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ANT - Anthropology

ANT 2000
Introduction to Anthropology

(Offered fall, spring, and summer). This course provides an introduction to the history, theories, and methods of anthropology and its subfields: archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. Major topics include human origins, evolution and variation, primatology, societies and cultures, supernatural beliefs, technology and human adaptation, medical and forensic anthropology, food and nutrition, tourism, and global change.

Credit hours: 3Lecture hours: 3
ANT 2000H
Honors Introduction to Anthropology

(Offered fall, spring, and summer). This course provides an introduction to the history, theories, and methods of anthropology and its subfields: archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. Major topics include human origins, evolution and variation, primatology, societies and cultures, supernatural beliefs, technology and human adaptation, medical and forensic anthropology, food and nutrition, tourism, and global change.

Credit hours: 3Lecture hours: 3
ANT 2100
Introduction to Archaeology

(Offered fall and spring). Introduction to the concepts, theories, and methods archaeologists use to study human culture from the worlds earliest settlements to contemporary societies. Major topics include: field methods and site survey, artifact analysis, paleobotany, zooarchaeology, bioarchaeology, historical archaeology, cultural resource management, forensic archaeology, and the emergence of ancient civilizations.

Credit hours: 3Lecture hours: 3
ANT 2100H
Honors Introduction to Archaeology

(Offered fall and spring). Introduction to the concepts, theories, and methods archaeologists use to study human culture from the worlds earliest settlements to contemporary societies. Major topics include: field methods and site survey, artifact analysis, paleobotany, zooarchaeology, bioarchaeology, historical archaeology, cultural resource management, forensic archaeology, and the emergence of ancient civilizations.

Credit hours: 3Lecture hours: 3
ANT 2149
Lost Tribes and Sunken Continents

(Offered fall). This course examines claims concerning ancient art, civilizations, monuments, and mysterious archaeological sites. Topics include Stonehenge, Easter Island, Atlantis, the Nazca Lines, various pyramids, the Maya civilization, and other archaeological "mysteries." Emphasis will be placed on understanding how and why pseudoscientific beliefs proliferate and on understanding the real archaeological histories of ancient peoples.

Credit hours: 3Lecture hours: 3
ANT 2410
Cultural Anthropology

(Offered fall). Introduction to the concepts, theories, and methods anthropologists use to study human cultures throughout the world. Major topics include language, subsistence, economics, family, kinship, sex, gender, political organization, religion, technology, art, modernization, global changes, and the role of applied anthropology in addressing contemporary world problems.

Credit hours: 3Lecture hours: 3
ANT 2410H
Honors Cultural Anthropology

(Offered fall). Introduction to the concepts, theories, and methods anthropologists use to study human cultures throughout the world. Major topics include language, subsistence, economics, family, kinship, sex, gender, political organization, religion, technology, art, modernization, global changes, and the role of applied anthropology in addressing contemporary world problems.

Credit hours: 3Lecture hours: 3
ANT 2949
COOP/Work Experience/Anthropology

1-3 crs. Cooperative Education courses may be taken toward completion of most of the Associate in Arts and Associate in Science degree programs. A maximum of six credit hours may be used in meeting the A.A. degree requirements. Prerequisite: Minimum of 2.0 GPA, meet with the co-op coordinator, and availability of co-op work experience slot. Supervised, practical work experience that seeks to combine theories and apply practical skills to projects in the student?s major field of study. Requirements include online weekly, mid-term, and end-of-term reflection assignments.

Credit hours: 1-3Other hours: 1-3
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