Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF LANGUAGE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: PERSPECTIVES ON MODERN ASIA

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Cross-list: ASIA 212.

Long Title: HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 300 if student has credit for ANTH 500.

Long Title: PHONETICS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (LING 200 OR ANTH 200)

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 301 if student has credit for ANTH 501.

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY: A SURVEY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course focuses on methods of scientific analysis applied to archaeological materials, including bone, stone, pottery, glass, and metal. Methods conclude absolute dating, mineral petrography, experimental archaeology, elemental and isotopic analysis, and ancient DNA. Labs offer hands-on experience with various archaeological materials and analytical methods. Recommended Prerequisite(s): ANTH 205

Long Title: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

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

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 305 if student has credit for ANTH 505.

Long Title: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE HISTORICAL IMAGINATION

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 308 if student has credit for ANTH 508.

Long Title: GLOBAL CULTURES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 309 if student has credit for ANTH 509.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY CHINESE CULTURE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 311 if student has credit for ANTH 511.

Long Title: AFRICAN PREHISTORY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Cross-list: MDEM 311, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 512. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 312 if student has credit for ANTH 512.

Long Title: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 313 if student has credit for ANTH 513.

Long Title: REVOLUTIONS AND UTOPIAS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In order to gain a more precise grasp of our contemporary political challenges and possibilities, this course in political anthropology investigates a wide range of historical and contemporary cases of rapid political and social transformation and carefully examines the ideas, desires and utopias that inspired them. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 517. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 317 if student has credit for ANTH 517.

Long Title: SYMBOLISM AND POWER

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 319 if student has credit for ANTH 519.

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

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 322 if student has credit for ANTH 522.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO PHONOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 200 OR LING 200 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, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 523. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 323 if student has credit for ANTH 523.

Long Title: DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Studio

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): FILM 225 or permission of instructor

Description: Study of the expressive possibilities of documentary production using digital systems. Space in studio classes is limited. Registration does not guarantee a place in class. The class roster is formulated on the first day of class by the individual instructor. Cross-list: ARTS 327, FILM 327.

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

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 325 if student has credit for ANTH 525.

Long Title: GENDER AND SYMBOLISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 327 if student has credit for ANTH 527.

Long Title: BODIES, SENSUALITIES, AND ART

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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 529. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 329 if student has credit for ANTH 529.

Long Title: GEOARCHAEOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Overview of the basics of the analysis of soils and sediments as related to archaeological deposits, and introducing the key concepts of surficial geology, site formation, landscape evolution, and the scope of depositional environments. Includes practical methods for describing stratigraphy, sediments and soil profiles in the field. Cross-list: ESCI 330.

Long Title: ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: THE SOCIAL LIFE OF CLEAN ENERGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course considers the phenomenon of renewable energy, using a social scientific approach to analyze the various forces and interests involved in the development of renewable energy projects (such as hydropower, solar and wind) in both the global North and South. No prerequisites required. Cross-list: ENST 332, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 532. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 332 if student has credit for ANTH 532.

Long Title: THE MATERIAL WORLD

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores the mutually constructive relationship between humans and objects; it asks how objects are made meaningful and active by humans, and how, in turn, people acquire meaning, relations, and agency through material culture. Topics include: commoditization, consumption, gift exchange, subjects and objects, identity, fashion, collecting, art, and authenticity. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 533. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 333 if student has credit for ANTH 533.

Long Title: THE CULTURE OF IDENTITY POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY BRAZIL

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces students to popular cultural manifestations in the form of festivals and artistic movements in the Nordeste of Brazil. The objective is to show how the cultural can be deeply political, with cultural manifestations speaking to everyday forms of representation, new identity formations, and struggles for social justice. Cross-list: HIST 333.

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGY AS CULTURAL CRITIQUE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 535. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 335 if student has credit for ANTH 535.

Long Title: BECOMING A DOCTOR

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course introduces such classic anthropological concepts as the rite of passage and the cultural system as frames for the investigation of the professionalization of medicine as a discipline, medical training and the changing epistemologies of medical knowledge and the changing scope and content of the medical cosmos. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 536. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 336 if student has credit for ANTH 536.

Long Title: JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Japan and the U.S. are connected by a mutual fascination with each other's mass culture, with each country frequently employing the other as inspiration or cautionary tale. We will examine selections from anthropological work, juxtaposing it with theoretical readings on the nature of publics, crowds, and image circulation in general.

Long Title: READING POPULAR CULTURE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 338 if student has credit for ANTH 538.

