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ANTH 1103 - People of the Past: Introduction to Archaeology (SS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Survey of prehistoric and early historic cultures from around the world. Covers the development of hunting and gathering societies, origins of agriculture, and growth of urbanization and state-level societies.

ANTH 1111 - Introductory Cultural Anthropology (SS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Varieties and range of human behavior as revealed through the comparative study of cultures throughout the world. Concepts developed by anthropologists to explain both the unity and diversity of humankind.

ANTH 1201 - Becoming Human: Introduction to Biological Anthropology (SCI-L)

Credits:	5.0 [max 5.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

What is human nature, and how did we get this way? The class covers evolutionary theory, modern human biodiversity, our primate relatives, and human evolution. Includes a 90-minute lab session.

ANTH 2001 - How We Study People: Introduction to Methods in Cultural Anthropology (SS)

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Survey of methods in cultural anthropology. prereq: any 1xxx Anth course

ANTH 2002 - Learning from the Dead: Introduction to Methods in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology (SS)

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Survey of archaeological methods (lithic and ceramic analysis, zooarchaeology, paleoethnobotany, geoarchaeology, etc.), as well as biological anthropology methods (genetics, paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, etc.). Introduction to data interpretation and site formation processes. Includes lecture and hands-on work with archaeological and biological anthropology materials. prereq: any 1xxx Anth course

ANTH 3001 - Theory in Cultural Anthropology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Examines the historical development of cultural anthropological theory, influences that shaped historical and contemporary theories in cultural anthropology, and major debates regarding their interpretation. [Note: no credit for students who have received cr for Anth 4901] prereq: any 2xxx Anth course

ANTH 3002 - Theory in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Development of theoretical foundation for archaeology and biological anthropology, particularly evolutionary theory, ecological theory, and middle-range theory. Influences that shaped historical and contemporary theory in archaeology and biological anthropology. prereq: 2001 or 2002

ANTH 1812 - Human Societies: Past and Present, Fact and Fiction (IC)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Consider fictional representations of human societies in the fantasy, science fiction, and alternate history genres. Compare these to ethnographic and archaeological readings, exploring the diversity of human societies, all around the world, from our earliest human ancestors through the modern era, with particular focus on social/political structures, gender roles, religion, and ethnicity. Consider what factors most strongly affect the structure of human societies, how these are or are not reflected in fiction, and how fiction reflects the authors' beliefs of what constitute the fundamental aspects of humankind, human personalities, and human societies. prereq: new college student in their first semester of enrollment at UMM

ANTH 1813 - Culture on TV: An Introduction to Anthropology (IC)

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Prerequisites:	new college student in their first semester of enrollment at UMM
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Introduction to basic anthropological concepts using popular depictions of "culture" and anthropology in the media, specifically, in reality TV. Students watch clips or episodes of TV shows like "Cops," "Sister Wives," "Run's House," and "Deadliest Catch." These serve as a springboard to critical engagement with anthropological concerns and concepts like cultural relativism, ethics of research and entertainment, religion, gift exchange, sexuality, gender, marriage, and kinship. prereq: new college student in their first semester of enrollment at UMM

ANTH 2121 - Reading Ethnography (SS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Survey of ethnography (a key genre of anthropology writing) including classical and contemporary works. Consider issues about how research is conducted, how it is represented in writing, and ethics and consider the variety of ways in which anthropologists approach their work. Some locations, topics, and approaches may be determined by student interests.

ANTH 2202 - Men and Masculinities (SS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Introduction to the field of men and masculinity. Examines cultural construction of masculinity in sports, family, work, media, and other social realms, with a focus on contemporary American, Chinese, Mexican, and Japanese societies. Highlights the multiple masculinities that exist, showing which are privileged and what effects this hierarchy of masculinities has. Topics include men's movements and networks, men's socialization, male sexuality and fertility, male aggression and violence, the idea of machismo, intimacy and friendship among males, fatherhood, men's experiences with sports and work, media representations of boys and men, and the social construction of masculinities in different historical and cultural contexts. Helps students understand how masculinity as a social concept affects their relationships with the people in their lives, approaching gender problems in a rational way, and developing cultural sensitivity toward masculinity issues.

