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ANTH 5008 - Advanced Flintknapping

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Hands-on training in techniques of advanced stone tool production, artifact reproduction, and lithic experimental design for academic/artistic purposes. prereq: [3008 or 5269] or instr consent

ANTH 5009 - Human Behavioral Biology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

In-depth introduction to, and critical review of, human behavioral biology, examining the approaches in anthropology and related fields. Classic texts/recent empirical studies of humans and other species. Theoretical underpinnings of this new discipline/how well theoretical predictions have been supported by subsequent research.

ANTH 5015W - Biology, Evolution, and Cultural Development of Language & Music (SOCS, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3015W/Anth 5015W
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Language is the most human form of behavior, and the investigation of the ways language and culture interact is one of the most important aspects of the study of human beings. The most fascinating problem in this study is how language itself may have evolved as the result of the interaction between biological and cultural development of the human species. In this course we will consider the development of the brain, the relationship between early hominins, including Neanderthals and Modern Humans, and such questions as the role of gossip and music in the development of language.

ANTH 5021W - Anthropology of the Middle East (SOCS, GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3021W/Anth 5021W/RelS 370
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Anthropological field methods of analyzing/interpreting Middle Eastern cultures/societies.

ANTH 5027W - Archaeology of Prehistoric Europe (HIS, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3027W/Anth 5027W/Hist 306
Typically offered:	Every Fall

How archaeologists/historians analyze/interpret artifacts to develop knowledge about formation of European society, from earliest evidence of human occupation to Roman Period. Interpreting archaeological evidence from specific sites to understand broad trends in human past.

ANTH 5028 - Historical Archaeology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3028/Anth 5028
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

In this course, we will explore the theories and methods of historical archaeology ? such as material culture studies, landscape perspectives, archival, and oral historical interpretation - as a means of intervening in contemporary discussions of diversity in the United States. Historical archaeology can be a very effective means to challenge some of the standard American narratives about our diverse past. Our aim is to move beyond either a simplistic ethnic pluralism or the superficial ?melting pot? progressive history and instead grapple with the materiality of settler colonialism, white supremacy, and capitalism. In learning about this field, we will consider what has distinguished historical archaeology from American archaeology more broadly, and how those differences are parlayed into specific research strengths. This includes several themes: colonialism; the modern world and globalizing economies; intersectional identities (race and ethnicity, class, sex and gender, religion, age, ability/disability) and social movements; public memory and commemoration; landscapes and social space; citizenship and subjectivity. Although historical archaeology until recently has been restrictively defined as addressing the European-colonized New World, the discipline in the past twenty years has significantly broadened its scope and impact on the practice of archaeology as a whole. Throughout the course we will discuss these developments, and what directions archaeology may take in the future as a result. Course work includes both reading/discussion and learning methods through practical exercises, and handling of archaeological material.

ANTH 5045W - Urban Anthropology (WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3145W/Anth 5045W
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

This class explores anthropological approaches to urban life. On one hand, the course examines the ontological nature of the city by looking into the relation between cities and their environment, and asking whether and how people differentiate "urban" and 'non-urban" spaces. It uncovers the social practices and behaviors that define urban life; urban-rural distinctions; the material and ecological processes that constitute cities; and popular representations of city and/or countryside. On the other hand, the course investigates the spatial and social divisions of the city, seeking to understand the historical struggles and ongoing processes that both draw together and differentiate the people of an urban environment. It studies how cities influence political decision-making, contributing to the uneven distribution of power and resources. It considers: industrialization; urban class conflict; gendered and racialized spaces; and suburbanization. Both of these approaches will also critically consider the city as a social object that we encounter and learn about through our engagement with kinds of media, such as novels and film. Hence, reading for the class will include literature from the social sciences and humanities, as well as critical works of fiction. Students will engage with these broader anthropological issues through an investigation of several global cities, especially Minneapolis-St. Paul, Chicago, Paris, Mexico City, Brasilia, and New Delhi. The class mixes lecture, discussion, and guided research. Lectures will introduce the history of urbanism and urban anthropology. Discussions will critically evaluate the readings, and offer insights and examples to better understand them. By participating in a guided research project, students will uncover hidden aspects of their own city, using ethnography or archaeology to shed light on the urban environment, social struggles over space, or other themes.

