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ANSC 53400 - Advanced Reproductive Physiology
Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of mechanisms that interact to control reproduction in farm animals. Current scientific literature and hypotheses are presented, and potential methods to enhance reproductive efficiency are examined. Typically offered Spring.
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ANSC 53500 - Avian Physiology
Credit Hours: 2.00. (BMS 82800) A study of the basic principles of physiology and functional anatomy of birds. Topics include the following systems: muscular, nervous, cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, lymphoid, endocrine, and reproductive. Typically offered Spring.
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ANSC 53600 - The Digestive System In Health And Disease
Credit Hours: 2.00. Comparative study of the physiology of the gastrointestinal tract focused on the importance of, and interactions between, gut physiology, gut associated immune system, and intestinal microorganisms in relation to health and disease. Offered in odd-numbered years. Typically offered Spring.
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ANSC 53700 - Adipocyte Biology
Credit Hours: 2.00. This course will provide the student with a conceptual background in the development of adipose tissue and its biological function with emphasis on the endocrine and immunologic aspects of the adipocyte. Differences between species will be emphasized where possible. Typically offered Fall.
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ANSC 55500 - Animal Growth And Development
Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the molecular and cellular processes controlling embryonic development and growth of domesticated animals. Includes discussions of current research concerning molecular mechanisms of fertilization, egg activation, early development, and endocrine factors controlling cell growth, differentiation, and tissue formation. Experimental approaches utilized for developmental and growth biology research are discussed. Typically offered Spring.
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ANSC 55600 - Stem Cell Biology
Credit Hours: 3.00. Adult or tissue cells are stem cells that reside in different tissues and, depending on where they are from, have different properties. This dual level course aims to cover the origin, identification, isolation, differentiation, self-renewal, and senescence of various tissue-specific stem cells and their function in animal growth and maintenance. The course will focus on the latest advances in adult stem cells and their applications in tissue regeneration. Typically offered Fall.
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ANSC 59500 - Special Topics In Animal Sciences
Credit Hours: 0.00 to 3.00. Lecture presentation of specialized material not available in the formal courses of the department. The specific topic offered is indicated on the student’s record. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANSC 62000 - Proteins And Amino Acids In Nutrition
Credit Hours: 3.00. Presentation of concepts concerning requirements for dietary amino acids, nutritional regulation of amino acid metabolism, and regulation of protein metabolism. Integrates biochemical and physiological functions of amino acids and features topics in nutritional regulation of whole-body protein turnover in mammalian and avian species. Offered in odd numbered years. Prerequisite: BCHM 56200 . Typically offered Fall.
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ANSC 62600 - Nutritional Biochemistry And Physiology II
Credit Hours: 2.00. (F&N 606) Integration of biochemical and physiological functions of nutrients in humans and animals emphasizing post-absorptive use of nutrients as sources of energy and for the synthesis of macromolecules. Offered weeks 1 - 8. Prerequisite: ANSC 62500. Typically offered Spring.
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ANSC 62700 - Nutritional Biochemistry And Physiology III
Credit Hours: 2.00. (F&N 60700) Integration of biochemical and physiological functions of nutrients in humans and animals, emphasizing lipid metabolism and transport in the context of cardiovascular function. Offered weeks 9 - 16. Prerequisite: ANSC 62600 . Typically offered Spring.
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ANSC 66000 - Intestinal Microbiology And Immunology
Credit Hours: 1.00. (FS 66000 ) Discussion and critique of recent journal articles related to intestinal microbiology/immunology. The specific areas covered under this forum are: (1) intestinal microbiology, (2) food microbiology as it relates to gastrointestinal diseases, (3) probiotics and prebiotics-related to intestinal health or pathogen control, and (4) mucosal immunity with major emphasis on intestinal immunology. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANSC 68100 - Animal Sciences Graduate Seminar
Credit Hours: 1.00. Presentations by graduate students on topics of interest in animal sciences. Permission of department required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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ANSC 69100 - Topical Research Problems
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 4.00. To be arranged with individual staff members prior to registration. Requires approval of the department head. Supervised individual research projects. Written reports required. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANSC 69800 - Research MS Thesis
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research MS Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANSC 69900 - Research PhD Thesis
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research PhD Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANTH 10000 - Introduction To Anthropology
Credit Hours: 3.00. A general introduction to anthropology’s holistic approach to human nature and behavior. A basic survey of biocultural developmental and evolutionary processes, and human uniformity and diversity through time and across space. Typically offered Summer.
