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AFRO 5101 - Seminar: Introduction to Africa and the African Diaspora

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

Comparative frameworks, related theories, and pivotal texts in study of Africa and African Diaspora.

AFRO 5191 - Seminar: The African American Experience in South Africa

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 5191/Hist 5438
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Ideological, political, religious, and cultural ties that have informed African American and black South African relations from late 18th century to present.

AFRO 5866 - The Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, 1954-1984

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3866/Afro 5866/Hist 3856
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

The "second reconstruction." Failure of Reconstruction, abdication of black civil rights in 19th century. Post-1945 assault on white supremacy via courts/state, grass-roots southern movement in 1950s/1960s. Black struggle in north and west, emphasis on Black Power by new organizations/ideologies/leaders. Ascendancy of Reagan, conservative assault on movement.

AFRO 8202 - Seminar: Intellectual History of Race

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

At its heart, the 8202 seminar is about dialogue, interrogating scholarship on race, intellectual history, and knowledge production. We will be in deep conversation with one another as we negotiate meaning around the intellectual history of race. Dialogue, indeed, is at the heart of this graduate seminar experience. Given the multidisciplinary composition of the students and content in 8202, we build together to form a learning whole in a remote format. Central to our work is excavating the 500 year legacy of race thought and making into the contemporary period.

AFRO 8910 - Topics in Studies of Africa and the African Diaspora

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

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

AMIN 5409 - American Indian Women: Ethnographic and Ethnohistorical Perspectives (HIS, DSJ)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 3409/AmIn 5409
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Comparative survey of ethnographic/ethnohistorical writings by/about American Indian women.

AMIN 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 interconnections 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.

AMIN 5890 - Readings in American Indian and Indigenous History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5890/Hist 5890
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Students in this course will read recently published scholarship in American Indian and Indigenous history that takes up pressing research questions, promises to push inquiry in new directions, and that theorizes important interventions in our thinking to understand where the field is situated and moving. Reflecting the instinctively interdisciplinary nature of American Indian and Indigenous history, readings will be drawn not just from the discipline of history but across other disciplines such as Anthropology, American Studies, Geography, Literature, Political Science, and Legal Studies. As well, readings will include scholarship that reaches out to embrace the Global Indigenous studies turn. prereq: Advanced undergrad with instr consent or grad student

AMIN 5920 - Topics in American Indian Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Various topics in American Indian studies, depending upon instructor/semester.

AMIN 8301 - Critical Indigenous Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course covers the "critical turn" in American Indian and Native or Indigenous Studies as evident in the emergence of three overlapping threads or intellectual/political genealogies: critiques of Indigeneity (the claims and conditions of nativeness to specific places), Indigenous Feminist (which foregrounds the salience of gender in indigenous critiques of power structures), and Indigenous Queer, sometimes labeled "Two-Spirit" (which foregrounds sexuality). What are the analytical, political and cultural backgrounds and what are their purchases for theory, critique, and practice? For interrogating academic and non-academic (including Indigenous) forms of inquiry and knowledge production and being in the world?

AMIN 8910 - Topics in American Indian and Indigenous Studies

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

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AMST 8289 - Ethnographic Research Methods: Research Strategies in American Studies

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

Students conduct an empirical research project, write a final paper. Assumptions/practices of positivism, reflexive science, and feminist methodology. Issues surrounding politics/ethics of feminist research. Dilemmas in practice of fieldwork, oral histories, reading, and writing. prereq: 8288 or instr consent

AMST 8920 - Topics in American Studies

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

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

ANAT 5095 - Advanced Problems in Anatomy

Credits:	1.0 -6.0 [max 12.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Exceptional projects that do not easily fit within confines of other ANAT offerings. Examples include but not limited to individual teaching or research projects. prereq: one or more ANAT classes, instr consent

ANAT 5150 - Human Gross Anatomy

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

Human cadaveric dissection based on traditional preparation, lab dissection, review sections, radiographic analysis, clinical correlations. Taught by regions. Extremities, torso, head/neck. Assessment by mid-semester/final written/practical examinations. prereq: instr consent, For Medical Students, or Graduate students enrolled in an appropriate graduate program as determined by instructor.

ARCH 5671 - Historic Preservation

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

Philosophy, theory, origins of historic preservation. Historic archaeology/research, descriptive analysis, documentation of historic buildings. Government's role in historic preservation, preservation standards/guidelines, preservation/building codes, preservation advocacy.

ARCH 5673 - Historic Property Research and Documentation

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

Philosophy, theory, methods of historic building research. Descriptive analysis of buildings, building documentation, historical archaeology, architectural taxonomy. prereq: [3412, 3641, 4671, 5671, 4672 or 5672] or instr consent

ARTH 8320 - Seminar: Issues in Early Modern Visual Culture

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

Issues in visual culture of Europe and the Americas, 1500-1750. Topics vary, may include representation of body, collectors/collecting, impact of Reformation, image/book, art/discovery, early modern vision/visuality.

