ANTH4680/6680

The Anthropology of Communism
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Credit Hours:
3

Course introduces students to anthropological approaches to explore Communism. 

What You’ll Learn:

  • How Communist ideologists theorized, leaders implemented, and people experienced various aspects of life during the Communist era.
  • To employ a comparative approach to understand global sociocultural processes.
  • To make logical connections between datasets and arguments.
  • To recognize and compare patterns and learn about underlying political and social dynamics in Communist countries at the global scale, and, in particular, in Eastern Europe.
Semester Offered:
Spring
Level:
Graduate
Undergraduate

ANTH4620/6620

Applied Anthropology: Action and Adventure in Anthropology
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Credit Hours:
3

Exploration of different ways in which anthropological expertise may be applied in addressing real-world problems, with a focus on cultural anthropology. 

What You’ll Learn:

  • Be familiar with different arenas in which anthropological expertise is applied.
  • Be aware of the different forms applied anthropology can take.
  • Gain an understanding of the major critiques of applied anthropology and begin to understand how these may be navigated to ensure an ethical engagement with contemporary problems.
  • Students will be encouraged to identify a problem or opportunity of interest and develop a project to articulate their role therein.
Semester Offered:
Spring
Level:
Graduate
Undergraduate

ANTH4500/6500

Molecular Past
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Credit Hours:
3

An introduction to methods of biomolecular analysis in archaeology, including ancient DNA, stable isotopes, organic residues (proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates), and amino acids. 

What You’ll Learn:

  • Gain an understanding of the biomolecular and biogeochemical techniques that can be applied in the study of the past.
  • How to address large-scale research questions from a number of analytical viewpoints.
  • Recognize appropriate laboratory techniques.
  • Interpret primary data.
  • Assess challenges in monitoring data quality and data analysis!
Semester Offered:
Spring
Level:
Graduate
Undergraduate

ANTH4390/6390

Quantitative Analysis for Anthropologists
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Credit Hours:
3

Course transforms anthropology, archaeology, and other social science students with little-to-no background in statistics into competent quantitative reasoners.

What You’ll Learn:

  • To create quantitative datasets and analyses to address a range of research questions.
  • To critically evaluate quantitative arguments in published peer-reviewed scholarship.
  • To create intelligible, legible, and convincing graphs for science communication.
  • To confidently perform basic data management and analysis tasks using STATA or R.
  • And so much more!
Semester Offered:
Spring
Level:
Graduate
Undergraduate

ANTH3444

Ancient Human Health
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Credit Hours:
3

Study the ancient origins of diseases through skeletal remains. 

What You’ll Learn:

  • How to analyze skeletal remains to identify evidence of ancient diseases, trauma and genetic disorders and gain insight into how these conditions shaped past populations.
  • How to evaluate historical perspectives on disease and healing, exploring how ancient societies understood and treated illnesses through cultural and medical practices.
  • How pathogens, trauma, and genetic disorders affected past populations.
  • How past societies understood disease and healing.
Semester Offered:
Spring
Level:
Undergraduate

ANTH 2275S

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
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Credit Hours:
4

Introduction to the core concepts and methodology of cultural anthropology and service in the local community.

What You’ll Learn:

  • Assigned hands-on service-learning projects will train students in the application of these basic concepts as well as ethnographic methods used in fieldwork, including participant observations.
  • A topical and theoretical overview of cultural anthropology and ethnography
  • An understanding of culture and cultural diversity; cultural categories like race, ethnicity, and gender; the social institutions of marriage, family, religion, and law; food production and immigration.
Semester Offered:
Spring
Course Type:
Service Learning
Level:
Undergraduate
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