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ANTH 20100 - Introduction To Archaeology And World Prehistory
Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to the ideas and practices of archaeology that are used in the study of human prehistory, from the earliest stone tools to the development of agriculture and states. Emphasis is placed on the objectives and methods of contemporary archaeology. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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ANTH 20300 - Biological Bases Of Human Social Behavior
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is an introduction to human social behavior from the perspective of biological anthropology, with special emphasis on human evolution and non-human primates. Topics include aggression, communication, learning, maturation, sexuality, and the evolution of social systems. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 20400 - Introduction To Biological Anthropology And Human Evolution
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course surveys biological anthropology through a review of evolutionary theory and genetics, the fossil evidence for current theories in human evolution with insight from modern non-human primates, and the influence of environmental stressors on modern human biological variation. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANTH 20500 - Human Cultural Diversity
Credit Hours: 3.00. Using concepts and models of cultural anthropology, this course will survey the principal cultural types of the world and their distribution, and will undertake a detailed analysis of societies representative of each type. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 21000 - Technology And Culture
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course explores the social dimensions of technology from the perspective of ancient, modern, and post-modern society. Topics include the origins of particular technologies; processes of technical development and dissemination; the politics of everyday artifacts; virtual identities; and technologies of the body. Suggested courses (not pre-requisite): ANTH 10000 , ANTH 20100 and/or ANTH 20500 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 21200 - Culture, Food And Health
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to provide an introduction to the field of Medical Anthropology in which we will examine issues related to health and illness from various perspectives outside of the Western biomedical perspective. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 23000 - Gender Across Cultures
Credit Hours: 3.00. Explores gender and sexuality from a cross-cultural perspective. Draws on case studies to explore the complexities of women’s and men’s lives. Examines gender hierarchies, gender in a globalized world, and the cultural construction of sexuality and gender. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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ANTH 23500 - The Great Apes
Credit Hours: 3.00. Students will learn the behavior and conservation of our closest relatives and how early ape studies changed our understanding of what it meant to be human. Topics include gender in science, ethics of research and cross-cultural understandings. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 28200 - Introduction To LGBT Studies
Credit Hours: 3.00. (WGSS 28200 ) This course offers students an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer lives. It provides a basic grounding in theories of sexuality and LGBT histories, identities and movements in the U.S. and globally. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 30500 - Ethnographic Methods
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course introduces students to the basic methods of ethnographic research: the collection, analysis, and presentation of data derived from the systematic, direct observation of human behavior and interviewing of key informants. Students are required to complete a field project. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 31000 - Mortuary Practices Across Cultures
Credit Hours: 3.00. Explores how death is treated or has been treated in diverse world cultures and time periods. Death is viewed as an expression of social behavior and as an expression of symbolic meaning. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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ANTH 31100 - The Archaeology Of The Ancient Andes
Credit Hours: 3.00. Development of Andean culture from its earliest roots through the Spanish conquest of the Inca empire in the 16th century. Topics will include first settlement, the development of the first complex societies, and the emergence and collapse of the Inca Empire. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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ANTH 31200 - The Archaeology Of Ancient Egypt And The Near East
Credit Hours: 3.00. Selected topics on the archaeology of ancient Near Eastern cultures in Mesopotamia, the circum-Mediterranean area, Egypt, and the Nile Valley, emphasizing an anthropological interpretation of the political, social, religious, and economic systems that contributed to their development. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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ANTH 31300 - Archaeology Of North America
Credit Hours: 3.00. Archaeological overview of North America emphasizing Indigenous cultures prior to the arrival of Europeans, but including Contact and Post-Contact communities of the Historic Period. Topics will include the peopling of the Americas, culture and environment, social complexity, and Cultural Resource Management. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANTH 32000 - The Evolution Of Prehistoric Civilizations
Credit Hours: 3.00. Based on archaeological sources, compares the nature of political, social, and technological change during the formative periods of the world’s major early civilizations, emphasizing Mesoamerica, the Central Andes, Nile Valley, Mesopotamia, Indus Valley, and China. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 32700 - Environment And Culture
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course provides a general overview to the field of environmental anthropology, and surveys key methods, and theories that anthropologists use to interpret human-environment interactions. Topics include culture ecology, agroecology, ethnobiology, political ecology, and environmental justice. Typically offered Summer, Fall, or Spring.
