Lower Division Courses

ANTH 1: Introduction to Socio-cultural Anthropology [4]
Introduction to human culture and cultural diversity, including the methods by which anthropology—via the study of social institutions, shared practices, and collective meanings— seeks to understand how people adapt to, make sense of, and transform their worlds. [Offered annually during Fall semester]

ANTH 3: Introduction to Anthropological Archaeology [4]
Survey of theory, field and analysis methods, and objectives of anthropological archaeology. Examines how intellectual perspectives guide the ways in which archaeologists undertake their work and the types of materials they collect and analyze to study issues such as technology, exchange, subsistence, settlement, social organization, and ideology. [Offered annually during Spring semester]

ANTH 5: Introduction to Biological Anthropology [4]
Introduction to evolution and how natural selection has shaped modern human variation. Examination of non-human primate behavior and how analogous it might to that of early humans. Discussion of culture, the fossil evidence, genetics, and inheritance. [Offered annually during Fall semester]

ANTH 90X: Freshman Seminar [1]
Examination of a topic in Anthropology.

ANTH 95: Lower Division Undergraduate Research [1-5]
Supervised research. Permission of instructor required.

ANTH 98: Lower Division Directed Group Study [1-5]
Permission of instructor required. P/NP grading only.

ANTH 99: Lower Division Individual Research [1-5]
Permission of instructor required. P/NP grading only.

Upper Division Courses

ANTH 100: History of Anthropological Thought and Practice [4]
Historical overview of key individuals and ideas influencing the practice of anthropology and the production of anthropological knowledge. Topics may include the disciplining of anthropology into related subfields; social evolutionism, historical particularism; British structural functionalism; French structuralism; cultural ecology; sociobiology; symbolic and interpretive anthropology; feminist and other critiques of anthropology. Prerequisite: ANTH 1 and (ANTH 3 or ANTH 5); or consent of instructor. [Offered annually during Fall semester]

ANTH 110: Migration, Diaspora, and Transnational Belonging [4]
Exploration of modern, global movements of people with a focus on the conditions, processes, and practices of contemporary national and transnational belonging. Topics include globalization, migration, immigration, Diaspora, the nation-state, national identities and cultural citizenship. Prerequisite: ANTH 1; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 112: Political Anthropology [4]
Political anthropology involves the study of formal political institutions as well as the manifestation of power in everyday life. Topics may include: the state and other forms of political authority; social inequality; political competition and conflict; indigenous responses to colonialism; social movements; citizenship; nationalism and ethnicity; genocide; governmentality; and globalization. Prerequisite: ANTH 1; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 114: Social Memory [4]
Introduction to the practices, spaces, artifacts and media through which social memory is formed, maintained and reproduced. Topics may include: how societies remember; how the past and its representation is bound up with national or other shared identities; commemoration; heritage; and the link between history, memory and social justice. Prerequisite: ANTH 1; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 116: Indigenous Activism in the Americas [4]
Focusing on the contemporary struggles of Indigenous peoples for rights; self-determination; social, political, and environmental justice and/or increased nation-state participation. Examines how the mobilization of indigenous peoples is strengthened through regional, hemispheric and global solidarities; and how international law, media, and technology support indigenous actions for change. Prerequisite: ANTH 1; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 120: Introduction to Medical Anthropology [4]
This course provides knowledge about medical anthropology, how different cultures understand human physiology and health, definitions of sickness, types of medical systems and practitioners, how cultural practices affect health, issues in gender environmental health, and how medical anthropology influences health policy. Prerequisite: ANTH 1 or ANTH 5; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 121: Ethnomedicine [4]
This course provides knowledge of medical systems cross culturally including the three ancient literary systems (Chinese, Ayurvedic, Greco-Arabic), shamanism, folk medicine, and biomedicine. Readings focus on the beliefs and organization of each system, types of practitioners, types of sicknesses treated, and how anthropologists research and understand these phenomena. Prerequisite: ANTH 1 or ANTH 120; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 124: Ethnopsychology [4]
This course covers anthropological perspectives on mental states, experience of emotions, and concepts of mental normality in a variety of cultural settings. Lectures and readings will focus especially on the relationship between individual and society, the role of emotions, and the definition of psychological phenomena cross culturally. Prerequisite: ANTH 1 or 120; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 126: Anthropological Approaches to Gender [4]
This course will examine gender and sexuality cross-culturally: cultural aspects of gender, sexuality, reproduction, and gender identity. Readings will explore definitions of male and female roles, sexual mores, issues in human reproduction, variations in definitions of sexual identity, and cultural, economic and religious aspects of gender, marriage, and family. Prerequisite: ANTH 1; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 130: Material Culture [4]
This course examines the role that material objects play in human social relations, identity, and economy, including archaeological application of such knowledge to past societies. This course explores the range of production and use of material objects, including theories of material culture, technology, style, meaning, memory, and agency. Prerequisite: ANTH 3; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 134: Dynamics of Small-scale Societies [4]
This course examines ethnographic and archaeological literature on small-scale hunter-gatherer-fisher societies, and explores how these data contribute to study of subsistence and settlement strategies, technology, exchange, demography, and social relations in the past and present. Prerequisite: ANTH 3; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 140: Cultural Heritage Policy and Practice [4]
Critical examination of the legal, practical, and ethical aspects of cultural heritage management in the United States and abroad. Topics include cultural resource management in public and private contexts, participation of stakeholders, the application of anthropological knowledge, and public outreach. Prerequisite: ANTH 3 or WH1; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 142: Archaeology of Colonialism [4]
This course examines theoretical perspectives, issues, and interpretations in archaeological study of the interaction between indigenous peoples, European colonists, and enslaved Africans. Topics include disease, power, resistance, colonial institutions, multi-ethnic communities, and gender relations in diverse native engagements with colonists and others from a variety of homelands. Prerequisite: ANTH 3; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 146: Archaeology of Native California [4]
Research issues and regional interpretations in the archaeological study of California native cultures from earliest settlement to contact with Europeans. Prerequisite: ANTH 3; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 150: Race and Human Variation [4]
This course investigates how human biological variation is studied and how the definition of such variation differs between the scientific community and the public. Topics include historical perspectives on race and eugenics, how scientific racism has shaped national policy, and how genetic diversity and the Human Genome Project have informed such issues. Prerequisite: ANTH 5; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 151: Human Adaptability [4]
This course examines how humans live in marginal environments, such as extremely hot, extremely cold, or high altitude areas. Evolutionary, genetic, ecological, demographic, and cultural explanations for human biological adaptability are explored. Students consider case studies from the high Andes, Siberia, equatorial South America, and the International Space Station. Prerequisite: ANTH 5; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 152: Dying, Death, and Dead Persons [4]
This course examines the multiple cultural meanings of death and the dead person, including hospice, reactions to death, memorial gestures, rights to and constructions of the dead body in the U.S. legal system, cadavers in education and research, dead persons in mass disasters and human rights cases, archaeological examples, and repatriation issues. Prerequisite: ANTH 5; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 155: Paleodemography [4]
Exploration of human population growth and decline, fertility and mortality, and population age and sex structure in the past without benefit of written records. Topics include the interplay of demography and hominid evolution, migration, environmental stress, the transition to agriculture, and the rise and fall of complex societies. Prerequisite: ANTH 3, ANTH 5; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 160: Human Origins [4]
This course explores the biological heritage of humans by providing students with a rigorous grounding in modern evolutionary theory and undertaking detailed study of the phylogeny, morphology, and paleoecology of the Hominini. In addition, this course uses the fossil record to reveal the truly unique features of Homo sapiens. Prerequisite: ANTH 5; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 162: Growth, Development, and Human Evolution [4]
This course applies modern life history theory to understand how evolution of growth patterns contributed to divergence in adult morphology among human ancestors, as revealed by the fossil record of hominin species. We also examine the uniquely human phenomenon of childhood, and the geographic diversity observed among modern human beings. Prerequisite: ANTH 5; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 169: Trends in Biological Anthropology [4]
Explores current trends in biological anthropology. Course material will vary. Possible topics may include: isotopic analysis of human nutrition; genetic studies of human variation and adaptability; life history and population studies of health and disease; studies of the interaction of the environment, human behavior, and human biology; and ethics. Prerequisite: ANTH 5; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor.

