Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF LANGUAGE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: LING 200.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: HUMAN ANTIQUITY: AN INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND PREHISTORY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the elementary concepts of the discipline through a series of case studies.

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGY OF DEATH

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to anthropological and archaeological concepts and methods through a study of rituals surrounding death, dying, and disposal of the dead. Topics will include the definition of death, remembering and forgetting the dead, grief and mourning, tombs and funerary monuments, human sacrifice, forensic reconstructions.

Long Title: PERSPECTIVES ON MODERN ASIA

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A team taught interdisciplinary course focusing on the political, social and economic forces that are shaping the lives of the nearly one-half of the world's population that lives in Asia. Provides a selective, in-depth look at certain important areas of East, Southeast and South Asia that reflect larger themes and problems.

Long Title: NANOTECHNOLOGY: CONTENT AND CONTEXT

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: CHEM 235, HIST 237. Preference given to freshmen and sophomores.

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE EAST

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides an introduction to and critical examination of the extensive ethnographic literature written by sociocultural anthropologists 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.

Long Title: THE HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE (TO BE NAMED)

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: BIOTECHNOLOGY, 1900 TO NOW

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 200 OR LING 200

Description: 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/possessives/locatives, voice/valence, questions, negation, relative clauses, complements causatives. Cross-list: LING 300, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 500.

Long Title: PHONETICS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (ANTH 200 OR LING 200) or permission of instructor

Description: 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. Cross-list: LING 301, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 501.

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY: A SURVEY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of the major theorists and theoretical schools of social-cultural anthropology. Strongly recommended for majors.

Long Title: URBANIZATION IN THE THIRD WORLD

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will engage in transnational and comparative approaches to urban issues in the Third World. Topics will include migration, shelter struggles, urban informality, violence, social movements, gender, race, and ethnic engagements with public and private spaces of the city and cinematic representations. Cross-listed with ASIA 304.

Long Title: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 300 AND ANTH 311 OR LING 300 AND LING 311 or permission of instructor

Description: Exploration of the nature of language change. Topics covered include sound change syntactic and semantic change, modeling language splits, the sociolinguistics of language change, and the history of European languages. Cross-list: LING 305, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 505.

Long Title: HISTORY AS A CULTURAL MYTH

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: SWGS 336, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 508.

Long Title: GLOBAL CULTURES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 509.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY CHINESE CULTURE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: MASCULINITIES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: SWGS 333, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 511.

Long Title: AFRICAN PREHISTORY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 512.

Long Title: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Investigates the relation between language and thought, language and worldview, language and logic. Cross-list: LING 313, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 513.

Long Title: GENETICS: SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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 epigenesis; cultural and historical aspects of approaches to genetics, including eugenics past and present; and ethical issues arising from new genetic technologies. Cross-list: BIOS 307.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF INFORMATION AND NETWORKS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 515.

Long Title: CULTURAL ANALYSIS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: SYMBOLISM AND POWER

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course considers anthropological theories of the state and examines ethnographic accounts of states in some unexpected places - that is, outside the official realm of government bureaucracies and institutionalized politics. Topics include so-called "stateless societies," planning and bureaucratic rationality, violence and power, and ethnographic methods for studying the state. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 519.

Long Title: PUBLIC SPHERES AND PUBLIC CULTURES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 520.

Long Title: TEXT AS PROPERTY, PROPERTY AS TEXT: ACROSS THE AGES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: CLAS 311.

Long Title: CULTURES AND IDENTITIES: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND NATIONALISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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? Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 522.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO PHONOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 200 OR ANTH 301 or permission of instructor

Description: Introduction to analysis techniques and theory concerning patternings of sounds in the world's languages. The course will involve extensive work with non-English data sets and development of analytical techniques such as identification of sound alternations or restrictions, and formalization of abstract representations and rules to account for them. Cross-list: LING 311.

Long Title: SEX, SELF, AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT GREECE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: SWGS 332, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 525.

Long Title: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF LAW

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: GENDER AND SYMBOLISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: SWGS 350, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 527.

Long Title: VIOLENCE, TERROR, AND SOCIAL TRAUMA

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 528.

Long Title: BODIES, SENSUALITIES, AND ART

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 529. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 329 if student has credit for ANTH 529.

Long Title: ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An in-depth examination of the art and archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia and Persia. Beginning in The Neolithic period, we will examine the development of Near Eastern art and architecture through the study of ancient sites and their associated material culture. Cross-list: HART 311.

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGY AS CULTURAL CRITIQUE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The critical assessment and interpretation of Euro American 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 535.

Long Title: READING POPULAR CULTURE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 538.

