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ACCT 5210 - Introductory Auditing
Examines auditing methodology through a study of auditing standards. Includes the nature of evidence, program planning, work papers, internal control evaluation, types of audit tests, and audit reports. Prerequisite: ACCT 3120.
Credits: 3
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ACCT 5250 - Advanced Auditing
Builds on the concepts and practice examples from introductory auditing to provide students with an in-depth understanding of professional standards, the audit process, advanced audit techniques, and the auditor’s role in ensuring that publicly issued financial statements are fairly presented.
Prerequisite: ACCT5210.
Credits: 3
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ACCT 5310 - Selected Topics in Advanced Accounting
Studies accounting and financial reporting for partnerships, business enterprise segments, home office/branch office, foreign transactions and translation, business combinations, and other intercorporate investments and consolidated statements.
Prerequisite: ACCT 3120.
Credits: 3
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ACCT 5330 - Accounting for Non-Business Organizations
Financial accounting for governmental and non-profit organizations. Studies the theory and techniques of accounting and reporting for various funds and groups of accounts. Prerequisite: ACCT 3120.
Credits: 3
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ACCT 5410 - Fraud Examination
Focuses on the principles and methodology of fraud detection and deterrence. Examines how and why occupational fraud is committed, how fraudulent conduct can be deterred, and how allegations of fraud should be investigated and resolved. Prerequisite: ACCT 3120 Intermediate Accounting II
Credits: 3
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ACCT 5460 - Federal Taxation II
Analyzes of the federal income tax law and its application to corporations, shareholders, partnerships, partners, estates, and gift transactions. Prerequisite: ACCT 4450.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5200 - History of Kinship Studies
Critical assessment of major theoretical approaches to the study of kinship and marriage (from the 19th century to the present) and of the central role of kinship studies in the development of anthropological theory.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5210 - Reconfiguring Kinship Studies
Examines the ways in which the forms of kinship have been reconfigured in contemporary societies, and the ways in which traditional kinship studies have been reconfigured by their intersection with culture theory, feminist theory, gender studies, postmodern theory, gay and lesbian studies, and cultural studies of science and medicine. Prerequisite: ANTH5200 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5220 - Economic Anthropology
Considers Western economic theories and their relevance to non-Western societies. Includes a comparative analysis of different forms of production, consumption, and circulation.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5225 - NGOs, Development, and International Aid
Graduate level seminar explores the scholarly literature on NGOs and development aid organizations, emphasizing results of field studies. Issues include the relationship between policy and practice, the impact of changing trends and funding priorities, the politics of representing the voices of aid clients, economic and racial hierarchies in development, assessment and audit, and the nature of motivations to help.
Prerequisite: 4th year ANTH, GDS, or PST Majors; or A&S Graduate students
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5235 - Legal Anthropology
This course is an introduction to legal anthropology for graduate students or advanced undergraduates. This course investigates law systems, legal argumentation, and people’s interactions with these thoughts and forms. Rather than taking as given the hegemonic power that legal structures might hold over people’s lives and thought, this course questions how people use, abuse, subvert, and leverage legal structures in which they find themselves.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5250 - The Experience of Illness in American Society
Starting with the basic premise that the experience of illness/disease is at once a biological and cultural condition, the course focuses on narratives of the sick as a lens into the interrelationships between the body and society, medicine and culture. While the point of entry is the individual experience of illness and self in one Western society, the course intends to build a theoretical framework with which we can begin to conceptualize cultural institutional responses to and definitions of disease and ill-health.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5260 - History Production and Collective Memory
This course is an examination of the meanings and relationships between the past and present, memory, and history writing in anthropological practices and debates.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5300 - Foundations of Symbolism
Interdisciplinary course on selected topics in the study of symbolism. Emphasizes symbolic anthropology.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5330 - Folklore and Ethnohistorical Research Methodology
Introduction to folklore, and to folklore and ethnohistorical research methods and analysis.
Prerequisite: Graduate student standing or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5340 - Ethnographies of Illness and the Body
It is often at moments of intense ruptures in the normalcy of the body’s functioning that individuals/societies reflect on the taken-for-granted assumptions about self, family, community, social and political institutions, the relation between normal and pathological, the roles of healers and patients, life, and death. Writing about illness and the body is a form of therapeutic action. Examines such claims and writings done by those facing bodily distress.
