Department of Anthropology
Minor in Anthropology
Students on Summer 2021, Fall 2021, or Spring 2022 requirements ANTHMIN
The Minor in Anthropology offers students the opportunity to enhance their undergraduate studies with a wide range of course options and thematic specializations including human health and evolution, food and nutrition, human adaptation to the environment, communication and performance, indigenous cultures, and human rights.
Requirements
The minor requires at least 15 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
- Anthropology Core. One (1) course:
- ANTH-B 200 Bioanthropology
- ANTH-E 200 Social and Cultural Anthropology
- ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
- ANTH-P 200 Introduction to Archaeology
ANTH-B 200 Bioanthropology
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the natural history of humans (Homo sapiens). Includes coverage of evolutionary theory and its relevance for understanding contemporary human biology, genetics and inheritance, description and analysis of human biological variation and adaptation, human-environment biocultural interactions, similarities and differences between humans and non-human primates, and the fossil record for primate and human evolution.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-E 200 Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introduction to social-cultural anthropology\'s history, theories, and analytical approaches to cross-cultural analysis. Covers foundational concepts and ethnographic methods used to understand current issues such as race and racism, ethnicity and nationalism, class and inequality, gender, family and kinship, religion, and people\'s relationship to the environment.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introduction to the field of linguistic anthropology, the social scientific study of language. Examines how languages reflect cultures, how language use reproduces culture(s), how linguistic categories relate to categories of thought, and how linguistic variation both reflects and shapes social categories such as gender, class, race, and ethnicity.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 200 Introduction to Archaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the goals, methods, and theories that archaeologists use to learn about the past. The pursuit and interpretation of archaeological evidence are explored by reviewing case studies from across the globe and diverse time periods. Topics include food and subsistence, culture change, social life, political economies, and archaeological ethics.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
- Anthropology Elective. One (1) course:
- ANTH-A 107 Becoming Human: Evolving Genes, Bodies, Behaviors, Ideas
- ANTH-A 122 Interpersonal Communication
- ANTH-A 200 Topics in Anthropology of Culture and Society
- ANTH-A 205 Anthropology Today: Selected Topics in Current Research
- ANTH-A 208 Topics in the Anthropology of the Arts and Expressive Behavior
- ANTH-A 211 Anthropology Topics in the Natural and Mathematical Sciences
- ANTH-A 221 Anthropology of Food
- ANTH-A 255 Nomads, Networks & Communities
- ANTH-A 288 Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll (Subversive Culture)
- ANTH-A 306 Anthropological Statistics
- ANTH-A 372 Food, Culture and Heritage in Italy
- ANTH-A 399 Honors Tutorial
- ANTH-A 400 Undergraduate Seminar in Anthropology
- ANTH-A 402 Food and the Body
- ANTH-A 403 Introduction to Museum Studies
- ANTH-A 405 Museum Methods
- ANTH-A 410 Anthropology Capstone Seminar
- ANTH-A 467 Topics in Medical Anthropology
- ANTH-B 111 Introduction to Chimpanzee Behavior and Cognition
- ANTH-B 200 Bioanthropology
- ANTH-B 260 Biocultural Medical Anthropology
- ANTH-B 301 Laboratory in Bioanthropology
- ANTH-B 310 Bioanthropology: A History of Ideas
- ANTH-B 312 Evolutionary Medicine
- ANTH-B 333 Chimpanzee Biology: Anatomy, Evolution, Ecology, and Physiology
- ANTH-B 340 Hormones and Human Behavior
- ANTH-B 343 Evolution of Human Ecological Footprint
- ANTH-B 368 The Evolution of Primate Social Behavior
- ANTH-B 370 Human Variation
- ANTH-B 400 Undergraduate Seminar
- ANTH-B 464 Human Paleontology
- ANTH-B 466 The Primates
- ANTH-B 470 Human Adaptation: Biological Approaches
- ANTH-B 472 Bioanthropology of Aboriginal America
- ANTH-B 480 Human Growth and Development
- ANTH-E 101 Sustainability and Society
- ANTH-E 104 Global Consumer Culture
- ANTH-E 105 Culture and Society
- ANTH-E 200 Social and Cultural Anthropology
- ANTH-E 203 Stigma and the Expressive Arts: Cultivating Compassion
- ANTH-E 206 Chanting Down Babylon: Protest and Popular Culture in the Afro-Caribbean
- ANTH-E 208 Global Jazz, Reggae, and Hip-Hop: African Diasporic Music Beyond the African Diaspora
- ANTH-E 210 Rethinking Race Globally
- ANTH-E 212 The Anthropology of Youth and Adolescence
- ANTH-E 220 Performing Human/Nature: Defining Relationships with the Environment
- ANTH-E 230 American Ethnic Diversity
- ANTH-E 251 Post-Taliban Afghanistan and the War on Terror
- ANTH-E 253 Intoxicating Cultures: Alcohol in Everyday Life
- ANTH-E 260 Culture, Health, and Illness
- ANTH-E 270 Captivity Narratives
- ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups
- ANTH-E 302 Ethnographic Methods
- ANTH-E 303 Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
- ANTH-E 309 Problems in African Ethnography
- ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
- ANTH-E 318 Nature/Culture: Global Perspectives in Environmental Anthropology
- ANTH-E 319 Native American Religions
- ANTH-E 320 Indigenous Populations of North America
- ANTH-E 321 Peoples of Mexico
- ANTH-E 322 Peoples of Brazil
- ANTH-E 323 Indigenous Peoples of Indiana
- ANTH-E 327 Native Amazonians and the Environment
- ANTH-E 328 Ecological Anthropology
- ANTH-E 331 Debt
- ANTH-E 333 Peoples of the Andes
- ANTH-E 335 Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica
- ANTH-E 337 Food, Sex and Gender
- ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
- ANTH-E 340 Indigenous Populations of Mexico and Central America
- ANTH-E 344 On The Move Across Asia: Gender, Migration, Mobility
- ANTH-E 345 Changing China
- ANTH-E 346 Global Anarchy
- ANTH-E 347 The Anthropology of Contemporary Japan
- ANTH-E 349 Identity and Difference
- ANTH-E 358 Photography and Ethnography
- ANTH-E 366 Commodities and Culture
- ANTH-E 373 Plagues and People
- ANTH-E 380 Urban Anthropology
- ANTH-E 381 Ethnographic Analysis of Family, Work, and Power
- ANTH-E 382 Memory and Culture
- ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
- ANTH-E 385 Applied Anthropology
- ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
- ANTH-E 387 The Ethnography of Europe
- ANTH-E 388 Ethnicity, Class, and the Model U.S. Citizen
- ANTH-E 393 World Fiction and Cultural Anthropology
- ANTH-E 397 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
- ANTH-E 398 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia
- ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar
- ANTH-E 404 Field Methods in Ethnography
- ANTH-E 407 Visual Anthropology: Filmmaking
- ANTH-E 408 Talk, Tales, and Television: Africa, Europe, the United States
- ANTH-E 412 Anthropology of Russia and Eastern Europe
- ANTH-E 413 Global Africa
- ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective
- ANTH-E 416 Anthropology of Tourism
- ANTH-E 417 African Women
- ANTH-E 418 Globalization and Consumer Culture
- ANTH-E 420 Economic Anthropology
- ANTH-E 421 Food and Culture
- ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
- ANTH-E 423 Life Histories
- ANTH-E 424 Sense of Place
- ANTH-E 426 Coffee Culture, Production, and Markets
- ANTH-E 428 Contemporary Latin American Social Movements
- ANTH-E 431 Ethnography as Cultural Critique
- ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
- ANTH-E 434 Food Communication and Performance
- ANTH-E 435 Fashion, Beauty, Power
- ANTH-E 436 The Politics of Marriage
- ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
- ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
- ANTH-E 442 Ethnographic Memoir
- ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas: Theories of Conservation
- ANTH-E 445 Seminar in Medical Anthropology
- ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
- ANTH-E 456 Anthropology of Race
- ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
- ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
- ANTH-E 464 Body, Power, and Performance
- ANTH-E 474 The Anthropology of Human Rights
- ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
- ANTH-E 490 Development and Anthropology
- ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
- ANTH-L 204 Language and (In)Tolerance in the US
- ANTH-L 208 Ways of Speaking
- ANTH-L 222 Global Communication
- ANTH-L 310 Elementary Lakota (Sioux) Language I
- ANTH-L 311 Elementary Lakota (Sioux) Language II
- ANTH-L 312 Intermediate Lakota (Sioux) Language I
- ANTH-L 313 Intermediate Lakota (Sioux) Language II
- ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
- ANTH-L 320 Native American Languages
- ANTH-L 330 Mesoamerican Languages: Structure, History, Social Context
- ANTH-L 340 Language and Globalization
- ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication
- ANTH-L 402 Language in/of Media
- ANTH-L 407 Language and Prehistory
- ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
- ANTH-P 200 Introduction to Archaeology
- ANTH-P 215 Sex in the Ancient City: An Archaeology of Sex
- ANTH-P 230 Archaeology of the Ancient Maya
- ANTH-P 240 Archaeology and the Movies
- ANTH-P 250 Introductory World Archaeology
- ANTH-P 301 Archaeological Methods and Analyses
- ANTH-P 302 Invention and Technology
- ANTH-P 305 Underwater Archeology
- ANTH-P 310 Prehistory of Europe and Asia
- ANTH-P 314 Earlier Prehistory of Africa
- ANTH-P 330 Historical Archaeology
- ANTH-P 332 Industrial Archaeology
- ANTH-P 341 Archaeology of the Middle East
- ANTH-P 345 Indigenous Archaeology
- ANTH-P 350 Archaeology of Ancient Mexico
- ANTH-P 361 Archaeology of the Midwestern United States
- ANTH-P 363 North American Prehistory through Fiction
- ANTH-P 370 Archaeology of the Andes
- ANTH-P 375 Food in the Ancient World
- ANTH-P 380 Prehistoric Diet and Nutrition
- ANTH-P 385 Paleolithic Technology Laboratory
- ANTH-P 390 Geoarchaeology
- ANTH-P 399 Undergraduate Seminar
- ANTH-P 401 Cultural Resource Management
- ANTH-P 406 Laboratory Methods in Archaeology
- ANTH-P 407 Archaeological Curation
- ANTH-P 409 Archaeological Ethics
- ANTH-P 411 Archaeology of Magic, Witchcraft and Religion
- ANTH-P 425 Faunal Osteology
- ANTH-P 426 Problems in Zooarchaeology
- ANTH-P 430 Archaeology of Violence and Conflict
- ANTH-P 440 Archaeology of Space and Place
- ANTH-P 445 Pots and People
- ANTH-P 480 Fieldwork in Wyoming Archaeology
ANTH-A 107 Becoming Human: Evolving Genes, Bodies, Behaviors, Ideas
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduces the interdisciplinary science of human evolution using evidence from genetics, comparative anatomy and behavior of living primates, fossils, and archaeology. Shows how understanding the evolutionary past is relevant to current and future human conditions.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 103, ANTH-A 105, ANTH-A 107, or ANTH-A 303.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-A 122 Interpersonal Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the study of communication, culture, identity and power. Each student does original primary research. Covers a range of topics, including small group communication around the world and among high school and college students in the United States, gendered language, slang, verbal play, texting, and institutional language.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-A 200 Topics in Anthropology of Culture and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected topics in the anthropological study of social and cultural institutions. Emphasizes understanding and developing anthropological approaches to questions about social, economic, political, and historical relationships among groups and individuals in contexts across the globe. Course topics may utilize ethnographic, archaeological, linguistic, and historical information.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-A 205 Anthropology Today: Selected Topics in Current Research
- Credits
- 1–4 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected topics in anthropological methods, techniques, and area or thematic studies. Course content will draw on the fieldwork experiences and/or current research of the instructor(s).
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
ANTH-A 208 Topics in the Anthropology of the Arts and Expressive Behavior
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to selected topics in the anthropology of art, performance, music, literature, folklore, belief, and ritual. Examines the methods anthropologists use to study the arts or other expressive behaviors and explores art and expression in a variety of cultural settings.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
ANTH-A 211 Anthropology Topics in the Natural and Mathematical Sciences
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected topics in anthropology that explore human interaction with physical and biological environments, or apply scientific methodology to anthropological questions. May emphasize human evolution and biology, nutrition, forensics, non-human primates, technology, archaeometry, and other scientific measurement, experimentation, and inquiry as it relates to anthropological study.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-A 221 Anthropology of Food
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- In this course we will examine, across space and time, the significance and meaning of food, its production and consumption in human culture and society. Ideas and practices concerning food are deeply held markers of who we are and how we define ourselves.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-A 255 Nomads, Networks & Communities
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines mobile lifestyles and the repercussions of human mobility, through the lens of actually-existing mobile pastoralism in Mongolia, Iran, Siberia, and the Tibetan plateau and romantic perceptions of nomadism. Topics include social organization, demography, migration, human-animal relations, diet, humans\' relationships to their environment, nomad-settler relations, and social change.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 255 or CEUS-R 296.
