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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