| ANTH 1301 | Cultural Anthropology |
ANTH 1301 (ANTH 1301) Cultural Anthropology (3-0). A survey of the study of cultural anthropology including the nature of culture in space and time human subsistence and settlement social and political organization ritual and religion and linguistics. The course will include an overview of the adaptations of human populations to arid regions. |
| ANTH 1301 | Introduction to Anthropology |
ANTH 1301 (ANTH 2346) Introduction to Anthropology (3-0). A survey of the study of humankind's past, present, and future. This course introduces students to the four major subfields of anthropology covering everything from the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens and our distant relatives through hunting and gathering to industrial societies, their social and political organization, ritual and religion, and the use of language. Equivalent courses: SOC 1301 (through Summer 2020) |
| ANTH 1302 | Introduction To Archeology |
ANTH 1302 (ANTH 2302) Introduction to Archeology (3-0). This course introduces the field of archaeology including an overview of basic concepts, methods, and theory. We will consider major events in human history over the past 60,000+ years and discuss significant developments and changes in human behavior while learning how archaeologists use multiple lines of evidence to reconstruct the past. Topics include origins of agriculture, the development of state societies, archaeological ethics, and archaeology's future. |
| ANTH 2301 | Arch Of Texas & Northern Mex |
ANTH 2301 Archeology of Texas and Northern Mexico (3-0). An introduction to Native American prehistory from 10000 B.C. through early contact with Spanish entradas during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries A.D. in Texas and north-central Mexico. The course will explore basic archeological theory data collection and analytical techniques used in the reconstruction of life ways of nomadic semi-sedentary and sedentary human populations through time. |
| ANTH 2303 | Readings And Research |
ANTH 2303 Readings and Research (3-0). Selected readings and research projects to be offered as individual study to meet student's needs. May be repeated for credit. |
| ANTH 3401 | Research Methods in Archaeolgy |
ANTH 3401 Research Methods in Archaeology (3-2). This course introduces the use of scientific methodologies and basic data collection techniques to prepare students for conducting archaeological research projects in both academic and professional settings. This class covers research design, background research, using ethnographic and archaeological analogy, collecting quantitative and qualitative data, digital data management, data visualization, and basic data analysis using Microsoft Excel and R. Students apply these methods to a research project of their own design. The course requires lab attendance each week. Prerequisites: ANTH 1301 and ANTH 1302. |
| ANTH 3601 | Summer Archeological Field Sch |
ANTH 3601 Summer Archeological Field School (0-6). An intensive six-week summer field course that provides hands-on training for students in archeological field and analytical techniques, including site survey and recording, instrument mapping, site testing and evaluation, controlled excavation, and field laboratory techniques. Location to be announced. This course requires camping, and fieldwork is conducted in remote, rugget terrain in extreme temperatures. Prerequisite: ANTH 1301 and ANTH 1302, or consent of instructor. Field school fee: $175 - $1800 |
| ANTH 4301 | Archaeology Greater Big Bend R |
ANTH 4301 Archaeology of the Greater Big Bend Region (3-0). This course introduces students to the indigenous history in the greater Big Bend Region from 13,000-plus years ago to early historical contact with Spanish entradas during the 16th and 17th centuries A.D. We will examine prominent archaeological sites associated with foragers, horticulturalists, and agriculturalists living in the Big Bend area as well as adjacent areas in Texas, the American Southwest, Northwest Mexico, and the Great Plains. |
| ANTH 4307 | Anthropology of War |
ANTH 4307 Anthropology of War (3-0). This course covers the origins of war and violence in the genus Homo. We will use multiple subdisciplines of anthropology to explore the origins and perpetuation of violet conflict: Archeology allows us to examine the deep time associated with indicators of violence around the glob. Primatology offers multiple analogs of violence from other social primates. Finally, cultural anthropology provides a cross-cultural perspective of the role of violoence in contemporary groups. We will use these studies to examine the most prominent questions about the potential for peace and the inherent role of violence in our species. Prerequisites: ANTH 1301 and ANTH 1302. |
| ANTH 4309 | Anthropology of Hunting |
ANTH 4309 Anthropology of Hunting (3-0). Hunting remains an important part of human lives and a component of our ecological footprint since deep in our evolutionary history. Although some aspects of hunting have not changed, others have varied radically across space and through time. However accurate, modern popular perceptions of ancient hunters also have profound political ramifications, impacting human-environmental dynamics and even displacing Indigenous hunters from ancestral lands. In this class the student will study the origins of hunting, how it has changed with hominin evolution, how the adoption of new technologies impacts hunting, how different hunting methods are used in different environments and by diverse cultures, the ecological implications of human predation, and the contentious topic of hunting in a modernizing world. Prerequisites: ANTH 1301 and ANTH 1302. |
