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2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog
University of Pittsburgh
   
2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
 
  May 20, 2024
 
2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Course Information


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Africana Studies

  
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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: Undergraduate
    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: Undergraduate
    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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    AFRCNA 1720 - WEST AFRICA IN THE ERA OF THE SLAVE TRADE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    AFRCNA 1725 - SOCIAL AND HEALTH ISSUES IN EAST AFRICA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    AFRCNA 1760 - AFRICANA THEORY & METHODOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    AFRCNA 1768 - AFRICANA SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will assist the student in conducting a research project of her choice. The student will select a topic, write a proposal including the statement of a question or hypothesis, a list of the goals and objectives. A design of the methodology and a review of the relevant literature.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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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: Undergraduate
    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: Undergraduate
    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: Undergraduate
    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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Directed Studies
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    AFRCNA 1904 - SPECIAL TOPICS STUDY ABROAD


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Directed Studies
    Grade Component: Letter Grade

American Sign Language

  
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    ASL 0101 - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 1


    Minimum Credits: 4
    Maximum Credits: 4
    In this course, students are taught American sign language (ASL) vocabulary and grammatical structures. Students will also learn and ASL fingerspelling system, the use of gestural devices and how to appropriately use the signing space in ASL. Further, students will learn about deaf culture in the United States. Out-of-class participation in deaf community events in required.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ASL 0102 - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 2


    Minimum Credits: 4
    Maximum Credits: 4
    Students will learn more difficult vocabulary (signs) and how to use them in one-to-one, small group, and large group communication. Students will also be exposed to classifier constructions. This course is a continuation of ASL I (LING 0471) and it utilizes a similar curriculum.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 0471 or ASL 0101; MIN GRADE: ‘C’
  
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    ASL 0103 - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 3


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course continues the study of ASL. The students will work on developing intermediate communication skills and will concentrate on production skills. Linguistic and cultural features will be presented in the context of the language learning experiences. This level will also examine and discuss its use and effect on and in the deaf culture.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 0472 or ASL 0102; MIN GRADE: ‘C’
  
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    ASL 0104 - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 4


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This advanced course of ASL concentrates on developing more precise skills and competencies by using appropriate variations of ASL (regional, racial/ethnic, stylistic and age related) vocabulary. Students will also be given the opportunity to use ASL by volunteering in the deaf community.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 0473 or ASL 0103; MIN GRADE: ‘C’
  
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    ASL 0105 - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 5


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course provides an opportunity for students to formally pursue work on an individual basis. This course also applies knowledge of American Sign Language (ASL) grammar and vocabulary to the description of increasingly complex constructs, processes and situations. Students will: incorporate multiple character role shifting into medium-length stories, narratives and the discussion of hypothetical issues; identify and discuss various controversial issues via debate and presentation; continue to analyze multiple meaning English words and English idioms to express concepts in ASL; have the opportunity to gain knowledge about the Deaf Community as a part of the human diversity including people of color, genders, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, etc.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 0474 or ASL 0104; MIN GRADE ‘C’ FOR ALL LISTED COURSES
  
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    ASL 0106 - AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE 6


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Introduction to specific topics and content areas in ASL discourse, including Visual Gestural Communication, International, Deafblind, Mental Health/Medical/Sexual/Drugs/Other Special Topics in sign communication depending on the needs and interests of Pitt Students. This course also provides students with opportunities to expand expressive and receptive use of American Sign Language (ASL), including a variety of special topics at an advanced level. Special emphasis is on increasing spatial use, ASL fluency and non-manual grammar and behaviors. Skills related to research in sign language discourse will be introduced.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 1727 or ASL 1909 or ASL 0105; MIN GRADE ‘C’ FOR ALL LISTED COURSES
  