Long Title: IMAGE, MEDIA, ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The intersection of anthropology and aesthetics is making a significant contribution to the discipline. From the modern to the post-modern to the contemporary work of visual anthropology we will examine what it means to take up a philosophy of aesthetics, and consider how we can integrate this genealogy of thought into contemporary anthropological projects.

Long Title: NEOLIBERALISM AND GLOBALIZATION

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores the relationship between two of the most powerful forces shaping the world today: economic globalization and political neoliberalism. Using ethnographic, policy and theoretical documentation drawn from a variety of case studies, we will reconstruct the interrelated origins of globalization and neoliberalism and map their social and cultural impacts across the world. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 540. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 340 if student has credit for ANTH 540.

Long Title: MUSEUMS AND HERITAGE: EXHIBITING ART, EXHIBITING CULTURE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A wide-ranging introduction to museum studies with a particular focus on the collection and exhibition of cultural heritage materials. We will examine how heritage objects are displayed and represented in museums of art, natural historical history, and heritage. Topics include looking and ethics of collecting, policies of display, changing roles for museums; exhibition design and curatorial practice. Cross-list: HURC 341.

Long Title: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF CARE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An ethnographically grounded exploration of the political, social, and intimate relations that constitute care in various situations of life and death. We ask how particular populations come to be understood as requiring, receiving, or being entitle to care? Who becomes obliged to provide care? And what are care's collateral effects? Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 542. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 342 if student has credit for ANTH 542.

Long Title: NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN AFRICA

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 344 if student has credit for ANTH 544.

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

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 345 if student has credit for ANTH 545.

Long Title: VIRTUAL RECONSTRUCTION OF HISTORICAL CITIES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course, part of the HRC’s Digital Humanities Initiative, is devoted to the virtual reconstruction of ancient urban landscapes with focus on individual buildings in their urban settings. All course activities will be based around interdisciplinary student teams who will work together through the semesters to complete a virtual reconstruction project. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: ARCH 310, COMP 316, HART 316.

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

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 347 if student has credit for ANTH 547.

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGIES OF NATURE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class examines the uses and makings of nature in accounts of the human and post-human. It introduces students to nature as an object of study, as an analytic and as a heuristic. Some of the topics the course explores include the nature-culture dyad, nature as resource, science and technology and the remaking of nature, economies of nature, materiality, nature and kinship, and natural ontologies. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 548. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 348 if student has credit for ANTH 548.

Long Title: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ETHICS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Philosophical ethics argues over the proper criteria of the definition and the assessment of ethical action. This course focuses on an emerging and increasingly salient anthropological project: empirical inquiry into the themes and variations of ethical systems and the sociocultural rationale for their existence and reproduction. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 549. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 349 if student has credit for ANTH 549.

Long Title: CULTURES OF NATIONALISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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 of Man. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 551. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 351 if student has credit for ANTH 551.

Long Title: CULTURES OF INDIA

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 353 if student has credit for ANTH 553.

Long Title: ILLNESS, DISABILITY, AND THE GENDERED BODY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course draws on critical disability studies and medical anthropology to explore how gender and sexuality matter in contexts of illness and disability across a range of institutional, social, and national contexts. We pay particular attention to the ways illness and disability expose, disturb, or retrench normative arrangements of gender. Cross-list: SWGS 353, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 554. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 354 if student has credit for ANTH 554.

Long Title: LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 355 if student has credit for ANTH 555.

Long Title: THE FOURTH WORLD: ISSUES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 358 if student has credit for ANTH 558.

Long Title: ASIAN TOPICS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This introductory course covers various topics relating to the ethnography and anthropology of Asian cultures. These may include some or all of the following: popular culture and cultural production, religion, cultural aspects of development and globalization.

Long Title: TOPICS IN AFRICAN CULTURE AND ETHNOGRAPHY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This introductory course covers various topics relating to the ethnography and anthropology of African cultures. These may include some or all of the following: popular culture and cultural production, cultural aspects of development and globalization.

Long Title: LATIN AMERICAN TOPICS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines contemporary cultural and political dynamics in Latin America. Topics include: race, ethnicity and indigenousness; borders, migrations and diaspora; genocide and state violence; neo-colonialisms and neo-liberalisms; sexuality, gender and class dynamics; social movements and activism; the politics and practices of medicine and religion; popular culture, media and technology. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 561. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 361 if student has credit for ANTH 561.

Long Title: ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD TECHNIQUES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 205 or permission of instructor

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 363 if student has credit for ANTH 563.