ANTH 2204 - Anthropology of Education: Learning and Schooling in Ethnographic Perspective (SS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Introduction to the central concepts and methods used by cultural anthropologists to study and understand educational processes. Exploration of approaches to diverse educational settings, including both formal and informal contexts. The seminar-style format of the course emphasizes critical thinking and encourages students to connect the readings and course topics to their own lives and experiences.

ANTH 2206 - Sex, Marriage, and Family (HDIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Introduction to classic anthropological theories of sexuality, kinship, and marriage. Consider how emotional and experiential aspects of sex, marriage, and family life--love and romance as well as conflict and control--are shaped by formal arrangements known as "social structure." Topics such as gift-exchange, cousin-marriage, patrilineal and matrilineal descent, incest, arranged marriage, and the concept of "blood" relations in North American families are addressed. Also explore recent anthropological work on such topics as transnational adoption, marriage migration, and new reproductive technologies.

SOC 1101 - Introductory Sociology (SS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introduction to the field of sociology, the exploration of societies, and how societies operate. Sociology broadens social insights, fosters critical thinking, guides analytical thinking, and develops writing skills. By actively thinking about issues facing societies today, students learn to examine life situations and the influence of societies and groups on people's lives, careers, hopes, fears, and personalities. Emphasis on how society is stratified: how organizations and institutions influence the way people think, talk, feel, and act and how different groups (e.g., racial and ethnic) and divisions (e.g., gender and social class) within society have different access to power and privilege. People live their lives in relation to social and physical environments; sociologists study these environments and their effects on people's experiences and behavior.

SOC 1811 - Global Sociology: Migration, Economic Globalization, Class, and Gender Inequality (IC)

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Examination of the global impact of migration on both societies receiving immigrants and societies from which people emigrate, the effect of economic globalization, class and gender inequality. A major goal of the course is to provide students with a systematic way of making sense of a rapidly changing and complex world. Learn from sociological perspectives what it means to live in an interdependent world. prereq: new college student in their first semester of enrollment at UMM

SOC 1812 - Human Rights in the Age of Globalization (IC)

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Exploration of the relationship between globalization and human rights. Globalization as the driving force of capitalism has produced both positive and negative impacts on human rights. Optimists argue that integration into the global world of the free market will foster democracy and human rights, while critics challenge this optimism. Explores these contradictory views and processes. The course is interdisciplinary and integrates perspectives and concepts from different academic fields. prereq: new college student in their first semester of enrollment at UMM

SOC 1813 - Political Economy of "Natural" Disaster (IC)

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Examine the political economy of natural disasters through a survey of events drawn from around the world. Disasters can be viewed from multiple social perspectives (economic, political, ecological, and personal) and each of these carries implicit and explicit political judgments about how the environment should be managed. The following events offer rich documentation (academic and popular media) about the impact of governmental decisions prior to and in the aftermath of each event: famine-South Asian famine of 1770s, earthquake-Haiti 2010, deforestation/erosion-Nepal 1970s, hurricane-Katrina 2005, flood-Johnstown Flood of 1889, tsunami-South Asian tsunami of 2004. prereq: new college student in their first semester of enrollment at UMM

SOC 1814 - Water Unites, Water Divides: Sharing Water in the 21st Century (IC)

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

With the effects of climate change and the world's population increasing, demands for water have also intensified. Survey of water conflicts around the world with a view to assess how nations can better manage available water within and across borders. prereq: new college student in their first semester of enrollment at UMM

SOC 2101 - Systems of Oppression (HDIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Patterns of group dominance, exploitation, and hate in the United States and globally. Emphasis on sexism, racism, and classism with some attention to other systems of oppression such as heterosexism and ageism. prereq: 1101 or Anth 1111 or instr consent

ANTH 3251 - Health and Human Ecology (ENVT)

