TBA This course provides an introduction to the field of forensic anthropology. Forensic anthropology is an applied area of biological anthropology that focuses on the identification of human skeletal remains in a mediocolegal context. This course will introduce you to basic terms and principles of forensic anthropology, focus on concepts and their applications, and present […]
Prof. Stonecipher Familiarizes students with the writing conventions of the discipline, preparing them for upper-division and graduate courses in anthropology. Despite a general commonality of purpose in the field, the writing styles and conventions of the discipline diverge in the four major areas of study: physical anthropology, cultural studies, linguistics, and archeology. While some assignments […]
Dr. Heckenberger This course is about the global study of human culture from its origins to the present-day through the recovery, description, and analysis of archaeological remains. The main focus of the course will be to understand the richness of human societies in the context of their spatial variation in the landscape and the depth […]
Dr. A. Johnson How are digital technologies reshaping social worlds? Does constant communication change our experience of community? How does social media affect our sense of self? This course explores “the digital” in cross-cultural context, using the tools of anthropology to chart the range of impacts information technologies are having around the world. Students will […]
Dr. A. Johnson As more and more social practices and processes move online, anthropologists are moving their research online, too. This course introduces the theory, methods, and applications of Digital Anthropology, with a focus on research and production. Course texts include ethnographies of online social worlds, as well as the offline assemblages that support them […]
Dr. Krigbaum This course will review the ‘hard’ evidence for the evolution of humankind. Such a subject of study is indeed diverse, but concerns the fossil, genetic, and archaeological data that pertains to human evolution and its interpretation, past and present. Basic principles of geology, systematics, and functional morphology will form a shared foundation with […]
Hi All, News and Notes: Publications The book DE ARQUEOLOGÍA HABLAMOS LAS MUJERES. PERSPECTIVAS SOBRE EL PASADO ECUATORIANO [Women Speak About Archaeology. Perspectives on Ecuador’s Past] was just published, with Ph.D. Candidate Josefina Vásquez a leader on this project and author of one of the chapters. You can find more details here, including a link to a .pdf of […]