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AFRCNA 1039 - HISTORY OF CARIBBEAN SLAVERY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Today’s sounds and tastes of the Caribbean from reggae and salsa music to dishes like mofongo and jerk chicken have deep historical roots in slavery. The Atlantic slave trade transported over four million Africans to the Caribbean ’ eight times the number that arrived in the United States. How did Africans and their descendants persevere under the colonial slave system? How does the legacy of slavery present itself in the 21st century? This course explores these questions by examining the Caribbean from the perspectives of enslaved women and men from the 17th through the 19th centuries, particularly in Cuba, Haiti, and Jamaica, and their contemporary manifestations in films, policies, and national identities
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1043 - CONTEM AFRCN AMERICAN DRAMA 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is a continuation of black contemporary drama 1. This is an advanced level experimental studio performance course, with emphasis placed on textual analysis of scripts for both directing and acting, with movement toward street theatre performances. Some attention will be given to radio and television acting. Major focus is placed upon the review of the current literature on film acting and directing.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1046 - AFRICAN POETRY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Examination of the important streams that make up African poetry in several languages. Emphasis on the oral tradition, the negritude poets, and nineteenth century British Influences. Several critical texts and anthologies will be used including those by Chipasula, Chinweizu, Okpewho and Soyinka.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1071 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTRL ANTH
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 4
This course will be on a topic in the area of specialization description of a visiting scholar yet to be determined.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1083 - SPEC TOPICS AFRICANA STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The study of a special topic in Africa studies. Content will vary from term to term, depending on instructor.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1103 - FEMALE PLAYWRIGHTS BEFORE 1959
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will discuss the plays written by black female playwrights prior to Lorraine Hansberry.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1108 - AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLK CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will explore several aspects of African American folk culture being defined as non-elite expressions of art, music, dance, theatre, literature, humor, material culture, and religious beliefs. Particular attention will be given to the role of folklore in the perpetuation and transmission of shared cultural knowledge among blacks in the United States.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1137 - 19TH CENTURY AFRICAN AMER HIST
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An examination of the intellectual and social history of black people in the United States between 1817 and 1861. It discusses the life and contributions of the major black political milieu out of which these leaders emerged. This approach will require an examination of the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of black population concentrations throughout the USA during the ante-bellum years in the 19th century.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1145 - AFRICAN AMERICAN RHETORIC
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The purposes of this course are a historical-critical review of scholarship in black American rhetoric; and a theoretical-conceptual framework for the study of black American rhetoric. This course places considerable emphasis on the African roots of black American rhetoric, but the ultimate concern is with black Americans’ behavior. The course covers consequences of African and European inter actions in America, factors that forged the distinctive aspects of black American rhetoric, the effects of culture, racism, colonialism, and social class on communication.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1150 - CONTEM AFRCN AMERICAN WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Writers in the period spanning the civil rights and black nationalist-humanist movements became a vanguard voice for black people. This course explores the written language of the period as an aid to the creation of student writings. As such, this course is a workshop and continuation of black creative writing on a higher level.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1201 - GLOBAL DIASPORAS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
What do Akon and Rihanna have in common? They are both part of recent diasporas from Africa and the Caribbean. This course focuses on the issues and experiences of people of African descent in contemporary (20th and 21st centuries) migratory diasporas from both Africa and the Caribbean. The course draws on extensive literature on migration, transnationalism, racial and ethnic identity formation, health, and other topics to illuminate the causes for migration and the experiences that migrants have in different host countries. What experiences do migrants from Africa and the Caribbean share? How do their experiences differ? How do migrants define themselves in new host countries? How do they stay connected to their homelands?
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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AFRCNA 1223 - PERSNL GROWTH THRGH PSYCHODRAM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course includes the 5 philosophical concepts, the six operational elements, the format, the procedure and processes, and the basic techniques and strategies of psychodrama as developed by J.L. Moreno. Another aspect of the course is the examination of theories and of current research on the use of psychodrama sociodrama and as a teaching strategy.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1240 - AFRICAN LITERATURE AND SOCIETY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Inquiry into significant aspects of contemporary African social, political, cultural and human problems approached through the detailed study of representative African novels, plays and poetry written by African authors.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1306 - WORLD LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines contemporary literature, primarily in English, written in eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, etc. It pays particular attention to its depiction of social, political and moral concerns.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1309 - WOMN OF AFRC & AFRCN DIASPORA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A cross-cultural study of women of African descent in West and southern Africa, the United States, brazil, and the Caribbean.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1310 - CULTURES OF AFRICA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the traditional cultures and societies of Africa from prehistoric to modern times. Emphasis is on the conditions prior to contemporary changes but some attention is given to modern developments. Concern is with the variety of cultures on the continent. How people make a living. What family life is like? How disputes are settled, and religion. Through lectures, films, and readings, the student gets a feeling for life in this fascinating part of the world.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1331 - AFRICAN LIBERATION MOVEMENTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A course on the theories of revolution and national liberation struggles, decolonization and guerrilla warfare, and their special application to continental African experience since the end of World War II.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1334 - MUSIC IN AFRICA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The historical, social, and cultural background of music in Africa with particular reference to music in community life, performing groups, the training of musicians, instrumental, resources, structures in African music and the interrelations of music and dance. (Slides, films and recordings will be used to illustrate lectures.)