ARTS 5760 - Experimental Film and Video

Credits:	4.0 [max 12.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ArtS 3760/ArtS 5760
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Experimental moving image practice is increasingly prevalent within contemporary art and cinema. This class is designed to heighten your awareness and experience of the variety of ways feeling and perception can be explored through moving images and sound. We will step beyond traditional narrative structures and conventions of camera use to explore the spiritual, conceptual, and emotional potential of the medium. There will be individual and collaborative group work on elements of film production - character design, location and scene design, writing, improvisational and scripted acting and shooting, camera and sound recording tools and techniques, editing, and post-production. The class will include screenings, readings and discussion of experimental films from the inception of the avant-garde through the most contemporary experimental work being produced today. You will explore the visual and aural experience of moving image and sound through a variety of alternative shooting, recording, editing and interdisciplinary installation and presentation options. Students begin the semester by developing a film concept and planning production. Working individually and collaboratively, you will then shoot the film and complete a preliminary edit. Through critiques and further editing and shooting, you will work, re-work, and start over with your material to discover unplanned changes in tone, flow, experience, and meaning. Students need to provide their own portable drive and 1-2 SD cards for each class, and may choose to purchase their own subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud if they wish to use their own computer. Prerequisite: ARTS major, ARTS 1704

AST 8011 - High Energy Astrophysics

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

Energetic phenomena in the universe. Radiative processes in high energy regimes; supernovae, pulsars, and X-ray binaries; radio galaxies, quasars, and active galactic nuclei. prereq: instr consent

BTHX 5210 - Ethics of Human Subjects Research

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

Issues in ethics of human subjects research. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

BTHX 8120 - Dying in Contemporary Medical Culture

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

Examines practices of dying and death in contemporary U.S. culture, moral problems associated with these practices, possible solutions, and practical applications. Readings will consist of cultural critiques, bioethics literature, and empirical research.

BTHX 8510 - Gender and the Politics of Health

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

Significance of gender to health and health care. Feminist analysis regarding moral/political importance of gender, possibly including contemporary western medicine?s understanding of the body, childbirth, and reproductive technologies; cosmetic surgery; chronic illness; disability; participation in research; gender and classification of disease. Care work, paid/non-paid. Readings from feminist theory, history, social science, bioethics, and moral philosophy. prereq: instr consent

BTHX 8610 - Medical Consumerism

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

Two related movements have emerged in American health care. The first is an emphasis on medical enhancement, or the use of medical technologies to improve the looks, performance and psychological well-being of people who are healthy. The second is the submission of the American health care system to the machinery of consumer capitalism. This seminar will use an interdisciplinary set of texts to explore the implications of medical consumerism. How is the consumerist model of medicine shaping our concepts of disease and disability? What larger historical developments have led to our current situation? How are the tools of medical enhancement shaping the way we think about our identities and the way we live our lives? Teaching modality: In-Person Classes.

CGSC 8041 - Cognitive Neuroscience

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CgSc 8041/NSC 8041
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Relations between brain activity and cognitive function in mammals. Working memory, attention, decision processing, executive function, categorization, planning, sequence processing. Behavioral/physiological perspectives. Disruption of cognitive function following brain damage. Extracellular recording of single neuron activity in nonhuman primates. Functional neuroimaging/magnetoencephalography in humans. prereq: instr consent

CHIC 5374 - Migrant Farmworkers in the United States: Families, Work, and Advocacy (CIV)

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Chic 3374/Chic 5374
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Socioeconomic/political forces that impact migrant farmworkers. Effects of the laws and policies on everyday life. Theoretical assumptions/strategies of unions and advocacy groups. Role/power of consumer. How consuming cheap food occurs at expense of farmworkers.

CHIC 5920 - Topics in Chicana(o) Studies

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

Multidisciplinary themes in Chicana(o) studies. Issues of current interest.

CI 8416 - Speculative Fiction, Radical Imagination, and Social Change

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Speculative fiction is a blanket term for fantasy, science fiction, horror, and other nonmimetic genres predicated on challenging consensus reality and its societal norms. The most dynamic and diverse field of modern storytelling, speculative fiction serves as a catalyst, in and beyond the classroom, for radical imagination: one that contests the oppressive socio-economic system by reimagining race, gender, class, and other real-world issues. This seminar examines the cultural work performed by speculative fiction addressed to children and young adults. Engaging with stories that suggest alternatives to how we live now, students develop mental habits of global citizens who value diversity and strive for social transformation. Works of speculative fiction for the young reader are discussed as particle accelerators for ideas of change and as sites of resistance against exclusion and systemic inequalities. The focus is on speculative fiction by indigenous, minority, and postcolonial authors. Exploring the ways in which these works interrogate dominant notions of reality and structures of meaning helps students appreciate speculative fiction as a tool for imagining radical social change.

CI 8645 - Indigenous Language Revitalization and Activist Research Methods

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

This course is a hands-on look at activist research methods situated in the context of Indigenous Language Revitalization. That is, what happens when a community problem is the organizing force in research? Students will be expected to both engage in language learning, research, designing a research project, and connecting this to critical thinking as applied to culture, language and indigenous language revitalization.