Prerequisite: For undergraduates: ANTH 2240 and 3600, instructor permission for graduate students.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5350 - Folk and Popular Health Systems
Surveys various medical beliefs and practices, considering the traditional health systems of several American groups, and examining in detail the input into local traditional health systems from various sources.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5360 - World Mental Health
This course will examine mental health issues from the perspectives of biomedicine and anthropology, emphasizing local traditions of illness and healing as well as evidence from epidemiology and neurobiology. Included topics will be psychosis, depression, PTSD, Culture Bound Syndromes, and suicide. We will also examine the role of pharmaceutical companies in the spread of western based mental health care and culturally sensitive treatment.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5395 - Mythodology
A hands-on seminar in myth interpretation designed to acquaint the student with the concept and techniques of obviation. For graduate students
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5401 - Linguistic Field Methods
Investigates the grammatical structure of non-European language on the basis of data collected in class from a native speaker. A different language is the focus of study each year.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5410 - Phonology
An introduction to the theory and analysis of linguistic sound systems. Covers the essential units of speech sound that lexical and grammatical elements are composed of, how those units are organized at multiple levels of representation, and the principles governing the relation between levels.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5440 - Morphology
An overview of morphological theory within the generative paradigm. Covers notions of the morpheme, theories of the phonology-syntax interface (e.g., lexical phonology, prosodic morphology, optimality theory), and approaches to issues arising at the morphology-syntax interface (e.g., inflection, agreement, incorporation, compounding).
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5450 - African Languages
Analyzes the expressive use of language in Africa with emphasis on such traditional genres as folktales, epics, proverbs, riddles, etc.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5470 - Language and Identity
In anthropology, where identity has become a central concern, language is seen as an important site for the construction of, and negotiation over social identities. In linguistics, reference to categories of social identity helps to explain language structure and change. This seminar explores the overlap between these converging trends by focusing on the notion of discourse as a nexus of cultural and linguistic processes.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5480 - Literacy and Orality
This course surveys ethnographic and linguistic literature on literacy, focusing on the social meanings of speaking vs. writing (and hearing vs. reading) as opposed communicative practices, looking especially at traditionally oral societies.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5490 - Speech Play and Verbal Art
This graduate-level seminar seeks to understand variation in language (and its significance for social relations and social hierarchies) by focusing on forms of language that are aesthetically valued (whether as powerful or as poetic) in particular communities. The course assumes some familiarity both with technical analysis of language and anthropological perspectives on social formations.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5510 - Topics in Ethnography
Seminars on topics announced prior to each semester.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5520 - Topics in Ethnology of Latin America
Seminars on topics announced prior to each semester.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5528 - Topics in Race Theory
This course examines theories and practices of race and otherness, in order to analyze and interpret constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions of race from the late 18th to the 21st centuries. The focus varies from year to year, and may include ‘race, ‘progress and the West,’ ‘gender, race and power,’ and ‘white supremacy.’ The consistent theme is that race is neither a biological nor a cultural category, but a method and theory of social organization, an alibi for inequality, and a strategy for resistance. Cross listed as AAS5528. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010, 3010, or other introductory or middle-level social science or humanities course
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5530 - Topics in Ethnology of Europe
Seminars in topics announced prior to each semester.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5540 - Topics in Ethnology of Africa
Seminar topics announced prior to semester.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5541 - Topics in Linguistics
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with linguistics.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5549 - Topics in Theoretical Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology
Seminars in topics of specific interest to faculty and advanced students will be announced prior to each semester.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5550 - Topics in Ethnology of the Middle East
Seminars on topics announced prior to each semester.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5560 - Topics in Ethnology of South Asia
Seminars on topics announced prior to each semester.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5561 - Topics in Ethnology of Oceania
Seminar topics announced prior to semester.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5565 - Topics in Ethnology of Australia
Seminars on topics announced prior to each semester.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5580 - Topics in Ethnology of Southeast Asia
Seminars on topics announced prior to each semester.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5589 - Selected Topics in Archaeology
Seminars in topics announced prior to each semester.
Credits: 1 to 6
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ANTH 5590 - Topics in 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 5610 - Critical medical anthropology: healers, patients, scholars
This class focuses on critical issues in medical anthropology on topics of patienthood, healing and healers and the theoretical, methodological and ethnographic perspectives of anthropologists who integrate issues of politics, economics, power and resistance in understanding health, illness, healing as individually experienced and culturally shaped phenomena .
