Anthropology (Anthro)
1. Introduction to Physical Anthropology (3)
Relation of man and the animals; evolution of man, fossil man, race and
racial classification; racial theories.
2. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3)
The nature of culture; culture growth and history; survey of cultural phenomena;
cultural theory; applied anthropology.
3. Introduction to Prehistory (3)
Prerequisite: Anthro 2 . Development of archaeology and its basic concepts;
general sequences of cultural development in the Old and New Worlds.
102. Ethnology (3)
Prerequisite: Anthro 2 or permission of instructor. Major theories of culture;
survey of culture types and their distribution; ethnological problems.
103. Acculturation (3)
Prerequisite: Anthro 2 or permission of instructor. Impact of western
civilization upon nonwestem societies; social and, cultural adjustments
to impact; disintegration; reinterpretation, and reintegration; place of
anthropology in international relations and colonial administration.
104. Social Anthropology (3)
Prerequisite: Anthro 2 or permission of instructor. The place of anthropology
in the social sciences; theories and schools in social anthropology; community
studies, integration, functionalism, psychological aspects.
109. Seminar in Theory of Prehistory (3)
Prerequisite: Anthro 2, 3, or permission of instructor. Current problems
of prehistory, application to anthropology; theoretical approaches to archaeology.
110. Archaeological Laboratory Field Methods (4)
Prerequisite: Anth 2, 3, 109, permission of instructor. Application
of archaeological techniques to the solution of an archaeological problem;
field excavation, laboratory processing and analysis of artifactual material.
(3 lecture, 3 lab hours)
112. Comparative Societies and Social Organization (3)
Prerequisite: Anthro 2 or 104 (concurrent) or permission of instructor.
Empirical ethnographic examples of preliterate, peasant and urban societies;
classification of prehistoric, classical and contemporary societies; theories
derived from comparison of social organizations; processes of social organizational
change.
114. Seminar in Psychological Anthropology (3)
Prerequisite: Anthro 2 and Anthro 1 or Psych 10. Influence of culture on
perception, motivation, decision-making, autonomy, and personality. Directed
library research and reports. Cross-cultural analyses of socialization,
relative and absolute deviance, value alternatives, and related topics.
115. Seminar in Cultural Anthropology (3)
Prerequisite: Anth 2, 104. Method and theory in cultural anthropology; reading
and analysis of major contributions to modern cultural anthropological thought.
120. Indians of North America and Meso-America (3) (Former Anthro
105)
Prerequisite: Anth 2. American Indian peoples and cultures north of
the Isthmus of Panama.
121. South American Indians (3)
Prerequisites: Anth 2. American Indian peoples and cultures south of
the Isthmus of Panama.
122. Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific Islands (3)
Prerequisite: Anthro 2 orpermission of instructor. The peoples of Polynesia,
Melanesia, and Micronesia. Migration theories; contemporary social and political
systems; European contacts and culture change.
123. CIvilizations of Southeast Asia (3) (Former Anthro 107)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. The peoples and cultures of Southeast
Asia.
124. Civilizations of East Asia (3) (Former Anthro 108)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. he peoples and cultures of China,
Japan, and Korea.
125. People and Culture of the Middle East (3)
Prerequisite: Anthro 2 or permission of instructor. Historical backgrounds
and contemporary cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa; modern social forces and
cultural change.
126. People and Cultures of Africa (3)
Prerequisite: Anthro 2 or permission of instructor. Historical backgrounds
and contemporary cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa; modern social Forces and
cultural change.
127. Cultural Adaptations of the New World Negro (3)
Prerequisite: Anthro 2 and either 126 or permission of instructor. The
cultural continuum from tribal societies through peasantry to urbanization.
Examination of culture-historic factors such as slavery. stratification
and change.
131. Seminar in North American Prehistory (3)
Prerequisite: Anthro 2, 3. Aboriginal cultural developmnets in the New World
north of the Isthmus of Panama; major library research projects and reports.
150T. Seminar in Anthropology (1-3; max total 9)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Subspecialties current in anthropology:
e.g., ethnoscience, cultural ecology, human population genetics.
190. Independent Study (1-3; max see reference)
See Academic Placement -- Independent Study