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Africana Studies
	AFRCNA 1655 - AFRICAN CINEMAS/SCREEN GRIOTS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Ousmane Sembene, known as the father of African cinema, popularized the notion of the African director as the modern day griot (oral historian) and traditional storyteller. Therefore, this course is an introduction to a cross-section of post-independence films (1963-2004) as an art form and as a visual space on socio-political, economic and cultural topics by screen griots from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and chad, the democratic republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis Course Attributes: African Studies, DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	AFRCNA 1656 - HISTORY OF AFRICA SINCE 1800 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Surveys history of Africa from 1800 to the present day. Major themes include African statecraft, European colonization, African nationalism and post-independence problems. Processes of African institutional growth within the perspectives of resiliency, change and adaptation will be emphasized. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: African Studies, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.
	AFRCNA 1661 - POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AFRICA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 An inquiry into the process of political and economic development in Africa from colonial domination to the present. Problems of economic dependence and integration into the global capitalist economic system are examined. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	AFRCNA 1704 - AFRICANA WORLD LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Despite their geographical and cultural differences, writers from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States undergo similar experiences of oppression. Problems of self-identity, and the quest for self-respect. These similarities will be discussed in class along with a comparative approach to the texts with supplementary films, slides, and recordings. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: African Studies, DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, Latin American Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	AFRCNA 1710 - AFRICAN AMERICAN HEALTH ISSUES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Course will focus on black health issues from analytical, theoretical and practical perspectives. These perspectives will be introduced through cross examination of health topics which are critical to the black population, the developing of health policies and conceptual models for health promotion and disease prevention. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: African Studies, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Social Science General Ed. Requirement
	AFRCNA 1720 - WEST AFRICA IN THE ERA OF THE SLAVE TRADE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: African Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	AFRCNA 1725 - SOCIAL AND HEALTH ISSUES IN EAST AFRICA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Attributes: African Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.
	AFRCNA 1760 - AFRICANA THEORY & METHODOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement
	AFRCNA 1768 - AFRICANA SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will assist the student in conducting a research project of her choice. The student will select a topic, write a proposal including the statement of a question or hypothesis, a list of the goals and objectives. A design of the methodology and a review of the relevant literature. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) Applies to all WRIT Courses Course Attributes: Capstone Course, Writing Requirement Course
	AFRCNA 1900 - INTERNSHIP Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 6 This course offers the student an opportunity to extend his/ her academic training to a practical work experience in the city of Pittsburgh. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Internship Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit Course Attributes: Capstone Course
	AFRCNA 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 6 Students desiring to take an independent study should develop a typed proposal on a specific topic outlining the substance of the work, the objectives, the methodology, and the evaluation by which to determine when the objectives are met. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Independent Study Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Attributes: African Studies
	AFRCNA 1902 - DIRECTED READING Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 6 This course introduces the students to a specific topic which is not normally taught in an Africana studies core course. It is an individual project administered under faculty supervision. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Directed Studies Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Attributes: SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	AFRCNA 1903 - DIRECTED RESEARCH Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 6 This is an individual research project/course under the supervision of a faculty member. Theoretical and conceptual interest in the emerging discipline of Africana studies and the black experience offer students dynamic, creative and intellectual avenues into new areas for discovery. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Directed Studies Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Attributes: African Studies
	AFRCNA 1904 - REBELS AND REVOLUTION Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 1 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
American Sign Language
	ASL 0101 - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 1 Minimum Credits: 4 Maximum Credits: 4 In this course, students are taught American sign language (ASL) vocabulary and grammatical structures. Students will also learn and ASL fingerspelling system, the use of gestural devices and how to appropriately use the signing space in ASL. Further, students will learn about deaf culture in the United States. Out-of-class participation in deaf community events in required. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ASL 0102 - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 2 Minimum Credits: 4 Maximum Credits: 4 Students will learn more difficult vocabulary (signs) and how to use them in one-to-one, small group, and large group communication. Students will also be exposed to classifier constructions. This course is a continuation of ASL I (LING 0471) and it utilizes a similar curriculum. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 0471 or ASL 0101; MIN GRADE: ‘C’ Course Attributes: DSAS Second Language General Ed. Requirement
	ASL 0103 - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 3 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course continues the study of ASL. The students will work on developing intermediate communication skills and will concentrate on production skills. Linguistic and cultural features will be presented in the context of the language learning experiences. This level will also examine and discuss its use and effect on and in the deaf culture. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 0472 or ASL 0102; MIN GRADE: ‘C’ Course Attributes: DSAS Second Language General Ed. Requirement
	ASL 0104 - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 4 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This advanced course of ASL concentrates on developing more precise skills and competencies by using appropriate variations of ASL (regional, racial/ethnic, stylistic and age related) vocabulary. Students will also be given the opportunity to use ASL by volunteering in the deaf community. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 0473 or ASL 0103; MIN GRADE: ‘C’ Course Attributes: DSAS Second Language General Ed. Requirement
