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2021-2022 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Courses
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Accounting |
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ACC 1050 - Survey of Accounting (3)
When Offered: Fall; Spring.
An overview of financial and managerial accounting. The course focuses on the analysis of financial data with an emphasis on accounting issues faced by small businesses such as business planning, budgeting, and performance evaluation. This is the ideal course for the business minor and for non-business majors interested in understanding the role of accounting in the business world.
NOT AVAILABLE TO BUSINESS MAJORS
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ACC 1530-1549 - Selected Topics (1-4)
When Offered: On Demand
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ACC 2100 - Principles of Accounting I (3)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
The initial course in the theory and practice of financial accounting. Topics emphasized include the preparation, reporting, and analysis of financial data.
Prerequisite: Students must have successfully completed 24 semester hours of college credit. Demonstrated Readiness for College-level Math.
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ACC 2110 - Principles of Accounting II (3)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
A course dealing with the concepts and development of accounting data for decision making. Topics emphasized include manufacturing cost systems, cost-volume-profit analysis, and budgeting concepts.
Prerequisite: ACC 2100 with a minimum grade of “C-” (1.7). Demonstrated Readiness for College-level Math.
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ACC 2500 - Independent Study (1-4)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
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ACC 2530-2549 - Selected Topics (1-4)
When Offered: On Demand
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ACC 3100 - Intermediate Accounting I (3)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
The financial accounting environment and development of accounting theory. Integration of the conceptual and computational aspects of income measurement, valuation, and reporting problems associated with the accounting cycle, statement preparation and asset accounting.
Prerequisites: 54 earned hours and a minimum grade of “C-” (1.7) in ACC 2110 . Demonstrated Readiness for College-level Math.
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ACC 3110 - Intermediate Accounting II (3)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
A continuation of ACC 3100 . Integration of the conceptual and computational aspects of asset, liability and stockholders’ equity accounting.
Prerequisites: 54 earned hours and a minimum grade of “C-” (1.7) in ACC 3100 . Demonstrated Readiness for College-level Math.
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ACC 3150 - Financial Statement Preparation and Analysis (3)
When Offered: On Demand.
A study of the concepts and current methods used to prepare financial statements. Important off-balance sheet items are examined. This course also examines several methods of analysis of financial statements. Computer applications are covered.
NOT AVAILABLE TO ACCOUNTING MAJORS
Prerequisites: 54 earned hours and Demonstrated Readiness for College-level Math.
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ACC 3160 - Introduction to Individual Taxation (1)
When Offered: On Demand.
Preparation of state and federal income tax returns. Topics emphasized include gross income, adjusted gross income, deductions and exemptions, capital gains and losses, computation of tax liability, audit of tax returns, tax questions, the IRS and the courts.
NOT AVAILABLE TO ACCOUNTING MAJORS
Prerequisite: 54 earned hours
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ACC 3200 - Cost Accounting (3)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
Introduction to cost accounting, definitions and objectives. Topics emphasized include cost-volume-profit relationships, job-order accounting, budgeting, systems design and human motivation, flexible budgets, standard costs, contribution approach to decisions, cost allocation, joint product and by-product costing, process costing.
Prerequisites: 54 earned hours and ACC 2110 with a minimum grade of “C-” (1.7). Demonstrated Readiness for College-level Math.
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ACC 3500 - Independent Study (1-4)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
Prerequisite: 54 earned hours
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ACC 3510 - Junior Honors Thesis (1-3)
When Offered: On Demand
Independent study and research project directed by a departmental faculty advisor on a topic of mutual interest to both student and advisor. The thesis should be completed during the student’s junior and senior years and includes a formal presentation to the college faculty.
May be repeated for a total credit of three semester hours.
Prerequisite: 54 earned hours
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ACC 3520 - Instructional Assistance (1)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
A supervised experience in the instructional process on the university level through direct participation in a classroom situation.
May be repeated for a total credit of three semester hours. Graded on an S/U basis.
Prerequisite: 54 earned hours
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ACC 3530-3549 - Selected Topics (1-4)
When Offered: On Demand
Prerequisites: 54 earned hours
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ACC 3560 - Accounting for Non-Profit Organizations (3)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
Application of principles of accounting, budgetary control, and financial management to nonprofit organizations. Discussion and cases will be drawn from municipal and county governmental units, universities, hospitals, and other nonprofit organizations.
Prerequisites: 54 earned hours and ACC 3100 with a minimum grade of “C-” (1.7). Demonstrated Readiness for College-level Math.
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ACC 3570 - Accounting Systems and Internal Control (3)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
An in-depth treatment of internal control and related accounting procedures; authorization and documentation; flowcharting, data flow diagrams, and scheduling. Design of information systems that process financial transactions for financial and management accounting, and to meet legal requirements for adequacy of accounting records and internal controls. Development of skills and expertise required for the study of contemporary accounting systems and internal auditing. Knowledge of a computer programming language is desirable but not essential.
Prerequisites: 54 earned hours and ACC 3100 with a minimum grade of “C-” (1.7).
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ACC 3580 - Individual Income Taxation (3)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
Concepts and methods of determining federal income tax liability for individuals. Topics emphasized include personal deductions, tax credits, capital gain and loss provisions and accounting methods. Emphasis is also placed on research methodology and individual tax planning.
Prerequisites: 54 earned hours and ACC 2110 with a minimum grade of “C-” (1.7). Demonstrated Readiness for College-level Math.
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ACC 3585 - Issues in International Taxation (3)
When Offered: On Demand
A study of selected issues in international taxation, with a focus on U.S. taxation applied to economic activity with an international element. As the course satisfies the College of Business’ global requirement, several non-tax topics dealing with foreign countries and their residents are covered. Topics discussed will include US income taxation of foreign transactions, tax treatises, residency status, foreign tax credit, visas, sourcing of income, US taxation of nonresident aliens and foreign corporations, comparison of US international tax law with the tax system of other countries, multi-jurisdictional concepts.