Long Title: NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN AFRICA

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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, and their focus on this-worldly salvation in the wake of political and economic marginality. Cross-list: RELI 342.

Long Title: CITY/CULTURE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 544.

Long Title: THE POLITICS OF THE PAST: ARCHAEOLOGY IN SOCIAL CONTEXT

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 545.

Long Title: THE U.S. AS A FOREIGN COUNTRY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 547.

Long Title: CULTURES OF NATIONALISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 551.

Long Title: INTERSCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION: A RESEARCH PRACTICUM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In anticipation of the opening of the Rice Collaborative Research Center (CRC) in 2009, this course explores the conditions that facilitate and those that inhibit collaborative research across the disciplines. Readings will address the production of scientific knowledge, disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, styles of scientific reasoning and investigation, the social organization of scientific research and the interaction of sciences with their publics as well as qualitative field methods. Upon qualification, students will also engage in supervised on-site investigations of the agencies and the human subjects, at Rice and at the Texas Medical Center, which the CRC is most likely to engage. Undergraduates will demonstrate their understanding of the themes of the investigative project and produce regular field reports. Graduate students will additionally serve as investigative team supervisors and acquire competency in contemporary methodologies of the qualitative assessment of longitudinal trends. Investigators will receive explicit credit for the data they contribute to any future publications that the project generates. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 552.

Long Title: CULTURES OF INDIA

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Summary of the prehistory, ethnography, and ethnology of the Indian subcontinent. Special emphasis on Hinduism, Buddhism, and Indian philosophy. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 553.

Long Title: LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides an overview of the way archaeologists study landscapes including studies that emphasize their ecological, symbolic, political economic and religious aspects. Recent theoretical work on landscape will be emphasized, as well as archaeological methods of investigation and interpretation, including remote sensing, surveying, and GIS. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 555.

Long Title: THE CULTURAL BODY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar focuses on the body and bodies (human and non-human) as not only symbolic of culture, but also as culture itself. How do physiology and soical processes interact? What is the physical nature of "cultural" categories such as gender, race, class, and sexuality, and (where) do we draw the line between nature and nurture? Crosslisted with SWGS 356.

Long Title: GENDER AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course examines the diverse social movements for rights an resources that have emerged over the past few decades in Latin America, focusing on women's participation, feminism, and gender contestations. Particular attention will be paid to movements for indigenous rights and to issues of transnationalism/globalization. Crosslisted with SWGS 357.

Long Title: THE FOURTH WORLD: ISSUES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 558.

Long Title: LATIN AMERICAN TOPICS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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 Cultural 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: Methods used in fieldwork, laboratory analysis, and interpretation of archaeological data from a local site excavated by the class. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 562. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: EARLY CIVILIZATIONS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A comparative study of the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus, China, and the Maya, emphasizing the causes and conditions of their origins. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 563.

Long Title: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY FIELD TECHNIQUES

Department: Anthropology

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 Senegal, June-July. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 564. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SCIENCE, LOCAL AND GLOBAL

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores science as a transnational phenomenon, focusing on the pathways along which it flows around the world. Topics include differences in local styles of reasoning, dynamics of international scientific collaborations, transnational migration of knowledge workers, the role of science in nationalist projects, and the commodification of science. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 566.

Long Title: HUMAN EVOLUTION

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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

Description: 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.

Long Title: PRIMATOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to primate diversity, ecology, and sociality based on what is now known from field studies of wild primate populations.

Long Title: ARCHAEOLOGICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3 TO 6

Description: Techniques 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 570. Repeatable for Credit.

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 everyday modern life that it is hard for us to imagine living without 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 571.

Long Title: CULTURES OF CAPITALISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 572.

Long Title: THE LINGUISTIC TURN: LANGUAGE, NARRATION, AND MODERNITY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: LING 373, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 573.

Long Title: ABRACADABRA: LANGUAGE AND MEMORY IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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 knowledge is assumed. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 575.

Long Title: GIFTS AND CONTRACTS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 579.

Long Title: MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Cultural, ecological, and biological perspectives on human health and disease throughout the world. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 581.

Long Title: HUMAN ADAPTATION

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 583.

Long Title: MEIDA, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course offers a theoretical and ethnographic overview of past, current, and future anthropological research on media. Topics rotate but can include: cultural conservation among indigenous peoples, spectacle and sexuality, nationalism, advertising, journalism, and news-making, political communication and activism, technology and social change. 585. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 385 if student has credit for ANTH 585.