	ASL 0105 - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 5 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course provides an opportunity for students to formally pursue work on an individual basis. This course also applies knowledge of American Sign Language (ASL) grammar and vocabulary to the description of increasingly complex constructs, processes and situations. Students will: incorporate multiple character role shifting into medium-length stories, narratives and the discussion of hypothetical issues; identify and discuss various controversial issues via debate and presentation; continue to analyze multiple meaning English words and English idioms to express concepts in ASL; have the opportunity to gain knowledge about the Deaf Community as a part of the human diversity including people of color, genders, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, etc. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 0474 or ASL 0104; MIN GRADE ‘C’ FOR ALL LISTED COURSES
	ASL 0106 - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 6 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Introduction to specific topics and content areas in ASL discourse, including Visual Gestural Communication, International, Deafblind, Mental Health/Medical/Sexual/Drugs/Other Special Topics in sign communication depending on the needs and interests of Pitt Students. This course also provides students with opportunities to expand expressive and receptive use of American Sign Language (ASL), including a variety of special topics at an advanced level. Special emphasis is on increasing spatial use, ASL fluency and non-manual grammar and behaviors. Skills related to research in sign language discourse will be introduced. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 1727 or ASL 1909 or ASL 0105; MIN GRADE ‘C’ FOR ALL LISTED COURSES
	ASL 0111 - INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Students will get a basic introduction to British Sign Language (BSL). Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
	ASL 1615 - DEAF CULTURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Many deaf people in the U.S. Are united by a language (ASL) that differs from English and a culture with characteristics that differ from those of the larger hearing society. This culture is known as deaf culture, and students in this course will be introduced to various facets of American deaf culture through readings, videos, and discussions. Students will also explore other deaf cultures throughout the world. Among the course foci are: issues of accessibility, perspectives of deaf versus hearing individuals, and various examples of deaf literature. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 0472 or ASL 0102 (MIN GRADE ‘B’); CREQ: LING 0473 or ASL 0103 (MIN GRADE ‘B’); PLAN: American Sign Language (ASL-CS1); LEVEL: Junior or Senior Course Attributes: SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.
	ASL 1625 - THE DEAF AND SOCIETY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The culture of deaf Americans is distinct from that of mainstream American society. The primary focus of this course is to expose students to the culture of the deaf in the United States and around the world. In addition to teaching students how to interact with the deaf in a culturally appropriate way, the course will help them understand deaf culture as part of human diversity. Among the course foci are: issues of accessibility, perspectives of deaf versus hearing individuals, and various examples of deaf literature. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.
	ASL 1635 - ANALYSES OF ASL LITERATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course is designed for students to explore and analyze American sign language and American deaf culture through ASL literature. Studying ASL literature is a way to examine the linguistic complexity of ASL as well as explore the deaf community’s values and traditions as a minority group and a group to which visual depiction of ideas is highly valued. This course is conducted in ASL. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 0473 or ASL 0103 (MIN GRADE ‘B’); CREQ: LING 0474 or ASL 0104 (MIN GRADE ‘B’) and (LING 1722 or ASL 1615) (MIN GRADE ‘B’) PLAN: American Sign Language Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	ASL 1700 - ASL-BSL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Students will experience another culture by visiting a country where a different sign language is used. Students will use both their receptive and expressive signing skills to learn about another sign language. Students will learn some BSL, though should not expect to achieve a working fluency. Students will embrace another culture through observation and participation. Students will experience signing with members of the British Deaf community within an educational setting or community setting. Students will learn about differences and similarities between ASL and BSL as well as American Deaf culture and British Deaf culture. Students will improve their signing ability through intensive practice. Students will be voice off during the trip and will demonstrate the ability to behave appropriately within a Deaf culture. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
	ASL 1705 - STRUCTURE OF SIGN LANGUAGES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will focus on the linguistic structure of sign languages, drawing examples principally, though not exclusively, from American sign language (ASL). It will also highlight similarities and differences between sign languages and spoken languages. In addition to structural features, the course will cover mechanisms unique to visual/spatial languages, the use of the face and body for grammatical signals, language variation, and acquisition of sign languages. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 1000 or CSD 1020
	ASL 1715 - STRUCTURE OF ASL AND ENGLISH Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 0473 or ASL 0103 (MIN GRADE ‘B’) and (LING 1000 or CSD 1020); CREQ: LING 0474 (MIN GRADE: ‘B’); PLAN: American Sign Language
	ASL 1725 - SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF SIGN LANGUAGE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 There are various sociolinguistic topics that one must consider with respect to signed languages of the deaf. Regarding language contact, ambient languages-either signed or spoken-influence a signed language. Less than 10% of deaf people are exposed to signed language from birth, which results in unique phenomena. Additionally, signed languages exhibit variation based on a myriad of social and geographical factors. These topics, in addition to language planning and language policy, will be addressed in this course. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 1000 or CSD 1020
	ASL 1800 - INTRODUCTION TO ASL-ENGLISH INTERPRETING Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ASL 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 9 Independent study in American Sign Language (ASL) Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Independent Study Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ASL 1905 - UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 3 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for ASL Class Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Independent Study Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
	ASL 1909 - TOPICS IN SIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 474 and 1722; PLAN: American Sign Language
Anthropology
	ANTH 0112 - TOURISM Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This is a course designed to introduce the students to the many facets of the world’s largest industry, tourism. The approach is multidisciplinary focusing on such issues as work and leisure, tradition and modernity, growth and pollution, security and terrorism, privilege and servitude. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 0501 - ARCHEOLOGY: AN OVERVIEW Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Designed for non-majors, this course presents a broad introduction to the goals and techniques of today’s archeology through readings, videos, and short exercises. The course reviews global human prehistory from the earliest appearances of human ancestors some 4 million years ago through the development of the Ancient Egyptian, Mayan, Chinese, and Inca Civilizations. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Social Science General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	ANTH 0534 - PREHISTORIC FOUNDATIONS OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Neanderthals, ice-age art, Indo-European languages, Stonehenge, megaliths, Celts, and more; the major archeological discoveries, from the first traces of human occupation of European soil up to the early middle ages, will be covered through illustrated lectures, films, and perhaps museum visits. Course also offers a basic introduction to the discipline of archeology, thus serving as preparation for other courses in the subject; it also serves as a useful foundation for studies in history, ethnic history, art history, and classics. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Russian & East European Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies
