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UNDERGRADUATE ANTHROPOLOGY
PROGRAM
It is the central concerns of anthropology--human
variation and human culture--that shape this department's curriculum
into important ways: (1) the organization of coursework and (2) our
approach to the teaching of anthropology.
Our requirements for majors are designed to introduce you to three
subdisciplines of anthropology that address human variation and human
culture from three perspectives: human biology, human prehistory, and
ethnology (the study of social and cultural variability in living human
populations). You'll notice that there are only three required courses
in our curriculum. They are basic introductory courses.
ANTH 101 World Cultures: Introduction to
Anthropology
ANTH 102 Introduction to Archaeology
ANTH 105 Human Evolution
The next level of requirements, the 200 level, is
organized by subdisciplinary categories, one category for each of the
subdisciplines. Here, any one of the several forces comprising the
category is chosen from each of the three to satisfy the 200 level
requirements.
(a) Physical Anthropology
* ANTH 231 Fossil Humans
* ANTH 234 Human Variation
* ANTH 235 Biological Bases and
Evolution of Human Behavior
* ANTH 237 The Human Skeleton
(b) Archaeology-Prehistory
* ANTH 220 Method and Theory in
Archaeology
* ANTH 221 Old World Archaeology
* ANTH 222 Hunter-Gatherers, Farmers and
Herders
* ANTH 225 Anthropological
Interpretations of Paleolithic Cave Art
* ANTH 226 Archeaology of North America
* ANTH 227 Ancient Civilizations of
Mexico and Central America
* ANTH 228 Ancient Civilizations of
South America
(c) Cultural Anthropology-Ethnology
* ANTH 270 The First Americans
* ANTH 271 American Indian Religion and
Philosophy
* ANTH 272 North American Indians
* ANTH 273 The Golden Peninsula:
Ethnography of Southeast Asia
* ANTH 274 Ethnography of Africa
* ANTH 275 South American Indians
* ANTH 276 Pacific Island Cultures
* ANTH 277 Ethnography of Meso-America
* ANTH 278 Brazil: a Multi-ethnic Society
* ANTH 279 The Wonder That Was India
* ANTH 280 China and Japan: Society and
Culture
* ANTH 281 Ethnography of the Middle East
Four other courses that complete your requirements
are electives, their choice depending mostly on students' interests.
But two of the four choices must be at the 300 or 400 level. The
purpose of this requirement is to ensure that each of our students
gains experience dealing with the sorts of intellectual techniques that
a subdiscipline employs to explore particular substantive problems in
depth. The problems can be anything from how different uses of a flint
tool create different wear patterns on its edges to how ethnography has
helped shape the modern novel. Finally, we require that all of our
students acquire skills in the sorts of writing that we uses to
communicate our findings to our colleagues. We work with these skills
in many of our courses, but it is ANTH 309 that deals with the nuts and
bolts of anthropological writing.
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