Long Title: MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF FOOD AND HEALTH

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Food is increasingly understood and manipulated at the molecular level and used in therapy or disease prevention. This course focuses on the fluid intersection of biomedicine and nutrition as changes in agriculture, food safety, and research into the physiological and genetic effects of food alter how Western cultures eat. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 386 if student has credit for ANTH 586.

Long Title: ASIAN AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY COMMUNITIES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This interdisciplinary course will investigate the diverse cultureal traditions and shared experiences of Asian Americans in the United States. By analyzing historical works, literary texts, and films, we will explore a range of topics including Asian immigration, gender roles, identity formation, and ethnic media.

Long Title: THE LIFE CYCLE: A BIOCULTURAL VIEW

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The human life cycle from conception to death. Focus is on the interaction between biological processes and culture. Cross-list: SWGS 335, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 588. 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: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 590. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 390 if student has credit for ANTH 590.

Long Title: CULTURES AND COMMUNICATION

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Investigates the relations between different forms of communication - speech, print, film, and cultural constructions such as audiences, publics, and communities. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 595.

Long Title: ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH METHODS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course considers the practice of ethnographic research (design, data collection and analysis). Topics include the contentious canonization of fieldwork & the ethnographic method, ethics & human subjects, rethinking the field & collaboration. Projects include participant observation, field notes, interviewing, and analysis of archival, ephemeral & audio/visual materials. UG/GR Equivalent ANTH 598. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 398 if student has credit for ANTH 598.

Long Title: ANALYZING PRACTICE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 603.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description: 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 Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: COGNITIVE STUDIES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Relations between thought, language, and culture. Special emphasis given to natural systems of classification and the logical principles underlying them. Cross-list: LING 406, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 606.

Long Title: LINGUISTIC FIELD METHODS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 5

Description: Techniques and practice in the observation, analysis, and recording of a human language. Cross-list: LING 407. Recommended prerequisite(s): ANTH 300, ANTH 301, LING 304, and permission of instructor. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: LINGUISTIC FIELD METHODS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 5

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 407 OR LING 407

Description: Continuation of ANTH 407 or LING 407. Cross-list: LING 408. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: AUTHORSHIP AND OWNERSHIP

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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, brand names and trademarks, and explores how such laws, marks and names functions as useful anthropological objects. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 609.

Long Title: THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF DEVELOPMENT

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 610.

Long Title: NEUROLINGUISTICS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: LING 411.

Long Title: RHETORIC

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Overview of classical theories. Intensive discussion of contemporary theories and applications in a wide variety of disciplines. Cross-list: LING 410, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 612.

Long Title: POSTSOCIALISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines cultural transformations in the late- and post-socialist societies of East-Central Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Asia. Explores everyday discourses and practices through which new forms of property, selfhood, nationalism, and the state are emerging, and the legacy of cold war politics for ethnographic representation of these societies. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 613.

Long Title: HERMENEUTICS AND LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Application of linguistic theory and method in the analysis of cultural materials. Includes discourse analysis and the structure and interpretation of texts and conversation. Cross-list: LING 414, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 614.

Long Title: THEORIES OF MODERNITY/POSTMODERNITY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 615.

Long Title: CAN HUMANS THINK? ANTHROPOS, HUMANISM AND TECHNOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 618.

Long Title: LAW AND SOCIETY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In addition to focusing on works associated with critical legal studies and its antecedent 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 619.

Long Title: AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 200 OR LING 200 or permission of instructor

Description: A course on the structure of Australian languages examining the phonological, morphological, and syncretic systems. Emphasis placed on interaction with original data and making appropriate typological generalizations. Discussion of sociolinguistics, language use, language death, and revitalization. Cross-list: LING 425.

Long Title: AFRICAN MYTHS AND RITUAL

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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-Strauss, Edmond Leach, Gennap and Turner, and contemporary theorists: Werbner, Heusch, Comaroff, and Ray. Cross-list: RELI 423.

Long Title: ADVANCED TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 205 AND ANTH 362

Description: 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. Please consult with the department for additional information. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 625. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: EXPERIMENTAL WRITING

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This workshop-style class focuses on ethnographic writing. Through readings that experiment with representation, multiple intensive writing assignments, and editing others' work, students develop their own prose skills. Not a technical writing course, but one that engages the question of representation in anthropology. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 630. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MUSEUMS: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course combines readings and lectures exploring the representation of anthropological and archaeological materials in Museum exhibits with an internship at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Graduate Equiv: ANTH 642 Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 642.

Long Title: EXPERTS AND CULTURES OF EXPERTISE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Studies of experts and expert knowledge have recently become one of the most vibrant and promising areas of research in social-cultural anthropology today. This seminar reviews recent anthropological research on experts and their cultures of expertise and situates it in comparison to theoretical, sociological an historical engagements of expert cultures. GR/UG equivalent: ANTH 645. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 445 if student has credit for ANTH 645.

