Anthropology (ANTH)
ANTH 1000. Peoples and Cultures of the World. (3 Credits)
An introduction to the anthropological understanding of human society through ethnographic case studies of selected peoples and cultures, exploring the richness and variety of human life. Encourages students to learn about different cultures and to apply their knowledge to make sense of their own society. CA 2. CA 4-INT.
Content Areas: CA2: Social Science, CA4INT: Div & Multi Intl
Topics of Inquiry: TOI2: Cultural Dimen Human Exp, TOI5: Indiv Values Soc Inst
ANTH 1000W. Peoples and Cultures of the World. (3 Credits)
An introduction to the anthropological understanding of human society through ethnographic case studies of selected peoples and cultures, exploring the richness and variety of human life. Encourages students to learn about different cultures and to apply their knowledge to make sense of their own society. CA 2. CA 4-INT.
Skill Codes: COMP: Writing Competency
Content Areas: CA2: Social Science, CA4INT: Div & Multi Intl
Topics of Inquiry: TOI2: Cultural Dimen Human Exp, TOI5: Indiv Values Soc Inst
ANTH 1001W. Anthropology Through Film. (3 Credits)
An introduction to cultural anthropology, approached through the medium of ethnographic film. Particular attention is given to how films represent humans' varied beliefs and behavior. CA 1. CA 4-INT.
Skill Codes: COMP: Writing Competency
Content Areas: CA1: Arts & Humanities, CA4INT: Div & Multi Intl
ANTH 1006. Introduction to Anthropology. (3 Credits)
The biological and cultural development of humans from their origin to the present. A brief survey of human evolution is followed by a comparative study of behavior and beliefs of our own and other societies. CA 2. CA 4-INT.
Content Areas: CA2: Social Science, CA4INT: Div & Multi Intl
ANTH 1010E. Global Climate Change and Human Societies. (3 Credits)
A multidisciplinary examination of the nature, anthropogenic drivers, range of expressions, and impacts of contemporary and future global climate change as well as cultural understandings of this significant environmental process and diverse human responses to it. CA 2. CA 4-INT.
Skill Codes: COMP: Environmental Literacy
Content Areas: CA2: Social Science, CA4INT: Div & Multi Intl
ANTH 1093. Foreign Study. (1-17 Credits)
Special topics taken in a foreign study program. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 17.
May be repeated for credit
ANTH 1095. Special Topics Lecture. (1-3 Credits)
May be repeated with a change in topic.
Enrollment Requirements: Credits, prerequisites, and hours as determined by the Senate Curricula and Courses Committee.
May be repeated for credit
ANTH 1500. Great Discoveries in Archaeology. (3 Credits)
Survey of important discoveries in archaeology spanning the whole of human prehistory across the globe. Current issues, methods, and techniques in the field of archaeology. CA 2. CA 4-INT.
Content Areas: CA2: Social Science, CA4INT: Div & Multi Intl
ANTH 2000. Social Anthropology. (3 Credits)
A comparative study of social structure including an analysis of kinship, marriage, community organization, political and economic institutions, and the role of the individual in these institutions. CA 2. CA 4.
Enrollment Requirements: May not be taken out of sequence after passing ANTH 4001.
Content Areas: CA2: Social Science, CA4: Diversity & Multicultural
Topics of Inquiry: TOI2: Cultural Dimen Human Exp, TOI3: Div, Equity, Soc Just
ANTH 2000W. Social Anthropology. (3 Credits)
A comparative study of social structure including an analysis of kinship, marriage, community organization, political and economic institutions, and the role of the individual in these institutions. CA 2. CA 4.
Enrollment Requirements: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011. Not open to students who have passed ANTH 4001.
Skill Codes: COMP: Writing Competency
Content Areas: CA2: Social Science, CA4: Diversity & Multicultural
Topics of Inquiry: TOI2: Cultural Dimen Human Exp, TOI3: Div, Equity, Soc Just
ANTH 2200. Race and Human Biological Diversity. (3 Credits)
An introduction to race and racism, concepts of racial difference, and the patterns of human biological variation. Special emphasis on understanding human biodiversity within historical, scientific, and social contexts. CA 3. CA 4.