Prerequisites: 54 earned hours and a minimum grade of C- (1.7) in ACC 3580 .
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ACC 3590 - Assessing Sustainability in a Global Business Environment (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This course explores the process of measuring and reporting on the performance of business operations from three different sustainability perspectives: economic prosperity, environmental quality, and social justice. These three perspectives make up the conceptual “triple bottom line”, a generally accepted term for assessing sustainability performance, which indicates the ability of a company to be viable using available financial, natural, and social resources. A primary objective in this course is to develop an understanding of the concept of sustainability as it applies to businesses, and how global differences in economic conditions, cultures, codes of ethical conduct, environmental conditions, natural resources, human resource management, social issues, and other factors can impact sustainability performance assessment. This course will also incorporate an international perspective and will meet the “Global Issues” requirement for the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree.
Prerequisite: 54 earned hours
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ACC 4500 - Independent Study (1-4)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
Prerequisites: 84 earned hours and a minimum grade of “C” (2.0) in any Writing in the Discipline (WID) course.
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ACC 4510 - Senior Honors Thesis (1-3)
When Offered: On Demand
Independent study and research project directed by a departmental faculty advisor on a topic of mutual interest to both student and advisor. The thesis should be completed during the student’s junior and senior years and includes a formal presentation to the college faculty.
May be repeated for a total credit of three semester hours.
Prerequisites: 84 earned hours and a minimum grade of “C” (2.0) in any Writing in the Discipline (WID) course.
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ACC 4530-4549 - Selected Topics (1-4)
When Offered: On Demand
Prerequisites: 84 earned hours and a minimum grade of “C” (2.0) in any Writing in the Discipline (WID) course.
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ACC 4550 - Intermediate Accounting III (3)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
Integration of the conceptual and computational aspects of income determination, financial statement analysis and preparation, special topics, and current pronouncements in financial accounting.
Prerequisites: a minimum grade of “C” (2.0) in any Writing in the Discipline (WID) course, a minimum grade of “C-” (1.7) in ACC 3110 , senior standing, and Demonstrated Readiness for College-level Math.
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ACC 4560 - Introduction to Auditing (3)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
Topics include selected auditing standards, processes for conducting an audit, types of services, analysis of reports, ethics, internal control considerations, and data analytics used in the auditing profession.
Prerequisites: 84 earned hours, a minimum grade of “C” (2.0) in any Writing in the Discipline (WID) course, and ACC 3100 with a minimum grade of “C-” (1.7).
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ACC 4580 - Taxation of Business Entities (3)
When Offered: On Demand
Examination of the tax system faced by businesses operating in the United States. Business entities covered include C Corporations, S Corporations and partnerships. Topics include business formations, transactions between the entity and the owners, distributions, liquidations and reorganizations. Projects facilitate knowledge development of a variety of professional skills.
Prerequisites: a minimum grade of “C” (2.0) in any Writing in the Discipline (WID) course and ACC 3580 (or equivalent) with a minimum grade of “C-“. Demonstrated Readiness for College-level Math.
[Dual-listed with ACC 5080.] Dual-listed courses require senior standing.
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ACC 4590 - Advanced Accounting (3)
When Offered: On Demand
An examination of the special problems in accounting for business combinations and consolidated entities, and foreign currency translation. A critical comparison of SEC accounting report requirements and generally accepted accounting principles. Accounting issues in partnership formation, reporting and liquidation.
Prerequisites: 84 earned hours, a minimum grade of “C” (2.0) in any Writing in the Discipline (WID) course and ACC 3110 with a minimum grade of “C-” (1.7).
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ACC 4710 - Advanced Cost Accounting (3)
When Offered: On Demand
Advanced cost analysis and cost management with emphasis on modern performance measurement. Cost accounting for world class manufacturing; quality cost accounting and TQM; activity-based accounting systems; theory of constraints, life cycle costing, and target costing. Revenue variances, transfer pricing, and quantitative methods are examined. Other topics are derived from modern applications of cost accumulation systems in the United States and other countries.
Prerequisites: 84 earned hours, a minimum grade of “C” (2.0) in any Writing in the Discipline (WID) course, and ACC 3200 with a minimum grade of “C-” (1.7). Demonstrated Readiness for College-level Math.
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ACC 4730 - Accounting and International Business (3)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
A study of selected issues in accounting for international business and related effects on organizational and operating decisions.
Prerequisites: 84 earned hours, a minimum grade of “C” (2.0) in any Writing in the Discipline (WID) course, and ACC 3100 or equivalent, with a minimum grade of “C-” (1.7).
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ACC 4760 - Internal Auditing (3)
When Offered: On Demand
An introduction to selected internal auditing topics, including types of services, an overview of the internal audit process, preparation and analysis of reports, internal auditing standards, professional responsibilities, and the code of ethics.
Prerequisites: 84 earned hours, a minimum grade of “C” (2.0) in any Writing in the Discipline (WID) course, and ACC 3100 with a minimum grade of “C-” (1.7).
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ANT 1415 - Understanding Culture (3) [GenEd: SS]
When Offered: Fall; Spring
GEN ED: Social Science Designation; Integrative Learning Experience (Theme: “From Empire to Globalization”)
This course explores the diversity and unity of human experience through the lens of cultural anthropology. Using case studies and other texts, students will gain familiarity with different cultural worlds. As they do so, they will be asked to think critically about their own cultural ideas and actions, to reflect on problems facing humanity in the contemporary world, and to understand the various ways in which they are historically and socially connected to other people in other places.
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ANT 1420 - Archaeology and the Human Past (3) [GenEd: SS]
When Offered: Fall; Spring
GEN ED: Social Science Designation; Integrative Learning Experience (Theme: “How We Know What We Know About the Past: Method, Evidence, Knowledge”)
An introduction to the human past through the scientific process of archaeology. Controversial issues discussed may include human evolution, the fate of the Neandertals, peopling of the Americas, and the cycling of state-level societies. Ultimately, lessons from the past are considered in light of contemporary human issues.
