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ANTH 100 Non-Western Cultures and the Western Tradition |
| Description: An examination of the changing views of man, nature and culture in Western civilization as related to the impact of non-Western influences, including the use and interpretation of data on non-Western peoples and cultures. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 101 Introduction to Biological Anthropology |
| Description: Humans as biological organisms from an evolutionary perspective. Concepts, methods, findings and issues in the study of the Order primates, including the relationships between fossil monkeys, apes and humans, and the significance of genetic diversity in modern populations. (CAN ANTH 2) |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology |
| Description: The nature of culture and its significance. Uniformities and variations in human cultures. Cultural analyses of major institutional forms such as the family, economy, government, religion and art with an emphasis on preliterate peoples. Central problems of cultural comparison and interpretation. (CAN ANTH 4) |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 103 Introduction to Archaeology |
| Description: Relationship of archaeology, culture history and culture process, field methods and analysis of archaeological data; the uses and abuses of archaeology. World culture history from Pleistocene beginnings to the threshold of civilization. (CAN ANTH 6) |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 110 Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest |
| Description: Introductory-level exploration of the lifeways of prehistoric peoples of the American Southwest as evidenced through archaeological remains and through Native American perspectives. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 300 Language and Culture |
| Description: Prerequisite: completion of General Education Category III.C.1. Language as a factor in culture. Trends in the study of language and culture. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 301 Primate Behavior |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 101 or 102 or Psychology 101 or completion of General Education category III.A.2. The anthropological study of the behavior of primates including monkeys and apes with data collection in the wild and the laboratory; review and discussion of behavioral characteristics that are part of the primate heritage of humankind. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 304 Traditional Cultures of the World |
| Description: Completion of General Education Category III.B.2. A comparative, worldwide survey of traditional, selected and well-studied ways of life using ethnographic writings, novels and films. Examines representative bands, tribes, chiefdoms, primitive states and folk societies. |
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| ANTH 305 Anthropology of Religion |
| Description: Prerequisite: Completion of General Education Category III.B.2. Beliefs and practices in the full human variation of religious phenomena, with an emphasis on primitive religions. The forms, functions, structures, symbolism, and history and evolution of religious systems. One or more sections offered online. |
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| ANTH 306 Culture and Art |
| Description: Prerequisite: Completion of General Education Category III.B.2. The metaphysical and mystical systems underlying the "grammars" of the art, myths, and rituals of various nonliterate and literate peoples and their development into creative experiences. |
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| ANTH 308 Culture and Aging: Anthropological Gerontology |
| Description: Prerequisite: General Education Category III.C.1. Anthropological discourse on diverse cultural conceptions of aging as they relate to gender, class, ethnic and religious categories. Cross-cultural comparison of culturally patterned time-table of life-cycle and age-grades for understanding the universals and variability in human aging. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 310 Urban Anthropology |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 102. A cross-cultural investigation of similarities and differences in urbanism with an emphasis on current theoretical and methodological perspectives in the study of urban social and cultural forms and processes. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 311 Culture and Communication |
| Description: Prerequisite: Completion of General Education Category III.B.2. How culture meaning and manipulation are constituted in both traditional and modern cultures through language, mythology, ritual, architecture, religion, and other communication systems. |
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| ANTH 313 Culture & Personality: Psychological Anthropology |
| Description: Prerequisite: General Education Category III.C.1. The relationship between the individual and the culture. Child training in non-western cultures. Survey of concepts, studies, and research techniques. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 315 Culture and Nutrition |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 101 or 102 or equivalent. Interrelationships between human nutrition, basic food resources, individual development and socio-cultural organization; includes assessment of student's nutritional status, beliefs, and practices relative to other cultures. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 316 Anthropology of Sex and Gender |
| Description: Prerequisite: Completion of General Education Category III.C.1. This course examines human sex and gender roles in cross-cultural perspective and the role that gender plays in human social organization. Topics covered include cultural construction of gender: homosexuality, rights of women, evolution and gender. (Same as Women's Studies 316) |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 320 Cultures of Europe |
| Description: Prerequisite: General Education Category III.C.1. A cultural survey of Europe, focusing on the peasant, national, and pan-European traditions of Europe. Diverse anthropological approaches are used to examine changing boundaries of European identity from prehistory to the present "European Union." |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 321 The American Indian |
| Description: Prerequisite: General Education Category III.C.1. North American Indians north of Mexico; origin, languages, culture areas, cultural history; the impact of European contacts. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 322 Human Behavioral Ecology |
| Description: Prerequisite: completion of GE category III.A.2.c. Using modern evolutionary theory, students will examine human biological and cultural diversity through an analysis of comparative socioecology. Topics covered include reproduction and marriage, the family, childhood, population growth, and conservation. Computer labs utilizing eHRAF. (Cross-listed with Biology 322). |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 325 Peoples of South America |
