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ANTH 1535OS - ARCHELOGCL FIELD SCHOOL - OS
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
Non-graded course for out-of-state tuition.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: No Grade Required
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ANTH 1536 - PALEO-KITCHEN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1538 - ADVANCED LABORATORY ANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 9
This course is a continuation of anthropology 1537-basic laboratory analysis.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1539 - ANCIENT MAYA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Examines the growth of ancient Maya civilization over two thousand years from the first millennium B.C. To the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century A.D.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1540 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHEOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Topics covered vary greatly with instructor and term.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1542 - ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE OHIO VALLEY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines from an archaeological perspective, the prehistory and early colonial history of the region surrounding Pittsburgh, the Upper Ohio Valley. Students will gain an appreciation of the rich and diverse array of human occupation of the region which encompasses parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, West Virginia, and Maryland. This course will be worthwhile to students with an interest in the local past as well as those interested in pursuing careers in archaeology in the Northeastern United States.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1543 - ANCNT 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: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1546 - CAVEMAN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1547 - POTS AND PEOPLE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1548 - AMAZONIAN ARTS: MAKING 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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ANTH 1591 - HISTORICAL ARCHEOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Historical archaeology examines the material culture of societies that are literate. It therefore combines archaeological data with historical information such as tax, deeds, will, probate and other sources to derive a fuller picture of past lifeways. This course exposes students to the archaeology of North America from Viking contacts of ca. 1000 A.D. Through the industrial period. Emphasis is placed on delineating changes in cultural adaptations during this period as a result of culture contact, the development of international trade, and technological innovation.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1600 - HUMAN EVOLUTION AND VARIATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1606 - FOSSIL AND LIVING PRIMATES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an in-depth survey of all non-human/ape primates, from the potential beginning of the group of mammals to which we belong, primates. We will review all relevant living and fossil primates and deal with issues of their evolutionary relationships, the very origin of primates, and the origin of higher” primate groups.”
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1607 - PRIMATE BEHAVIOR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course takes a Darwinian approach to explaining the diversity in contemporary primate behavior and ecology. We stress the comparative method, and seek to develop general principles of adaptation that will explain the taxonomic distribution of particular behavioral and ecological traits.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1608 - COMPAR OSTEOLOGY & ODONTOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 4
This will be a survey of the differences among the major groups of mammals (humans included) in structure and shape of their teeth and bones from an evolutionary and systematic as well as practical (i.e. In identification) perspective.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1609 - ADVANCED SKELETAL ANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0630 or ANTH 1602
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1615 - EVOLUTION OF THE VERTEBRATES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is a survey of the various groups of living and fossil vertebrates (animals with backbones) and the various theories on the evolution and diversification (and extinction!) Of the group.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1618 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN SOCIOBIOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Each semester a single topic such as sexual selection, human sociobiology or the evolution of sociality will be explored in detail.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1619 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN PHYSCL ANTH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Topics covered vary greatly with instructor and term.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1708 - SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND POWER IN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ANTH 1710 - PHILOSOPHY OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies the nature of anthropological knowledge. Topics covered include: the possibility of a human science; classification, description, and the nature of anthropological evidence; laws and explanation in anthropology; and various forms of relativism.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1711 - ETNBIO AMZNIN RELIGION 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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1713 - HLTH, NUTRITION & 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: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1714 - HLTH, NUTRITION & POPULATION 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will continue the study of the health, nutrition and population of the NAPO Kichwa begun in HPNI. It will specifically address the historical and contemporary food systems of the NAOP Kichwa; the production and management of Chica (manioc beer) as a cultural superfood and dietary staple; the management of pregnancy and childbirth in the Kichwa ethnomedical system; the impact of the intercultural health movement and the millennium development goals for safe motherhood on the provision pregnancy and birth care services in the Ecuadorian national system; and the impact of biomedicine on Kichwa health practice. Hpnii 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. It will have a significant independent research component.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1715 - UNDERSTANDING MODERN ITALY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course uses anthropological methods to understand and analyze contemporary culture in Italy through an examination of everyday life in florence.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1716 - POLITICS OF GENDER AND FOOD