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ANTH 33500 - Primate Behavior
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is an introduction to the primate order and primate studies. The emphasis is on field studies. Ecological influences on social organization and behavior, learning, play, and communication will be considered as adaptations within an evolutionary framework. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 33600 - Human Variation
Credit Hours: 3.00. Biological differences between human individuals and groups, causes of variations, the role of genetics, concepts of race, and the interrelationship between the social and biological meanings of race will be considered. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 33700 - Human Diet: Origins And Evolution
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course will survey humans evolving relationship with food over the last few million years; from our Pilo-pleistocene origins (foraging) through the origins of agriculture to modern industrial food production. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 34000 - Global Perspectives On Health
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course examines health issues and risks faced by individuals around the world, but especially in resource poor geographical areas. We will explore in-depth the gendered, ethnic, cultural, and class dimensions that underlie the patterning of disease and illness worldwide. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 34100 - Culture And Personality
Credit Hours: 3.00. A cross-cultural survey stressing different basic personality types and the processes by which adult personality is acquired. Case studies of selected non-Western cultures will be used to provide comparative perspective. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANTH 35200 - Drugs, Culture, And Society
Credit Hours: 3.00. (SOC 35200 ) The course provides an overview of the social and cultural underpinnings of drug use across societies. Students engage with various topics, including addiction, global markets, drug epidemics, public policy, and cross-cultural differences in drug use. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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ANTH 35800 - African Cultures
Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to the diversity of African cultures emphasizing detailed studies of selected cultural groups. Ethnographic writings about African cultures are assessed in relation to general information about the continent, its people and the colonial experience. Typically offered Summer, Fall, or Spring.
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ANTH 36800 - Sociolinguistic Study Of African American English
Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the history, structure, uses, and educational concerns of African American speech communities and the culture at large. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 37000 - Ethnicity And Culture
Credit Hours: 3.00. Course examines ethnicity and nation as constructs that vary across cultures, history and space, and surveys theories of cultures, ethnicity and nationalism. Issues examined include cultural identities, power, domination and resistance, and the role of identity politics in contemporary conflicts. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANTH 37300 - Anthropology Of Religion
Credit Hours: 3.00. Anthropological theories of the origin, development, and functions of religion, ritual, and myth. Data drawn from western and non-western societies, with special emphasis on the relationship of religion to social structure, cultural patterns, and social change. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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ANTH 37700 - Anthropology Of Hunter-Gatherer Societies
Credit Hours: 3.00. Selective global survey of societies whose mode of subsistence is/was based on the collection of wild food resources. Topics to be covered include: the development and current state of theory, ecology, social organization, land use, demography, subsistence rights, and worldview. Typically offered Spring.
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ANTH 37800 - Archaeology And Cultural Anthropology Of Mesoamerica (Mexico, Belize And Guatemala)
Credit Hours: 3.00. Overview of Mesoamerican peoples, cultures, and languages from the earliest periods to the rise of civilizations including Aztec, Maya, and Zapotec, and from the Spanish Conquest to the modern Indian communities of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 37900 - Native American Cultures
Credit Hours: 3.00. General survey of Native cultures of the Americas. Topics to be covered include prehistory, language, religion, aesthetics, culture contact and change, contemporary issues, and social, economic and political organization. Typically offered Fall (and occasionally in the Spring).
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ANTH 38000 - Using Anthropology In The World
Credit Hours: 3.00. The use of anthropology in practical contexts. What anthropological practice is, how it originated, how it can be applied in non- academic and interdisciplinary contexts and careers. The main contemporary issues surrounding anthropological practice, including training, ethics, relevance, and rigor. For majors and non-majors. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANTH 38500 - Community Engagement In Anthropology
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course offers hands-on service learning experience with local community organizations involved with minority and immigrant populations. Part of the semester will include class meetings to explore issues and experiences of immigrant and ethnic groups in the U.S. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANTH 39000 - Individual Research In Anthropology
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Individual research or reading in an area of anthropology under the guidance of an anthropology faculty member. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANTH 39200 - Selected Topics In Anthropology
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Various topics in anthropology that may change from semester to semester are presented by anthropology faculty members. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANTH 40400 - Comparative Social Organization
Credit Hours: 3.00. The course uses a broad cross-cultural comparative perspective to identify and analyze the major forms of human social organization. Emphasis is on kinship terminology, descent, marriage, residence units, economic exchange, political structure, and social inequality. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 40700 - The Development Of Contemporary Anthropological Theory
Credit Hours: 3.00. Explores the history of anthropological theories pertaining to the understanding of commonality and variation in human biology, behavior, society, and cultures as they have developed over the approximately two centuries since anthropology was founded as a separate discipline. Considers those social, cultural, and historical factors that have influenced the history of anthropological ideas. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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ANTH 41400 - Introduction To Language And Culture
Credit Hours: 3.00. An exploration into the nature of human communication, particularly the structures, functions, and substance of human language. Focus is on the interpenetration of language, culture and cognition, on the evolution of language and speech, and on their uses in everyday life. Typically offered Fall.
