Jump to Menu

• Undergraduate Spring 2016
• Anthropology

Undergraduate Anthropology

2016 Spring Term

Class Schedule

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (GS)

ANTHROPL 218

Varieties of human cultures past and present throughout the world, emphasizing the comparative study of social systems.

Class Schedule

TOMBS, TEMPLES & BURIED TREASURE: INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY (GS)

ANTHROPL 220

This course introduces student to the basic work of archaeology. It aims to dispel popular myths about the field perpetuated by the popular media. In place of those myths it presents methods of archaeological research and the discoveries such research has produced. These discoveries reveal the 4 million year history of humans and their ancestors before the invention of written records.

Class Schedule

UNDERSTANDING HERITAGE: FROM LANDMARKS TO THEME PARKS (GS)

ANTHROPL 320

What is heritage and what role does it play in determining who and what we are and what we might be? This course explores these questions seeking to explain how groups define heritage, use it, and varyingly preserve it. Topics include resource management systems, the World Heritage program, activist groups, impacts of heritage tourism and looting.

Class Schedule

FORENSIC DOCUMENTATION

ANTHROPL 325

This is an advanced course for students who wish to explore the area of recovery and identification of human skeletal remains. This class is offered as an introduction to the field of Forensic Science. It also provides us with opportunity to see an application of scientific knowledge to jurisprudence. A detailed look into the events surrounding death will be examined. Since we will deal directly with the human body, some prior knowledge of the human body will be helpful although we will cover this material in class.

Class Schedule

URBAN SOCIETY

ANTHROPL 352

A study to acquaint the student with historical development of urban centers, the increasing societal dominance of urbanism, the aspects of urbanism that constitute societal problems as well as societal contributions and new urban trends such as suburbanism and urban renewal.

Class Schedule

ADVANCED FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY: BIOARCHAEOLOGY, TRAUMA & PATHOLOGY

ANTHROPL 425

The course is a practicum in forensic anthropology. Student will gain an understanding of osteology, trauma and pathology as it relates to interpretation of human remains. The effect of culture on the human skeleton will be shown using examples from archaeology. Students will survey, inventory, a mock crime scene. They will produce a forensic report and present it in a mock court situation.

Class Schedule

TRAVEL STUDY

ANTHROPL 491

Variable topics. Faculty-led courses abroad

Class Schedule

EXCHANGE STUDY

ANTHROPL 497

Variable topics.

Class Schedule

INDEPENDENT STUDY IN ANTHROPOLOGY

ANTHROPL 498

Study of a selected topic or topics under the direction of a faculty member.