	ANTH 0536 - MESOAMERICA BEFORE CORTEZ Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 When Cortez and his Spanish soldiers arrived in Mexico, they found Indians living in large cities with impressive temples raised on tall pyramids, lavish palaces for rulers, elaborate markets, and skilled craftsmen working in gold, copper, feathers, stone, pottery, and other materials. They were astonished at a civilization so like their own and yet so different (so “barbaric” to European eyes). This course explores the development of this civilization back to its roots several thousand years ago, by reconstructing earlier cultures known only from archeological evidence. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Social Science General Ed. Requirement, Latin American Studies, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	ANTH 0538 - THE ARCHEOLOGIST LOOKS AT DEATH Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Pyramids, tombs, burial mounds, graves, skeletons, mummies; the stuff of gothic romance. But the way people disposed of their dead also tells us an amazing amount about life in the past. We will look at the wide range of burial practices in the world, including the “American way of death”, and then concentrate on the physical remains themselves. What do burial practices indicate as to beliefs, rituals, religion and society? Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Social Science General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	ANTH 0582 - INTRODUCTION TO ARCHEOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Examines the nature of modern archaeological research. Lectures look at how archaeologists work in the field, their analytic techniques, and some of the principal methodological and theoretical problems facing the field. Specific examples are used to illustrate these topics. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Social Science General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	ANTH 0601 - PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: OVERVIEW Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Designed for undergraduate non-majors, this course will provide a basic introduction to the issues, theories, and methods of physical anthropology. Beginning with a consideration of evolutionary, genetic and geologic principles, the course goes on to consider the diversity of fossil and extant primates, including humans. Issues in anatomy, paleontology and behavior will all be addressed. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 0620 - BIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course is an introduction to general anthropology emphasizing the interaction of human biology and behavior. The course considers what it means to be human by examining the biocultural interface of both present and past human populations. Topics of discussion will include human adaptation to extreme environments, cross-cultural variations in infant sensorimotor development and biological and cultural diversity in general. An understanding and appreciation of the how’s and why’s of human biological and cultural variation will be stressed. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Social Science General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	ANTH 0630 - FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Natural Science General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Science NonSeq.GE. Req.
	ANTH 0680 - INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course is designed to introduce the undergraduate to the issues, theories and methods of physical anthropology. Beginning with a consideration of evolutionary, genetic and geologic principles, the course goes on to consider, the diversity of fossil and extant primates, including humans. Issues in anatomy, paleontology and behavior will all be addressed. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Natural Science General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Science NonSeq.GE. Req.
	ANTH 0681 - INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN EVOLUTION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This is an introduction to human evolution and, in general, the evolution of the larger group to which we belong, the order primates. We will survey first the development of evolutionary ideas and modern developments in biology and geology and then review the diversity of living and fossil primates, dwelling especially on the discoveries and controversies surrounding our own evolutionary past. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Natural Science General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Science NonSeq.GE. Req.
	ANTH 0701 - CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: OVERVIEW Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Designed for undergraduate non-majors, this course will provide a broad introduction to cultural anthropology. This course examines the behavior and customs of peoples throughout the world and considers what it means to be human. We will consider patterns of marriage, family organization, gender, political behavior, economic systems, rituals, etc., Of other peoples and compare these with American social patterns. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 0710 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will be on a topic in the area of specialization of a visiting scholar yet to be determined. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: Asian Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.
	ANTH 0711 - THE INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF SPORT Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Sport captures the minds and money of billions of people everyday, the Olympics, World Cup Soccer, American College Football, and Little League World Series. Television, radio, cell phones, internet keep us updated on the latest scores, highlights and goings on of our favorite and least favorite athletic personalities. Yet despite its overwhelming significance in everyday life it goes largely ignored in Anthropological discussions. This course serves to introduce students to the significance and centrality of sport in understanding and interpreting social life. Sport will be critically examined through major anthropological categories of race, class, ethnicity, gender and power. We will be using sport as the focal point with which to examine varying attitudes, institutions and social dynamics. This will not be a history of sport nor will it be a cross-cultural comparison of different kinds of sport from around the world but rather this course will seek to demonstrate to you how sport figures into the shaping of our worldview and structuring of social institutions. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Global Issues General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Social Science General Ed. Requirement, Urban Studies
	ANTH 0713 - ASIA NOW Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The course is innovatively interdisciplinary, reflecting current anthropological theory. The topical focus is on contemporary Asia. It is creatively structured around a series of high-profile, public guest lectures given by leading, internationally recognized Asian Studies and Global Studies Scholars representing a spectrum of disciplines. The class will meet twice a week, once for a lecture and once for a seminar discussion focused on reading assignments chosen to highlight anthropological problems, questions and analytical perspectives that relate to the weekly guest lecture. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 0715 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF LATIN AMERICA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The purpose of this course is to offer students a basic yet comprehensive survey of the anthropology (including history, archeology and geography) of Latin America. This survey course will emphasize the development of Latin American societies and cultures since the European conquest, and focus on key issues/themes that have consistently surfaced in Latin American cultural anthropology and that have continuing priority, relevance and interest up to the present. This course is especially tailored to freshmen students with little or no knowledge of Latin America. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: Latin American Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.