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5620 - The Middle East in Ethnographic Perspective
Survey of the anthropological literature on the Middle East & N. Africa. Begins historically with traditional writing on the Middle East and proceeds to critiques of this tradition and attempts at new ways of constructing knowledge of this world region. Readings juxtapose theoretical and descriptive work toward critically appraising modern writers’ success in overcoming the critiques leveled against their predecessors.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5760 - Tibetan Religion in Anthropological Perspective
This seminar approaches a complex, major religious tradition, Tibetan Buddhism in its larger sociocultural contexts, from an analytical, anthropological perspective. Through ethnographies, a selection of comparative and theoretical elements, and film, we analyze the diverse array of Tibetan religious forms, and address larger anthropological issues and debates on religion and society (or politics), ritual, and the anthropology of texts.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5808 - Method and Theory in Archaeology
Investigates current theory, models, and research methods in anthropological archaeology.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5840 - Archaeology of Complex Societies
Examines archaeological approaches to the study of complex societies using case studies from both the Old and New Worlds.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5870 - Archaeozoology
Laboratory training in techniques and methods used in analyzing animal bones recovered from archaeological sites. Include field collection, data analysis, and the use of zooarchaeological materials in reconstructing economic and social systems.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5880 - Gender in Archaeology
Explores the range of case studies and theoretical literature associated with the emergence of gender as a framework for research in archaeology.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5885 - Archaeology of Colonial Expansions
Exploration of the archaeology of frontiers, expansions and colonization, focusing on European expansion into Africa and the Americas while using other archaeologically-known examples (e.g., Roman, Bantu) as comparative studies. Prerequisite: For undergraduates, ANTH 4591 senior seminar or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 5993 - Independent Studies in Anthropologies
Independent study conducted by the student under the supervision of an instructor of his or her choice.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7010 - History of Anthropological Theory I
Explores the diverse intellectual roots of the discipline, showing how they converged into a unitary program in the late nineteenth century, and how this program was criticized and revised in the first half of the 20th century.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7020 - History of Anthropological Theory II
Analyzes the main schools of anthropological thought since World War II, a half century during which separate English, French, and American traditions have influenced each other to produce a broad and subtle international discipline.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7040 - Ethnographic Research Design and Methods
Seminar on ethnographic methods and research design in the qualitative tradition. Surveys the literature on ethnographic methods and explores relations among theory, research design, and appropriate methodologies. Students participate in methodological exercises and design a summer pilot research project. Prerequisite: Second year graduate in anthropology or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7050 - Ethnographic Data Analysis and Writing
A seminar and writing workshop exploring methods of qualitative data analysis, styles of ethnographic description, and problems of research design. Students apply these techniques to the results of field research. Prerequisite: ANTH 7040 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7060 - Dissertation Research Proposal Workshop
A workshop for graduates preparing dissertation proposals and writing grant applications. Each student prepares several drafts of a proposal, revising it at each stage in response to the criticisms of classmates and the instructor.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7129 - Marriage, Mortality, Fertility
Explores the ways that culturally formed systems of values and family organization affect population processes in a variety of cultures. Readings are drawn from comparative anthropology and historical demography. Cross-listed as ANTH 3129.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7130 - 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.
Prerequisites: previous ANTH or SOC course
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7151 - Native American Women
Explores the lives of Native American women through reading and discussing biographies, autobiographies, ethnographies, and articles addressing specific questions of the roles and status of women in Native American societies before and after contact with Europeans.
Prerequisite: Background in anthropology.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7156 - Critiques of Representation
Examines post-modern critiques of traditional modes of representation in anthropology, particularly by symbolic anthropologists, and critically assesses their impact on the conduct of ethnographic research and on modes of ethnographic writing.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7270 - Political Anthropology
Surveys major theoretical approaches in political anthropology including evolutionism, structural functionalism, transactionalism, and ideological approaches.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7290 - Nationalism and the Politics of Culture
Analyzes the ways in which a spirit of national or ethic solidarity is mobilized and utilized.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7330 - Ethnohistory: Research and Methods
Introduces ethnohistory, considering various sources and methods for conducting ethnohistorical research, and requiring a practical application of these to a historical case study in Albemarle County. Discusses concepts of group identity and culture, or ‘ethnos,’ and the nexus between history and anthropology.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7340 - Anthropology and History
This course explores the mutuality of the disciplines of anthropology and history, as well as the differences in their approaches and methods, in order to reassert the epistemology and subject matter common to the two disciplines, and to bring strength to disciplinary analysis. We will read works of scholars who traverse the two disciplines, paying close attentions to their methodological approaches.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7350 - The Museum in Modern Culture
An in-depth study of the life history and its use as a sociocultural document, and of oral history methodology. Students read and critique various works, both historical and contemporary, that use oral history or present what various scholars have termed personal narrative, personal experience story, life story, life history, conversational narrative, or negotiated biography. Practical experience is gained in conducting interviews and writing life histories.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7370 - Power and the Body
