Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF LANGUAGE ***** Overview of the scientific study of the structure and function of language. Introduces the main fields of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics. Highlights the interdisciplinary relationship of linguistics with anthropology, sociology, psychology, and cognitive sciences. ***** Also offered as LING 200. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY ***** Introduction to the history, methods, and concepts of social/cultural anthropology, which is devoted to the systematic description and understanding of cultural diversity in human societies. ***** Instructor(s): Georges.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HUMAN ANTIQUITY:AN INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND PREHISTORY ***** This course offers a broad introduction to the human past as revealed by evolutionary studies of both biochemical and fossil evidence, and by archaeological studies of human cultural behavior. ***** Instructor(s): McIntosh, S.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY ***** An introduction to the elementary concepts of the discipline through a series of case studies. ***** Instructor(s): McIntosh, R.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NANOTECHNOLOGY: CONTENT AND CONTEXT ***** Nanotechnology is science and engineering resulting from the manipulation of matter's most basic building blocks: atoms and molecules. This course is designed for humanities and science students who want to explore the content of nanotechnology, (e.g.., the methods of visualization, experimentation, and manufacture, and technical feasibility) with the social context of nanotechnology (issues of ethics, regulation, risk assessment, history, funding, intellectual property, controversy and conflict). Preference will be given to freshmen and sophomore students. Register for CHEM 235 to receive Group 3 distribution credit; register for ANTH 235 to receive Group 2 distribution credit. You may receive credit only for one group, not both. ***** Also offered as CHEM 235. ***** Enrollment limited to 40. ***** Instructor(s): Kulinowski, Kelty

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE EAST ***** This course provides an introduction to and critical examination of the extensive ethnographic literature written by sociocultural anthropologist on the peoples and cultures of the Middle East (including North Africa). Major themes of this literature are reviewed and analyzed, and current trends are studied by reading recent works. ***** Instructor(s): Ossman

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE (TO BE NAMED) ***** This course focuses intensively on the history and ethnography of a single people, the selection of which changes from year to year. Using all available materials, this course provides an introduction to the approaches of the discipline and how they have changed, registered by the different ways anthropologists and others have represented the same subjects over time. ***** Instructor(s): Marcus.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BIOTECHNOLOGY, 1900 TO NOW ***** The technical manipulation of living matter from humans, animals and plants is both a scientific and a social undertaking. This course is designed for humanities and science students who want to know more about how biotechnology came into existence, and the questions, controversies and changes which come with the ability to engineer living things. A series of case studies of contemporary events in cloning, patenting, genetically modified organisms, and stem cell research will be set in the context of the 20th century history of biotechnology. ***** Instructor(s): Landecker. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 200

Description: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS ***** A hands-on, data-oriented approach to how different languages construct words and sentences. Students will develop skills in linguistic problem solving and the foundations for pursuing grammatical description. Topics: word classes, morphology, tense-aspect-modality, clause structure, word order, grammatical relations, existentials/posessives/locatives, voice/valence, questions, negation, relative clauses, complements causatives. ***** Prerequisite(s): ANTH 200. ***** Also offered as LING 300. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 200

Description: PHONETICS ***** Introductory study of sound as it relates to speech and sound systems in the world's languages. Speech sounds are examined in terms of production mechanisms (articulatory phonetics), propagation mechanisms (acoustic phonetics), and perception mechanisms (auditory phonetics). Includes a basic introduction to Digital Signal Processing. ***** Prerequisite(s): ANTH 200 or permission of instructor. ***** Also offered as LING 301. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): LING 200 AND LING 300 OR LING 301