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ANT 1425 - Mythbusting in Archaeology (3) [GenEd: SS]
When Offered: Fall; Spring
GEN ED: Social Science Designation; Integrative Learning Experience (Theme: “How We Know What We Know About the Past”)
This course takes a critical look at some of the fantastic interpretations of ancient ruins and artifacts that make popular subjects for television shows, magazine articles, books, and the web-interpretations that we might call “pseudoscience.” Specifically, we explore a series of questions that often attract pseudoscientific claims about the past: Who came to the Americas before Columbus? Was Atlantis the ultimate source of all ancient civilizations? Did astronauts help the Egyptians and Mayans build their pyramids? Do we have unequivocal evidence for Noah’s Ark? In each of these cases, we will consider how archaeologists use scientific methods to evaluate evidence put forth to explain past events and cultural achievements. At the same time, we will seek to better appreciate how scientific and non-scientific ways of knowing the past articulate with contemporary communities both local and global.
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ANT 1430 - Our Primate Heritage (4)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
GEN ED: Science Inquiry Perspective (Theme: “Life, Earth, and Evolution”)
This course examines humans within an evolutionary and biocultural perspective. Students will be introduced to classic and contemporary literature on topics in human evolution and will have the opportunity to make their own observations and analyses within the laboratory. We will explore theoretical frameworks and controversies about important issues such as the nature of science, human variation, and the relationship between humans and our environment. Students will become familiar with evolutionary theory and heredity, primate evolution and basic comparative anatomy, and the fossil record of human evolution. Lecture three hours, laboratory two hours.
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ANT 1530-1549 - Selected Topics (1-4)
When Offered: On Demand
An opportunity to study a special topic or a combination of topics not otherwise provided for in the anthropology curriculum.
May be repeated for credit when content does not duplicate.
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ANT 2100 - East Asia Through Ethnography (3) [GenEd: SS]
When Offered: Spring, Even-numbered years
GEN ED: Social Science Designation; Liberal Studies Experience
This course explores both the shared cultural practices and diverse social experiences of peoples across East Asia (China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Mongolia). Drawing on ethnographic writings and primary accounts by indigenous scholars, this course will explore a range of topics, including the family and religion, ethnic and political relations, gender and bodily practices, war and revolution, economic development and migrant labor, as well as other contemporary issues or special topics.
(Global Learning Opportunity course)
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ANT 2215 - Cultural Anthropology (3)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
The course consists of a critical introduction to fundamental ethnographic concepts, theories, methods, textual representations, and contemporary issues and debates encompassed by the sub-discipline of cultural anthropology.
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ANT 2221 - Archaeology (3)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
The scientific study of the unwritten record of the human past. Archaeological theory, methods, and techniques are introduced to illustrate how and why archaeologists study past human life and behavior and explain past human cultural variation.
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ANT 2222 - The Living Primates (3) [GenEd: SS]
When Offered: Fall
GEN ED: Social Science Designation; Integrative Learning Experience (Theme: “War and Peace”)
In this course, students will be introduced to the diversity, evolution, biology, and behavior of the extant nonhuman primates, including lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes, through lectures, films, readings, discussions, and laboratory exercises.
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ANT 2230 - Biological Anthropology (3)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
Biological anthropology is the study of human and non-human primate origins, evolution, and biology within an evolutionary and bio-cultural framework. Topics include evolutionary theory and heredity; the evolution, anatomy, and lifestyles of living and fossil primates; a bio-cultural framework for understanding human evolution; the hominin fossil record; adaptive challenges of the past 10,000 years (sedentism, urbanism, food production, culture contact, health changes); modern human variation; and the use of human skeletal biology to address medico-legal questions. This course may include work with human skeletal remains.
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ANT 2235 - North American Archaeology (3) [GenEd: SS]
When Offered: Spring
GEN ED: Social Science Designation; Integrative Learning Experience (Theme: “American Culture: Past and Present”)
To discover the unwritten history of Native North America, archaeologists study the material remains of pre-Columbian cultures. The course will also explore these societies from a comparative, anthropological perspective. Major emphasis will be placed on indigenous groups of the American Southeast, Arctic, Northwest Coast, Great Plains, and Southwest. Students will also learn to appreciate contemporary ethical challenges and collaborative opportunities in North American archaeology.
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ANT 2300 - Meso American Cultures (3) [GenEd: SS]
When Offered: Fall
GEN ED: Social Science Designation; Integrative Learning Experience (Theme: “Las Américas”)
Introduction to the cultures and peoples of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. Readings and lectures will focus on language, art, and political economy as vehicles for the expression of beliefs.
(Global Learning Opportunity course)
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ANT 2310 - Appalachian Culture (3)
When Offered: On Demand
A cultural survey of rural and urban Appalachia. A brief history of the region is followed by a discussion of the contemporary social, economic, political, and cultural characteristics of the people. The impact of processes of change, including migration, urbanization, industrialization, and resource exploitation, are explored.
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ANT 2330 - Neandertals (3)
When Offered: Fall, Odd-numbered years
This course studies Homo sapiens neanderthalensis from a paleoanthropological perspective. Based on recent DNA evidence, Nean- dertals are currently considered to be a subspecies of Homo sapiens sapiens. Yet they are still largely mischaracterized and remain something of an enigma - why is this? Why did Neandertals disappear so quickly as Homo sapiens sapiens spread throughout the world between 50,000-30,000 years ago even though they had successfully survived very cold pulses of the Late Pleistocene 200,000 years ago or more? This course examines the adaptation of Neandertals from biological, technological, social, and ecological evidence in order to answer these and other related questions.
