Anthropology (ANTH)
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ANTH 111 Introduction to Biological Anthropology 3 Units GE
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
The qualities of being human are examined through the investigation of evolutionary principles, non-human primates, human fossil record, and living peoples. The biological origin, evolution, and variation of humankind are explored. Lower division General Education Breadth Area B2, Natural Sciences-Life Forms. 3 hours laboratory, 2 hours lecture. (000490)
General Education: Laboratory Activity (B3); Life Science (B2)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Lower Division
ANTH 112 Introduction to Archaeology 3 Units GC, GE
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
Significant events in mankind's prehistoric cultural development and their relevance to the present. Human antiquity; the acquisition of culture during the Paleolithic; the beginning of early civilization. Introduction to the methods of archaeology and human paleontology. 3 hours lecture. (000491)
General Education: Social Sciences (D)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Lower Division; Global Cultures
ANTH 113 Human Cultural Diversity 3 Units GC, GE
Typically Offered: Spring, summer, fall
With more than six thousand languages spoken worldwide in more than two hundred countries there are innumerable ways to be a human being. This course explores this astonishing diversity to understand the full trajectory of the human species, and to develop solutions to contemporary social problems. We teach geographical knowledge of major world regions, and consider the lives, traditions and present conjunctures of their varied peoples. We emphasize international and cross-cultural study of families, gender, health, religions, and foodways, all in their social, economic, and historical contexts. Finally, we propose long-term, comparative, and scientifically-informed perspectives on human ecologies, and on changing modes of subsistence, production, exchange, and consumption in our increasingly integrated global society. 3 hours lecture. (000492)
General Education: Social Sciences (D)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Lower Division; Global Cultures
ANTH 115 Pop Culture in Museums 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
Movies, comics, video games, and tv only show a sliver of what really happens in a museum. From natural history museums to art museums, we look behind the scenes and separate fantasy from reality. In this course students learn about the important role museums play in our lives. Museums are places of education and entertainment, but they also influence our understanding of the world. We can learn a lot from popular representations of museums. How do we represent other cultures? What do we collect from the past? Does it really belong in a museum? How do we tell if something is a forgery? Who gets to write the script? Students explore these questions and critically evaluate the work of museums. As a class we explore different forms of media, examine a series of case studies, apply concepts to our local museums, and create our own pop culture representation of the museum. 3 hours lecture. (022529)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Lower Division
ANTH 116 Power, Violence, and Inequality 
3 Units GC, GE
3 Units GC, GE Typically Offered: Fall and spring
Economic and political forces allow some people to live in luxury while others starve. This course explores how these forces have created the modern world, and how they may shape our future. It asks: What are the roots of inequality today? How is power distributed in worlds that grow from centuries of colonial conquest, uneven development, and imperial rule? How can we make sense of violence in these worlds, from daily conflict in local communities to ecocide and genocide? Power often works through invisibility. This course reveals it through case studies from around the world. 3 hours lecture. (000495)
General Education: Social Sciences (D)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Lower Division; Global Cultures; Sustainable Course
ANTH 140 Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion 3 Units GC, GE
Typically Offered: Spring, summer, fall
A cross-cultural examination of religions and world views. 3 hours lecture. (000499)
General Education: Social Sciences (D)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Lower Division; Global Cultures
ANTH 150 Anthropology on Screen 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
In this course we closely examine the disconnect between what one thinks anthropology is about and what anthropology actually is. Television and film often show cavalier archaeologists seeking rare and powerful artifacts, forensic anthropologists solving murders with holograms and dark lights, or museum staff dealing with animated displays after hours. This makes us ask - what is it that anthropologists actually study and do? The discipline of anthropology examines the human condition through our biology, our past, our representation, and most importantly our culture. Films and television play an important role in depicting perceived realities and how we make sense of ourselves, others, and the world around us. We invite you to explore how these forms of popular culture draw attention to anthropology. 3 hours lecture. (022571)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Lower Division
ANTH 200 Asia Today and Tomorrow 3 Units GC, GE
Typically Offered: Spring only
Asian civilizations have endured far longer than the societies of Europe and North America. Asia was the center of global trade for thousands of years and remains a major hub for the movement of people, religions, philosophies, goods, and capital. Students in this course learn about the millennial societies and cultures of East and Southeast Asia. Students gain a glimpse into the lives and works of billions of people on the largest continent in the world and the transformations that have shaped Asia today and into the future, such as rise and fall of Angkor Wat, practices of shamanism, Colonialism, the Spice Trade, and Opium, Anime and Kawaii culture, and the global superpower of Communist China. 3 hours lecture. (000523)