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1335 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC IN U.S.
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to familiarize the student with various phases of African-American music existing in North America; blues, gospel-spirituals, work songs, children’s games songs, and classical compositions of ragtime composers Scott Joplin, J.P. Johnson, etc. Students will conduct field projects centered around street recordings, locations, interviews of local and visiting artists, etc.” A detailed study of great Pittsburgh performers present and past will constitute a major portion of this course.”
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1347 - FRANCOPHONE AFRCNA LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An examination of the cultural, social, and political relationships of French-speaking African and the Caribbean as reflected through different genres from the 1900’s. Reading poetry, folklore, and novels produced by African writers sheds light on the issues confronting them such as polygamy, urbanization, assimilation, rituals, and the marginal man and woman.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1349 - CONTEM CARIBBEAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Study the fiction, poetry, and drama of the English Caribbean in chronological order. Exile, liberation, autonomy, the female voice, cultural, and political identity will be examined in writing from Jamaica, Trinidad, Grenada, Antigua, and Guyana with recordings and films.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1353 - COMPARATIVE DANCE EXPRESSION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will examine the cultural patterns of black dance styles and the similarities and differences in the motor behaviors among blacks in dance from South America, the Caribbean islands, Africa, and North America. Contents of the course will be introduced through films, lecture and videotapes.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1383 - CONCEPTS IN AFRCN AMER THEATER
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A review of the literature and ideas on and about black theater in North America. A study of the implementation of those concepts thru the works of playwrights, theater historians and scholars, directors, actors, and institutions which have sought to house the concepts. One of the goals is to show the vigor, vitality and vigilance of black theater.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1402 - LRNG PARDGMS AFRC-AM CHLD DVLP
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
To examine systemic factors which affect the cultural, social, emotional, and cognitive development of black children.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1415 - RACE AND RELIGION IN AMERICA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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AFRCNA 1420 - POWER & PERFORMANCE IN AFRICA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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AFRCNA 1454 - AFRICNA DANCE WRKSHP CHRGRPHY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to acquaint non-dancers and dancers with dance techniques and styles developed by choreographers such as Alvin Ailey, Eleo Pomare, Rod Rogers, Pearl Primus, Arthur Mitchell and Katherine Dunham. The theoretical and practical aspects of choreography will be introduced through lecture, audio visuals and demonstration.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1522 - SEX AND RACISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Sex and racism affords an opportunity to explore sex, sexism, and racism, to examine the historical development and economic impact of racism in America, to analyze the conceptual framework, the research methods, and approaches from which past and current studies on sex, sexism racism, have been and are being developed. The course will also explore sex and racism as a multi-dimensional continuum, and solutions to sex and racism.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1538 - HISTORY OF BLACK PITTSBURGH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will explore the role and experiences of black Pittsburghers over the past 200 years of the city’s history.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1555 - AFRO CARIBBEAN DANCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will focus on Katherine Dunham as an ethnologist and choreographer politically, socially, and aesthetically. The course discussion will clearly define the contents of Dunham’s dance research and life experiences of Haiti.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1605 - AUGUST WILSON DRAMAS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is intended to critique the plays of August Wilson and his source of inspiration - the blues.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1616 - AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An inter-or-cross genre study of the African North American experience thru selected readings in novels, poetry, drama, short stories, and the essay (religious, secular and philosophical).
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1620 - AFRICAN AMERICAN LIT CRITICISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course affords the study of content and African American literary research and criticism from web. Dubois, Alain Locke, Sterling Brown to Nick Arron Ford, Deborah McDowell, Barbara Smith and Hazel Carboy. Some attention will be paid to the history of ideas, to bibliographical and textual criticism to the historical development of black literary criticism and to the commonly employed approaches of literary historians and critics of black writers in America.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1644 - THE AFRICAN NOVEL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The novels studied will be drawn from several parts of the African continent and will all be available in English or translation. The emphasis will be on recurring themes in the works and on the influence of traditional African narrative forms.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1711 - THE CITY IN AFRICA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Course examines the urban experience in Africa, beginning with ancient Nile Valley civilizations. In spite of this antiquity, colonial discourse and administrative practices created the notion of rural tribesmen whose presence in cities was unnatural and corrupting. We investigate this moral contrast between town and country as it persists today in the popular imagination, serving as a potent critique of possibilities and perversities of African modernity. We consider prospects and contributions of a distinctly African solution to problems of globalization, the informal city”.”