Description: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS ***** Exploration of the nature of language change in its phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and sociocultural aspects, using the perspective of language acquisition. Includes techniques of internal and comparative reconstruction of proto-languages. Required for linguistic majors; may substitute LING 315. ***** Prerequisite(s): LING 200, 300, or 301. ***** Also offered as LING 305. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL IDEAS ***** An introduction to the history of anthropology, its theories, and methods. The emphasis is upon social and cultural anthropology. ***** Instructor(s): Faubion.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIRECTIONS FROM THE SECOND WORLD WAR TO THE PRESENT ***** A sequel to ANTH 306/506, the course explores turns and trends in sociocultural research and critique during the past half-century. Special attention is paid to the rise and fall of structuralism, the problematization of "the primitive," and the proliferation of theories of "practice". ***** Instructor(s): Faubion.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY AS A CULTURAL MYTH ***** Explores ideas of history and attitudes toward the past as culturally conditioned phenomena. Emphasizes history as a statement of cultural values as well as conceptualizations of cause, change, time, and reality. ***** Also offered as WGST 336. ***** Instructor(s): Taylor.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GLOBAL CULTURES ***** This course will examine specific cultural debates and issues that have "overflowed" national boundaries. Topics will include student movements, democracy and citizenship, and the internationalization of professional and popular culture. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CONTEMPORARY CHINESE CULTURE ***** This introductory course is designed to encourage ways of thinking about: Cultural China--a broad-ranging concept that includes the People's Republic of China, the newly established Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Hong Kong, the Republic of China on Taiwan, and overseas Chinese communities throughout the world. ***** Also offered as ANTH 220, HIST 220, and HIST 310. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MASCULINITIES ***** This course deals with masculinities in the West, concentrating on concepts of masculine protagonism and personhood. Readings explore identities constructed in realms such as law, politics, finances, art, the home, and war. ***** Also offered as WGST 333. ***** Instructor(s): Taylor.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AFRICAN PREHISTORY ***** Thematic coverage of developments throughout the continent from the Lower Paleolithic to medieval times, with emphasis on food production, metallurgy and the rise of cities and complex societies. ***** Instructor(s): McIntosh, R.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE ***** Investigates the relation between language and thought, language and world view, language and logic. ***** Also offered as LING 313. ***** Instructor(s): Tyler.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENETICS: BIOLOGICAL, CULTURE-HISTORICAL, AND ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES ***** The course uses an interdisciplinary perspective to examine the claims and counter-claims made regarding genetics and new technologies for identifying and manipulating genetic material. The course will cover biological basics of genes, DNA, and sequencing techniques; cultural and historical aspects of approaches to genetics, including essentialism and eugenics past and present; ethical issues arising from new genetic technologies; and policy issues. ***** Also offered as UNIV 314 and BIOS 307. ***** Instructor(s): McIntosh, S., Landecker, Novotny

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF INFORMATION AND NETWORKS ***** History and social study of information and network technologies. Thematic focus on communication, exchange, information/knowledge production and institutions of property and contract law. Empirical topics include networking technologies, money and financial institutions, free software and open source, cryptography, standards bodies, history of the internet, patents, copyright, trademark, and contract law. Includes North America, Europe, and South Asia. ***** Instructor(s): Kelty. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURAL ANALYSIS ***** This course is specifically intended for lower level undergraduates as a means of gaining familiarity with the analytical tradition of cultural anthropology from the beginning of the Twentieth Century. The course is intended to provide students with background for upper level courses in the department. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GRAPHING, COUNTING, FILMING: REPRESENTATION IN SCIENCE AND ANTHROPOLOGY ***** Cinema originated in the inscription of physiology on film; this was quickly followed by biology, ethology and ethnology done by cinematography. This course examines the historical, critical and methodological relations between film as medium or method of visual investigation and cinema as site of cultural analysis. ***** Also offered as HART 381. ***** Instructor(s): Landecker. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SYMBOLISM AND POWER ***** This course will use both traditional and contemporary readings to emphasize the trend in cultural analysis from a view of culture as monolithic and static to perceptions that any culture is internally varied and contradictory as well as changing and complex. ***** Instructor(s): Taylor.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PUBLIC SPHERES AND PUBLIC CULTURES ***** This course will discuss some of the basic issues surrounding civil society and the public sphere. It will look at specific contemporary debates in public culture, such as multiculturalism, identity politics, and the crisis of contemporary liberalism. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TEXT AS PROPERTY, PROPERTY AS TEXT: ACROSS THE AGES ***** Examines forms and norms of authorship and ownership from antiquity to the present. What is an author? Is a text public or private property? What are the licit/illicit forms of rewriting and appropriating a text, and how are those forms defined? This class investigates historically these and other issues. ***** Also offered as CLAS 311. ***** Instructor(s): Kelty

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURES AND IDENTITIES: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND NATIONALISM ***** How do cultural conceptions of race, ethnicity, and nationalism shape who we think we are? How are these ideas related to Western views of the relations between nature and society, and how do these differ from those in other cultures? ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 200 OR ANTH 301