ANTH-A 288 Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll (Subversive Culture)
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Taking \"normativity\" and challenges to it as the major problematic, this course explores this problem analytically, through four major conceptual approaches, and thematically, via pop culture and various cultural expressions surrounding sexuality, illicit drug culture, and transgressive music.
ANTH-A 306 Anthropological Statistics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Fundamentals of univariate and bivariate statistics, construction and interpretation of graphs, and computer-assisted data analysis. Both statistical methodology and theory will be emphasized as well as computer literacy. Students will examine the primary literature in all branches of anthropology to familiarize themselves with the role of statistics in anthropological research.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 306, CJUS-K 300, ECON-E 370, ECON-S 370, MATH-K 300, MATH-K 310, POLS-Y 395, PSY-K 300, PSY-K 310, SOC-S 371, SPEA-K 300, SPH-Q 381, STAT-K 310, STAT-S 300, STAT-S 301, or STAT-S 303.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-A 372 Food, Culture and Heritage in Italy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores Italian food culture-history and cultural practices through cooking, visiting artisans and studying the history of Italian food. Covers changes in the food system in Italy brought on by migration, environment, and globalization.
ANTH-A 399 Honors Tutorial
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Consent of departmental honors advisor
- Description
- Research and writing, culminating in honors thesis.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated once.
ANTH-A 400 Undergraduate Seminar in Anthropology
- Credits
- 3–4 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Seminar in various anthropology topics not covered by other anthropology courses, excluding ethnography and ethnology.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-A 402 Food and the Body
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Follows food\'s journey from the land into our bodies and examines the politics of food sovereignty. By interweaving narratives of global Indigenous groups, African-American, and immigrant experiences in the US, seeks to develop an understanding of the history of food inequality in the United States and its intergenerational health impacts.
ANTH-A 403 Introduction to Museum Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to general principles, goals, and objectives of museum practice. Museum history, administrative organization, physical plant design, restoration, acquisition, exhibit, and educational programs.
ANTH-A 405 Museum Methods
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-A 403; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Methods and techniques of museum design, administration, accessioning, conservation and restoration, acquisition of specimens, curatorial work, exhibition, and education.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 405 or FOLK-F 406.
ANTH-A 410 Anthropology Capstone Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Senior standing; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Selected topics in anthropology approached using concepts from all four subfields of the discipline. Asks students to examine the goals of anthropology and apply what they have learned in previous coursework to current research and contemporary issues.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-A 467 Topics in Medical Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Junior standing; or consent of instructor
- Description
- In-depth perspectives on central topics in contemporary medical anthropology. Focus varies and may include such topics as HIV-AIDS in cross-cultural context; anthropological perspectives on disability; child health and nutrition; health and structural inequalities; and medical anthropology of gender and reproduction.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
ANTH-B 111 Introduction to Chimpanzee Behavior and Cognition
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys research on the behavior and cognition of our closest relative, the chimpanzee. Areas covered include the discovery of the chimpanzee, diet, foraging behavior, parenting, hunting, intelligence, psychology, language/communication, sleep science, tool-making and using activity, aggression, sex, social system and what chimpanzees tell us about human evolution.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 200 Bioanthropology
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the natural history of humans (Homo sapiens). Includes coverage of evolutionary theory and its relevance for understanding contemporary human biology, genetics and inheritance, description and analysis of human biological variation and adaptation, human-environment biocultural interactions, similarities and differences between humans and non-human primates, and the fossil record for primate and human evolution.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 260 Biocultural Medical Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of health and disease from a biocultural perspective, which incorporates the evolutionary, ecological, and sociocultural context of health and disease to answer such questions as why we get sick and why there is population variation in the risk of becoming sick. Topics include reproductive, infectious, and chronic diseases.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 301 Laboratory in Bioanthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-B 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Covers the methods and techniques of bioanthropology. Emphasis is on developing and testing evolutionary hypotheses using contemporary methods. Includes laboratory investigations of human skeletal biology including age and sex determinations and forensic identification; human paleontological and primate observations; variability in living populations including anthropometry, genetics, bloodtyping, demography; among others.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 310 Bioanthropology: A History of Ideas
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Covers emergence of modern bioanthropology as an academic discipline, emphasizing the careers of prominent scholars and theoretical contributions they made, as well as the influences of funding institutions and major departments on the direction of research. Examines relationships to other fields of study.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-B 312 Evolutionary Medicine
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-B 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Incorporates principles from evolutionary theory into our understanding of various infectious and chronic diseases common to human populations both past and present. Although proximate mechanisms involving physiology and behavior will be discussed, the focus will be to determine why such mechanisms have evolved in the first place.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 333 Chimpanzee Biology: Anatomy, Evolution, Ecology, and Physiology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: ANTH-B 111
- Description
- Surveys biological research on the chimpanzee. Examines chimpanzee taxonomy, habitat, digestive physiology, anatomy, embryology, evolutionary history, genetics, hormones, neuroanatomy and reproduction. Demonstrates how chimpanzee biology is part of a unified whole and how research on chimpanzees helps us better understand nature, including the place of humans in the natural world.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 340 Hormones and Human Behavior
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- At least junior standing; or consent of instructor
- Notes
- R: College-level introductory biology course or ANTH-B 200
- Description
- Reviews the roles of hormones in the evolution and expression of human and nonhuman animal behaviors. Emphasis placed on behaviors associated with aggression, stress, mating, and parenting. Particularly relevant for students interested in human health and the environment.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 343 Evolution of Human Ecological Footprint
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The current environmental crisis did not begin overnight and likely has roots deep in our evolutionary history. Although the scale of our effects on the biosphere has only recently shown exponential growth, it is worth examining how we got to this point today. This course explores a series of threshold moments in the history of our species that had great implications for the environment.
ANTH-B 368 The Evolution of Primate Social Behavior
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Major patterns of social organization in the order Primates, with focus on several important primate species. Examination of Darwinian theories of behavioral evolution. Particular attention paid to the influence of food-getting and diet on social behavior.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 370 Human Variation
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-B 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Explores the variation within and between human populations in morphology (anatomy), physiology, genetics, and behavior with a focus on evolutionary processes acting on humans in the past, present and future to shape our body and genes.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 400 Undergraduate Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected topics in bioanthropology. Analysis of research. Development of skills in analysis and criticism. Topic varies.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-B 464 Human Paleontology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-B 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Covers the structure, classification, evolution, geologic range, and geographical distribution of human fossils.
ANTH-B 466 The Primates
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-A 107, ANTH-B 200, or ANTH-B 301; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Paleontology, functional morphology, behavior, and natural history of the infrahuman primates. Emphasis on behavioral and ecological correlates of morphology.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 470 Human Adaptation: Biological Approaches
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the concept of adaptation within the framework of bioanthropology, anthropology, and other disciplines. Focuses on individual and population responses to heat, cold, solar radiation, high altitude, and nutritional and disease stress.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 472 Bioanthropology of Aboriginal America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Bioanthropological survey of past and present aboriginal inhabitants of North and South America: origins and antiquity, archaeological and ethnic relationships.
ANTH-B 480 Human Growth and Development
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-B 200 or ANTH-B 301
- Description
- Characteristics of human growth and development from birth to maturity, establishment of adult form and aging. Investigation of the causes of variation in growth and development across human populations, and methods for assessing growth and development.
ANTH-E 101 Sustainability and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- How do humans relate to the environment? Addresses this question from cross-cultural, historical, scientific, and ethical perspectives. Considers current problems; examines how technical, socioeconomic and political changes transform people's use of natural resources. Students evaluate how societies vary in perceptions of nature and explore implications for behavior, decision making, and environmental change.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 104 Global Consumer Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Traces the spread of global consumer culture and examines how people in different parts of the world have learned to be consumers. Asks tough questions about the future, the environmental impacts of consumption, and the way our cups of coffee and running shoes tie us to a globe of other producers and consumers.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 105 Culture and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the ethnographic and comparative study of contemporary and historical human society and culture. ANTH-E 105 does not count toward major. May be taken simultaneously with ANTH-A 105.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of the following: ANTH-A 104, ANTH-A 304, ANTH-E 105, or ANTH-E 303.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 200 Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introduction to social-cultural anthropology\'s history, theories, and analytical approaches to cross-cultural analysis. Covers foundational concepts and ethnographic methods used to understand current issues such as race and racism, ethnicity and nationalism, class and inequality, gender, family and kinship, religion, and people\'s relationship to the environment.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 203 Stigma and the Expressive Arts: Cultivating Compassion
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Stigma theory shows how cultural norms create marked categories of persons, who then face social barriers to equal treatment. This course explores expressive arts -- including written and spoken word, film and video, and live or mediated performance -- as effective strategies for disarming the stigmatizing gaze in the U.S.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
ANTH-E 206 Chanting Down Babylon: Protest and Popular Culture in the Afro-Caribbean
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores Afro-Caribbean popular culture as political protest against colonialism and its legacies, the failures of local government, and global-northern political, economic and other forms of domination. Explores grass-roots Afro-Caribbean popular culture as well as mass-media content such as recorded music, fiction writing and documentary film making.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 208 Global Jazz, Reggae, and Hip-Hop: African Diasporic Music Beyond the African Diaspora
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- With focus on jazz, reggae, and hip hop, this course links musical production and consumption in the African diaspora to issues of social identity. Among those aspects of social identity considered are race, nation, religion, class, and gender. The course investigates the spread of these musical genres around the world.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 210 Rethinking Race Globally
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Provides a global understanding of how race and structures of racism have been historically created, contemporarily understood, and structurally maintained.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 212 The Anthropology of Youth and Adolescence
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A broad introduction to the cross-cultural study of adolescence. Examines classic anthropological concerns such as age sets and age grades, generational groups, and rites of passage, as well as current research on youth language, global youth culture, and intergenerational politics.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 220 Performing Human/Nature: Defining Relationships with the Environment
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Reflects on the complexity of human experience from personal, creative, and cultural perspectives using fiction, poetry, journalism, creative nonfiction, visual art, music, and films. Students explore others' and their own experience of what it means to be human, analyze and compare the tacit philosophies present in these works, and pose their original organizing frameworks. Emphasis on interpretive skills and theory building, testing, and revising these theories to incorporate the lived experiences of others.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 220 or CMCL-C 220.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 230 American Ethnic Diversity
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course focuses on racial and ethnic groups within the United States, including Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, Jewish Americans and the self-defined "white ethnics." Topics will include the nature of prejudice and stereotypes, the immigrant experience, ethnic strategies for success, education, the arts and competitive sports as a means of expression and social mobility.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 251 Post-Taliban Afghanistan and the War on Terror
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The September 11th attacks prompted the on-going "War on Terrorism" against Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. This course examines this conflict while focusing on Afghanistan as a multi-ethnic, modern nation-state ravaged by a century of internal colonialism and most recently by foreign invasions, proxy wars, and global terrorism.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 251, CEUS-R 251, or NELC-N 251.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 253 Intoxicating Cultures: Alcohol in Everyday Life
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores how alcohol is an "embodied material culture" embedded in everyday life. Asks students to think critically about the relationship between alcohol and culture in both their own lives and in the lives of others.
ANTH-E 260 Culture, Health, and Illness
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Across the world, ideas about and experiences of health, "disease," and medicine are profoundly shaped by culture. Introduction to cross-cultural approaches to understanding health and illness, covering topics such as ethnomedicine, ritual healing, gender and health, and international development and global health.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 270 Captivity Narratives
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores ideas of freedom, containment and contact through a wide range of historical and fictive captivity narratives from the U.S. and beyond. Using perspectives from anthropology, literature and film, the course includes texts about slavery, prison, mental hospitals, and wartime kidnappings.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An ethnographic survey of a selected culture area or ethnic group.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
ANTH-E 302 Ethnographic Methods
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Students learn the approaches and methods of ethnography by conducting their own hands-on field research projects in and around the community. Students complete a series of ethnographic lab assignments on participant observation, mapping and visual technologies, interviewing, and writing up research findings.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 303 Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: Junior standing. Introductory course for more advanced students. Not open to students who have taken ANTH-E 105. Not sequential with ANTH-A 303. ANTH-E 303 does not count toward major
- Description
- Approaches to the study of contemporary cultures: structure, process, and change. Topics include kinship, economy, politics, religion, and worldview.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 309 Problems in African Ethnography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Concentrating on ethnographies of African cultures, this course seeks to create an understanding of specific social worlds through the interaction of cultural practices (economy, the arts, law, language, religion, politics) as they have been affected by colonialism, nationalism, modernity, and globalization.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the challenges that focusing on the mass media--including technologies, production processes, content, and reception--present for studying cultures. Explores the relationship between media and culture to understand people's experiences and conceptualization of time, space, communities, families, and identities.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 317 or CMCL-C 310.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 318 Nature/Culture: Global Perspectives in Environmental Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- When we think of nature, what images come to mind? How are ideas of nature influenced by culture, history, and politics? By the end of the semester, students will recognize how environments represent a collection, not only of plants and animals, but also of meanings and relationships.
