Undergraduate Course Description

Course Description: Human skeletal remains provide a window into the lived experiences of people in the past, but their interpretations are typically divided along theoretical and disciplinary lines. Human osteologists, for example, rely heavily on techniques for gathering and validating biological data on bodies and populations that supposedly transcend history,...

Course Description: The study of human skeletal remains is a crucial part of biological anthropology, and has applications in archaeology, anatomy, paleontology, and forensics. This course is an intensive, in-depth study of the human skeleton. The primary focus is on the identification of human skeletal remains and fragmentary skeletal elements...

Anth 1143: Exploring Global Cultural Diversity CIVILIZATION-The Early Years Mesopotamia in the 2nd Millennium BC Jeanne Nijhowne, PhD At the dawn of the second millennium BC, Mesopotamia was in chaos. Eventually, the kings of Babylon established control and created an empire. While Mesopotamian political, economic, social and religious systems were...

This course focuses on some of the present, and possible future, socio-ecological conditions of life on planet earth. In particular we will work to understand the historic, economic, political, and socio-cultural forces that created the conditions we call climate change. With this we will take a particular interest in the...

Fall: 2021, Instructor: Dr. J. Terrence McCabe, Office: Hale 440 This course is designed to explore both the historical and current theories and paradigms concerning human/environmental relationships. Because this is an anthropology course, there will be an emphasis on how anthropologists have examined these relationships, but the readings will also...

Explore 10,000 years of Maritime peoples, histories, and cultures! • Key Themes: migration; human- nature relationships; development; resistance; sailing; knowledges; climate change

Instructor: Bailey Duhé Who invented race? Do police really target communities of color? Are race and ethnicity the same thing? Is white privilege bad? If you’ve asked any of these questions and want a space to work through the answers, ANTH 4020: Brown Studies is for you. This is an...