Description: PHONOLOGY ***** Introduction to sound patterns in the languages of the world and to interpretation of these patterns in four theoretical traditions: distribution of holistic segments (Phonemic Theory), process-oriented feature models (Generative and Autosegemental models), constraint-based models (Optimality Theory), and cognitive approaches (Natural Generative Phonology and Cognitive Phonology). ***** Also offered as LING 311. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEX, SELF, AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT GREECE ***** An introductory venture into conducting fieldwork in the past. The course treats a wide range of artifacts, from philosophical essays to vase paintings. It derives its focus from a rich corpus of recent research into the ancient problemization of desire and self-control. ***** * Also offered as WGST 332. ***** Instructor(s): Faubion.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF LAW ***** Social conflict and methods of dispute management in Western and non-Western societies. Comparison of legal institutions in band, tribal, early state, and complex industrial societies. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENDER AND SYMBOLISM ***** Examinations of beliefs concerning men, women, and gender in different cultures, including the West, relating to issues of symbolism, power, and the distribution of cultural models. ***** Also offered as WGST 350. ***** Instructor(s): Taylor.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: VIOLENCE, TERROR, AND SOCIAL TRAUMA ***** This course addresses the central place of violence in our society and its relations with social and political terror in other cultures. Readings, film, and theater probe everyday violence as well as spectacular events of our times. Aftermath, including cross generational trauma, will be explored. ***** Instructor(s): Taylor.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BODIES, SENSUALITIES & ART ***** Cross-cultural approaches to art and the senses. Students may engage any medium. Emphasis to be placed on issues generated from performance in the arts rather than from academia. Contrasts art and academic knowledge to explore alternative epistemologies and aesthetics. ***** Instructor(s): Taylor.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ANTHROPOLOGY AS CULTURAL CRITIQUE ***** The critical assessment and interpretation of Euroamerican social institutions and cultural forms have always been an integral part of anthropology's intellectual project. This course will explain the techniques, history, and achievements of such critique. It will also view the purpose in the context of a more generational tradition of critical social thought in the West, especially the U.S. ***** Instructor(s): Marcus.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: READING POPULAR CULTURE ***** The course examines a number of cases from popular genres-romance, novels, television sit-coms, tourist sites, movies, rock music and submits them to a variety of theoretical approaches from disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, literary studies, and philosophy. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN AFRICA ***** Discusses new religious movements and the religious, sociological, and political factors leading to their rise, also missionary and colonial reactions to them. Examines their relationship to indigenous religions, political praxis, their focus on this-worldly salvation in the wake of political and economic marginality. ***** Also offered as RELI 342. ***** Instructor(s): Bongmba.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CITY/CULTURE ***** The course treats both the theorization and the ethnographic exploration of the urban imaginary; urban spaces and practices; urban, suburban, and post-urban planning; city-states, colonial cities, and capital cities; and the late 20th century metropolis. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE POLITICS OF THE PAST: ARCHAEOLOGY IN SOCIAL CONTEXT ***** An examination of the way that archaeological evidence of the past has been used and viewed by particular groups at different times. Using case studies, the course considers issues of gender, race, Eurocentrism, political domination and legitimacy that emerge from critical analysis of representations of the past by archaeologists, museums, and collectors. ***** Instructor(s): McIntosh, S.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE U.S. AS A FOREIGN COUNTRY ***** The course looks at selected aspects of American culture and society from an anthropological point of view. Readings derive from the works of both foreign and native observers, past and present. ***** Instructor(s): Faubion.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURES OF NATIONALISM ***** This course will examine the cultural dimensions of nationalism, particularly around the creation of forms of "peoplehood" that seem to be presupposed by almost all nation-building projects. Texts to be analyzed will include the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and the Declaration of the Rights to Man. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURES OF INDIA ***** Summary of the prehistory, ethnography, and ethnology of the Indian subcontinent. Special emphasis on Hinduism, Buddhism, and Indian philosophy. ***** Instructor(s): Tyler.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE FOURTH WORLD: ISSUES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ***** In contrast with people self-identified within political structures of the First, Second and Third Worlds, Fourth World peoples are, generally speaking, "stateless peoples". In this course we will examine both how this "unofficial" status affects their struggle for self-determination and how native peoples engage traditional beliefs and practices for self-empowerment. Through readings, films and speakers we will examine current conflicts facing indigenous people in North and South America, the Soviet Union, Europe, Asia, and Australia. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LATIN AMERICAN TOPICS ***** What exactly is Latin America (a geographical region, cultural area, etc.)? What is its relation to the Western World? What does it mean to be Latin American? The answers to these seemingly straightforward questions can vary widely depending upon the context. By examining icons, process of knowledge production, popular cultures, and cultrual producers, this course addresses the question(s) of how Latin America/Americas have come to be defined is a wide scope of areas including musical beats, dancing stles, scholarly statements, and mass media. We will analyze materials such as images, written texts, films, and music by utilizing the theories and tools of cultural anthropology. This is an introductory course designed for students interested in all or some of the following topics: Latin America, popular culture and cultural production, the study of cultural aspects of processes of globalization and Cultrual Anthropology.

