politics and religious values of various cultures globally in historical and contemporary context through an anthropological perspective. Check with department for semester offerings.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-Global Perspective Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 1156 (3) Class and Consumption: Global Cultures of Inequality, Anxiety, and Shopping

Introduces students to the cultural contours of the political and economic conditions that generate social class. Students learn about classical theories of social class that have traditionally focused on labor, production, education or status, and adds consumption to these analyses. By inviting students to think anthropologically about how consumption facilitates and generates class differentiation, the course equips them to recognize and analyze the ways that class is experienced and reproduced.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-Global Perspective

ANTH 1157 (3) Global Politics of Reproduction

How do experiences of reproduction differ around the world? What are the ways that cultural, socio-economic, and political conditions shape questions about who can reproduce and how? What constitutes ¿reproduction,¿ anyway? Taking reproduction as a central way to think about how social life is organized over generations, this class explores how reproduction is not only an individual biological but also a social process shaped by cultural values, inequalities, and regulations across multiple spheres of influence.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-Global Perspective

ANTH 1170 (3) Exploring Culture and Gender through Film

Explores the concepts of culture and gender from an anthropological perspective, using films and other media, as well as written texts. By analyzing media about other ways of life, students will learn the basic concepts of cultural anthropology and be able to apply them to any society. In addition, students will learn to think critically about documentary and ethnographic media.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: CMDP 2820 Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: Human Diversity Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-Global Perspective Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 1180 (3) Maritime People: Fishers and Seafarers

Explores important milestones in the development of human societies and cultures that live from the sea. Emphasizes the evolution of maritime adaptations associated with fishing and seafaring from more than 10,000 years ago through the present.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: Historical Context Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 1190 (3) Origins of Ancient Civilizations

Examines origins of the world's first civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, Mesoamerica, and the Andes. Covers archaeology of ancient cities, trade, economy, politics, warfare, religion, and ideology. Seeks insights into general processes of cultural evolution.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: Historical Context Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-Global Perspective Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 1200 (3) Culture and Power

Compares contemporary sociopolitical systems across cultures, from non-Western tribal groups to modern states. Introduces students to anthropological approaches for understanding and analyzing political forces, processes, and institutions that affect cultures such as colonialism, warfare, violence,ethnicity, migration, and globalization.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: Contemporary Societies Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 2010 (3) Introduction to Biological Anthropology 1

Detailed consideration of human biology, the place of humans in the animal kingdom, primate ecology and fossil evidence for human evolution. Required for ANTH majors.

Additional Information: GT Pathways: GT-SC2 -Natural Physicl Sci:Lec Crse w/o Req Lab Arts Sci Core Curr: Natural Science Sequence Arts Sci Core Curr: Natural Science Non-Sequence Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sciences MAPS Course: Natural Science

ANTH 2020 (3) Human Biological Variation and Adaptation

Introduction to human biology, variation, and adaptation. Explores humans as a species through an understanding of biological variation and adaptation.

Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2010 . Additional Information: GT Pathways: GT-SC2 -Natural Physicl Sci:Lec Crse w/o Req Lab Arts Sci Core Curr: Natural Science Sequence Arts Sci Core Curr: Natural Science Non-Sequence Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sciences

ANTH 2030 (1) Laboratory in Biological Anthropology 1

Lab in human osteology and musculoskeletal system emphasizing comparative primate morphology, adaptation, and the fossil record documenting the natural history of primates. Meets the MAPS requirement for natural science: lab, when taken with ANTH 2010 .

Recommended: Corequisite ANTH 2010 . Additional Information: GT Pathways: GT-SC1 - Natural Physcal Sci:Lec Crse w/ Req Lab Arts Sci Core Curr: Natural Science Lab Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sci Lab Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sciences MAPS Course: Natural Science Lab or Lab/Lec

ANTH 2040 (1) Laboratory in Human Biological Variation and Adaptation

Experiments and hands-on exercises designed to enhance understanding of human genetics, anatomy, and function of the principles and concepts presented in ANTH 2020 . One two-hour class per week.

Recommended: Corequisite ANTH 2020 . Additional Information: GT Pathways: GT-SC1 - Natural Physcal Sci:Lec Crse w/ Req Lab Arts Sci Core Curr: Natural Science Lab Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sci Lab Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sciences

ANTH 2070 (3) Bones, Bodies, and Disease

Studies the human skeleton and introduces techniques used to evaluate demographic variables. Applies techniques through evaluation of photographic images of an excellently preserved mummified skeletal population from ancient Nubia to reconstruct prehistoric patterns of adaptation and biocultural evolution. Offered through Continuing Education only.

Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2010 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sciences

ANTH 2100 (3) Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Covers current theories in cultural anthropology and discusses the nature of field work. Explores major schools of thought and ethnographic fieldwork in a range of cultures studied by anthropologists. Required for Anthropology majors.

ANTH 2200 (3) The Archaeology of Human History

Where do we come from? This course provides a brief introduction to the practice of archaeology and then emphasizes the evidence for major events/transitions in human history over the last 2.5 million years. Required for ANTH majors.