ANTH-E 319 Native American Religions
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduces religions of the peoples indigenous to North America. Topics include traditional and contemporary rituals, mythology, folklore, and symbolism occurring throughout these indigenous cultures. Explores areas including art, architecture, cosmology, sustenance, trade, history, gender.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 320 Indigenous Populations of North America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ethnographic survey of culture areas from the Arctic to Panama plus cross-cultural analysis of interrelations of culture, geographical environment, and language families.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 321 Peoples of Mexico
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys indigenous and mestizo peoples within the context of the larger nation, as well as the effects of urbanization, emigration, and globalization in contemporary Mexico.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 322 Peoples of Brazil
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduces contemporary Brazil while examining Brazil\'s colonial history and legacies and the political, demographic, cultural, economic, and environmental transformation of the country. Examines implications of these processes for indigenous populations, and considers current societal changes as related to racial and socioeconomic inequalities.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 323 Indigenous Peoples of Indiana
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Provides an introduction to the history and culture of the two principal Native American Nations of Indiana, the Miami and the Potawatomi. Takes an ethnohistorical approach, investigating the past and present of these communities on the basis of anthropological research as well as historical documents.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 327 Native Amazonians and the Environment
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of how native peoples in the Amazon Basin have used the environment from prehistoric times to the present. Examination of archaeological evidence, current pressures from development processes, and indigenous knowledge as the key to balancing conservation and development.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 328 Ecological Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of anthropological approaches to the study of human interaction with the environment: history of ideas, major theories, critiques, and contemporary approaches.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 331 Debt
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- What is debt? To talk about debt is to talk about many other things: finance, wealth transmission, public goods, or social solidarity. In this course, we will explore how political economists, anthropologists, and historians have looked at \"debt\" in different places and times.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 333 Peoples of the Andes
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the cultures of prehistoric and current groups of the slopes and high reaches of the Andes, from Colombia to southern Chile. Considers historic and current contexts of socioeconomic, political, and environmental change that have shaped the cultures of their nations. The Quichua (Quechua), Aymara, and Mapuche cultures receive special attention.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 335 Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Historical ethnography of the major pre-Columbian civilizations, especially the Aztec, the Maya, and the Zapotec and Mixtec. Emphasis on the social life, cultural achievements, religion, worldview, and political systems to illustrate the diversity and richness of indigenous life before the Spanish conquest.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 337 Food, Sex and Gender
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Studies a range of people and places--from cave dwellers to reality TV, New Guinea to New York. Explores how food reflects and creates gender and promotes and expresses sexuality. Readings from many disciplines will foster wide ranging and lively discussion.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the relation between stigma and taboo, specifically how stigmatized groups and taboo practices are marked by moral judgement. We examine theory and particular cases to identify strategies to combat moralizing logics as related to race, class, gender, and the body broadly speaking.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 340 Indigenous Populations of Mexico and Central America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: ANTH-E 105, ANTH-E 200, ANTH-E 303, or sophomore standing
- Description
- Ethnographic survey of indigenous populations of Mexico and Central America, both historical and contemporary. Considers these populations in the context of wider political contexts and relationships.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 344 On The Move Across Asia: Gender, Migration, Mobility
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines how changing ideas about gender and family have influenced Asia's economic "miracles." We will study how gender and sexuality have organized mobility and migration across Asia, examining the effects of industrialization, global capitalism, and militarization. Topics include domestic and factory labor, sex work, and human trafficking debates.
ANTH-E 345 Changing China
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the dramatic social and cultural changes in China from 1949 to the present. Focuses on how Maoist socialism, market reforms, and globalization have affected everyday life, family, gender and sexuality, and inequality in China.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 346 Global Anarchy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploring everything from Antifa in the streets of Trump's America and anarcho-feminist essays to DIY punk scenes and apocalyptic zombie scenarios, this course seeks to advance a basic understanding of anarchist ideals, practices, and imaginaries. Focused largely on cases in the Americas and Europe, the course explores the basic principles of anarchism, the theories behind it, and the everyday political dilemmas that arise in efforts to practice it. Course materials will be drawn from texts, music, comics, TV and film.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 347 The Anthropology of Contemporary Japan
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Frames in anthropological perspective the history, present, and future of Japanese society. Explores anthropological research on Japanese attitudes toward ethnic and national identity; gender and education; and the wide-ranging impact of Japan's economic decline on attitudes toward work, play, consumption, and travel overseas.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 349 Identity and Difference
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- How do groups of people become convinced that they are similar to some but different from others? When do forms of difference become the basis for exclusion or even violence? We explore how cultural differences are produced, maintained and transformed in relation to wider sociopolitical formations.
ANTH-E 358 Photography and Ethnography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Anthropologists have understood photographs as primary data, as documentation for colonial projects, as evidence of fieldwork, in museum exhibitions, and as works of art. Examines the political and ethical practice of photography with the aim of learning to think critically about photography in global and historical contexts.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
ANTH-E 366 Commodities and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers the complex connections between commodities, \"sustainable\" trade, and culture, especially for agricultural commodities. Drawing from work in anthropology and real-world case studies, asks: What makes something a commodity? What is the \"right\" way to farm, to trade, and to eat? Who decides, and why?
ANTH-E 373 Plagues and People
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines pandemics as cultural phenomena. Provides a backdrop to the 2020-2022 pandemic by studying how anthropologists and historians have viewed pandemics in different places and times. Explores cultural understandings of social solidarity, family obligations, the common good, risk, responsibility, authority, and the enforcement of new social norms in this context.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 380 Urban Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-E 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Urban social organization in cross-cultural perspective. Theoretical perspectives on urbanism and urbanization. Problems include kinship and social networks, politico-economic factors, and cultural pluralism. Strategies of anthropological research in urban settings.
ANTH-E 381 Ethnographic Analysis of Family, Work, and Power
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-E 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- This course teaches ethnographic analysis as a set of intellectual and practical tools students can use to define and answer questions about the implications of economic and social changes in their own lives and the world at large. Students will learn to identify and debate the patterns of loyalty, authority, and conflict established by specific relations in families and workplaces whether these are described in readings or presented in actual situations.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 382 Memory and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Remembrance is analyzed as a cultural and social reality. Review of the theoretical literature on collective memory as it unfolds in written, narrative, visual, and audiovisual art; in architecture and monuments; in private and public ritual; in genealogy; and in the social experience of the body.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ethnographic study of how people learn to work in a range of real jobs around the world. Focuses on how people learn to do a job and get along with co-workers in different cultures. Shows how much a country's legal or economic policies can affect daily work lives.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 385 Applied Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of the applications of anthropological theory and method to meet societal needs in the areas of education, health, industry, food production, and rural development.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Middle Eastern cultures are well known for their rich and diverse performance practices. Taking an ethnographic perspective, this course views performances as communicative events through which social relations are organized. It explores how performances both participate in local arrangements of power and constitute responses to colonialism, nationalism, and globalization.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 386 or CMCL-C 422.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 387 The Ethnography of Europe
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Europe is viewed as an idea, an identity, and an historical consciousness. Students explore the meaning of this idea in the contemporary development of social and cultural anthropology, and in such social areas as regionalism and nationalism, ethnic identity, gender and kinship, religion, the city versus the village, and political life.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 388 Ethnicity, Class, and the Model U.S. Citizen
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers how people's identities influence the ideals and practice of citizenship. Focuses in particular on identities based on ethnicity and class. Examines how ethnicity and class shape discourses of citizenship found in the media and in political and legal spheres.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 388 or CMCL-C 346.
ANTH-E 393 World Fiction and Cultural Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Uses literature and anthropology as a means of understanding culture. Ethnographic writing and world fiction--novels, short stories, poems, myths, folktales--are analyzed to reveal aspects of the social, cultural, and political lives of peoples around the world. Colonialism, war, socialism, and immigration are also discussed.
ANTH-E 397 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- General anthropological introduction to social institutions and cultural forms of the Arab countries of North Africa and the Near East, Israel, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan. Topics include ecology, development of Islam and Muslim empires, traditional adaptive strategies, consequences of colonialism, independence and rise of nation-states, impact of modernization, changing conceptions of kinship, ethnicity, and gender.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 397, CEUS-R 352, CEUS-U 397, or NELC-N 397.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 398 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- General anthropological introduction to societies and cultures of contemporary Muslim successor states of former Soviet Central Asia, Western China (Xinjiang), and Iran and Afghanistan. Topics include ecology, ethnohistory, traditional subsistence strategies, family, kinship, gender, sociopolitical organization, impact of colonial rule of tsarist and Soviet Russia and China, development of modern nation-states in Iran and Afghanistan, and dynamics of current conflicts and future prospects.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 398, CEUS-R 316, or CEUS-U 398.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Intensive examination of selected topics in anthropology. Emphasis on analytic investigation and critical discussion. Topics vary.
- Repeatability
- May be taken with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-E 404 Field Methods in Ethnography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Junior standing
- Description
- Introduction to the methods and techniques anthropologists use in ethnographic research. Preparation of a research proposal, interviewing, and the use of the life histories and case studies.
- Repeatability
- May be taken with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-E 407 Visual Anthropology: Filmmaking
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Junior standing or consent of instructor
- Description
- Experimental filmmaking concerning social behavior, institutions, and customs.
ANTH-E 408 Talk, Tales, and Television: Africa, Europe, the United States
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Colonialism, the slave trade, apartheid, African music, "Roots," Hollywood: these subjects link together Americans, Europeans, and Africans, and they are portrayed through talk, television, film, radio, and performance at specific sites. Using specific examples, we will examine these tools of communication critically to better understand the ideas and images that circulate back and forth across the Atlantic.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 412 Anthropology of Russia and Eastern Europe
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the contradictory effects of socialism's "fall" through a study of new ethnographies of postsocialist societies. Regional inquiries will be related to broader intellectual issues such as globalization, social suffering, commodification and cultural identity, ethnicity and nation building, armed conflict, and gender inequalities.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 413 Global Africa
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers recent ethnographies of the African continent that address contemporary debates over theorizing Africa, locating African productive and creative practices (in cities, in unregulated economic spaces, within households), understanding social relationships in and out of marriage, and religious thought and practices.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Cross-cultural exploration of communication systems, ranging from face-to-face interaction to mediated forms of communication, with an emphasis on their cultural foundations and social organization.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ANTH-E 415 and CMCL-C 415.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 416 Anthropology of Tourism
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the phenomenon of tourism from an anthropological perspective. Looks at tourism as linked to consumer culture, transnational movements of people and goods, post-colonial settings, global capitalism, and the politics of ethnic and national identities.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 417 African Women
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The remarkably active roles that African women play in their communities bring them respect, but also heavy responsibilities. This course follows the themes of autonomy and control of resources, considering both economic resources such as land, labor, income and cattle, and social resources such as education, religion, and political power.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 418 Globalization and Consumer Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines processes of globalization and economic and cultural integration, including the origin and spread of mass-consumer society. Topics include the theories of consumption, mass media and advertising, and the relationship between modernity and consumerism. Includes examples from societies around the world.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 420 Economic Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers the ways in which anthropology has addressed economic questions. Topics may include contemporary and classic debates in the field; gendered forms of (re)production and labor; environmental sustainability; social justice; nutrition and food politics; shifting notions of currency; cultures of consumption; and global trade and value.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 421 Food and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Discussion of the economy of food production, trade and consumption on a global basis. Gives a cross-cultural and historical perspective on the development of cooking and cuisine in relationship to individual, national, and ethnic identity. Relates cuisine to modernity, migration, and forms of cultural mixing and Creolization.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of contemporary Native American and global indigenous representation and communication, including oral performance and media. Explores the poetics and politics of media and performance in the context of indigenous histories, cultures, and experiences of colonization. Examines the use of performance forms as symbolic resources in literature, film, the Internet, music and television. Addresses intersections of gender, class and race in indigenous media worlds.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 422 or CMCL-C 430.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 423 Life Histories
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Life histories give ethnographies accessibility, emotional impact, deep contextualization, and a deceptively transparent opening for authentic voices. An exploration of the complex issues of power and knowledge underlying this method, including interviewing strategies, consent, confidentiality, editing and publishing choices, and considers its position within broader research agendas. We discuss classic examples, recent narrative collections and contemporary experimental texts.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 424 Sense of Place
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the relationship between human identities and places through the study of ethnographies, philosophies, personal essays, films, fiction, poetry, and electronic media. Develops ethnographic skills to describe how personal, public, institutional, and virtual spaces are influenced by history, gender, and social forces. Emphasizes analytical, interpretive, and representational skills to communicate the richness of human experience.