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ANT 2340 - Bronze Age Civilizations (3) [GenEd: SS]
When Offered: Spring
GEN ED: Social Science Designation; Integrative Learning Experience (Theme: “From Empire to Globalization”)
What explains the rise and fall of past civilizations? How did the first cities promote increasingly global scales of economic and cultural interaction? And how do early states and empires reflect on our own experience of citizenship and globalization in the 21st century? This course follows in the footsteps of archaeologists to explore these questions through a comparative survey of ruins, artifacts, and texts from complex societies across Eurasia during the so-called Bronze Age circa 3500-1000 BCE. Focusing on case studies from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Scandinavia, India, and China, the course lectures and readings will outline common trajectories, historical differences, and growing interconnections among the ancient societies of these regions.
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ANT 2400 - Native America Through Ethnography (3) [GenEd: SS]
When Offered: Fall
GEN ED: Social Science Designation; Liberal Studies Experience
The course investigates current American Indian societies and issues. Students will read recent ethnographies written by and about Native peoples that bring attention to critical issues such as nation-building, citizenship, identity, material culture, and sociopolitical movements. The course includes an overview U.S. Indian policy since contact, providing the historical context for understanding contemporary issues facing Native Nations today.
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ANT 2420 - Gender, Race and Class (3) [GenEd: SS]
When Offered: Fall; Spring
GEN ED: Social Science Designation; Integrative Learning Experience (Theme: “Intersections: Race, Class, and Gender”)
An anthropological study of gender, social class, ethnicity, race and sexuality as cultural categories with a variety of meanings. Systems of inequality and the ways in which these categories are used to limit access to economic wealth, power, and prestige are analyzed in a global context.
(Global Learning Opportunity course)
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ANT 2430 - Magic, Witchcraft and Religion (3) [GenEd: SS]
When Offered: Fall; Spring
GEN ED: Social Science Designation; Liberal Studies Experience
A cross-cultural study of the nature and functions of belief systems. Emphasis is placed on understanding the belief systems of non-Western cultures in order to provide a means through which our own beliefs can be better understood. A variety of anthropological and psychological approaches to the study of belief systems are used.
(Global Learning Opportunity course)
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ANT 2440 - From Savages to Cyborgs (3)
When Offered: Spring; Alternate years
GEN ED: Social Science Designation; Integrative Learning Experience (Theme: “Imagination, Innovation, and Meaning”)
This course is about monsters, and how monstrosity blends together realms that should be kept separate - such as nature/culture, human/animal, male/female, material/immaterial, and self/other. The very beginnings of anthropology can be traced to the impetus for discovery of otherness, in an unyielding attempt to find, know and subdue others. Despite the Enlightenment project to classify and thus distance the perceived threat of the “savage-primitive”, the figure of the monster shape shifts. People who are cast as less than human - savages, gang members, criminals, terrorists, post-human cyborgs, people with AIDS - embody the nexus of debates about causality and cure. In this course, we pursue the monster as it is imagined and emerges through the medium of film - from early ethnographic films of the 20th century, documentary films on outcast figures, and popular film.
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ANT 2500 - Independent Study (1-4)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
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ANT 2530-2549 - Selected Topics (1-4)
When Offered: On Demand
An opportunity to study a special topic or a combination of topics not otherwise provided for in the anthropology curriculum.
May be repeated for credit when content does not duplicate.
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ANT 2550 - Anthropology Professionalization (1)
When Offered: Fall.
The purpose of this one credit hour course is to provide students with a glimpse into the “professionalization” side of anthropology which will help a young scholar to negotiate the oft-required but rarely illuminated roads that will emerge after graduation. Topics include (but are not limited to) how to present oneself on paper, online, and at conferences; how to apply for jobs; how to construct a CV/resume; how to apply to graduate programs; and how to address the various challenges that a new graduate might face.
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ANT 2700 - South Asia Through Ethnography (3) [GenEd: SS]
When Offered: Spring
GEN ED: Social Science Designation; Liberal Studies Experience
This course explores human life in South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka) through ethnographic and culture historical accounts by anthropologists and others. Attending to both similarities and differences among South Asian peoples, the course offers breadth through a survey of general topics (family, religion, caste, gender, colonialism, politics, etc.) as it also scrutinizes in depth a specific topic of contemporary concern, such as untouchability, ethnic strife, religious nationalism, postcolonialism, the South Asian diaspora, or globalization.
(Global Learning Opportunity course)
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ANT 2800 - Latin America Through Ethnography (3) [GenEd: SS]
When Offered: Spring
GEN ED: Social Science Designation; Liberal Studies Experience
This course offers a critical examination of recent and well-received ethnographies on the cultures and regional histories of Latin America (Guatemala, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Chile) with the hope that by taking a multi-framed approach to reading and discussing these contributions, we may better understand both the similarities and differences Latin America has with other world areas. Topics to be discussed include tourism, development, indigenous activism, democracy, transnationalism, violence, performance, health, citizenship, and social movements.
(Global Learning Opportunity course)
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ANT 3120 - Field Archaeology (3-6)
When Offered: Summer Session
An introduction to methods and techniques of archaeological site survey, mapping, and excavation. Students participate in fieldwork on one or more actual archaeological sites.
May be repeated for credit up to 9 hours when content is not duplicated.
Prerequisite: ANT 2221 or permission of the instructor. Demonstrated Readiness for College-level Math.
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ANT 3200 - Zooarchaeology (3)
When Offered: Spring
Trains students in the identification and analysis of animal remains (primarily bone and shell) recovered from archaeological sites. Students are provided the opportunity to learn the major bones of vertebrates and the hard anatomy of invertebrates and how to identify several species by their distinctive bones or shells. Various approaches to the quantification and analysis of archaeofaunal data are explored. Lecture two hours, laboratory two hours.
Prerequisite: ANT 2221 or permission of the instructor. Demonstrated Readiness for College-level Math.