ANTH 2210 (1) Laboratory Course in Archaeological Methods

Studies analytical methods in archaeological research including those employed both in the field and in the laboratory. Deals with practical exercises illustrating many of the theoretical principles covered in ANTH 2200 .

Recommended: Corequisite ANTH 2200 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 2525 (3) Environmental Anthropology

Examines the impacts of human impacts on the planet from a cross-cultural perspective. This course will explore how different cultures have impacted their environments, and the diverse responses that cultures make to ecosystem changes. Also studies what different human groups have done, and are doing, to mitigate and adapt to ecological degradation, biodiversity loss, and climate change.

ANTH 2600 (3) Plagues and the Human Response from Past to Present

This course uses an anthropological perspective to explore important infectious diseases in human history. We will learn about how human behavior affects the emergence, spread, and control of disease, how human culture, social inequalities, and demography influence the variety of diseases we are exposed to, and how diseases have shaped human biology and culture. We will emphasize the ways in which the study of disease in the past may benefit people today and in the future.

ANTH 3000 (3) Primate Behavior

Surveys naturalistic primate behavior. Emphasizes social behavior, behavioral ecology, and evolution as they lead to an understanding of human behavior.

Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of ANTH 2010 or EBIO 1220 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior). Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: Natural Science Non-Sequence Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sciences

ANTH 3009 (3) Modern Issues, Ancient Times

Considers issues of vital importance to humans, both now and in ancient times. Topics such as food, death, sex, family, literacy, or power are explored to consider how ancient societal norms and attitudes evolved and how they relate to modern culture. Draws on material and literary evidence to develop an understanding of the complexities of ancient life.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: CLAS 3009 Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term. Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: Historical Context Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 3010 (3) The Human Animal

Identifies genetic, anatomical, physiological, social, and behavioral characteristics humans share with other mammals and primates. Explores how these characteristics are influenced by modern culture.

Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2010 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: Natural Science Non-Sequence Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sciences

ANTH 3100 (3) Africa: Peoples and Societies in Change

Examines culture and politics in Africa through works by anthropologists and historians, as well as novels, films, and journalistic accounts. Special attention is devoted to the ways in which various African cultures have creatively and resiliently responded to the slave trade, European colonialism, and post-colonialism.

Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 3110 (3) Ethnography of Mexico and Central America

A broad overview, focusing on Mexico and Guatemala. Major topics include ethnohistory, indigenous and mestizo peoples, and contemporary problems and issues.

ANTH 3119 (3) The Archaeology of Death

Consider Death. It is a universal human phenomenon. Humans across time and space have caused, planned for, reacted to, and carried out death practices in extraordinarily different ways. Mortuary practice provides a fascinating insight into human history and culture in both the modern and ancient world.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: CLAS 3119 Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: Historical Context Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 3160 (3) Peoples of the South Pacific

Surveys traditional island cultures and contemporary changes in the Pacific, focusing on how the Pacific Islands were first settled, some of the great anthropologists who studied the islanders, and how current environmental changes, such as global warming, threaten the future existence of the islands.

ANTH 3170 (3) America: An Anthropological Perspective

Historical and contemporary aspects of American life are considered from an anthropological perspective.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: United States Context Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 3180 (3) Gender, Culture, and Sexuality

Focuses on gender, that is, the making of men and women, and how gender is culturally constructed in different societies. Gender describes many areas of behavior, feelings, thoughts, and fantasies that cannot be understood as primarily biologically produced. Sexuality and sexual systems are sometimes viewed as products of particular genderizing practices, but recent theories suggest that sexual systems themselves constitute gender.

Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2100 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 3300 (3) Elements of Religion

Explores universal components of religion, as inferred from religions of the world, ranging from smaller-scale oral to larger-scale literate traditions.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ETHN 3301 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 3505 (3) Our World Heritage: The Archaeology of Cultural and Digital Heritage

Introduces students to the concept and management process of World Heritage Sites (WHS) and how the discipline of archaeology is involved in this management which involves a diverse range of actors, including local stakeholders and indigenous groups. Students will be given five case studies of prominent World Heritage Sites where these concepts and practices are worked out in detail, and where impacts upon the local communities and indigenous groups are examined.

Recommended: junior or senior level. Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 3760 (3) Exploring Culture and Media in Southeast Asia

Introduces students to the ethnographic method and critical media practices through immersion in the cultural politics of Indonesia. Students will learn to conduct ethnographic research and to use media-making as a research method. Students will learn the ethnography of Southeast Asia by focusing on the cultural diversity of Indonesia, with special attention to religious and political issues among marginalized groups.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Grading Basis: Letter Grade Additional Information: Arts Sci Core Curr: Human Diversity Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-Global Perspective Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 3770 (3) Primates of Vietnam: Conservation in a Rapidly Developing Country

Immersive global seminar that will take place in southern and central Vietnam. We will travel to Ho Chi Minh City to begin an exploration into the conservation of primates in this country. Vietnam is home to 25 primate species and a rapidly growing human population. This course will examine challenges, success, and failures in the conservation of these creatures within the context of development within the historical context of Vietnam.

Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sciences

ANTH 4000 (3) Quantitative Methods in Anthropology

Surveys ways of deriving meaning from anthropological data by numerical means, including but not confined to basic statistical procedures.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5000 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisites ANTH 2010 and ANTH 2020 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4020 (3) Explorations in Anthropology

Special topics in cultural and physical anthropology, as well as archaeology. Check with the department for semester offerings.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5020 Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4045 (3) Introduction to Museum Anthropology

Traces the development of Anthropology and museums in America from late 19th century to present day. Students are encouraged to: explore museum theory and practice; think critically about the history of relations among Native Americans, Anthropology, and museums; consider the legacy of collecting and challenges of representing others; and, examine the interplay of Anthropology, material culture, and colonialism.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5045 and MUSM 5045 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4050 (3) Anthropology of Jews and Judaism

Explores topics in Jewish anthropology. Uses the lens of anthropological inquiry to explore, discover and analyze different concepts within Jewish culture. Topics explored will include customs, religious practices, languages, ethnic and regional subdivisions, occupations, social composition, and folklore. Explores fundamental questions about the definition of Jewish identity, practices and communities.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: JWST 4050 Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities

ANTH 4060 (3) Nutrition and Anthropology

Overview of the evolution of human diet and ecological and cultural factors shaping modern diets. Introduces fundamentals of nutrition and analysis of nutritional status. Analyzes ecological, social, and cultural factors leading to hunger and undernutrition, as well as biological and behavioral consequences of undernutrition.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5060 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisites ANTH 2010 and ANTH 2020 or EBIO 1210 and EBIO 1220 or EBIO 1030 and EBIO 1040. Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sciences

ANTH 4070 (3) Methods in Biological Anthropology

Provides laboratory-based research experience in selected areas of biological anthropology. Research designs, methods and applications will be used to develop research skills. Students will read original research papers and carry out a research project of their own design. Area of emphasis within biological anthropology will depend on instructor.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5070 Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Recommended: Prerequisites ANTH 2010 and ANTH 2020 and ANTH 2030 and ANTH 2040 and ANTH 4000 and students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sci Lab Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sciences

ANTH 4080 (3) Anthropological Genetics

Considers data and theory of human genetics. Emphasizes analytical techniques relating to a genetic analysis of individual, family, and populations.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5080 Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of ANTH 2010 and 2020 or EBIO 1210 and 1220 (all minimum grade C-). Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4110 (3) Human Evolutionary Biology

Detailed consideration of the fossil evidence for human evolution. Covers the discovery of important fossils and interpretations; descriptive information about the fossils; and data and theory from Pleistocene studies relating to ecology, ecological and behavioral data on modern apes and molecular studies that have bearing on the study of human evolution.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5110 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sciences

ANTH 4120 (3) Advanced Biological Anthropology

Selected topics in physical anthropology emphasizing faculty specialties. Topics may include population genetics and its application to understanding modern human diversity, human population biology, and primate ecology and evolution. Check with department for semester offerings.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5120 Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2010 or ANTH 2020 or EBIO 1210 or EBIO 1220 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sciences

ANTH 4125 (3) Evolution and the Human Life Cycle: A Primate Life History Perspective

Surveys primate biology, behavior and ecology using a life history approach. Using a comparative approach, explores life history as mammals, as primates and as humans by focusing on evolutionary decisions that occur during different life stages.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5125 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Grading Basis: Letter Grade Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sciences

ANTH 4129 (3) Aegean Art and Archaeology

Detailed study of the cultures of prehistoric Greece, the Cycladic Islands and Crete, their art and archaeology and their history within the broader context of the eastern Mediterranean, from earliest human settlement to the collapse of the Bronze Age at about 1100 B.C.E. Emphasis is on palace states.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5129 and ARTH 4129 and CLAS 4129 and CLAS 5129 Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities

ANTH 4130 (3) Advanced Osteology

Detailed study of the human skeleton with special attention to health and demographic conditions in prehistoric cultures and the evaluation of physical characteristics and genetic relationships of prehistoric populations.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5130 Recommended: Prerequisites ANTH 2010 and ANTH 2020 and ANTH 4000 and students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sciences

ANTH 4160 (3) Early Hominin Paleoecology

Explores current thinking about the diets, environments and lives of early human ancestors and their close kin. Strong emphasis on the methods used to construct such knowledge.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5160 Grading Basis: Letter Grade Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sciences

ANTH 4170 (3) Primate Evolutionary Biology

Focuses on the fossil record of primates excluding the Hominini). Special emphasis is placed on delineating the origins of the order Primates, the origins of the primate suborders Strepsirhini and Haplorhini and the adaptations of extinct primates in light of our understanding of the modern primate adaptive radiations.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5170 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2010 or EBIO 1210 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sciences

ANTH 4180 (3) Anthropological Perspectives: Contemporary Issues

Students read, discuss, and write critical evaluations of contemporary publications in anthropology. Identifies basic themes that inform major anthropological perspectives. Students then bring these perspectives to bear on issues currently facing the human species.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4210 (3) Southwestern Archaeology