ANTH 5112 - Reconstructing Hominin Behavior

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 5112/Anth 8112
Prerequisites:	Previous coursework in Biological Anthropology or Archaeology
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Major hypotheses regarding evolution of human behavior. Combine evidence from realm of biological anthropology as we consider link between bone biology/behavior. Archaeological record. Hypotheses about biocultural evolution regarding tool-use, hunting, scavenging, food sharing, grandmothers, cooking, long distance running. prereq: Previous coursework in Biological Anthropology or Archaeology

ANTH 5113 - Primate Evolution

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 5113/Anth 8113
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Evolutionary history of primates. Particular focus on origin/diversification of apes/Old World monkeys. prereq: Anthropology major, junior or senior

ANTH 5121 - Business Anthropology

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 4121/Anth 5121
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Anthropological/ethnographic understandings/research techniques. prereq: MBA student

ANTH 5128 - Anthropology of Education

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 5128/OLPD 5128
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Cross-cultural perspectives in examining educational patterns. Implicit/explicit cultural assumptions. Methods/approaches to cross-cultural studies in education.

ANTH 5221 - Anthropology of Material Culture

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

The course examines material culture as a social creation, studied from multiple theoretical and methodological perspectives (e.g., social anthropology, archaeology, primatology, history of science). The course examines the changing role of material culture from prehistory to the future.

ANTH 5244 - Interpreting Ancient Bone

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 5244/8244
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

To Interpret Ancient Bone we must sharpen observational skills, read about observations and analysis by previous workers, and learn to record and analyze complex information. The class combines seminar/discussion formats, in which we read literature about how to best accomplish this type of research, and laboratory time, to give students the opportunity to observe and record modifications to bones that form the basis of archaeological and forensic observations. Students analyze different kinds of tool marks on bone, weathering, carnivore modifications, eco-morphology, ages of death, bone tools, and bones from archaeological sites to infer the "life history" of a bone. We recommend you take the Human Skeleton or Zooarchaeology Laboratory before you take this class, but it is not absolutely required.

ANTH 5255 - Archaeology of Ritual and Religion

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3255/Anth 5255/RelS 3254/
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

The course discusses evidence for the origins of religion and its diverse roles in human societies over millennia. It focuses on how artifacts and architecture are essential to religious experience. It asks: What constitutes religion for different cultures? Why is religion at the heart of politics, social life, and cultural imagination?

ANTH 5269 - Analysis of Stone Tool Technology

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

The course offers practical lab experience in analyzing archaeological collections of stone tools to learn about human behavior in the past. Students gain experience needed to get a job in the cultural resource management industry.

ANTH 5327W - Inca, Aztec & Maya Civilizations (HIS, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3327W/Anth 5327W
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

This course is an intensive examination of the emergence, growth, and conquest of native civilizations in ancient America, focusing on the Maya, Aztec, and Inca states. Lectures and discussions examine the culture and history of these Native American civilizations, while also introducing students to anthropological theories of the state, religion, aesthetics, and history.

ANTH 5401 - The Human Fossil Record

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3401/Anth 5401
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Fossil evidence paleoanthropologists use to reconstruct human evolutionary history. Taxonomy, phylogeny, behavior, ecology, tool use, land use, and biogeography. Examination of fossil casts, readings from primary/secondary professional sources. prereq: 1001 or instr consent

ANTH 5402 - Zooarchaeology Laboratory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

How archaeologists reconstruct the past through the study of animal bones associated with artifacts at archaeological sites. Skeletal element (e.g., humerus, femur, tibia), and taxon (e.g., horse, antelope, sheep, bison, hyena) when confronted with bone. Comparative collection of bones from known taxa.

ANTH 5403 - Quantitative Methods in Biological Anthropology

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

Quantitative methods used by biological anthropologists. Applying these methods to real anthropometric data. Lectures, complementary sessions in computer lab. prereq: Basic univariate statistics course or instr consent

ANTH 5405 - Human Skeletal Analysis

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3405/Anth 5405
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Structure, design, and variability of modern human skeleton. Anatomy, functional morphology, development, evolutionary history. Bone histology/biology, excavation, preservation, taphonomy, pathology, forensic analyses. Differentiating between males/females, adults/sub-adults, and humans/non-humans. Quizzes, exams, research paper, project.

ANTH 5412 - Comparative Indigenous Feminisms (GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5412/Chic 3412/GWSS 3515/
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The course will examine the relationship between Western feminism and indigenous feminism as well as the inter connections between women of color feminism and indigenous feminism. In addition to exploring how indigenous feminists have theorized from 'the flesh' of their embodied experience of colonialism, the course will also consider how indigenous women are articulating decolonization and the embodiment of autonomy through scholarship, cultural revitalization, and activism.