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ANT 3220 - Human Biological Variation (3) [WID]
When Offered: Fall
GEN ED: Junior Writing in the Discipline (WID)
This course provides a survey of theoretical frameworks in biological anthropology, beginning with an examination of the history and development of evolutionary theory, the modern synthesis, and the “New Physical Anthropology.” Feminist critiques, objections to the adaptationist program, and the development of biocultural approaches to human biology will be examined and applied to the study of patterns and processes in human evolution. Issues to be addressed in this course include the evolution of primate life histories, the origin of modern human biological variation, human reproduction, and evolutionary medicine.
Prerequisite or corequisite: RC 2001 or its equivalent.
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ANT 3250 - Archaeological Laboratory Methods (3)
When Offered: Fall
Trains students in the processing and analysis of materials recovered from archaeological sites such as artifacts, ecofacts, and sediment samples. Numerical data are produced and analyzed using computer data base systems. Lecture two hours, laboratory two hours.
Prerequisite: ANT 2221 , or permission of the instructor. Demonstrated Readiness for College-level Math.
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ANT 3260 - Microscopy in Archaeology (3)
When Offered: Spring, Odd-numbered years
Students will learn how to use an array of microscopic instruments (stereomicroscopy, metallurgical microscopy, and digital microscopy) to identify, record, and interpret attributes of lithic, faunal, and ceramic artifacts related to manufacture, use, or decoration. Archaeological and experimental specimens will be microscopically inspected to differentiate raw materials, lithic use-wear traces, cutmarks on bones, surface decoration of ceramics, etc. Following contemporary procedures in archaeological science, these observations will be integrated in a proper analytical manner in order to prepare technical reports on the same.
Prerequisite: ANT 2221 , or permission of the instructor. Demonstrated Readiness for College-level Math.
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ANT 3270 - Archaeology of the Native South (3)
When Offered: Spring, Even-numbered years
An introduction to the prehistory of the Southeastern United States, from Pleistocene migrations to North America to contact with European colonizers. Emphasizes current research trends in the region, including indigenous economies, politics, and religion, and the various ways in which archaeologists tackle these subjects for the Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods.
Prerequisite: ANT 2221 , or permission of the instructor.
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ANT 3275 - Globalization and Heritage in Africa (3)
When Offered: On Demand
Responding to global flows of capital, people, goods, and ideas, many rural communities across Africa now find themselves struggling to define and preserve expressions of heritage such as customs, crafts, language, landmarks, sacred spaces, ancestral places, and so forth. And yet when heritage becomes equated with “tradition” in popular and political discourse, we may risk silencing deeper histories of global entanglement-the rise and fall of precolonial states, the Atlantic slave trade, religious conversion, and colonial empire-over the past few centuries.
Prerequisite: ANT 2221 , or permission of the instructor.
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ANT 3300 - Human Osteology (3)
When Offered: Fall, Odd-numbered years
This course is designed to provide students with an in-depth knowledge of the human skeleton and dentition. We will examine bones and teeth as dynamic elements that grow, develop, and degenerate throughout the lifespan. Topics covered include bone and tooth biology, micro-structure, and gross anatomy including important features and landmarks of each element.
Prerequisite: ANT 2230 with a grade of “C” (2.0) or higher.
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ANT 3305 - Forensic Anthropology (3)
When Offered: Spring
This course provides students with a broad overview of the field of forensic anthropology - its history, theory, method, and practice. Forensic anthropology is the application of anthropological science to medico-legal questions. This discipline is important for legal and humanitarian reasons and the curriculum will cover case studies that illustrate the ethical and human rights implications of its application. The course will also cover the history of the discipline, practical aspects of identification (sex, ethnicity, age, stature, body mass, and other identifying characteristics in the human skeleton), and forensic anthropological perspectives on pathology and trauma. Students will complete lab assignments and case reports designed to lead to basic proficiency in forensic anthropology.
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ANT 3320 - Primatological Field Methods (3)
When Offered: On Demand
An introduction to the planning, conduct, and presentation of scientific research in the field of primatology. This course will familiarize students with field methods used in primate ethology and tropical ecology (including field and laboratory methods), and students will receive hands-on field research training in field methods used in habitat and trail mapping, primate censuses and surveys, collection of behavioral data, collection of botanical data, and monitoring of ecological variables. Each student will design and conduct, and present an independent research project on a topic of their choice related to primate behavior and ecology. Course may be taught as a field course in Costa Rica, Indonesia, or other primate habitat countries.
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ANT 3350 - Primate Behavior and Ecology (3)
When Offered: On Demand
An examination of primate behavioral adaptations and the relationships among environmental variables, primate morphology, and behavior. Relevant theoretical developments in ecology and evolution will be introduced, and classic and recent texts in primatology will be discussed. Topics include tropical forest ecology, interspecific interactions, primate diets and feeding adaptations, habitat preferences, ranging patterns, positional behavior, social organization and mating systems, communication, and conservation biology.
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ANT 3405 - Quantitative Methods in Anthropology (3)
When Offered: On Demand
An introduction to how computers, quantitative methods, and anthropological data are used to address anthropological questions. The course focuses on hands-on learning in: basic personal computer operations, the Internet, probability theory, data base management, sampling, research design, categorical analysis, linear regression, correlation, and exploratory data analysis. Students will work with original archaeological, bioanthropological, and cultural data on personal computers.
Prerequisites: 6 semester hours in anthropology and STT 2810 or STT 2820 . Demonstrated Readiness for College-level Math.
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ANT 3410 - Ethnographic Methods (3)
When Offered: Fall
An introduction to the art of fieldwork in anthropology, and the methods and practices of research used by anthropologists to create ethnographic works in written, visual, and aural formats. Research design, proposal writing, and research ethics are given special attention.
Prerequisite: ANT 2215 or permission of the instructor.
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ANT 3420 - Women and Gender in Anthropology (3)
When Offered: On Demand
Examination of feminist theoretical issues concerning women and gender cross-culturally, such as feminist perspectives on the cultural construction of gender, relations of production and of reproduction, and gender as a central analytic category. Based in ethnographic information from foraging, tribal, and state societies.