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    ASL 1615 - DEAF CULTURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Many deaf people in the U.S. Are united by a language (ASL) that differs from English and a culture with characteristics that differ from those of the larger hearing society. This culture is known as deaf culture, and students in this course will be introduced to various facets of American deaf culture through readings, videos, and discussions. Students will also explore other deaf cultures throughout the world. Among the course foci are: issues of accessibility, perspectives of deaf versus hearing individuals, and various examples of deaf literature.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 0472 or ASL 0102 (MIN GRADE ‘B’); CREQ: LING 0473 or ASL 0103 (MIN GRADE ‘B’); PLAN: American Sign Language (ASL-CS1); LEVEL: Junior or Senior
  
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    ASL 1625 - THE DEAF AND SOCIETY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The culture of deaf Americans is distinct from that of mainstream American society. The primary focus of this course is to expose students to the culture of the deaf in the United States and around the world. In addition to teaching students how to interact with the deaf in a culturally appropriate way, the course will help them understand deaf culture as part of human diversity. Among the course foci are: issues of accessibility, perspectives of deaf versus hearing individuals, and various examples of deaf literature.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ASL 1635 - ANALYSES OF ASL LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is designed for students to explore and analyze American sign language and American deaf culture through ASL literature. Studying ASL literature is a way to examine the linguistic complexity of ASL as well as explore the deaf community’s values and traditions as a minority group and a group to which visual depiction of ideas is highly valued. This course is conducted in ASL.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 0473 or ASL 0103 (MIN GRADE ‘B’); CREQ: LING 0474 or ASL 0104 (MIN GRADE ‘B’) and (LING 1722 or ASL 1615) (MIN GRADE ‘B’) PLAN: American Sign Language
  
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    ASL 1705 - STRUCTURE OF SIGN LANGUAGES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will focus on the linguistic structure of sign languages, drawing examples principally, though not exclusively, from American sign language (ASL). It will also highlight similarities and differences between sign languages and spoken languages. In addition to structural features, the course will cover mechanisms unique to visual/spatial languages, the use of the face and body for grammatical signals, language variation, and acquisition of sign languages.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 1000 or CSD 1020
  
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    ASL 1715 - STRUCTURE OF ASL AND ENGLISH


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 0473 or ASL 0103 (MIN GRADE ‘B’) and (LING 1000 or CSD 1020); CREQ: LING 0474 (MIN GRADE: ‘B’); PLAN: American Sign Language
  
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    ASL 1725 - SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF SIGN LANGUAGE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    There are various sociolinguistic topics that one must consider with respect to signed languages of the deaf. Regarding language contact, ambient languages-either signed or spoken-influence a signed language. Less than 10% of deaf people are exposed to signed language from birth, which results in unique phenomena. Additionally, signed languages exhibit variation based on a myriad of social and geographical factors. These topics, in addition to language planning and language policy, will be addressed in this course.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 1000 or CSD 1020
  
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    ASL 1800 - INTRODUCTION TO ASL-ENGLISH INTERPRETING


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ASL 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Independent Study
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ASL 1905 - UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Independent Study
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ASL 1909 - TOPICS IN SIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: LING 474 and 1722; PLAN: American Sign Language

Anthropology

  
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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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 0534 - PREHISTORIC FOUNDATIONS OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Neanderthals, ice-age art, Indo-European languages, Stonehenge, megaliths, Celts, and more; the major archeological discoveries, from the first traces of human occupation of European soil up to the early middle ages, will be covered through illustrated lectures, films, and perhaps museum visits. Course also offers a basic introduction to the discipline of archeology, thus serving as preparation for other courses in the subject; it also serves as a useful foundation for studies in history, ethnic history, art history, and classics.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 0538 - THE ARCHEOLOGIST LOOKS AT DEATH


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Pyramids, tombs, burial mounds, graves, skeletons, mummies; the stuff of gothic romance. But the way people disposed of their dead also tells us an amazing amount about life in the past. We will look at the wide range of burial practices in the world, including the “American way of death”, and then concentrate on the physical remains themselves. What do burial practices indicate as to beliefs, rituals, religion and society?
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 0601 - PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: OVERVIEW


