ANTH 100 General Anthropology (3).ANTH 104 Fundamentals of Physical Anthropology (4).ANTH 108 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (4).ANTH 293 Myth, Legend, and Folk Belief in East Asia (3).ANTH 304 Fundamentals of Physical Anthropology (4).ANTH 308 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (4).
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Online course. Covers the four primary fields of anthropology: Biological anthropology, Linguistics, Social Anthropology, and Archeology. Concepts and approaches to each field, using past and present examples from around the world will be examined, with an emphasis on the unity of the anthropological approach. Future directions of human experiences are explored. Application of fundamental concepts to contemporary events. Eight written assignments, personal ethnography, midcourse and final examinations. View the ANTH 100 course preview. Instructor: James Mielke.
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Online course. Covers the mechanisms and principles of Darwinian evolution with special emphasis on human and primate data. Lecture topics include genetics, variation, primate ethology, and the fossil evidence for human evolution, Mendelian and population genetics, blood group systems, quantitative morphological variation, and fossil human and primate skeletal material. Thirteen written assignments; midcourse and final examinations. View the ANTH 104 course preview. Instructor: Kristin Young.
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An introduction to the nature of culture, language, society, and personality. Included in this survey are some of the major principles, concerns, and themes of cultural anthropology. The variety of ways in which people structure their social, economic, political, and personal lives. Emphasized are the implications of overpopulation, procreative strategies, progress and growth of cultural complexity, developments in the Third World, and cultural dynamics in Western, as well as non-Western societies. Required online readings. Required e-mail assignment submission. Nine written assignments; midcourse and final examinations. View the ANTH 108 course preview. Instructor: Rebecca Crosthwait.
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A survey of the commonly held ideas about the beginning of the world, the role of the gods and spirits in daily life, and the celebrations and rituals proper to each season of the year. The purpose of the course is to present the worldview of the ordinary peoples of East Asia in contrast to their more sophisticated systems of philosophy which are better known to the Western world. (Same as EALC 130, HWC 130, and REL 130.) Required online readings. Optional e-mail assignment submission. Two written assignments; final examination. View the ANTH 293 course preview. Instructor: Jerry Schultz.
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Online course. A more intensive treatment of the content of ANTH 104. Not open to students who have taken ANTH 104 or ANTH 105. Thirteen written assignments; book review; midcourse and final examinations. View the ANTH 304 course preview. Instructor: Kristin Young.
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An introduction to the nature of culture, language, society, and personality. Included in this survey are some of the major principles, concerns, and themes of cultural anthropology. The variety of ways in which people structure their social, economic, political, and personal lives. Emphasized are the implications of overpopulation, procreative strategies, progress and growth of cultural complexity, developments in the Third World, and cultural dynamics in Western, as well as non-Western societies. Not open to students who have taken ANTH 108 or ANTH 109. Required online readings. Required e-mail assignment submission. Nine written assignments; research project; midcourse and final examinations. View the ANTH 308 course preview. Instructor: Rebecca Crosthwait.
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ANTH 100 General Anthropology (3). SC
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ANTH 108 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (4). SC