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Anthropology Course Descriptions
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ANT 101
Introduction to Physical Anthropology
3 credits
GE category: Social Science
Offered every fall semester
Survey of physical anthropology and archaeology, including primate studies,
origin and antiquity of humans, fossil humans, racial theories, heredity and
population genetics, and prehistoric archaeology.
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ANT 102
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
3 credits
GE category: Social Science
Offered every fall and spring semester
Introduction to cultural anthropology presents culture as a complex adaptive
mechanism allowing human populations to solve universal problems in a variety
of ways. Cross cultural content is emphasized as the course explores the
diversity of human lifeways and the use of that diversity as a comparative laboratory.
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ANT 110
Mexican-American Culture
3 credits
GE category: Social Science
Offered every fall and spring semester
The Mexican-American culture, from an anthropological, sociological, and
historical point of view with emphasis upon contemporary conditions and problems
is presented. The course surveys Mexican-American people from their origins
in Meso-America and the Gran Chichimeca to the present in the Southwest United
States. It includes settlement patterns, society and political economy of the
Spanish Empire and Mexico in El Norte since the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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ANT 120
Indian American Culture
3 credits
GE category: Social Science
Offered every fall semester
Survey of Indian cultures north of Mexico. Prehistory, history, culture,
arts and mythology of representative groups from all culture areas.
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ANT 210
Archaeology of the Southwest
3 credits
Offered every spring semester
Explores the development of culture in the prehistoric Southwest from the
late Pleistocene through the early historic period. Study of archaeological
data recovered from the Southwest.
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ANT 211
Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
3 credits
GE category: Social Science
Offered every spring semester
This course is a cross-cultural study of the definition, trends and issues
of women's status by examining and evaluating the operative forces behind women's
role in society.
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ANT 220
Principles of Archaeology
3 credits
GE category: Social Science
Offered every fall semester
History of archaeological research; survey of methods, theories, goals,
and concepts.
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ANT 222
Buried Cities and Lost Tribes
3 credits
GE category: Social Science
Offered every fall and spring semester
A general introduction to prehistory. Covers the development and spread
of modern man in the Old and New Worlds, the development of agriculture, and
the rise of civilizations. Distinguishes between fact and fiction in the interpretation
of world prehistory.
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