Long Title: ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD TECHNIQUES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 205

Description: ARCHEOLOGICAL FIELD TECHNIQUES ***** Methods used in field work, laboratory analysis, and interpretation of archaeological data from a local site excavated by the class. ***** Prerequisite(s): ANTH 205. ***** Instructor(s): McIntosh, R. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EARLY CIVILIZATIONS ***** A comparative study of the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus, China, and the Maya, emphasizing the causes and conditions of their origins. ***** Instructor(s): McIntosh, R.

Long Title: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY FIELD TECHNIQUES

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course, basic field archaeology techniques are taught on-site in an historical archaeology context; with emphasis on excavation methods, artifact recovery, and recording techniques. Students will excavate stone structures and a variety of historical deposits. Fieldwork takes place in Sengal, June-July.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 203 OR BIOS 202 OR BIOS 344

Description: HUMAN EVOLUTION ***** Covers the fossil evidence for the evolution of primates and hominids, insights into early hominid behavior from comparative studies in primate ecology and behavior, and how evolution has shaped contemporary human diversity and behavior. ***** Prerequisite(s): ANTH 203 or BIOS 202 or BIOS 344. ***** Instructor(s): McIntosh, S.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PRIMATOLOGY ***** An introduction to primate diversity, ecology, and sociality based on what is now known from field studies of wild primate populations. ***** Instructor(s): Nisbitt

Long Title: ARCHAEOLOGICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3 TO 6

Description: Techiniques of processing, conserving and recording archaeological materials are emphasized. Students will become familiar with procedures for pottery, glass, metals, and building materials in addition to plant and animal remains. Course work includes lectures, hands-on lab work, and informal discussion. Lab takes place in Senegal, June-July.

Long Title: MONEY AND EVERYDAY LIFE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Money is such a part of everday modern life that it is hard for us to imagine living wihout it. Yet in many pre-modern societies, gift-exchange was as important as money is in our own. This course will look at the cultural dimensions of systems of exchange, ranging from gift-giving among Northwest Coast Indians to foreign currency exchanges between financial institutions. Along with the classic work of Marx and Simmel on money and capital, we will also cover some of the anthropological work on gifts and exchange, such as that of Mauss, Levi-Strauss, and Bourdies, as well as some of the contemporary debates initiated by Bataille and Derrida. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURES OF CAPITALISM ***** Most of us think of capitalism as primarily an economic phenomenon. Yet, it also has a profoundly cultural dimension that includes culturally specific forms of risk taking, speculation, and even money and capital. This course will explore contemporary phenomenon such as speculation, booms and busts, and the stock market, and use them to discuss some of the classic work on the "cultures of capitalism", including Marx, Simmel, Kracauer, and contemporary writers such as Jameson, DeBord and Virillio. This is not an introductory course in economics but will look at how people talk and write about culture and capitalism. ***** Instructor(s): Staff. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE LINGUISTIC TURN: LANGUAGE, NARRATION, AND MODERNITY ***** This course will look at the role of narration and the construction of some of the basic forms of modernity and post-modernity, ranging from nationalism to performative approaches to identity. The first half of the course will introduce the basic linguistic tools necessary to analyze a variety of cultural materials, and the second half will be devoted to analyzing specific texts and student presentations. The course does not presuppose any technical training in linguistic or literary analysis. ***** Also offered as LING 373. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ABRACADABRA: LANGUAGE AND MEMORY IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ***** The history of language, writing, and formal notational systems in science and technology. Includes ancient and renaissance arts of memory, universal languages and the development of the calculus, secret writing and cryptography, the graphical method, the rise of the 'scriptural' mode of DNA, the development and use of programming languages, psychoanalysis. No technical knowlege is assumed. ***** Instructor(s): Kelty. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GIFTS AND CONTRACTS ***** This course uses philosophical, literary, and economic approaches to examine the role that gifts and contracts play in everyday life and in constructing society and culture. Authors discussed include: Derrida, Marx, Mauss, David Lewis, Schelling, Von Neumann and Morgenstern. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURE, SECURITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS ***** Course addresses theories of risk society and their relationship to concepts of culture, gender, security and human rights-based social movements. It addresses contemporary reorganizations of domestic, cultural and geopolitical space and also examines the increasingly intense discussions surrounding 'cultures' of fear, risk, safety, civility, governance, biopolitics and rights. ***** Also offered as HIST 380 and WGST 380. ***** Course offered Spring. ***** Instructor(s): Chivens.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY ***** Cultural, ecological, and biological perspectives on human health and disease throughout the world. ***** Enrollment limited to 30. ***** Instructor(s): Georges.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HUMAN ADAPTATION ***** Explanations for the range and patterns of human biological differences in the context of theories of adaptation. Integrates themes from human genetics, physiology, and cultural studies. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE LIFE CYCLE: A BIOCULTURAL VIEW ***** The human life cycle from conception to death. Focus is on the interaction between biological processes and culture. ***** Also offered as WGST 335. ***** Instructor(s): Georges. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 388 if student has credit for ANTH 588.

