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1010  Culture and the Human Experience (3) Fulfills Social/Behavioral Science Exploration.
   Introduction to the concept of culture as a framework for understanding similarities and differences in behavior and values in human societies.

1020  Human Origins: Evolution and Diversity (3) Fulfills Physical/Life Science Exploration.
   Introduction to biological anthropology; surveys of hominid fossils, primate biology and behavior, human biological variation, ecology and adaptation, and evolutionary theory.

1030  World Prehistory: An Introduction (3) Cross listed as ENVST 1030. Fulfills Social/Behavioral Science Exploration.
   Introduction to the two-million-year-old archaeological record of human prehistory.

1050  The Evolution of Human Nature (3) Fulfills Physical/Life Science Exploration.
   An overview of the broad patterns of temporal and spatial variation in morphology and behavior among humans and our nearest relatives. Basic concepts and models in human evolutionary ecology are introduced.

2017  In Search of Human Heritage (3) Fulfills Social/Behavioral Science Exploration.
   Explores apparent mysteries in human culture and society. Witchcraft, voodoo, cannibalism and other food customs, sex roles and sexuality, incest taboo, territoriality, aggression and warfare, notions of beauty, concepts of the bizarre, primitive thought and language, and other topics.

2018  Human Universals (3) Fulfills Social/Behavioral Science Exploration.
   Although human beings vary enormously in their beliefs, values, and ways of life, some patterns are characteristic of all or nearly all people everywhere. To shed light on what is historically and cross-culturally universal, this course focuses on one or more basic dimensions of human experience, such as language, kinship, sexuality, violence, ethnicity, and religion.

2020  Human Evolution (3) Fulfills Physical/Life Science Exploration.
   Modern humans like ourselves only appear within the last 100,000 to 50,000 years. This course will cover precursors to our species and the origin and dispersal of modern humans. Data will be drawn from paleoanthropology, archaeology, ethnography, and genetics. Evolutionary theory will provide the framework for understanding the data and for generating and testing hypotheses.

2030  Archaeology (3) Fulfills Physical/Life Science Exploration.
   Our knowledge of variation in prehistoric human behavior is based virtually exclusively on archaeological analyses of the physical remains left behind by ancient peoples. This course reviews the history, goals, theories, and methods of archaeological research, especially as influenced by the natural sciences. Substantive examples are drawn from a diverse set of time periods and geographical locations.

2031  The Rise of Civilization (3) Fulfills Social/Behavioral Science Exploration.
   Human society has changed drastically in the last 10,000 years. For 90 percent of our (pre)history humankind lived in small, egalitarian bands of hunter-gatherers. Since then, social groupings have grown larger and more economically and socially diverse. Why these changes have occurred is one of the great questions in anthropology and history. This class will explore the rise of complex societies, comparing early complex societies in the Old World and the New World.

2040  Anthropology of Humor (3)
   The course will introduce students to the anthropology of laughter and humor, focusing on their role in any society (from preliterate to technologically advanced) but particularly on the use and abuse of humor in modern reality of the U.S. It will point out that different forms of humor not only reflect socio-political values, dynamics, conflicts and challenges experienced in the multiethnic, multicultural, and multilingual complexity of the American "melting pot" but also perpetuate the existing stereotypes, inequalities and perceptions.

2220  Intro to Forensic Anthropology and the "Science" of CSI (3)
   Forensic anthropology is a relatively new field that uses physical anthropology, archaeology, and medical-legal investigation procedures to describe and identify human remains. This course will give students a general understanding of forensic anthropology within the broader context of the forensic sciences. Students will gain basic knowledge of the human skeleton, including dentition, will learn methods for description and identification of human remains, and will learn where and how forensic anthropology is practiced.

3000  Success Through Academic Resources and Technology (1)
   Designed for entering transfer students and prospective anthropology majors. Its objectives entail providing students with the knowledge, strategies, and competencies to help enhance their experience at the University of Utah. Students are expected to take this course in conjunction with other courses in their prospective major so that this course can help improve critical thinking skills in the major and help students to integrate knowledge in the major. Students will have opportunities to improve computer literacy skills and to learn essential library technologies.

3001  Study Resources in Anthropology (1)
   Familiarizes new majors, and transfer students with the academic resources available to Anthropology students at the University of Utah. Covers program, department, library, college, campus, intercampus, and internet resources.

3111  The First Nations of Eastern North America (3) Fulfills Diversity.
   Meets with ANTH 6111. This course studies change and continuity in the cultures and histories of North America's First Nations in regions east of the Rocky Mountains from the fifteenth century until modern times.

3112  The First Nations of Western North America (3) Fulfills Diversity.
   Meets with ANTH 6112. This course studies change and continuity in the cultures and histories of North America's First Nations in regions west of the Rocky Mountains from the fifteenth century until modern times.

3121  Cultures of Africa (3) Fulfills International Requirement.
   Meets with ANTH 6121. Cultures and societies of Africa, with emphasis less on national political issues than on immediate, daily concerns of most Africans (e.g., making a living, family life, settling disputes, etc.).