Long Title: ADVANCED TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 381

Description: Seminar on contemporary research on the biomedical aspects of human health and disease. Includes topics from medical ecology and epidemiology. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 646.

Long Title: MODERN ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF MODERNITY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 647.

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD: A SEMINAR FOR MAJORS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: THE ARTIST AS ETHNOGRAPHER - THE ETHNOGRAPHER AS ARTIST

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine the intersections between the historical avant-garde, contemporary art, and anthropology. Developing on the so-called "ethnographic turn" within contemporary art - what Hal Foster has famously termed "the artist as ethnographer" - we will look at the way that this tendency with artistic production has doubled back onto the field of anthropology, leading to what could be called "the ethnographer as artist." Particular attention will be paid to the role of the art museum and international art exhibitions. Cross-list: HART 454.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 655.

Long Title: HERITAGE MANAGEMENT

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the policies and politics of heritage management from a global perspective. We examine how different nations define, protect, and manage heritage resources. Case studies will present debates over the meaning and interpretation of cultural heritage and illustrate connections between heritage and such issues as nationalism and identity. The graduate level course will engage students at a more advanced theoretical level through additional reading assignments and an additional paper. GR Equivalent: ANTH 656. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 656.

Long Title: HUMAN OSTEOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to the analysis of human skeletal material from archaeological sites. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 658.

Long Title: ADVANCED ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 205

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 660.

Long Title: WEST AFRICAN PREHISTORY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar providing in-depth consideration of the later prehistoric archaeology (late Stone Age and Iron Age) of the West African subcontinent. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 663.

Long Title: PALAEOCLIMATE AND HUMAN RESPONSE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 668. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ADVANCED SEMINAR ON THE PREHISTORIC LANDSCAPE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 674.

Long Title: PLIO-PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE AND HOMINID ADAPTATION

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 675.

Long Title: SEMINAR ON DOCUMENTARY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: 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 genres. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 683.

Long Title: DIRECTED HONORS RESEARCH

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: 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. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: DIRECTED HONORS RESEARCH

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGY CAPSTONE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Required of all anthropology majors who do not enroll in ANTH 490 and ANTH 491. Each student formulates and completes an advanced research project guided by a faculty supervisor and evaluated by a faculty panel.

Long Title: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: PHONETICS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL IDEAS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the history of anthropology and its theories and methods. The emphasis is upon social and cultural anthropology.

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGICAL DIRECTIONS FROM SECOND WORLD WAR TO PRESENT

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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."

Long Title: HISTORY AS CULTURAL MYTH

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 5

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 308.

Long Title: GLOBAL CULTURES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: MASCULINITIES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: AFRICAN PREHISTORY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 312. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF INFORMATION AND NETWORKS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: SYMBOLISM AND POWER

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: PUBLIC SPHERES AND PUBLIC CULTURES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: CULTURES AND IDENTITIES: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND NATIONALISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO PHONOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: SEX, SELF, AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT GREECE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: GENDER AND SYMBOLISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: VIOLENCE, TERROR, AND SOCIAL TRAUMA

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: BODIES, SENSUALITIES, AND ART

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 329. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 529 if student has credit for ANTH 329.

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGY AS CULTURAL CRITIQUE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: READING POPULAR CULTURE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: CITY/CULTURE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: THE POLITICS OF THE PAST: ARCHAEOLOGY IN SOCIAL CONTEXT

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: THE U.S. AS A FOREIGN COUNTRY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: CULTURES OF NATIONALISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: INTERSCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION: A RESEARCH PRACTICUM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In anticipation of the opening of the Rice Collaborative Research Center (CRC) in 2009, this course explores the conditions that facilitate and those that inhibit collaborative research across the disciplines. Readings will address the production of scientific knowledge, disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, styles of scientific reasoning and investigation, the social organization of scientific research and the interaction of sciences with their publics as well as qualitative field methods. Upon qualification, students will also engage in supervised on-site investigations of the agencies and the human subjects at Rice and at the Texas Medical Center, which the CRC is most likely to engage. Undergraduates will demonstrate their understanding of the themes of the investigative project and produce regular field reports. Graduate students will additionally serve as investigative team supervisors and acquire competency in contemporary methodologies of the qualitative assessment of longitudinal trends. Investigators will receive explicit credit for the data they contribute to any future publications that the project generates. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 352.