Long Title: AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY FIELD TECHNIQUES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: In this course, basic field archaeology techniques are taught on-site in an archaeological context in Africa 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 Africa, June-July. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 564. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 364 if student has credit for ANTH 564. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION: HOW WE UNDERSTAND "WAR" AND "THE RACIAL OTHER"

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Does media show how things really are? This class explores the politics of representation, particularly in times of social mayhem, revolution, and war. Although we will focus primarily on cultural and political representations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this class will also put this dispute in comparison with other global events. Cross-list: SOCI 365.

Long Title: SCIENCE, LOCAL AND GLOBAL

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 366 if student has credit for ANTH 566.

Long Title: ARCHAEOLOGICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture/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 Africa, June-July. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 570. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MONEY AND EVERYDAY LIFE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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 Bourdieu, as well as some of the contemporary debates initiated by Bataille and Derrida. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 571. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 371 if student has credit for ANTH 571.

Long Title: CULTURES OF CAPITALISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. This class will examine how capitalism and related phenomena, such as commodification, markets and marketing, corporate finance and the calculation of risk, both affect and are affected by culture. We will consider the impact of capitalist markets on social relations and gender identities; on ideals of patriotism, responsibility and success; and on popular culture and leisure practices. We will also ask how people resist, appropriate and modify in culturally specific ways the logic and institutions of a global capitalist order. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 572. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 372 if student has credit for ANTH 572.

Long Title: ASIAN PREHISTORY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course covers select topics in the archaeology and paleoanthropology of Asia from the arrival of Homo erectus to the development of the earliest civilizations. Class discussions will focus on the history of exploration in Asia and the main debates that have shaped the study of prehistory in the largest continent on Earth. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 574. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 374 if student has credit for ANTH 574.

Long Title: ART AND ACTIVISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores art and social change in times of mass displacement, racial oppression, and war. It surveys the efforts involved in achieving justice and the possible implications of remaining historically mute and hopeless. The class will host contemporary activists and artists concerned with radical visions of hope in Houston. Cross-list: SOCI 376.

Long Title: PLACE AND MEMORY IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND EUROPEAN CINEMA

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Focuses on cinematic explorations of and preoccupations with the notion of place. Screenings include iconic and lesser - known films from Europe and the Middle East that offer diverse lenses and contexts (love, family, landscapes, borders, trauma, exile) through which we will examine questions of real and imagined place and the politics of memory. Cross-list: FILM 378, HART 391, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 578. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 378 if student has credit for ANTH 578.

Long Title: MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 381 if student has credit for ANTH 581.

Long Title: PALEO-TECHNOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This Stone Age semester will immerse students in hunter-gatherer lifeways and the innovations that allowed our ancestors to survive. Student 'bands' will complete cooperative learning tasks to ensure group survival (assessment). Most class meetings will be held in outdoor space on campus. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 584. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 384 if student has credit for ANTH 584.

Long Title: MEDIA, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 586. 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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This interdisciplinary course will investigate the diverse cultural 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. Cross-list: ASIA 387.

Long Title: THE LIFE CYCLE: A BIOCULTURAL VIEW

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF FOOD

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course offers a broad anthropological perspective on food and culture, as well as the way that archaeologists attempt to reconstruct the subsistence technologies and diets of ancient peoples. Topics include forager and agricultural subsistence technologies, the origins of food production, feasting, food and identity, and gender and food. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 589. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 389 if student has credit for ANTH 589.

Long Title: CULTURE, NARRATION, AND SUBJECTIVITY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 395 if student has credit for ANTH 595.

Long Title: ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH METHODS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 598. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 398 if student has credit for ANTH 598.

Long Title: GLOBAL URBAN LAB - ISTANBUL

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Guided independent research with lab component to study questions under the topics of sports, healthcare, transportation, immigration, and urban development in Istanbul and other global cities covered in the Global Urban Lab program. Instructor Permission Required.Cross-list: POST 400.

Long Title: ANALYZING PRACTICE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 403 if student has credit for ANTH 603.

Long Title: INDEPENDENT STUDY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: MUSEUM INTERNSHIP AND DIRECTED READING

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course combines a research-oriented internship at a local museum with directed readings in preparation for the specific focus of the internship. Instructor Permission Required. Recommended Prerequisite(s): ANTH 341.

Long Title: COGNITIVE STUDIES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 406 if student has credit for ANTH 606.

Long Title: LINGUISTIC FIELD METHODS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 5

Prerequisite(s): (LING 300 OR ANTH 300) AND (LING 301 OR ANTH 301) AND (LING 304 OR ANTH 304) AND (LING 311 OR ANTH 323) OR (LING 500 OR ANTH 500) AND (LING 501 OR ANTH 501) AND (LING 504 OR ANTH 504) AND (LING 511 OR ANTH 523)

Description: Techniques and practice in the observation, analysis, and recording of a human language. Cross-list: LING 407. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: LINGUISTIC FIELD METHODS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

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: THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF DEVELOPMENT

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 610. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 410 if student has credit for ANTH 610.

