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USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
 

Anthropology
  

  • ANTH 105g Culture, Medicine and Politics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Survey of the impact of public institutions, the private sector, and cultural practices on health and the delivery of health care in the United States.
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category VI: Social Issues
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as OT 105
  

  • ANTH 125g Social Issues in Human Sexuality and Reproduction

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Examination of the “natural” (biological) and “unnatural” (social and cultural) dimensions of human sexuality and reproduction.
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category VI: Social Issues
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 140g Mesoamerican Cosmovision and Culture

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    An exploration of the nature and contributions of pre-Columbian high civilizations (Maya, Aztecs, etc.) and their descendants as they resist and assimilate to the modern world.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category II: Global Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 200Lg The Human Animal

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 12.0
    (Enroll in HBIO 200Lg )
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 201g Principles of Human Organization

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Major culture types, nomadic hunters and herders, peasant and tribal societies, sophisticated kingdoms; social, political, economic, and religious institutions.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 202g Archaeology: Our Human Past

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Archaeology as the means of investigating our shared human past, from the origins of humanity to the foundations of current civilization.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as CLAS 202, ARCG 202
  

  • ANTH 205g Introduction to Global Studies and Overseas Research

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Cultural differences and social processes examined in global and regional networks. Issues are studied ethnographically, using materials from several disciplines.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 225 Gender, Sex, and Science: A Gender Studies Approach

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in SWMS 225 )
  

  • ANTH 235g The Changing Pacific: History, Culture, Politics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Current social and political developments in the South Pacific analyzed from the perspective of the historical relationship between indigenous cultures and the West.
    Concurrent Enrollment: Concurrent enrollment: MDA 140 .
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category II: Global Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 240gm Representing 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Critical examination of visual, textual, and performative representations of culture and identity anchored by discussion of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina .
    Recommended Preparation: ANTH 263g 
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category VI: Social Issues
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AMST 240
  

  • ANTH 250g Race and Sexual Politics in Southeast Asia

    Units: 4
    Southeast Asia is studied as a meeting place of different races and cultural traditions, with emphasis on the precolonial heritage of sexual equality and postcolonial reinterpretations of men’s and women’s worlds.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category II: Global Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 263g Exploring Culture through Film

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Concepts of social anthropology using filmic representations of societies throughout the world in contrast to written ethnography.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category II: Global Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 273g Shamans, Spirits and Ancestors: Non-Western Religious Traditions

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    An intensive study of local systems of belief and knowledge in selected societies in the Pacific, Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America with emphasis on ideas of the spirit world.
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category II: Global Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 300 Evolution, Ecology, and Culture

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Enroll in HBIO 300 )
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ANTH 301g The Global Performance of Healing

    Units: 4
    Survey of the performance of healing in cross-cultural perspective. The course culminates in field research to Spiritist centers outside the United States.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 302 Humans and Ancient Environments

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Examine ways that humans have caused and adapted to environmental change in the past.
    Recommended Preparation: ANTH 202  and GEOL 105Lg  or GEOL 150Lg .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 303 Exploring Ancient Ways of Living: Experimental Archaeology

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in REL 303 )
  

  • ANTH 304 Prehistoric Archaeology

    Units: 4
    Examination of the rise of human social complexity from the first Homo Sapiens through the development of agriculture, chiefdoms, states and empires.
    Recommended Preparation: HBIO 200Lg .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 305 Childhood, Birth and Reproduction

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Cross-cultural analysis and comparison of the experience and cultural conception of birth, maternity, parenthood, and childhood in western and non-western societies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as SWMS-305
  

  • ANTH 306 Primate Social Behavior and Ecology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Enroll in HBIO 306 )
  

  • ANTH 307 Trojan Archaeology: Excavating USC

    Units: 4
    Archaeological excavation on USC’s campus features training in research design, digging, survey, mapping, archive use, artifact analysis, public communication, and confronting political and ethical challenges.
    Recommended Preparation: ANTH 202g 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ARCG 307
  

  • ANTH 308 Origins and Evolution of Human Behavior

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in HBIO 308 )
  

  • ANTH 309L Virtual and Digital Culture, Heritage and Archaeology

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in ARCG 305L )
  

  • ANTH 310 Archaeology of the Americas

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Pre-Columbian culture from early hunters to the Spanish conquest in major geographical areas of Mexico, Central America, Peru, or the United States.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ARCG 310
  

  • ANTH 311 Old World Archaeology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Neolithic revolution and origins of civilization in major culture centers such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, or China.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 314g The Nature of Maya Civilization