Long Title: CULTURES OF INDIA

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course provides an overview of the way archaeologists study landscapes including studies that emphasize their ecological, symbolic, political economic and religious aspects. Recent theoretical work on landscape will be emphasized, as well as archaeological methods of investigation and interpretation, including remote sensing, surveying, and GIS. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 355.

Long Title: THE FOURTH WORLD: ISSUES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD TECHNIQUES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: EARLY CIVILIZATIONS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY FIELD TECHNIQUES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SCIENCE, LOCAL AND GLOBAL

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: ARCHAEOLOGICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3 TO 6

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MONEY AND EVERYDAY LIFE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: CULTURES OF CAPITALISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: THE LINGUISTIC TURN: LANGUAGE, NARRATION, AND MODERNITY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: ABRACADABRA: LANGUAGE AND MEMORY IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: GIFTS AND CONTRACTS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: HUMAN ADAPTATION

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: MEDIA, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course offers a theoretical and ethnographic overview of past, current, and future anthropological research on media. Topics rotate but can include: cultural conservation among indigenous peoples, spectacle and sexuality, nationalism, advertising, journalism, and news-making, political communication and activism, technology and social change. UG/GR Equivalent ANTH 385. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 585 if student has credit for ANTH 385.

Long Title: MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF FOOD AND HEALTH

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Credit cannot be earned for ANTH 586 and ANTH 386.

Long Title: LIFE CYCLE: A BIOCULTURAL VIEW

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Credit cannot be earned for ANTH 588 and ANTH 388.

Long Title: CULTURE, NARRATION, AND SUBJECTIVITY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Credit cannot be earned for ANTH 590 and ANTH 390.

Long Title: CULTURES AND COMMUNICATION

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH METHODS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course considers the practice of ethnographic research (design, data collection and analysis). Topics include the contentious canonization of fieldwork & the ethnographic method, ethics & human subjects, rethinking the field & collaboration. Projects include participant observation, field notes, interviewing, and analysis of archival, ephemeral & audio/visual materials. UG/GR Equivalent 398. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 598 if student has credit for ANTH 398.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: GRADUATE PROSEMINAR IN ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGY PROPOSAL WRITING SEMINAR

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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.

Long Title: ANALYZING PRACTICE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH DESIGN

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Uses case studies to examine how research questions, methods, theory, fieldwork, and analytical approaches are integrated into the design of archaeological research.

Long Title: FIELDWORK

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: 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. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: COGNITIVE STUDIES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: AUTHORSHIP AND OWNERSHIP

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF DEVELOPMENT

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: RHETORIC

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: POSTSOCIALISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: HERMENEUTICS AND LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THEORIES OF MODERNITY/POSTMODERNITY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: CAN HUMANS THINK? ANTHROPOS, HUMANISM AND TECHNOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: LAW AND SOCIETY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: ADVANCED TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: EXPERIMENTAL WRITING

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MUSEUMS: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course combines readings and lectures exploring the representation of anthropological and archaeological materials in museum exhibits with an internship at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The Graduate-Level course will engage students at a more advanced theoretical level through additional reading assignments and an additional paper. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 442.

Long Title: EXPERTS AND CULTURES OF EXPERIENCE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Studies of experts and expert knowledge have recently become one of the most vibrant and promising areas of research in social-cultural anthropology today. This seminar reviews recent anthropological research on experts and their cultures of expertise and situates it in comparison to theoretical, sociological an historical engagements of expert cultures. UG/GR Equivalent ANTH 445. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 645 if student has credit for ANTH 445.

Long Title: ADVANCED TOPICS IN BIOMEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: MODERN ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF MODERNITY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: PEDAGOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Training in the basic elements of teaching in anthropology to be taken in conjunction with applied graduate student teaching in ANTH 316. Recommended prerequisite(s): Third year and above graduate students. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: HERITAGE MANAGEMENT

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the policies and politics of heritage management from a global perspective. We examine how different nations define, protect, and manage heritage resources. Case studies will present debates over the meaning and interpretation of cultural heritage and illustrate connections between heritage and such issues as nationalism and identity. The graduate level course will engage students at a more advanced theoretical level through additional reading assignments and an additional paper. UG equivalent: ANTH 456. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 456.

Long Title: HUMAN OSTEOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: ADVANCED ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 205

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: WEST AFRICAN PREHISTORY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: PALAEOCLIMATE AND HUMAN RESPONSE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ADVANCED SEMINAR ON THE PREHISTORIC LANDSCAPE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: PLIO-PLEISTOCENE CLIMATE CHANGE AND HOMINID ADAPTATION

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: DOCUMENTARY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: RESEARCH AND THESIS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3 TO 9

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.