Content Areas: CA3: Science & Technology, CA4: Diversity & Multicultural
Topics of Inquiry: TOI3: Div, Equity, Soc Just, TOI6: Science & Empirical Inq
ANTH 2501. Introduction to Archaeology. (3 Credits)
The concepts, methods and practice of anthropological archaeology.
Enrollment Requirements: May not be taken out of sequence after passing ANTH 3521 or 3704.
ANTH 2502. Human Evolution. (3 Credits)
The processes and events leading to the origin of human beings. Human physical and cultural development from its beginning to the dawn of settled life, through the approaches of physical anthropology and archaeology.
ANTH 2510. Methods in Maritime Archaeology. (3 Credits)
Methods and techniques in underwater archaeology covering both maritime (ships, ports, etc.) and submerged settlements archaeology. Overview of the aqueous environment, underwater archaeological methods, geophysical/geotechnical surveying and data interpretation, diver and ROV-based documentation and excavation techniques survey methods.
Enrollment Requirements: Recommended preparation: ANTH 2501.
ANTH 2511. Anthropology of Museums. (3 Credits)
Museums as locales for intersecting issues of identity, memory, place, power, ethnicity, history, representation, and ownership. Special focus on collectors, theories, and methods for the collection and display of Native American bodies, histories, art, and artifacts. Four museum field trips and related field research required.
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ANTH 2600. Microscopy in Applied Archaeobotany Research. (4 Credits)
Introduction to research trends in archaeobotany and use of microscopy tools. Design and execution of a research project. CA 3-LAB.
Enrollment Requirements: Recommended preparation: STAT 1000Q or 1100Q; ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011. Not open for credit to students who have passed ANTH 3095 when taught as Archaeobotany.
Content Areas: CA3LAB: Science & Tech Lab
Topics of Inquiry: TOI6L: Science Emp Inq (Lab)
ANTH 3003. Field Research in Social Settings. (3 Credits)
Methods and techniques of field research in social settings, including observational procedures, interviewing, and the construction and use of questionnaires.
ANTH 3004. Cultural Research. (1-3 Credits)
The theoretical foundations and basic methods used to collect and analyze cultural data.
ANTH 3021. Contemporary Latin America. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as LLAS 3021.) Survey of anthropological contributions to the study of contemporary Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Hispanic Caribbean. Special focus on the comparative analysis of recent ethnographic case studies and local/regional/national/international linkages.
ANTH 3025. Contemporary Africa. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as AFRA 3025.) Africa since its partition in 1884. Urbanization, social stratification, racial and ethnic conflict.
ANTH 3026. Peoples and Cultures of North America. (3 Credits)
A survey of representative Native American cultures as they existed prior to the twentieth century, together with a view of the changing life of modern Native Americans.
ANTH 3027. Contemporary Native Americans. (3 Credits)
Analysis of Native American reservations and urban communities and their relationship to the larger U.S. society. Special focus on federal policy and economic development, cultural identity, and politics of Native Americans.
ANTH 3028. Indigenous Rights and Aboriginal Australia. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as HRTS 3028.) An introduction to the study and understanding of Aboriginal ways of life and thought. An exploration of the complexity of contemporary indigenous social orders and land rights issues. CA 4-INT.
Enrollment Requirements: Recommended preparation: ANTH 2000.
Content Areas: CA4INT: Div & Multi Intl
Topics of Inquiry: TOI2: Cultural Dimen Human Exp, TOI3: Div, Equity, Soc Just
ANTH 3028W. Indigenous Rights and Aboriginal Australia. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as HRTS 3028W.) An introduction to the study and understanding of Aboriginal ways of life and thought. An exploration of the complexity of contemporary indigenous social orders and land rights issues. CA 4-INT.
Skill Codes: COMP: Writing Competency
Content Areas: CA4INT: Div & Multi Intl
Topics of Inquiry: TOI2: Cultural Dimen Human Exp, TOI3: Div, Equity, Soc Just
ANTH 3029. The Caribbean. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as LLAS 3029.) Comparative perspectives on the cultural formation of Caribbean societies; the region's demographic, economic and political links with the wider world.
ANTH 3030. Peoples of the Pacific Islands. (3 Credits)
Survey of the indigenous societies and cultures of the Pacific Islands, from the first settlement to the postcolonial period. Topics include prehistoric canoe voyaging, modes of subsistence, political forms, ritual and religion, ceremonial exchange, gender ideologies, European colonization, and modern indigenous nationalism. Ethnographic examples will be drawn from Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. CA 4-INT.