Long Title: NEUROLINGUISTICS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 412 if student has credit for ANTH 612.

Long Title: CULTURE AFTER COMMUNISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 413 if student has credit for ANTH 613.

Long Title: HERMENEUTICS AND LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 414 if student has credit for ANTH 614.

Long Title: ONTOLOGIES, VITALITIES, THINGS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course focuses on emerging and established thematics in cultural anthropology that have been drawn from philosophical (and other) interventions concerning being, matter, vibrancy, vitality and objects and considers how these conceptual domains can be productively engaged in the empirical work of anthropology. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 617. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 417 if student has credit for ANTH 617.

Long Title: ETHNOGRAPHY STUDIO

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Students will read a selection of contemporary ethnographies deemed "exemplary" by diverse audiences paired with theoretical works that the authors claim in their arguments. The course will focus on how ethnographies are structured, the central issues they investigate, and how they go about doing this. The central task of the class is to analyze, critically but also productively, what rigor and creativity mean in the ethnographic investigation of contemporary and recurring questions and problems, relations between questions, theory and ethnography will also be explored through students' own ethnographic writing. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 620. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 420 if student has credit for ANTH 620.

Long Title: INFRASTRUCTURES AND POWER

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar course asks why “infrastructure” – that which enables other things to happen – has recently become such an important concept in the human sciences. After reviewing recent and classic theoretical approaches we explore recent anthropological studies of infrastructures-in-action ranging from information and media infrastructures to environmental and biotic infrastructures to infrastructures of governance and power. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 622. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 422 if student has credit for ANTH 622.

Long Title: AFRICAN MYTHS AND RITUALS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 425 if student has credit for ANTH 625. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Movements to alleviate inequalities constitute important cultural and political interventions globally. This course examines advocacy practices to create and sustain social movements and political struggles. Cases included grassroots advocacy, NGOs, transnational and technological activism; environmental justice; human rights; gender, ethnic and sexual rights; consumption and globalization; democratization and neoliberalism. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 629. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 429 if student has credit for ANTH 629.

Long Title: REGULATORY TRANSLATIONS LAB

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 2

Description: This class examines how the concept of "translation" can be used to understand the movement of regulations around our globalized world. It is designed as a research experience that will give students the opportunity to conduct archival research, produce annotated bibliographies, and conduct a literature review with an interdisciplinary approach that combines the social sciences and humanities. This is a hands on lab that will benefit students who are interested in the law from a social perspective and interdisciplinary thinking and research methods. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: EXPLORING THE UNDERGROUND THROUGH ETHNOGRAPHY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class will be a hands-on research experience to explore the meaning and uses of "the underground and the subterranean" across diverse communities. Students will review existing academic literature and artistic forms of expression that explore the meaning of the underground of r scientists, activists, artists, and everyday citizens. Students will also conduct fieldwork (interviews and participant observation) with Houston communities to understand what practices bring people close to that which is not immediately visible. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: MUSEUMS: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

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/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 642. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 442 if student has credit for ANTH 642.

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGY OF RACE, ETHNICITY AND HEALTH

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores how human bodies and biomedical 'facts' are culturally constructed with respect to race and ethnicity, and examines how these constructs variably impact experiences of health, well-being and illness. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 643. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 443 if student has credit for ANTH 643.

Long Title: CULTURE, PSYCHIATRY, AND MENTAL ILLNESS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar takes psychiatric practice as an object of anthropological investigation. It explores the ways in which emotional suffering and therapeutic systems are constituted within various social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics include affect, anxiety, psychosis, and somatization in cross-cultural perspective; diagnostic standardization; the cultural history of psychiatry; institutionalization and deinstitutionalization; psychiatric professionalization; the globalization of Western psychiatric practice; and critical anti-psychiatry movements. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 644. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 444 if student has credit for ANTH 644.

Long Title: EXPERTS AND CULTURES OF EXPERTISE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: 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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 381 or permission of instructor

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 446 if student has credit for ANTH 646.

Long Title: MODERN ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF MODERNITY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 447 if student has credit for ANTH 647.

Long Title: PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This advanced seminar explores phenomenological theory in the human sciences beginning with Hegel and Marx and examines its uptake in recent works of anthropological ethnography and theory. The course will focus especially upon questions of selfhood and alterity, affect and emotion, and the senses and knowledge. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 648. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 448 if student has credit for ANTH 648.