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1725 - SOCIAL HLTH ISSUES EAST AFRICA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ANTH 1729 - BRAZIL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course begins with an overview of Brazilian culture and of the country’s enormous resource base. Cultural change is traced through the pre-Columbian, colonial, imperial, and republican periods. A major theme throughout is the evolution of a Portuguese heritage into today’s distinctive Brazilian national culture. The country is then divided into five regions as a means of understanding its internal diversity. Popular American ideas about subjects like carnival, the amazon rainforest, coffee, Copacabana Beach, and the huge foreign debt are also dealt with.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1731 - WOMEN & GENDER IN THIRD WORLD
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will examine the situation of women and the dynamics of gender in third world societies—i.e., Those of contemporary Asia, Africa, and Latin America. With particular attention to the effects of colonialism and capitalist development on women’s lives and gender arrangements, we will analyze the impact of recent changes on economic and political roles, family structures and reproductive choices, and ideological orientations and self-images. The course will also explore major social issues and their implication for theories of third world development.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1733 - DRUGS, ETHNY, & CLSS IN THE US
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
While the study of ethnicity has a long and distinguished tradition in cultural anthropology, the discipline has placed comparatively little emphasis on the study of class. In addition, only recently have cultural anthropologists begun to pay closer attention to the consumption of drugs as a significant phenomenon in contemporary complex societies, such as the United States. Drawing on literature and themes from different disciplines, but especially from political economic and critical approaches within cultural anthropology, we will critically explore the dynamic intersection of drugs/class.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1734 - GENDER IN EAST ASIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on gender in East Asia, particularly in Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean society. Materials from Hong Kong and Taiwan will be included. The course is broadly comparative, and raises questions about the similarities and differences in gender roles and meanings within this vast and diverse region. Key themes include gender and work, sexuality, religion, and family. The primary focus is on contemporary East Asia, and on recent change.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1735 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTRL ANTH
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: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1737 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTRL ANTH
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: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1738 - GENDER PERSPECTIVES IN ANTHRO
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course analyzes gender perspectives in anthropology. Students are asked to consider how gender differences relate to women’s and men’s roles in productive labor, in property rights, and in family and kin relations. Special attention is given to the way gender and sexual difference are represented in culture.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1739 - CULTURES OF EAST ASIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course compares the social systems of Japan, Korea and china. Special attention is given to comparisons of family and kinship organization, religious traditions, language, and processes of industrialization. Discussions will concentrate on the post World War II period.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1741 - ENRGY & ENERGOPOLITICS EURASIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1742 - 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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ANTH 1743 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF AGING & DEATH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will offer an anthropological perspective to aging, which is becoming one of the key social issues of the advanced industrial societies. Through evidence of social evolution, this course acquaints the student with the variety of ways in which human aging has been culturally defined and treated. It provides an appreciation of the political economic, national, and ethnic dimensions of aging so that a student may make meaningful choices with both public and personal implications as he/she confronts the life course.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1745 - URBAN POVERTY CULTRL IMPLICATN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will survey urban centers in a variety of cultural contexts: United States, Italy, Latin America, Middle East, Caribbean and Australia. It will focus on the poor in these cities. The concept of the culture of poverty will be discussed briefly. The major emphasis will be on how poverty affects the cultural behavior of this population. Social organization, political behavior, and expressive style of the poor will be analyzed.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1748 - CULTURES OF SOUTH AMERICA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the societies and cultures of South America. Through films, lectures, readings, and class discussion, the course examines subsistence economies, sex, kinship, and marriage, political organization, warfare, religion, and cultural change.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1749 - COGNITION AND CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores how communities of people classify, reason, and make decisions in a cultural context. This exploration contributes to an understanding of how people think and of what culture is. The questions addressed by this course include; does the language people speak affect the way they see the world? How is cultural knowledge organized? How do members of the same society vary in their knowledge and what does this variation tell us about how individuals learn?