Content Areas: CA4INT: Div & Multi Intl
Topics of Inquiry: TOI3: Div, Equity, Soc Just, TOI4: Environmental Literacy
ANTH 3041. Latin American Minorities in the United States. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as LLAS 3241.) Emphasis on groups of Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban origin, including treatment and historical background, social stratification, informal social relations, ethnic perceptions, relations and the concept of Latino identity.
ANTH 3050. Anthropology of Jews and Jewishness. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as HEJS 3050.) Survey of the rich and growing ethnographic literature on Jews and Jewishness around the globe. Course materials include ethnographic texts, music, and videos/films.
Enrollment Requirements: Recommended preparation: ANTH 1000 or 1006; ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011.
ANTH 3050W. Anthropology of Jews and Jewishness. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as HEJS 3050W.) Survey of the rich and growing ethnographic literature on Jews and Jewishness around the globe. Course materials include ethnographic texts, music, and videos/films.
Enrollment Requirements: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011. Recommended preparation: ANTH 1000 or 1006.
Skill Codes: COMP: Writing Competency
ANTH 3081. Internship in Anthropology. (1-6 Credits)
Practical experience, knowledge, and professional skills in a work environment related to anthropology. Based on a contract and learning experience syllabus. Students taking this course will be assigned a final grade of S (satisfactory) or U (unsatisfactory).
ANTH 3090. Directed Field Research in Anthropology. (1-12 Credits)
The investigation of a sociocultural and/or archaeological problem in some domestic or foreign field location. May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credits.
Enrollment Requirements: ANTH 3003 or consent of instructor.
May be repeated for a total of 12 credits
ANTH 3091. Internship in Anthropology: Directed Study. (1 Credit)
Directed study, analysis, and reflection on internship experience.
Enrollment Requirements: Instructor consent; ANTH 1000 or 1006 or 1500. Corequisite: Must be taken with ANTH 3081.
May be repeated for a total of 2 credits
ANTH 3093. Foreign Study. (1-6 Credits)
Special topics taken in a foreign study program. May count toward the major with consent of the advisor. May be repeated for credit.
May be repeated for credit
ANTH 3095. Special Topics. (1-6 Credits)
With a change of content, may be repeated for credit.
May be repeated for credit
ANTH 3096. Directed Research in Anthropology. (1-6 Credits)
The investigation of a sociocultural and/or archaeological problem in a non field-based setting. Hours by arrangement.
Enrollment Requirements: Instructor consent.
ANTH 3098. Variable Topics. (3 Credits)
Prerequisites, required preparation, and recommended preparation vary. With a change of topic, may be repeated for credit.
Enrollment Requirements: Prerequisites and recommended preparation vary.
May be repeated for credit
ANTH 3099. Independent Study. (1-6 Credits)
With a change of content, may be repeated for credit.
May be repeated for credit
ANTH 3120. Anthropology of Capitalism. (3 Credits)
Ethnographic approaches to classic and contemporary debates about capitalism's transformation of sociocultural dynamics.
ANTH 3150. Migration. (3 Credits)
The social, cultural and economic causes and consequences of internal and international migration in the modern era. Topics include migrant selection, social adaptation, effects on home and host societies, and cultural identity. CA 4.
Content Areas: CA4: Diversity & Multicultural
ANTH 3150W. Migration. (3 Credits)
The social, cultural and economic causes and consequences of internal and international migration in the modern era. Topics include migrant selection, social adaptation, effects on home and host societies, and cultural identity. CA 4.
Enrollment Requirements: ENGL 1007 or 1010 or 1011 or 2011. Recommended preparation: ANTH 1000 or 1006.
Skill Codes: COMP: Writing Competency
Content Areas: CA4: Diversity & Multicultural
Topics of Inquiry: TOI2: Cultural Dimen Human Exp, TOI3: Div, Equity, Soc Just
ANTH 3152. Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as AFRA 3152.) Popular and scholarly theories of human group identity and diversity, in cross-cultural and historical perspective. Topics include: an overview of 'race' and 'ethnicity' in Western thought, ethnic group formation and transformation, political mobilizations of group identity, and systems of inequality. CA 2. CA 4.