Long Title: CULTURES OF SEXUALITY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What is "sexuality" across cultural milieux? This course analyzes understandings and practices of sexuality from a global, comparative perspective, including different social configurations of gender and intimacy, reproduction, sensuality and the erotic. Case studies explore the complex relationships between sexuality and gender, ethnicity, nationalism, globalization, commodification, politics, media, health and medicine. Cross-list: SWGS 449, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 649. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 449 if student has credit for ANTH 649.

Long Title: GENDER, AFFECT, TRANSNATIONAL ASIA: THINKING OF THE BODY IN A TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course investigates issues of gender and sex in transnational Asian cultural and social spheres. Topics of immigration, sex tourism, Orientalism, and pop-culture will be accompanied by scholarly texts and examined as case studies. The students are expected to bring their own academic interests and expertise to discuss and contribute. Cross-list: ASIA 452.

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

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: HERITAGE MANAGEMENT

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 656. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 456 if student has credit for ANTH 656.

Long Title: HUMAN OSTEOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to the analysis of human skeletal material from archaeological sites. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 658. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 458 if student has credit for ANTH 658.

Long Title: ADVANCED ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 460 if student has credit for ANTH 660.

Long Title: WEST AFRICAN PREHISTORY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 463 if student has credit for ANTH 663.

Long Title: SEMINAR ON DOCUMENTARY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 483 if student has credit for ANTH 683.

Long Title: DIRECTED HONORS RESEARCH

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

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: CAPSTONE PREPARATION

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: This course supplements the capstone course ANTH 495 by providing guidance with proposal writing, IRB approval, literature review, writing, and presentation skills. Students who register for ANTH 494 must also simultaneously register for ANTH 495.

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGY CAPSTONE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Students who register for ANTH 495 must also simultaneously register for ANTH 494.

Long Title: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

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 500, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 300. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 500 if student has credit for ANTH 300.

Long Title: PHONETICS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Cross-list: LING 501, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 301. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 501 if student has credit for ANTH 301.

Long Title: WORLD ANTHROPOLOGIES: THE BRAZILIAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL TRADITION

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This course examines the Brazilian anthropological tradition. It will appeal to students planning to do field research in Brazil and those interested more broadly in ethnographic methods and epistemologies. Topics include health and illness, culture and identity, nationalism, the body, gender and class, religious practice, and urban segregation and change. Cross-list: HIST 507.

Long Title: HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 200 OR LING 200

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. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Cross-list: LING 505, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 305. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 505 if student has credit for ANTH 305.

Long Title: HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL IDEAS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE HISTORICAL IMAGINATION

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 508 if student has credit for ANTH 308.

Long Title: GLOBAL CULTURES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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 309. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 509 if student has credit for ANTH 309.

Long Title: MASCULINITIES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 311. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 511 if student has credit for ANTH 311.

Long Title: AFRICAN PREHISTORY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 512 if student has credit for ANTH 312. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Investigates the relation between language and thought, language and world view, language and logic. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Cross-list: LING 513, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 313. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 513 if student has credit for ANTH 313.

Long Title: REVOLUTIONS AND UTOPIAS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In order to gain a more precise grasp of our contemporary political challenges and possibilities, this course in political anthropology investigates a wide range of historical and contemporary cases of rapid political and social transformation and carefully examines the ideas, desires and utopias that inspired them. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 317. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 517 if student has credit for ANTH 317.

Long Title: SYMBOLISM AND POWER

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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 319. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 519 if student has credit for ANTH 319.

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

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

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 322. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 522 if student has credit for ANTH 322.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO PHONOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

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. Without Permission of Instructor, must have Graduate Standing. Cross-list: LING 511, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 323. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 523 if student has credit for ANTH 323.

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

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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 problematization of desire and self-control. Cross-list: SWGS 525, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 325. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 525 if student has credit for ANTH 325.

Long Title: GENDER AND SYMBOLISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 327. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 527 if student has credit for ANTH 327.

Long Title: BODIES, SENSUALITIES, AND ART

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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: THE SOCIAL LIFE OF CLEAN ENERGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course considers the phenomenon of renewable energy using a social scientific approach to analyze the various forces and interests involved in the development of renewable energy projects (such as hydropower, solar and wind) in both the global North and South. No prerequisites required. GR/UG Equivalent: ANTH 332. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 332. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 532 if student has credit for ANTH 332.

Long Title: THE MATERIAL WORLD

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores the mutually constructive relationship between humans and objects; it asks how objects are made meaningful and active by humans, and how, in turn, people acquire meaning, relations, and agency through material culture. Topics include: commoditization, consumption, gift exchange, subjects and objects, identity, fashion, collecting, art, and authenticity. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 333. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 533 if student has credit for ANTH 333.