ANTH-E 426 Coffee Culture, Production, and Markets
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers diverse expressions of "coffee culture" in production, markets, and consumption patterns. Explores the history of coffee production and trade, coffee's impact on international relations, and its implications for environmental changes, social justice, and economic development. Also studies local meanings of coffee and its consumption.
ANTH-E 428 Contemporary Latin American Social Movements
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Compares and contrasts contemporary activist and grassroots movements throughout the Latin American region. Focuses on movements both within the region and within the Latin American diaspora in the United States, organized around the rubrics of ethnicity, gender, resources, and environment.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 431 Ethnography as Cultural Critique
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the ways ethnographic work can provide a critical lens through which to view our world. By juxtaposing familiar cultural practices and beliefs against those of other societies and cultures, students learn to critically assess aspects of their own society they may have previously taken for granted. Provides training in ethnographic methods and features a semester-long ethnographic project.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ANTH-E 431 or CMCL-C 318.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the role of culture in how democracies are practiced. Ethnographic focus varies and includes cross-cultural comparisons of political speech, voting, and democratic representation in different cultures. Particular attention is paid to the dilemmas surrounding the exportation of democracy, especially to the Middle East, Africa, South Africa, the Pacific, and the Balkans.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 432 or CMCL-C 446.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
ANTH-E 434 Food Communication and Performance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Investigates food as a cultural and communicative device: how it functions in language, icons, ideologies, and power systems. Focuses on contemporary uses of and attitudes about food in daily use in lore, rituals, spectacles, festivals, and popular movements.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 434 and CMCL-C 433.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 435 Fashion, Beauty, Power
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores debates about dress, fashion, and anti-fashion in a global and historical context. Considers the relationship between ideas about the body and self-presentation and ideas about gender, family, race, religion and national consciousness in relation to dress.
ANTH-E 436 The Politics of Marriage
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- What is the state of marriage today? How do we understand marriage as a social, political, and economic institution? Examines marriage across cultures and time periods. Discusses topics such as arranged marriages, marriage and racial politics, marital citizenship, wedding industries, and battles over same-sex marriage.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Different political systems are founded and maintained by varying combinations of overt violence and more subtle workings of ideas and ideologies. Through cross-cultural case studies, the course examines how coercion, persuasion, consensus, and dissent operate in and through the politics and performances of everyday life.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 437 or CMCL-C 417.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the everyday issues surrounding public speech in new media: how people establish appropriate behavior in new media and respond to new possibilities for deceptive behavior; how ideas of what counts as 'public' and 'private' change as the result of changes in the way communication circulates; why scholars believe public speech and democracy are so intertwined.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 438 or CMCL-C 429.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 442 Ethnographic Memoir
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-E 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Explores the intersection of memoir and ethnography. Considers what the defining characteristics of a new genre, ethnographic memoir, would be and how it might differ from ethnography and memoir. Includes experiments in writing that combines observation and description with increasing understanding of the relationships between self and others.
ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas: Theories of Conservation
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Seminar course that explores major theories and approaches to conservation, from "fortress conservation" to community-based and participatory strategies. Considers the implications of protected areas for local human populations and cultural diversity. Evaluates outcomes and unintended consequences of protected areas, and controversies over the "best" way to protect natural resources.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 445 Seminar in Medical Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This advanced seminar in medical anthropology focuses on theoretical approaches to understanding the body and notions of health, illness, and disease across cultures. Concentrates on interpretive and critical (political economy) approaches to issues of health and includes critical study of Western biomedicine.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Uses an historical and ethnographic approach to study the films and related readings of Indian diasporic filmmakers from the 1980s to the present. Focuses on the films of two prolific feminist filmmakers, Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 456 Anthropology of Race
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores race from a cultural anthropological perspective and investigates the history of this idea within the discipline as well as its dissemination in international society. Examines the play between challenges to race as an intellectual paradigm and the resilient status of race-thinking in society at large.
ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Visual art, music, dance, drama, and oral literature, viewed as structural entities, as aspects of human behavior, and in terms of their anthropological context.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Techniques of dance research, bibliographic and archival sources, historical and comparative studies, function and structure of dance, distribution of dance styles, and symbolic aspects of dance performance. A variety of dance forms will be considered in their social and cultural contexts.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 464 Body, Power, and Performance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Looks at performance in relation to social power by focusing on the body. Examines the extent to which several interdisciplinary readings on performance theory--largely emerging as they have from Western intellectual traditions--speak to embodied/performative negotiations of social power outside "the West."
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 474 The Anthropology of Human Rights
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Investigates anthropology's theoretical and practical engagements with global social justice. Examines a number of texts central to the development of the notion of human rights, and explores several case studies oriented around a range of historical and contemporary human rights issues.
ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ethnography is the defining core of social and cultural anthropology; field research is at the heart of ethnography. The definition and purpose of ethnography, the role of ethnographer, voice, ethics, and modes of presentation, standards, craft, art, and evaluation are examined through specific cases and exemplary ethnographies.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 490 Development and Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-E 420; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Focuses on theories of development, ethical issues surrounding development, practical issues related to development including interactions with development agencies, and the ways development anthropology has been employed in specific projects around the world.
ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introduction to the field of linguistic anthropology, the social scientific study of language. Examines how languages reflect cultures, how language use reproduces culture(s), how linguistic categories relate to categories of thought, and how linguistic variation both reflects and shapes social categories such as gender, class, race, and ethnicity.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 204 Language and (In)Tolerance in the US
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the roles that perceptions of linguistic differences among groups and individuals play in intolerant behavior on the part of some segments of American society, and the corresponding roles that genuine understanding of these differences can play in promoting tolerance and guiding responses to intolerance.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 204 or SLST-S 204.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 208 Ways of Speaking
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploration in comparative perspective of the social use of language, with a focus on the interrelationships among verbal form, social function, and cultural meaning in ways of speaking.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 208 or CMCL-C 229.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 222 Global Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the cultural assumptions around the world that underlie why some communicative acts occur smoothly, while others become contentious. Provides a set of analytical tools for understanding the cultural specificity of communication, and a basis for analyzing miscommunication cross-culturally.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 310 Elementary Lakota (Sioux) Language I
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introduction to Lakota (Sioux), a Native American language spoken on the Northern Plains of the United States. Course focuses on developing elementary reading and writing skills as well as oral fluency in the Lakota language within the context of Lakota culture.
ANTH-L 311 Elementary Lakota (Sioux) Language II
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Continues work begun in ANTH-L 310, focusing on continued development of elementary reading and writing skills as well as oral fluency in the Lakota (Sioux) language within the context of Lakota culture.
ANTH-L 312 Intermediate Lakota (Sioux) Language I
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of more complex Lakota grammatical structures, with emphasis on development of active reading, writing, and speaking skills.
ANTH-L 313 Intermediate Lakota (Sioux) Language II
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of more complex Lakota grammatical structures, with emphasis on development of active reading, writing, and speaking skills.
ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to performance as a communicative practice, focusing on performance as a special artistic mode of communication and performance and as a special class of display events in which the values and symbols of a culture are enacted before an audience.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 314 or CMCL-C 313.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
ANTH-L 320 Native American Languages
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introductory survey of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Topics covered include history of the study of Native American languages, genetic and typological classifications, structures of selected languages, the comparative (historical) study of selected language families, and the interplay between language and culture. Diversity of Native American languages is emphasized.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 330 Mesoamerican Languages: Structure, History, Social Context
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introductory survey of the indigenous languages of Mesoamerica. Covers the genetic and typological classification of these languages, and the social and historical contexts in which they have been and continue to be spoken. Students will have hands-on opportunities to work with native speakers of these languages.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 340 Language and Globalization
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores globalization through the lens of language. Topics include cultural and linguistic contact and translation, migration and assimilation, transnational media, multilingualism, language loss, the emergence and spread of new forms of English, and global discourses of democracy, diversity, and minority rights.
ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Current issues in linguistic anthropology, designed to acquaint the student with readings and points of view not covered in the introductory courses. Topics such as languages of the world, variation in language, problems in linguistic structure, and culture and communication. Topic varies.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-L 402 Language in/of Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines how language is represented in media and the language(s) of media as ways of understanding broader sociocultural processes. Explores ways scholars have approached language in/of media to date, while also seeking to open new areas of inquiry. Emphasizes research and analysis methods.
ANTH-L 407 Language and Prehistory
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the areas of linguistic research that are most relevant to the work of archaeologists and students of prehistory. Topics include mechanisms of linguistic change, the comparative method, genetic and areal relationships among languages, and applications of linguistic reconstruction to the study of ancient cultures and populations.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This seminar explores how language is used to accomplish economic, political, and sociocultural ends in Central Eurasia. Topics covered include multilingualism; regional ethnolinguistic categories; the relationship between language policy and nationalities policy; gendered language; code choice in interactions; the politics of translation; poetics; standardization; and language shift, endangerment, and revitalization.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 410 or CEUS-R 492.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 200 Introduction to Archaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the goals, methods, and theories that archaeologists use to learn about the past. The pursuit and interpretation of archaeological evidence are explored by reviewing case studies from across the globe and diverse time periods. Topics include food and subsistence, culture change, social life, political economies, and archaeological ethics.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 215 Sex in the Ancient City: An Archaeology of Sex
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Studies evidence from paleolithic caves to ancient cities to investigate how sex and sexuality differed through time and across space and the implications of those differences. Teaches basic concepts from archaeology and applies them to archaeological evidence to help identify practices and beliefs related to sex in the past.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 230 Archaeology of the Ancient Maya
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This is a course about the ancient Maya. Lecture and discussion will cover what is known about the Maya past and how the past relates to the present day. Writing, architecture, mythology, mathematics, agriculture, political structure, and economy will be considered.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 240 Archaeology and the Movies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines how archaeologists and archaeological knowledge are represented in popular cinema and compares these views with the work that archaeologists actually do. Topics include the history of archaeology, archaeological ethics, and archaeological interpretation. Feature films studied cover archaeological practice, powerful objects, extraterrestrials, ancient Egypt, and other topics.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 250 Introductory World Archaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to archaeological discovery in the Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Near East. Reviews the last 10,000 years of human culture and history, looking for what varies and what does not. For non-majors and students who have an interest in archaeology and a desire to learn about ancient cultures.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 301 Archaeological Methods and Analyses
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-P P200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Specific field or laboratory methods for collecting and analyzing archaeological materials and data within a framework of answering research questions about the past. Topics vary: dating, materials science, subsistence indicators, archaeological survey.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-P 302 Invention and Technology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The evolution of technology is explored from prehistoric times onward. The origins of the major inventions of humankind are traced from their earliest beginnings in the Stone Age up to the Industrial Revolution.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for one of ANTH-E 410 or ANTH-P 302.