Long Title: CULTURE, NARRATION AND SUBJECTIVITY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURE, NARRATION, AND SUBJECTIVITY ***** This course examines how linguistic and narrative structures interact to produce specific cultures of interpretation. The focus will be on linguistic and literary representations of subjectivity. This course will use novels by Western authors, such as Virginia Woolf and Dostoevsky, and some Chinese materials as comparison. ***** Instructor(s): Staff. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 390 if student has credit for ANTH 590.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURES AND COMMUNICATION ***** Investigates the relations between different forms of communication - speech, print, film and cultural constructions such as audiences, publics, and communities. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS ***** Study of semantic categories and their formal expression in morphological, syntactic, and lexical units and patterns. ***** * Also offered as LING 402. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ANALYZING PRACTICE ***** A critical review of work informed by what has sometimes been deemed the "key concept" of anthropological theory and research since the 1960s. Special attention will be devoted to the analytics of practice developed by Foucault, by Bourdieu, and by de Certeau. ***** Instructor(s): Faubion

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY ***** Directed reading and preparation of written papers on anthropological subjects not offered in the curriculum and advanced study of subjects on which courses are offered. ***** Instructor(s): Staff Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COGNITIVE STUDIES IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS ***** Relations between thought, language, and culture. Special emphasis given to natural systems of classification and the logical principles underlying them. ***** Also offered as LING 406. ***** Instructor(s): Tyler.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FIELD TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS ***** Techniques and practice in the observation, analysis, and recording of a human language. Includes discussion of ethical issues in working with indigenous peoples. ANTH 300, 301, and 402 recommended. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Prerequisite(s): permission of instructor. ***** Course may be repeated for credit. ***** Also offered as LING 407. ***** Instructor(s): Staff. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FIELD TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS ***** Continuation of ANTH 407/LING 407. ***** Also offered as LING 408. ***** Instructor(s): Staff. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AUTHORSHIP AND OWNERSHIP ***** A course on the relations that bind persons to particular things or ideas as property. Looks at forms of ownership as embodied by patents,copyright, brandnames and trademarks, and explores how such laws, marks and names functions as useful anthropological objects. ***** Instructor(s): Landecker. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF DEVELOPMENT ***** This course suggests the necessity of a solid ethnographic grounding for both practical development work and for further intellectual growth of the discipline. Offered occasionally. ***** Instructor(s): Staff.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NEUROLINGUISTICS ***** Study of languages and the brain. Includes localization of speech, language, and memory functions, hemispheric dominance, pathologies of speech and language associated with brain damage, and hypotheses of the representation and operation of linguistic information in the cortex. ***** Also offered as LING 411. ***** Instructor(s): Lamb.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RHETORIC ***** Overview of classical theories. Intensive discussion of contemporary theories and applications in a wide variety of disciplines. ***** Also offered as LING 410. ***** Instructor(s): Tyler.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HERMENEUTICS AND LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY ***** Application of linguistic theory and method in the analysis of cultural materials. Includes discourse analysis and the structure and interpretation of texts and conversation. ***** Also offered as LING 414. ***** Instructor(s): Tyler.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THEORIES OF MODERNITY/ POSTMODERNITY ***** An advanced course for graduate students and undergraduate majors with interests in the interdisciplinary field of cultural studies. Readings in the work of Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, Saussure, Gadamer, Derrida, Bahktin, Foucault, and others. ***** Instructor(s): Faubion.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CAN HUMANS THINK? ANTHROPOS, HUMANISM AND TECHNOLOGY ***** An upper level reading and research seminar that combines readings in the history of humanism with empirical and theoretical issues from the present. Texts and topics from Kant to JCR Licklider on anthropos and humanism, and examples from current debates: genetic engineering, environmentalism, interfaces and networking technologies, testing technologies, and intellectual property regimes. Emphasis on the three R's. ***** Instructor(s): Kelty. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LAW AND SOCIETY ***** In addition to focussing on works associated with critical legal studies and its anticedent legal realism, the course will examine a number of cases in the international domain that challenge concepts of civil society arising with the modern nation-state. ***** Instructor(s): Staff

