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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. Culture and Personality (3)
Prerequisite: Anthro 2 or 6 units of sociology, social welfare or psychology and permission of instructor. Cross-cultural range in variation of personality and its theoretical implications; process of cultural and social conditioning in personality development; enculturation and motivation theories; ethnoscience.

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. The American Indian (3) (Former Anthro 105)
Prerequisite: Anth 2. Prehistory of western hemisphere; linguistic groups; development, spread and attainment of native Indian cultures.

122. Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific Islands (3)
Prerequisite: Anthro 2 or permission 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.

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

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