General Education: Social Sciences (D)
Cross listing(s): ASST 200
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Lower Division; Global Cultures
ANTH 261 Peoples and Cultures of Native North America 3 Units GE, USD
Typically Offered: Fall only
Survey of Native North America with an emphasis on U.S. indigenous peoples. Diverse traditional cultures, rituals, languages, interrelationships, and economic and social institutions are examined as informed by archaeological and ethnographic data, in addition to native perspectives. Culture continuity, adaptation, and change in a post-contact period are featured. 3 hours lecture. (000383)
General Education: Social Sciences (D)
Cross listing(s): AIST 261
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Lower Division; US Diversity
ANTH 264 Myths, Frauds, and Misconceptions 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
Through an anthropological lens, this course prepares you to tackle the world of pseudoscience by exploring various myths and misconceptions of the past and present through the rigors of science and critical thinking. Equally important, the course discusses the continued public attraction of pseudoscience despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. We explore epistemology-how we know what we know and how we separate belief from opinion. These overarching themes are applied to specific pseudoscientific claims such as giants, aliens, and "lost" cities, and discuss famous frauds that misled society and set scientific research back several decades. We also examine contemporary beliefs surrounding topics like sex, race, and violence, and delve into hot-button issues like the anti-vaccine and natural foods movements. 3 hours lecture. (022075)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Lower Division
ANTH 283 Qualitative Research Methods 3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall only
The best way to learn about people is by talking to them, living with them, and working with them. This course teaches students the ethnographic method of participant-observation along with a suite of other fieldwork methods and approaches. Students learn how to study diverse communities and individuals, providing them with training for future careers that require knowledge in documentation and analysis. The data gleaned from these social and cultural encounters can be used to build anthropological theory and can also be part of the toolkit of designers, media artists and communicators. 3 hours lecture. (022063)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Lower Division
ANTH 298 Special Topics 1-3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This course is for special topics offered for 1.0-3.0 units. Typically the topic is offered on a one-time-only basis and may vary from term to term and be different for different sections. See the Class Schedule for the specific topic being offered. 3 hours lecture. (000503)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course more than once
Course Attributes: Lower Division
ANTH 301 Biological Anthropology 4 Units
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
Biological evolution and variation in humans, mankind's place in nature, origin, and antiquity as represented in the fossil record; recent studies of non-human primates; the beginnings of culture. 3 hours laboratory, 3 hours lecture. (000505)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 4 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 302 Archaeology 3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
Case study examination of fundamental concepts, methods, and changing theoretical orientations of archaeology. Archaeology in the contemporary world, and archaeology as a profession. 3 hours lecture. (000506)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 303 Cultural Anthropology 3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
Case study examination of fundamental concepts, methods, and changing theoretical orientations of cultural anthropology. 3 hours lecture. (000507)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 304 Language and Culture 3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall only
Language as a symbolic communication; structural, comparative, and sociolinguistics; analysis of English and non-western language data. 3 hours discussion. (000508)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 311 Survey of Forensic Science 3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
A survey of the relationship between science and society by noting the history and nature of the role of the expert witness and the forensic scientist in aiding to resolve various legal issues. 3 hours lecture. (000511)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 312 Cataclysmic Events in Human Prehistory 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
Through selected case studies, this course examines a series of cataclysmic events, ranging from volcanic eruptions and droughts to massacres and societal collapse, which illustrate that change, even cataclysmic change, is and has long been part of the human experience. The theoretical perspectives which anchor this inquiry into cataclysmic events of the human past are evolutionary, anthropological, and archaeological. 3 hours seminar. (000512)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 333 Nature, Culture, Environment 3 Units GC, GE
3 Units GC, GE Prerequisite: GE Oral Communication (A1); GE Written Communication (A2); GE Critical Thinking (A3); GE Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning (B4) requirements, or consent of the instructor.