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1750 - UNDERGRADUATE SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This seminar brings together all undergraduate majors in anthropology for a seminar on the methods by which cultures around the world change over time. Defining such methods occupies much of any anthropologist’s time, be he or she an ethnographer, archaeologist, physical anthropologist or linguist. The seminar therefore examines this central problem from many perspectives and affords the student ample opportunity for personal expression as well as rewarding discussion and research in a peer group environment.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1751 - PEOPL & ENVIRONMNT IN AMAZONIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces the complexity of relationships among environment, indigenous populations, and Western society in the Amazonian region of South America from historical and ecological perspectives.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1752 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF FOOD
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the general subject of culinary anthropology. Topics include food exchanges and the construction of social groups, food and social boundaries, food taboos, symbolism of food, folk conceptions of food, sacrifice and food in religious contexts, world standardization of food preferences. Thus, the focus is on social aspects of food, eating, and exchange.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1753 - NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course presents a survey of native American cultures North of Mexico, both historical and modern. Case studies from several different regions are used to provide in-depth material on North American Indian cultural patterns.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1754 - CULTURE REGIONS UNITED STATES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines contemporary American culture from a spatial-geographic perspective. It begins with the concept of region, including conventional and unconventional divisions of the United States. Colonial source areas of the national culture are studied, along with the role of the frontier in culture diffusion. Acquisition of a huge natural resource base and our interaction with it are also explored. The country is divided into eight major culture regions, each of whose own ecosystems and landscapes make it distinctive. We end by anticipating future regions.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1755 - URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course outlines the origins and evolution of cities and explores their roles within their historical, social, and cultural contexts. It examines the nature of life in cities cross-culturally from the perspective of the inhabitants. Features associated with urban life—such as migration, squatter settlements, family organization, ethnicity, social stratification, social networks, and social pathologies- receive special attention.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1756 - ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course reviews the development of economic anthropology as a special field of study. Emphasis is placed on economic change and the impact of industrialization on the third world. Ethnographic examples are drawn from Latin America, Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Topics to be discussed include economic theory in anthropology, exchange and the origin/use of money, the development of wage labor, marketing and commodity production, theories of economic development and underdevelopment.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1757 - SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a course on the social institutions of primitive and folk people throughout the world. It presents a general survey of kinship units and principles of organization that operates at the primitive, tribal, and folk levels. At the end of the course the main theories that anthropologists have employed in analyzing kinship and social organization will be discussed.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1758 - COMPARATIVE POLITICAL SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A comparative study of political organization and control in non-Western societies utilizing ethnographic data from several major areas. Such areas as leadership, decision making, sanctions, and political symbols will receive particular attention. A comparative framework will be the basis for the analysis of political change.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1759 - CHINESE SOCIETY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals with traditional and modern Chinese society, before and after the 1949 communist revolution. Topics covered include: family and kinship, marriage, community organization, agriculture and industry, gender roles, social stratification, religion, land reform and collectivization, and the cultural construction of a new socialist system. Films, slides, and media presentations supplement lectures.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1760 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF LAW
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines anthropological analyses of law and law-like phenomena in a number of societies, including the United States. Particular attention is given to the various ways that disputes are resolved in different social and cultural settings, and to the theoretical analyses used to explain these differences.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1761 - PATNTS & HEALERS: MEDCL ANTH 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the field of medical anthropology and its history within the discipline of anthropology as a whole, from the perspective of social-cultural theory. Topics dealt with include ethnomedicine, ethnographic cases, cross-cultural studies of healing practices and connections between medicine and religion. Reference is also made to applied research in contemporary situations.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1762 - HUMAN ECOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the ecology of the human species. We will study how humans adapt to their physical and cultural environment, and the interrelationships between people and the environment. Topics discussed include evolution and adaptation, population growth and regulation, foraging and subsistence strategies and production decisions, population interactions and resource management, and energy and human society.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1763 - FIELD METHODS
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