Explores the prehistory of the American Southwest from the earliest entry of humans into the area to the Spanish entrada. Focuses on important themes in cultural development: the adoption of agricultural strategies, sedentism, population aggregation, population movement, and social complexity.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5210 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2200 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4220 (3) From Olmec to Aztec: The Archaeology of Mexico

Examines the archaeology of Mexico from the initial peopling of the Americas to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire. Studies origins of complex societies; ancient Mexican cities, states and empires; religion and politics; trade and interaction; ecology and economy; and social organization.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5220 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2200 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4224 (3) Archaeology of the Maya and Their Neighbors

Begins with the environment and describes the earliest inhabitants and the Olmec civilization, then shifts to the earliest Maya and the emergence and collapse of classic Maya civilization. Compares and contrasts the societies of lower Central America.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5224 Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2200 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4235 (3) Landscape Archaeology

Explores how humans and the environment have influenced each other throughout history. Considers what landscapes are, how archaeologists study them, and why such study is important. Examines the most prominent theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of landscapes and explores a series of different types of landscapes, including sacred landscapes, political landscapes, and landscapes of movement. Previously offered as a special topics course.

Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2200 .

ANTH 4240 (3) Geoarchaeology

Applies geological principles and instruments to help solve archaeological problems. Focuses on site formation processes, soils, stratigraphy, environments, dating, remote sensing and geophysical exploration. Environmental and ethical considerations are included.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5240 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2200 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Natural Sciences

ANTH 4245 (3) Ceramics in Archaeology

Examines how archaeologists use ceramics to reconstruct the past. Topics include: the relationship between form and function; typology and classification; chronology and seriation; compositional analysis; production and exchange; social, cognitive and ideological aspects of style; and ethnoarchaeological studies of pottery use in contemporary societies. Includes two hours of lecture and two-hours of hands-on laboratory practicum per week.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5245 Requisites: Requires prerequisite of ANTH 2200 (minimum grade D-). Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4270 (3) Plains Archaeology

Archaeological evidence for Native American ways of life on the North American Great Plains from the initial peopling of the region into the 19th century.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5270 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2200 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4300 (3) From Cloud People to the Land of the Sky: The Archaeology of Oaxaca

Examines the prehispanic and colonial history of the Zapotec, Mixtec, and Chatino peoples of Oaxaca, Mexico. Explores their diverse histories and cultures from Ice Age arrival to the Spanish Conquest in the 1520s. A major feature will be trips to archaeological sites, museums, and Indigenous markets as well as colonial-period churches and Mixtec palaces. Students will need passports.

Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2200 : The Archaeology of Human History.

ANTH 4320 (3) Tourism, Development, and Belonging in Costa Rica

This course introduces students to ethnographic methods through immersion and study in Costa Rica. We will apply cultural anthropology research methods to the overlapping fields of tourism and development with a focus on what it means to belong. Topics will include: the "culture" concept, particularly in relation to Costa Rican national identity and belonging; tourism as a field of study; development politics and practices; and ethnographic methods, ethics, and techniques of anthropological research and fieldwork.

Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomore, Junior or Senior) only. Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4330 (3) Human Ecology: Archaeological Aspects

Surveys archaeological approaches to ecology, economy and landscape: glaciation, geomorphology and other physical processes creating and affecting sites and regions; environmental reconstruction; theories of human-environment interaction; landscape formation by forager, agricultural and complex societies; and ideologically structured landscapes.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5330 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2200 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4340 (3) Archaeological Method and Theory

Surveys archaeological theories and methods within the context of the history of archaeology. Includes archaeological approaches to data recovery, analysis, and interpretation as well as an overview of cultural resources management and ethical issues in contemporary archaeology.

Recommended: Prerequisites ANTH 2200 and students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4350 (2-6) Archaeological Field and Laboratory Research

Students participate in archaeological field research or conduct laboratory analysis of archaeological materials and data. Students work with faculty on archaeological research projects with a field or lab focus, depending on the project undertaken.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5350 Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Recommended: Prerequisites ANTH 2200 and students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4380 (3) Lithic Analysis and Replication

Uses diversity of approaches to the analysis of ancient stone tools, including fracture mechanics, lithic technology, materials, heat treatment and functional analysis. Percussion and pressure-flaking experiments are performed.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5380 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2200 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4390 (3) Research Methods in Archaeology I

Method and theory of archaeology, emphasizing the interpretation of materials and data and the relationship of archaeology to other disciplines. Instructor consent required.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5390 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2200 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4465 (3) The Archaeology of Inequality

Examines the theoretical and archaeological literature to understand how inequality develops, how it is maintained over time, and how it is negated. Presents an understanding of, and critically evaluates, the most prominent paradigms for understanding socially unequal relationships, and considers the vital role archaeology plays in understanding inequality.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4470 (3) Collections Research Practicum in Cultural Anthropology

Designed as a practicum, introduces students to research and practice in museum anthropology, utilizing the extensive anthropology collections at CU-Boulder Museum. Students will gain skills in primary and secondary research, collections and object research and narrative story development for the exhibition of anthropological material culture.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5470 and MUSM 4912 and MUSM 5912 Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Grading Basis: Letter Grade Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4500 (3) Cross-Cultural Aspects of Socioeconomic Development

Examines goals of international agencies that support development in underdeveloped countries. Anthropological perspective is provided for such issues as urban planning, health care and delivery, population control, rural development and land reform.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5500 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4505 (3) Globalization and Transnational Culture

Covers the historical foundations for contemporary global change, addressing colonialism, global outsourcing, and cultural imperialism, with a particular emphasis on gender, class, and consumerism.

Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2100 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences Departmental Category: Asia Content

ANTH 4525 (3) Global Islams

Examines the historical formation of Islam in Indonesia and Southeast Asia so as to situate contemporary Islamic practices in a global context.

Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2100 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Diversity-Global Perspective Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4530 (3) Theoretical Foundations of Sociocultural Anthropology

Critically examines the pivotal schools of 20th century social theory that have shaped modern sociocultural anthropology, including the ideas of cultural evolutionism, Marxism, Durkheim, Weber, Freud, structuralism, postmodernism and contemporary anthropological approaches. Includes primary readings and seminar-style discussion.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5530 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2100 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4570 (3) Anthropology of Fishing

Examines fishing methods, peoples, societies and cultures, emphasizing anthropology's role in shaping fisheries management and development policy.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5570 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4580 (3) The Holocaust: An Anthropological Perspective

Focuses on the Holocaust during the Third Reich, which involved the murder of millions of people, including six million Jews. Reviews the Holocaust's history, dynamics and consequences as well as other genocides of the 20th century, using an anthropological approach.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: JWST 4580 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities

ANTH 4605 (3) Anthropology of Neuroscience

Examines the connections between the production and social uptake of neuroscientific knowledge, and explores how transformations in neuroscience shape understandings of human nature. Focusing on anthropological, philosophical, and popular literature, this course addresses the following themes through a cultural and anthropological lens: subjectivity and neuroimaging, "disability" and "neurodiversity," child development, gender, "risk" and neoliberal governance, and the production of scientific expertise.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5605 Grading Basis: Letter Grade Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4610 (3) Medical Anthropology

Examines health, illness, disease and treatment across a diversity of cases, all of which involve political economic inequalities, individual and collective experiences of medical systems and the historical and contemporary treatment of distinct populations. A demanding upper-level cultural anthropology course in the field of Medical Anthropology, a subfield of cultural anthropology, designed for advanced undergraduate students and early graduate students with an emphasis on the intersections of science, medicine and populations.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5610 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2100 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4615 (3) Kinship: Being and Belonging

Explores interpersonal relationships as foundational objects of analysis. This course takes a comparative approach to examine both large-scale social movements and intimate practices, examining how the ideologies and practices of relatedness intersect with and are shaped by gender and sexuality, national identity and state building, race and ethnicity, embodiment, ways of understanding signs in the world (semiotics), the law, and economic relationships. Previously offered as a special topics course.

Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only. Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2100 . Grading Basis: Letter Grade Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4620 (3) Nationalism and Cultural Citizenship

Explores the nature of ethnic conflict, nationalism, and cultural citizenship in different contexts, including the United States. Is the nation-state dead? What effect do extranational and transnational organizations/institutions (e.g., European Union) have on the development of nationalism? Through the exploration of contemporary theory and case studies, this class will address these important contemporary concerns.

ANTH 4630 (3) Nomadic Peoples of East Africa

Examines the issues of current concern in the study of East African pastoral peoples. First half of the course is devoted to historical perspectives and the second half explores the transition from subsistence to market oriented economies.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5630 Recommended: Prerequisite students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Anthropology (ANTH) majors only. Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4690 (3-6) Anthropology of Tibet

Explores the culture of Tibet in both historical and thematic manners, considering the long-term development of Tibetan cultural practices and institutions as well as many of the abrupt changes introduced to Tibet in the 20th century. Topics covered include region, politics, gender, warfare, poetry and literature, and life under Chinese rule and as refugees around the world.

Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Anthropology (ANTH) majors only. Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2100 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences Departmental Category: Asia Content

ANTH 4700 (3) Practicing Anthropology

Learn ethnographic methods in the classroom and implement these skills in placements with community organizations, where students pursue an applied research project. This course teaches students how to use anthropological theory and methods to investigate social problems, and to consider how ethnographic research techniques can be applied to positively impact society.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5700 Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ANTH 2100 (minimum grade B). Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Anthropology (ANTH) majors only. Grading Basis: Letter Grade Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4710 (3) Departmental Honors in Anthropology 1

Course work built around theme of research design as a means of integrating previous training in the field of anthropology as well as providing an opportunity to perform creative scientific investigations. Prepares students to write an honors thesis in ANTH 4720 . Required of students doing Anthropology departmental honors.

Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only. Additional Information: Arts Sciences Honors Course

ANTH 4720 (3) Departmental Honors in Anthropology 2

Continuation of ANTH 4710 .

Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 4710 . Additional Information: Arts Sciences Honors Course

ANTH 4730 (3) Latin American Politics and Culture through Film and Text

Introduces students to the political cultures and societies of Latin America. Through historical and ethnographic text and documentary and non-documentary cinema, this course will explore class relations, ideology and resistance from the conquest to the present.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5730 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2100 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4735 (3) Contemporary Cuban Culture: Race, Gender and Power

Ground students' understanding of contemporary Cuba within the global context. How do those outside the island imagine Cuba and why? What are the realities? In a world of U.S. dominated globalization, only recently have we relaxed a forceful economical blockade on the island: what does the U.S. mean in the Cuban imaginary, both in the past and present? To attend to global processes as they affect local (Cuban) experience, texts from anthropology, history, policy, literature, film and music will be drawn upon. Students will learn how long-standing patterns regarding race, color, class and gender relations have evolved into the socialist and now the "post-socialist" context.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5735 Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only. Grading Basis: Letter Grade Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4740 (3) Peoples and Cultures of Brazil

Thematically surveys theoretical and ethnographic issues that have been important in understanding Brazil. Read and write critically about textual and visual representations of Brazil presented in the course.

Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisites ANTH 2100 and three or more cultural anthropology courses. Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4745 (3) Science, Technology and Society

Explores the cultural work of science and technology in contemporary societies. The course will focus on anthropological studies of technoscientific works ranging from high-energy particle physics and marine biology to hackathons and space exploration. Discussion topics include the relationship between science, technology and political power; scientific controversies; paradigm shifts and scientific revolutions; and ideas of objectivity, representation and abstraction.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5745 Grading Basis: Letter Grade Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4750 (3) Culture and Society in South Asia

Intensive analysis of major issues in anthropological research on South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka), including kinship, gender, marriage, caste system, religion and ritual, ethnic conflict and social change.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5750 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2100 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences Departmental Category: Asia Content

ANTH 4755 (3) Cultures of Expertise: Science, Power and Knowledge

Examines the expertise as a cultural category. Students will consider the historical and cultural contexts of various forms of expertise and the social roles of experts from car mechanics to civil engineers, doctors and scientists. Students will be given opportunities to reflect analytically on their own experiences with increasingly specialized education as they develop "professional vision" in their chosen fields.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5755 Grading Basis: Letter Grade Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4760 (3) Ethnography of Southeast Asia and Indonesia

Introduces the historical, political, and cultural dimensions of Southeast Asia, focusing primarily on Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia, with some coverage of mainland Southeast Asia.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5760 Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors). Recommended: Prerequisite ANTH 2100 . Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences Departmental Category: Asia Content

ANTH 4770 (3) Anthropology of Tourism

Introduces students to anthropological theories on tourism and considers those theories in the contexts of the varied sites and forms of tourism practiced around the world today. We will ask: why do people tour? Where do they go? And most centrally: how do the hosts to tourism feel about these outside visitors? Having been exposed to questions of globalization, development, belonging, race, gender, and desire, students will then be asked to reflect upon and theorize their own touristic experiences.

ANTH 4800 (3) Language and Culture

Principles of language structure and how language and culture interrelate, how language and language use are affected by culture and how culture may be affected by use of, or contact with, particular languages.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: LING 4800 Recommended: Prerequisites ANTH 2100 or LING 1000 or LING 2400 and students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) only. Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Social Sciences

ANTH 4840 (1-8) Independent Study

For upper-division undergraduate students.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 8.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.

ANTH 4910 (1-3) Teaching Anthropology

Practicum by special arrangement only. Students learn to teach anthropology by serving as recitation leaders or tutors in introductory courses or as small group leaders in advanced courses.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only.

ANTH 4919 (3) Collections Research Practicum: Archaeology

Focuses on Museum collections management from archaeological sites mainly in the American Southwest and Mongolia. The course involves readings, discussion, and collections analysis and archival documentation. Extra time outside of class is required for the practicum aspect of this course. Each student will need to schedule with the professor an additional 3 hours each week when they will focus on an aspect of their project, to be discussed below under grading criteria.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: MUSM 5919 and ANTH 5919 Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term. Grading Basis: Letter Grade

ANTH 4930 (1-6) Anthropology Internship

Provides academically supervised opportunities for junior and senior anthropology majors to work in public and private sectors on projects related to students' career goals. Relates classroom theory to practice. Requires at least 48 hours on the job per credit hour and evidence (paper, employer evaluation, work journal) of significant learning.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 5930 Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Recommended: Prerequisites ANTH 2010 and ANTH 2100 and ANTH 2200 and students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Anthropology majors, with a minimum 3.25 GPA.

ANTH 5000 (3) Quantitative Methods in Anthropology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4000 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 5020 (3) Explorations in Anthropology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4020 Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 5045 (3) Introduction to Museum Anthropology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4045 and MUSM 5045 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 5060 (3) Nutrition and Anthropology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4060 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 5070 (3) Methods in Biological Anthropology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4070 Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.