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ANTH 41800 - Field Methods In Cultural Anthropology
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 9.00. Introduces basic field methods in Cultural Anthropology. Topics may include ethnographic or other interviewing techniques and methods of inquiry into any of the broad topics covered by Cultural Anthropology. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANTH 42500 - Anthropological Archaeology
Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to the theory and methods of contemporary American archaeology. Basic field and laboratory methods are placed in the context of theoretical viewpoints and problems. Major theoretical issues in the field are explored, showing the integration of American archaeology with anthropology. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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ANTH 42800 - Field Methods In Archaeology
Credit Hours: 1.0 to 9.0. Introduces basic field and laboratory methods in contemporary archaeology: methods of site survey, mapping, and excavation through the excavation of archaeological sites; the basics of archaeological data analysis and classification, and the computer-based analysis of archaeological data. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Summer.
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ANTH 43600 - Human Evolution
Credit Hours: 3.00. This class examines the fossil evidence for human evolution and theories proposed to explain the development that led from the origin of primates to modern humans. This course will include lectures, exercises with fossil casts, presentation, and discussions. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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ANTH 43800 - Field Methods In Biological Anthropology
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 9.00. Introduces basic laboratory methods in Biological Anthropology. Topics may include analysis of human or primate nutritional and biological markers or laboratory methods in the analysis of human skeletal populations. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANTH 46000 - Contemporary Issues In Agriculture
Credit Hours: 3.00. (AGRY 46000 ) Evaluates environmental, social, and humanistic implications of technological change in modern agriculture, using a problem-solving perspective. Typically offered Spring.
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ANTH 48200 - Sexual Diversity In Global Perspectives
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course focuses on anthropological and interdisciplinary research in the study of sexuality with particular attention to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender identities. It explores historical, theoretical and ethnographic work on sexualities and genders in the US and globally. Typically offered Summer, Fall or Spring.
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ANTH 49700 - Senior Honors Seminar
Credit Hours: 3.00. A critical examination of some major works in anthropology and sociology, both classical and modern, and of some current theoretical and substantive issues in these disciplines. Open only to students in the departmental honors program. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 49800 - Senior Honors Paper
Credit Hours: 3.00. Requires a substantial paper on a topic approved by the instructor. The student is expected to work closely with the instructor on the paper’s content and style. A presentation of the results of the work is made at the end of the semester. Open only to students in the departmental honors program. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 50400 - Problems In World Prehistory
Credit Hours: 3.00. Key problems in the evolution of human culture examined using the most recent theories and data. Major topics include understanding early human behavior, the processes of domestication of plants and animals, and the emergence of complex societies. Typically offered Spring.
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ANTH 50500 - Culture And Society
Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to cultural anthropology for the advanced student. A review will be made of the history of anthropology and its place in the social sciences. Emphasis will be placed on problem formulation and methodology in the study of culture change. Typically offered Fall.
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ANTH 50600 - The Development Of Modern Anthropology
Credit Hours: 3.00. The ways and kinds of thinking about the human species in pre-nineteenth-century Europe: nineteenth- and twentieth-century developments in Europe and North America; the central scientific paradigms; professional societies and journals; and national/international anthropologies will all be covered. Typically offered Spring.
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ANTH 50700 - Theory In Sociocultural Anthropology
Credit Hours: 3.00. Theoretical orientations (evolutionism, historicism, functionalism, cultural ecology), types of culture theory (technoeconomics, social structure, ideology, personality), and methods of formal analysis (ethnoscience, structuralism, symbolic) will be examined. Typically offered Fall.