Typically Offered: Spring, summer, fall
This course examines how societies create, understand, and resolve environmental problems. It uses anthropological methods to explore relations between cultural and natural orders in a wide range of human groups. It emphasizes new approaches that can contribute to the well-being and sustainability of living communities in the twenty-first century. 3 hours lecture. (020636)
General Education: Upper-Division Social Sciences (UDD); Agriculture, Food, and Environment Pathway; Sustainability and Climate Change Pathway
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division; Global Cultures; Sustainable Course
ANTH 338 Travel, Fandoms, and the Tourism Industry 3 Units
3 Units Typically Offered: Inquire at department
This course examines tourism as a global phenomenon. The emergence of commercial tourism made social and cultural contact into a form of recreation and a booming business. Indeed, contact among diverse cultures has always been an engine of historical change. Students in this course explore dimensions of the tourism industry, motivations for travel, and how tourism transforms landscapes, heritage, and social relations around the world. Sometimes these transformations are for the better, but all too often the quest for the extraordinary destroys the very thing tourists seek. Learn why and how in case studies spanning from Jamaica to Singapore. 3 hours lecture. (000516)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division; Sustainable Course
ANTH 340 Anthropology of Food 3 Units GC, GE
3 Units GC, GE Prerequisite: GE Oral Communication (A1); GE Written Communication (A2); GE Critical Thinking (A3); GE Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning (B4) requirements, or consent of the instructor.
Typically Offered: Spring, summer, fall
This course examines the social and cultural contexts of food production and consumption in a cross-cultural, global and historical perspective, including contemporary social, environmental and policy issues associated with food. 3 hours lecture. (020625)
General Education: Upper-Division Social Sciences (UDD); Agriculture, Food, and Environment Pathway
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division; Global Cultures; Sustainable Course
ANTH 340W Anthropology of Food (W) 3 Units GC, GE, W
3 Units GC, GE, W Prerequisite: GE Oral Communication (A1); GE Written Communication (A2); GE Critical Thinking (A3); GE Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning (B4) requirements, or consent of the instructor.
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This course examines the social and cultural contexts of food production and consumption in a cross-cultural, global and historical perspective, including contemporary social, environmental and policy issues associated with food. 3 hours lecture. (021352)
General Education: Upper-Division Social Sciences (UDD); Agriculture, Food, and Environment Pathway
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division; Global Cultures; Sustainable Course; Writing Course
ANTH 342 Gems, Guns, and Drugs: International Illicit Economies 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
This course undertakes an ethnographic examination of international illegal economies. It begins with a grounding in anthropological theories of reciprocity and economy and proceeds to explore international illegal circuits of exchange intertwine with licit economies and the formal financial system. We examine a series of case studies on narcotics, gemstones and blood minerals, weapons, human organs, tax evasion, money laundering, corruption, piracy and archaeological looting. Students learn about the moral value of illicit exchanges and the degree to which illegal commerce pervades, underlies, and is inextricable from the formal financial system. 3 hours lecture. (022528)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 362W California Indians (W) 3 Units GE, USD, W
Prerequisite: GE Oral Communication (A1); GE Written Communication (A2); GE Critical Thinking (A3); GE Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning (B4) requirements, or consent of the instructor.