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Designed for undergraduate non-majors, this course will provide a basic introduction to the issues, theories, and methods of physical anthropology. Beginning with a consideration of evolutionary, genetic and geologic principles, the course goes on to consider the diversity of fossil and extant primates, including humans. Issues in anatomy, paleontology and behavior will all be addressed.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 0630 - FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 0680 - INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is designed to introduce the undergraduate to the issues, theories and methods of physical anthropology. Beginning with a consideration of evolutionary, genetic and geologic principles, the course goes on to consider, the diversity of fossil and extant primates, including humans. Issues in anatomy, paleontology and behavior will all be addressed.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 0681 - INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN EVOLUTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This is an introduction to human evolution and, in general, the evolution of the larger group to which we belong, the order primates. We will survey first the development of evolutionary ideas and modern developments in biology and geology and then review the diversity of living and fossil primates, dwelling especially on the discoveries and controversies surrounding our own evolutionary past.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 0701 - CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: OVERVIEW


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Designed for undergraduate non-majors, this course will provide a broad introduction to cultural anthropology. This course examines the behavior and customs of peoples throughout the world and considers what it means to be human. We will consider patterns of marriage, family organization, gender, political behavior, economic systems, rituals, etc., Of other peoples and compare these with American social patterns.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 0710 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will be on a topic in the area of specialization of a visiting scholar yet to be determined.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 0717 - MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT AND THE SUPERNATURAL BODY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 0768 - HUMAN SEXUALITY IN CROSS CULTURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course explores the expression of human sexuality across a diversity of cultural and social settings using a cross-cultural framework that is based on comparing information on sexuality in other cultures with data from us. It includes how human groups manage sexuality and reproduction; theories of the development of marriage, family, and household systems; differences in values and expectations related to sexuality; the development as sexual expression across the life span; understanding heterosexual and homosexual relationships; and understanding sexual violence.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 0780 - INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    By examining the behavior and customs of peoples throughout the world, the course considers what it means to be human. We will describe the patterns of marriage, family organization, warfare and political behavior, economic systems, rituals, etc., Of other peoples, especially those of tribal societies, and compare these with American social patterns. Anthropological films and slide presentations will supplement lectures.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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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: Undergraduate
    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 1447 - LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Certain cultural concerns are well-labelled linguistically: kinship, plant-names, diseases, colors, etc. The study of how such semantic fields are labelled and organized is ethnosemantics. Much of the way language is used depends on the context of speaking. Different ways of talking to different people is the subject matter of sociolinguistics. Some thoughts that we habitually think seem illogical on reflection, but it seems as if our language predisposes us to think this way. Such phenomena are addressed by the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1450 - GENDER AND SUSTAINABILITY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ANTH 1516 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY GEOPHYSICS


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    This course provides a general introduction to common methods of geophysical prospection being used within archaeology. Classroom lectures will be provided on: (i) integration of geophysics as a tool within broader research programs, (ii) background theory on the methods and their use in field research (fluxgate gradiometery, earth resistance, gpr, magnetic susceptibility, electrical conductivity), and (iii) opportunity to process and interpret actual geophysics datasets. Hands-on training in geophysics survey also will be provided through practical field sessions including: fluxgate gradiometry, earth resistance, and magnetic susceptibility.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Practicum
    Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
  
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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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: GEOL 0055
  
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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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1525 - EASTERN NORTH AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course deals with cultural development in the eastern United States from approximately 20,000 years ago to the period of European contact. Particular attention will be paid to man’s adaptation to late pleistocene and holocene environments, the initial occupation of the region East of the Mississippi, the origins of agricultural systems and the rise of complex societies, including the Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian manifestations.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1526 - WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The prehistory of Western North America is examined in detail from the initial peopling of the area to the period of historic contact. Special emphasis is given to the Paleo-Indian and archaic techno/subsistence stages in the arid portions of the West.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1527 - ARCHAEOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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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: Undergraduate
    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: Undergraduate
    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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1535 - BASIC ARCHEOLOGICAL FIELD TRAINING


