Anthropology Courses

Anthropology

Course numbering is being revised, for most accurate course numbers please refer to class schedules.

ANTH& 100 (Formerly ANTH 102 Four-Field Anthropology)
SURVEY OF ANTHROPOLOGY (SS) (D) (5)
Participate in a four-field approach to the study of the diversity of humans and human cultures. Explore subfields of anthropology: social/cultural anthropology, physical/biological anthropology, archaeology, and anthropological linguistics.

ANTH& 206 (Formerly ANTH 201 Search for Human Nature: Sociocultural Anthropology)
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (SS) (D) (5)
Explore the whole of the human social and cultural world by means of investigating other peoples' beliefs and behaviors. Through a cross-cultural perspective we attempt to understand others in order to better learn about ourselves.

ANTH& 210 (Formerly ANTH 220 Native Cultures of North America)
INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA (SS) (D) (5)
Investigate cultural systems of beliefs, behaviors and technology practiced by traditional North American Indian peoples. Learn about subsistence patterns, exchange and trading relationship, marriage and the family, political organization, the life cycle, and religion, belief and knowledge.

ANTH& 215
BIOANTHROPOLOGY (SS) (5)
Exploration of human biology, evolution, paleontology, taxonomy, primatology, genetics and human variation. Concurrent enrollment in ANTH& 215L is required. Prerequisite: ANTH& 100 or ANTH& 206 and high school biology recommended.

ANTH 225
CULTURAL & ETHNIC PLURALISM IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY (SS) (D) (5)
Examination of ethnicity, ethnic identity, and the cultural characteristics of ethnic and social groups in North America as well as around the world. Understand the relationship between social organization and forms of social, economic, and political domination and subordination.

ANTH 235
MYTH, RITUAL AND MAGIC (SS) (D) (5)
Experience the supernatural and religious beliefs of peoples and cultures. Examine different modes of constructing "reality" and "belief" as well as their methods of ritual application in societies worldwide.