    Units: 4
    A seminar forum on Maya culture from the earliest form to present; problems of origins, classic florescence, systems collapse, conquests, persistence, and transformation today.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category II: Global Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 315g North American Indians

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    North American Indian societies, their major cultural themes, ethnological significance, and comparability with Western European cultural forms; lectures, visuals, and indigene demonstrations.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category II: Global Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 316gmp North American Indians in American Public Life

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Role of American Indians in American public life from colonial times to the present; native American forms of government; relations between tribes and the U.S.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Satisfies Global Perspective in Category H: Traditions and Historical Foundations
    Satisfies Old General Education in Category II: Global Cultures and Traditions
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as HIST-317
  

  • ANTH 317 Imaging Indians: From Warriors to Windtalkers

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    An historical and anthropological overview of 500 years of the presentation of differing and, often, contradictory perceptions of Native American life and character in popular and academic media.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 318 Ethics and Global Heritage

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in REL 304)
  

  • ANTH 320 Male and Female in Pacific Society

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Cultural variations in gender systems and historical changes due to colonialism and development in Polynesia, Melanesia, Indonesia, and other Pacific Rim cultures.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as SWMS-320
  

  • ANTH 322 Anthropology of Bali

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    An introduction to the methodology of social anthropology, focusing on the culture of the Indonesian island of Bali.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 323 Southeast Asian Cultures Today: Globalization and Multiple Modernities

    Units: 4
    The cultural and social diversity of Southeast Asia today, focusing on globalization, modernity, and change.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 324 Regional Ethnology: China

    Units: 4, 2 years
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Anthropological perspective of the ordinary citizens of the Peoples’ Republic of China: peasants, workers, bureaucrats, students, and women.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 325 Global Studies Research Methods

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Methods for field research in international settings include ethnography, archival work, surveying and documentation; preparation for overseas research and senior thesis.
    Recommended Preparation: ANTH 205 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 326 Ethnography of European Culture

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Europe as a geographic area in terms of its linguistic, ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity; particular focus on peasant society and the Little Tradition.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 327 Anthropology of the Middle East and Islam

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Explores written and visual ethnography for study of Middle East community, sociopolitical forms and religious life. Examines scriptural and living Islam and dynamics of contemporary Islamic revival.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 328m Culture Change and the Mexican People

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Culture change theories and methods (archaeology, community studies, participant- observation) used to examine the varied experiences of peoples in Mexico and the U.S. Southwest.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 329 Archaeology and Global Cultural Heritage

    Units: 4
    Exploration of the role archaeology plays in the creation of modern national, ethnic, racial and other types of identities worldwide.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 330m Culture, Gender and Politics in South Asia

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Examination of violence, identity, law, religion, nationalism, development, caste, kinship, gender, and the South Asian diaspora.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as SWMS-330
  

  • ANTH 332g Anthropology and Narrative Medicine

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Exploration of illness, disability, and healing narratives, how narratives are culturally shaped, and their significance for western biomedical practices.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 333gm Forms of Folklore

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Introduction to folklore as a discipline, including folklore research methods and theory. Core course for the minor in Folklore and Popular Culture.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 335 Comparative Muslim Societies

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Examines issues of nationality, religion, and culture among Muslim peoples in the Middle East, Africa, East Asia, and the Soviet Union from an anthropological perspective.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 336 Health, Gender and Ethnicity

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    (Enroll in SWMS 336 )
  

  • ANTH 337 Anthropology of Warfare

    Units: 4
    Examination of the origins of warfare, its evolution and the changes it brought to human civilization.
    Recommended Preparation: ANTH 202 , ANTH 304 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 338g Cultures of Food: The Anthropology of What We Eat and Why

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    An introduction to the field of food studies, as a historical and cross-disciplinary study of the place of food in culture and society.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 344 Living History: An Anthropological Inquiry into the Past as Ritual, Experience and Practice

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Focuses on the use of practice, craft, ritual, and phenomenology in the production of historic narratives and knowledges. Using anthropology, social history, and practical archaeology, explores the complex relationship between vernacular traditions and formal or official histories.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 345 Politics, Social Organization, and Law

    Units: 4, 2 years
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Political and legal systems of primitive societies, social control, and structure.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 355 Urban Anthropology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Exploration of empirical and analytical approaches employed by anthropologists in studying urban phenomena cross-culturally; urban origins, structure, and social processes.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 357g Cultures of Genocide