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ANT 3500 - Independent Study (1-4)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
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ANT 3520 - Instructional Assistance (1)
When Offered: Fall; Spring
A supervised experience in the instructional process on the university level through direct participation in a classroom situation.
May be repeated for a total credit of three semester hours. Graded on an S/U basis.
Prerequisite: junior or senior standing.
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ANT 3530-3549 - Selected Topics (1-4)
When Offered: On Demand
An opportunity to study a special topic or combination of topics not otherwise provided for in the anthropology curriculum.
May be repeated for credit when content does not duplicate.
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ANT 3555 - Ceramics for the Archaeologist (3)
When Offered: Fall, Even-numbered years
Fragile yet indestructible, ceramic artifacts are a significant portion of the archaeological record around the world. Through careful analysis, archaeologists use ceramics to date assemblages and sites, trace production through craft economies, untangle ancient exchange networks, and infer the social identities of potters. In this course, successful students will learn both basic and advanced techniques for archaeological ceramic analysis through a combination of lectures, hands-on activities, and original research.
Prerequisite: ANT 2221 , or permission of the instructor.
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ANT 3560 - Archaic States (3)
When Offered: On Demand
Archaeology is uniquely positioned to explore the (pre)history of complex political regimes-what we now call the State-through the study of material culture, human remains, and spatial order. This course will adopt a comparative approach to “archaic” forms of the State as we address three interrelated questions: How does the State emerge in different times and places over the past several millennia? How does the State draw on diverse sources of power to institute the authority of the few over the many? And how does the State intersect with social identities and communities of people subject to or beyond its rule? We will also consider whether our own experience of political power must always frame our responses to these questions-in other words, how can archaeology offer historical visions of the State that are not simply crude reflections of the modern world? Schedule type: Seminar
Prerequisites: ANT 2221 or permission of instructor.
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ANT 3600 - Archaeological Theory (3) [WID]
When Offered: Fall
GEN ED: Junior Writing in the Discipline (WID)
Explores the history of archaeological thought since the eighteenth century (including evolution, cultural history, and processualism) and concludes with contemporary theory (postprocessualism and feminism). Participation in internet archaeological activities will supplement coursework and readings.
Prerequisites: ANT 2221 Prerequisite or corequisite: RC 2001 or its equivalent.
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ANT 3610 - Anthropology of Environmental Justice (3)
When Offered: On Demand
An introduction to the Environmental Justice movement using an anthropological perspective, which considers Environmental Justice as a social movement and a body of critical scholarship. Environmental Justice offers a framework for examining human rights and ecological health in the contemporary world, making connections between race, ethnicity, gender, poverty, power, and environmental problems. Students will look at case studies from North Carolina while also taking a comparative perspective through international case studies.
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ANT 3620 - Political Ecology and Sustainability (3)
When Offered: Spring. Alternate years
An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of political ecology as an important critical approach in contemporary anthropology. The course uses in-depth examples to understand how current global issues like sustainability, conservation, and land management regimes can be critically engaged through the lenses of history and power. Students in the course will study several political ecology ethnographies to deepen their critical awareness of past and present struggles over land use, natural resources, and other embattled human-environment relationships.
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ANT 3625 - History of Anthropological Ideas (3) [WID]
When Offered: Fall
GEN ED: Junior Writing in the Discipline (WID)
A critical examination of the most influential ideas and theories in anthropology from the 19th century to contemporary theoretical schools, viewed in historical context. Changing conceptions of research strategies, research questions, and modes of explanation, as they relate to developing ideas about the nature of anthropology and human culture, are explored.
Prerequisite or corequisite: RC 2001 or its equivalent.
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ANT 3630 - Epistemology and Praxis (3) [WID]
When Offered: On Demand
GEN ED: Junior Writing in the Discipline (WID)
Representation and the epistemological problems inherent to it are key anthropological problems of the 21st century. Instead of studying identifiable, rooted communities, anthropologists have turned their attention to the rhetorical construction underpinning the very ideas and practices sustaining the experiences of rootedness and group identity. In a world marked more than ever by the politics of identity, access to resources is often predicated on establishing a clear membership in recognizable groups. This seminar will offer students a critical understanding of the construction of ‘truth’ which bolsters or provides obstacles to claims of membership and includes a discussion of the precarious nature of engagement which disrupts the balance between academic rigor and solidarity.
Prerequisite or corerequiste: RC 2001 or its equivalent.
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ANT 3635 - Political Anthropology (3) [WID]
When Offered: On Demand.
GEN ED: Junior Writing in the Discipline (WID)
This course brings an anthropological lens to bear on the study of politics as practiced by cultures around the world with a special focus upon the topic of democracy. While much scholarship has addressed the more formal aspects of so-called “democratic transitions” (e.g. regime shifts, political parties and formal political institutions), only recently has scholarly attention in anthropology turned to considerations of lived experiences and the contingent nature of political subjectivities borne out in contemporary societies. Case studies are drawn from a range of contemporary theorizations of democracy and related concepts such as globalization, transnationalism, citizenship, economic development, and identity politics.
Prerequisite or corequisite: RC 2001 or its equivalent.
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ANT 3640 - Language and Culture (3)
When Offered: On Demand
An overview of the complex relations between language, culture, and society as conceived by linguists and anthropologists. The course takes both an historical and an ethnographic approach to language, and involves close readings of theoretical works on language as well as comparative, cross-cultural readings in the ethnography of speaking.
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ANT 3645 - Anthropology of Violence (3) [WID]
When Offered: Spring
GEN ED: Junior Writing in the Discipline (WID)
This course introduces students to the study of violence through anthropological perspectives, beginning in early human communities with the institutional of ritual sacrifice, and across history as we consider the place of violence in tribal societies, acts of terror deployed during the colonial encounter, the violence of the state, and the philosophical writings of thinkers who challenge us to consider that violence produces within us feelings of both attraction and repulsion, that violence and death are fundamental to sexuality in the modern West, and that understanding violence means we grasp senseless violence and cruelty, as much as that part of violence which breathes vitality into human worlds, invigorating communities rather than obliterating them.
