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ANTH 2240 - Progress
An ideal of progress has motivated Westerners since the Enlightenment, and is confirmed by rapid technological innovation. Theories of social evolution also foresaw, however, the extinction of those left behind. This course addresses the ideological roots of our notion of progress, the relation between technological and social progress, and what currently threatens our confidence in the inevitability of progress.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2250 - Nationalism, Racism, Multiculturalism
Introductory course in which the concepts of culture, multiculturalism, race, racism, and nationalism are critically examined in terms of how they are used and structure social relations in American society and, by comparison, how they are defined in other cultures throughout the world.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2270 - Race, Gender, and Medical Science
Explores the social and cultural dimensions of biomedical practice and experience in the United States. Focuses on practitioner and patient, asking about the ways in which race, gender, and socio-economic status contour professional identity and socialization, how such factors influence the experience, and course of, illness, and how they have shaped the structures and institutions of biomedicine over time.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2280 - Medical Anthropology
The course introduces medical anthropology, and contextualizes bodies, suffering, healing and health. It is organized thematically around a critical humanist approach, along with perspectives from political economy and social constructionism. The aim of the course is to provide a broad understanding of the relationship between culture, healing (including and especially the Western form of healing known as biomedicine), health and political power.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2290 - The Health of Black Folks
An interdisciplinary course analyzing the relationship between black bodies and biomedicine both historically and in the present. The course is co-taught by Norm Oliver, M.D. (UVa Department of Family Medicine), and offers political, economic, and post-structuralist lenses with which to interpret the individual and socio/cultural health and disease of African-Americans. Readings range across several disciplines including anthropology, epidemiology/public health, folklore, history, science studies, political science, sociology and literary criticism. Topics will vary and may include: HIV/AIDS; reproductive issues; prison, crime and drugs; and body size/image and obesity; the legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Trials. Cross listed as AAS 2450.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2291 - Global Culture and Public Health
This course considers the forces that influence the distribution of health and illness in different societies, with attention to increasing global interconnectedness. We will examine the roles of individuals, institutions, communities, corporations and states in improving public health, asking how effective public health and development efforts to improve global health have been and how they might be re-imagined.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2310 - Symbol and Ritual
Studies the foundations of symbolism from the perspective of anthropology. Topics include signs and symbols, and the symbolism of categorical orders as expressed in cosmology, totemism, and myth.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2320 - Anthropology of Religion
Explores anthropological approaches to religion, in the context of this discipline’s century-old project to understand peoples’ conceptions of the world in which they live.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2325 - Anthropology of God
How does the study of society and culture create an intellectual space for any explanation and experience of the Divine? How does anthropology deal specifically with explaining (rather than the explaining away) knowledge and understanding about divinity? Is God an American? If God has a gender and race, what are they? These and many other pertinent questions will be engaged and tackled in this cross-cultural study of the divine.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2340 - Anthropology of Birth and Death
Comparative examination of beliefs, rites, and symbolism concerning birth and death in selected civilizations.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2345 - Anthropology of Reproduction: Fertility and the Future
In this course, we will study human reproduction as a cultural process. Questions include how gender, class, race, and religion shape reproductive ideals and practices around the world. Ethnographic examples will come from around the world, but will emphasize South Asia and the United States. This course examines the perspectives of both men and women and situates local examples within national and global struggles to (re)produce the future.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2360 - Don Juan and Castaneda
Analyzes the conceptual content in Castaneda’s writings as an exploration of an exotic world view. Focuses on the concepts of power, transformation, and figure-ground reversal.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2365 - Art and Anthropology
The course emphasizes art in small-scale (contemporary) societies (sometimes called ethnic art or “primitive art”). It includes a survey of aesthetic productions of major areas throughout the world (Australia, Africa, Oceania, Native America, Meso-America). Included are such issues as art and cultural identity, tourist arts, anonymity, authenticity, the question of universal aesthetic cannons, exhibiting cultures,and the impact of globalization.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2370 - Japanese Culture
This course offers an introductory survey of Japan from an anthropological perspective. It is open without prerequisite to anyone with a curiosity about what is arguably the most important non-Western society of the last 100 years, and to anyone concerned about the diverse conditions of modern life. We will range over many aspects of contemporary Japan, and draw on scholarship in history, literature, religion, and the various social sciences.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2375 - Disaster
Sociocultural perspectives on disaster, including analysis of the manufacture of disaster, debates on societal collapse, apocalyptic thought, disaster management discourse, how disasters mobilize affect, disaster movies, and disasters as political allegory. Students work through a series of case studies from different societies that cover “natural,” industrial, and chronic disasters, as well as doomsday scenarios.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2400 - Language and Culture
Introduces the interrelationships of linguistic, cultural, and social phenomena with emphasis on the importance of these interrelationships in interpreting human behavior. No prior knowledge of linguistics is required.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2410 - Sociolinguistics
Reviews key findings in the study of language variation. Explores the use of language to express identity and social difference.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2420 - Language and Gender
Studies how differences in pronunciation, vocabulary choice, non-verbal communication, and/or communicative style serve as social markers of gender identity and differentiation in Western and non-Western cultures. Includes critical analysis of theory and methodology of social science research on gender and language.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2430 - Languages of the World