ANTH-P 305 Underwater Archeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An overview of the field of Underwater Archaeology and the study of underwater cultural heritage. Topics include theoretical background, ethics, methodologies used to analyze submerged archaeological material, conservation, and case studies from the field.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 310 Prehistory of Europe and Asia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Prehistoric cultures of Europe and Asia, from Old Stone Age through Iron Age.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 314 Earlier Prehistory of Africa
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of prehistoric developments on the African continent from 2.5 million years ago to the end of the Stone Age, including topics such as the archaeology of human origins, as well as the emergence and economic and cultural patterns of anatomically modern hunter-gatherers.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 330 Historical Archaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines archaeology in North America beginning with the long and complex history of Native American/European interactions. Considers North American social systems, interaction with and exploitation of the environment, technologies, and material culture. Theories and methods used by historical archaeologists will also be emphasized.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 332 Industrial Archaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-P 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Explores the material character and social context of industrial heritage in North America including resource extraction, manufacturing, and transportation. Studies the record that industry leaves on the landscape including quarries, factories, office buildings, mills, railroads, and worker housing. Analysis of documents, images, material remains, archaeological sites, and ethnographic sources.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 341 Archaeology of the Middle East
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A study of the cultures of the Middle East as known from archaeology. Examines evidence for daily life, cultural and societal change, early writing, and agriculture. Also explores the impact archaeology in this region has on the contemporary world.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 345 Indigenous Archaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A global approach to how indigenous people employ archaeology to protect sacred sites and places and to build and manage knowledge about their pasts. Explores indigenous worldviews and how archaeologists and indigenous communities work together in archaeology.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 350 Archaeology of Ancient Mexico
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys the archaeology of ancient Mexico. Traces cultural developments of indigenous peoples from the Olmec to the Aztec, and examines issues, controversies, and current debates in Mexican archaeology. Topics include the transition to settled villages, initial complexity, craft production, urbanization, ideology, gender, religion, warfare, and the conquest.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 361 Archaeology of the Midwestern United States
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of cultures and societies in the midwestern United States from the earliest human occupations until initial European contact. Material culture, sustainability, ecology, and religion are viewed through remains recovered across the Midwest, with hands-on exposure to artifacts and data.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 363 North American Prehistory through Fiction
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Students consider fictionalized accounts of life in prehistoric North America, written by anthropologists, Native Americans, and novelists, as a means to think critically and creatively about the past. They explore the role and place of narrative and imagination in constructions of the past and consider how authors utilize available data.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 370 Archaeology of the Andes
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Covers cultural change in Andean South America, including early hunters and gatherers, agriculture, the growth of regional civilizations, technological and artistic achievement, and the rise and dissolution of the Inca Empire.
ANTH-P 375 Food in the Ancient World
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the theoretical and methodological tools that archaeologists use to study food and foodways in ancient societies from a global anthropological perspective. Reveals how studying food and ancient foodways helps anthropologists gain insight into the economic, historic, and political realities of past peoples.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 380 Prehistoric Diet and Nutrition
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- How the long-term history of human diet has influenced our genetic, physiological, cultural, and socioeconomic development. Evolutionary and ecological perspectives on modern human diet and nutrition, including survey of modern human and nonhuman primate diets and the record of prehistoric human diet and methods of dietary reconstruction.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-P 385 Paleolithic Technology Laboratory
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys the development and history of stone tool manufacture and use. Topics include raw material study, fracture mechanics, experimentation in lithic production, and reasons for innovation. Includes practice in identification, analysis, classification, measurement, and illustration of stone artifacts.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-P 390 Geoarchaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An exploration of the dynamic process of archaeological site formation, including stratigraphy. Focus on geoarchaeological approaches to archaeological materials, site context, and environment, and how these approaches help us understand prehistoric lifeways.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-P 399 Undergraduate Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Intensive examination of selected topics in archaeology. Development of skills in analysis and criticism. Topics vary.
- Repeatability
- May be taken with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-P 401 Cultural Resource Management
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- At least junior standing
- Description
- Examines position of the anthropologist in the decision-making process for preservation and conservation of archaeological sites, structures, artifacts, and knowledge. Considers legal procedures, anthropological values, and methods applicable to land use changes that threaten cultural resources.
ANTH-P 406 Laboratory Methods in Archaeology
- Credits
- 1–6 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of instructor
- Description
- Specialized training in laboratory procedures and analysis of archaeological materials. Major categories of material culture include lithics, ceramics, faunal and floral remains. Emphasis is on processing, sorting, identifying, and analyzing material recovered from known sites or held in museums.
ANTH-P 407 Archaeological Curation
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-P 200; and junior or senior standing
- Description
- An examination of the history, methods, legislation, ethics and technology of archaeological curation. Instruction includes hands-on training in the curation and conservation of material culture and associated documents, images, and digital records. Provides training in evaluating the research and educational potential of archaeological materials and their meaning for people today.
ANTH-P 409 Archaeological Ethics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the professional responsibilities of archaeologists by examining timely issues, such as the differences and, sometimes, conflicts between international law and professional ethics, and between archaeologists and others (e.g., Native Americans, antiquities collectors) who affect and are affected by archaeological work. Some background in archaeology is helpful.
ANTH-P 411 Archaeology of Magic, Witchcraft and Religion
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores diverse practices related to magic, witchcraft, and religion to situate and evaluate how these practices and beliefs intersected with social and political elements over time. Examines different perspectives and inquires if magic and witchcraft are separable from religion and everyday practices. Provides broad exposure to anthropological and archaeological perspectives.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 425 Faunal Osteology
- Credits
- 5
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Lecture and laboratory introduction to the preparation, collection, identification, and interpretation of faunal specimens from archaeological sites. Also includes an introduction to forensic identifications and to zooarchaeological literature.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-P 426 Problems in Zooarchaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Students learn how to choose appropriate research designs for the interpretation of animal remains from archaeological sites, through readings, discussions, and laboratory analyses. Coursework will focus on literature review, field identification, lab methodology, quantification, preparing collections, curation, and report preparation.
ANTH-P 430 Archaeology of Violence and Conflict
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- In this course we will examine how we identify violence and warfare in the past. Second, we will explore how violence has affected societies around the world and through time. We review multidisciplinary literature on violence and ask how and why violent acts and institutions of violence develop and persist.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 440 Archaeology of Space and Place
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Broad review of interdisciplinary literature to evaluate how human experience has been informed and affected by spatial sensibilities. Takes a diachronic and global look at how space impacts politics, society, religion, memory, and identity, with an emphasis on developing critical thinking skills.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 445 Pots and People
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Uses pottery as a means of understanding past societies: how people make, use, and think about pottery. Participants make their own pots from wild clays; cook a meal in traditional ceramic pots; and consider how experimentation, ethnohistorical data, and anthropological theory work together to produce insights into past lifeways.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 480 Fieldwork in Wyoming Archaeology
- Credits
- 3–6 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores archaeological issues and methodologies through field work in northwestern Wyoming and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Students gain a greater familiarization with the contemporary, ethnographic, and historic cultural groups that call this area home.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Advanced Electives. At least three (3) courses and nine (9) credit hours:
- ANTH-A 306 Anthropological Statistics
- ANTH-A 372 Food, Culture and Heritage in Italy
- ANTH-A 399 Honors Tutorial
- ANTH-A 400 Undergraduate Seminar in Anthropology
- ANTH-A 402 Food and the Body
- ANTH-A 403 Introduction to Museum Studies
- ANTH-A 405 Museum Methods
- ANTH-A 410 Anthropology Capstone Seminar
- ANTH-A 467 Topics in Medical Anthropology
- ANTH-B 301 Laboratory in Bioanthropology
- ANTH-B 310 Bioanthropology: A History of Ideas
- ANTH-B 312 Evolutionary Medicine
- ANTH-B 333 Chimpanzee Biology: Anatomy, Evolution, Ecology, and Physiology
- ANTH-B 340 Hormones and Human Behavior
- ANTH-B 343 Evolution of Human Ecological Footprint
- ANTH-B 368 The Evolution of Primate Social Behavior
- ANTH-B 370 Human Variation
- ANTH-B 400 Undergraduate Seminar
- ANTH-B 464 Human Paleontology
- ANTH-B 466 The Primates
- ANTH-B 470 Human Adaptation: Biological Approaches
- ANTH-B 472 Bioanthropology of Aboriginal America
- ANTH-B 480 Human Growth and Development
- ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups
- ANTH-E 302 Ethnographic Methods
- ANTH-E 303 Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
- ANTH-E 309 Problems in African Ethnography
- ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
- ANTH-E 318 Nature/Culture: Global Perspectives in Environmental Anthropology
- ANTH-E 319 Native American Religions
- ANTH-E 320 Indigenous Populations of North America
- ANTH-E 321 Peoples of Mexico
- ANTH-E 322 Peoples of Brazil
- ANTH-E 323 Indigenous Peoples of Indiana
- ANTH-E 327 Native Amazonians and the Environment
- ANTH-E 328 Ecological Anthropology
- ANTH-E 331 Debt
- ANTH-E 333 Peoples of the Andes
- ANTH-E 335 Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica
- ANTH-E 337 Food, Sex and Gender
- ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
- ANTH-E 340 Indigenous Populations of Mexico and Central America
- ANTH-E 344 On The Move Across Asia: Gender, Migration, Mobility
- ANTH-E 345 Changing China
- ANTH-E 346 Global Anarchy
- ANTH-E 347 The Anthropology of Contemporary Japan
- ANTH-E 349 Identity and Difference
- ANTH-E 358 Photography and Ethnography
- ANTH-E 366 Commodities and Culture
- ANTH-E 373 Plagues and People
- ANTH-E 380 Urban Anthropology
- ANTH-E 381 Ethnographic Analysis of Family, Work, and Power
- ANTH-E 382 Memory and Culture
- ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
- ANTH-E 385 Applied Anthropology
- ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
- ANTH-E 387 The Ethnography of Europe
- ANTH-E 388 Ethnicity, Class, and the Model U.S. Citizen
- ANTH-E 393 World Fiction and Cultural Anthropology
- ANTH-E 397 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
- ANTH-E 398 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia
- ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar
- ANTH-E 404 Field Methods in Ethnography
- ANTH-E 407 Visual Anthropology: Filmmaking
- ANTH-E 408 Talk, Tales, and Television: Africa, Europe, the United States
- ANTH-E 412 Anthropology of Russia and Eastern Europe
- ANTH-E 413 Global Africa
- ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective
- ANTH-E 416 Anthropology of Tourism
- ANTH-E 417 African Women
- ANTH-E 418 Globalization and Consumer Culture
- ANTH-E 420 Economic Anthropology
- ANTH-E 421 Food and Culture
- ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
- ANTH-E 423 Life Histories
- ANTH-E 424 Sense of Place
- ANTH-E 426 Coffee Culture, Production, and Markets
- ANTH-E 428 Contemporary Latin American Social Movements
- ANTH-E 431 Ethnography as Cultural Critique
- ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
- ANTH-E 434 Food Communication and Performance
- ANTH-E 435 Fashion, Beauty, Power
- ANTH-E 436 The Politics of Marriage
- ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
- ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
- ANTH-E 442 Ethnographic Memoir
- ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas: Theories of Conservation
- ANTH-E 445 Seminar in Medical Anthropology
- ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
- ANTH-E 456 Anthropology of Race
- ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
- ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
- ANTH-E 464 Body, Power, and Performance
- ANTH-E 474 The Anthropology of Human Rights
- ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
- ANTH-E 490 Development and Anthropology
- ANTH-L 310 Elementary Lakota (Sioux) Language I
- ANTH-L 311 Elementary Lakota (Sioux) Language II
- ANTH-L 312 Intermediate Lakota (Sioux) Language I
- ANTH-L 313 Intermediate Lakota (Sioux) Language II
- ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
- ANTH-L 320 Native American Languages
- ANTH-L 330 Mesoamerican Languages: Structure, History, Social Context
- ANTH-L 340 Language and Globalization
- ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication
- ANTH-L 402 Language in/of Media
- ANTH-L 407 Language and Prehistory
- ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
- ANTH-P 301 Archaeological Methods and Analyses
- ANTH-P 302 Invention and Technology
- ANTH-P 305 Underwater Archeology
- ANTH-P 330 Historical Archaeology
- ANTH-P 332 Industrial Archaeology
- ANTH-P 345 Indigenous Archaeology
- ANTH-P 350 Archaeology of Ancient Mexico
- ANTH-P 361 Archaeology of the Midwestern United States
- ANTH-P 363 North American Prehistory through Fiction
- ANTH-P 370 Archaeology of the Andes
- ANTH-P 375 Food in the Ancient World
- ANTH-P 380 Prehistoric Diet and Nutrition
- ANTH-P 385 Paleolithic Technology Laboratory
- ANTH-P 390 Geoarchaeology
- ANTH-P 399 Undergraduate Seminar
- ANTH-P 401 Cultural Resource Management
- ANTH-P 406 Laboratory Methods in Archaeology
- ANTH-P 407 Archaeological Curation
- ANTH-P 409 Archaeological Ethics
- ANTH-P 411 Archaeology of Magic, Witchcraft and Religion
- ANTH-P 425 Faunal Osteology
- ANTH-P 426 Problems in Zooarchaeology
- ANTH-P 430 Archaeology of Violence and Conflict
- ANTH-P 440 Archaeology of Space and Place
- ANTH-P 445 Pots and People
- ANTH-P 480 Fieldwork in Wyoming Archaeology
- Up to 3 total credit hours of the following:
- ANTH-X 476 Museum Practicum
- ANTH-X 477 Fieldwork in Anthropology
- ANTH-X 478 Practicum in Anthropology
- ANTH-X 479 Fieldwork in Bioanthropology
- ANTH-X 480 Fieldwork in Archaeology
- ANTH-X 490 Individual Readings in Anthropology
ANTH-A 306 Anthropological Statistics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Fundamentals of univariate and bivariate statistics, construction and interpretation of graphs, and computer-assisted data analysis. Both statistical methodology and theory will be emphasized as well as computer literacy. Students will examine the primary literature in all branches of anthropology to familiarize themselves with the role of statistics in anthropological research.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 306, CJUS-K 300, ECON-E 370, ECON-S 370, MATH-K 300, MATH-K 310, POLS-Y 395, PSY-K 300, PSY-K 310, SOC-S 371, SPEA-K 300, SPH-Q 381, STAT-K 310, STAT-S 300, STAT-S 301, or STAT-S 303.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-A 372 Food, Culture and Heritage in Italy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores Italian food culture-history and cultural practices through cooking, visiting artisans and studying the history of Italian food. Covers changes in the food system in Italy brought on by migration, environment, and globalization.