COMM 5211 - Critical Media Studies: Theory and Methods

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

Survey of theories, research methods, and scholars dominating critical media studies since late 1920s. prereq: Graduate students or undergraduates who have completed COMM 3211 (Introduction to Media Studies) or its equivalent

COMM 8110 - Seminar: Communication Research Methods

Credits:	3.0 [max 15.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Evaluation of research methods in speech-communication. prereq: undergrad degree in spch-comm or equiv

COMM 8210 - Seminar: Selected Topics in U.S. Electronic Media

Credits:	3.0 [max 18.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Literature survey; evaluating research on topics; conducting independent research project on a particular topic. prereq: 5210 or instr consent; offered when feasible

CSCL 8910 - Advanced Topics in Comparative Literature

Credits:	3.0 -4.0 [max 24.0]
Course Equivalencies:	CL 8910/CSCL 8910/CSDS 8910
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Practical applications of specific methodologies and theories to a determined area. Topics vary by instructor and semester.

EEB 5371 - Principles of Systematics

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

Theoretical/practical procedures of biological systematics. Phylogeny reconstruction. Computer-assisted analyses, morphological and molecular approaches, species concepts/speciation, comparative methods, classification, historical biogeography, nomenclature, use/value of museums. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

EEB 5407 - Ecology

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

Principles of ecology from populations to ecosystems. Applications to human populations, disease, exotic organisms, habitat fragmentation, biodiversity, and global dynamics of the earth.

EEB 8201 - Graduate Foundations in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior Semester 1

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

Foundational knowledge in ecology, evolution, behavior. prereq: Grad student in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

EEB 8202 - Graduate Foundations in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior - Semester 2

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Foundational knowledge in ecology, evolution, behavior. Second semester of two-semester sequence. prereq: 8601, EEB grad student

EEB 8990 - Graduate Seminar

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 30.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Research topics in selected areas. prereq: instr consent

EEB 8991 - Independent Study: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

Credits:	1.0 -10.0 [max 10.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Individual research on a specialized topic. prereq: instr consent

EMS 8250 - Seminar in Early Modern Studies

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

Current research and debates in early modern studies. Theoretical approaches to major questions shaping seminar's subject matter.

ENGL 5300 - Readings in American Minority Literature

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EngL 3300/EngL 3300H/EngL 5300
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Contextual readings of 19th-/20th-century American minority writers. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

ENGL 8400 - Seminar in Post-Colonial Literature, Culture, and Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Sample topics: Marxism and nationalism; modern India; feminism and decolonization; "the Empire Writes Back"; Islam and the West. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

ENGL 8520 - Seminar: Cultural Theory and Practice

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Sample topics: semiotics applied to perspective paintings, numbers, and money; analysis of a particular set of cultural practices by applying various theories to them. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

EPSY 8264 - Advanced Multiple Regression Analysis

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

General linear model used as context for regression. Matrix algebra, multiple regression, path analysis, polynomial regression, standardized regression, stepwise solutions, analysis of variance, weighted least squares, logistic regression. prereq: [8252 or equiv], regression/ANOVA course, familiarity with statistical analysis package

ESCI 5302 - Isotope Geology

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

Theory and uses of radioactive, radiogenic, and stable isotopes in geology. Radioactive dating, geothermometry, and tracer techniques in geologic processes. prereq: 3303W or instr consent

ESPM 5031 - Applied Global Positioning Systems for Geographic Information Systems

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ESPM 3031/ESPM 5031
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

GPS principles, operations, techniques to improve accuracy. Datum, projections, and coordinate systems. Differential correction, accuracy assessments discussed/applied in lab exercises. Code/carrier phase GPS used in exercises. GPS handheld units, PDA based ArcPad/GPS equipment. Transferring field data to/from desktop systems, integrating GPS data with GIS. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

FNRM 5104 - Forest Ecology

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FNRM 3104/FNRM 5104
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Form and function of forests as ecological systems. Characteristics and dynamics of species, populations, communities, landscapes, and ecosystem processes. Examples applying ecology to forest management. Weekly discussions on research topics, exercises, and current issues in forest resource management. Required weekend field trip. Introductory biology course recommended.

FNRM 5262 - Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis of Natural Resources and Environment

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FNRM 3262/FNRM 5262
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introductory principles and techniques of remote sensing and geospatial analysis applied to mapping and monitoring land and water resources from local to global scales. Examples of applications include: Land cover mapping and change detection, forest and natural resource inventory, water quality monitoring, and global change analysis. The lab provides hands-on experience working with satellite, aircraft, and drone imagery, and image processing methods and software. Prior coursework in Geographic Information Systems and introductory Statistics is recommended. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

FNRM 5462 - Advanced Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FNRM 3462/FNRM 5462
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course builds on the introductory remote sensing class, FNRM 3262/5262. It provides a detailed treatment of advanced remote sensing and geospatial theory and methods including Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA), lidar processing and derivatives, advanced classification algorithms (including Random Forest, Neural Networks, Support Vector Machines), biophysics of remote sensing, measurements and sensors, data transforms, data fusion, multi-temporal analysis, and empirical modeling. In-class and independent lab activities will be used to apply the course topics to real-world problems. Prior coursework in Geographic Information Systems, remote sensing, and statistics is necessary. Prereq: grad student or instr consent

FREN 8240 - Critical Issues: French and Francophone Cinema

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Fall Odd Year

Critical issues relating to French/Francophone cinema.