3125  Silk Road: Past and Present (3)
   The course will introduce students to one of the most interesting and controversial subjects in the social sciences and humanities-nomadic migrations occurring over the millennia in Eurasia. The concept of "nomadism" and its different forms in the region will be explained and discussed within geographical, historical, socio-economic, political and cultural contexts during the last six thousand years, but especially focusing on the modern era. Relevant data from China, Central Asia, Mongolia, Siberia, the Middle East, India and Europe will be presented and discussed. Graduate students will be held to a higher standard of performance.

3126  Mediterranean Cultures (3)
   This course examines contemporary life in the Mediterranean region with an emphasis on communication and flow of goods, people, and ideas across the Mediterranean Sea. Using an anthropological perspective informed by history, the course analyzes such issues as kinship and family, politics, ethnicity, labor migration, and religious beliefs in Mediterranean cultures.

3127  Peoples and Cultures of Europe (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6127. Within the last two decades Europe has seen the end of the Cold War, civil wars, the rise of new nation-states, and an enlargement of the European Union, all of which resulted in large movements of people across national boundaries as well as across the borders of Europe. Taking an anthropological perspective informed by history, this course examines how political, economic, and cultural processes have impacted the lives of the people in contemporary Europe.

3131  Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East (3) Cross listed as MID E 3713. Fulfills International Requirement.
   Meets with ANTH 6131 and MID E 6713. The turmoil of Middle Eastern life has its roots in ideas and lifestyles developed over thousands of years. This course examines the land and people, analyzing the role of ethnicity, religion, politics, economics, and values in every day behavior.

3132  Traditional Jewish Communities (3) Cross listed as MID E 3723.
   Meets with ANTH 6132 and MID E 6723. Examines the question "Who is a Jew?" by looking at Jewish life in Old World Jewish communities and Jewish interaction with the non-Jewish world. Explores implications for understanding contemporary Jewish attitudes and behaviors.

3133  Anthropology of Judaism (3) Cross listed as MID E 3733.
   Meets with MID E 6733 and ANTH 6033. Applies anthropological theory and method regarding the relationship of religion and culture to a specific system of belief and practice: Judaism. Explores the spectrum of Jewish ritual and ideology, analyzing variant traditions and examining the potential for adaptation to changing circumstances.

3141  Himalayan Kingdoms (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6041. Concepts of caste, kingship, reincarnation, and enlightenment are introduced through the history of Hinduism and Buddhism in the Himalayas. Two small kingdoms, Nepal and Bhutan, offer a fascinating comparison of Hindu and Buddhist ways of life.

3142  Tibetan Civilization (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6142. An introduction to the cultural and political history of Tibet, one of the world's great civilizations. Focuses on the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism and on Tibet's political relations with neighboring states, including India, Mongolia, and China.

3152  Australia and New Guinea Ethnography (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6152. Continent of hunters, island of gardeners--sites of classic anthropological work. Prehistory and ethnography of Australia and New Guinea from 50,000 years ago to present. Ecology, economics, political and social organization, marriage systems, and religion.

3153  Black Atlantic: Anthropology of the African Diaspora (3) Fulfills International Requirement.
   Meets with ANTH 6153. Anthropological perspective on people of African descent in the United States, Caribbean, Latin America, and South Africa. Begin by looking at the three sides of Atlantic slavery: Western Europe, West and Southern Africa, and slave societies of the New World and South Africa. Examine "maroon" societies founded by fugitive slaves, the threat of slave revolution in the age of American revolutions, and politics of racial categorization and stratification in the aftermath of slavery. Finally, we take a comparative approach to language, the family, sexuality, conflict and class, religion, arts and ideologies among these cultures.

3154  Brazilian Culture (3) Fulfills International Requirement.
   Meets with ANTH 6154. An introduction to the culture of Brazil. Consideration of Brazil as a multicultural society, comparing it to other major settler societies of the New World, including the U.S. and the rest of Latin America. We will consider Indian societies before and after contact, and we will compare slavery in the U.S. and Brazil. Why have race relations and definitions of race have developed differently in the two countries? We will look at authority, class, and violence. We will examine the culture of religion, sexuality, Carnival, music, and the media.

3211  Biology of Native Americans (3)
   Meets with ANTH 5211. Origin, population history, child growth, health, anthropometry, demography, and genetics of North and South American Indians. Biological variation and adaptation of Native American groups in pre-contact era, biological effects of European contact, and subsequent biological responses to modernization.

3311  North American Prehistory (3)
   Meets with ANTH 5311. Native Americans arrived on this continent 15,000 to 30,000 years ago. Initially hunter-gatherers, they subsequently developed agriculture and civilization independent of influence from the Old World; this course reviews the history of these developments.

3312  California Prehistory (3)
   Meets with ANTH 5312. With both extremely high diversity in environments and population densities, the archaeological record of California provides an ideal laboratory in which to evaluate hunter-gatherer variability. Proceeding chronologically, this course analyzes the record from an evolutionary ecological perspective.

3313  Utah Prehistory (3)
   Meets with ANTH 5313. This course presents the prehistory of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau as it is currently understood. A series of recent archaeological and paleoecological case studies will be used to examine current controversies and directions for future work.

3321  The Classic Maya (3)
   Meets with ANTH 5321. Explores the rise and fall of Classic Maya society through archaeology, hieroglyphic inscriptions, and ethnohistoric documents. Examines Maya economy, social organization, religion, warfare, and explanations as to why this society was so dramatically transformed after the 9th century A.D.