ANTH-A 399 Honors Tutorial
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Consent of departmental honors advisor
- Description
- Research and writing, culminating in honors thesis.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated once.
ANTH-A 400 Undergraduate Seminar in Anthropology
- Credits
- 3–4 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Seminar in various anthropology topics not covered by other anthropology courses, excluding ethnography and ethnology.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-A 402 Food and the Body
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Follows food\'s journey from the land into our bodies and examines the politics of food sovereignty. By interweaving narratives of global Indigenous groups, African-American, and immigrant experiences in the US, seeks to develop an understanding of the history of food inequality in the United States and its intergenerational health impacts.
ANTH-A 403 Introduction to Museum Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to general principles, goals, and objectives of museum practice. Museum history, administrative organization, physical plant design, restoration, acquisition, exhibit, and educational programs.
ANTH-A 405 Museum Methods
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-A 403; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Methods and techniques of museum design, administration, accessioning, conservation and restoration, acquisition of specimens, curatorial work, exhibition, and education.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 405 or FOLK-F 406.
ANTH-A 410 Anthropology Capstone Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Senior standing; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Selected topics in anthropology approached using concepts from all four subfields of the discipline. Asks students to examine the goals of anthropology and apply what they have learned in previous coursework to current research and contemporary issues.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-A 467 Topics in Medical Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Junior standing; or consent of instructor
- Description
- In-depth perspectives on central topics in contemporary medical anthropology. Focus varies and may include such topics as HIV-AIDS in cross-cultural context; anthropological perspectives on disability; child health and nutrition; health and structural inequalities; and medical anthropology of gender and reproduction.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
ANTH-B 301 Laboratory in Bioanthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-B 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Covers the methods and techniques of bioanthropology. Emphasis is on developing and testing evolutionary hypotheses using contemporary methods. Includes laboratory investigations of human skeletal biology including age and sex determinations and forensic identification; human paleontological and primate observations; variability in living populations including anthropometry, genetics, bloodtyping, demography; among others.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 310 Bioanthropology: A History of Ideas
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Covers emergence of modern bioanthropology as an academic discipline, emphasizing the careers of prominent scholars and theoretical contributions they made, as well as the influences of funding institutions and major departments on the direction of research. Examines relationships to other fields of study.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-B 312 Evolutionary Medicine
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-B 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Incorporates principles from evolutionary theory into our understanding of various infectious and chronic diseases common to human populations both past and present. Although proximate mechanisms involving physiology and behavior will be discussed, the focus will be to determine why such mechanisms have evolved in the first place.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 333 Chimpanzee Biology: Anatomy, Evolution, Ecology, and Physiology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: ANTH-B 111
- Description
- Surveys biological research on the chimpanzee. Examines chimpanzee taxonomy, habitat, digestive physiology, anatomy, embryology, evolutionary history, genetics, hormones, neuroanatomy and reproduction. Demonstrates how chimpanzee biology is part of a unified whole and how research on chimpanzees helps us better understand nature, including the place of humans in the natural world.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 340 Hormones and Human Behavior
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- At least junior standing; or consent of instructor
- Notes
- R: College-level introductory biology course or ANTH-B 200
- Description
- Reviews the roles of hormones in the evolution and expression of human and nonhuman animal behaviors. Emphasis placed on behaviors associated with aggression, stress, mating, and parenting. Particularly relevant for students interested in human health and the environment.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 343 Evolution of Human Ecological Footprint
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The current environmental crisis did not begin overnight and likely has roots deep in our evolutionary history. Although the scale of our effects on the biosphere has only recently shown exponential growth, it is worth examining how we got to this point today. This course explores a series of threshold moments in the history of our species that had great implications for the environment.
ANTH-B 368 The Evolution of Primate Social Behavior
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Major patterns of social organization in the order Primates, with focus on several important primate species. Examination of Darwinian theories of behavioral evolution. Particular attention paid to the influence of food-getting and diet on social behavior.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 370 Human Variation
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-B 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Explores the variation within and between human populations in morphology (anatomy), physiology, genetics, and behavior with a focus on evolutionary processes acting on humans in the past, present and future to shape our body and genes.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 400 Undergraduate Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected topics in bioanthropology. Analysis of research. Development of skills in analysis and criticism. Topic varies.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-B 464 Human Paleontology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-B 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Covers the structure, classification, evolution, geologic range, and geographical distribution of human fossils.
ANTH-B 466 The Primates
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-A 107, ANTH-B 200, or ANTH-B 301; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Paleontology, functional morphology, behavior, and natural history of the infrahuman primates. Emphasis on behavioral and ecological correlates of morphology.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 470 Human Adaptation: Biological Approaches
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the concept of adaptation within the framework of bioanthropology, anthropology, and other disciplines. Focuses on individual and population responses to heat, cold, solar radiation, high altitude, and nutritional and disease stress.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 472 Bioanthropology of Aboriginal America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Bioanthropological survey of past and present aboriginal inhabitants of North and South America: origins and antiquity, archaeological and ethnic relationships.
ANTH-B 480 Human Growth and Development
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-B 200 or ANTH-B 301
- Description
- Characteristics of human growth and development from birth to maturity, establishment of adult form and aging. Investigation of the causes of variation in growth and development across human populations, and methods for assessing growth and development.
ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An ethnographic survey of a selected culture area or ethnic group.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
ANTH-E 302 Ethnographic Methods
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Students learn the approaches and methods of ethnography by conducting their own hands-on field research projects in and around the community. Students complete a series of ethnographic lab assignments on participant observation, mapping and visual technologies, interviewing, and writing up research findings.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 303 Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: Junior standing. Introductory course for more advanced students. Not open to students who have taken ANTH-E 105. Not sequential with ANTH-A 303. ANTH-E 303 does not count toward major
- Description
- Approaches to the study of contemporary cultures: structure, process, and change. Topics include kinship, economy, politics, religion, and worldview.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 309 Problems in African Ethnography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Concentrating on ethnographies of African cultures, this course seeks to create an understanding of specific social worlds through the interaction of cultural practices (economy, the arts, law, language, religion, politics) as they have been affected by colonialism, nationalism, modernity, and globalization.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the challenges that focusing on the mass media--including technologies, production processes, content, and reception--present for studying cultures. Explores the relationship between media and culture to understand people's experiences and conceptualization of time, space, communities, families, and identities.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 317 or CMCL-C 310.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 318 Nature/Culture: Global Perspectives in Environmental Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- When we think of nature, what images come to mind? How are ideas of nature influenced by culture, history, and politics? By the end of the semester, students will recognize how environments represent a collection, not only of plants and animals, but also of meanings and relationships.
ANTH-E 319 Native American Religions
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduces religions of the peoples indigenous to North America. Topics include traditional and contemporary rituals, mythology, folklore, and symbolism occurring throughout these indigenous cultures. Explores areas including art, architecture, cosmology, sustenance, trade, history, gender.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 320 Indigenous Populations of North America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ethnographic survey of culture areas from the Arctic to Panama plus cross-cultural analysis of interrelations of culture, geographical environment, and language families.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 321 Peoples of Mexico
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys indigenous and mestizo peoples within the context of the larger nation, as well as the effects of urbanization, emigration, and globalization in contemporary Mexico.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 322 Peoples of Brazil
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduces contemporary Brazil while examining Brazil\'s colonial history and legacies and the political, demographic, cultural, economic, and environmental transformation of the country. Examines implications of these processes for indigenous populations, and considers current societal changes as related to racial and socioeconomic inequalities.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 323 Indigenous Peoples of Indiana
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Provides an introduction to the history and culture of the two principal Native American Nations of Indiana, the Miami and the Potawatomi. Takes an ethnohistorical approach, investigating the past and present of these communities on the basis of anthropological research as well as historical documents.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 327 Native Amazonians and the Environment
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of how native peoples in the Amazon Basin have used the environment from prehistoric times to the present. Examination of archaeological evidence, current pressures from development processes, and indigenous knowledge as the key to balancing conservation and development.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 328 Ecological Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of anthropological approaches to the study of human interaction with the environment: history of ideas, major theories, critiques, and contemporary approaches.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 331 Debt
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- What is debt? To talk about debt is to talk about many other things: finance, wealth transmission, public goods, or social solidarity. In this course, we will explore how political economists, anthropologists, and historians have looked at \"debt\" in different places and times.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 333 Peoples of the Andes
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the cultures of prehistoric and current groups of the slopes and high reaches of the Andes, from Colombia to southern Chile. Considers historic and current contexts of socioeconomic, political, and environmental change that have shaped the cultures of their nations. The Quichua (Quechua), Aymara, and Mapuche cultures receive special attention.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 335 Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Historical ethnography of the major pre-Columbian civilizations, especially the Aztec, the Maya, and the Zapotec and Mixtec. Emphasis on the social life, cultural achievements, religion, worldview, and political systems to illustrate the diversity and richness of indigenous life before the Spanish conquest.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 337 Food, Sex and Gender
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Studies a range of people and places--from cave dwellers to reality TV, New Guinea to New York. Explores how food reflects and creates gender and promotes and expresses sexuality. Readings from many disciplines will foster wide ranging and lively discussion.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the relation between stigma and taboo, specifically how stigmatized groups and taboo practices are marked by moral judgement. We examine theory and particular cases to identify strategies to combat moralizing logics as related to race, class, gender, and the body broadly speaking.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 340 Indigenous Populations of Mexico and Central America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: ANTH-E 105, ANTH-E 200, ANTH-E 303, or sophomore standing
- Description
- Ethnographic survey of indigenous populations of Mexico and Central America, both historical and contemporary. Considers these populations in the context of wider political contexts and relationships.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 344 On The Move Across Asia: Gender, Migration, Mobility
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines how changing ideas about gender and family have influenced Asia's economic "miracles." We will study how gender and sexuality have organized mobility and migration across Asia, examining the effects of industrialization, global capitalism, and militarization. Topics include domestic and factory labor, sex work, and human trafficking debates.
ANTH-E 345 Changing China
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the dramatic social and cultural changes in China from 1949 to the present. Focuses on how Maoist socialism, market reforms, and globalization have affected everyday life, family, gender and sexuality, and inequality in China.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 346 Global Anarchy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploring everything from Antifa in the streets of Trump's America and anarcho-feminist essays to DIY punk scenes and apocalyptic zombie scenarios, this course seeks to advance a basic understanding of anarchist ideals, practices, and imaginaries. Focused largely on cases in the Americas and Europe, the course explores the basic principles of anarchism, the theories behind it, and the everyday political dilemmas that arise in efforts to practice it. Course materials will be drawn from texts, music, comics, TV and film.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 347 The Anthropology of Contemporary Japan
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Frames in anthropological perspective the history, present, and future of Japanese society. Explores anthropological research on Japanese attitudes toward ethnic and national identity; gender and education; and the wide-ranging impact of Japan's economic decline on attitudes toward work, play, consumption, and travel overseas.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 349 Identity and Difference
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- How do groups of people become convinced that they are similar to some but different from others? When do forms of difference become the basis for exclusion or even violence? We explore how cultural differences are produced, maintained and transformed in relation to wider sociopolitical formations.
ANTH-E 358 Photography and Ethnography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Anthropologists have understood photographs as primary data, as documentation for colonial projects, as evidence of fieldwork, in museum exhibitions, and as works of art. Examines the political and ethical practice of photography with the aim of learning to think critically about photography in global and historical contexts.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
ANTH-E 366 Commodities and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers the complex connections between commodities, \"sustainable\" trade, and culture, especially for agricultural commodities. Drawing from work in anthropology and real-world case studies, asks: What makes something a commodity? What is the \"right\" way to farm, to trade, and to eat? Who decides, and why?