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	02378 - Anth 3251/Anth 3206
Per Jennifer Rothchild, this course will count as a partial-content elective in the GWSS major and minor.
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Exploration of human ecology with an emphasis on human health and demographics, the relationship between socio-environmental factors and human health/demographics, and the evolution of human adaptations. prereq: any Anth 1xxx course

ANTH 3455 - North American Archaeology (SS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The archaeology of the societies located in the current United States and Canada prior to European colonization. Includes the earliest human colonization of North America (circa 12,000 years ago), early hunting and gathering societies, the development of agriculture, and the formation of complex chiefdoms. Emphasis on the diversity of cultures, languages, economies, and environments found throughout precontact North America.

ANTH 3461 - Archaeology of Eurasia and Africa (SS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

The archaeology of Europe, Asia, and Africa, from 30,000 years ago up to the development of state-level societies on all three continents. Focus is on prehistory and non-Classical societies.

ANTH 3502 - Latinos in the Midwest (SS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Explore the history and experiences of Latinos in the Midwest United States. Starting from a historical perspective, the course examines issues including (im)migration, undocumented status, language, religion, race/ethnicity, media, and economy. A comparative framework emphasizes the unique context of migration into (rather than out of) rural communities as well as those far from a national border. Given the context of the local Morris community, the focus is particularly on rural Latino experiences.

ANTH 3603 - Latin American Archaeology (SS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Latin America from the earliest human colonization to European contact. Includes societies from northern Mexico through Tierra del Fuego, as well as the Caribbean. Covers early hunting gathering societies, origins of agriculture, the rise of powerful states and empires, and their influence on later Colonial-period societies.

ANTH 3604 - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America (IP)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

A survey of gender and sexuality in contemporary Latin America. Course readings attend to the ways gender and sexuality intersect with factors such as race, ethnicity, social class, and religion. Topics include women's activism, public health, LGBTQ activism, tourism, and globalized labor.

ANTH 3701 - Forensic Anthropology (SCI-L)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Recovery, identification, and analysis of human skeletal remains, including investigation techniques, identification of age, sex, ancestry, and cause of death. Two 65-min lectures and one 2-hour lab weekly. prereq: 1201 or Biol 2102

ANTH 3704 - Anthropological Genetics

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Genetic variation in Homo sapiens, links between genes and behavior, and environmental effects on gene expression. Inheritance, "race," and population genetics. Genetics as a data source in paleoanthropology, including DNA recovered from fossil hominins. Human genetic change since the development of agriculture. Basic bioinformatic methods. prereq: 1201 or Biol 1111

ANTH 3705 - The Archaeology of Death and Burial

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

The study of human remains in archaeological sites, with particular attention to the analysis of mortuary behavior and reconstruction of demographic processes from buried populations. Covers theory, methodology, results, and ethics in the subfield of bioarchaeology. prereq: 1103

ANTH 3751 - Primatology (SCI)

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

A survey of non-human primates (monkeys, apes, and prosimians), with a focus on their physical and behavioral adaptations. Also covers basic methods in primatology, the evolution of primate taxonomic groups, and modern conservation status.

ANTH 4501 - Archaeological Fieldschool (SS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 8.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Summer

Experience in archaeological fieldwork, including excavation, survey, artifact processing, and living under field conditions. prereq: instr consent

IS 3796 - Interdisciplinary Internship in the Helping Professions

Credits:	1.0 -16.0 [max 32.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

One-semester educational experience providing field applications in the helping professions (social work, counseling, casework, child protection services, educational settings, human resource counseling, and the like) for the student's theoretical classroom learning experiences. Prereq-Psy 4102, approved internship form; Psy 4101 recommended.