3322  Mesoamerican Archaeology (3)
   Meets with ANTH 5322. Surveys the rise of complex societies in Mesoamerica, focusing on the Olmecs, the Maya, Teotihuacan and the Aztecs. Explores differences between societies in tropical rainforest environments and the arid highlands. Considers the impact of the Spanish conquests on the societies of Mesoamerica.

3328  Anthropological Archaeology of the Near East (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6328. This course is designed as an analytical survey of major events and discoveries in the Near East through studying archaeological evidence and available textual sources. While the focus on this course is on Mesopotamia, Iran, Anatolia, and Syria-Palestine, other areas such as Egypt will be discussed whenever relevant to the understanding of the primary interest cultures.

3329  Anthropological Archaeology of Ancient Egypt (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6329. This course is designed as an analytical survey of major events and discoveries in Egypt through studying archaeological evidence and available textual sources. The focus of this course is on the Neolithic, Predynastic and Pharaonic periods in the Nile Valley, Nubia and Libya. Relevant case studies will provide students with the framework to study and understand practical applications of theoretical implications.

3331  Pleistocene Archeology (3)
   Meets with ANTH 5331. Reviews major problems in human evolution from an archaeological perspective. Focuses on the Old World Pleistocene, from 2.5 million to ten thousand years ago.

3961  Special Topics: Geographical Requirement (3)
   Meets with ANTH 5961. Topics vary. These courses count for geographical requirements for the major. Repeatable for credit.

3969  Special Topics (3)
   Topics Vary. These courses do not count as topical or geographical requirements for the major. A total of 2 courses (6 credits maximum) is allowed towards the major.

4110  Womens Cross Culturally (3) Cross listed as GNDR 4110.
   A cross-cultural investigation of women's lives in hunter-gatherer, nomadic, horticultural, agricultural, industrial, and developing societies. Examines the wide variation in: marriage (polygamy, polyandry), reproduction (menstrual taboos, breast feeding), religion (shaman, witches, goddesses), and the sexual division of labor. Explores current topics, including female circumcision, honor killings, dowry murders, female infanticide, and cultural relativism vis-a-vis human rights.

4123  Cultural Traditions of Asia (3) Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing.
   Meets with ANTH 6123. An introduction to the peoples and cultures of Asia, with an emphasis on the religious traditions of India, southeast Asia, China, and Japan.

4124  Religion In Latin America (3) Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing.
   Meets with ANTH 6124. A comparative anthropological look at the complex religious traditions and changes of Latin America, including Native American religions, African American religions, Catholicism, Protestantism, Pentecostalism, Para-Christian Movements (Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses), popular religion, and a range of new religious movements, as well as thinking about the religious and missionaries as social agents.

4130  The Anthropology of Food (3) Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing.
   Meets with ANTH 6130. Explores the use of food for social, political, economic, religious and personal goals in different cultures and the impact of food related practices on health.

4133  Maternal and Child Health (3) Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing.
   Meets with ANTH 6133. This course is about ecological constraints on female reproductive biology and child health. It focuses on how parenting behaviors have evolved over the course of human evolution. It investigates mammalian reproductive strategies, energetic costs of pregnancy and lactation, and cross-cultural variation in female fertility rates and child survival.

4134  Language, Thought and Culture: The Anthropology of the Human Mind (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6134. How does the mind shape culture? How does culture shape the mind? An introduction to language and symbolism, and to human concepts -- of space and time, of living things and supernatural beings, of mind and emotion -- across cultures.

4135  Symbolic Anthropology (3) Fulfills Social/Behavioral Science Exploration.
   Meets with ANTH 6135. This course offers an introduction to the ways of conceptualizing the world through symbols.

4138  Anthropology of Violence and Non-Violence (3) Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing.
   Meets with ANTH 6138. Murder, war, capital punishment, human sacrifice: why people resort to violence, and how they avoid it, in societies ranging from tribunal New guinea to the modern United States.

4139  Native American Religions (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6139. This course will examine the diverse beliefs and practices of Native American religions of North America. The dynamics of Native American religious change will be emphasized.

4141  Ethnicity and Nationalism (3) Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing.
   Meets with ANTH 6141. An introduction to theories of social identity, especially in modern nations and other plural societies. Among the questions to be considered are how ethnic and national identities are formed and why they so often provide a basis for violence and war.

4143  Anthropology of Mormonism (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6143. An exploration of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the broader set of Mormon movements, as social and cultural institutions in comparison with other religions and social groups, from the perspectives of anthropology, as well as the issues and politics of native and local ethnography.

4150  Evolution of Societies and Cultures (3)
   Prior to ten-thousand years ago, nearly all humans made their living by foraging and hunting. Now nearly all people who produce their own food practice some form of agriculture. The rest of us exchange various services for our food. We will study how this change took place from the following fields: history, economics and evolutionary biology.

4165  History of Anthropology (3) Prerequisite: ANTH 1010.
   Growth of anthropological knowledge and development of major ideas and methods, approached through biographies of leading figures.

4169  Ethnographic Methods (3) Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing.
   Survey of ethnographic methods, including behavior observation, interviewing, and related techniques. Students will practice the methods through class exercises and an individual project.