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    The comparative analysis of genocide in different cultures and historical moments in order to understand the processes through which genocide has been perpetuated, as well as different cultural responses to it.
    Prerequisite: ANTH 100
    Recommended Preparation: ANTH 200 Lg. 
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 360 Symbolic Anthropology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    The role of symbols in the evolution of culture; symbolic aspects of myth, ritual, and social life.
    Prerequisite: sophomore standing.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 365 Life History in Anthropological Perspective

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Examination of one’s life within its sociocultural context; study of family history, autobiography, diary, journal, and film; research and writing of a life history.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 370 Sex, Love, and Marriage: An Introduction to Kinship

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Comparative examination of family and kinship in tribal, peasant, and complex societies, emphasizing non-Western cultures, societal and normative consequences of forms and functions in family.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as SWMS 370
  

  • ANTH 371gm Cross-Cultural Research on Urban Gangs

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Youth gang dynamics and their effects on institutions. Comparative analysis of Asian, African, and Mexican American gangs.
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 372 Interpretation of Myth and Narrative

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Oral narratives from non-Western cultures; communications about deeply-held beliefs, psychological tensions, social problems, and the structure of the mind.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 373 Magic, Witchcraft and Healing

    Units: 4
    Analysis of the practices of witches and witch doctors, priests, diviners and traditional healers in Western and non-Western societies, relating their practices to religion and medicine.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 375 Human-Centered Research Practicum

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Practical training in qualitative research methods for design consulting and real-world problem solving in development, government, and corporate contexts. Socially-engaged ethnography; anthropology as cultural critique.
    Recommended Preparation: Previous course work in Anthropology
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 376 Scientific Analysis in Archaeology

    Units: 4
    Examination of the range of scientific techniques and technologies used for the analysis and interpretation of material culture recovered during archaeological excavations.
    Recommended Preparation: ANTH 202g 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ARCG 376
  

  • ANTH 377g Archaeological Interpretation of Complex Societies

    Units: 4
    Archaeologists translate raw data sets into broader understanding through interpretation. Students engage specific examples and develop their own perspectives on past societies. (Block semester)
    Recommended Preparation: ANTH 202g  
    Satisfies New General Education in Category C: Social Analysis
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ARCG 377
  

  • ANTH 380 Sex and Gender in Anthropological Perspective

    Units: 4
    Cultural construction of gender in a number of non-Western societies is compared to ideas of sex and sexual differences in American society.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as SWMS-380
  

  • ANTH 385m Men and Masculinity

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in SWMS 385m )
  

  • ANTH 390 Special Problems

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 393 Directed Internship

    Units: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 08
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Real-world work experience in an internship position, while also learning to apply anthropological theory and research methods to complete a related research project. Enrollment requires permission from department.
    Recommended Preparation: ANTH 200 or 300-level course with a grade of B or higher
    Registration Restriction: Only open to juniors, seniors, and graduate anthropology and related majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 395m African American Humor and Culture

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in AMST 395m )
  

  • ANTH 400 Maya Resilience: Constructing Past and Present Identities

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Examination of how the Maya, past and present, have forged their cultural identity. Issues are explored through visits to sites and communities.
    Recommended Preparation: ANTH 202g , ANTH 310 , ANTH 314g  or another anthropologically based archaeology course
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ARCG 400
  

  • ANTH 405 Evolutionary Medicine

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    (Enroll in HBIO 405 )
  

  • ANTH 406 Theory and Method in Human Evolutionary Biology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Enroll in HBIO 406 )
  

  • ANTH 407 Peasant Society

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Comparative study of the social, economic, political, and religious characteristics of peasant societies as they have existed and continue to exist in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 409 Indigenous Languages in the Contemporary World

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Examination of indigenous languages in Northern Ireland, with a focus on the sociopolitical dimension of revitalization movement.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 410a Ethnographic Field Methods and Practicum

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Survey of anthropological methods for acquiring and analyzing data. Ethnographic research methods and modes of analysis; development of a field research project.
    Prerequisite: ANTH 201 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 410b Ethnographic Field Methods and Practicum

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Survey of anthropological methods for acquiring and analyzing data. Implementation of the field project.
    Prerequisite: ANTH 201 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 415 Global Studies Senior Seminar

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Preliminary analysis for research data for overseas research to compare results, discuss writing strategies and gain comparative perspective to prepare a senior thesis.
    Recommended Preparation: ANTH 205 , ANTH 325 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 425 Peoples and Cultures of Latin America