Content Areas: CA2: Social Science, CA4: Diversity & Multicultural
Topics of Inquiry: TOI2: Cultural Dimen Human Exp, TOI3: Div, Equity, Soc Just
ANTH 3155. Anthropology of the African Diaspora. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as AFRA 3155.) An exploration of the racial, political, and social similarities and differences within and between the communities constituting the African Diaspora from an anthropological perspective.
ANTH 3200. Human Behavioral Ecology. (3 Credits)
The application of the theory of natural selection to the study of human culture and behavior, with emphasis on the interaction between humans and their environment.
ANTH 3202W. Illness and Curing. (3 Credits)
Cross-cultural analysis of ethnomedicine, major medical systems, alternative medical systems, curing and healing illness and social control, gender and healing, and the role of traditional and cosmopolitan medical systems in international health. CA 4.
Skill Codes: COMP: Writing Competency
Content Areas: CA4: Diversity & Multicultural
ANTH 3230. Propaganda, Disinformation, and Hate Speech. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as HRTS 3230.) Draws on current social science research to understand the effects of false information and hate speech on our politics and culture and to evaluate various private and public initiatives to regulate speech. CA 2.
Enrollment Requirements: Not open for credit to students who have passed ANTH 3098 when offered as Propaganda, Fake News and Hate Speech.
Content Areas: CA2: Social Science
Topics of Inquiry: TOI2: Cultural Dimen Human Exp, TOI5: Indiv Values Soc Inst
ANTH 3250. Cognitive Anthropology. (3 Credits)
The study of how the content of thought or knowledge is created, organized, and distributed in human communities. Topics include cultural models of the mind, emotions, personality, and relationships.
Enrollment Requirements: Recommended preparation: ANTH 3002.
ANTH 3251. Psychological Anthropology. (3 Credits)
Cross-cultural overview of critical issues regarding the relationship between individual personality and sociocultural systems, and mental health and illness.
ANTH 3300. Medical Anthropology. (3 Credits)
An introduction to the theory, method, and content of medical anthropology.
ANTH 3302. Medical Ecology. (3 Credits)
Anthropological perspectives on the interrelationships among culture, biology, environment, and disease. Major topics include ecology and adaptation, population dynamics, nutrition, reproduction, disease in sociological context, health seeking behavior, and the complexity of the interaction of western and non-western medical systems.
Enrollment Requirements: Recommended preparation: ANTH 3300.
ANTH 3303. Parent Child Relations in Cross-Cultural Perspective. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as HDFS 3310.) Theory and research on major dimensions of parenting in the U.S.A. and cross-culturally, parental warmth, control and punishment.
Enrollment Requirements: Open to juniors or higher.
ANTH 3304. Anthropology of Drug Use. (3 Credits)
Uses the anthropological lens to examine the intersection of societies, cultures and psychoactive substances based on a historically informed, cross-cultural, ethnographic and political economic perspective on drug use and related behaviors.
ANTH 3309. Violence and Human Rights. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as HRTS 3309.) Violence and human rights as cultural constructs; human rights claims; war, genocide, terrorism, street crime, domestic violence; deterrence and intervention policy.
Enrollment Requirements: Open to sophomores or higher.
ANTH 3320. Race, Culture, and Reproductive Health. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as AFRA 3320.) An examination of the reproductive health experiences of women in the United States, including those focused on sexuality, birth, and motherhood. An exploration of the complex relationship between women’s reproductive experiences and their contemporary racial and socioeconomic locations in American society.
ANTH 3325. Introduction to Global Health. (3 Credits)
Anthropological perspectives on public health in a globalized world, health inequalities within and across countries; diverse social, cultural, and other determinants of global health; pressing global health issues; organizational players involved in addressing global health issues.
Enrollment Requirements: Open to sophomores or higher.
ANTH 3326. Global Health and Human Rights. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as HRTS 3326.) Theories, methods and controversies in the interconnected fields of global health and human rights.
ANTH 3327. Power and Health in Latin America and the Caribbean. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as HRTS 3327.) History, theories, and concepts about the human right to health and structural inequalities in the region.
Enrollment Requirements: Open to sophomores or higher.