    Minimum Credits: 6
    Maximum Credits: 6
    The university of Pittsburgh field training program in archaeology is conducted at various locations. Features of the excavations include basic training in mapping, archaeological survey, excavation methods, soil analysis, data recording, and preliminary artifact analysis.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Credit Laboratory
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1536 - PALEO-KITCHEN: PREHISTORIC DIET, COOKING AND DOMESTICITY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    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: Undergraduate
    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: Undergraduate
    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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1543 - ANCIENT STATES IN THE NEW WORLD


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Drawing on the fact that the ancient new world was a dazzling treasure house of non-Western political thought and organization, this course uses archaeology and ethnohistory to document and make comparative sense of the rich variety of political arrangements which existed among prehispanic states in MesoAmerica and Andean South America. A special aim is to understand how Amer-Indian concepts about state craft and rulership mesh with anthropological and other theories about ancient states.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1546 - CAVEMAN: ARCHAEOLOGY, POP CULTURE AND THE PRIMITIVE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ANTH 1547 - POTS AND PEOPLE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1548 - AMAZONIAN ARTS: MAKING AND MEANING


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course introduces students to the arts of the Amazonian region in the context of their function and meaning. The course will be taught as a combination of lecture and hands-on experience working with native potters from the Bobonaza river. Students will learn to make pottery in the Kichwa (Quichua) tradition, and to understand the role of pottery and material culture in the daily lives of people in this region. On a number of occasions, students will accompany the native potters on journeys into the adjacent forest to gather materials and to study the patterns in nature that inspire them. Here students will observe related arts such as face paint patterns, beaded ornaments, ritual singing and storytelling. Carefully selected readings and lectures will use these arts as a window for exploring Amazonian thinking about the natural world behind the designs, and the ways in which the designs can be used to understand patterns of social interaction. Interviews with potters will aid in understanding these arts in the context of daily and ceremonial life. In the process, the arts become a doorway allowing the student to explore Amazonian culture and environment first hand. Comparative material from several other world regions will also be discussed.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ANTH 1549 - WARFARE IN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1552 - A HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THOUGHT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ANTH 1556 - ZOOARCHAEOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 4
    Maximum Credits: 4
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Practicum
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ANTH 1557 - ARCHAEOLOGY OF RUSSIA, CENTRAL ASIA, AND MONGOLIA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ANTH 1600 - HUMAN EVOLUTION AND VARIATION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    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: Undergraduate
    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: Undergraduate
    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: Undergraduate
    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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1609 - ADVANCED SKELETAL ANALYSIS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course provides the student with an in-depth understanding of the skeletal features used to develop the osteobiographic profile (e.g., age, sex, stature, ancestry, handedness, etc.) Of an individual. This analysis is essential for forensic identification and forms the foundation for the reconstruction of ancient individuals and their life-ways. Each student will select some aspect of skeletal analysis and present an overview of the bone biology, the history of the analytical methods, the problems and advantages of each method, modifications that others have made to address these issues, and the current state of knowledge. In the past, some students have proposed new methods of analysis. This will be complemented by a lab exercise designed by the student that will provide data for interobserver analysis of various techniques. The results of this lab will be presented as posters which will be posted on CW at the end of the term. Prior osteological experience is required.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0630 or 1602
  
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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: Undergraduate
    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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1617 - PALEOPATHOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1619 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Topics covered vary greatly with instructor and term.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1703 - THE HISTORY OF GOD