GEOG 5511 - Principles of Cartography

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Geog 3511/Geog 5511
Typically offered:	Every Fall

GEOG 3511/5511 is a basic introduction to cartography?the art, science, and technology of maps and map making. Our primary emphasis will be on map making, with lesser emphasis on cartographic research and the history of cartography. Lectures will focus on modern cartographic design principles, how they were developed, and how they might be changing. Lab assignments help develop skills using digital tools for producing effective maps. The course has several specific learning objectives: ? use software to create maps that communicate their subjects appropriately and effectively using sound cartographic design principles ? acquire or produce a base map that is appropriate in scale, projection, and generalization ? select and aggregate data appropriately to represent on a map using a suitable symbolization strategy ? gain an understanding of how current changes in technology impact maps and map making ? understand how fundamental design decisions might differ for printed maps and web/mobile maps ? understand how contemporary GIS and cartography are interrelated, including the use of GIS becoming ubiquitous and map making becoming increasingly available to anyone ? gain an appreciation for the 3,500+ year history of maps!

GEOG 5561 - Principles of Geographic Information Science

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Geog 3561/ Geog 5561
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introduction to the study of geographic information systems (GIS) for geography and non-geography students. Topics include GIS application domains, data models and sources, analysis methods and output techniques. Lectures, reading, and hands-on experience with GIS software. prereq: grad

GEOG 8001 - Problems in Geographic Thought

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

Currents of geographic thought in biophysical, GIS, human, cultural, and human-environment subfields. Focuses on concepts/paradigms through which geographers have attempted to unify/codify the discipline, around which debate has flourished, and about which interdisciplinary histories can be traced.

GEOG 8230 - Theoretical Geography

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

Advanced topics. Topics vary with interests of faculty offering course. Contemporary theoretical/philosophical themes transcending subdisciplines of human/physical geography. prereq: instr consent

GEOG 8260 - Seminar: Physical Geography

Credits:	2.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Topics of contemporary research. Topics vary with interests of faculty offering course.

GEOG 8980 - Topics: Geography

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 30.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent

GIS 5571 - ArcGIS I

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

First of a two-course series focusing on ArcGIS Desktop. Overview of ArcGIS system and its use for spatial data processing. Data capture, editing, geometric transformations, map projections, topology, Python scripting, and map production. prereq: [GEOG 5561 or equiv, status in MGIS program, familiarity with computer operating systems] or instr consent

GIS 5576 - Spatial Digital Humanities

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

Introduction to Spatial Digital Humanities GIS 5576 is a basic overview of desktop GIS (both Esri and open source), as well as an introduction to a number of other mapping techniques (such as Esri Maps for Office, ArcGIS Online, web mapping basics, georeferencing historical maps, etc) in addition to digital scholarship techniques. Course objectives include: understanding the basics of mapping and geospatial information using GIS; documenting and managing spatial data using coherent/standardized methods; understanding several spatial analysis methods that are relevant to student research area; and applying spatial research methods into student research.

GIS 5577 - Spatial Database Design and Administration

Credits:	3.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This semi-synchronous online graduate level course is aimed at students who have a foundation in GIS and spatial analysis methods and applications, and are interested in expanding their knowledge into the area spatial database design and spatial analysis. The course covers the following topics: 1) SQL and spatial-SQL queries, database design, and ArcServer Administration. This is an applied course and the objective is to introduce the fundamentals of databases, learn about how spatial data is treated into databases and apply spatial analysis methods. Students taking the class will have moderate to advanced understanding of GIS classes, but do not have much exposure to databases.

GRAD 8101 - Teaching in Higher Education

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Teaching methods/techniques. Active learning, critical thinking, practice teaching, and preparing a portfolio to document/reflect upon teaching. Readings, discussion, peer teaching, e-mail dialog, reflective writing, co-facilitation of course. prereq: Non-Degree Students: contact pffcollege consentumn.edu with questions about registration. If adding a section after first class meeting, contact your instructor as soon as you enroll.

GRAD 8200 - Teaching and Learning Topics in Higher Education

Credits:	1.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Create course materials for context/discipline. Assess student learning. Write action plan. Topics may include active learning in sciences, teaching with technology, multicultural education, teaching in clinical settings, learning-community course design.

GSD 8001 - Approaches to Textual Analysis

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

Theoretical approaches to textual analysis that shape disciplinary discussions in Germanic studies.

GWSS 5104 - Transnational Feminist Theory

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

Third World and transnational feminisms. Interrogating the categories of "women," "feminism," and "Third World." Varieties of power/oppression that women have endured/resisted, including colonization, nationalism, globalization, and capitalism. Concentrates on postcolonial context.

GWSS 8109 - Feminist Knowledge Production

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

Two-semester interdisciplinary seminar. First term: debates in gender theory; gender theory, critical race theory, post-colonial theory, sexuality theory, social class analysis. Second term: inter-/multi-disciplinary feminist research methods from humanities/social sciences. prereq: Feminist studies PhD or grad minor student or instr consent

GWSS 8201 - Feminist Theory and Methods in the Social Sciences

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

Seminar on recent theories, including feminist versions of positivist, interpretivist, critical theoretical, and postmodernist models of social science knowledge. Methodologies congenial to feminist practices of inquiry, including use of narrative in theory, feminist ethnography, discourse analysis, and comparative methods in history.