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1715 - HISTORY OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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AFRCNA 1720 - WEST AFRICA/ERA OF SLAVE TRADE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1725 - EAST AFRICA ISSUES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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AFRCNA 1760 - AFRICANA THEORY & METHODOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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AFRCNA 1768 - AFRCNA 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: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0534 - PREHSTRC FDS OF EURPN CIVILZTN
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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0538 - THE ARCHELOGST 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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0601 - PHYSICAL ANTHROPLGY: 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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0611 - INTRODUCTION TO NEO-DARWINISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This natural science course explores why organisms are the way they are, in terms of the most powerful available theory, Darwin’s evolution by natural selection. Mendelian and molecular genetics are discussed, as in gene action. Against this background, we build up a detailed argument for evolution starting with Darwin’s original principles. Emphasis is placed on current debates such as: levels of selection, neutralism, punctuationism, cladistic taxonomy, and the origin of life.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0630 - FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0645 - INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN BIOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Human biology deals with the nature and growth of human populations, human growth and development, human ecology and physiology, and the adaptation to various hostile environments that humans have made. This is an introductory course which places these topics in the framework of the study of human origins and the environments that our ancestors may have encountered in their evolutionary history. The emphasis is on morphologic variability.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0646 - INTRO TO EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a survey course on the history and development of evolutionary thought, culminating in the present-day models of evolutionary processes. We will emphasize past and present developments, debates, and controversies in, e.g. Genetics, geology, paleontology, and systematics.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0655 - SOCIOBIOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course analyzes behavior, and social behavior in particular, from a Darwinian perspective. It is intended for students with no college training in biology, and begins by developing the basics of modern evolutionary and genetic theory. The implications of these theories for our explanations of animal and human behavior are then explored.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0669 - SEX AND EVOLUTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course analyzes sexual phenomena from a Darwinian perspective. It is intended for students with no college training in biology, and begins by developing the basics of modern evolutionary and genetic theory. These theories are then applied in analyzing a series of problems relating to sex; why did sexual reproduction evolve; how does evolution maintain the sex ratio; what are female” and “male”, and to what extent will evolution foster differences between the two; what kinds of mating and parental strategies have evolved?”
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0680 - INTRO 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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0681 - INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN EVOLUTN
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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0701 - CULTURAL ANTHROPLGY: 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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0710 - SPEC TOPICS IN CULTRL ANTHRO
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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0712 - INTRO TO CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A systematic study of the spatial dimension in human cultures. In succession we examine human populations through the millennia, agricultural systems, political systems, languages, religions, folk and popular cultures, urban systems, industry, and transportation networks. Geography” is conceived as the study of human impact on the earth and of the ecological relationships between humans and the natural world.”
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0716 - ANTH OF LATIN AMERC PRACTICUM
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Special recitation attached to anthropology of Latin America (ANTH 0715 ) taught in Spanish for 1 credit. This recitation is taken in addition to the other recitation attached to the course. This course is offered in conjunction with ANTH 0715 , Anthropology of Latin America. It is a supplementary, one-credit Spanish-language recitation, where issues raised each week in ANTH 0715 will be discussed in greater detail in a Spanish-immersion format. This practicum offers an opportunity for students to utilize, reinforce, and deepen the skills they have acquired in foreign language courses. We will listen to Latin American music, read primary sources from political manifestoes to poetry, and generally enrich our understanding of Latin America’s diverse past even as we improve our Spanish-language conversational fluency. This practicum is a great option for students hoping to study abroad in the future.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0717 - MAGC, WTCHCRAF & SUPRNATRL BDY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ANTH 0720 - FOLKLORE & CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The main objectives of this course are threefold: 1) to introduce students to the subject matter, methods and theories of folklore as they relate to sociocultural anthropology; 2) to create greater awareness and appreciation of folklore and its connection to cultural diversity in our everyday lives; 3) to promote deeper understanding of the ways in which folklore is embedded within wider social and cultural contexts of power and resistance.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0768 - HUMAN SEXUALITY IN CROS CULTUR
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: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0780 - INTRO 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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0785 - MATHEMATICS AND CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides an introduction to the role of mathematical ideas in various cultural settings. It focuses on the use of math in everyday life.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1083 - JAPANESE CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This one credit course on Japanese society, culture and history accompanies a course on basic Japanese language, though either the language or culture course can be taken independently of one another. A series of lectures by distinguished experts on such topics as the Japanese economy, history, family, politics, business, theatre, religion, literature, education and fine arts is given.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1440 - LANG AND PREHIST IN MESOAMERC