ANTH 5080 (3) Anthropological Genetics

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4080 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 5110 (3) Human Evolutionary Biology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4110

ANTH 5120 (3) Advanced Biological Anthropology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4120 Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 5125 (3) Evolution and the Human Life Cycle: A Primate Life History Perspective

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4125 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only. Grading Basis: Letter Grade

ANTH 5129 (3) Aegean Art and Archaeology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4129 and ARTH 4129 and CLAS 4129 and CLAS 5129

ANTH 5130 (3) Advanced Osteology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4130

ANTH 5150 (3) Human Ecology: Biological Aspects

Discusses role of human populations in local ecosystems, factors affecting population growth, and human adaptability to environmental stress. Detailed consideration of case studies of small-scale societies in different ecosystems.

ANTH 5160 (3) Early Hominin Paleoecology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4160 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only. Grading Basis: Letter Grade

ANTH 5170 (3) Primate Evolutionary Biology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4170

ANTH 5210 (3) Southwestern Archaeology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4210

ANTH 5220 (3) From Olmec to Aztec: The Archaeology of Mexico

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4220 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 5224 (3) Archaeology of the Maya and Their Neighbors

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4224 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 5240 (3) Geoarchaeology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4240 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 5245 (3) Ceramics in Archaeology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4245

ANTH 5270 (3) Plains Archaeology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4270

ANTH 5330 (3) Human Ecology: Archaeological Aspects

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4330 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 5345 (3) Archaeological Theory

Provides an advanced introduction to the history of archaeological theory from the late 19th century to the present. Topics include culture history, cultural evolution, systems ecology, behavioral archaeology, analogy and middle range theory, collective action, ecology, agency, practice, gender, identity, landscape, epistemology, materiality and memory.

Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 5350 (2-6) Archaeological Field and Laboratory Research

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4350 Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.

ANTH 5380 (3) Lithic Analysis and Replication

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4380 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 5390 (3) Research Methods in Archaeology I

Method and theory of archaeology, emphasizing the interpretation of materials and data and the relationship of archaeology to other disciplines.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4390 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 5400 (3) Research Methods in Archaeology 2

Focuses on the design of research including constructing empirical arguments and testing them, data gathering, site formation processes, field strategies (archival resources, mapping, field survey, surface collecting/recording, excavation and preliminary analysis) and artifact analysis as it relates to research design.

ANTH 5455 (3) Epistemology in Archaeology

Examines the logic of scientific inference in general and important issues in inference in archaeology specifically. It focuses on the fundamental problem of arguing from evidence based on the things people left behind to the lives those people led, the fundamental problem in archaeology. We examine general topics to start, including analytic bias, constructing and borrowing theory, and the development of archaeological interpretation over time, using recent and older literature. We then turn to analysis of published case studies and finish with cases from specific research topics the students are working on. Previously offered as a special topics course.

Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only. Grading Basis: Letter Grade

ANTH 5460 (3) Archaeology and Contemporary Society

Explores the intellectual climate in which archaeology is practiced and how it influences archaeological research and reconstruction, laws, regulations, and ethical issues. Explores public use of and engagement with archaeology.

ANTH 5470 (3) Collections Research Practicum in Cultural Anthropology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4470 and MUSM 4912 and MUSM 5912 Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Grading Basis: Letter Grade

ANTH 5500 (3) Cross-Cultural Aspects of Socioeconomic Development

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4500 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 5530 (3) Theoretical Foundations of Sociocultural Anthropology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4530 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 5570 (3) Anthropology of Fishing

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4570 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 5605 (3) Anthropology of Neuroscience

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4605 Grading Basis: Letter Grade

ANTH 5610 (3) Medical Anthropology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4610

ANTH 5630 (3) Nomadic Peoples of East Africa

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4630 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 5700 (3) Practicing Anthropology

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4700 Requisites: Restricted to Anthropology (ANTH) graduate students only. Grading Basis: Letter Grade

ANTH 5730 (3) Latin American Politics and Culture through Film and Text

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4730

ANTH 5735 (3) Contemporary Cuban Culture: Race, Gender and Power

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4735 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only. Grading Basis: Letter Grade

ANTH 5745 (3) Science, Technology and Society

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4745 Grading Basis: Letter Grade

ANTH 5750 (3) Culture and Society in South Asia

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4750 Additional Information: Departmental Category: Asia Content

ANTH 5755 (3) Cultures of Expertise: Science, Power and Knowledge

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4755 Grading Basis: Letter Grade

ANTH 5760 (3) Ethnography of Southeast Asia and Indonesia

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4760 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only. Additional Information: Departmental Category: Asia Content

ANTH 5770 (3) Core Course---Archaeology

Provides a graduate-level overview of analytic issues relevant to all phases of archaeological research and of the diversity of theoretical perspectives within the field as a whole. Course is required for all first-year graduate students in anthropology.

Requisites: Restricted to Anthropology (ANTH) graduate students only.

ANTH 5780 (3) Core Course-Cultural Anthropology

Provides an intense, graduate-level introduction to the discipline of cultural anthropology, with an emphasis upon critically assessing those methods, theories, and works that have shaped the field from the 19th century to the present time. Required of all first-year graduate students in anthropology.

ANTH 5785 (3) Advanced Seminar in Cultural Anthropology

Details the history of theory and practice in contemporary cultural anthropology, considering the development of major theoretical schools of thought and the integration of general social theory within anthropology. Required of masters students in cultural anthropology.