Study of the cultural representations and interpretations of the body in society.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7400 - Linguistic Anthropology
An advanced introduction to the study of language from an anthropological point of view. No prior coursework in linguistics is expected, but the course is aimed at graduate students who will use what they learn in their own anthropologically-oriented research. Topics include an introduction to such basic concepts in linguistic anthropology as language in world-view, the nature of symbolic meaning, language and nationalism, universals and particulars in language, language in history and prehistory, the ethnography of speaking, the nature of everyday conversation, and the study of poetic language. The course is required for all Anthropology graduate students. It also counts toward the Theory requirement for the M.A. in Linguistics.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7420 - Theories of Language
Survey of modern schools of linguistics, both American and European, discussing each approach in terms of historical and intellectual context, analytical goals, assumptions about the nature of language, and relation between theory and methodology.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7440 - 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 7450 - Native American Languages
Surveys the classification and typological characteristics of Native American languages and the history of their study, with intensive work on one language by each student. Some linguistics background is helpful.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7470 - Language and Culture in the Middle East
Language and Culture in the Middle East
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7480 - Language and Prehistory
This course covers the basic principles of diachronic linguistics (the study of how languages change over time) and the uses of linguistic data in the reconstruction of prehistory. Considered is the use of linguistic evidence in tracing prehistoric population movements in demonstrating contact among prehistoric groups and in the reconstruction of daily life. To the extent that the literature permits, examples and case studies will be drawn from the Mayan language area of Central America, and will include discussion of the pre-Columbian Mayan writing system and its ongoing decipherment. Fulfills the comparative-historical requirement for Linguistics graduate students.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7541 - Topics in Sociolinguistics
Analyzes particular aspects of the social use of language. Topics vary from year to year.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7589 - Topics in Archaeology
Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with archaeology.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7590 - Topics in 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 7603 - Archaeological Aproaches 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 7630 - 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 7840 - Quantitative Analysis in Anthropology I
This course examines the quantitative analytical techniques used in anthropology and archaeology. Topics include seriation, regression analysis, measures of diversity, and classification.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7850 - Archaeology of the Andes
An introduction to the archaeology of Andean South America (Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador) from the first human settlement through the Spanish conquest of the Incas. The course examines the lifeways of the first Andeans, early monumentality and urbanism, the relationship between Andean environments and cultural developments, the economic and ideological underpinnings of Andean states, and their collapse.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 7855 - Historical Archaeology
Historical archaeology is the archaeological study of the continental and transoceanic human migrations that began in the fifteenth century, their effects on native peoples, and historical trajectories of the societies that they created. This course offers an introduction to the field. It emphasizes how theoretical models, analytical methods, and archaeological data can be combined to make and evlaluate credible inferences about the past.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken before a thesis director has been selected.
Credits: 1 to 12
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ANTH 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
Credits: 1 to 12
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ANTH 9010 - Directed Readings
Directed Readings
Credits: 1 to 12
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ANTH 9020 - Directed Readings
Directed Readings
Credits: 1 to 12
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ANTH 9050 - Research Practicum
Research Practicum
Credits: 1 to 12
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ANTH 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
Credits: 1 to 12
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ANTH 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Credits: 1 to 12
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APMA 5070 - Numerical Methods
Introduces techniques used in obtaining numerical solutions, emphasizing error estimation. Includes approximation and integration of functions, and solution of algebraic and differential equations. Prerequisite: Two years of college mathematics, including some linear algebra and differential equations, and the ability to write computer programs in any language.
Credits: 3
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APMA 6020 - Continuum Mechanics with Applications
Introduces continuum mechanics and mechanics of deformable solids. Vectors and cartesian tensors, stress, strain, deformation, equations of motion, constitutive laws, introduction to elasticity, thermal elasticity, viscoelasticity, plasticity, and fluids. Cross-listed as AM 6020, MAE 6020, CE 6720 Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Credits: 3
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APMA 6130 - Mathematical Foundations of Continuum Mechanics
Describes the mathematical foundations of continuum mechanics from a unified viewpoint. Review of relevant concepts from linear algebra, vector calculus, and Cartesian tensors; kinematics of finite deformations and motions; finite strain measures; linearization; concept of stress; conservation laws of mechanics and equations of motion and equilibrium; constitutive theory; constitutive laws for nonlinear elasticity; generalized Hooke’s law for a linearly elastic solid; constitutive laws for Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids; basic problems of continuum mechanics as boundary-value problems for partial differential equations. Cross-listed as AM 6130. Prerequisite: Linear Algebra, Vector Calculus, Elementary PDE (may be taken concurrently).
Credits: 3
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