| Description: Prerequisite: General Education Category III.C.1. Central and South America. Representative cultural areas before and after contacts with Western countries. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 327 Origins of Civilizations |
| Description: Prerequisite: General Education Category III.A.2 or III.C.1. The development of civilization in both the Old and New Worlds in primary centers such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, China, Mesoamerica and Peru, and secondary centers such as the Aegean and Europe. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 328 Peoples of Africa |
| Description: Prerequisite: General Education Category III.C.1. A cultural survey of Africa. Description of selected cultures and aspects of culture before and after contact with non-Africans. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 329 Peoples of the Caribbean |
| Description: Prerequisite: General Education Category III.C.1. A survey of the various ethnic groups of the Caribbean, focusing on the description and interpretation of African, European, Asian and Amerindian cultural elements. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 332 Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective |
| Description: Prerequisite: General Education Category III.A.2 or III.C.1. The influence of biological determinants as they are shaped by cultural beliefs, values, expectations and socially defined roles for women. The changing role of women in industrial society. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 333 Anthropology of Childhood |
| Description: Prerequisite: General Education Category III.A.2 or III.C.1. Using a biocultural perspective, students examine the form and experiences of childhood using a comparative, evolutionary, cross-cultural approach. Topics: work and play, evolutionary and cultural influences on children's development trajectories, the role of children. Computer labs with eHRAF. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 340 Peoples of Asia |
| Description: Prerequisite: General Education Categories III.A.2 and III.C.1. A survey of Asian civilizations and cultural traditions, emphasizing the study of the personality configurations in different culture areas, the analysis of the structure of Asian civilizations, and an examination of the peasant, tribal and ethnic groups of Asia. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 342 Anthropology and Health |
| Description: Prerequisite: Completion of General Education Category III.A.2 and III.C.1. In this course students use a comparative, cross-cultural perspective to understand the process and conception of health in different societies. Topics covered include: health beliefs, health ecology, culture and health. Computer labs utilizing eHRAF. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 344 Human Evolution |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 101 or completion of General Education Category III.A.2. Advanced primate evolution; the origin of Homo sapiens as evidenced in the fossil record and through biochemical and molecular studies. Evolutionary theory and problems in human evolution. (2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory) |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 345 Peoples of the Middle East and North Africa |
| Description: Prerequisite: General Education Category III.C.1. Interrelationship between culture, economy, political structure and belief system of selected cultures in the Middle East and North Africa. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 347 Peoples of the Pacific |
| Description: Prerequisite: General Education Category III.C.1. The indigenous peoples and cultures of the Pacific Islands, including Tahiti, Hawaii and Australia. The forces and processes contributing to social change in island communities and current problems being faced by them. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 350 Culture and Education |
| Description: Prerequisite: General Education Category III.C.1. The transmission of values, implicit cultural assumptions, and the patterning of education in cross-cultural perspective. American culture and development problems. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 360 Contemporary American Culture |
| Description: Prerequisite: General Education Category III.C.1. Application of anthropological methods, categories of analysis, and types of interpretation to American culture. Survey and critique of selected community studies and other kinds of relevant research. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 370 Anthropology of Non-Western Films |
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Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 100 or 102 or 304. Comparative analytical study of commercial and non-commercial films and videos made by non-western people. Films and videos considered as cultural artifacts that are particularly revealing of the ways people conceive of themselves and their cultures. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 400 Cultural Analysis: Qualitative Methods in Anthropology |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 102. An examination of the qualitative methods that are used in the analysis of culture; review of recent methodologies developed in the framework of semiotic, phenomenological, and interpretive anthropology. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 401 Ethnographic Field Methods |
| Description: Prerequisites: Anthro 102 and six additional units of anthropology. Anthropological field research by students on various problems using participant observation techniques. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 402 Museum Science |
| Description: Either Anthro 101, 102 or 103. Methods, principles and techniques used in natural history, and small scientific and historical museums. Subjects covered include scope of exhibit and research collections, care and repair of specimens, acquisitions, storage and preparation of presentations in anthropological, historical, biological and paleontological museums. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 403 Archaeological Fieldwork |
| Description: Prerequisites: Anthro 102 or 103 and consent of instructor. Excavation of a local archaeological site. Archaeological mapping, photography and recording. Laboratory methods of cataloging, preservation, description and interpretation of archaeological materials. Saturday field sessions. May be repeated once for credit as an elective. (1 hour lecture, 6 hours laboratory) |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 404 Analytical Methods in Archaeology |
| Description: Prerequisites: Anthro 103 and 403. The employment of physical data collecting techniques (e.g., photographic, paleo-magnetic) in the field and the analysis of artifact collections and data from previous field operations in the laboratory. May be repeated once for credit as an elective. (1 hour lecture, 6 hours laboratory) |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 405 Human Osteology |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 101 or equivalent. Techniques in the basic identification of human skeletal remains. Aging, sexing, racing and stature reconstruction. For those interested in archaeology, hominid evolution and/or forensic science. (2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory) |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 406 Descriptive Linguistics |