4171  Myth, Magic, and Religion (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6171. Searches for patterns and meaning in the variety of beliefs and practices found among societies, from simple to complex, which convention designates as "religion." Examines how even contemporary secular societies make decisions and behave within religio/magical constraints.

4181  Family, Power, and Society (3) Prerequisite: ANTH 1010.
   Meets with ANTH 6181. Variation of marriage, families, social inequality, work patterns, and sex roles within and among human societies. How anthropologists describe and explain these variations.

4182  Anthropology of Power (3) Prerequisite: ANTH 1010.
   Meets with ANTH 6182. Anthropology provides the framework for understanding power - not just the power of the state, but the power in everyday life, in friendships, families, coalitions and communities. Attention to social inequalities based on class, caste, race and gender

4183  Sex and Gender: Biosocial Perspectives (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6183. Why are females feminine, males masculine, and occasionally vice versa? Addresses the study of sex and gender differences from a biosocial perspective, with particular emphasis placed on the ways in which biological and cultural factors interact. Considers evolutionary, developmental, and socio-economic perspectives. Cross-cultural differences and similarities are emphasized.

4184  Hunter-Gatherer Ethnology (3) Cross listed as ENVST 4184.
   Meets with ANTH 6184. All of human experience before the last 10,000 years passed in this way of life. What is known about it? Survey of ecology, economics, technology, political and social organization, and religion among recent hunting and gathering people. Implications for human evolution are examined.

4185  Culture Change (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6185. Socio-cultural persistence and change and the processes that maintain stability or transform culture. Change ranging from indigenous innovation and invention to diffusion and acculturation are compared. The premises and methods of applied anthropology and their utilization in development projects are analyzed.

4186  Human Ecology (3) Cross listed as ENVST 4186.
   Meets with ANTH 6186. Survey of anthropological research on the relationships between environment and human behavior.

4187  Economic Anthropology (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6187. Sharing and saving, balanced reciprocity and market exchange, money and morality, economic redistribution and political power: a look at systems of property and exchange as part of culture, in societies ranging from tribal foragers to post-industrial consumers.

4192  Culture, Health, and Healing (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6192. Using anthropological research and perspectives, this course studies how the concept and practice of health and healing are mediated by culture in different historical and societal contexts.

4193  Medical Anthropology (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6193. Applied anthropology addressing the problem of behavioral change with regard to health issues from an evolutionary and cultural perspective. Examples will be drawn from cultures world wide.

4231  Social Consequences of Human Biological Diversity (3) Prerequisite: ANTH 1020 or ANTH 1050 or BIOL 1000.
   Meets with ANTH 6231. This is a mid-level course in anthropology about social consequences of human biological diversity. Important issues for citizens that demand scientific knowledge are explored.

4241  Darwinian Medicine (3)
   Meets with ANTH 5241. Evolution sheds light on medicine in various ways. It tells us why some pathogens are more virulent than others, why mothers and fetuses show adaptations for conflict (as well as cooperation) with one another, why we age, and why human females (but not those of other species) stop reproducing with years of good health ahead of them. These and other issues are covered in this survey of what evolution has to say about medicine.

4242  Anthropology of Clinical Health Care (3) Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing.
   Meets with ANTH 6242. This course explores the theory and ethnography of the origins and structure of contemporary, biomedicine, focusing on clinical settings such as hospitals, physicians' offices, HMOs, etc. in relationship to the cultural system of the West.

4252  Human Biology (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6252. Advanced treatment of human biological variation at individual and population levels. Patterns of physiological and genetic variation as adaptive responses to local ecological conditions, disease, and diet.

4255  Race and Culture (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6255. This course will view the crucial human question of race, using the insights of social science, biological science, and history. What is race? Does it even exist? How is race treated in different cultures? What is the history of racism? Emphasis will be placed on the American experience, but will use worldwide examples for comparison.

4261  Paleoanthropology (3) Cross listed as ENVST 4261.
   Meets with ANTH 6261. Advanced treatment of hominid fossil record from Miocene to recent. Related data in archaeology, geology, geochronology, taphonomy, and paleoclimatic reconstructions.

4271  Human Osteology (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6271. Laboratory course emphasizing forensic and archaeological problems in the identification and study of the human skeleton. Techniques in bone identification, sex, race, and age determination, stature reconstruction, paleopathology, and bone biology.

4272  Forensic Anthropology (3) Prerequisite: ANTH 1020, 4271.
   Introduction to the basic principles of forensic anthropology. The course will use human osteology, archaeology, and other anthropological research methods in the analysis and interpretation of human remains for the medico-legal professions.

4281  Primates (3)
   A survey of the diversity of non-human primates within the framework of evolutionary ecology. This course also explores the ways that the study of other primates contributes to our understanding of human behavior and evolution. Meets with ANTH 6281.

4291  Evolution of Human Health (3) Cross listed as ENVST 4291.
   Meets with ANTH 6291. History of human health in ecological, cultural, and historic contexts.

4334  Population Issues in Anthropology (3) Prerequisite: Junior or Senior Standing.
   Meets with ANTH 6334. Explores the role population factors play in anthropological explanation in both archaeological and ethnographic settings. Specific issues include possible relationships between population pressure and the adoption of agriculture, and problems of reconstructing ancient people's health.