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Cultures of the indigenous peoples of South America; results of Spanish conquest and colonization; present folk societies and their cultures.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 435x Ethnic Diversity in China/Inner Asia

    Units: 4
    Tibetans, Mongols, Muslims and other minorities on the China and Inner Asian frontier will be surveyed through ethno histories, lectures, films and guest lectures.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 440 History of Anthropological Theory

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Ideas about man, culture, and society which have formed the field of anthropology as a research discipline; present trends and problems.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 445 African American Anthropology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    An examination of anthropological research on race and African American culture, from the 18th century to the present.
    Recommended Preparation: AMST 385 , ANTH 263 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AMST-445
  

  • ANTH 450 Field Research in Maya Archaeology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Hands on research experience at a Maya ruin, including archaeological survey and excavation in the jungle.
    Prerequisite: ANTH 202g  or ANTH 310  or ANTH 314g 
    Corequisite: ANTH 400 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ARCG 482
  

  • ANTH 460 Economic Anthropology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Comparative study of human systems of production, distribution, and consumption; anthropological approaches to study of economic behavior; economic systems of primitive, peasant, and developing societies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 465 Archaeology and Society

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Enroll in CLAS 465 )
  

  • ANTH 470 Multidisciplinary Seminar in Visual Anthropology

    Units: 2 or 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Application of broad cast journalism, cinema, and anthropology to ethnographic film making.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 472 Visual Techniques in Anthropology: Stills

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Visual techniques for data collection and analysis in anthropological research. Visual anthropology research using 35 mm. photography skills, fieldwork procedures, data analysis, and presentation formats.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 474 Posthuman Anthropology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Examines how posthumanism is reshaping our understanding of humankind, including the ways in which “vernacular posthumanisms” are increasingly enacted in our everyday lives.
    Recommended Preparation: Introductory courses in Anthropology and/or Philosophy
    Registration Restriction: Not open to freshmen
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 475 Ethnographic Film Analysis

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Analysis of film as a tool for investigating primitive and modern cultures and societies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 476 Ethnographic Film Theory from an Historical Perspective

    Units: 4
    Technologies and uses of, theoretical frameworks for, and the presentation styles of ethnographic materials are examined from an historical perspective.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 481L GIS for Investigating the Past

    Units: 4
    Training of archaeology students in the use of GIS through the understanding of basic principles and theoretical restrictions of geospatial sciences.
    Recommended Preparation: ANTH 202g , SSCI 382L 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as ARCG 481
  

  • ANTH 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual research and readings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 491 Directed Research for Honors

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Individually guided research and readings culminating in the production of an honors thesis.
    Prerequisite: 3.0 GPA; ANTH 201  plus 8 units of upper-division anthropology courses.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    Current literature: social change, comparative institutions, urbanization, ideology.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 501 History and Foundations of Anthropology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    An historical survey of the development of theory and methods in social anthropology.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 502 Contemporary Theory in Anthropology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Continuation of ANTH 501 , focusing on current models, methods, and issues in social anthropology.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 503 Regional Ethnography

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    An intensive analysis of the anthropology of a major culture area.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 506 Primate Behavior and Sociobiology

    Units: 4
    Advanced course on the behavior, ecology and socio - biology of living primates. Takes a Darwinian approach to behaviors such as parenting, mating, diet and feeding, competition, and demography.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 509 Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to key topics in linguistic anthropology with special focus on interrelations between language, identity, culture, gender, and power in the U.S. and beyond.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AMST-509
  

  • ANTH 510 Urban Anthropology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Intensive ethnographic analysis of specialized urban niches, microsettings, ethnicity, community studies.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 554 Women in Global Perspective

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in SWMS 554 )
  

  • ANTH 562 The Practice of Ethnography

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Major approaches to ethnographic fieldwork are explored in classic cases.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as AMST-562
  

  • ANTH 575 Seminar in Ethnographic Film

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    A survey of ethnographic film using both the dimensions of natural history descriptions and process, contrasted with naturalism and structuralism as tools of controlled comparison and analysis.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 576L Anthropological Media Seminar

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    A hands-on laboratory-based survey of preproduction techniques in video and audio production, including exercises to prepare students to shoot their own documentaries.
    Recommended Preparation: visual anthropology background.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 577L Advanced Anthropological Media Seminar

    Units: 4
    Max Units: 8.0
    A hands-on laboratory-based survey of post-production technologies, including editing both new and older footage. Students should be finishing their own documentaries.
    Prerequisite: ANTH 576 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ANTH 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

 

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