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGY AS CULTURAL CRITIQUE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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 335. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 535 if student has credit for ANTH 335.

Long Title: BECOMING A DOCTOR

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course introduces such classic anthropological concepts as the rite of passage and the cultural system as frames for the investigation of the professionalization of medicine as a discipline, medical training and the changing epistemologies of medical knowledge and the changing scope and content of the medical cosmos. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 336. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 536 if student has credit for ANTH 336.

Long Title: READING POPULAR CULTURE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

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 338. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 538 if student has credit for ANTH 338.

Long Title: NEOLIBERALISM AND GLOBALIZATION

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores the relationship between two of the most powerful forces shaping the world today: economic globalization and political neoliberalism. Using ethnographic, policy and theoretical documentation drawn from a variety of case studies, we will reconstruct the interrelated origins of globalization and neoliberalism and map their social and cultural impacts across the world. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 340. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 540 if student has credit for ANTH 340.

Long Title: ETHNOGRAPHIES OF CARE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An ethnographically grounded exploration of the political, social, and intimate relations that constitute care in various situations of life and death. We ask how particular populations come to be understood as requiring, receiving, or being entitle to care? Who becomes obliged to provide care? And what are care's collateral effects? Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 342. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 542 if student has credit for ANTH 342.

Long Title: CITY/CULTURE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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 344. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 544 if student has credit for ANTH 344.

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

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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 345. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 545 if student has credit for ANTH 345.

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

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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 347. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 547 if student has credit for ANTH 347.

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGIES OF NATURE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class examines the uses and makings of nature in accounts of the human and post-human. It introduces students to nature as an object of study, as an analytic and as a heuristic. Some of the topics the course explores include the nature-culture dyad, nature as resource, science and technology and the remaking of nature, economies of nature, materiality, nature and kinship, and natural ontologies. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 348. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 548 if student has credit for ANTH 348.

Long Title: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ETHICS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Philosophical ethics argues over the proper criteria of the definition and the assessment of ethical action. This course focuses on an emerging and increasingly salient anthropological project: empirical inquiry into the themes and variations of ethical systems and the sociocultural rationale for their existence and reproduction. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 349. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 549 if student has credit for ANTH 349.

Long Title: HISTORICAL ANTHROPOLOGIES OF RELIGION

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will address the study of the religious past through conjunctions of anthropology and history. Readings will include books and selections by Max Weber, Marshall Sahlins, Victor Turner, Jacques Le Goff, Aron Gurevich, and others. Cross-list: RELI 555.

Long Title: CULTURES OF NATIONALISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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 of Man. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 351. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 551 if student has credit for ANTH 351.

Long Title: CULTURES OF INDIA

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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 353. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 553 if student has credit for ANTH 353. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ILLNESS, DISABILITY, AND THE GENDERED BODY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course draws on critical disability studies and medical anthropology to explore how gender and sexuality matter in contexts of illness and disability across a range of institutional, social, and national contexts. We pay particular attention to the ways illness and disability expose, disturb, or retrench normative arrangements of gender. Cross-list: SWGS 554, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 354. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 554 if student has credit for ANTH 354.

Long Title: LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 555 if student has credit for ANTH 355.

Long Title: THE FOURTH WORLD: ISSUES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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 358. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 558 if student has credit for ANTH 358.

Long Title: LATIN AMERICAN TOPICS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines contemporary cultural and political dynamics in Latin America. Topics include: race, ethnicity and indigenousness; borders, migrations and diaspora; genocide and state violence; neo-colonialisms and neo-liberalisms; sexuality, gender and class dynamics; social movements and activism; the politics and practices of medicine and religion; popular culture, media and technology. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 361. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 561 if student has credit for ANTH 361.

Long Title: ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD TECHNIQUES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

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 362. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: EARLY CIVILIZATIONS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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 363. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 563 if student has credit for ANTH 363.

Long Title: AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGY FIELD TECHNIQUES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: In this course, basic field archaeology techniques are taught on-site in an archaeological context in Africa 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 Africa, June-July. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 364. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 564 if student has credit for ANTH 364. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SCIENCE, LOCAL AND GLOBAL

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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 366. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 566 if student has credit for ANTH 366.

Long Title: ARCHAEOLOGICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture/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 370. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MONEY AND EVERYDAY LIFE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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 Bourdieu, as well as some of the contemporary debates initiated by Bataille and Derrida. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 371. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 571 if student has credit for ANTH 371.