ANTH 170: Ethnographic Methods [4]
Introduction to the methods of ethnographic research and the process of writing ethnography. Focus is on participant-observation, interviewing, the recording of ethnographic field notes, and visual anthropology. Issues include: objectivity, insider/outsider status, human subjects protection, multi-sited ethnography, the politics of fieldwork and ethnographic representation, and changing definitions of “the field.”  Prerequisite: ANTH 1; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor. [Offered every other academic year beginning AY2007-08]

ANTH 172: Ethnohistory [4]
This course examines the critical use of historical documents, journals, and visual images; archives; and oral history to understanding past cultures and culture change. Analysis of case studies and original archival research demonstrate how these sources complement data collected through ethnographic, archaeological, or biological methods.  Prerequisite: ANTH 1, ANTH 3; or junior/senior standing; or consent of instructor. [Offered every other academic year beginning AY2009-10]

ANTH 174: Lithic Analysis [4]
Systematic consideration and practical application of analytical laboratory and data recording techniques used to study stone tools and manufacturing debris. Topics include procurement; production and reuse; style and function; the organization of technology with respect to settlement and gender; and craft specialization.  Prerequisite: ANTH 3; and ANTH major/minor only or consent of instructor. [Offered every other academic year beginning AY2008-09]

ANTH 176: Archaeological Field Methods [4]
Introduction to the goals and methods of archaeological surface survey, excavation, and various forms of field documentation. The integration of research issues and methods is addressed through both classroom and field activities. Prerequisite: ANTH 3; and ANTH major/minor only or consent of instructor.

ANTH 178: Human Osteology [4]
This course allows students to develop a basic familiarity with human skeletal remains, including the identification of the bones of the skull, dentition, and axial and appendicular skeletons. Identification of side (i.e., left, right) and element of both intact and fragmentary remains will be considered. Prerequisite: ANTH 5; and ANTH major/minor only or consent of instructor.

ANTH 179: Bioarchaeology [4]
In-depth consideration of methods used to identify sex, age at death, stature, and ancestry from human skeletal remains. Anthropometrics, disease, trauma, and basic demographic techniques are also considered, preparing students for anthropological study of both individual remains and skeletal populations. Prerequisite: ANTH 5, ANTH 178; and ANTH major/minor only or consent of instructor.

ANTH 190: Topics in Anthropology [4]
Exploration of a special topic or problem within or between fields in anthropology. Topics vary and course may be repeated for credit if topics differ.

ANTH 195: Upper Division Undergraduate Research [1-5]
Supervised Research. Permission of instructor required. Letter grade only.

ANTH 198: Upper Division Directed Group Study [1-5]
Permission of instructor required. P/NP grading only.

ANTH 199: Upper Division Directed Individual Study [1-5]
Permission of instructor required. P/NP grading only.