Upper-Division

This video production lab trains students in the techniques of ethnographic filmmaking. Through lectures, demonstrations, hands-on instruction, and a continuous review of the students' work in progress, students learn the fundamentals of video pre-production, production, and post-production techniques.

Laboratory focuses on the locomotor, dental, facial-cranial anatomy of hominids. Meets weekly, with exercises designed around primate and human skeletal materials and casts of fossil hominids. Will be offered in the 2008-09 academic year.

Introduces the analysis of human remains from forensic or archaeological contexts. Covers the whole range of morphological, morphometric, histological, genetic, and biochemical methods applied in bone-based anthropological analyses. Prerequisite(s): course 102A. Enrollment by permission of instructor.

Focuses on locomotor and dental-cranial anatomy and skeletal/dental development of primates. Weekly meetings, with exercises designed around primate materials.

Homo sapiens neanderthalensis (neanderthals), once considered brutish, are increasingly seen as behaviorally modern. This course uses primary academic research to explore the social behaviors, technology, anatomy, and genetics of neanderthals, gaining a holistic understanding of our closest ancestor.

Comparative and evolutionary anatomy of human performance. Examines locomotor systems and their underlying structure and evolution through videos, skeletons, and dissections in a variety of mammals, primates, and humans. (Formerly Anthropology of Movement.)

Examines social, political, and cultural implications of technology, with an emphasis on information technology and its relationship to capitalism in the U.S. Draws on theories of capitalism and technology, commodities and affective labor, ethnographies of technological workplaces, and other histories.

Draws on contemporary theory and ethnographies to understand infrastructures as cultural phenomena for addressing everyday human needs, as well as an analytical tool for addressing concepts such as materialism, inequality, structure and resistance, history, and potentiality.

Globalization has become a fashionable concept. How is globalization related to development promoted by every nation-state in the world? Course explores such questions through a diverse body of literature and service learning conducted in urban and rural Odisha, India.

Students learn about and participate in each project offered at Centurion and write a weekly two-page report on each week's assignment.

Religion, culture, and change in the Middle East with emphasis on the Arab world.

Introduces scholarship that rethinks the conventional wisdom about colonialism and modernity in China, Japan, and Korea. Emphasis on the production of colonial knowledge about Asian others and genealogies of nationalism, tradition/modernity, history/memory, race and gender. Will be offered in the 2005–06 academic year.

Provides students with an opportunity to critically analyze various ethnographic accounts of Mexican communities on both sides of the border. Uncovers how anthropologists in this century have approached Mexican culture by examining the methodologies, theories, evidence, and conclusions employed and/or produced in these works.

Addresses matters of postcolonialism, transnationalism, and sovereignty in the context of the U.S.'s changing status at the turn of the 21st century. Will be offered in 2011–12 academic year.

Moving historically from woodcuts and paintings to the World Wide Web, but emphasizing the invention and development of documentary photography, this course explores the world of images depicting society and culture. Major theoretical approaches to reading pictures will be emphasized, and students must produce a final project incorporating visual images.

Focuses on developing countries, those countries experiencing fast deruralization and ecological crises. Students learn the reach of entropic interconnectiveness given the fact that forms of inequality organize the system. Readings illustrate the theories and methods anthropologists use to approximate cultural realities to readers, scholars, and activists.

Trains students in the techniques of ethnographic filmmaking. Through lectures, demonstrations, hands-on instruction, and review of students' work in progress, students learn the fundamentals of film/video pre-production, production, and post-production skills. Concurrent enrollment in course 149 required.

Students learn the fundamentals of photography or video production and audio recording in order to create mini-ethnographies.

Designed to instruct in aesthetics and technical production of a short digital slideshow. Using iMovie3 editing program, produce a digital slideshow incorporating sound (narration, music, and sound effects) and still images.

Designed to provide students with a demonstrated interest or background in folkloristics an opportunity to develop a project that integrates folkloristic theory and ethnographic practice. Will be offered in the 2006–07 academic year.

Examines anthropological treatments of self and identity with attention to the related topics of consciousness and agency. Surveys theories, key debates, and important ethnographic case studies. Will be offered in the 2004–05 academic year.

Archaeological history of Africa from the first 2.5 million-year-old artifacts to the emergence of African pastorialism and farming. Disciplinary models and assumptions critically examined in their historic and political contexts. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 275A. (Formerly African Archaeology: 2.5 Million BP to Farming.)

Introduces the African diaspora from an archaeological perspective. Focuses on examining the cultural, social, economic, and political lives of Africans and their descendants in the New World and West Africa from the 15th through 19th centuries. Students cannot receive credit for this course and Anthropology 275C.

An introduction to the use of statistics and other formal methods in solving archaeological problems. Teaches basic interests, terms, and concepts important in quantitative archaeological thought through lectures, assigned readings, problem sets, and in-class discussions. Will be offered in 2010–11 academic year.

Introduces practical skills in archaeological materials identification of stone, shell, bone, and other materials; curation; and database management. Students receive entry-level training with once-weekly class meetings and 5 hours per week of hands-on instruction.

Explores tropical forest ecology with emphases on plant-life history variation and patterns of diversity. Topics include: photosynthesis, competition, and plant-animal interactions, such as pollination, herbivory, and seed dispersal. Special focus on neotropical forests and adaptations to life in humid environments. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 290A. Competitive selection based on application and interview during previous fall quarter. Will be offered in 2011-12 academic year. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; concurrent enrollment in courses 190B and 190C is required.

Field-oriented course in primate behavioral ecology. Combines lectures on approaches and methodologies with practical field studies. Students complete field project in primate ecology and behavior and learn natural history of the plants and animals of Costa Rica. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 290B. Competitive selection based on application and interview during previous fall quarter. Will be offered in 2011-12 academic year. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; concurrent enrollment in courses 190A and 190C is required. Students are billed a materials fee.

Students carry out substantial field projects at two locations in Costa Rica under the supervision of course instructors. Students develop research proposals, analyze data, and prepare final research papers and oral presentations. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 290C. Competitive selection based on application and interview during previous fall quarter. Will be offered in 2011-12 academic year. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; concurrent enrollment in courses 190A and 190B is required.

Introduces archaeological field methods and approaches by which archaeology and heritage are interpreted. Students obtain a working understanding of survey and excavation, artifact sampling, and laboratory analysis. Enrollment by permission of instructor. Students are billed a course fee.

Teaching of a lower-division seminar under faculty supervision. (See course 42.) Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Introduces fieldwork methods and problems in medical anthropology. Students spend six weeks conducting field work through volunteer activities with local health organizations, and prepare a final ethnographic paper.

A historical, analytical, and practical exploration of the uses of still and moving pictures in ethnographic representations, research, and production.

Outlines development of Native cultures in the American Southwest from Paleo-Indian times through early European contact. Students must enroll in courses 196A and 196B. Students cannot receive credit for courses 196A-B and 194I.

Outlines development of Native cultures in the American Southwest from Paleo-Indian times through early European contact. Students must enroll in courses 196A and 196B. Students cannot receive credit for courses 196A-B and 194I.