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Mesoamerica is well-known linguistically, and its linguistic prehistory is rather well understood. Archeological research has achieved knowledge in great detail for many key areas. Ethnohistorical sources in native languages abound. The integration of linguistic, archeological, and ethnohistorical knowledge can yield a detailed picture of the area’s culture history. We will survey the ethnolinguistic history of MesoAmerica from 5000 BC to 1500 ad. Attention will be given to the ethnic associations of archeological cultures.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: LING 1578 and 1773 and 1777; LVL: Sr
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ANTH 1442 - MAYAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The 30 Mayan languages of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize are among the best documented languages of MesoAmerica; they are ergative, and have both passives and antipassives. The results of comparative study of Mayan languages surpass those for any other MesoAmerican family. Some Mayans had pre-Columbian writing, and this writing system is currently being deciphered. Mayan society has been well studied by ethnographers, and ethno historical sources are numerous and valuable. Beside these topics, ethnographically meaningful texts in two Mayan languages.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1443 - AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Of over 1000 different languages spoken by native Americans in 1492, about 600 survive, most spoken by small numbers, although many populous Amer-Indian ethnic groups are found in MesoAmerica and the Andes. This course will survey the language families of the new world, and study the grammar and ethnographic texts of two languages. The results of historical and comparative research on Amer-Indian languages will be studied, particularly as they relate to the culture history of their region. We will also study pre-Columbian writing, literature and efforts at cultural maintenance.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1444 - GYPSY LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Romani is spoken by more than 10,000,000 gypsies living in Europe and the Americas. They left their homeland in India over 2000 years ago, entering Europe around 1200 ad. Their unfriendly reception has made them shy and hard to know. Misunderstanding and misinformation on gypsies are abundant. This course will focus on reliable ethnographic descriptions from Europe and North America, and the language and folklore of one or more branches of the Romani nation. The history of the gypsies as discernible in their language and written records will also be studied.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1448 - AZTEC LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The Aztecs spoke Nahuas, as did the Toltec’s before them. One million present-day Nahuas still speak the language and practice an Amer-Indian culture. The Nahuas language is the best-documented of all native American languages, from the 16th century to the present. The ethnohistorical sources in Nahuas and on late pre-Columbian culture are unsurpassed in scope. All the writings in Nahuas make up a small library. In this course we will study the grammar of Nahuas, read ethnographic texts from the 20th and 16th centuries, and trace the culture history of the Nahuas-speaking peoples.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1450 - GENDER AND SUSTAINABILITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ANTH 1466 - TOPICS IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL LING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a seminar for the investigation of anthropological linguistic topics of interest to the professor and students. Topics covered might include ethnobotany, ethnozoology, ethnomedicine, ethnopsychology, kinship terminology, diffusion of artifacts/cultigens and their names, and many others. Methodology will vary with topic.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: GEOL 0055
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ANTH 1521 - GEOARCHEOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is an examination of geological methods applied to the study of archeology. The first part of the course examines locations of sites by familiarization with the physical environment, maps, and air photos. Second, characteristics of site sediments and artifacts are examined with emphasis on stratigraphic principles. Finally, specific sites selected from different environmental settings are discussed. Field and laboratory methods applicable to study of archeological materials and sites are introduced wherever Germane.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1522 - EUROPE IN LATER PREHISTORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
From the end of the ice age to the early middle ages: the establishment and development of agriculture, metallurgy, and the first cities.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1523 - EUROPEAN ARCHELGY: THE ICE AGE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Course includes the following topics: (1) history of discoveries and of the discipline of archeology; (2) the role played by archeology in the development of the concepts of prehistory and of human evolution; (3) introduction to pleistocene geology, and the effects of the changing environment of human life; (4) the first human traces to the late pleistocene cave sites (France, Spain) and open-air encampments (especially on the Russian Plain); (5) the beginnings of artistic and symbolic behavior, and their significance.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1525 - EASTRN NORTH AMERCN 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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1526 - WESTERN NORTH AMERCN ARCHELGY
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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1527 - ARCLGY OF NORTH AMER INDIANS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1531 - MUSEUM PRACTICUM
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will work in the archaeology laboratories and collection (ethnographic and archaeological) areas of the division of anthropology, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History research facility under the supervision of the anthropology staff.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1532 - PREHISTORIC ART AND SYMBOL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Course will focus on the animal art of the ice-age cave painters and on later rock art, on images of the human female throughout prehistory, and on questions of method and theory.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1535 - BASIC ARCHELOGCL FIELD TRAING
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: UGRD
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1535IS - ARCHELOGCL FIELD SCHOOL - IS
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
Non-graded course for in-state tuition.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: No Grade Required
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