This course is designed to acquaint students with basic ethnographic fieldwork techniques. Topics addressed include taking and managing fieldnotes on participant-observation, systematic or structured interviews, behavioral observation, and use of archival materials. There will also be some discussion of the relationship between research design, data collection, and data analysis.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1764 - CULTURES & SOCIETIES OF INDIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to introduce students to the cultural history of India and to the culture and society of the modern country, concentrating on the description and analysis of modern Indian society. Topics to be covered include caste, kinship and marriage, village communities, law and society and politics in modern India.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1765 - LANGUAGE, ETHNICITY & NATNLSM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores how people use language to construct ethnicity, and the role that language plays in theories and ideologies of nationalism. Using cross-cultural examples from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the U.S., We consider issues such as language standardization and planning, the challenges facing multilingual nation-states, ethnolinguistic revitalization movements, the linguistic aspects of colonialism, including pidgins and creoles, and the linguistic and cultural aspects of the spread of English as a global language.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1766 - ENDANGERED LANGUAGES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course takes an anthropological approach to language shift and ethnolinguistic revitalization. First, we explore how and why languages “die”, how discourses of death and endangerment impact languages and speakers, and the structural effects of processes of obsolescence on languages. Then, we explore the reasons why groups wish to preserve and revitalize languages, the potential benefits of language revitalization, and the factors in successful and unsuccessful language revitalization movements, including ideologies of discrimination and resistance, language policy and planning, education, media, literacy and language standardization.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1768 - CULT & SOCIETIES EASTRN EUROPE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is an introduction to the socialist countries of eastern Europe apart from the soviet union. It is particularly concerned with how the region has developed under socialism and with how the new, socialist societies have affected the different indigenous cultures. Topics include industrialization and transformation of agriculture, kinship and family, among others.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1769 - DYNAMICS OF ETHNICITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course materials and lectures will discuss the older studies of ethnicity in the United States and their differences with the recent revival of interest in ethnicity and ethnic groupings. A second portion of the course will analyze the various reasons for ethnicity in different cultural contexts, and how ethnic groups adapt. The last portion will attempt to describe the ethnic heritage of Western Pennsylvania and how the group strategies for mobility effected their class and ethnic stratification.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1770 - KINSHIP AND THE FAMILY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course Western and Non-western forms of kinship, family, and marriage will be discussed and analyzed. Special attention will be given to the history of European marriage, to family organization and industrialization, and to women’s relation to kinship and family order. The differences in European and Non-European reactions to industrialization will be compared in some detail. Europe, China, India, and Japan will receive special attention.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1771 - RELIGION AND CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Religion is thought, felt, and acted out in social and cultural contexts. The relationship between religion and culture is the focus of the course. The objectives are to understand religion wherever and whenever found, and to understand the anthropological approach in the cross cultural study of religion. Religious belief, ritual, myth, dogma and religious specialists in industrial and non-industrial societies are compared.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1772 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF WOMEN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
During this course students are asked to consider how gender differences relate to women’s and men’s roles in productive labor, in the disposition of property, and in the realm of family and kinship. Building on these discussions participants will also examine the way in which gender and sexual differences are represented at the cultural and ideological level. Cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity in southern Europe, china, and new guinea will receive particular attention.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1773 - CULTURES OF MESOAMERICA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A general survey of problems and cultures of Mexico and Guatemala from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present. The course will be divided into three parts; MesoAmerica at the time of the arrival of the Spaniards; the colonial transformation of the Indian population; and the contemporary position of the Indians within the Pluri-Ethnic societies of which they are part.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1774 - PERSPECTIVES ON RELIGION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A serious introduction to the study of religion is undertaken by reviewing the efforts and insights of the principal scholars in the field in the modern period.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1775 - APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Viewing applied anthropology as a possible career choice, this course will define the field, contrast it with basic anthropology, examine the concept of policy analysis, and survey the kinds of applied anthropology conducted within the realm of cultural anthropology (urban, education, community development, etc.). Methods and techniques used in applied anthropology will be reviewed.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1776 - MYTH, SYMBOL AND RITUAL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A comparative examination of the myths, symbols, and rituals of different cultures.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1777 - AMERICAN CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores American culture as if it were strange and exotic. Topics covered include communication and speech styles, social class, race, and ethnicity, cults and religion, family, socialization, work and play, poverty and deviance, and changing values. Appropriate films and guest lectures are scheduled. A prior exposure to anthropology is not necessary as technical terms will be kept to a minimum and simply explained.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PLAN: Anthropology (BA)