Prerequisite or corequisite: RC 2001 or its equivalent.
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ANT 3660 - Medical Anthropology (3) [WID]
When Offered: Fall
Gen Ed: Junior Writing in the Discipline (WID).
In their examination of the diversity of healing practices found across all human societies, anthropologists have offered unique perspectives on what constitutes health and illness. This class will survey important scholarly trends in the field of medical anthropology. Some of the key topics will include the cultural dimensions of the experience of illness, critical studies of the scientific and technological foundations of modern biomedicine, and ethnographic research on the challenges confronting traditional healing practices in a globalizing world.
Prerequisite or Corequisite: RC 2001 or its equivalent.
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ANT 3680 - Environmental Anthropology (3)
When Offered: Fall. Alternate years
This course explores how anthropologists understand the human and cultural dimensions of environmental problems. Or, to put it another way, the intersection of nature and culture. Environmental anthropologists examine how different sociocultural groups - from hunter-gatherers in the Amazon to rangers in national parks in the United States - have conceptualized, categorized, valued, and acted upon the non-human world. We will explore theories, methods, and applications of environmental anthropology. The field examines issues of vital concern today: how humans shape and are shaped by our surroundings.
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ANT 3800 - Ethnographic Writing (3)
When Offered: On Demand
The general purpose of this course is to explore the nature of ethnographic representation and alternative approaches to writing. In order to accomplish this, the course will focus on three main activities: (1) reading of some current critiques and analyses of ethnographic representation; (2) reading different forms of ethnographic writing by others, including realist, confessional and impressionist tales; and (3) writing different forms of ethnographic writing.
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ANT 3820 - Anthropology of Media (3)
When Offered: Fall
In this course, we consider from an anthropological perspective the nature and force of mass media in cultural life. The anthropology of media can be understood as a natural history of the human senses in relation to science and technology, while additionally considering these shifts in connection to social and political phenomena. As we map this particular history of the senses primarily through ethnographies and other literary forms, we want to keep in mind these questions: (1) What structural, psychic, and social forms of life are made possible by the technologization, and more recently, the electronification of communication in various milieus? (2) How does the materiality of media itself transform the human experience of space-time? (3) What is the role of media in the production of difference and understandings of the self? This is a theory-driven course with a lab component, where students will be asked to explore philosophical questions through multimedia projects produced in the Ethnography Lab.
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ANT 3940 - Ethnographic Field School (2-6)
When Offered: On Demand
Students will be immersed in a particular cultural context and learn to use standard ethnographic techniques to analyze and interpret the culture. Each student will live in a local community, participating in its daily activities. There will be instruction in the use of qualitative methods, such as observation, mapping, genealogies and life histories, formal interviewing, and cultural domain analysis. A research paper on a topic selected in consultation with the instructor will be required.
Prerequisite: ANT 2215 or permission of the instructor.
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ANT 3950 - Field Methods in Linguistics (3)
When Offered: On Demand
In this course, students will have the opportunity to learn methods in language documentation and analysis, and will construct their own description of the language from scratch, through direct elicitations from a native-speaker consultant, in addition to testing previously created field grammars and associated lexicon. The course is structured to provide students with a hands-on experience in collecting, processing, and analyzing linguistic data for the purposes of language documentation and description. By the end of the course, participants will have become familiar-not just with the structure of an unfamiliar language-but also with the basic methodologies of linguistic fieldwork (elicitation and text analysis).
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ANT 4225 - Meaning (3)
When Offered: Fall
Culture is often described generally as a system of shared meanings. Using semiotic and existential-phenomenological approaches in anthropology, this seminar will look not so much at WHAT the meanings are that people may share, but rather at the WAYS in which meanings are conveyed, silenced, changed, and imagined by human beings in their cultural contexts.
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ANT 4230 - Magic and Modernity (3)
When Offered: Spring
Modernity is often characterized by a constellation of features such as rationality, objectivity, linear time, bureaucracy, and progress. Anthropology arose as a discipline of modernity. Yet many of the worlds that anthropologists study are enchanted worlds where the dead speak, ghosts act, and magic works. This seminar analyzes what happens when modernity meets such enchanted modes of human existence and explores how anthropology might grapple with the problem of using rational methods to understand magical worlds.
Students who have previously received credit for ANT 4231 may not enroll in or receive credit for ANT 4230.
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ANT 4231 - Capstone: Magic and Modernity (3) [CAP]
When Offered: On Demand
GEN ED: Capstone Experience
Modernity is often characterized by a constellation of features such as rationality, objectivity, linear time, bureaucracy, and progress. Anthropology arose as a discipline of modernity. Yet many of the worlds that anthropologists study are enchanted worlds where the dead speak, ghosts act, and magic works. This seminar analyzes what happens when modernity meets such enchanted modes of human existence and explores how anthropology might grapple with the problem of using rational methods to understand magical worlds.
Students who have previously received credit for ANT 4230 may not enroll in or receive credit for ANT 4231.
Prerequisites: Senior standing and ANT 2215 , ANT 2221 , ANT 2230 , and ANT 3625 .
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ANT 4240 - Politics of Ethnicity (3)
When Offered: On Demand
The history and experiences of indigenous groups have long captured the interest and commitment of anthropologists. Recently, studies have focused on indigenous movements and declarations made in reaction to both state-making processes and neoliberal restructuring reforms of the twentieth-century and beyond. Anthropologists have framed their interpretations and understandings of these movements with attention paid to various topics including power, representation, domination and resistance, hegemony, state-making processes, citizenship, organizing, and performance. This seminar will introduce students to numerous case studies with which they will gain an understanding of the cultural and historical foundations from which are built indigenous movements and their particular strategies.