| Description: (Same as Linguistics 406) |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 407 Anthropological Video Production |
| Description: Prerequisite: six upper-division units of anthropology. Planning, shooting, and editing videotapes relating to all sub-disciplines of anthropology. (1 hour lecture; 6 hours laboratory activities, demonstrations, and fieldwork) |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 408 Ethnogerontology |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthropology 102. Learning the methods of ethnoscience and interpretive semiotics for analyzing cultural knowledge and domains pertaining to aging. Training in ethnographic cultural analysis of aging for the production of ethnographies that focus on the symbols, taxonomies, paradigms, and themes of aging. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 409 Applied Anthropology |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 102. The uses of anthropological skills and sensitivities in approaching contemporary human problems. Cultural change, organizational development, program planning and evaluation, the consultant's role, and professional ethics. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 410 Anthropology of Organizations |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 102. Cross cultural examination of the diverse ways humans organize themselves in groups. Topics include voluntary and non-voluntary associations, gender- and age-based organizations, religious groups, environmental groups, health care organization, and business organizations. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 412 Culture Change |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 102. Interrelations between cultural, social and psychological processes in the dynamics of culture growth and change. Impact of western technology on tribal and peasant societies. Anthropological contributions to the planning of directed sociocultural change in selected areas. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 414 Economic Anthropology |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 102. The ethnology and ethnography of economic life, principally in non-Western societies; the operation of systems of production and distribution within diverse cultural contexts. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 415 Anthropology of Tourism |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 102. Tourism and travel as cultural practices. Examines domestic and international tourism; perspective of both hosts and travelers; global economy and tourism; souvenirs, artifacts and symbolic landscapes; tourism as pilgrimage. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 416 Anthropological Linguistics |
| Description: Nature and functions of language; language structure and change; classification of languages; use of linguistic evidence in anthropology. (Same as Linguistics 416) |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 417 Life Quests |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 102. Contemporary ways to wisdom and humanness in cross-cultural and historical perspectives. New and comparative approaches to understanding the life cycle, development and fulfillment of individual personalities. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 418 GIS and Archaeology |
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Description: Prerequisite: Anthropology 103 or equivalent course and junior or senior standing. This course is an introduction to the use of Geographic Information Systems as they apply to the study of archaeology. The course focuses on the spatial analysis of past cultural remains from anthropological perspectives. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 419 Anthropology of Risk |
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Description: Prerequisite: Upper-division standing and Anthro 101, 102, and 103. The class covers the ecological context of risk, cultural, and behavioral responses to resource insecurity, the culture construction of risk, health outcomes in relation to risk-prone and risk-averse behavior, and social differentiation and risk. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 420 Visual Anthropology |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthropology 100, 101, 102, 103, or equivalent. An examination of the development of the field of visual anthropology and an analysis of the changing and diverse approaches to the use of visual media in representing and interpreting other cultures. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 423 The Ancient Mayan |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 102, 103The archaeology and ethnohistory of the Maya area of Southern Mesoamerica. The problems of initial settlement of the area and the "rise" and dynamics of ancient Maya civilzation. |
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| ANTH 424 The Aztecs and Their Predecessors |
| Description: Anthropology 102, 103. Archaeological survey of principal Mesoamerica pre-Columbian cultures north and west of the Maya area. The Aztecs and their predecessors, religion, art, architecture, intellectual achievements and the Olmec heritage. |
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| ANTH 425 Advanced Topics in Human Osteology |
| Description: Prerequisites: Anthro 405 and consent of instructor. Analytical methods stressing morphological examination of human bone in a laboratory setting (determination of human, prehistoric; analysis of fragmented and commingled remains; basic identification and report writing; pathological conditions). For those interested in archaeology, hominid evolution and/or forensic science. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 441 Human Variation |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 101. The processes underlying and the theories for the existence of the present variation between and within human populations. The genetics of human populations and the significance of racial classifications. (2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory) |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 442 Medical Anthropology |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 101 or 102 or Psychology 101. Human health and disease and their relationship to cultural practices, beliefs and environmental factors; histories of various diseases as factors of cultural change; health care delivery systems. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 445 Quantitative Methods in Anthropology |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthropology major or minor and junior or senior standing. This course develops students' skills and knowledge in the application of quantitative methods in anthropological research. Students will earn an integrated approach to research design, data collection, data management, and data analysis through hands-on training. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 451 Advanced Human Evolution |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthropology 322 or 344 or Biology 274. This course uses life history theory to examine the evolutionary ecology of human behavior. Topics covered include the human life course, resource acquisition, parenting, and fertility. Computer labs utilizing eHRAF. (Same as Biology 451) |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 460 Public Archaeology in California |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 103. An archaeological survey of California, emphasizing the examination of recent scientific excavations. Analysis of new archaeological methods, current research specializations, responsibilities of the modern archaeologist, and review of legislation affecting archaeology. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 470 Survey of Anthropological Films |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 100 or 101 or 102 or 103; 420 recommended. Survey and analysis of the uses of film and video in anthropological research, teaching, theory, methodology. Films are studied not only for their anthropological content, but also as artifacts of western culture which reveal significant aspects of that culture. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 475 Research Methods in Primatology |
| Description: Anthropology 301 or completion of General Education Category III.A.3. This course prepares students to conduct advanced behavioral research on non-human primates. It focuses on research design, data collection techniques, ethical and other situations unique to captive or to field settings, statistics, literature resources, permits, and disease transmission. |
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| ANTH 476 Archaeological Investigations |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 102 or 103. Methodology and practice of archaeological fieldwork. May be repeated for credit. (1 hour lecture, 6 hours laboratory) |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 480 History of Anthropology |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 101, 102 and 103. The principal contributions of anthropologists 1850-1950; evolutionary, diffusionist, historical, particularist, configurationalist, and culture and personality approaches in anthropology. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 481 Contemporary Anthropology |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 101, 102, and 103. Anthropologists from 1950 to the present; neoevolutionist, sociological, structuralist, psychological and symbolic approaches. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 490T Undergraduate Seminar in Anthropology |
| Description: Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Topics in anthropology. May be repeated for credit. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 491 Internship in Anthropology |
| Description: Prerequisites: 18 upper-division units in anthropology and/or related fields. Career opportunities. On-the-job training under faculty supervision in museum, industry or governmental service. May be repeated for credit for a total of six units. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 497 Ethnographic Investigations |
| Description: Prerequisite: Anthro 102 and 401 or equivalent. Training in the methodologies of participant observation and interview techniques; investigation and description of cultural domains such as religion, health, economics, politics, and family and ethnic boundaries. May be repeated for credit for a maximum of six units. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 498 Museum Practicum |
| Description: Prerequisite: at least 15 units of anthropology and consent of instructor. Practical experience in museum operations, using the facilities of the Anthropology Museum. Topics covered include exhibit preparation, membership and funding operations, catalogue preparation and outreach activities. May be repeated for credit for a maximum of six units. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 499 Independent Study |
| Description: Prerequisites: at least 15 units of anthropology and consent of adviser. Individual research project involving either library or fieldwork. Conferences with the adviser as necessary. Results in one or more papers. May be repeated for credit. |
| Units: (1-3) |
| ANTH 504T Seminar: Selected Topics in Anthropology |
| Description: Prerequisite: completion of undergraduate major in anthropology and/or graduate standing or consent of instructor. The topic chosen and a general outline of the seminar is circulated prior to registration. May be repeated. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 507 Grammatical Analysis |
| Description: (Same as Linguistics 507) |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 511 Theory and Method in Biological Anthropology |
| Description: Prerequisites: completion of undergraduate major in anthropology and/or graduate standing. Basic theoretical positions and methodological spectrum in biological anthropology. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 512 Theory and Method in Archaeology |
| Description: Prerequisites: completion of undergraduate major in anthropology and/or graduate standing. Basic theoretical positions and methodological spectrum in archaeological anthropology |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 513 Theory and Method in Cultural/Linguistic Anthropology |
| Description: Prerequisite: Completion of undergraduate major in anthropology and/or graduate standing. Basic theoretical positions and methodological spectrum in cultural and linguistic anthropology. |
| Units: (3) |
| ANTH 597 Project |
| Description: Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of project adviser. The completion of a project derived from original field or laboratory research, and/or from library study. A project could also be a museum exhibit, field report or other project. A copy of the approved written component of the project must be filed in the department through the department graduate program adviser. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 6 units. |
| Units: (3,6) |
| ANTH 598 Thesis |
| Description: Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of thesis adviser. The completion of a thesis derived from original field or laboratory research, and/or from library study. A copy of the approved thesis must be submitted to the department through the department graduate program adviser, and a copy of the thesis must be approved by the University Graduate Studies Office for submission to the bookstore for binding and microfilming. May be repeated for credit to a maximum of 6 units. |
| Units: (3,6) |
| ANTH 599 Independent Graduate Research |
| Description: Prerequisite: consent of adviser. Individual research involving fieldwork, laboratory, or library study, and conferences with a project adviser as necessary, and resulting in one or more papers. May be repeated for credit. |
| Units: (1-3) |
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