GWSS 8220 - Seminar: Science, Technology & Environmental Justice

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Topics related to science, technology, environmental justice.

GWSS 8250 - Seminar: Nation, State, and Citizenship

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Topics related to nation, state, citizenship.

GWSS 8260 - Seminar: Race, Representation and Resistance

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Race, racialization, racial justice as related to representation/struggles for social/economic justice. Intersectional analysis of power, politics, ideology/identity. Queer of color critique, women of color feminisms, critical sex/body positive approaches. prereq: Grad student

GWSS 8490 - Seminar: Transnational, Postcolonial, Diaspora

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

Graduate topics in comparative/global studies.

HIST 5547 - Empire and Nations in the Middle East

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

Modernity in non-Western imperial context. Identity, ideology, economy, environment, language. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

HIST 5890 - Readings in American Indian and Indigenous History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	AmIn 5890/Hist 5890
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Students in this course will read recently published scholarship in American Indian and Indigenous history that takes up pressing research questions, promises to push inquiry in new directions, and that theorizes important interventions in our thinking to understand where the field is situated and moving. Reflecting the instinctively interdisciplinary nature of American Indian and Indigenous history, readings will be drawn not just from the discipline of history but across other disciplines such as Anthropology, American Studies, Geography, Literature, Political Science, and Legal Studies. As well, readings will include scholarship that reaches out to embrace the Global Indigenous studies turn. prereq: Advanced undergrad with instr consent or grad student

HIST 5910 - Topics in U.S. History

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Selected topics in U.S. history not covered in regular courses. Taught as staffing permits. prereq: Grad or advanced undergrad student with instr consent

HIST 8015 - Scope and Methods of Historical Studies

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

Development of historical studies over time (especially in 19th and 20th centuries). Methodologies currently shaping historical research. Theoretical developments within the discipline during 19th and 20th centuries. prereq: instr consent

HIST 8032 - Archives

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

Working in close collaboration with the archivists of the Department of Archives and Special Collections at the University Libraries, this hands-on course will explore how archivists do their work and how a deeper understanding of that work can help scholars in any field grasp the practice of historical research. Rooted in the theory and tradition of archival science, the course will cover the core practices of archivists as well as the emerging issues and technologies changing the way archives are built, maintained, and accessed. In this course, students will gain experience with archival theory, archival ethics, selection, appraisal, arrangement, description, reference, access, preservation, exhibits, and outreach. Through engaging with those topics, students will be prepared to situate archives and archival material within the socio-historical contexts in which they were produced and in which they are maintained, affording them a critical perspective on the historical sources they contain. Each week's course will be co-taught with an archivist from the Department of Archives and Special Collections at the University Libraries.

HIST 8122 - Public Histories

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

This seminar examines the variety of ways that "public history" is produced both within and outside the academy and explores interdisciplinary approaches to the making and critical analysis of public histories. Students will discuss recent scholarship by historians as well as scholars and practitioners in allied fields. Through discussion and collaborative project work, the seminar will also provide a hands-on introduction to the theory, methods, practice and politics of public history.

HIST 8910 - Topics in U.S. History

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 15.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics not covered in regular courses.

HIST 8920 - Topics in African History

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Topics not covered in regular courses.

HIST 8950 - Topics in Latin American History

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 16.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Topics not covered in regular courses.

HIST 8960 - Topics in History

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics not covered in regular courses.

HIST 8970 - Advanced Research in Quantitative History

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Students carry out publishable-quality research on quantitative history topic. prereq: Grad student

HMED 8002 - Foundations in the History of Modern Medicine, 1800-present

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

History of Western medicine in Europe and America, from the Paris School and pathological anatomy in early 19c France through germ theories of disease, bacteriological revolution, reform of medical education, pharmaceutical revolution, growth of biomed research establishment, and comparative health care delivery systems.

HMED 8113 - Research Methods in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	HMed 8113/HSci 8113
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to sources, methods, and problems of research in history of science, technology, and medicine. Preparation of major research paper under faculty supervision. prereq: instr consent

HSCI 8950 - Seminar: Science and Technology in Cultural Settings

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

For advanced graduate students; topics in development of science and technology in or across specific geographic regions or particular cultures. prereq: instr consent

HSPH 8001 - Who Owns the Past? Common Concerns and Big Questions in Heritage and Public History

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

Course offers a survey through case studies of the common concerns, concepts and ethics of heritage and public history. Students will learn about the history and social contexts of heritage studies and public history, the stakes and stakeholders, and the conflicts and positive interventions that can be made through the work of these affiliated professions.

HSPH 8002 - Core Practices in Heritage Studies and Public History

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

Course is open to all Heritage Studies and Public History (HSPH) graduate students. DGS or Instructor permission required for others. Course offers a survey of how heritage and public history concern and ethics are embedded into practice. Through illustrated lectures, case studies, field trips, readings and class discussion, students will learn about the professional practice of heritage studies and public history, how approaches to practice are aligned to institutional mission, customization of programs for diverse audiences, and professional evaluation and management of financial resources.