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ANTH 51400 - Anthropological Linguistics
Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to the anthropological view of linguistics and the ways in which anthropologists use linguistics as a research tool. The emphasis will be on structural and historical linguistics, but other approaches to the study of language will be considered. Typically offered Spring.
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ANTH 51900 - Introduction To Semiotics
Credit Hours: 3.00. (AUSL 58900, COM 50700 , ENGL 57000 , LC 57000 ) The study of languages, literatures, and other systems of human communication. Includes a wide range of phenomena which can be brought together by means of a general theory of signs. The course deals with three fundamental areas: 1) verbal communication, 2) nonverbal communication (iconic systems, gestures, body language, etc.), and 3) communication through art forms. Typically offered Spring.
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ANTH 53400 - Human Osteology
Credit Hours: 3.00. Anatomy of the human skeleton and dentition. Detailed study of skeletal elements and teeth, morphology, function, disease, and pathology. Identification of human remains with regard to age at death, gender, growth, and development in biocultural context. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 53500 - Foundations Of Biological Anthropology
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course covers such topics important in Biological anthropology as applied to both living and extinct humans and primates. Possible topics include: evolutionary thought; genetics, race, and human variation; the intersection of biology and culture; fossils and paleoanthropology; ecology and speciation; primate behavior; and theories on the social behavior of early humans. Typically offered Fall.
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ANTH 53600 - Primate Ecology
Credit Hours: 3.00. An examination of the complex interrelationships between populations of nonhuman primates and their habitats. Course topics focus on behavioral ecology and conservation including, predator-prey relationships, diet, and interspecific relations. Typically offered Fall.
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ANTH 56500 - Sociolinguistics
Credit Hours: 3.00. (SLHS 56500, COM 56500 , ENGL 56500 , LC 56500 , LING 56500 ) An introduction to language in its social context, focusing on uses and users of language. Topics include social class, ethnic group, gender, language attitudes, and bilingualism. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 57500 - Economic Anthropology
Credit Hours: 3.00. Investigates economic aspects of nonindustrial societies, including forager, tribal, and peasant social formations. Emphasis on the economics of the domestic sphere and how households are linked to larger structures such as market systems and “world systems.”. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 58900 - Archaeology And Materials Science
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course provides instruction in the methods and theories used by archaeologists and materials scientists to study ancient and historic technology. The course focuses on the analysis and interpretation of archaeological artifacts and provides opportunities for hands-on learning. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 59000 - Individual Research Problems
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Individual research or reading in an area of anthropology under an anthropology staff member. Does not include thesis work. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANTH 59200 - Selected Topics In Anthropology
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 3.00. Topics vary. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANTH 60500 - Seminar In Ethnographic Analysis
Credit Hours: 3.00. A selection of ethnographic monographs will be read, reported on, and discussed by seminar participants under the direction of the anthropology staff. The monographs will be discussed in terms of field methods employed, particular theoretical strengths and weaknesses, and their value to current anthropological method and theory. Participants will assume responsibility for presenting materials to stimulate discussion. 12 credit hours in Anthropology, or Sociology; Prerequisite: ANTH 50500 or ANTH 50600 . Typically offered Spring.
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ANTH 60600 - The Conduct Of Anthropological Inquiry
Credit Hours: 3.00. The course provides a broad overview of research strategies and techniques commonly employed in the various subfields of anthropology. Topics would include field techniques, the use of data banks (e.g., the HRAF files), sampling, hypothesis testing, and computer application. Typically offered Fall.