4341  Fundamentals of Archaeology (3) Prerequisite: ANTH 1030 .
   Introduction to basic archaeological field techniques; mapping, field notes, photography, survey and basic excavation techniques. Combines lectures and field exercises.

4351  Anthropological Demography (3) Cross listed as ENVST 4351. Prerequisite: Any ANTH course and MATH 1070 or equivalent.
   Meets with ANTH 5351. Demographic survey of anthropological populations, including population history, methods of demographic analysis of small populations, skeletal series, population structure, and biological and cultural analysis of population change, marriage, and vital events.

4372  Zooarchaeology (3)
   Meets with ANTH 6372. Analyses of animal bones and teeth from archaeological sites help us understand ancient human foraging behavior and the nature of past environments. This intensive, laboratory-based class provides an introduction to archaeological faunal analysis, including the preparation of specimens for an osteological comparative collection. Students gain experience conducting research on faunal materials excavated from local archaeological sites.

4461  Behavioral Ecology and Anthropology (3) Cross listed as ENVST 4461. Prerequisite: ANTH 1050.
   Meets with ANTH 5461. Introduces theory, concepts, and models used to investigate and explain patterns of behavior in animals, and reviews applications to anthropological topics, including foraging strategies, social interactions, and the evolution of human life histories.

4481  Evolutionary Psychology (3)
   Meets with ANTH 5481. Evolutionary Psychology is a new inter-disciplinary field that studies how our preferences, emotions, and ways of thinking and behaving have been shaped by natural selection. This course discusses how our minds and behavior have evolved to cope with problems of survival, mating and parenting, cooperation, conflict, and status competition.

4950  Undergraduate Research (1 to 3)
   A maximum of six credit hours allowed toward major requirements.

4962  Special Topics: Topical Requirement (3)
   Meets with ANTH 5962. Topics vary. These courses count as topical requirements for the major.

4990  Independent Research: Health Emphasis Track (3 to 4)
   This course is designed to satisfy medical school requirements for independent research. Students must complete an independent research project that involves the testing of a hypothesis, and prepare a written paper and oral presentation in which they describe their project, including the hypothesis tested and the results obtained. The topic does not need to be health-related.

4995  Medical Anthropology: Senior Practicum (3 to 5)
   Practical experience in handling sociomedical problems in a community setting.

4999  Honors Thesis/Project (3)
   Restricted to students in the Honors Program working on their Honors degree.

5211  Biology of Native Americans (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 3211; additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 3211 for course description.

5221  Human Evolutionary Genetics (4) Cross listed as BIOL 5221. Prerequisite: Junior, Senior or Graduate standing; one semester Calculus; one semester Ecology or evolution. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS.
   Theories and methods of molecular population genetics, with emphasis on human examples. How DNA sequence variation is analyzed to infer population history and to identity genes recently subject to selection. Laboratory exercises develop elementary programming skills and show ow computation is used to connect models and data.

5241  Darwinian Medicine (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4241; additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 4241 for course description.

5311  North American Prehistory (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 3311; additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 3311 for course description.

5312  California Prehistory (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 3312; additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 3312 for course description.

5313  Utah Prehistory (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 3313; additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 3313 for course description.

5321  The Classic Maya (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 3321; additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 3321 for course description

5322  Mesoamerican Archaeology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 3322; additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 3322 for course description

5331  Pleistocene Archaeology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 3331. Reviews major problems in human evolution from an archaeological perspective. Focuses on the Old World Pleistocene, from 2.5 million to ten thousand years ago.

5351  Anthropological Demography (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4351; additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 4351 for course description.

5461  Behavioral Ecology and Anthropology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4461; additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 4461 for course description.

5471  Fundamental Methods of Evolutionary Ecology (3) Cross listed as BIOL 5471. Prerequisite: Junior, Senior or Graduate standing; one semester Calculus; one semester Ecology or evolution. Fulfills Quantitative Intensive BS.
   An introduction to the fundamental concepts of evolutionary ecology. Topics to be covered included natural selection, migrations, genetic drift, optimization models, population growth, competition, predation, and age structure.

5485  Statistical Thinking in Evolutionary Ecology (3) Prerequisite: Basic University statistic course; Junior, Senior or Graduate standing.
   Introduction to modern model-based statistical analysis, using examples from evolutionary ecology and anthropology. This is a practical seminar, focusing on building and modifying the code necessary to conduct biologically-motivated applied statistics. Topics include generalized linear models, maximum likelihood, model comparison, population dynamic models, and phylogenetic inference. All work completed in the R statistical computing language.

5711  Student Individual Research Group (SIRG) (1 to 3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.

5712  Field School: North America (2 to 8)
   Meets with GEOG 5712. Usually offered in summer; credits applicable toward either the geographic or topical requirements for the bachelor's degree.

5961  Special Topics: Geographical (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 3961; additional work required of graduate students. Topics vary.

5962  Special Topics: Topical (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4962; additonal work required of graduate students. Topics vary.

5969  Special Topics (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 3969; additional work required of graduate students. Topics vary.

6033  Anthropology of Judaism (3) Cross listed as MID E 6733. Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 3133 and MID E 3733. Additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 3133 for course description.

6041  Himalayan Kingdoms (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 3141; additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 3141 for course description.