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    God has a history. In the earliest days of that history, God was worshiped as one of a plethora of deities controlling various spheres of cosmic activity or the human world. Students in this course will learn about this ancient pantheon - how gods functioned in society and how their presence was experienced by those devoted to them. They will then trace the evolution of the God of Israel from a mountaintop deity of the southern Levant in the late second millennium BCE to a supreme deity worshiped by a small group of absolute monotheists based in Jerusalem in the mid-first millennium BCE. Students will become more sophisticated readers of biblical texts in the process. The sources of the Hebrew Bible reflect not a homogeneous monotheism, but rather a diverse set of belief systems tending toward henotheism or even polytheism. By appropriating and reinterpreting the religious myths of their neighbors, the Israelites arrived at a character of the divine that has proven problematic to many contemporary theologians, particularly on issues of LGBT rights, women’s rights, and the environment.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1704 - RITUAL: THEORIES AND CASES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course deals rigorously with historical and contemporary topics in the study of ritual and its intersections with religion, politics, medicine, disaster studies, and the study of social relations in general. From being considered peripheral to social science, ritual has re-emerged as a fundamental category of human behavior, relevant across a wide span of domains of actions. While there is a close connection between ritual and religion, ritual action is important outside of the sphere of religion and is now considered fundamental to the workings of society. Students in this course will understand how ritual practices vary cross-culturally while serving basic functions. The course provides case studies from different areas and shows how theory applies to these cases. Instruction methods include lectures and discussion; student work includes presentations, essays, and exams.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ANTH 1708 - SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND POWER IN POST-CONQUEST CITIES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ANTH 1711 - ETHNOBIOLOGY: AMAZONIAN RELIGION AND NATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The course explores Amazonian cultural knowledge of plant and animal species, comparing it to scientific knowledge, to uncover underlying assumptions that constitute a systematic, if implicit, Amazonian philosophy of nature. It also teaches students how to ask key questions and to carry out qualitative research on ethnobiology. Over generations of hunting and gathering Amazonian cultures gained an intimate knowledge of their rainforest environment, the most bio-diverse on earth. Now, more than ever, preservation of that environment depends on improving understanding and cooperation between environmentalists and the native peoples who live there; and upon integrating traditional Amazonian and scientific knowledge of the natural world. The course addresses key ethnobiological questions such as: how do native Amazonian people classify plant and animal species? How do they understand the extinction or the emergence of new species? How do they understand plant and animal behavior? How is plant and animal ecology believed to serve as a model for understanding human society and vice versa? How should human emotions be regulated so as to better work with nature? What aesthetic, emotional or religious practices were developed to create bonds of empathy or communication between human beings and other species? What are the practical implications of the answers to these questions for collaborative environmental work with indigenous communities?
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1713 - HEALTH, NUTRITION, AND POPULATION 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will provide an introduction to the study of the health, population and nutrition concerns of indigenous peoples; provide an understanding of the health concerns of the Kichwa speaking people of the Ecuadorian amazon and provide a grounding for research on the health of Amazonian peoples. It will be taught as a combination of lectures, discussion of readings, site/field visits, interviewing of key actors and analysis of primary materials derived from interviews and observations of Kichwa people, healers and patients.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1714 - HEALTH, NUTRITION AND 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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1715 - UNDERSTANDING MODERN ITALY: AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN SOCIETY


    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: Undergraduate
    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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1725 - SOCIAL AND HEALTH ISSUES IN EAST AFRICA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1730 - ETHNO-NATIONAL VIOLENCE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1737 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will be on a topic in the area of specialization of a visiting scholar yet to be determined.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1738 - GENDER PERSPECTIVES IN ANTHROPOLOGY


    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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1740 - GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND CHILDHOOD IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    “Although childhood is often conflated with a biological category based on an immature body, in reality it is much more. Instead, this course examines the ways in which childhood is a discursive and continuously shifting category, one that changes across time and place. This course will introduce students to the study of children and childhood in a cross-cultural context and will pay particular attention to the ways in which notions of childhood, and the experience of being a child, draw from and reproduce understandings of gender and sexuality as they intersect with race, class, ethnicity, etc. Through readings, lectures, and films, we will also consider the meaning of gendered childhoods in light of contemporary forms of conception, children’s culture (media, toys and artifacts, stories), child labor and play, and ritual and coming of age ceremonies. An analysis of these contemporary phenomenon highlight local and regional notions of childhood and their intersection with broader global patterns.”
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ANTH 1741 - ENERGY AND ENERGOPOLITICS IN EURASIA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    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: Undergraduate
    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: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
 

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