	ANTH 0717 - MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT AND THE SUPERNATURAL BODY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Social Science General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	ANTH 0730 - HIMALAYAN GEOGRAPHY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The Himalayan region is characterized by a tremendous range of social and cultural diversity that corresponds to climatic, ecological and geographical variation, as well as local and regional geopolitical factors. Historical change from the emergence of early forms of social complexity centered on chiefs and their forts ’ from which the regional designation of ‘Garhwali’ takes its name ’ through the development of kingdoms and larger polities shows the intimate link between geography, environment and socio-political transformation. Similarly, local language patterns, regional religious practices, musical styles, mythology, food culture, sartorial fashion, architectural design, agricultural and transportation technologies and engineering and trade networks have all been shaped by the structure of Muntain barriers, bounded valley communities and bracketed lines of communication that follow river systems. Whereas the political economy of the Himalayas has been structured around agricultural production, and the development of elaborate field terrace systems, there have also been subsidiary economies centered on trans-Himalayan trade and pilgrimage as well as pastoral nomadism and transhumance. Since the colonial period, the Himalayas have increasingly become a place for rest, relaxation, tourism and adventure, and this ’ along with further political transformations since Indian independence `has led to the rapid development of urban areas. This course will provide a survey of Himalayan history, society and culture with a focus on the relationship among nature, the environment and geography. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 0768 - HUMAN SEXUALITY IN CROSS CULTURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores the expression of human sexuality across a diversity of cultural and social settings using a cross-cultural framework that is based on comparing information on sexuality in other cultures with data from us. It includes how human groups manage sexuality and reproduction; theories of the development of marriage, family, and household systems; differences in values and expectations related to sexuality; the development as sexual expression across the life span; understanding heterosexual and homosexual relationships; and understanding sexual violence. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Global Issues General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Social Science General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	ANTH 0780 - INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 By examining the behavior and customs of peoples throughout the world, the course considers what it means to be human. We will describe the patterns of marriage, family organization, warfare and political behavior, economic systems, rituals, etc., Of other peoples, especially those of tribal societies, and compare these with American social patterns. Anthropological films and slide presentations will supplement lectures. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: Asian Studies, Childrens Literature, DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Social Science General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	ANTH 1335 - GLOBALIZATION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course provides an overview of the economic, social, technological, environmental, and ideological impacts of globalization on national communities, with an emphasis on the cultural and political dynamics of the process. Student research and oral presentation skills are emphasized. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1441 - FIELD METHODS IN LINGUISTICS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 4 This course is meant to simulate the experience of linguistic field work, and raise awareness about the effectiveness of specific interview techniques for acquiring linguistic data. The course will give instruction and experience in eliciting data from a speaker of non (indo) European language. Students will undertake the investigation of the phonology, some aspect of grammar, and the ethnosemantic study of a taxonomically structured semantic field such as plants or animals. Students will make detailed elicitation plans in advance of their administration. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Practicum Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: CREQ: LING 1578 and 1773 and 1777; LVL: Sr
	ANTH 1447 - LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Certain cultural concerns are well-labelled linguistically: kinship, plant-names, diseases, colors, etc. The study of how such semantic fields are labelled and organized is ethnosemantics. Much of the way language is used depends on the context of speaking. Different ways of talking to different people is the subject matter of sociolinguistics. Some thoughts that we habitually think seem illogical on reflection, but it seems as if our language predisposes us to think this way. Such phenomena are addressed by the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: Writing Requirement Course
	ANTH 1450 - GENDER AND SUSTAINABILITY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Attributes: DSAS Social Science General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.
	ANTH 1490 - CROSS-CULTURAL POLITICS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course is a comparative examination of political behaviours in small-scale and large-scale societies through the anthropological holistic lens which sees things political as embedded in, and intertwined with, the likes of kinship, resources, economy, belief systems (religion), etc. The course approaches power as a problematic, and emphasizes agentive strategies at the individual and group levels. One of the continual and major issues in the course will be to address the dynamics between small-scale and local experience, with large-scale (read state and global) forces in some selected instances. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
	ANTH 1516 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY GEOPHYSICS Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 1 This course provides a general introduction to common methods of geophysical prospection being used within archaeology. Classroom lectures will be provided on: (i) integration of geophysics as a tool within broader research programs, (ii) background theory on the methods and their use in field research (fluxgate gradiometery, earth resistance, gpr, magnetic susceptibility, electrical conductivity), and (iii) opportunity to process and interpret actual geophysics datasets. Hands-on training in geophysics survey also will be provided through practical field sessions including: fluxgate gradiometry, earth resistance, and magnetic susceptibility. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Practicum Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
	ANTH 1520 - SEDIMENTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY Minimum Credits: 4 Maximum Credits: 4 The first part of this course involves the description of sedimentary particles and deposits using the fundamental properties (composition, size, shape, orientation and packing) and derived properties (porosity, permeability and sedimentary structures). Included is a discussion of the processes related to these properties. The second part reviews modern sedimentary environments and their rock products. Finally, principles of stratigraphy are introduced. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: GEOL 0055
	ANTH 1524 - CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 An introduction to Chinese Archeology from the earliest known beginnings through the Han Civilization of the second century A.D. Attention will be given to innovations of people in this part of the world — the agricultural beginnings, the first cities and states, the formation of an empire. Emphasis will be placed on such topics as the role of archeology in the study of history and art as well as in understanding china today. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: Asian Studies