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AFRICAN MYTHS & RITUAL ***** Explore and analyze specific myths and rituals which provide legitimation for community ceremonies and that serve as a basis for the negotiation of power and ideology for members within that community. Readings from classic theorists: Durkheim, Levi-Struass, Edmond Leach, Gennap and Turner, and contemporary theorists: Werbner, Heusch, Comaroff, and Ray. ***** Also offered as RELI 423. ***** Instructor(s): Bongmba. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 205 AND ANTH 362

Description: ADVANCED TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY ***** Seminar on selected topics in archaeological analysis and theory. The course will variously focus on ceramic analysis and classification, archaeological sampling in regional survey and excavation, and statistical approaches to data analysis and presentation. ***** Prerequisite(s): ANTH 205 and 362. ***** Instructor(s): McIntoch, S.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EXPERIMENTAL WRITING & ANTHROPOLOGY ***** Explores relationships between ethnography and other genres. Emphasizes experimental styles, including combinations of ethnographic and personal material, and problems of writing to communicate experiences such as violence and art. ***** Instructor(s): Taylor. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BIOTECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE ***** This course focuses on anthropology of the life sciences. We will examine how this work takes contemporary bioscience as a site for cultural analysis, and also the allied proposals that this represents an opportunity to renovate classic anthropological analyses and categories of kinship, reproduction, the body, life, death and identity. ***** Instructor(s): Landecker. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 381

Description: ADVANCED TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY ***** Seminar on contemporary research on the biomedical aspects of human health and disease. Includes topics from medical ecology and epidemiology. ***** Prerequisite(s): ANTH 381 or permission of the instructor. ***** Enrollment limited to 12. ***** Instructor(s): Georges

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF MODERNITY ***** The course explores the strategies of representation, the methodologies, and the diagnostic categories to which anthropologists have resorted in coming to terms with such phenomena as rationalization, economic and informational globalization, and the commodification of culture. ***** Instructor(s): Faubion.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: A SEMINAR FOR MAJORS ***** This seminar is designed specifically for juniors and seniors who have declared anthropology as a major, and is intended as an opportunity for them to survey the various applications and points of relevance of anthropology in the rapid transformations of contemporary societies and cultures. It is meant to both assess and challenge the forms of knowledge that anthropology has produced since its inception as a discipline. ***** Instructor(s): Marcus

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES ***** Introduction to the historical and social aspects of science and technology. Directed towards providing social scientists ways to understand the role of science and technology in their field sites and research projects; with additional emphasis on the use of media and internet technologies for qualitative social science research. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Instructor(s): Kelty.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HUMAN OSTEOLOGY ***** Introduction to the analysis of human skeletal material from archaeological sites. ***** Instructor(s): McIntosh, S.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 205

