ANTH210: Introduction to Medical Anthropology and Global Health
An introduction to the central concepts in medical anthropology and the anthropology of global health. This course is a survey of anthropological notions of health, disease, and the body in cross-cultural and global contexts, including classic and contemporary texts. It will provide an examination of systems of knowledge and practice with regard to illness, healing, and global health inequities.
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Spring 2025 ♦ Instructor: Emilia Guevara ♦ Co-Instructor: ♦ View: Syllabus
ANTH222: Introduction to Ecological and Evolutionary Anthropology
An introduction to the evolution of human physiology and human behavior, the relationship between hominid and non-hominid primates, and the study of relationships between a population of humans and their biophysical environment. Students must pay a $40.00 lab materials fee.
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Spring 2025 ♦ Instructor: Miguel Vilar ♦ Co-Instructor: ♦ View: Syllabus
ANTH240: Introduction to Archaeology
Exploration of the variety of past human societies and cultures through archaeology, from the emergence of anatomically modern humans to the more recent historical past.
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Spring 2025 ♦ Instructor: George Hambrecht ♦ Co-Instructor: ♦ View: Syllabus
Spring 2025 ♦ Instructor: Paul Shackel ♦ Co-Instructor: ♦ View: Syllabus
ANTH242: Fire, Farming and Climate Change: An Archaeology Take on the History of Human Impacts on our Planet
An examination of why climate changes, the methods for recording climate change, and case studies of the varied responses of past human societies to climate change in different geographic regions and time periods with varying socio-political and economic systems.
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Spring 2025 ♦ Instructor: George Hambrecht ♦ Co-Instructor: ♦ View: Syllabus
ANTH260: Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology and Linguistics
Culture and social relationships in a wide variety of settings from small-scale to complex societies. An overview of how anthropology analyzes human behavior. Particular attention to the relationship between language and culture.
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Spring 2025 ♦ Instructor: Cady Gonzalez Valdivia ♦ Co-Instructor: ♦ View: Syllabus
ANTH298B: Special Topics in Anthropology; Selected Musical Cultures of the World
Also offered as MUSC220. For Spring 2020; credit only granted for MUET220, MUSC220, or ANTH298B.
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Spring 2025 ♦ Instructor: TBA ♦ Co-Instructor: ♦ View: Syllabus
ANTH310: Method & Theory in Medical Anthropology and Global Health
Provides a critical perspective to global health that encompasses key political, economic, and cultural factors associated with the nature and magnitude of global health issues such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, paying particular attention to how poverty and inequalities within and between societies has accelerated current global health challenges. Introduces students to how medical anthropologists have contributed to the debates surrounding the globalization of health.
Restriction: Must be in Anthropology program; or permission of BSOS Anthropology department.
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Spring 2025 ♦ Instructor: Emilia Guevara ♦ Co-Instructor: ♦ View: Syllabus
ANTH323: Plagues, Pathogens and Public Policy
The impact of diseases on populations from prehistoric times through the present will be examined, along with public perceptions of disease, scientific breakthroughs on treatment and prevention, and the ways that politics and public health policies can enhance or impede the advancement of disease treatment. The natural history of disease, population structure, and immunity will be discussed. The class will address emerging and re-emerging diseases and the ways that first responders, researchers, and policy makers may affect the outcome of an outbreak.
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Spring 2025 ♦ Instructor: Veronica Sousa ♦ Co-Instructor: ♦ View: Syllabus
ANTH341: Introduction to Zooarchaeology
Zooarchaeology is the study of animal remains, especially bones, from archaeological contexts. This course will address both methodology as well as many of the main issues in contemporary zooarchaeology. Zooarchaeology stands at the intersection of a number of social and biological sciences, such as Biology, Osteology, Ecology, History, Anthropology and Economics. We will discuss basic animal osteology and the concepts and practices behind the identification of animal remains from archaeological contexts. We will cover the nature of the data in zooarchaeology, especially issues around using proxy data.
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Spring 2025 ♦ Instructor: Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman ♦ Co-Instructor: ♦ View: Syllabus
ANTH360: Method and Theory in Sociocultural Anthropology
Theoretical approaches and research methods in sociocultural anthropology. Emphasis on current debates, new directions, and their historical antecedents.
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Spring 2025 ♦ Instructor: Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels ♦ Co-Instructor: ♦ View: Syllabus
ANTH398N: Independent Study; Career Development for Anthropology Majors
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Spring 2025 ♦ Instructor: Erik Hanson ♦ Co-Instructor: ♦ View: Syllabus
ANTH402: Politics of Humanitarianism
Explores the various political and moral considerations of humanitarianism and humanitarian thought. Analyzes "humanism," "aid," "rescue," "emergency," and "refugees" in the context of 20th and 21st century humanitarian crises and interventions, through ethnographic and historical research.
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Spring 2025 ♦ Instructor: TBA ♦ Co-Instructor: ♦ View: Syllabus
ANTH447: Material Culture Studies in Archaeology
An in-depth introduction to the world of material culture studies with a focus on the methods and theories in historical archaeology. Students will look at archaeological data as historical documents, commodities and as symbols expressing ideas.
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Spring 2025 ♦ Instructor: Stephen Brighton ♦ Co-Instructor: ♦ View: Syllabus
ANTH448R:Special Topics in Archaeology; Three-Dimensional Digital Documentation: Using Laser-based Measurement Systems
This course focuses on the fundamentals of documenting components of the built environment and the landscapes in which they are located. It focuses on the use of lasers to calculate 3-D measurements at various scales, from objects, to buildings, and landscapes. It will cover data management and archiving, field documentation processes, and post-processing of scan point clouds. This includes the production of deliverables for clients or project partners, such as plans, elevations, orthoimagery, and cleaned exported point clouds in formats that are compatible with Autodesk software and other CAD or rendering software platforms. This course is intended for students working in fields that rely on accurately documenting components of the built environment in three dimension, including architects, engineers, preservationists, archaeologists, or digital designers.
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Spring 2025 ♦ Instructor: Stefan Woehlke ♦ Co-Instructor: ♦ View: Syllabus
ANTH454: Political Ecology
The use of the environment is contested and negotiated within historic and contemporary societies. Incorporating methods and perspectives from across the social sciences through specific case studies in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, this course offers a survey to coupled human-environmental systems.
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Spring 2025 ♦ Instructor: Cady Gonzalez Valdivia ♦ Co-Instructor: ♦ View: Syllabus
ANTH466: Anthropology of Work
Examines the concept and meaning of work, the different types of work, and how the development of time discipline became essential for the creation of capitalist labor. Explores the contemporary social justice movement and its impact on gender and racialized inequities. Includes an exploration of deindustrialized regions in the Rust Belt.
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Spring 2025 ♦ Instructor: Paul Shackel ♦ Co-Instructor: ♦ View: Syllabus
ANTH481: Environmental Ethnographies of Asia
Examines social and ecological environments in Asia through the lens of classic and contemporary ethnographies from across the continent. Considers how cultural, political and economic dynamics interact with ecological systems in both recurring and unexpected ways. Ethnographies include case studies of global commodity chains, technoscientific management, borders and migration, conservation, and local knowledge as they intersect with changing environments.
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Spring 2025 ♦ Instructor: Madeline Brown ♦ Co-Instructor: ♦ View: Syllabus