ANTH 3340E. Culture and Conservation. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as EVST 3340E.) Interdisciplinary analysis of conservation and the human-environment relationship from a cross-cultural perspective. Major topics include sustainability, environmental ethics, climate change, natural disasters, health, and environmental justice. CA2. CA4-INT.
Skill Codes: COMP: Environmental Literacy
Content Areas: CA2: Social Science, CA4INT: Div & Multi Intl
ANTH 3342. Political and Legal Anthropology. (3 Credits)
Anthropological analysis of the state, nation, and human rights from a cross-cultural perspective.
Enrollment Requirements: Not open to students who passed ANTH 3098 with the topic Political and Legal Anthropology.
ANTH 3350. Anthropological Perspectives on Women. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as WGSS 3350.) Major conceptual and historical problems in the study of gender in anthropology. Women's roles in different historical and contemporary settings, and new understandings of family, kinship, power, and cultural ideologies.
ANTH 3351. Sex and Gender. (3 Credits)
Cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis of biological sex, gender, sex roles, and sexuality.
ANTH 3400. Culture and Religion. (3 Credits)
Major theories and approaches in the study of religion as a social institution and cultural system. Topics include myth, ritual, taboos and pollution beliefs, shamanism, magical practices, fundamentalism and religion in modern society.
ANTH 3401. World Religions. (3 Credits)
A survey of religious belief systems, both polytheistic and monotheistic, from around the world. CA 1. CA 4-INT.
Content Areas: CA1: Arts & Humanities, CA4INT: Div & Multi Intl
ANTH 3402. Women in the Bible. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as WGSS 3402.) An introduction to Biblical interpretation from a feminist perspective, examining how women are represented in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament. Issues of authorship, translation, point of view, cultural context and language.
ANTH 3403. Women and Religion. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as WGSS 3403.) Gender issues in the world's religions. Survey of women's theological standing, ritual activities and participation in a cross-cultural sample of religions, both monotheistic and polytheistic.
ANTH 3405. Religion and Mind. (3 Credits)
Cognitive and evolutionary anthropological perspectives on the mental underpinnings of religious thought and behavior.
ANTH 3420. Archaeology of Psychoactive Substances. (3 Credits)
Survey of psychoactive substances and altered states of consciousness in both past and present cultural practice.
ANTH 3450W. Anthropological Perspectives on Art. (3 Credits)
Approaches to cultural creativity and aesthetics in the graphic and plastic arts of prestate societies. Examples from North America, Oceania, and Africa. CA 1.
Skill Codes: COMP: Writing Competency
Content Areas: CA1: Arts & Humanities
ANTH 3503. Old World Prehistory. (3 Credits)
The origin of humanity in Africa, hunters and gatherers of the Paleolithic, the origins of agriculture and the transition to settled life, and the emergence of civilizations in Africa, Asia and the Near East.
ANTH 3506W. Laboratory Techniques in Archaeology. (3 Credits)
The analysis, interpretation, and presentation of archaeological data sets including lithics, ceramics, floral and faunal remains and spatial information from excavated sites.
Skill Codes: COMP: Writing Competency
ANTH 3512. African Archaeology. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as AFRA 3512.) An archaeological perspective on more than three million years of human social and behavioral change in Africa, from Stone Age societies that are the earliest in the world to sweeping changes brought about by the development and spread of cattle and crops, sophisticated metallurgy, and the later rise of kingdoms and complex polities situated at a global crossroads of trade and interaction.
ANTH 3513. Near Eastern Prehistory. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as HIST 3300.) From the earliest hunter-gatherers to the rise of the state: the transition from food-gathering to food-production and the development of complex societies in the Near East.
ANTH 3514. European Prehistory. (3 Credits)
Interdisciplinary survey of the archaeological, biological, cultural, and behavioral evolution of prehistoric humans and their societies across Europe and portions of western Asia.
ANTH 3522. Ecological Anthropology Seminar. (3 Credits)
Interdisciplinary study of the ecology of humans, integrating ecological and anthropological theory with archaeological, historical, and contemporary case-studies.
ANTH 3523. The Origins of Agriculture. (3 Credits)
The origins and spread of agriculture worldwide. Economic, social and ideological ramifications of the agricultural transition. Processes of plant and animal domestication.