HSPH 8003 - Race and Indigeneity in Heritage Representation

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

This seminar will explore the changes in how diversity has been represented in historical interpretations in the past, and how practice is changing in response to the contemporary and anticipated social context of the United States. "Diversity" has historically been assumed to derive from categories such as race or culture, concepts constructed in the discipline of anthropology but taken up as the foundation for typologies in other arenas such as art history, architectural history, museums, and public policy. What is problematic in such an approach? What happens to communities defined by shared history, political sovereignty, and disenfranchisement? What are the implications beyond museums for those communities? Finally, how can we think differently about diversity without re-inscribing harmful constructions of difference?

HSPH 8006 - Digital Methods for Heritage Studies & Public History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Hist 8031/HSPH 8006
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Digital technologies are significantly altering the speed and scale of the foundational methodologies of archeology, history, and preservation. Moreover, they are shifting the way the public engages with the past in cultural institutions and across the myriad screens that pervade their daily life. In this course, students will not only learn how emerging digital technologies can enhance their research, but also how those technologies are fundamentally transforming the possibilities for the public presentation of that research. This course privileges hands-on learning and balances deeping essential methodological skills with exposure to a breadth of field-altering technologies. It is structured around five core methodologies--excavation, documentation, reconstruction, interpretation, and exhibition. In each unit, students will be first be tasked with identifying the underlying principles of these methodological approaches. They will then use class time to explore technologies that extend those methods such as high-resolution imaging, relational databases, text mining programs, virtual environments, and content management systems for website building. Bookending the course is a focus on effective collaboration--the foundation of successful digital projects--and public engagement in an increasingly connected yet fractured society.

HSPH 8007 - Archives

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

Working in close collaboration with the archivists of the Department of Archives and Special Collections at the University Libraries, this hands-on course will explore how archivists do their work and how a deeper understanding of that work can help scholars in any field grasp the practice of historical research. Rooted in the theory and tradition of archival science, the course will cover the core practices of archivists as well as the emerging issues and technologies changing the way archives are built, maintained, and accessed. In this course, students will gain experience with archival theory, archival ethics, selection, appraisal, arrangement, description, reference, access, preservation, exhibits, and outreach. Through engaging with those topics, students will be prepared to situate archives and archival material within the socio-historical contexts in which they were produced and in which they are maintained, affording them a critical perspective on the historical sources they contain. Each week?s course will be co-taught with an archivist from the Department of Archives and Special Collections at the University Libraries.

HSPH 8010 - Topics in Heritage Studies and Public History

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Topics in Heritage Studies and Public History explores new and emerging issues in the field that are not examined in other coursework.

HSPH 8992 - Directed Readings in HSPH

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Directed Readings in Heritage Studies and Public History enable a student to explore new and emerging issues in the field that are not examined in other coursework. Student(s) will work with a member of the HSPH faculty to develop a reading list, schedule, deliverables, meeting times and other expectations, all of which will be recorded using the School of Arch Independent Study contract form.

LAW 6063 - Law and Neuroscience

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

What are adolescents, psychopaths, and white-collar fraud artists thinking? Why does emotional trauma for victims of abuse last so long? Why is eye-witness memory so poor? Do violent video games lead to violent children? How can you get into the heads of the judge and jury? Lawyers and courts, including the US Supreme Court, are already integrating neuroscience research into their arguments and opinions on questions such as these. This Law and Neuroscience course will introduce the exciting new field of �neurolaw� by covering issues such as the neuroscience of criminal culpability, brain-based lie detection, cognitive enhancement, emotions, decision making, and much more. Along the way we�ll discuss how the legal system can and should respond to new insights on topics such as adolescent brain development, addiction, psychopathy, Alzheimer�s, the effects of combat on soldiers� brains, and concussions from sports injuries. New in the 2017 version of the course is a �Bridge to Practice� track, which emphasizes the real-world brief writing related to the use of neuroscientific evidence in practice. (Note that all scientific material in the class will be presented in an accessible manner, so no previous science background is required.)

MST 5011 - Museum History and Philosophy

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

Historical and philosophical roots of museums and emerging philosophical issues faced by museums today - from art, history, science, and youth to living collections, living history sites, and historic houses. Field trips to area museums.

OBIO 8012 - Basic Concepts in Skeletal Biology

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

Cells (osteoblasts, osteoclasts, chrondrocytes) that make up skeleton. Transcription/signaling networks that regulate cell growth/differentiation. Mechanisms of bone remodeling. Regulation of bone by such agents such as hormones. Prereq Grad student or instr consent.

PA 5690 - Topics in Women, Gender and Public Policy

Credits:	0.5 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected topics. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

PA 8690 - Advanced Topics in Women, Gender and Public Policy

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected topics.

PHIL 8602 - Scientific Representation and Explanation

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

Contemporary issues concerning representation and explanation of scientific facts.

POL 8260 - Topics in Political Theory

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

Readings and research in special topics or problems.

PUBH 6045 - Skills for Policy Development

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Skills relevant to policy development and implementation for public health-related issues.