ANTH-E 373 Plagues and People
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines pandemics as cultural phenomena. Provides a backdrop to the 2020-2022 pandemic by studying how anthropologists and historians have viewed pandemics in different places and times. Explores cultural understandings of social solidarity, family obligations, the common good, risk, responsibility, authority, and the enforcement of new social norms in this context.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 380 Urban Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-E 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Urban social organization in cross-cultural perspective. Theoretical perspectives on urbanism and urbanization. Problems include kinship and social networks, politico-economic factors, and cultural pluralism. Strategies of anthropological research in urban settings.
ANTH-E 381 Ethnographic Analysis of Family, Work, and Power
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-E 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- This course teaches ethnographic analysis as a set of intellectual and practical tools students can use to define and answer questions about the implications of economic and social changes in their own lives and the world at large. Students will learn to identify and debate the patterns of loyalty, authority, and conflict established by specific relations in families and workplaces whether these are described in readings or presented in actual situations.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 382 Memory and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Remembrance is analyzed as a cultural and social reality. Review of the theoretical literature on collective memory as it unfolds in written, narrative, visual, and audiovisual art; in architecture and monuments; in private and public ritual; in genealogy; and in the social experience of the body.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ethnographic study of how people learn to work in a range of real jobs around the world. Focuses on how people learn to do a job and get along with co-workers in different cultures. Shows how much a country's legal or economic policies can affect daily work lives.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 385 Applied Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of the applications of anthropological theory and method to meet societal needs in the areas of education, health, industry, food production, and rural development.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Middle Eastern cultures are well known for their rich and diverse performance practices. Taking an ethnographic perspective, this course views performances as communicative events through which social relations are organized. It explores how performances both participate in local arrangements of power and constitute responses to colonialism, nationalism, and globalization.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 386 or CMCL-C 422.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 387 The Ethnography of Europe
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Europe is viewed as an idea, an identity, and an historical consciousness. Students explore the meaning of this idea in the contemporary development of social and cultural anthropology, and in such social areas as regionalism and nationalism, ethnic identity, gender and kinship, religion, the city versus the village, and political life.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 388 Ethnicity, Class, and the Model U.S. Citizen
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers how people's identities influence the ideals and practice of citizenship. Focuses in particular on identities based on ethnicity and class. Examines how ethnicity and class shape discourses of citizenship found in the media and in political and legal spheres.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 388 or CMCL-C 346.
ANTH-E 393 World Fiction and Cultural Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Uses literature and anthropology as a means of understanding culture. Ethnographic writing and world fiction--novels, short stories, poems, myths, folktales--are analyzed to reveal aspects of the social, cultural, and political lives of peoples around the world. Colonialism, war, socialism, and immigration are also discussed.
ANTH-E 397 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- General anthropological introduction to social institutions and cultural forms of the Arab countries of North Africa and the Near East, Israel, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan. Topics include ecology, development of Islam and Muslim empires, traditional adaptive strategies, consequences of colonialism, independence and rise of nation-states, impact of modernization, changing conceptions of kinship, ethnicity, and gender.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 397, CEUS-R 352, CEUS-U 397, or NELC-N 397.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 398 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- General anthropological introduction to societies and cultures of contemporary Muslim successor states of former Soviet Central Asia, Western China (Xinjiang), and Iran and Afghanistan. Topics include ecology, ethnohistory, traditional subsistence strategies, family, kinship, gender, sociopolitical organization, impact of colonial rule of tsarist and Soviet Russia and China, development of modern nation-states in Iran and Afghanistan, and dynamics of current conflicts and future prospects.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 398, CEUS-R 316, or CEUS-U 398.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Intensive examination of selected topics in anthropology. Emphasis on analytic investigation and critical discussion. Topics vary.
- Repeatability
- May be taken with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-E 404 Field Methods in Ethnography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Junior standing
- Description
- Introduction to the methods and techniques anthropologists use in ethnographic research. Preparation of a research proposal, interviewing, and the use of the life histories and case studies.
- Repeatability
- May be taken with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-E 407 Visual Anthropology: Filmmaking
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Junior standing or consent of instructor
- Description
- Experimental filmmaking concerning social behavior, institutions, and customs.
ANTH-E 408 Talk, Tales, and Television: Africa, Europe, the United States
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Colonialism, the slave trade, apartheid, African music, "Roots," Hollywood: these subjects link together Americans, Europeans, and Africans, and they are portrayed through talk, television, film, radio, and performance at specific sites. Using specific examples, we will examine these tools of communication critically to better understand the ideas and images that circulate back and forth across the Atlantic.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 412 Anthropology of Russia and Eastern Europe
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the contradictory effects of socialism's "fall" through a study of new ethnographies of postsocialist societies. Regional inquiries will be related to broader intellectual issues such as globalization, social suffering, commodification and cultural identity, ethnicity and nation building, armed conflict, and gender inequalities.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 413 Global Africa
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers recent ethnographies of the African continent that address contemporary debates over theorizing Africa, locating African productive and creative practices (in cities, in unregulated economic spaces, within households), understanding social relationships in and out of marriage, and religious thought and practices.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Cross-cultural exploration of communication systems, ranging from face-to-face interaction to mediated forms of communication, with an emphasis on their cultural foundations and social organization.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ANTH-E 415 and CMCL-C 415.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 416 Anthropology of Tourism
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the phenomenon of tourism from an anthropological perspective. Looks at tourism as linked to consumer culture, transnational movements of people and goods, post-colonial settings, global capitalism, and the politics of ethnic and national identities.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 417 African Women
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The remarkably active roles that African women play in their communities bring them respect, but also heavy responsibilities. This course follows the themes of autonomy and control of resources, considering both economic resources such as land, labor, income and cattle, and social resources such as education, religion, and political power.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 418 Globalization and Consumer Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines processes of globalization and economic and cultural integration, including the origin and spread of mass-consumer society. Topics include the theories of consumption, mass media and advertising, and the relationship between modernity and consumerism. Includes examples from societies around the world.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 420 Economic Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers the ways in which anthropology has addressed economic questions. Topics may include contemporary and classic debates in the field; gendered forms of (re)production and labor; environmental sustainability; social justice; nutrition and food politics; shifting notions of currency; cultures of consumption; and global trade and value.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 421 Food and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Discussion of the economy of food production, trade and consumption on a global basis. Gives a cross-cultural and historical perspective on the development of cooking and cuisine in relationship to individual, national, and ethnic identity. Relates cuisine to modernity, migration, and forms of cultural mixing and Creolization.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of contemporary Native American and global indigenous representation and communication, including oral performance and media. Explores the poetics and politics of media and performance in the context of indigenous histories, cultures, and experiences of colonization. Examines the use of performance forms as symbolic resources in literature, film, the Internet, music and television. Addresses intersections of gender, class and race in indigenous media worlds.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 422 or CMCL-C 430.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 423 Life Histories
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Life histories give ethnographies accessibility, emotional impact, deep contextualization, and a deceptively transparent opening for authentic voices. An exploration of the complex issues of power and knowledge underlying this method, including interviewing strategies, consent, confidentiality, editing and publishing choices, and considers its position within broader research agendas. We discuss classic examples, recent narrative collections and contemporary experimental texts.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 424 Sense of Place
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the relationship between human identities and places through the study of ethnographies, philosophies, personal essays, films, fiction, poetry, and electronic media. Develops ethnographic skills to describe how personal, public, institutional, and virtual spaces are influenced by history, gender, and social forces. Emphasizes analytical, interpretive, and representational skills to communicate the richness of human experience.
ANTH-E 426 Coffee Culture, Production, and Markets
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers diverse expressions of "coffee culture" in production, markets, and consumption patterns. Explores the history of coffee production and trade, coffee's impact on international relations, and its implications for environmental changes, social justice, and economic development. Also studies local meanings of coffee and its consumption.
ANTH-E 428 Contemporary Latin American Social Movements
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Compares and contrasts contemporary activist and grassroots movements throughout the Latin American region. Focuses on movements both within the region and within the Latin American diaspora in the United States, organized around the rubrics of ethnicity, gender, resources, and environment.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 431 Ethnography as Cultural Critique
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the ways ethnographic work can provide a critical lens through which to view our world. By juxtaposing familiar cultural practices and beliefs against those of other societies and cultures, students learn to critically assess aspects of their own society they may have previously taken for granted. Provides training in ethnographic methods and features a semester-long ethnographic project.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ANTH-E 431 or CMCL-C 318.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the role of culture in how democracies are practiced. Ethnographic focus varies and includes cross-cultural comparisons of political speech, voting, and democratic representation in different cultures. Particular attention is paid to the dilemmas surrounding the exportation of democracy, especially to the Middle East, Africa, South Africa, the Pacific, and the Balkans.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 432 or CMCL-C 446.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
ANTH-E 434 Food Communication and Performance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Investigates food as a cultural and communicative device: how it functions in language, icons, ideologies, and power systems. Focuses on contemporary uses of and attitudes about food in daily use in lore, rituals, spectacles, festivals, and popular movements.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 434 and CMCL-C 433.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 435 Fashion, Beauty, Power
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores debates about dress, fashion, and anti-fashion in a global and historical context. Considers the relationship between ideas about the body and self-presentation and ideas about gender, family, race, religion and national consciousness in relation to dress.
ANTH-E 436 The Politics of Marriage
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- What is the state of marriage today? How do we understand marriage as a social, political, and economic institution? Examines marriage across cultures and time periods. Discusses topics such as arranged marriages, marriage and racial politics, marital citizenship, wedding industries, and battles over same-sex marriage.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Different political systems are founded and maintained by varying combinations of overt violence and more subtle workings of ideas and ideologies. Through cross-cultural case studies, the course examines how coercion, persuasion, consensus, and dissent operate in and through the politics and performances of everyday life.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 437 or CMCL-C 417.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the everyday issues surrounding public speech in new media: how people establish appropriate behavior in new media and respond to new possibilities for deceptive behavior; how ideas of what counts as 'public' and 'private' change as the result of changes in the way communication circulates; why scholars believe public speech and democracy are so intertwined.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 438 or CMCL-C 429.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 442 Ethnographic Memoir
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-E 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Explores the intersection of memoir and ethnography. Considers what the defining characteristics of a new genre, ethnographic memoir, would be and how it might differ from ethnography and memoir. Includes experiments in writing that combines observation and description with increasing understanding of the relationships between self and others.
ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas: Theories of Conservation
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Seminar course that explores major theories and approaches to conservation, from "fortress conservation" to community-based and participatory strategies. Considers the implications of protected areas for local human populations and cultural diversity. Evaluates outcomes and unintended consequences of protected areas, and controversies over the "best" way to protect natural resources.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 445 Seminar in Medical Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This advanced seminar in medical anthropology focuses on theoretical approaches to understanding the body and notions of health, illness, and disease across cultures. Concentrates on interpretive and critical (political economy) approaches to issues of health and includes critical study of Western biomedicine.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Uses an historical and ethnographic approach to study the films and related readings of Indian diasporic filmmakers from the 1980s to the present. Focuses on the films of two prolific feminist filmmakers, Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 456 Anthropology of Race
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores race from a cultural anthropological perspective and investigates the history of this idea within the discipline as well as its dissemination in international society. Examines the play between challenges to race as an intellectual paradigm and the resilient status of race-thinking in society at large.
ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Visual art, music, dance, drama, and oral literature, viewed as structural entities, as aspects of human behavior, and in terms of their anthropological context.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Techniques of dance research, bibliographic and archival sources, historical and comparative studies, function and structure of dance, distribution of dance styles, and symbolic aspects of dance performance. A variety of dance forms will be considered in their social and cultural contexts.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 464 Body, Power, and Performance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Looks at performance in relation to social power by focusing on the body. Examines the extent to which several interdisciplinary readings on performance theory--largely emerging as they have from Western intellectual traditions--speak to embodied/performative negotiations of social power outside "the West."
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 474 The Anthropology of Human Rights
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Investigates anthropology's theoretical and practical engagements with global social justice. Examines a number of texts central to the development of the notion of human rights, and explores several case studies oriented around a range of historical and contemporary human rights issues.
ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ethnography is the defining core of social and cultural anthropology; field research is at the heart of ethnography. The definition and purpose of ethnography, the role of ethnographer, voice, ethics, and modes of presentation, standards, craft, art, and evaluation are examined through specific cases and exemplary ethnographies.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 490 Development and Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-E 420; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Focuses on theories of development, ethical issues surrounding development, practical issues related to development including interactions with development agencies, and the ways development anthropology has been employed in specific projects around the world.