Long Title: CULTURES OF CAPITALISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Most of us think of capitalism as primarily an economic phenomenon. Yet, it also has a profoundly cultural dimension. This class will examine how capitalism and related phenomena, such as commodification, markets and marketing, corporate finance and the calculation of risk, both affect and are affected by culture. We will consider the impact of capitalist markets on social relations and gender identities; on ideals of patriotism, responsibility and success; and on popular culture and leisure practices. We will also ask how people resist, appropriate and modify in culturally specific ways the logic and institutions of a global capitalist order. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 372. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 572 if student has credit for ANTH 372.

Long Title: ASIAN PREHISTORY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course covers select topics in the archaeology and paleoanthropology of Asia from the arrival of Homo erectus to the development of the earliest civilizations. Class discussions will focus on the history of exploration in Asia and the main debates that have shaped the study of prehistory in the largest continent on Earth. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 374. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 574 if student has credit for ANTH 374.

Long Title: PLACE AND MEMORY IN MIDDLE EASTERN AND EUROPEAN CINEMA

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Focuses on cinematic explorations of and preoccupations with the notion of place. Screenings include iconic and lesser - known films from Europe and the Middle East that offer diverse lenses and contexts (love, family, landscapes, borders, trauma, exile) through which we will examine questions of real and imagined place and the politics of memory. Cross-list: HART 691, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 378. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 578 if student has credit for ANTH 378.

Long Title: MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Cultural, ecological, and biological perspectives on human health and disease throughout the world. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 381. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 581 if student has credit for ANTH 381.

Long Title: PALEO-TECHNOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This Stone Age semester will immerse students in hunter-gatherer lifeways and the innovations that allowed our ancestors to survive. Student 'bands' will complete cooperative learning tasks to ensure group survival (assessment). Most class meetings will be held in outdoor space on campus. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 384. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 584 if student has credit for ANTH 384.

Long Title: MEDIA, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: 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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 386. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 586 if student has credit for ANTH 386.

Long Title: THE LIFE CYCLE: A BIOCULTURAL VIEW

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The human life cycle from conception to death. Focus is on the interaction between biological processes and culture. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 388. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 588 if student has credit for ANTH 388.

Long Title: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF FOOD

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course offers a broad anthropological perspective on food and culture, as well as the way that archaeologists attempt to reconstruct the subsistence technologies and diets of ancient peoples. Topics include forager and agricultural subsistence technologies, the origins of food production, feasting, food and identity, and gender and food. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 389. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 589 if student has credit for ANTH 389.

Long Title: CULTURE, NARRATION, AND SUBJECTIVITY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

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 390. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 590 if student has credit for ANTH 390.

Long Title: CULTURES AND COMMUNICATION

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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 395. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 595 if student has credit for ANTH 395.

Long Title: ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH METHODS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 9

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: GRADUATE PROSEMINAR IN ANTHROPOLOGY: THEORY, METHOD, AND PROFESSIONALIZATION

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar course combines an introduction to classic and contemporary social theory with an overview of the evolving research foci of anthropology today and with detailed discussion of the process of anthropological professionalization. The course is designed for graduate students in anthropology but is open to others with advance permission. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGY PROPOSAL WRITING SEMINAR

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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 403. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 603 if student has credit for ANTH 403.

Long Title: COGNITIVE STUDIES

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Relations between thought, language, and culture. Special emphasis given to natural systems of classification and the logical principles underlying them. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 406. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 606 if student has credit for ANTH 406. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF DEVELOPMENT

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 410. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 610 if student has credit for ANTH 410.

Long Title: RHETORIC

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Overview of classical theories. Intensive discussion of contemporary theories and applications in a wide variety of disciplines. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 412. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 612 if student has credit for ANTH 412. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: CULTURE AFTER COMMUNISM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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 413. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 613 if student has credit for ANTH 413.

Long Title: HERMENEUTICS AND LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 414. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 614 if student has credit for ANTH 414. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: THEORIES OF MODERNITY/POSTMODERNITY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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, Durkheim, Saussure, Gadamer, Derrida, Bahktin, Foucault, and others. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 415. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 615 if student has credit for ANTH 415.

Long Title: CLASSICAL SOCIAL THEORY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar explores the foundations of social and cultural analysis. It will address precursors, but will focus primarily on works that introduce and develop the concepts and epistemic apparatuses that inaugurated such disciplines as sociology, anthropology, religious studies, and political theory as we know them today.

Long Title: ONTOLOGIES, VITALITIES, THINGS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Course focuses on emerging and established thematics in cultural anthropology that have been drawn from philosophical (and other) interventions concerning being, matter, vibrancy, vitality and objects and considers how these conceptual domains can be productively engaged in the empirical work of anthropology. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 417. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 617 if student has credit for ANTH 417.