Topics of Inquiry: TOI4: Environmental Literacy
ANTH 3531. Maritime Archaeology of the Americas. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as MAST 3531.) Archaeological and historical sources to examine the development of seafaring practices, exploration, waterborne trade and economic systems, naval warfare and shipbuilding in the Americas from the fifteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century.
ANTH 3532. Archaeology of the Age of Sail. (3 Credits)
(Also offered as MAST 3532.) Overview of archaeological and historical sources on the development of seafaring and navigation, exploration, waterborne trade and economic systems, colonialism and empire building, naval warfare and shipbuilding in Europe, Asia and Australia from the fifteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century.
ANTH 3555. Archaeological Science. (3 Credits)
Survey of scientific methods used to answer archaeological questions. Methods, applications and lab demonstrations.
Enrollment Requirements: Open to sophomores or higher.
ANTH 3560. The Evolution of Human Diet. (3 Credits)
Investigation of ecological, anatomical, and physiological aspects that shaped the biological and cultural evolution of humans from the Pliocene to the Anthropocene.
ANTH 3701. Lithic Technology. (3 Credits)
The properties of stone tools - the primary evidence of human behavior for humanity's first 2.5 million years - and the processes of their manufacture. Analysis of prehistoric tools and tool replication.
ANTH 3703. Zooarchaeological Method and Theory. (3 Credits)
Method and theory of archaeological faunal analysis, including training in the identification of skeletal materials, the formation of the zooarchaeological record, and the interpretation of zooarchaeological data.
ANTH 3704. Experimental Archaeology. (3 Credits)
Method and theory of experimental archaeology, including hands-on study of past human behavior through experimentation with modern material culture, and the execution of an experimental research project addressing an archaeological question.
Enrollment Requirements: ANTH 2501.
ANTH 3705. Paleoanthropology. (3 Credits)
Fossil evidence for the evolution of the human family, Hominidae. Anatomical features, behavior, and evolutionary relationships of extinct hominids; the use of biological, geological, and archaeological evidence to reconstruct past hominid adaptations.
ANTH 3706. Archaeobotany. (3 Credits)
Method and theory of studying archaeological plant remains in the laboratory, including sampling, identification, and interpretation of data.
ANTH 3710. Technology and Society: Archaeological Perspectives. (3 Credits)
Using a hands-on and field-based approach and the study of museum-based collections, an examination of archaeological approaches to understanding the ways in which various technologies are used by human societies in the present and past, how new technologies arise and spread, the impacts of technological changes, and how to study social choices in the implementation of various technologies as varied as stone tools, pottery, footwear, gravestones, and industrial-era mill sites.
Enrollment Requirements: Recommended preparation: Introductory coursework in archaeology.
ANTH 3720. Lab Methods in Archaeological and Forensic Science. (1 Credit)
Introduction to scientific lab methods used in archaeology and forensics. Includes three stand alone modules, each dedicated to a different method. Each module consists of 15 contact hours comprised of labs and lectures and takes place during a single weekend. Repeatable to a maximum of three credits.
May be repeated for a total of 3 credits
ANTH 3902. North American Prehistory. (3 Credits)
Prehistoric cultures of North America from the earliest traces to European contact, with emphasis on the region east of the Mississippi. CA 4.
Content Areas: CA4: Diversity & Multicultural
Topics of Inquiry: TOI2: Cultural Dimen Human Exp, TOI5: Indiv Values Soc Inst
ANTH 3904. Ethnohistory of Native New England. (3 Credits)
Combines archaeological and ethnohistorical data to reconstruct the lifeways of the Native Americans of New England from the prehistoric period to the present. CA 4.
Content Areas: CA4: Diversity & Multicultural
ANTH 3990. Field Work in Archaeology. (1-6 Credits)
Training in the techniques of archaeological site excavation; mapping; recording; field conservation, and preliminary analysis of materials.
ANTH 4097W. Honors Thesis. (3 Credits)
Research and writing of major project exploring a topic within anthropology, with close supervision and production of multiple written drafts.
Grading Basis: Honors Credit
Skill Codes: COMP: Writing Competency
ANTH 4510. The Neanderthals. (3 Credits)
An interdisciplinary consideration of the biological, cultural, technological, and behavioral evolution of the Neanderthals and their societies.