An introduction to the study of language relationships and linguistic structures. Topics covered the basic elements of grammatical description; genetic, areal, and typological relationships among languages; a survey of the world’s major language groupings and the notable structures and grammatical categories they exhibit; and the issue of language endangerment. Prerequisite: One year of a foreign language or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2440 - Language and Cinema
Looks historically at speech and language in Hollywood movies, including the technological challenges and artistic theories and controversies attending the transition from silent to sound films. Focuses on the ways that gender, racial, ethnic, and national identities are constructed through the representation of speech, dialect, and accent. Introduces semiotics but requires no knowledge of linguistics, or film studies.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2470 - Reflections of Exile: Jewish Languages and their Communities
Covers Jewish languages Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, and Hebrew from historical, linguistic, and literary perspectives. Explores the relations between communities and languages, the nature of diaspora, and the death and revival of languages. No prior knowledge of these languages is required. This course is cross-listed with MEST 2470.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2500 - Cultures, Regions, and Civilizations
Intensive studies of particular world regions, societies, cultures, and civilizations.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2541 - Topics in Linguistics
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with linguistics.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2557 - Culture Through Film
This course introduces the diversity of human cultural worlds and the field of anthropology as presented through film. A variety of ethnographic and commercial films will be viewed and discussed in conjunction with readings.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2560 - Hierarchy and Equality
Provides an anthropological perspective on relations of inequality, subordination, and class in diverse societies, along with consideration of American ideas of egalitarianism, meritocracy, and individualism. Specific topics will be announced prior to each semester.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2565 - Society and Politics in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Courses on the comparative anthropological study of topics announced prior to each semester.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2570 - History and Narrative
This course examines how people make history through specific processes of remembering, commemoration, reenactment, story-telling, interpretation, and so on. How do the narrative genres of a particular culture influence the relationship people have to the past?
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2575 - Migrants and Minorities
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with migration and migrants, and the experience of ethnic and racial minorities.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2589 - Topics in Archaeology
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with archaeology.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2590 - Social and Cultural Anthropology
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2600 - Introduction to Civilization of India
Introduces the society and culture of India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Discussion of traditional social, political, and economic organization; religions, religious festivals, and worship; art and architecture; dance; and song.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2620 - Sex, Gender, and Culture
Examines the manner in which ideas about sexuality and gender are constructed differently cross-culturally and how these ideas give shape to other social phenomena, relationships, and practices.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2625 - Imagining Africa
Africa is commonly imagined in the West as an unproblematically bounded and undifferentiated entity. This course engages and moves beyond western traditions of story telling about Africa to explore diverse systems of imagining Africa’s multi-diasporic realities. Imagining Africa is never a matter of pure abstraction, but entangled in material struggles and collective memory, and taking place at diverse and interconnected scales and locales.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1010
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2660 - The Internet Is Another Country: Community, Power, and Social Media
Explores the concepts of community, nationalism, the public sphere, and social action in the context of the Internet and social media. Begins with a cultural history of the Internet and virtual community and then explores several ethnographic case studies of communities and social movements from around the world. Concludes with a consideration of the Internet as a political economic system. Students blog and conduct collaborative research.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2670 - How Others See Us
Explores how America, the West, and the white racial mainstream are viewed by others in different parts of the world, and at home.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2800 - Introduction to Archaeology
Topics include alternative theories of prehistoric culture change, dating methods, excavation and survey techniques, and the reconstruction of the economy, social organization, and religion of prehistoric societies.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2810 - Human Origins
Studies the physical and cultural evolution of humans from the initial appearance of hominids to the development of animal and plant domestication in different areas of the world. Topics include the development of biological capabilities such as bipedal walking and speech, the evolution of characteristics of human cultural systems such as economic organization and technology, and explanations for the development of domestication.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2820 - The Emergence of States and Cities
Surveys patterns in the development of prehistoric civilizations in different areas of the world including the Inca of Peru, the Maya, the Aztec of Mexico, and the ancient Middle East.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2850 - American Material Culture
Analysis of patterns of change in American material culture from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Consideration of how these changes reflect shifts in perception, cognition, and worldview.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2890 - Unearthing the Past
An introduction to prehistory covering 4 million years of human physical evolution and 2.5 million years of human cultural evolution. Provides students with an understanding of how archaeologists reconstruct the rise and fall of ancient civilizations. Covers some major developments in prehistory such as origins of modern humans, the rise of the first complex societies & agriculture, and the emergence of ancient civilizations in North America.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 2900 - The Cultural Politics of American Family Values
This course provides a broad, introductory survey of the range of cultural understandings, economic structures, and political and legal constraints that shape both dominant and alternative forms of kinship and family in the United States.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3010 - Theory and History of Anthropology
Overview of the major theoretical positions which have structured anthropological thought over the past century.