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ANTH 60900 - Seminar In Anthropology
Credit Hours: 2.00 or 3.00. Topics vary. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANTH 61100 - Special Topics In Archaeology
Credit Hours: 3.00. Critical examination of a selected aspect of contemporary archaeological research and theory. Topics will vary from year to year. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANTH 62000 - Special Topics In Cultural Anthropology
Credit Hours: 3.00. Critical examination of a selected aspect of contemporary cultural anthropology research and theory. Topics will vary from year to year. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ANTH 67300 - Seminar In The Anthropology Of Religion
Credit Hours: 3.00. Explores anthropological approaches to studying the place of religion in human experience. Considers different theories that anthropologists have developed for understanding religion - symbolic, materialist, evolutionary, psychological, and others - and how they fit with ethnographic data on religion in different cultures. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANTH 69800 - Research MS Thesis
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research MS Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ANTH 69900 - Research PhD Thesis
Credit Hours: 1.00 to 18.00. Research PhD Thesis. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ARAB 10100 - Standard Arabic Level I
Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic: the writing and sound systems, and systematic presentation of basic grammatical structures. Reading, writing, and vocabulary building are emphasized throughout. The course also includes an introduction to Arab culture. No previous knowledge of Arabic required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ARAB 10200 - Standard Arabic Level II
Credit Hours: 3.00. Further study of Modern Standard Arabic. Continued presentation of the basic structures of Arabic grammar and expansion of vocabulary. Reading and writing will be emphasized. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ARAB 11100 - Elementary Standard Arabic Conversation I
Credit Hours: 1.00. Development of oral skills for self-expression. Guided practice in conversation to enhance communicative competence. Group discussions in Standard Arabic on practical topics. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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ARAB 11200 - Elementary Standard Arabic Conversation II
Credit Hours: 1.00. Development of oral skills for self-expression. Guided practice in conversation to enhance communicative competence. Small group discussions in Standard Arabic on practical topics. May be taken concurrently with ARAB 10200 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ARAB 20100 - Standard Arabic Level III
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is designed to allow students to use the grammar and vocabulary acquired in the first two semesters in dealing with specific social situations. Continued improvement of conversational, reading, and writing abilities and expansion of vocabulary. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ARAB 20200 - Standard Arabic Level IV
Credit Hours: 3.00. Increased mastery of the four language skills, with emphasis on reading and translation using materials from literary classical and modern Arabic. The course includes a study of some parts of the Koran. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ARAB 21100 - Elementary Standard Arabic Conversation II
Credit Hours: 1.00. Continuation of ARAB 11200 . May be taken concurrently with ARAB 20100 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ARAB 21200 - Elementary Standard Arabic Conversation IV
Credit Hours: 1.00. Continuation of ARAB 21100 . May be taken concurrently with ARAB 20200 . Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ARAB 22400 - Arabic level IV: Business Arabic
Credit Hours: 3.00. Practical reading, writing, speaking, and listening comprehension skills directed toward use of Arabic for business purposes, including language needed for business negotiations, financial situations, travel, and memo writing. Aspects of cultural and social appropriateness needed in business situations in the Arab world. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ARAB 23000 - Arabic Literature In Translation
Credit Hours: 3.00. Survey of Arabic literature, from the classical to the postmodern period. Emphasis on connections between literary works and contemporary life. Conducted in English; no knowledge of Arabic required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ARAB 23900 - Arab Women Writers
Credit Hours: 3.00. Survey of Arab women writers from North Africa, the Middle East, and Arab communities in the western world. Emphasis on issues of sexuality, marriage, work, travel and immigration. Conducted in English; no knowledge of Arabic required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ARAB 28000 - Arabic Culture
Credit Hours: 3.00. A historical and literary survey of defining characteristics of Arabic culture from pre-Islamic times to the modern period. Typically offered Summer Fall Spring.
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ARAB 28100 - Introduction To Islamic Civilization And Culture
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course is a survey of broad currents in the cultures, thought and civilization of the Muslim world. It emphasizes religious, intellectual and cultural trends, social and political structures and contemporary issues of Muslim societies within the current global cultural world. Taught in English. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
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ARAB 30100 - Standard Arabic Level V
Credit Hours: 3.00. Continued development of Arabic speaking, listening, reading, and writing abilities, using materials dealing primarily with the everyday life and civilization of Arabic-speaking countries, from various sources (newspapers, poetry, chapters from the Qu’ran). Conducted primarily in Arabic. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ARAB 30200 - Standard Arabic Level VI
Credit Hours: 3.00. Further work to develop speaking, listening, reading and composition skills in Standard Arabic, using materials dealing with ideas and events that have shaped the Arabic-speaking culture. Conducted primarily in Arabic. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ARAB 33400 - Maghrebi Literature And Culture
Credit Hours: 3.00. A view of the culture and society of the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya). Emphasis on issues of race, politics, religion, and gender through literature and other forms of artistic expression, including film and music. Conducted in English; no knowledge of Arabic required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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ARAB 58700 - Modern Arab Thought
Credit Hours: 3.00. Prominent and critical issues in modern Arab thought. Identity, historical meaning, the Arab-Islamic cultural legacy, and tradition vs. modernity are engaged through Arab encounters with the West. Conducted in English; no knowledge of Arabic required. Typically offered Fall Spring.
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