ANTH-L 310 Elementary Lakota (Sioux) Language I
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introduction to Lakota (Sioux), a Native American language spoken on the Northern Plains of the United States. Course focuses on developing elementary reading and writing skills as well as oral fluency in the Lakota language within the context of Lakota culture.
ANTH-L 311 Elementary Lakota (Sioux) Language II
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Continues work begun in ANTH-L 310, focusing on continued development of elementary reading and writing skills as well as oral fluency in the Lakota (Sioux) language within the context of Lakota culture.
ANTH-L 312 Intermediate Lakota (Sioux) Language I
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of more complex Lakota grammatical structures, with emphasis on development of active reading, writing, and speaking skills.
ANTH-L 313 Intermediate Lakota (Sioux) Language II
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of more complex Lakota grammatical structures, with emphasis on development of active reading, writing, and speaking skills.
ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to performance as a communicative practice, focusing on performance as a special artistic mode of communication and performance and as a special class of display events in which the values and symbols of a culture are enacted before an audience.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 314 or CMCL-C 313.
- Fall 2023CASE AHcourse
ANTH-L 320 Native American Languages
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introductory survey of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Topics covered include history of the study of Native American languages, genetic and typological classifications, structures of selected languages, the comparative (historical) study of selected language families, and the interplay between language and culture. Diversity of Native American languages is emphasized.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 330 Mesoamerican Languages: Structure, History, Social Context
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introductory survey of the indigenous languages of Mesoamerica. Covers the genetic and typological classification of these languages, and the social and historical contexts in which they have been and continue to be spoken. Students will have hands-on opportunities to work with native speakers of these languages.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 340 Language and Globalization
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores globalization through the lens of language. Topics include cultural and linguistic contact and translation, migration and assimilation, transnational media, multilingualism, language loss, the emergence and spread of new forms of English, and global discourses of democracy, diversity, and minority rights.
ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Current issues in linguistic anthropology, designed to acquaint the student with readings and points of view not covered in the introductory courses. Topics such as languages of the world, variation in language, problems in linguistic structure, and culture and communication. Topic varies.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-L 402 Language in/of Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines how language is represented in media and the language(s) of media as ways of understanding broader sociocultural processes. Explores ways scholars have approached language in/of media to date, while also seeking to open new areas of inquiry. Emphasizes research and analysis methods.
ANTH-L 407 Language and Prehistory
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the areas of linguistic research that are most relevant to the work of archaeologists and students of prehistory. Topics include mechanisms of linguistic change, the comparative method, genetic and areal relationships among languages, and applications of linguistic reconstruction to the study of ancient cultures and populations.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This seminar explores how language is used to accomplish economic, political, and sociocultural ends in Central Eurasia. Topics covered include multilingualism; regional ethnolinguistic categories; the relationship between language policy and nationalities policy; gendered language; code choice in interactions; the politics of translation; poetics; standardization; and language shift, endangerment, and revitalization.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 410 or CEUS-R 492.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 301 Archaeological Methods and Analyses
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-P P200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Specific field or laboratory methods for collecting and analyzing archaeological materials and data within a framework of answering research questions about the past. Topics vary: dating, materials science, subsistence indicators, archaeological survey.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-P 302 Invention and Technology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The evolution of technology is explored from prehistoric times onward. The origins of the major inventions of humankind are traced from their earliest beginnings in the Stone Age up to the Industrial Revolution.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for one of ANTH-E 410 or ANTH-P 302.
ANTH-P 305 Underwater Archeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An overview of the field of Underwater Archaeology and the study of underwater cultural heritage. Topics include theoretical background, ethics, methodologies used to analyze submerged archaeological material, conservation, and case studies from the field.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 330 Historical Archaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines archaeology in North America beginning with the long and complex history of Native American/European interactions. Considers North American social systems, interaction with and exploitation of the environment, technologies, and material culture. Theories and methods used by historical archaeologists will also be emphasized.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 332 Industrial Archaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-P 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Explores the material character and social context of industrial heritage in North America including resource extraction, manufacturing, and transportation. Studies the record that industry leaves on the landscape including quarries, factories, office buildings, mills, railroads, and worker housing. Analysis of documents, images, material remains, archaeological sites, and ethnographic sources.
- Fall 2023CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 345 Indigenous Archaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A global approach to how indigenous people employ archaeology to protect sacred sites and places and to build and manage knowledge about their pasts. Explores indigenous worldviews and how archaeologists and indigenous communities work together in archaeology.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 350 Archaeology of Ancient Mexico
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys the archaeology of ancient Mexico. Traces cultural developments of indigenous peoples from the Olmec to the Aztec, and examines issues, controversies, and current debates in Mexican archaeology. Topics include the transition to settled villages, initial complexity, craft production, urbanization, ideology, gender, religion, warfare, and the conquest.
- Fall 2023CASE GCCcourse
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 361 Archaeology of the Midwestern United States
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of cultures and societies in the midwestern United States from the earliest human occupations until initial European contact. Material culture, sustainability, ecology, and religion are viewed through remains recovered across the Midwest, with hands-on exposure to artifacts and data.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 363 North American Prehistory through Fiction
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Students consider fictionalized accounts of life in prehistoric North America, written by anthropologists, Native Americans, and novelists, as a means to think critically and creatively about the past. They explore the role and place of narrative and imagination in constructions of the past and consider how authors utilize available data.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 370 Archaeology of the Andes
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Covers cultural change in Andean South America, including early hunters and gatherers, agriculture, the growth of regional civilizations, technological and artistic achievement, and the rise and dissolution of the Inca Empire.
ANTH-P 375 Food in the Ancient World
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the theoretical and methodological tools that archaeologists use to study food and foodways in ancient societies from a global anthropological perspective. Reveals how studying food and ancient foodways helps anthropologists gain insight into the economic, historic, and political realities of past peoples.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 380 Prehistoric Diet and Nutrition
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- How the long-term history of human diet has influenced our genetic, physiological, cultural, and socioeconomic development. Evolutionary and ecological perspectives on modern human diet and nutrition, including survey of modern human and nonhuman primate diets and the record of prehistoric human diet and methods of dietary reconstruction.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-P 385 Paleolithic Technology Laboratory
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys the development and history of stone tool manufacture and use. Topics include raw material study, fracture mechanics, experimentation in lithic production, and reasons for innovation. Includes practice in identification, analysis, classification, measurement, and illustration of stone artifacts.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-P 390 Geoarchaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An exploration of the dynamic process of archaeological site formation, including stratigraphy. Focus on geoarchaeological approaches to archaeological materials, site context, and environment, and how these approaches help us understand prehistoric lifeways.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-P 399 Undergraduate Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Intensive examination of selected topics in archaeology. Development of skills in analysis and criticism. Topics vary.
- Repeatability
- May be taken with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-P 401 Cultural Resource Management
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- At least junior standing
- Description
- Examines position of the anthropologist in the decision-making process for preservation and conservation of archaeological sites, structures, artifacts, and knowledge. Considers legal procedures, anthropological values, and methods applicable to land use changes that threaten cultural resources.
ANTH-P 406 Laboratory Methods in Archaeology
- Credits
- 1–6 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of instructor
- Description
- Specialized training in laboratory procedures and analysis of archaeological materials. Major categories of material culture include lithics, ceramics, faunal and floral remains. Emphasis is on processing, sorting, identifying, and analyzing material recovered from known sites or held in museums.
ANTH-P 407 Archaeological Curation
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-P 200; and junior or senior standing
- Description
- An examination of the history, methods, legislation, ethics and technology of archaeological curation. Instruction includes hands-on training in the curation and conservation of material culture and associated documents, images, and digital records. Provides training in evaluating the research and educational potential of archaeological materials and their meaning for people today.
ANTH-P 409 Archaeological Ethics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the professional responsibilities of archaeologists by examining timely issues, such as the differences and, sometimes, conflicts between international law and professional ethics, and between archaeologists and others (e.g., Native Americans, antiquities collectors) who affect and are affected by archaeological work. Some background in archaeology is helpful.
ANTH-P 411 Archaeology of Magic, Witchcraft and Religion
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores diverse practices related to magic, witchcraft, and religion to situate and evaluate how these practices and beliefs intersected with social and political elements over time. Examines different perspectives and inquires if magic and witchcraft are separable from religion and everyday practices. Provides broad exposure to anthropological and archaeological perspectives.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 425 Faunal Osteology
- Credits
- 5
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Lecture and laboratory introduction to the preparation, collection, identification, and interpretation of faunal specimens from archaeological sites. Also includes an introduction to forensic identifications and to zooarchaeological literature.
- Fall 2023CASE NMcourse
ANTH-P 426 Problems in Zooarchaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Students learn how to choose appropriate research designs for the interpretation of animal remains from archaeological sites, through readings, discussions, and laboratory analyses. Coursework will focus on literature review, field identification, lab methodology, quantification, preparing collections, curation, and report preparation.
ANTH-P 430 Archaeology of Violence and Conflict
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- In this course we will examine how we identify violence and warfare in the past. Second, we will explore how violence has affected societies around the world and through time. We review multidisciplinary literature on violence and ask how and why violent acts and institutions of violence develop and persist.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 440 Archaeology of Space and Place
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Broad review of interdisciplinary literature to evaluate how human experience has been informed and affected by spatial sensibilities. Takes a diachronic and global look at how space impacts politics, society, religion, memory, and identity, with an emphasis on developing critical thinking skills.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 445 Pots and People
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Uses pottery as a means of understanding past societies: how people make, use, and think about pottery. Participants make their own pots from wild clays; cook a meal in traditional ceramic pots; and consider how experimentation, ethnohistorical data, and anthropological theory work together to produce insights into past lifeways.
- Fall 2023CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 480 Fieldwork in Wyoming Archaeology
- Credits
- 3–6 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores archaeological issues and methodologies through field work in northwestern Wyoming and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Students gain a greater familiarization with the contemporary, ethnographic, and historic cultural groups that call this area home.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
ANTH-X 476 Museum Practicum
- Credits
- 1–8 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-A 403, ANTH-A 405, or consent of instructor
- Description
- Independent work of student's choice in one aspect of the field of museum work. Relevant readings required.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credit hours in ANTH-X 476.
ANTH-X 477 Fieldwork in Anthropology
- Credits
- 1–8 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of instructor
- Description
- Fieldwork in anthropology carried out by the student in consultation with faculty members.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credit hours in ANTH-X 477.
ANTH-X 478 Practicum in Anthropology
- Credits
- 1–8 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of chairperson
- Description
- Supervised work of an anthropological nature arranged through an outside agency or institution, such as an internship, apprenticeship, or volunteer work at a governmental office, zoo, or archaeological site. One credit hour per 45 hours or one full-time week of activity.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credit hours in ANTH-A 496 and ANTH-X 478.
ANTH-X 479 Fieldwork in Bioanthropology
- Credits
- 1–8 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of instructor
- Description
- Fieldwork involving the collection and analysis of biological or biosocial data on prehistoric and contemporary human populations. The materials or data may be paleontological, archaeological, physiological, or ecological in nature. 1 credit hour per full week of fieldwork.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-B 405 or ANTH-X 479.
ANTH-X 480 Fieldwork in Archaeology
- Credits
- 1–8 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Archaeological work directed toward field techniques: excavation and preservation of materials, surveying, photography, and cataloging. 1 credit hour per full week of fieldwork.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-P 405 or ANTH-X 480.
ANTH-X 490 Individual Readings in Anthropology
- Credits
- 1–4 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of instructor
- Description
- None
- Repeatability
- May be repeated 3 times for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
- Minor GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Minor Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the minor.
- Minor Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed at the 300–499 level.
- Minor Residency. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
Minor Area Courses
Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:
- Any course at the 100-499 level with the
ANTHsubject area prefix--as well as any other subject areas that are deemed functionally equivalent - Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken--as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent--except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
- Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception
Exclusions
The following courses cannot be applied toward minor requirements:
- No common exclusions
Restrictions
The following restrictions apply to the minimum credit hours required in the minor:
- Only one ANTH course at the 100-199 level may count toward the minor
This program of study cannot be combined with the following:
- Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology (ANTHBA)
- Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Linguistics (ANTHLNGBA)
- Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Anthropology (LINGANTBA)
- Certificate in Global Human Diversity (GLHMDVACRT)
- Certificate in the Ethnography of Communication (ETHCOMACRT)
- Minor in Archaeology (ARCHMIN)
- Minor in Medical Anthropology (MEDANTHMIN)
- Minor in the Anthropology of Food (FOODMIN)
- [Discontinued credential name unavailable] (ETHCOMMMIN)
Exceptions to and substitutions for minor requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.