Students who have previously received credit for ANT 4241 may not enroll in or receive credit for ANT 4240.
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ANT 4241 - Capstone: Politics of Ethnicity (3) [CAP]
When Offered: On Demand
GEN ED: Capstone Experience
The history and experiences of indigenous groups have long captured the interest and commitment of anthropologists. Recently, studies have focused on indigenous movements and declarations made in reaction to both state-making processes and neoliberal restructuring reforms of the twentieth-century and beyond. Anthropologists have framed their interpretations and understandings of these movements with attention paid to various topics including power, representation, domination and resistance, hegemony, state-making processes, citizenship, organizing, and performance. This seminar will introduce students to numerous case studies with which they will gain an understanding of the cultural and historical foundations from which are built indigenous movements and their particular strategies.
Students who have previously received credit for ANT 4240 may not enroll in or receive credit for ANT 4241.
Prerequisites: Senior standing and ANT 2215 , ANT 2221 , ANT 2230 , and ANT 3625 .
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ANT 4245 - Hegemony and Power (3)
When Offered: On Demand
This seminar focuses on the lasting impact that Antonio Gramsci and Michel Foucault have had on the thinking of cultural anthropologists, particularly in relation to the way in which various institutions, knowledge practices, and power come together to shape the relationship between the individual and larger society. In this seminar, students will read directly from their work, and from the work of scholars influenced by them, in order to gain a working knowledge of the ideas and writings of these foundational thinkers as they relate to anthropology.
Students who have previously received credit for ANT 4246 may not enroll in or receive credit for ANT 4245.
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ANT 4246 - Capstone: Hegemony and Power (3) [CAP]
When Offered: On Demand
GEN ED: Capstone Experience
This seminar focuses on the lasting impact that Antonio Gramsci and Michel Foucault have had on the thinking of cultural anthropologists, particularly in relation to the way in which various institutions, knowledge practices, and power come together to shape the relationship between the individual and larger society. In this seminar, students will read directly from their work, and from the work of scholars influenced by them, in order to gain a working knowledge of the ideas and writings of these foundational thinkers as they relate to anthropology.
Students who have previously received credit for ANT 4245 may not enroll in or receive credit for ANT 4246.
Prerequisites: Senior standing and ANT 2215 , ANT 2221 , ANT 2230 , and ANT 3625 .
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ANT 4250 - Biology, Technology, and Culture (3)
When Offered: On Demand
In this course, we will examine the relationship between technological innovations, human biology and environments, and culture from a holistic perspective through selected readings, discussion, and written critiques. Specific topics will include competing constructions of science and nature, the biological, social, and cultural consequences of agriculture, industrialization and the chemical revolution, energy technologies, and biomedical technologies including stem cell research, assisted reproduction, and genomic medicine.
Students who have previously received credit for ANT 4251 may not enroll in or receive credit for ANT 4250.
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ANT 4251 - Capstone: Biology, Technology, and Culture (3) [CAP]
When Offered: On Demand
GEN ED: Capstone Experience
In this course, we will examine the relationship between technological innovations, human biology and environments, and culture from a holistic perspective through selected readings, discussion, and written critiques. Specific topics will include competing constructions of science and nature, the biological, social, and cultural consequences of agriculture, industrialization and the chemical revolution, energy technologies, and biomedical technologies including stem cell research, assisted reproduction, and genomic medicine.
Students who have previously received credit for ANT 4250 may not enroll in or receive credit for ANT 4251.
Prerequisites: Senior standing, ANT 2215 , ANT 2221 , ANT 2230 , and one of the following: ANT 3220 , ANT 3600 , or ANT 3625 .
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ANT 4255 - Ethnobotany: Plants, People, and Culture (4)
When Offered: On Demand
Ethnobotany is a multidisciplinary field that investigates the relations of people to local plant populations. This course will provide a broad overview of the field, introducing students to methods of data collection and classic topics in the discipline, such as the use of plants as food, as medicine, in ritual, and in manufacture. This course will challenge students to think critically about the process of knowledge formation and the phenomenological encounter with the environment. In required lab sections, students will gain practical experience in plant identification, manufacturing processes, sensory ecology, and local “folk” knowledge of plants. Lecture three hours, nine laboratory sessions of three hours.
Students who have previously received credit for ANT 4256 may not enroll in or receive credit for ANT 4255 or BIO 4255 .
(Same as BIO 4255 .)
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ANT 4256 - Capstone: Ethnobotany: Plants, People, and Culture (4) [CAP]
When Offered: On Demand
GEN ED: Capstone Experience
Ethnobotany is a multidisciplinary field that investigates the relations of people to local plant populations. This course will provide a broad overview of the field, introducing students to methods of data collection and classic topics in the discipline, such as the use of plants as food, as medicine, in ritual, and in manufacture. This course will challenge students to think critically about the process of knowledge formation and the phenomenological encounter with the environment. In required lab sections, students will gain practical experience in plant identification, manufacturing processes, sensory ecology, and local “folk” knowledge of plants. Lecture three hours, nine laboratory sessions of three hours.
Students who have previously received credit for ANT 4255 or BIO 4255 may not enroll in or receive credit for ANT 4256.
Prerequisite: ANT 2215 , ANT 2221 , ANT 2230 , ANT 3625 .
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ANT 4260 - Anthropology of Development (3)
When Offered: Spring. Alternate years
This course offers an anthropological perspective on the critical study of national and international development projects. The anthropology of development puts questions of culture and human experience at the center of analysis. Through anthropological studies of the everyday life of development, we consider the lived consequences of development for those “being developed,” as well as for those advocating development. This ethnographic approach highlights the intimacies and materialities of development experiences. Geographic/cultural areas of emphasis will be global in scope but with extra emphasis in the instructor’s area of expertise.
Students who have previously taken ANT 4261 may not enroll in or receive credit for ANT 4260.
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