| ANTH 101-02 |
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Instructor: Anastasia Hudgins
Course Description:
This course is a comprehensive introduction to how cultural anthropologists study culture and society in diverse contexts. We will use ethnographic case studies from across the world to examine the ways people experience and transform social relationships and culture in areas including families, gender, ethnicity, health, religion, exchange, science, and even what it means to be a person. We will examine how culture and society are embedded within, shape, and are shaped by forces of economics, politics, and environment.
Offered every semester.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 313 |
| ANTH 110-01 |
Archaeology and World Prehistory
Instructor: Matthew Biwer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARCH 110-01.
Archaeology is the primary means by which we decipher human prehistory. Using archaeology as a guide we will start with the origins of culture from its rudimentary beginnings nearly 4 million years ago, follow the migrations of hunters and gatherers, explore the first farming villages and eventually survey the complex urban civilizations of the Old and New Worlds. We will examine the development of technology, economic and social organization through the lens of archaeological techniques and discoveries throughout the world.
This course is cross-listed as ARCH 110. Offered every year.
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08:30 AM-09:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 313 |
| ANTH 216-01 |
Medical Anthropology
Instructor: Anastasia Hudgins
Course Description:
This course will introduce you to Medical Anthropology, its major theoretical approaches and its contribution to public health. Medical Anthropology draws upon social, cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology to better understand those factors that influence health and wellbeing, the experience and distribution of illness, the prevention and treatment of sickness, healing processes, therapy management, and the cultural importance and utilization of pluralistic medical systems. We will emphasize the importance of understanding the social context in which health and disease are produced and unevenly distributed.Offered each spring semester.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, R
EASTC 411 |
| ANTH 227-01 |
Forensic Anthropology
Instructor: Karen Weinstein
Course Description:
Forensic anthropology is a specialized field within biological anthropology that applies methods in skeletal biology, bioarchaeology and forensic sciences to the analysis of human skeletal remains in medico-legal settings. This course introduces the field of forensic anthropology by examining underlying theory and applied techniques used to identify human skeletal remains. Students will learn the bones of the skeleton, how to create a biological profile of an individual (reconstruct age, sex, ancestry, stature), how to identify trauma and pathology, and how to estimate time since death and possible causes of death. We will also examine the various contexts in which forensic anthropologists work to recover and analyze human remains, including crime scene investigations, human rights investigations, and mass disasters. Ethical responsibilities of forensic anthropologists will be at the forefront of our study.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 115 |
| ANTH 242-01 |
Research Methods in Global Health: Quantitative, Qualitative and Anthropological Approaches
Instructor: Anastasia Hudgins
Course Description:
This course introduces students to different methodological approaches used in global health to understand health needs in the global south and design appropriate interventions to address them. Through readings and discussions about the theoretical underpinnings of qualitative and quantitative research students will learn the different ways in which each approach contributes to understanding a health problem and developing solutions, with a special emphasis on the growing role of anthropological perspectives in conducting socially relevant and context appropriate global health research. Pre-requisites: ANTH 100 or 110 (ARCH 110) or 101 or 216 or permission of instructor.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, T
DENNY 313 |
| ANTH 245-01 |
Epics and Empires: Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean Bronze Age
Instructor: Andrew Dufton
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARCH 210-01. The Mediterranean Bronze Age (3300-1200 BCE) was a time of intense connectivity and interaction. Long-distance trade connected the eastern Mediterranean to Africa and Asia, diplomatic alliances shaped regional politics, early writing facilitated the beginnings of epic literature, and vast empires emerged around capital cities, ruled by royal households and powerful religious figures. After 2000 years of innovation and prosperity, this complex world fell apart in just a few decades-a drastic collapse still fiercely debated by archaeologists. This course considers the archaeology of an interconnected Bronze Age, including the cultures of ancient Egypt, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, the Levant, and the Aegean. A comparative approach highlights the shared characteristics of these early empires and the important exchange of objects and ideas between some of the most well-known cultures of the ancient world.
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11:30 AM-12:20 PM, MWF
DENNY 103 |
| ANTH 256-01 |
Health and Healing in Africa
Instructor: James Ellison
Course Description:
Cross-listed with AFST 256-01.