Long Title: ETHNOGRAPHY STUDIO

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Students will read a selection of contemporary ethnographies deemed "exemplary" by diverse audiences paired with theoretical works that the authors claim in their arguments. The course will focus on how ethnographies are structured, the central issues they investigate, and how they go about doing this. The central task of the class is to analyze, critically but also productively, what rigor and creativity mean in the ethnographic investigation of contemporary and recurring questions and problems, relations between questions, theory and ethnography will also be explored through students' own ethnographic writing. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 420. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 620 if student has credit for ANTH 420.

Long Title: INFRASTRUCTURES AND POWER

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar course asks why “infrastructure” – that which enables other things to happen – has recently become such an important concept in the human sciences. After reviewing recent and classic theoretical approaches we explore recent anthropological studies of infrastructures-in-action ranging from information and media infrastructures to environmental and biotic infrastructures to infrastructures of governance and power. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 422. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 622 if student has credit for ANTH 422.

Long Title: ADVANCED TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

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 425. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 625 if student has credit for ANTH 425. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Movements to alleviate inequalities constitute important cultural and political interventions globally. This course examines advocacy practices to create and sustain social movements and political struggles. Cases included grassroots advocacy, NGOs, transnational and technological activism; environmental justice; human rights; gender, ethnic and sexual rights; consumption and globalization; democratization and neoliberalism. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 429. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 629 if student has credit for ANTH 429.

Long Title: MUSEUMS: THEORY AND PRACTICE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

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. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 642 if student has credit for ANTH 442.

Long Title: ANTHROPOLOGY OF RACE, ETHNICITY AND HEALTH

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores how human bodies and biomedical 'facts' are culturally constructed with respect to race and ethnicity, and examines how these constructs variably impact experiences of health, well-being and illness. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 443. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 643 if student has credit for ANTH 443.

Long Title: CULTURE, PSYCHIATRY, AND MENTAL ILLNESS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar takes psychiatric practice as an object of anthropological investigation. It explores the ways in which emotional suffering and therapeutic systems are constituted within various social, cultural, and historical contexts. Topics include affect, anxiety, psychosis, and somatization in cross-cultural perspective; diagnostic standardization; the cultural history of psychiatry; institutionalization and deinstitutionalization; psychiatric professionalization; the globalization of Western psychiatric practice; and critical anti-psychiatry movements. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 444. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 644 if student has credit for ANTH 444.

Long Title: EXPERTS AND CULTURES OF EXPERTISE

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: 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

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar on contemporary research on the biomedical aspects of human health and disease. Includes topics from medical ecology and epidemiology. Cross-list: ENST 646, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 446. Recommended Prerequisites: ANTH 381 or ANTH 581 but not required. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 646 if student has credit for ANTH 446.

Long Title: MODERN ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF MODERNITY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

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 447. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 647 if student has credit for ANTH 447.

Long Title: PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This advanced seminar explores phenomenological theory in the human sciences beginning with Hegel and Marx and examines its uptake in recent works of anthropological ethnography and theory. The course will focus especially upon questions of selfhood and alterity, affect and emotion, and the senses and knowledge. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 448. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 648 if student has credit for ANTH 448.

Long Title: CULTURES OF SEXUALITY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: What is "sexuality" across cultural milieux? This course analyzes understandings and practices of sexuality from a global, comparative perspective, including different social configurations of gender and intimacy, reproduction, sensuality and the erotic. Case studies explore the complex relationships between sexuality and gender, ethnicity, nationalism, globalization, commodification, politics, media, health and medicine. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 449. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 649 if student has credit for ANTH 449.

Long Title: PEDAGOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

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: RESEARCH DESIGN

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An exploration of the process of conceptualization and concrete design of dissertation-linked research. Recommended for third- or fourth-year graduate students.

Long Title: HERITAGE MANAGEMENT

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 456. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 656 if student has credit for ANTH 456.

Long Title: HUMAN OSTEOLOGY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to the analysis of human skeletal material from archaeological sites. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 458. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 658 if student has credit for ANTH 458.

Long Title: ADVANCED ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

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 460. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 660 if student has credit for ANTH 460. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: WEST AFRICAN PREHISTORY

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

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 463. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 663 if student has credit for ANTH 463.

Long Title: DOCUMENTARY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

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 boundaries of fiction and nonfiction genres. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 483. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 683 if student has credit for ANTH 483.

Long Title: RESEARCH AND THESIS

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3 TO 9

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.