SOC 3103 - Research Methodology in Sociology

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites:	1101
Typically offered:	Every Fall

An introduction to research procedures used in sociology. Developing a research design and applying it to a concrete problem. Questions of validity and reliability examined in the context of research projects developed by the students. prereq: 1101

SOC 3111 - Sociology of Modernization (IP)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Process of modernization in non-Western societies. Social, economic, and political impact of modernization from different theoretical perspectives. Assessment of those theoretical perspectives as a means to understand dynamics of change in Third World countries. prereq: 1101 or Anth 1111 or instr consent

SOC 3112 - Sociology of the Environment and Social Development (ENVT)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Introduces students to the sociological study of the environment and social development. Examines the impact of international environmental and development efforts on individuals at the local level. Focuses on grassroots environmental activism and social development work. Explores and discusses power relations and systems of inequality within the context of environmental and social development efforts. prereq: 1101 or instr consent

SOC 3121 - Sociology of Gender and Sexuality (HDIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduces students to the sociological study of gender and sexuality. Focuses on gender difference and gender inequality. Analyzes the changing roles, opportunities, and expectations of women and men as their societies (and subsequently, gender relations and power) undergo change in today's world. Following a theoretical overview, examines how gender and sexuality affect everyday experiences. prereq: 1101 or Anth 1111 or instr consent

SOC 3122 - Sociology of Childhoods (HDIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Introduces students to the sociological study of childhoods. Examines the interaction between societies and their youngest members-how societies shape children's lives through social institutions such as families, education, and the state. Takes a close look at children's access to privileges and resources as determined by children's experiences of race, gender, class, nationality, and sexual orientation. prereq: 1101 or instr consent

SOC 3123 - Sociology of Aging (HDIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

An introduction to sociology of aging. Examination of the major theories of social aging as well as the historical and cross-cultural variations in aging and differences by race, ethnicity, gender, and social class. prereq: 1101

SOC 3124 - Sociology of Law

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites:	1101
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Explore the emergence and function of law through the lens of social theories. The course assumes law is embodied in the social structure of society; hence, it is the product of social interaction. Based on this assumption, it examines the role of law in maintaining and reproducing social order, class, race, and gender inequalities. The course is interdisciplinary and comparative in its scope and integrates jurisprudence and various social science theories. prereq: 1101

SOC 3125 - Terrorism, Law, and the State (SS)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Examination of issues of violence, justice, and the responses of the state. Integrate competing political views and different cross-cultural perspectives. Explore answers for some difficult questions such as defining terrorism, should states suspend constitutional rights and abrogate human rights to face the threat of terrorism; does terrorist violence differ from the violence perpetuated by nation-states? Students learn and assess the complexities of competing moral and ideological values of terrorists and that of the liberal democracies.

SOC 3131 - World Population (ENVT)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Population theory and demographic method. Dynamics of fertility and mortality as the basis of population forecasting and its policy implications. Emphasis on the tie between Third World demographic trends and population issues in the rest of the world. prereq: 1101 or instr consent

SOC 3141 - Sociology of Deviance (E/CR)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Introduces students to the sociological study of deviance. Explores the social reality of deviance within contemporary society and examines the social construction of deviant categories. Focuses on images of deviance as social constructs, rather than as intrinsic elements of human behavior. Investigates the complex relationships between individual behavior and social structure, with a focus on power, inequality, and oppression. Also, examines the socio-cultural definitions of morality and behavior. prereq: 1101 or instr consent

SOC 3251 - African Americans (HDIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Examination of African American religious, economic, political, family, and kinship institutions in the context of the greater American society. Struggles to overcome problems and the degree of success or failure of these struggles are examined and placed in historical context. prereq: 1101 or Anth 1111

SOC 3252 - Women in Muslim Society (IP)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

The cultures and social statuses of women in several Muslim countries are examined and placed in their political, economic, and religious contexts. prereq: 1101 or Anth 1111

SOC 3403 - Sociological Theory

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	01669 - Soc 3401/Soc 3402/Soc 3403
Prerequisites:	1101; 4 addtl cr in Soc recommended
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Survey of major developments in sociological theory, with attention to both classical and contemporary variants. Emphasis on sociological ideas in relation to the principal intellectual currents of European society, American society, and non-Western thought. prereq: 1101; 4 addtl cr in Soc recommended

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