6100  Proseminar in Anthropology I (1) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   This course reviews the history of ideas in anthropology. Students will read key works in the field, write short abstracts of what they have read, and discuss them in seminar. Each 7-week course will be devoted to the history of ideas in one of the four graduate program tracks (cultural, biological, archaeology, evolutionary ecology). All four are required for master's students. It is recommended, but not required, that they be taken in sequence.

6111  The First Nations of Eastern North America (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 3111; additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 3111 for course description.

6112  The First Nations of Western North America (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   This course is similar to ANTH 3112 but requires additional graduate level work. See ANTH 3112 for course description.

6121  Cultures of Africa (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   This course is similar to ANTH 3121 but requires additional graduate level work. See ANTH 3121 for course description.

6123  Cultural Traditions of Asia (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4123. An introduction to the peoples and cultures of Asia, with an emphasis on the religious traditions of India, southeast Asia, China, and Japan.

6124  Religion In Latin America (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4124. A comparative anthropological look at the complex religious traditions and changes of Latin America, including Native American religions, African American religions, Catholicism, Protestantism, Pentecostalism, Para-Christian Movements (Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses), popular religion, and a range of new religious movements, as well as thinking about the religious and missionaries as social agents.

6125  Silk Road: Past and Present (3) Prerequisite: Graduate Standing.
   The course will introduce students to one of the most interesting and controversial subjects in the social sciences and humanities-nomadic migrations occurring over the millennia in Eurasia. The concept of "nomadism" and its different forms in the region will be explained and discussed within geographical, historical, socio-economic, political and cultural contexts during the last six thousand years, but especially focusing on the modern era. Relevant data from China, Central Asia, Mongolia, Siberia, the Middle East, India and Europe will be presented and discussed. Graduate students will be held to a higher standard of performance.

6126  Mediterranean Cultures (3)
   This course examines contemporary life in the Mediterranean region with an emphasis on communication and flow of goods, people, and ideas across the Mediterranean Sea. Using an anthropological perspective informed by history, the course analyzes such issues as kinship and family, politics, ethnicity, labor migration, and religious beliefs in Mediterranean cultures.

6127  Peoples and Cultures of Europe (3) Prerequisite: Graduate Standing.
   Meets with ANTH 3127. Within the last two decades Europe has seen the end of the Cold War, civil wars, the rise of new nation-states, and an enlargement of the European Union, all of which resulted in large movements of people across national boundaries as well as across the borders of Europe. Taking an anthropological perspective informed by history, this course examines how political, economic, and cultural processes have impacted the lives of the people in contemporary Europe.

6130  The Anthropology of Food (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4130. Explores the use of food for social, political, economic, religious and personal goas in different cultures and the impact of food related practices on health.

6131  Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East (3) Cross listed as MID E 6713. Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 3131 and MID E 3713. Additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 3131 for course description.

6132  Traditional Jewish Communities (3) Cross listed as MID E 6723. Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 3132 and MID E 3723. Additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 3132 for course description.

6133  Maternal and Child Health (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4133. This course is about ecological constraints on female reproductive biology and child health. It focuses on how parenting behaviors have evolved over the course of human evolution. It investigates mammalian reproductive strategies, energetic costs of pregnancy and lactation, and cross-cultural variation in female fertility rates and child survival.

6134  Language, Thought and Culture: The Anthropology of the Human Mind (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4134. How does the mind shape culture? How does culture shape the mind? An introduction to language and symbolism, and to human concepts -- of space and time, of living things and supernatural beings, of mind and emotion -- across cultures. Students signed up for ANTH 6134 will meet one extra hour a week, and ger extra readings.

6135  Symbolic Anthropology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   This course is similar to ANTH 4135 but requires additional graduate level work. See ANTH 4135 for course description.

6138  Anthropology of Violence and Non-Violence (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4138. Murder, war, capital punishment, human sacrifice: why people resort to violence, and how they avoid it, in societies ranging from tribunal New guinea to the modern United States.

6139  Native American Religions (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4139. This course will examine the diverse beliefs and practices of Native American religions of North America. The dynamics of Native American religious change will be emphasized.

6141  Ethnicity and Nationalism (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4141. An introduction to theories of social identity, especially in modern nations and other plural societies. Among the questions to be considered are how ethnic and national identities are formed and why they so often provide a basis for violence and war.

6142  Tibetan Civilization (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 3142; additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 3142 for course description.

6143  Anthropology of Mormonism (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4143. An exploration of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the broader set of Mormon movements, as social and cultural institutions in comparison with other religions and social groups, from the perspectives of anthropology, as well as the issues and politics of native and local ethnography.

6150  Evolution of Societies and Cultures (3)
   Prior to ten-thousand years ago, nearly all humans made their living by foraging and hunting. Now nearly all people who produce their own food practice some form of agriculture. The rest of us exchange various services for our food. We will study how this change took place from the following fields: history, economics and evolutionary biology.

6152  Australia and New Guinea Ethnography (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 3152; additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 3152 for course description.