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ANTH 1778 - 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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ANTH 1779 - SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Various theories of social and culture change will be examined from a historical perspective. These theories will be employed to structure materials in their non-Western case studies of social and cultural change.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1780 - INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the biological and cultural heritages which distinguish humans from other advanced evolutionary forms. Through physical anthropology and prehistory, it outlines major developments over the past five million years. Through linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, it describes the universal features of social institutions and human behavior, drawing comparative examples from primitive, traditional, and modern societies.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1781 - ANTHRO OF CONTEMPORARY CARIBBN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides an historical background on the Caribbean focusing largely upon the experiences of the Caribbean in the 1990s through an examination of the culture areas of tourism, urbanism, industrialism, migration, cultural practices, and political and social movements.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1782 - SOCL STRATFCTN & EXPRESSV CULT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The main object of the course is to present the view that social stratification has an important expressive component that has been consistently ignored in anthropological and sociological studies of stratification. Concentrating on a number of special cases, spanning the evolutionary spectrum from peasant to modern industrial societies, the expressive component of class is placed in perspective in relationship to power, wealth and other structural and ideological variables.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1783 - 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 1784 - JAPANESE SOCIETY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will introduce students to contemporary Japanese culture and social institutions. Using scholarly books, essays, fiction and film, it will give students a range of different exposures to various aspects of Japanese society and everyday life: economic miracle, recession, middle class society, gender relations, sexuality, education, consumerism, and mass culture. The special focus of the course will be popular culture in japan. We will review the postwar history of popular culture and consider the reasons for its recent appeal abroad.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1786 - CULTURES OF THE PACIFIC
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the traditional and contemporary peoples and cultures of the pacific islands. A geographical and historical review of the region is included.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1787 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTRL ANTH
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 4
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: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1788 - ANDEAN SOCTY/CULT:PERU BOL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will survey major topics and issues relevant to the anthropology of the South American Andean culture region, with special emphasis on Bolivia and Peru. Examples of topics include: cultural adaptations to the physical landscape; kinship and social organization; gender; religion; economic organization (including land and labor patterns); ethnicity and class; migration; and resistance and rebellion. Also some landmark studies in Andean social history that have had considerable impact on current ethnographic and anthropological research.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1789 - 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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ANTH 1791 - DIALCTICS OF IDENTTY WEST EURP
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines a number of case studies on historical and emerging identities in local, regional, and national contexts in Western Europe, the major focus is on the relationships between local senses of identity and wider ones and the tensions that arise out of disjunctions between these contexts. For this reason, materials are chosen from peripheral” areas in Western Europe, such as Celtic fringe societies (e.g., Scotland, Brittany, Wales) vis-a-vis England and France; and from Greece in the Mediterranean region.”
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1792 - POPULATION AND CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course centers its attention on the complex interplay between demographic process and outcomes (such as fertility and population growth, population decline and mortality, and migration) on the one hand, and social/cultural evolution and social/ cultural forms studied by cultural anthropologists and archaeologists. We will critically review major concepts and theories in demography and demographic anthropology. Course takes the subject matter of population dynamics as the framework for examining important anthropological themes, debates and theories in the context of different societies/cultures.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PLAN: Anthropology (BA)
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ANTH 1793 - ASIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Using scholarly texts, ethnographic studies and historical documents, this seminar will focus on the medical systems of India, china, Japan, and South East Asia. The primary objective of the course is to understand various Asian medical systems on their own terms, both in theory and in contemporary practice. Primary attention will be given to Ayurveda, Unnani and traditional Chinese medicine. We will look at how so-called traditional medicine in Asia is being modernized in response to political, economic, social, and cultural transformations.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1794 - GENDER AND HEALTH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