	ANTH 1525 - EASTERN NORTH AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course deals with cultural development in the eastern United States from approximately 20,000 years ago to the period of European contact. Particular attention will be paid to man’s adaptation to late pleistocene and holocene environments, the initial occupation of the region East of the Mississippi, the origins of agricultural systems and the rise of complex societies, including the Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian manifestations. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1526 - WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The prehistory of Western North America is examined in detail from the initial peopling of the area to the period of historic contact. Special emphasis is given to the Paleo-Indian and archaic techno/subsistence stages in the arid portions of the West. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1527 - ARCHAEOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1528 - SOUTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course deals with cultural development in South America from 20,000 B.C. To Spanish contact. Emphasis will be placed on the earliest evidence for man, maritime adaptations, and origins of agriculture, rise of the state in the Central Andes and the rise of complex societies in the tropical forest. Stress will be placed on the evolution of Andean states including the origins and spread of the Chavin, Moche, Nasca, Tiahuanco, Chimu and Inca Empires. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1530 - ORIGINS OF CITIES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 A broad introduction to the process of urbanism and the rise of early pre-industrial cities in both the new and old worlds. Specific cases from MesoAmerica, the Andes, North America, Egypt, and the near East are examined in order to elucidate the varying roles cities played in ancient civilizations. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) Applies to all WRIT Courses Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Global Issues General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Social Science General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, Latin American Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., Urban Studies, West European Studies, Writing Requirement Course
	ANTH 1534 - ARCHEOLOGICAL DATA ANALYSIS 1 Minimum Credits: 4 Maximum Credits: 4 An introduction to quantitative data analysis in archeology, this course covers basic principles of statistics, including exploratory analysis of batches, sampling, significance, t tests, analysis of variance, regression, chi-square, and estimating universe means and proportions from samples. The approach is practical, concentrating on understanding these principles so as to put them to work effectively in analyzing archeological data. Much of the statistical work is done by computer. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Quant.-Formal Reason General Ed. Requirement
	ANTH 1535 - BASIC ARCHEOLOGICAL FIELD TRAINING Minimum Credits: 6 Maximum Credits: 6 The university of Pittsburgh field training program in archaeology is conducted at various locations. Features of the excavations include basic training in mapping, archaeological survey, excavation methods, soil analysis, data recording, and preliminary artifact analysis. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Credit Laboratory Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1537 - BASIC LABORATORY ANALYSIS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This is a follow-up course for anthropology 1534 basic field methods in archaeology. In anthropology 1537, students who have participated in the summer field training program will be instructed in the Methodology of Artefactual and Non-Artifactual analysis. All data recovered during the summer field training program will be processed by the students under the supervision and direction of the instructor. Special emphasis will be placed on lithic and perishable analysis as well as paleo-climatic reconstruction and quantitative methods. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1540 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHEOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Topics covered vary greatly with instructor and term. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: Global Studies
	ANTH 1541 - CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will cover in an introductory way all aspects of cultural resource management and historic preservation. Major topics include federal historic preservation legislation, cultural resources (historic and prehistoric archaeology, historic structures), the national register of historic places, section 106 and 110 of the NHPA, historic preservation planning, and state historic preservation plans. Course will utilize historic architectural examples as well as prehistoric and historic archaeological sites. Greater emphasis placed on how to evaluate historic properties for national register. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: Urban Studies
	ANTH 1543 - ANCIENT STATES IN THE NEW WORLD Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Drawing on the fact that the ancient new world was a dazzling treasure house of non-Western political thought and organization, this course uses archaeology and ethnohistory to document and make comparative sense of the rich variety of political arrangements which existed among prehispanic states in MesoAmerica and Andean South America. A special aim is to understand how Amer-Indian concepts about state craft and rulership mesh with anthropological and other theories about ancient states. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Latin American Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	ANTH 1544 - ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the rise and fall of several ancient civilizations. It covers the archaeology and earliest history of regions recognized as significant independent centers for the development of early civilization: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, China, South East Asia, MesoAmerica, and Andean South America. Central themes concern: why and how civilizations first emerge and then collapse; relationships among economic, political, social, and ideological factors in early civilizations; generic versus unique qualities of different early civilizations. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, Latin American Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	ANTH 1546 - CAVEMAN: ARCHAEOLOGY, POP CULTURE AND THE PRIMITIVE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
	ANTH 1547 - POTS AND PEOPLE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1548 - AMAZONIAN ARTS: MAKING AND MEANING Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course introduces students to the arts of the Amazonian region in the context of their function and meaning. The course will be taught as a combination of lecture and hands-on experience working with native potters from the Bobonaza river. Students will learn to make pottery in the Kichwa (Quichua) tradition, and to understand the role of pottery and material culture in the daily lives of people in this region. On a number of occasions, students will accompany the native potters on journeys into the adjacent forest to gather materials and to study the patterns in nature that inspire them. Here students will observe related arts such as face paint patterns, beaded ornaments, ritual singing and storytelling. Carefully selected readings and lectures will use these arts as a window for exploring Amazonian thinking about the natural world behind the designs, and the ways in which the designs can be used to understand patterns of social interaction. Interviews with potters will aid in understanding these arts in the context of daily and ceremonial life. In the process, the arts become a doorway allowing the student to explore Amazonian culture and environment first hand. Comparative material from several other world regions will also be discussed. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade
	ANTH 1549 - WARFARE IN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) Applies to all WRIT Courses Course Attributes: Writing Requirement Course
	ANTH 1552 - A HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THOUGHT Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Attributes: DSAS Social Science General Ed. Requirement