ANTH 5442 - Archaeology of the British Isles

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Have you ever wondered how archaeologists interpret the vast amount of archaeological evidence from the British Isles, one of the most studied and best documented parts of the world? And how do archaeologists and governmental agencies protect the heritage of Britain, from major monuments such as Stonehenge, Roman forts, and Shakespeare?s theaters, to the minor products of craft industries such as personal ornaments and coins? This course teaches you about the archaeology of the British Isles, in all of its aspects. You learn how archaeologists study the changing societies of Britain and Ireland, from the first settlers about a million years ago to modern times. You learn about the strategies that public institutions employ to preserve and protect archaeological sites, and about the place of archaeology in tourism in the British Isles and in the formation of identities among the diverse peoples of modern Britain.

ANTH 5448 - Applied Heritage Management

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Contexts of cultural heritage applicable to federal/state protection. Approaches to planning/management. Issues of heritage/stakeholder conflict.

ANTH 5501 - Managing Museum Collections

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3501/Anth 5501
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

This course provides a hands-on and research experience in collections management utilizing artifact, archival, and digital collections. Museum collections, the objects or specimens they contain, the information associated with them, and their care and maintenance are a crucial part of both the sciences and the humanities. While seemingly disparate, many of the issues faced by those responsible for collections are quite similar: how to preserve and care for those collections, legal issues surrounding the materials they contain, how to organize and classify the items, how to facilitate discovery and access, and how to make the information contained in them available to the broadest audience possible. The course includes lectures by museum professionals, hands-on activities, and selected readings. Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for ANTH 3501.

ANTH 5601 - Archaeology and Native Americans (DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3601/Anth 5601/AmIn 3602/
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Historical, political, legal, and ethical dimensions of the relationship of American archaeology to American Indian people. Case studies of how representational narratives about Native people are created through archaeology; responses by Native communities; and the frameworks for collaborative and equitable archaeological practice. Professional ethics in archaeology/heritage studies in American contexts.

ANTH 5980 - Topics in Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

ANTH 8001 - Ethnography, Theory, History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Introduction to foundational concepts, methods, and ethnographic work. Emphasizes theories that have shaped 20th-century thinking in cultural anthropology. Connection of these theories to fieldwork and contemporary issues.

ANTH 8002 - Ethnography: Contemporary Theory and Practice

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Concepts/perspectives in anthropology. Emphasizes American cultural anthropology. Rrecent work in semiotic, psychological, and feminist anthropology.

ANTH 8004 - Foundations of Anthropological Archaeology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Theoretical foundations of anthropological archaeology in historical and contemporary perspective. prereq: 8001, 8002

ANTH 8005 - Linguistic Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Introduction to literature of anthropological linguistics.

ANTH 8009 - Prehistoric Pathways to World Civilizations

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3009/Anth 8009/Hist 3066
Typically offered:	Every Spring

How did complex urban societies first develop? This course addresses this question in ten regions of the world including Maya Mesoamerica, Inca South America, Sumerian Near East, Shang Civilization in East Asia, and early Greece and Rome.

ANTH 8111 - Evolutionary Morphology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Basic foundation of diverse anatomical adaptations of living/fossil primates. Principles of evolutionary theory. Stages of embryogenesis/fetal development. Morphological diversity. Evolutionary morphology. Body size, allometry, heterochrony. Primate evolution.

ANTH 8112 - Reconstructing Hominin Behavior

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 5112/Anth 8112
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Consider major hypotheses regarding evolution of human behavior. Evidence/arguments used to support or reject hypotheses. Consider link between bone biology/behavior. Archaeological record for more holistic understanding of evidence.

ANTH 8113 - Primate Evolution

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 5113/Anth 8113
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Evolutionary history of primates, with particular focus on origin/diversification of apes/Old World monkeys. prereq: Anthropology doctoral student

ANTH 8114 - Biological Anthropology Graduate Program Seminar: Behavioral Ecology of Primates

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites:	Anthropology graduate student or #.
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Course focuses on the behavioral ecology of primates, including humans, with a focus on how the evolution of social behaviors relates to ecology. The course serves as one of three Biological Anthropology Graduate Program Seminars, which provide training in the foundations of biological anthropology. For Biological Anthropology graduate students, the take-home exam for this course will stand as one of the three required Preliminary Papers. Students outside of Biological Anthropology are welcome to enroll pending permission of the instructor. prereq: Anthropology graduate student or instr consent.

ANTH 8120 - Problems in Culture Change and Applied Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 -6.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Comparative studies of change in cultural systems. Impact of global processes on local cultures. Roles of anthropology and anthropologists in policy, planning, implementation, and evaluation.