There is a great deal of innovative, theoretical work being done in anthropology and related disciplines on issues of gender and health. This seminar will focus attention on this work, much of which has developed in response to questions of power and knowledge in discourses of and about female and male bodies. Although most of the literature on gender and health is about women, we will examine the structures of power and knowledge in the larger domain of culture and health as these structures are revealed and critically analyzed in terms of gender theory.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1795 - SHAMANISM HEALING SPIRIT POSS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Shamanism is a phenomenon that has been the focus of intensive anthropological investigation since the birth of the discipline. It has also been a topic that has helped to define key theoretical issues in the field. In this course we will use shamanism, broadly defined, as medium through which to study anthropological theory. The course is designed as a reading intensive seminar, and one of the objectives is to teach students how to read and think critically.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1796 - ALTERNATIVE HEALTH AND HEALING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Using the material culture of medical technology, the purpose of this course is to understand the theoretical, philosophical and methodological links between alternative medicine in the United States and traditional forms of medicine in Asia.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1797 - MOUNTAINS AND MEDICAL SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
India is a social, political and economic environment in which a broad range of South Asian medical systems have grown and developed over the course of several years. In the past 150 years these systems have been institutionalized and professionalized within the framework of colonial and national medical and public health policy. Many of these systems are intimately connected to the environment, and to the conceptualization, categorization, production and consumption of natural resources. This course focuses on non-biomedical systems of medicine: Ayurveda, Unani, siddha, Tibetan medicine, yoga and nature cure and homeopathy, as each one of these is supported and regulated by the government of India. The purpose of the course is not to evaluate the effectiveness or medical value of these systems; it is to understand how these medical systems fit into a range of social, political, ecological, botanical and economic contexts. Given that a number of these medical systems are intimately linked to Himalayan botanical and environmental knowledge, the course will focus on the relationship between South Asian medical systems and mountain ecology.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1798 - RELIGION AND ECOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The Himalayas have inspired more religious thought, given rise to more forms of religious practice and are more distinctively featured in a spectrum of epic religious literature, than almost any other geographic region in the world, with the possible ’ but unlikely `exception of a small parcel of relatively dry hilly ground between Jerusalem and mecca. In any case, Siddhartha Gautham was born and taught in the shadow of the lower Himalayas, where Buddhism emerged in the 4th century BCE. Many specific mountains, lakes and rivers, as well as the broader geography of the Himalayas ’ most notably sacred rivers ’ define the landscape of Hindu mythology, pilgrimage and ritual. The practice of yoga as a metaphysical philosophy is intimately linked to the idea of mystical Himalayan masters. The Western watershed of the Punjab, including the iponymous five rivers ’ Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, RAVI and Sutlej ’ is the heartland of Sikh cultural and religious identity. In addition to being a center of medieval Hindu literary learning, Kashmir and the Western Himalayas, extending through the Hindu Kush, have defined routes of exchange, communication, conversion and confrontation between Greeks, Persians, Buddhist monks, and Mongol armies. More recently ’ in terms of centuries ’ Tibetan Buddhism has emerged out of a history of development in Lhasa ’ relocated to McLeod Ganj in the early 1960s ‘- that combines elements of tantra from the southeastern Brahmaputra region with transmutations of Buddhism that have taken shape in greater china. Although not inspired by the Himalayas per se, Islam in South Asia has been shaped by geography and the environment in specific ways, and the development of a particular interpretation of the Koran in a small center of learning in the town of Deobandi ’ close to where the epic battle of the Bhargava Gita is said to have been waged in Kurukshetra ’ implicates the geography and geopolitics of the Himalayas in the emergence of reform oriented, Orthodox Islam.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1799 - HIMALAYAN POLITICAL ECOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The Himalayan region is characterized by dramatic climatic and geological variation, a tremendous range of biodiversity and a complex ecology. Within the region there is also profound cultural variation. This course seeks to provide a critical perspective on the ecology and environment of the Himalayas by examining how different groups at the village, state, national and international level are implicated in the political ecology of the mountains. We will look at the way in which village farming communities use natural resources, what kind of pressure is put on resources as a result of development and population growth, how the mountain environment shapes the politics and resource distribution at the level of the state and, finally, how environmental and energy issues shape national policy and international relations.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1801 - HIMALAYAN BIODIVERSITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Ranging in altitude from several hundred meters above sea level to over seven thousand, from subtropical forests to high altitude meadows and deserts, and from areas with little or no rainfall to regions that are among the wettest in the world, the Himalayas define a geographical region of enormous geological variation and biodiversity. The goal of this course is to gain an understanding of this diversity, with a focus on ecology. More specifically we will examine ecology and ecosystems in terms of biosemiotics ’ how and why organisms within an ecological niche communicate with one another, and how these patterns and structures of communication define different kinds of interdependence. Within the framework of standard classificatory schemes ’ mammals, birds, reptiles, insects ’ we will focus on particular species and specific niche systems for more detailed biosemiotic/behavioral analysis.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1900 - INTERNSHIP IN ANTHROPOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
Working in consultation with faculty, advanced students wishing to pursue careers in anthropology have the opportunity to extend academic training to a practical work experience in a particular subfield of Anthropology. Students will be required to submit a preliminary proposal to a faculty sponsor preferably sometime during the prior term, or should respond to faculty listings of specific internship projects that will be posted. Examples of projects are: physical anthropology research at the Pittsburgh Zoo; analysis of archeological artifacts; local ethnographic or folklore research.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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