	ANTH 1556 - ZOOARCHAEOLOGY Minimum Credits: 4 Maximum Credits: 4 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Practicum Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Attributes: DSAS Natural Science General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Science NonSeq.GE. Req.
	ANTH 1557 - ARCHAEOLOGY OF RUSSIA, CENTRAL ASIA, AND MONGOLIA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	ANTH 1590 - ARCHAEOLOGY OF ISRAEL-PALESTINE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Is archaeology in a place like Israel-Palestine an objective science? In this course, we explore how past and present are linked as nation-states and religious communities utilize the archaeological record to mold identities and to forward certain narratives. Our focus will be on the major archaeological sites of Israel-Palestine, particularly in Jerusalem and its environs. We will explore the political and religious issues that have emerged from or surround their excavation. Archaeology in the Holy Land has long been driven by a desire to shed light on - or even authenticate - the Bible, while the “exotic Orient” was explored in the 19th and early 20th centuries through western expeditions and excavations that served to further colonial interests. These religious and political motivations persist even if their manifestations have shifted with time. Through site tours, museum visits, student-led discussions, talks with local experts, and even a day participating in an archaeological excavation, students will gain direct experience with the places that have aroused controversy because of their problematic relationship to biblical and other ancient texts and/or because of their location in politically contested space. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1600 - HUMAN EVOLUTION AND VARIATION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1601 - STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Students will explore the literature of human biology and develop questions and hypotheses regarding undocumented concepts. Each student’s goal will be to design a laboratory study which tests the hypothesis he/she has formulated. Areas which might be investigated include locomotion, feeding adaptations, and adaption to various environmental conditions. Students will learn techniques of experimental surgery used to investigate the relationships between structure and function. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1602 - HUMAN SKELETAL ANALYSIS Minimum Credits: 4 Maximum Credits: 4 This is an introduction to the study and analysis of the human skeleton, which will be based on lectures and lab. Topics include: development of teeth and bone, identification of whole bones and fragments and determination of sex, age, and stature (and other metric analyses), disease, and populational features. Real bony materials will be used in lab. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Practicum Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Natural Science General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Science NonSeq.GE. Req.
	ANTH 1603 - HUMAN ORIGINS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This will be an in-depth look at the history of study of human evolution and the current theories and controversies surrounding the interpretation of our relatedness to the various apes as well as of the fossils representing our evolutionary past. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1605 - PRIMATE ANATOMY Minimum Credits: 4 Maximum Credits: 4 This course offers a detailed consideration of the anatomy of the primates. It will follow an integrated regional approach (i.e., The back, the upper extremities, the hand, etc.), However, the major focus will be on the musculoskeletal system. Students will dissect human material (cadavers) but emphasis will be on the comparative aspects within the order whenever possible. Other non-human primate skeletal material will also be used. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Natural Science General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Science NonSeq.GE. Req.
	ANTH 1609 - ADVANCED SKELETAL ANALYSIS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course provides the student with an in-depth understanding of the skeletal features used to develop the osteobiographic profile (e.g., age, sex, stature, ancestry, handedness, etc.) Of an individual. This analysis is essential for forensic identification and forms the foundation for the reconstruction of ancient individuals and their life-ways. Each student will select some aspect of skeletal analysis and present an overview of the bone biology, the history of the analytical methods, the problems and advantages of each method, modifications that others have made to address these issues, and the current state of knowledge. In the past, some students have proposed new methods of analysis. This will be complemented by a lab exercise designed by the student that will provide data for interobserver analysis of various techniques. The results of this lab will be presented as posters which will be posted on CW at the end of the term. Prior osteological experience is required. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0630 or 1602
	ANTH 1611 - EVOLUTIONARY THEORY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Intended as a sequel to ANTH 0011, this course explores modern evolutionary theory in detail. Some coverage is given to the history of debates, but more emphasis is placed on their current status. Both phylogentic and adaptive components of the evolutionary process are discussed. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1613 - PRIMATE BIOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course is a survey of the major groups of living primates (including humans) and of the various hard and soft tissue, as well as physiological and biochemical, systems that distinguish the group as primates and further distinguish the diverse lot of primate subgroups. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1617 - PALEOPATHOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1619 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Topics covered vary greatly with instructor and term. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1701 - RELIGION AND RACE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the intersections of religion, race, and racism. Recently, scholars of religion have demonstrated that religious identities are often racialized as well. In this course, we will discover that religion and race are both modern categories rooted in post-enlightenment ideas about what it means to be human. We will see how the establishment of these religious and racial categories led to new hierarchies and inequalities. We will discuss how post-enlightenment thinkers linked religion and race, and how their ideas played a role in european imperialism. We will also investigate how the discipline of religious studies has developed its analytical tools with a racialized understanding of religion. The course will examine case studies in which religion has been racialized, and consider the political ramifications of these examples. In particular, we will think about the impact of white supremacy on black religion in the united states, the complicated relationship between antisemitism and islamophobia, and contemporary islamophobia in the us. Finally, we will explore the possibilities of anti-racism through faith-based scholarship and activism. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1702 - MUSLIM POLITICS IN REAL TIME Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Media representations and news stories about the ‘muslim world’ often project a troubling ahistorical and sensationalist narrative about a region torn by violence, fanaticism and corruption. This information literacy-driven course will teach you how to place current events in the muslim world or involving people of muslim background in their historical context. It will also teach you to discern what constitutes a valid news source and how to find sources you can trust. We’ll develop the skills necessary to make sense out of a news landscape that presents conflicting accounts of the same story and that fails to cover some stories altogether. You’ll leave this course with a command over how to find news, how to read news, and then how to make sense of it through rigorous historical and social scientific analysis. To that end, you’ll learn how to locate and evaluate scholarly sources with the same rigor as you do news sources. You’ll be provided with a number of key aspects and developments in the history of the ‘muslim world’, so that even if you have no prior knowledge of islamic history you will be familiar with the key terms and themes. You will be introduced to the long history of problematic media portrayals of muslims and the muslim world and efforts to both critique and change these representations. We will work intensively with a librarian to master a set of basic information literacy skills at the start of the semester that we will grow and refine as the class progresses. The remainder of the class syllabus will be determined by the current news cycle, which will generate topics to be considered for further historical analysis. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1703 - THE HISTORY OF GOD Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 God has a history. In the earliest days of that history, God was worshiped as one of a plethora of deities controlling various spheres of cosmic activity or the human world. Students in this course will learn about this ancient pantheon - how gods functioned in society and how their presence was experienced by those devoted to them. They will then trace the evolution of the God of Israel from a mountaintop deity of the southern Levant in the late second millennium BCE to a supreme deity worshiped by a small group of absolute monotheists based in Jerusalem in the mid-first millennium BCE. Students will become more sophisticated readers of biblical texts in the process. The sources of the Hebrew Bible reflect not a homogeneous monotheism, but rather a diverse set of belief systems tending toward henotheism or even polytheism. By appropriating and reinterpreting the religious myths of their neighbors, the Israelites arrived at a character of the divine that has proven problematic to many contemporary theologians, particularly on issues of LGBT rights, women’s rights, and the environment. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	ANTH 1704 - RITUAL: THEORIES AND CASES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course deals rigorously with historical and contemporary topics in the study of ritual and its intersections with religion, politics, medicine, disaster studies, and the study of social relations in general. From being considered peripheral to social science, ritual has re-emerged as a fundamental category of human behavior, relevant across a wide span of domains of actions. While there is a close connection between ritual and religion, ritual action is important outside of the sphere of religion and is now considered fundamental to the workings of society. Students in this course will understand how ritual practices vary cross-culturally while serving basic functions. The course provides case studies from different areas and shows how theory applies to these cases. Instruction methods include lectures and discussion; student work includes presentations, essays, and exams. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	ANTH 1706 - TIAWAN DIASPORA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 To better understand the fundamental thrust and impact of the Taiwanese diaspora, and its connection to globalization, this course is designed to explore the major forces that have shaped Taiwanese diasporic identities and overseas communities primarily during the 20thcentury. Students will read articles and books as well as journalists’ reports to familiarize themselves with the range of concepts and debates that analyze Taiwanese-diasporic issues. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1708 - SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND POWER IN POST-CONQUEST CITIES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Attributes: SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	ANTH 1709 - ACTIVIST ANTHROPOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Following the work of activist anthropology this course will teach students that “critical engagement brought about by activist research is both necessary and productive. Such research can contribute to transforming the discipline by addressing knowledge production and working to decolonize our research process. Rather than seeking to avoid or resolve the tensions inherent in anthropological research on human rights, activist research draws them to the fore, making them a productive part of the process. Finally, activist research allows us to merge cultural critique with political action to produce knowledge that is empirically grounded, theoretically valuable, and ethically viable.” (Speed 2006). This course will teach students both the importance and value of conducting research that moves outside of the “ivory tower” of academia. “[A]ctivist scholars work in dialogue, collaboration, alliance with people who are struggling to better their lives; activist scholarship embodies a responsibility for results that these “allies” can recognize as their own, value in their own terms, and use as they see fit.” (Hale 2008) This course will explore major conceptual work on the role and ethical responsibility of anthropological research and social justice issues. Students will be required to participate in methodological exercises that will require engagement in the Pittsburgh community. While simultaneously learning as a student one will also be producing tangible resources for under-represented, marginalized and underserved communities. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: Letter Grade
	ANTH 1711 - ETHNOBIOLOGY: AMAZONIAN RELIGION AND NATURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The course explores Amazonian cultural knowledge of plant and animal species, comparing it to scientific knowledge, to uncover underlying assumptions that constitute a systematic, if implicit, Amazonian philosophy of nature. It also teaches students how to ask key questions and to carry out qualitative research on ethnobiology. Over generations of hunting and gathering Amazonian cultures gained an intimate knowledge of their rainforest environment, the most bio-diverse on earth. Now, more than ever, preservation of that environment depends on improving understanding and cooperation between environmentalists and the native peoples who live there; and upon integrating traditional Amazonian and scientific knowledge of the natural world. The course addresses key ethnobiological questions such as: how do native Amazonian people classify plant and animal species? How do they understand the extinction or the emergence of new species? How do they understand plant and animal behavior? How is plant and animal ecology believed to serve as a model for understanding human society and vice versa? How should human emotions be regulated so as to better work with nature? What aesthetic, emotional or religious practices were developed to create bonds of empathy or communication between human beings and other species? What are the practical implications of the answers to these questions for collaborative environmental work with indigenous communities? Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1712 - AMAZONIAN ETHNOBOTONY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course examines the cultural understanding and uses of plants in the Ecuadorian amazon. How do Amazonian people understand what plants are? How did they originate? How are they classified? How are they similar or different from humans? How are plant foods and medicines believed to work on the human body? How should they be harvested and prepared? What sorts of human moods or attitudes are necessary to work with plants? What ritual techniques are used to achieve empathy required to work successfully with plants? Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ANTH 1713 - HEALTH, NUTRITION, AND POPULATION 1 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will provide an introduction to the study of the health, population and nutrition concerns of indigenous peoples; provide an understanding of the health concerns of the Kichwa speaking people of the Ecuadorian amazon and provide a grounding for research on the health of Amazonian peoples. It will be taught as a combination of lectures, discussion of readings, site/field visits, interviewing of key actors and analysis of primary materials derived from interviews and observations of Kichwa people, healers and patients. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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AFRCNA 1655 - AFRICAN CINEMAS/SCREEN GRIOTS