Credits: 4
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ANTH 3020 - Using Anthropology in the Contemporary World
The theoretical, methodological and ethical practice of an engaged anthropology is the subject of this course, We begin with a history of applied anthropology. We then examine case studies that demonstrate the unique practices of contemporary sociocultural, linguistic, archaeological and bioanthropological anthropology in the areas of policy and civic engagement.
Credits: 4
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ANTH 3070 - Introduction to Musical Ethnography
Explores music and sound as a social practice, using genres and traditions from throughout the world.
Prerequisite: MUSI 3070
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3129 - Marriage, Mortality, Fertility
Explores the ways that culturally formed systems of values and family organization affect population processes in a variety of cultures.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3130 - Disease, Epidemics and Society
Topics covered in this course will include emerging diseases and leading killers in the twenty-first century, disease ecology, disease history and mortality transitions, the sociology of epidemics, the role of epidemiology in the mobilization of public health resources to confront epidemics, and the social processes by which the groups become stigmatized during disease outbreaks.
Prerequisite: introductory anth or soc course
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3152 - Amazonian Peoples
Analyzes ethnographies on the cultures and the societies of the South American rain forest peoples, and evaluates the scholarly ways in which anthropology has produced, engaged, interpreted, and presented its knowledge of the ‘Amerindian.’
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3154 - Indians of the American Southwest
Ethnographic coverage of the Apaches, Pueblos, Pimans, and Shoshoneans of Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Northwestern Mexico. Topics include prehistory, socio-cultural patterns, and historical development.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3155 - Anthropology of Everyday American Life
Provides an anthropological perspective of modern American society. Traces the development of individualism through American historical and institutional development, using as primary sources of data religious movements, mythology as conveyed in historical writings, novels, and the cinema, and the creation of modern American urban life. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3157 - Caribbean Perspectives
Explores the histories and politics that have shaped the nations and dependencies that are geographically and politically defined as Caribbean, including French, English, and Spanish. Takes a regional and a national perspective on the patterns of family and kinship; community and household structures; political economy, ethnicity and ethnic relations; religious and social institutions; and relations between Caribbeans abroad and at home. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3170 - Anthropology of Media
Explores the cultural life of media and the mediation of cultural life through photography, radio, television, advertising, the Internet, and other technologies.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3175 - Native American Art: The Astor Collection
This is an upper-level anthropology course which is intended to engage students in the study of Native American art as well as the history and current debate over the representation of Native American culture and history in American museums. After a thorough review of the literature on those topics, the class focuses specifically on the Astor collection owned by the University of Virginia.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3180 - Social History of Commodities
Introduces the anthropological study of production, exchange, consumption, and globalization by exploring the cultural life-cycle of particular commodities in different places and times.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3200 - Marriage, Gender, Political Economy
Cross-cultural comparison of marriage and domestic groups, analyzed as a point of intersection between cultural conceptions of gender and a larger political economy.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3210 - Kinship and Social Organization
Cross-cultural analysis and comparison of systems of kinship and marriage from Australian aborigines to the citizens of Yankee city. Covers classic and contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3220 - Economic Anthropology
Comparative analysis of different forms of production, circulation, and consumption in primitive and modern societies. Exploration of the applicability of modern economic theory developed for modern societies to primitive societies and to those societies being forced into the modern world system.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3230 - Legal Anthropology
Comparative survey of the philosophy and practice of law in various societies. Includes a critical analysis of principles of contemporary jurisprudence and their application. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3240 - The Anthropology of Food
By exploring food and eating in relationship to such topics as taboo, sexuality, bodies, ritual, kinship, beauty, and temperance and excess, this course will help students to investigate the way the foods people eat–or don’t eat–hold meaning for people within multiple cultural contexts.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3255 - Anthropology of Time and Space
All societies position themselves in space and time. This course samples the discussion of the ways social systems have configured spatial/temporal orders. It considers both internalized conceptions of time and space and the ways an analyst might view space and time as external factors orientating a society’s existence. And it samples classic discussions of spatial-temporal orientations in small and large, “pre-modern” and “modern” societies.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3260 - Globalization and Development
Explores how globalization and development affect the lives of people in different parts of the world. Topics include poverty, inequality, and the role of governments and international agencies.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3270 - Anthropology of Politics