PUBH 6450 - Biostatistics I

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course will cover the fundamental concepts of exploratory data analysis and statistical inference for univariate and bivariate data, including: ? study design and sampling methods, ? descriptive and graphical summaries, ? random variables and their distributions, ? interval estimation, ? hypothesis testing, ? relevant nonparametric methods, ? simple regression/correlation, and ? introduction to multiple regression. There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course. prereq: [College-level algebra, health sciences grad student] or instr consent

PUBH 7475 - Statistical Learning and Data Mining

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

Various statistical techniques for extracting useful information (i.e., learning) from data. Linear discriminant analysis, tree-structured classifiers, feed-forward neural networks, support vector machines, other nonparametric methods, classifier ensembles, unsupervised learning. prereq: [[[6450, 6452] or equiv], programming backgroud in [FORTRAN or C/C++ or JAVA or Splus/R]] or instr consent; 2nd yr MS recommended

SOC 8090 - Topics in Sociology

Credits:	1.5 -3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: instr consent

SOC 8551 - Life Course Inequality & Health

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

Seminar examines the changing life course in its social and historical context, including theoretical principles, methodologies, and policy implications. Focus on key societal institutions that offer unequal opportunities and constraints, depending on social class, race/ethnicity, and gender. Unequal access to age-graded social roles and resources shape the course of development, and in doing so, they have profound impacts on health. We will consider how inequality in the family, education, work, the military, and in the health care & criminal justice systems influence health behaviors and outcomes at different ages and life stages. prereq: grad student or instr consent

SOC 8607 - Migration & Migrants in Demographic Perspective

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

With fertility and mortality, migration is one of three core population processes. This course provides a graduate-level treatment of major theoretical and empirical debates in demographic/population research on migration and migrants. It examines topics like why and how people migrate, who migrates and who does not, and the effects of migration in migrant-receiving and migrant-sending areas. Along the way, it links to a number of related topics, including the impacts of migration on migrants themselves, the role of the state and policies governing migration and incorporation, and transnationalism. A common thread throughout is connecting these topics to issues of population size, composition, and change. While this course contains ?demographic? in the title and fulfills requirements for graduate trainees and the population studies minor in the Minnesota Population Center, it is necessarily interdisciplinary in scope and draws from research in economics, demography/population studies, human geography, history, political science, population health, public policy, and sociology. Credit will not be granted if the student has already completed a Soc 8090 topics course with the same title.

STAT 5021 - Statistical Analysis

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

Intensive introduction to statistical methods for graduate students needing statistics as a research technique. prereq: college algebra or instr consent; credit will not be granted if credit has been received for STAT 3011

TH 8120 - Seminar

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Selected research topics from various theatre fields and periods. Sample topics: Border Crossings--Theatre History and Representation; The Theatre and Drama of the Third Reich, 1927-1944.

SOC 8190 - Topics in Law, Crime, and Deviance

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Advanced topics in law, crime, and deviance. Social underpinnings of legal/illegal behavior and of legal systems.

SOC 8211 - The Sociology of Race & Racialization

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

Major theoretical debates. Classic and contemporary theoretical approaches to studying U.S. race relations; contemporary and historical experiences of specific racial and ethnic groups.

ANTH 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral

Credits:	1.0 -24.0 [max 100.0]
Grading Basis:	No Grade
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

(No description) prereq: Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required

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 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 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 5016 - Africa and African Diaspora Archaeology (HIS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3016/5016/ Anth 3016/5016
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Africa and African Diaspora Archaeology (AFRO/ ANTH 3016/5016) examines the evolution of human behavior in Africa and looks at subsequent social, cultural, and technological developments as shown in archaeological records including artifacts, ecofacts, rock art, and structures at archaeological sites. It also discusses methods used to identify archaeological records and how these records can be used to reconstruct past ways of life. Students will obtain hand-on-experience in identifying, classifying, and interpreting archaeological objects. The course covers Africa from around 2.6 million years ago to the recent past, focusing primarily on the last 10,000 years. It examines the development and spread of food production, pottery, metallurgy, trade, and African connections with the Atlantic world dating back to the fifteenth century.

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 5444 - Archaeological Ceramics

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Ceramics as material, technology, and cultural/social trace. Methods of assessing technology/use. Research, design, and interpretation of ceramic analyses. Students work with collections and propose/answer a research question about a ceramic assemblage. Readings, discussion. prereq: 3001 or instr consent

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 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 8014 - Molecular Anthropology

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

This graduate seminar examines how DNA is used to trace the evolutionary history of humans and our hominin relatives. We will examine how genetic evidence has informed understanding of human evolution, the peopling of the world, human adaptation, animal domestication, disease and health, forensics, and the embodiment of the lived experience. Students will review important concepts of molecular and population genetics and become familiar with current methodologies and datasets used in molecular anthropology?including those used in fields paleogenomics and epigenetics research. Lastly, we will discuss how molecular anthropologists engage with the ethical issues posed by genetic technologies, especially as it pertains to research with Indigenous and underrepresented communities, discussions of race and identity, commercial genetic testing, and forensic genetic genealogy. Course discussions will highlight how genetic findings are integrated with other lines of evidence such as archaeology, cultural anthropology, and traditional knowledge sources, to reconstruct the complexity of the past and present human experience. Course meetings will be a mix of lecture, discussion sessions and practical data analysis training sessions. Students will be assessed based on participation in class discussions, in-class practical exercises, and a term paper representing a thorough literature review of a topic related to the course.