Description: ADVANCED ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY ***** History and analysis of the major currents of archaeological theory from the Encyclopaedist origins of positivism, through cultural evolutionism and historical particularism, to the New Archaeology and current trends. ***** Prerequisite(s): ANTH 205. ***** Instructor(s): McIntosh, R. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WEST AFRICAN PREHISTORY ***** Seminar providing in-depth consideration of the later prehistoric archaeology (late Stone Age and Iron Age) of the West African subcontinent. ***** Instructor(s): McIntosh, S.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PALAEOCLIMATE & HUMAN RESPONSE ***** Palaeoscientists have records extending through the Holocene of forcing processes, such as climate, that influence humans. We examine these records and their impact on past and present society. We explore the concept of social memory, used to understand how past communities use information about climate change and past responses in long term adaptive strategies. ***** Also offered as ESCI 468. ***** Instructor(s): McIntosh, R., Droxler. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED SEMINAR ON THE PREHISTORIC LANDSCAPE ***** The interaction of human geography (cultural ecology) and the physical landscape (geomorphology and physical geography) as applied to past and present settlement on major floodplains. ***** Instructor(s): McIntosh, R.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PLIO-PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE & HOMINID ADAPTATION ***** Junctures in the evolution of the hominids appear to coincide with shifts in the earth's climate record. We will explore the current status of our knowledge of global climate in the Plio-Pleistocene and of the hominid record from the end of the Miocene to the appearance of H. sapiens. ***** Also offered as ESCI 475. ***** Instructor(s): McIntosh, R., Droxler. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: NON-WESTERN CINEMA: THIRD WORLD CINEMAS ***** Study of significant national cinemas, film movements, and filmmakers of the Third World from Africa to Latin America and from the Middle East to China. Includes colonial and postcolonial discourses. ***** Limited enrollment. ***** Also offered as HART 482. ***** Instructor(s): Naficy

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: DOCUMENTARY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM ***** Overview of the history of documentary and ethnographic cinema from a worldwide perspective. Includes both canonical and alternative films and film movements, with emphasis on the shifting and overlapping of boundaries of fiction and nonfiction generes. ***** Also offered as HART 483. ***** Instructor(s): Naficy

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: CULTURE, MEDIA, SOCIETY: EXILE & DIASPORA CINEMAS ***** Examination of cultural productions as vehicles for communication across national, cultural, and other boundaries, using contemporary theories of culture and media. Includes the creation of meaning and cultural capital, the representation of minority and alternative views, and the construction of individual and group identities. ***** Also offered as HART 484. ***** Instructor(s): Naficy

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DIRECTED HONORS RESEARCH ***** A two-semester sequence of independent research culminating in the preparation and defense of an honors thesis. Open only to candidates formally accepted into the honors program.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DIRECTED HONORS RESEARCH ***** A two-semester sequence of independent research culminating in the preparation and defense of an honors thesis. Open only to candidates formally accepted in the honors program.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIRECTIONS FROM SECOND WORLD WAR TO PRESENT ***** Graduate version of ANTH 307.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HISTORY AS CULTURAL MYTH ***** Graduate version of ANTH 308.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GLOBAL CULTURES ***** Graduate version of ANTH 309.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MASCULINITIES ***** Graduate version of ANTH 311.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AFRICAN PREHISTORY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 312.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE ***** Graduate version of ANTH 313.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF INFORMATION AND NETWORKS ***** Graduate version of ANTH 315.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GRAPHING, COUNTING, FILMING: REPRESENTATION IN SCIENCE AND ANTHROPOLOGY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 318.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SYMBOLISM AND POWER ***** Graduate version of ANTH 319.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PUBLIC SPHERES AND PUBLIC CULTURES ***** Graduate version of ANTH 320.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEX, SELF, AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT GREECE ***** Graduate version of ANTH 325.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENDER AND SYMBOLISM ***** Graduate version of ANTH 327.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: VIOLENCE, TERROR AND SOCIAL TRAUMA ***** Graduate version of ANTH 328.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BODIES, SENSUALITIES, AND ART ***** Graduate version of ANTH 329.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ANTHROPOLOGY AS CULTURAL CRITIQUE ***** Graduate version of ANTH 335.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: READING POPULAR CULTURE ***** Graduate version of ANTH 338.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CITY/CULTURE ***** Graduate version of ANTH 344.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE POLITICS OF THE PAST: ARCHAEOLOGY IN SOCIAL CONTEXT ***** Graduate version of ANTH 345.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE U.S. AS A FOREIGN COUNTRY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 347.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURES OF NATIONALISM ***** Graduate version of ANTH 351.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURES OF INDIA ***** Graduate version of ANTH 353.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE FOURTH WORLD: ISSUES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ***** Graduate version of ANTH 358.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD TECHNIQUES ***** Graduate version of ANTH 362. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EARLY CIVILIZATIONS ***** Graduate version of ANTH 363.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MONEY AND EVERYDAY LIFE ***** Graduate version of ANTH 371.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURES OF CAPITALISM ***** Graduate version of ANTH 372.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE LINGUISTIC TURN: LANGUAGE, NARRATION, AND MODERNITY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 373.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ABRACADABRA: LANGUAGE AND MEMORY IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 375.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ANCIENT CITY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 377.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GIFTS AND CONTRACTS ***** Graduate version of ANTH 379.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 381.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HUMAN ADAPTATION ***** Graduate version of ANTH 383.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LIFE CYCLE: A BIOCULTURAL VIEW ***** Graduate version of ANTH 388. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 588 if student has credit for ANTH 388.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURE, NARRATION AND SUBJECTIVITY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 390. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 590 if student has credit for ANTH 390.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CULTURES AND COMMUNICATION ***** Graduate version of ANTH 395.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: INDEPENDENT STUDY ***** No description. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GRADUATE PROSEMINAR IN ANTHROPOLOGY ***** Mapping the current fields of anthropological discourses, examining the debates in and between each of these fields, and discussing how these debates are conducted in the domains of fieldwork, ethnographic writing, and in the construction of careers in anthropology.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ANTHROPOLOGY PROPOSAL WRITING SEMINAR ***** This seminar prepares anthropology graduate students to write a successful grant proposal. Basic elements of proposal writing, including problem conceptualization, literature reviews and methods will be covered. ***** Instructor(s): Georges

