Certificate in Global Human Diversity

Students on Summer 2018, Fall 2018, or Spring 2019 requirements GLHMDVACRT

This certificate explores the cultural, biological, linguistic, and historical diversity of human societies worldwide. It prepares students to address major problems of identity, race, conflict, power, and access to resources using perspectives from all four subfields of anthropology. Students may earn a certificate as part of completing the bachelor's degree and in addition to completing requirements for a major. The Certificate in Global Human Diversity is available only to students outside the anthropology major.

Requirements

The certificate requires at least 24 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.

Introductory course. One (1) course:
- ANTH-A 122 Interpersonal Communication when taken Summer 2024 or later
- ANTH-E 101 Sustainability and Society when taken Summer 2024 or later
- ANTH-E 105 Culture and Society
- ANTH-E 210 Rethinking Race Globally
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 2024CASE DUScourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE DUScourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE SHcourse
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 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE 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 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE SHcourse
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 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE SHcourse
Intermediate courses. Two (2) courses:
- 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 2024CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE 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 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE 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 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE 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 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE SHcourse
Thematic courses. Two (2) courses:
- ANTH-B 370 Human Variation
- ANTH-E 230 American Ethnic Diversity
- ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ANTH-E 490 Development and Anthropology
- ANTH-P 409 Archaeological Ethics
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 2024CASE NMcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE NMcourse
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 2024CASE DUScourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE DUScourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE DUScourse
- Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE 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 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-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.
Regional courses. Two (2) courses:
- ANTH-B 472 Bioanthropology of Aboriginal America
- ANTH-E 320 Indigenous Populations of North America
- ANTH-E 321 Peoples of Mexico
- ANTH-E 322 Peoples of Brazil
- ANTH-E 340 Indigenous Populations of Mexico and Central America
- ANTH-E 387 The Ethnography of Europe
- ANTH-E 397 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
- ANTH-E 398 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia
- ANTH-E 417 African Women
- ANTH-L 313 Intermediate Lakota (Sioux) Language II (Also take ANTH-L 310)
- ANTH-L 320 Native American Languages
- ANTH-P 210
- ANTH-P 310 Prehistory of Europe and Asia
- ANTH-P 361 Archaeology of the Midwestern United States
- ANTH-P 370 Archaeology of the Andes
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-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 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE 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 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE 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 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE SHcourse
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 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE 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 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE SHcourse
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 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE 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 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE 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 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE SHcourse
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 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 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE 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 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE 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 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Summer 2024CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2024CASE 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.
Internship. One (1) course:
- ANTH-X 478 Practicum in Anthropology (or as part of another course)
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.
Certificate GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
1. At least 9 credit hours in the certificate must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
2. At least 9 credit hours in the certificate must be completed at the 300–499 level.
3. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the certificate.
4. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the certificate—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
5. Exceptions to certificate requirements may be made with the approval of the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.