ANT 3930 Digital Cultures and Communities

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 […]

ANT 4851 Digital Anthropology

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 […]

ANT 4586 Human Evolution

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 […]

Anthropology Spring 2020 Course Descriptions

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ANT 2149 Lost Tribes and Sunken Continents: Pseudoarchaeology and Why It Matters

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, […]

ANT 4930 The archaeology of human sacrifice

Dr. Prieto The sacrifice of men, women and children is one of the most controversial acts in ancient societies. Practiced around the world, this act is imbued in intricate rituals […]

ANT 4930 Illicit Worlds

Dr. Kernaghan This course asks how prohibition-infused social types and things (but also events, terrains and times) can be approached ethnographically. It asks how an ethnographer’s need for extended durations […]

ANG 6930 Digital Anthropology

Professor 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 […]