6153  Black Atlantic: Anthropology of the African Diaspora (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   This course is similar to ANTH 3153 but requires additional graduate level work. Anthropological perspective on people of African descent in the United States, Caribbean, Latin America, and South Africa. Begin by looking at the three sides of Atlantic slavery: Western Europe, West and Southern Africa, and slave societies of the New World and South Africa. Examine "maroon" societies founded by fugitive slaves, the threat of slave revolution in the age of American revolutions, and politics of racial categorization and stratification in the aftermath of slavery. Finally, we take a comparative approach to language, the family, sexuality, conflict and class, religion, arts and ideologies among these cultures.

6154  Brazilian Culture (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   This course is similar to ANTH 3154 but requires additional graduate level work. An introduction to the culture of Brazil. Consideration of Brazil as a multicultural society, comparing it to other major settler societies of the New World, including the U.S. and the rest of Latin America. We will consider Indian societies before and after contact, and we will compare slavery in the U.S. and Brazil. Why have race relations and definitions of race have developed differently in the two countries? We will look at authority, class, and violence. We will examine the culture of religion, sexuality, Carnival, music, and the media.

6159  Seminar in Cultural Anthroplogy (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Advanced topics in sociocultural anthropology. Graduate standing required.

6161  Anthropological Theory I (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   First of two seminars on the history of anthropology. Beginning with Darwin and the social evolutionists of the nineteenth century, this part traces the development of the Boasian tradition in American anthropology and concludes with the rise of neo-evolutionism and cultural ecology in the mid-twentieth century.

6162  Anthropological Theory II (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Second of two seminars on the history of anthropology. Focusing on the British and French traditions, this part explores the development of functionalist, structuralist, Marxist, and postmodernist schools of thought and assesses their impact on American anthropology.

6163  Ethnographic Data Collection (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Review of quantitative methods used in ethnographic data collection, with special attention to systematic observation and interviewing techniques.

6165  History of Anthropology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate Standing.
   Growth of anthropological knowledge and development of major ideas and methods, approached through biographies of leading figures. This course is similar to ANTH 4165 but requires additional graduate level work.

6168  Problems in Medical Anthropology (1) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Recent articles in medical anthropology from the cultural and biological perspectives and theory, and their impact on contemporary anthropological reasearch and practice. Repeatable for credit.

6169  Seminar in Ethnology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Development of approaches and theories in anthropology with attention to major issues, methodologies, and modes of thought. Repeatable for credit.

6170  Seminar in Ethnography (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Studies major contributions to Ethnography, the "classics" of anthropological field-research to ascertain why they are esteemed. Far-ranging discussion, examines changing methods of data collection, varied theoretical foci and the interplay of area-studies concerns, helping students arrive at their own conclusions about what makes for "good" ethnography. Student annotation will be shared and collected as resource for all the participants.

6171  Myth, Magic and Religion (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4171. Searches for patterns and meaning in the variety of beliefs and practices found among societies, from simple to complex, which convention designates as "religion." Examines how even contemporary secular societies make decisions and behave within religio/'magical constraints.

6181  Family, Power, and Society (3)
   This course is similar to ANTH 4181 but requires additional graduate level work. See ANTH 4181 for course description.

6182  Anthropology of Power (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   This course is similar to ANTH 4182 but requires additional graduate level work. See ANTH 4182 for course description.

6183  Sex and Gender: Biosocial Perspectives (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4183; additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 4183 for course description.

6184  Hunter-Gatherer Ethnology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   This course is similar to ANTH 4184 but requires additional graduate level work. See ANTH 4184 for course description.

6185  Culture Change (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4185; additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 4185 for course description.

6186  Human Ecology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   This course is similar to ANTH 4186 but requires additional graduate level work. See ANTH 4186 for course description.

6187  Economic Anthropology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   This course is similar to ANTH 4187 but requires additional graduate level work. See ANTH 4187 for course description.

6192  Culture, Health, and Healing (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   This course is similar to ANTH 4192 but requires additional graduate level work. See ANTH 4192 for course description.

6193  Medical Anthropology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4193; additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 4193 for course description.

6195  Advanced Medical Practicum (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.

6196  Health Services Administration: Medical Practicum (1 to 6) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Practical experience in handling sociomedical problems in a community setting.

6199  Seminar in Medical Anthropology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Advanced topics in medical anthropology. Repeatable for credit.

6200  Proseminar in Anth II (1) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   This course reviews the history of ideas in anthropology. Students will read key works in the field, write short abstracts of what they have read, and discuss them in seminar. Each 7-week course will be devoted to the history of ideas in one of the four graduate program tracks (cultural, biological, archaeology, evolutionary ecology). All four are required for master's students. It is recommended, but not required, that they be taken in sequence.

6231  Social Consequences of Human Biological Diversity (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4231. This is a mid-level course in anthropology about social consequences of human biological diversity. Important issues for citizens that demand scientific knowledge are explored.

6242  Anthropology of Clinical Health Care (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4242. This course explores the theory and ethnography of the origins and structure of contemporary, biomedicine, focusing on clinical settings such as hospitals, physicians' offices, HMOs, etc. in relationship to the cultural system of the West.

6251  Biological Variation in Health and Illness (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Race, age, and sex differences in health and illness and as related to health-care delivery.

6252  Human Biology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4252. Advanced treatment of human biological variation at individual and population levels. Patterns of physiological and genetic variation as adaptive responses to local ecological conditions, disease, and diet.