This course addresses three interrelated aspects of health and healing in Africa. We examine health in Africa from a biomedical perspective, learning about disease, morbidity, mortality, and biomedical care. We place African health and health care into a framework of political economy, examining the causes and consequences of illness and disease and the forces that shape and constrain care. We also examine the cultural and historical dimensions of health and healing in specific regions of the continent, bringing ethnographic knowledge to bear on contemporary health problems and thereby gaining an understanding of the lived experiences of health and healing in Africa.This course is cross-listed as AFST 256.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 212 |
| ANTH 260-01 |
Environmental Archaeology
Instructor: Matthew Biwer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARCH 260-01. The study of the human past requires knowledge of the biological and geophysical systems in which cultures developed and changed. This course explores past environments and the methods and evidence used to reconstruct them. Emphasis is on the integration of geological, botanical, zoological, and bioarchaeological data used to reconstruct Quaternary climates and environments.
This course is cross-listed as ARCH 260. Offered every two years.
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10:30 AM-11:20 AM, MWF
DENNY 304 |
| ANTH 331-01 |
Human Evolution
Instructor: Karen Weinstein
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARCH 331-01. This course offers an intensive examination of the evolution of the human family, from our earliest ancestors to the origin and dispersal of modern humans. We use skeletal biology, geology, and archaeology to understand the human evolutionary record.
Prerequisite: Any of the following: ANTH 100, 101, 110, 225, 227, 229, or BIOL 100-level course Offered every spring.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
DENNY 115 |
| ANTH 345-01 |
Stuff! The Material World of Global Inequality
Instructor: Andrew Dufton
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARCH 345-01. A social system dividing haves and have-nots, those with the power to acquire more 'stuff' and those without, is not a modern phenomenon. As a
discipline dedicated both to the study of materials and understanding long-term cultural change, archaeology makes a unique contribution to these debates. This class considers social injustice across time and on a global scale, examining the ways in which the material world of objects, buildings, landscapes, and resources is created by-and creates-social divisions.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 211 |
| ANTH 345-02 |
Life in the Anthropocene
Instructor: James Ellison
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARCH 345-02. Increased attention to human influences on Earth's climates and geology has given rise to a much-discussed Anthropocene epoch. Whether we locate the start of the epoch thousands of years ago with the origins of agriculture, with the industrial revolution, or more recently with nuclear bomb technologies, we can understand the label through rapid successions of record high temperatures and severe weather events, polar ice melts and rising sea levels, and astonishing numbers of extinctions, all of which play out in disparate ways across the globe. These changes call for new ways to understand how humans live in the world. In this course we examine what it means to be human in these times, and how people live in mutual and dynamic relationships with technologies, environments, and other species in ways that shape these processes and that are shaped by them. Our organizing frame will be ethnography, with examples drawn from throughout the world. Sustainability will be a persistent question during the semester.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, TF
DENNY 303 |
| ANTH 495-01 |
Senior Thesis
Instructor: James Ellison
Course Description:
Senior anthropology majors who qualify with a cumulative GPA of 3.7 or higher by the end of the junior year and are approved by the department as honors candidates can take this course during the spring semester of their senior year. This course involves writing a senior thesis based on original research such as fieldwork or laboratory research substantively beyond what students complete in ANTH 400, and the thesis is the primary consideration for departmental honors.Prerequisite: ANTH 400.
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| ANTH 495-02 |
Senior Thesis
Instructor: Karen Weinstein
Course Description:
Senior anthropology majors who qualify with a cumulative GPA of 3.7 or higher by the end of the junior year and are approved by the department as honors candidates can take this course during the spring semester of their senior year. This course involves writing a senior thesis based on original research such as fieldwork or laboratory research substantively beyond what students complete in ANTH 400, and the thesis is the primary consideration for departmental honors.Prerequisite: ANTH 400.
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| ANTH 495-03 |
Senior Thesis
Instructor: Matthew Biwer
Course Description:
Senior anthropology majors who qualify with a cumulative GPA of 3.7 or higher by the end of the junior year and are approved by the department as honors candidates can take this course during the spring semester of their senior year. This course involves writing a senior thesis based on original research such as fieldwork or laboratory research substantively beyond what students complete in ANTH 400, and the thesis is the primary consideration for departmental honors.Prerequisite: ANTH 400.
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