Anthropology (ANT)
ANT 1540 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
English/ESL Placement: Placement into ENG 1510 or ESL 2520.
This course will develop students' understanding of culture through examining cultural forms throughout the world. This course is an introduction to anthropological methods, theories and ethnographic studies that evaluate the integrated and holistic nature of culture. We examine cultural ideas and practices in art, religion, gender, politics, economics, and kinship among others. This course emphasizes the importance of diverse cultures for developing an understanding of strategies, perspectives and conditions in the human experience. BILLABLE CONTACT HOURS: 3
GE Outcomes: Global Understanding and Responsibility
ANT 1550 Introduction to Biological Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
Equivalent: ANT 1520 | ANT 1520
English/ESL Placement: Placement into ENG 1510 or ESL 2520.
In this course we will examine human biology and evolution through the analyses of the fossil record, evolutionary forces, and the human genome. This course explores contemporary scientific explanations about human origins, biological change and related primate species thorough examining physiology, cognition and morphology. This course will introduce students to the methods and theories in biological anthropology, human evolution, archaeology and paleoanthropology. BILLABLE CONTACT HOURS: 3
GE Outcomes: Scientific Literacy
ANT 2520 Special Topics in Anthropology: Forensic Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
English/ESL Placement: Placement into ENG 1510 or ESL 2520.
Prerequisite: ANT 1540
This course explores the vast application of forensics in medical, behavioral, evolutionary and legal fields. Forensic Anthropology research and methodologies will address the application of skeletal biology and biological anthropology in a medical or legal investigation. This course will focus on forensics anthropology techniques that uncover positive human identification, techniques for processing the remains and reporting the biological profile findings. Billable Contact Hours: 3
ANT 2530 Special Topics in Anthropology: Medical Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
English/ESL Placement: Placement into ENG 1510 or ESL 2520.
Prerequisite: ANT 1540
This course is an anthropological exploration of cross-cultural approaches to health, healing and medicine in the US and throughout the world. This course will use anthropological research to illustrate approaches in health care organization, gerontology/child care, health inequalities, infectious diseases, and other biomedical subjects. Both cultural and biological aspects of health care will be addressed, focusing on various impacts of segments of the community including, sex, gender, age, race/ethnicity and the marginalized. Billable Contact Hours: 3
ANT 2540 Special Topics in Anthropology: Applied Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
English/ESL Placement: Placement into ENG 1510 or ESL 2520.
Prerequisite: ANT 1540
This course will address the application of anthropological theory and methodologies in solving contemporary social problem throughout the nation and the globe. Students will explore current Applied Anthropological research and projects that impact such fields as health care, public education, cultural resource management and economic/business enterprise (among others). Billable Contact Hours: 3
ANT 2550 Special Topics in Anthropology: Race, Ethnicity and Identity 3 Credit Hours
English/ESL Placement: Placement into ENG 1510 or ESL 2520.
Prerequisite: ANT 1540
This course is a cross-cultural exploration of the social construction of race and the various ways that race is construction throughout the world. Anthropological research and core concepts will guide inquires, not only illustrating the fallacies of biological category of race in humans, but also the powerful and disparate ways racialization is made real in various cultural systems and directed at certain segments of the population. Billable Contact Hours: 3
ANT 2560 Special Topics in Anthropology: Gender, Sexuality and Culture 3 Credit Hours
English/ESL Placement: Placement into ENG 1510 or ESL 2520.
Prerequisite: ANT 1540
This course is a cross-cultural exploration of gender and gender roles throughout the world and across cultural systems. Core anthropological approaches, concepts and research will address gender throughout cultural systems including the intersection of gender in labor, sexuality, power, media and ideological productions. Billable Contact Hours: 3
ANT 2750 Myth, Magic and the Anthropology of Religion 3 Credit Hours
English/ESL Placement: Placement into ENG 1510 or ESL 2520.
In this course, we examine religious beliefs and practices through primary anthropological research and cross-cultural comparison. We explore foundational religious topics like myth, symbols, magic, witchcraft, religious rituals, specialists, God(s) and other concepts related to the analysis of the supernatural. This course introduces students to the anthropology of religion, its studies, theories, concepts and ethnographic research. Through analysis of religious rituals and beliefs we are able to connect religion to other cultural phenomena of art, music and literature (and others) that enrich the human experience. BILLABLE CONTACT HOURS: 3
GE Outcomes: Global Understanding and Responsibility