Reviews the variety of political systems found outside the Western world. Examines the major approaches and results of anthropological theory in trying to understand how radically different politics work. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3272 - Anthropology of Dissent
This course will investigate various processes of opposition, resistance, and revolution. The first half of the course will survey foundational works of revolutionary theory, while the second half will examine political practice from an ethnographic perspective, with an eye towards the lived experience of political participation and the formation (and transformation) of resisting subjects.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3300 - Tournaments and Athletes
A cross-cultural study of sport and competitive games. Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3320 - Shamanism, Healing, and Ritual
Examines the characteristics of these nonmedical practices as they occur in different culture areas, relating them to the consciousness of spirits and powers and to concepts of energy. Prerequisite: At least a 2000-level ANTH course, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3325 - Capitalism: Cultural Perspectives
Examines capitalist relations around the world in a variety of cultural and historical settings. Readings cover field studies of work, industrialization, “informal” economies, advertising, securities trading, “consumer culture,” corporations; anthropology of money and debt; global spread of capitalist markets; multiple capitalisms thesis; commodification; slavery and capital formation; capitalism and environmental sustainability.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3330 - Ethnopoetics
An exploration of the form and meaning of traditional art, poetry, and song in various ethnographic contexts.
Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3340 - Ecology and Society: An Introduction to the New Ecological Anthropology
Forges a synthesis between culture theory and historical ecology to provide new insights on how human cultures fashion, and are fashioned by, their environment. Although cultures from all over the world are considered, special attention is given to the region defined by South and East Asia, and Australia. Prerequisite: At least one Anthropology course, and/or relevant exposure to courses in EVSC, BIOL, CHEM, or HIST or instructor permission
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3360 - Fieldwork, Ethnographic Methods, and the Field Experience
Introduction to ethnographic methods of research. This course combines practical exercises in participant observation with readings that illuminate the field experience, its politics, ethics, limitations, and possibilities.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3370 - Power and the Body
Studying the cultural representations and interpretations of the body in society. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3395 - Mythodology
A hands-on seminar in myth interpretation designed to acquaint the student with the concept and techniques of obviation.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3440 - Language and Emotion
This course explores emotion from the perspectives of cultural anthropology and sociolinguistics. Topics include: emotion in the natural vs. social sciences; cross-cultural conceptions of emotion; historical change in emotion discourses; emotion as a theory of the self; the grammatical encoding of emotion in language; (mis-) communication of emotion; and emotion in the construction of racialized and gendered identities.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3450 - Native American Languages
Introduces the native languages of North America and the methods that linguists and anthropologists use to record and analyze them. Examines the use of grammars, texts and dictionaries of individual languages and affords insight into the diversity among the languages.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3470 - Language and Culture in the Middle East
Introduction to peoples, languages, cultures and histories of the Middle East. Focuses on Israel/Palestine as a microcosm of important social processes-such as colonialism, nationalism, religious fundamentalism, and modernization-that affect the region as a whole. This course is cross-listed with MEST 3470. Prerequisite: Previous course in anthropology, linguistics, Middle East Studies or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3480 - Language and Prehistory
This course covers the basic principles of diachronic linguistics and discusses the uses of linguistic data in the reconstruction of prehistory.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3490 - Language and Thought
Language and Thought
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3541 - Topics in Linguistics
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with linguistics.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3550 - Ethnography
Close reading of several ethnographies, primarily concerned with non-Western cultures.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3560 - The Museum in Modern Culture
Topics include the politics of cultural representation in history, anthropology, and fine arts museums; and the museum as a bureaucratic organization, as an educational institution, and as a nonprofit corporation.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3580 - Science and Culture
Seminar on the the role of science in culture, and on the culture of science and scientists. Topics may include different national traditions in science, the relation between scientific authority and social hierarchy, the cultural history of science, and the relationship between scientific and popular culture ideas.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3589 - Topics in Archaeology
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with archaeology.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3590 - Social and Cultural Anthropology
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3603 - Archaeological Approaches to Atlantic Slavery
This course explores how archaeological and architectural evidence can be used to enhance our understanding of the slave societies that evolved in the early-modern Atlantic world. The primary focus is the Chesapeake and the British Caribbean, the later exemplified by Jamaica and Nevis. The course is structured around a series of data-analysis projects that draw on the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (http://www.daacs.org).