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ANALYZING PRACTICE ***** Graduate version of ANTH 403.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: FIELDWORK ***** Fieldwork-- In which students pursue ethnographic research, learn to manage information and create presentations using a variety of tools and technologies. Topics and themes change. ***** Instructor(s): Kelty

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: COGNITIVE STUDIES IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS ***** Graduate version of ANTH 406.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FIELD TECHNIQUES & ANALYSIS ***** Graduate version of ANTH 407.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: FIELD TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS ***** Graduate version of ANTH 408.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AUTHORSHIP AND OWNERSHIP ***** Graduate version of ANTH 409.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF DEVELOPMENT ***** Graduate version of ANTH 410.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: NEUROLINGUISTICS ***** Graduate version of ANTH 411.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: RHETORIC ***** Graduate version of ANTH 412.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HERMENEUTICS & LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 414.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THEORIES OF MODERNITY/ POSTMODERNITY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 415.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CAN HUMANS THINK? ANTHROPOS, HUMANISM AND TECHNOLOGY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 418.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: LAW AND SOCIETY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 419.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 425.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EXPERIMENTAL WRITING & ANTHROPOLOGY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 430.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: BIOTECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE ***** Graduate version of ANTH 440.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 446.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: MODERN ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF MODERNITY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 447.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PEDAGOGY ***** Training in the basic elements of teaching in anthropology to be taken in conjunction with applied graduate student teaching in ANTH 316. ***** Prerequisite(s): Third year and above graduate students.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES ***** Graduate version of ANTH 455.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: GENDER AND POST-SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION IN EASTERN EUROPE ***** Course examines effect on women of transitions to capitalism and democracy in Eastern Europe, with special focus on labor, childcare, political participation, women and the media, reproductive rights, domestic violence and trafficking in women. Special attention given to the difficulties of forging ties between "Eastern and "Western" feminist experiences. ***** Also offered as HIST 457. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Chivens

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: HUMAN OSTEOLOGY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 458.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 460. Repeatable for Credit.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: WEST AFRICAN PREHISTORY ***** Graduate version of ANTH 463.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PALAEOCLIMATE & HUMAN RESPONSE ***** Graduate version of ANTH 468.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: ADVANCED SEMINAR ON THE PREHISTORIC LANDSCAPE ***** Graduate version of ANTH 474.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: PLIO-PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE AND HOMINID ADAPTATION ***** Graduate version of ANTH 475.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: NON-WESTERN CINEMA: THIRD-WORLD CINEMAS ***** Graduate version of ANTH 482.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: DOCUMENTARY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM ***** Graduate version of ANTH 483.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: CULTURE, MEDIA, SOCIETY: EXILE & DIASPORA CINEMAS ***** Graduate version of ANTH 484.

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3 TO 9

Description: RESEARCH AND THESIS ***** No description. Repeatable for Credit.