ANTH 8201 - Humans and Nonhumans: Hybrids and Collectives

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Social life as consisting of relationships not only among human beings, but also between humans and nonhumans: animals, plants, environments, technologies, etc. Focuses on figure of hybrid, its role in formations of collective life.

ANTH 8203 - Research Methods in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Classic and current issues in research methodology, including positivist, interpretivist, feminist, and postmodernist frameworks. Methodology, in the broadest sense of the concept, is evaluated. Students conduct three research exercises and set up an ethnographic research project. prereq: Grad anth major or instr consent

ANTH 8205 - Economic Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 4053/8205
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Theoretical foundations of economic anthropology examined through critical readings of traditional, classical, and contemporary authors. Ethnographic puzzles of material life and issues of ecological degradation, development, market expansion, gender, and transglobal processes.

ANTH 8207 - Political and Social Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Western concepts of politics, power, authority, society, state, and law. Cross-cultural approaches to these concepts in historical perspective. Major theoretical frameworks and current problems and positions in social and political anthropology. Ethnographic classics and new directions.

ANTH 8213 - Ecological Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Seminar on method, theory, and key problems in ecological anthropology and human ecology. Examines approaches in light of human practices, interactions between culture and the environment, global environmental change, and our understanding of human dimensions of ecosystem-based management.

ANTH 8215 - Anthropology of Gender

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Comparative, cross-cultural approach to gender. Focuses on various theories (e.g., feminist, postmodernist, psychoanalytic) of power, gender, authority, and femininity and masculinity. Gender ambiguity and issues of sexuality. prereq: Grad anth major or instr consent

ANTH 8219 - Grant Writing

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

Students draft a research proposal in their area of interest. Seminar involves reading and evaluating proposals, learning about funding and process of submitting proposals, nuts of bolts of composing a proposal, and ethics of research in anthropology. prereq: Grad anth majors preparing to submit research grant proposals next academic yr

ANTH 8220 - Field School

Credits:	6.0 [max 6.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3221/Anth 8220
Typically offered:	Every Summer

Advanced field excavation, survey, and research. Intensive training in excavation techniques, recordation, analysis, and interpretation of archaeological materials or prehistoric remains.

ANTH 8223 - Anthropology of Place & Space

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course asks questions about the meaning of place, the relationship of space to place, the relationship of identity to place, and the relationship of place to environmental change in the event of industrial pollution, development projects, natural disasters and climate change. Theories of and ethnographic accounts of space and place in Cultural Anthropology and Geography will be discussed. In addition to foundational texts in the topic, we will also be reading contemporary accounts of nonwestern places.

ANTH 8230 - Anthropological Research Design

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Training seminar on research development, coordination, grant management, field/laboratory research management, fundraising. prereq: Anth grad student or instr consent

ANTH 8244 - Interpreting Ancient Bone

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 5244/8244
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

To Interpret Ancient Bone we must sharpen observational skills, read about observations and analysis by previous workers, and learn to record and analyze complex information. The class combines seminar/discussion formats, in which we read literature about how to best accomplish this type of research, and laboratory time, to give students the opportunity to observe and record modifications to bones that form the basis of archaeological and forensic observations. Students analyze different kinds of tool marks on bone, weathering, carnivore modifications, eco-morphology, ages of death, bone tools, and bones from archaeological sites to infer the "life history" of a bone. We recommend you take the Human Skeleton or Zooarchaeology Laboratory before you take this class, but it is not absolutely required.

ANTH 8510 - Topics in Archaeology

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Seminar examines particular aspects of archaeological methods and/or theory. Topics vary according to student and faculty interests.

ANTH 8810 - Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Seminar examines particular aspects of method and/or theory. Topics vary according to student and faculty interests.

ANTH 8980 - Anthropology Graduate Workshop

Credits:	1.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Seminar examines aspects of the discipline that transcend traditional subfield boundaries.

ANTH 8990 - Topics in Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Seminar examines aspects of the discipline that transcend traditional subfield boundaries.

ANTH 8991 - Independent Study

Credits:	1.0 -18.0 [max 18.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Under special circumstances and with instructor approval, qualified students may register for a listed course on a tutorial basis. prereq: instr consent

ANTH 8992 - Directed Reading

Credits:	1.0 -18.0 [max 54.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

tbd prereq: instr consent

ANTH 8993 - Directed Study

Credits:	1.0 -18.0 [max 18.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Directed Study prereq: instr consent

ANTH 8994 - Directed Research

Credits:	1.0 -18.0 [max 18.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

N/A prereq: instr consent

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