6255  Race and Culture (3)
   Meets with ANTH 4255. This course will view the crucial human question of race, using the insights of social science, biological science, and history. What is race? Does it even exist? How is race treated in different cultures? What is the history of racism? Emphasis will be placed on the American experience, but will use worldwide examples for comparison.

6261  Paleoanthropology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4261; additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 4261 for course description.

6271  Human Osteology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4271; additional work required of graduate students. See ANTH 4271 for course description.

6281  Primates (3)
   Meets with ANTH 4281. A survey of the diversity of non-human primates within the framework of evolutionary exology. This course also explores the ways that the study of other primates contributes to our understanding of human behavior and evolution.

6291  Evolution of Human Health (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   This course is similar to ANTH 4291 but requires additional graduate level work. See ANTH 4291 for course description.

6299  Seminar in Biological Anthropology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Intensive seminar on differing topics in biological anthropology. Repeatable for credit.

6300  Proseminar in Anthr III (1) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   This course reviews the history of ideas in anthropology. Students will read key works in the field, write short abstracts of what they have read, and discuss them in seminar. Each 7-week course will be devoted to the history of ideas in one of the four graduate program tracks (cultural, biological, archaeology, evolutionary ecology). All four are required for master's students. It is recommended, but not required, that they be taken in sequence.

6328  Anthropological Archaeology of the Near East (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 3328. This course is designed as an analytical survey of major events and discoveries in the Near East through studying archaeological evidence and available textual sources. While the focus on this course is on Mesopotamia, Iran, Anatolia, and Syria-Palestine, other areas such as Egypt will be discussed whenever relevant to the understanding of the primary interest cultures.

6329  Anthropological Archaeology of Ancient Egypt (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 3329. This course is designed as an analytical survey of major events and discoveries in Egypt through studying archaeological evidence and available textual sources. The focus of this course is on the Neolithic, Predynastic and Pharaonic periods in the Nile Valley, Nubia and Libya. Relevant case studies will provide students with the framework to study and understand practical applications of theoretical implications. In addition, graduate students are required to design and present an independent research project dealing with a specific topic in archaeology and its applicability to Egypt.

6334  Population Issues in Anthropology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4334. Explores the role population factors play in anthropological explanation in both archaeological and ethnographic settings. Specific issues include possible relationships between population pressure and the adoption of agriculture, and problems of reconstructing ancient people's health.

6341  Development of Archaeological Thought (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Traces the development of archaeological thought from the latter 19th century to the present. Examines influences of theoretical movements from cultural evolution to postmodernism on the questions archaeologists ask and how they attempt to answer them.

6342  History of Archeology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   An overview of the history of archeology, with emphasis on recent developments in the North American, British, and Latin American literature.

6361  Behavioral Ecology and Archaeology (3) Prerequisite: ANTH 5461 and Graduate status.
   Theoretical innovations in behavioral ecology have important implications for the study of human prehistory and evolution, but are difficult to apply in practice given the peculiar nature of the archaeological record. Recent research designed to overcome these difficulties and achieve novel and important insights on our past is explored.

6372  Zooarchaeology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   This course is similar to ANTH 4372 but requires additional graduate level work. See ANTH 4372 for course description.

6381  Archaeological Practice (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Seminar on the current practice of archaeology in the U.S., including coverage of legal, regulatory, and commercial topics. Coordinated by a regular faculty member, with participation of members of the regional archaeological community.

6399  Seminar in Archaeology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Repeatable for credit.

6400  Proseminar in Anthr IV (1) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   This course reviews the history of ideas in anthropology. Students will read key works in the field, write short abstracts of what they have read, and discuss them in seminar. Each 7-week course will be devoted to the history of ideas in one of the four graduate program tracks (cultural, biological, archaeology, evolutionary ecology). All four are required for master's students. It is recommended, but not required, that they be taken in sequence.

6481  Evolutionary Psychology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Meets with ANTH 4481. Evolutionary Psychology is a new inter-disciplinary field that studies how our preferences, emotions, and ways of thinking and behaving have been shaped by natural selection. This course discusses how our minds and behavior have evolved to cope with problems of survival, mating and parenting, cooperation, conflict, and status competition.

6498  Problems in Evolutionary Anthropology (1) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Recent articles in evolutionary anthropology, evolutionary biology and theory, and their impact on contemporary anthropological research and practice. Repeatable for credit.

6499  Seminar in Evolution and Ecology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   An advanced seminar in topics in human evolutionary ecology that will vary from term to term. Repeatable for credit.

6611  Preparation of Grant Proposals in Anthropology (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Provides practical experience in the preparation of extramural grant proposals; emphasis on submissions to agencies and foundations that support anthropological research.

6940  Masters Exam Preparation (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Provides an opportunity to prepare for the oral masters qualifying exam. Students are required to take the course in the fourth semester of their residency.

6950  Individual Studies (1 to 3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.

6969  Special Topics (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.
   Topics vary.

6970  Thesis Research: Master's (1 to 9) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.

6980  Faculty Consultation (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.

7910  Individual Research (1 to 3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.

7920  Guided Reading (1 to 3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.

7970  Thesis Research: Ph.D. (1 to 9) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.

7980  Faculty Consultation (3) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.

7990  Continuing Registration: Ph.D. (0) Prerequisite: Graduate standing required.