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 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

ANTH 8014 - Molecular Anthropology

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

This graduate seminar examines how DNA is used to trace the evolutionary history of humans and our hominin relatives. We will examine how genetic evidence has informed understanding of human evolution, the peopling of the world, human adaptation, animal domestication, disease and health, forensics, and the embodiment of the lived experience. Students will review important concepts of molecular and population genetics and become familiar with current methodologies and datasets used in molecular anthropology?including those used in fields paleogenomics and epigenetics research. Lastly, we will discuss how molecular anthropologists engage with the ethical issues posed by genetic technologies, especially as it pertains to research with Indigenous and underrepresented communities, discussions of race and identity, commercial genetic testing, and forensic genetic genealogy. Course discussions will highlight how genetic findings are integrated with other lines of evidence such as archaeology, cultural anthropology, and traditional knowledge sources, to reconstruct the complexity of the past and present human experience. Course meetings will be a mix of lecture, discussion sessions and practical data analysis training sessions. Students will be assessed based on participation in class discussions, in-class practical exercises, and a term paper representing a thorough literature review of a topic related to the course.

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 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 5016 - Africa and African Diaspora Archaeology (HIS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3016/5016/ Anth 3016/5016
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Africa and African Diaspora Archaeology (AFRO/ ANTH 3016/5016) examines the evolution of human behavior in Africa and looks at subsequent social, cultural, and technological developments as shown in archaeological records including artifacts, ecofacts, rock art, and structures at archaeological sites. It also discusses methods used to identify archaeological records and how these records can be used to reconstruct past ways of life. Students will obtain hand-on-experience in identifying, classifying, and interpreting archaeological objects. The course covers Africa from around 2.6 million years ago to the recent past, focusing primarily on the last 10,000 years. It examines the development and spread of food production, pottery, metallurgy, trade, and African connections with the Atlantic world dating back to the fifteenth century.

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 5444 - Archaeological Ceramics

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Ceramics as material, technology, and cultural/social trace. Methods of assessing technology/use. Research, design, and interpretation of ceramic analyses. Students work with collections and propose/answer a research question about a ceramic assemblage. Readings, discussion. prereq: 3001 or instr consent

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 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

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 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 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 4101 - Decolonizing Archives

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

Archives are not neutral. In order to decolonize them, scholars in anthropology and other disciplines must first understand the ways in which Western settler values have structured them. Who decides acquisition policy? How are items indexed, described, and related to one another? Who has access, and under what conditions? And who is structurally excluded? In this course we decolonize by recontextualizing both the archives as institutions and their contents. In other words, we use methods appropriate for contemporary anthropological archival research. We will consider preservation, curation, organizational bias in archives, analytic scale, voice, and how historical texts are material culture. Students engage in original archival research.

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 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 5444 - Archaeological Ceramics

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Ceramics as material, technology, and cultural/social trace. Methods of assessing technology/use. Research, design, and interpretation of ceramic analyses. Students work with collections and propose/answer a research question about a ceramic assemblage. Readings, discussion. prereq: 3001 or instr consent

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 5016 - Africa and African Diaspora Archaeology (HIS, GP)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 3016/5016/ Anth 3016/5016
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Africa and African Diaspora Archaeology (AFRO/ ANTH 3016/5016) examines the evolution of human behavior in Africa and looks at subsequent social, cultural, and technological developments as shown in archaeological records including artifacts, ecofacts, rock art, and structures at archaeological sites. It also discusses methods used to identify archaeological records and how these records can be used to reconstruct past ways of life. Students will obtain hand-on-experience in identifying, classifying, and interpreting archaeological objects. The course covers Africa from around 2.6 million years ago to the recent past, focusing primarily on the last 10,000 years. It examines the development and spread of food production, pottery, metallurgy, trade, and African connections with the Atlantic world dating back to the fifteenth century.

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 5444 - Archaeological Ceramics

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Ceramics as material, technology, and cultural/social trace. Methods of assessing technology/use. Research, design, and interpretation of ceramic analyses. Students work with collections and propose/answer a research question about a ceramic assemblage. Readings, discussion. prereq: 3001 or instr consent

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 8005 - Linguistic Anthropology

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

Introduction to literature of anthropological linguistics.

ANTH 8014 - Molecular Anthropology

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

This graduate seminar examines how DNA is used to trace the evolutionary history of humans and our hominin relatives. We will examine how genetic evidence has informed understanding of human evolution, the peopling of the world, human adaptation, animal domestication, disease and health, forensics, and the embodiment of the lived experience. Students will review important concepts of molecular and population genetics and become familiar with current methodologies and datasets used in molecular anthropology?including those used in fields paleogenomics and epigenetics research. Lastly, we will discuss how molecular anthropologists engage with the ethical issues posed by genetic technologies, especially as it pertains to research with Indigenous and underrepresented communities, discussions of race and identity, commercial genetic testing, and forensic genetic genealogy. Course discussions will highlight how genetic findings are integrated with other lines of evidence such as archaeology, cultural anthropology, and traditional knowledge sources, to reconstruct the complexity of the past and present human experience. Course meetings will be a mix of lecture, discussion sessions and practical data analysis training sessions. Students will be assessed based on participation in class discussions, in-class practical exercises, and a term paper representing a thorough literature review of a topic related to the course.

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 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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