ANTH 5790 (3) Core Course---Biological Anthropology

Discusses how biological anthropologists use evidence and concepts from evolutionary theory, human biology, and ecology to understand the evolution, diversification, and adaptation of human populations. Required of all first-year graduate students in anthropology.

ANTH 5795 (3) Proseminar in Anthropology

Introduces incoming first-year graduate students to the history and current state of scholarship in anthropology from across the subdisciplines, through introduction to the research of individual faculty in the department. Required of all incoming graduate students.

ANTH 5840 (1-6) Guided Study

Directed individual research based on a specific area of specialization.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.

ANTH 5919 (3) Collections Research Practicum: Archaeology

Focuses on Museum collections management from archaeological sites mainly in the American Southwest and Mongolia. The course involves readings, discussion, and collections analysis and archival documentation. Extra time outside of class is required for the practicum aspect of this course. Each student will need to schedule with the professor an additional 3 hours each week when they will focus on an aspect of their project, to be discussed below under grading criteria. Formerly offered as a special topics course.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4919 and MUSM 5919 Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term.

ANTH 5930 (1-6) Anthropology Internship

Provides academically supervised opportunities graduate students to work in public and private sectors on projects related to students' career goals. Relates classroom theory to practice. Requires at least 48 hours on the job per credit hour and evidence (paper, employer evaluation, work journal) of significant learning.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: ANTH 4930 Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours.

ANTH 6150 (3) Critical and Theoretical Issues in Museums

Investigates key problems facing museum institutions and studies the staging and representation of historical knowledge, the ethics of collecting and display, the changing nature and uses of historical evidence and relations between curatorial practice, collecting and field work. Critically examines different approaches to museums and museology in various disciplines, both past and present.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: MUSM 6150 and HIST 6150 and ARTH 6150 Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of MUSM 5011 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 6320 (3) Linguistic Anthropology

Serves as an advanced introduction to the empirical and theoretical foundations of contemporary linguistic anthropology, with special emphasis on the ways in which culture and society emerge semiotically through language and discourse.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: LING 6320 Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 6500 (3) Issues in Indigenous Languages

Addresses socio-cultural issues concerning indigenous languages, including human rights, intellectual property, language endangerment and maintenance, identity, linguistic relativity, sense of place.

Equivalent - Duplicate Degree Credit Not Granted: LING 6500 Grading Basis: Letter Grade

ANTH 6940 (1) Master's Candidate for Degree

Registration intended for students preparing for a thesis defense, final examination, culminating activity, or completion of degree.

ANTH 6950 (1-6) Master's Thesis

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours.

ANTH 7000 (3) Seminar: Current Research Topics in Cultural Anthropology

Discusses current research and theoretical issues in the field of cultural anthropology.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 18.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 7010 (3) Seminar: Contemporary Theory in Cultural Anthropology

Addresses current theoretical perspectives in cultural anthropology and controversies surrounding them. Discusses science, history, interpretation, and postmodernism. Includes the relationship between theory and method as well as the production of ethnography.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 7015 (3) Kinship: Being and Belonging

ANTH 7020 (3) Seminar: Biological Anthropology

In-depth discussion of selected topics in physical anthropology with emphasis on recent research.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 7030 (3) Seminar: Archaeology

Intensive examination of selected theoretical or methodological topics in archaeology. Topics vary with current research emphasis.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

ANTH 7140 (3) Seminar: Archaeology of Selected Areas

Considers archaeology of a specified area, either geographical or topical. Areas selected in accordance with current research interests. May be repeated upto 9 total credit hours.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 9.00 total credit hours.

ANTH 7200 (3) Bridging Seminar

Addresses important topics with current theoretical perspectives from at least two anthropological subdisciplines. This provides an interdisciplinary approach across the sub-disciplines of Anthropology: Archaeology, Biological, and Cultural enabling students to better understand and appreciate a holistic approach to anthropological inquiry. Graduate students from other departments may be allowed to take the course if room permits and they have an appropriate background by instructor's permission.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Allows multiple enrollment in term. Requisites: Restricted to Anthropology (ANTH) graduate students only. Grading Basis: Letter Grade

ANTH 7300 (3) Seminar: Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology

ANTH 7600 (3) Human Ecology: Cultural Aspects

Reviews and critically examines the major theoretical perspectives for understanding the relationship between human social behavior and the environment developed in the social sciences, especially anthropology, over the last 100 years. Formerly ANTH 5600.

ANTH 7620 (3) Seminar: Ethnography and Cultural Theory

Explores how ethnographic writing has evolved over the past century to incorporate different forms of cross-cultural representation and to accommodate new theoretical paradigms. Includes ethnographic authority and reflexivity, as well as embedded theories and blurred genres of cultural research.

ANTH 7840 (1-6) Independent Research

Research aimed at developing a solution to an originally conceived research problem.

ANTH 8990 (1-10) Doctoral Dissertation

All doctoral students must register for no fewer than 30 hours of dissertation credit as part of the requirements for the degree. For a detailed discussion of doctoral dissertation credit, refer to the graduate school section.

Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 30.00 total credit hours.

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