Dr. J. Johnson Applied anthropology is the application of anthropological knowledge, theory, and methods to the solution of practical problems or “putting anthropology to use”. The overall objective of this course is to give students an introductory understanding of the elements of applied anthropological work and the work of actual applied anthropologists in universities, government, […]
Instructor TBA In this course you will learn basic practical, theoretical, and ethical issues in producing and critiquing visual ethnographies. You will use the equipment you already have to produce a 7 minute film or 10 still image visual ethnography.
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 […]
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Dr. Grillo This course examines claims, popularized in the media,that mysterious archaeological sites, statues, etc. were influenced by outer space visitors.Case studies to bediscussed include Stonehenge, various pyramids, Easter Island, Atlantis and Mu, the Nazca Lines, and other archaeological “mysteries.”Emphasis will be placed on understanding how and why pseudoscientific beliefs proliferate, and on understanding the […]
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