AFRCNA 1656 - HISTORY OF AFRICA SINCE 1800

AFRCNA 1661 - POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AFRICA

AFRCNA 1704 - AFRICANA WORLD LITERATURE

AFRCNA 1710 - AFRICAN AMERICAN HEALTH ISSUES

AFRCNA 1720 - WEST AFRICA IN THE ERA OF THE SLAVE TRADE

AFRCNA 1725 - SOCIAL AND HEALTH ISSUES IN EAST AFRICA

AFRCNA 1760 - AFRICANA THEORY & METHODOLOGY

AFRCNA 1768 - AFRICANA SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR

AFRCNA 1900 - INTERNSHIP

AFRCNA 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

AFRCNA 1902 - DIRECTED READING

AFRCNA 1903 - DIRECTED RESEARCH

AFRCNA 1904 - REBELS AND REVOLUTION

ASL 0101 - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 1

ASL 0102 - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 2

ASL 0103 - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 3

ASL 0104 - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 4

ASL 0105 - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 5

ASL 0106 - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 6

ASL 0111 - INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE

ASL 1615 - DEAF CULTURE

ASL 1625 - THE DEAF AND SOCIETY

ASL 1635 - ANALYSES OF ASL LITERATURE

ASL 1700 - ASL-BSL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

ASL 1705 - STRUCTURE OF SIGN LANGUAGES

ASL 1715 - STRUCTURE OF ASL AND ENGLISH

ASL 1725 - SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF SIGN LANGUAGE

ASL 1800 - INTRODUCTION TO ASL-ENGLISH INTERPRETING

ASL 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

ASL 1905 - UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE

ASL 1909 - TOPICS IN SIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES

ANTH 0112 - TOURISM

ANTH 0501 - ARCHEOLOGY: AN OVERVIEW

ANTH 0534 - PREHISTORIC FOUNDATIONS OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION

ANTH 0536 - MESOAMERICA BEFORE CORTEZ

ANTH 0538 - THE ARCHEOLOGIST LOOKS AT DEATH

ANTH 0582 - INTRODUCTION TO ARCHEOLOGY

ANTH 0601 - PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: OVERVIEW

ANTH 0620 - BIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

ANTH 0630 - FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION

ANTH 0680 - INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

ANTH 0681 - INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN EVOLUTION

ANTH 0701 - CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: OVERVIEW

ANTH 0710 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

ANTH 0711 - THE INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF SPORT

ANTH 0713 - ASIA NOW

ANTH 0715 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF LATIN AMERICA

ANTH 0717 - MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT AND THE SUPERNATURAL BODY

ANTH 0730 - HIMALAYAN GEOGRAPHY

ANTH 0768 - HUMAN SEXUALITY IN CROSS CULTURE

ANTH 0780 - INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

ANTH 1335 - GLOBALIZATION

ANTH 1441 - FIELD METHODS IN LINGUISTICS

ANTH 1447 - LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY

ANTH 1450 - GENDER AND SUSTAINABILITY

ANTH 1490 - CROSS-CULTURAL POLITICS

ANTH 1516 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY GEOPHYSICS

ANTH 1520 - SEDIMENTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY

ANTH 1524 - CHINESE ARCHAEOLOGY

ANTH 1525 - EASTERN NORTH AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY

ANTH 1526 - WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY

ANTH 1527 - ARCHAEOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS

ANTH 1528 - SOUTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY

ANTH 1530 - ORIGINS OF CITIES

ANTH 1534 - ARCHEOLOGICAL DATA ANALYSIS 1

ANTH 1535 - BASIC ARCHEOLOGICAL FIELD TRAINING

ANTH 1537 - BASIC LABORATORY ANALYSIS

ANTH 1540 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHEOLOGY

ANTH 1541 - CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

ANTH 1543 - ANCIENT STATES IN THE NEW WORLD

ANTH 1544 - ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

ANTH 1546 - CAVEMAN: ARCHAEOLOGY, POP CULTURE AND THE PRIMITIVE

ANTH 1547 - POTS AND PEOPLE

ANTH 1548 - AMAZONIAN ARTS: MAKING AND MEANING

ANTH 1549 - WARFARE IN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY

ANTH 1552 - A HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THOUGHT

ANTH 1556 - ZOOARCHAEOLOGY

ANTH 1557 - ARCHAEOLOGY OF RUSSIA, CENTRAL ASIA, AND MONGOLIA