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3620 - Cinema in India
An explanation of film culture in India.
Prerequisite: 200-level ANTH course or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3630 - Chinese Family and Religion
Analyzes various features of traditional Chinese social organization as it existed in the late imperial period. Includes the late imperial state; Chinese family and marriage; lineages; ancestor worship; popular religion; village social structure; regional systems; and rebellion.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3640 - Ethnology of Southeast Asia
Explores the ethnology and social anthropology of major cultures and societies of mainland (and insular Southeast Asia from prehistoric beginnings to contemporary national adaptations. (Mainland: Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia; Insular: Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, and portions of other nations abutting the area.)
Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3650 - Asian American Ethnicity
Problems in ethnicity are posed through study of the experiences of the Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, Koreans, and Vietnamese in the United States. Topics include the history of immigration, early communities in the U.S., race relations, recent changes in immigration and communities, family values, and questions of identity.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3660 - China: Empire and Nationalities
Explores the distant and recent history of Han and non-Han nationalities in the Chinese empire and nation-state. Examines the reaction of minority nationalities to Chinese predominance and the bases of Chinese rule and cultural hegemony. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or equivalent, a course in Chinese history, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3680 - Australian Aboriginal Art and Culture
This class studies the intersection of anthropology, art and material culture focusing on Australian Aboriginal art. We examine how Aboriginal art has moved from relative obscurity to global recognition over the past thirty years. Topics include the historical and cultural contexts of invention, production, marketing and appropriation of Aboriginal art. Students will conduct object-based research using the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3685 - Austronesia: World of Islands
Languages of the Austronesian faily are found from Madagascar through the archipelago of Southeast Asia, and across the vast Pacific. It is a world of islands. Being part of no continent, Austronesia is all but invisible. We approach this hidden world by seeing oceans instead of continents. In doing so, we learn about the migrations of its people, their diverse historical experiences, and the resulting extraordinary range of cultures.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3700 - Globalizing India: Society, Bazaars and Cultural Politics
A study of selected interrelated major cultural, religious and political changes for comprehending India after independence. The course will focus on major urban centers for explicating changing family, marriage and caste relationships; middle class Indians; status of women and Dalits; and rising religious/ethnic violence, including Hindu religious politics and religious nationalism. Prerequisite: One course in Anthropology or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3705 - Anthropology of the Middle East
Anthropological readings and films provide insight into the diversity of peoples and cultures of the modern Middle East. The focus will be on the everyday lived experiences of peoples in this part of the world. As we explore the rich diversity of cultures in the Middle East, key topics to be examined include tribalism, gender and politics, Islam, religion and secularism, colonialism, nationalism, and economic inequalities.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3710 - Cities in History
An introduction to the history of cities around the world, from the beginnings of cities to the present, locating urban forms in their social, cultural, political and symbolic contexts, with each class meeting examining a single city in depth. Cross-listed with ARH 371.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3810 - Field Methods in Archaeology
Provides a comprehensive training in archaeological field techniques through participation in research projects currently in progress under the direction of the archaeology faculty. The emphasis is on learning, in an actual field situation, how the collection of archaeological data is carried out in both survey and excavation. Students become familiar with field recording systems, excavation techniques, survey methods, sampling theory in archaeology, and artifact processing and analysis. (Field methods courses outside anthropology or offered at other universities may be substituted for ANTH 3810 with the prior approval of the student’s advisor.) Supporting Courses. The following list includes additional courses which have been approved for the major program. Other courses can be added, depending on the student’s area of concentration, with the approval of an advisor.
Credits: 3 to 6
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ANTH 3820 - Field Methods in Historical Archaeology
Introduces the basic field methods used in conducting archaeological investigations of historic sites. Surveying, excavation, mapping, and recording are all treated.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3830 - North American Archaeology
Surveys the prehistoric occupations of several areas of North America emphasizing the eastern United States, the Plains, California, and the Southwest. Topics include the date of human migration into the New World, the economy and organization of early Paleo-Indian populations, and the evolution of organization and exchange systems.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 3840 - Archaeology of the Middle East
This course is an introduction to the prehistory/early history of the Middle East (Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Levant and southeast Anatolia) from 10,000 to 4,000 BP.
Credits: 3
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