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
Native peoples of California: their origin, prehistory, languages, and pre-contact cultural practices, such as subsistence, settlement, socio-political organization, and ceremony, with the local area highlighted. Interactions with Europeans are also discussed. Emphasis is placed on the archaeological and ethnographic records. 3 hours lecture. (000519)
General Education: Upper-Division Social Sciences (UDD); California Studies Pathway
Cross listing(s): AIST 362W
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division; US Diversity; Writing Course
ANTH 376W Africa: Continuity and Change (W) 3 Units GC, GE, W
Prerequisite: GE Oral Communication (A1); GE Written Communication (A2); GE Critical Thinking (A3); GE Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning (B4) requirements, or consent of the instructor.
Typically Offered: Spring only
No part of the world has contributed more to our shared humanity than Africa. With more than a thousand million people speaking fifteen hundred languages in fifty-two countries, this vast continent challenges us to grasp diverse perspectives on value, meaning, and social life. To understand these, our course is full of music, film, arts, and literature, along with classic and innovative anthropological studies. First we study Africa's main geographical and cultural regions, and their deep histories of peoples, languages, and lifeways. Then we can consider how contemporary issues in spiritual life, family, gender, education, politics, public health, and environment are playing out, all amidst social change and rapid growth that will transform life on our planet for all of us in this twenty-first century. 3 hours lecture. (021353)
General Education: Upper-Division Social Sciences (UDD); Global Studies Pathway
Cross listing(s): AFRI 376W
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division; Global Cultures; Writing Course
ANTH 377 The Islamic World 3 Units GC, GE
Prerequisite: GE Oral Communication (A1); GE Written Communication (A2); GE Critical Thinking (A3); GE Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning (B4) requirements, or consent of the instructor.
Typically Offered: Spring only
Islam is perhaps the world's fastest growing religion. Well over a billion people around the globe identify themselves as Muslim. This course seeks to provide an understanding of how Islam impacts the daily lives of Muslims and explores the history and cultural context of Muslims and Islamic culture globally. Human behavior and social interaction are the twin foci of inquiry. The perspective taken in this course is anthropological. As such, this course ignores questions of "good" or "bad" and "right" or "wrong" and seeks instead to understand Muslims as individuals within specific cultural and historical contexts. 3 hours lecture. (020635)
General Education: Upper-Division Social Sciences (UDD); Global Studies Pathway
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division; Global Cultures
ANTH 377W The Islamic World (W) 3 Units GC, GE, W
Prerequisite: GE Oral Communication (A1); GE Written Communication (A2); GE Critical Thinking (A3); GE Mathematics/Quantitative Reasoning (B4) requirements, or consent of the instructor.
Typically Offered: Spring only
Islam is perhaps the world's fastest growing religion. Well over a billion people around the globe identify themselves as Muslim. This course seeks to provide an understanding of how Islam impacts the daily lives of Muslims and explores the history and cultural context of Muslims and Islamic culture globally. Human behavior and social interaction are the twin foci of inquiry. The perspective taken in this course is anthropological. As such, this course ignores questions of "good" or "bad" and "right" or "wrong" and seeks instead to understand Muslims as individuals within specific cultural and historical contexts. 3 hours lecture. (021354)
General Education: Upper-Division Social Sciences (UDD); Global Studies Pathway
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division; Global Cultures; Writing Course
ANTH 380 Field Archaeology 4 Units
Typically Offered: Fall only odd years
Archaeological survey and excavation; research aims and strategies; archaeological mapping, photography, and recording. 1 hour lecture, 9 hours supervision. (000526)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 4 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 389 Internship in Anthropology 1-3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This course is an internship offered for 1.0-3.0 units. You must register directly with a supervising faculty member. 3 hours lecture. (000531)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 15 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 398 Special Topics 1-3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This course is for special topics offered for 1.0-3.0 units. Typically the topic is offered on a one-time-only basis and may vary from term to term and be different for different sections. See the Class Schedule for the specific topic being offered. 2 hours seminar. (000532)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course more than once
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 399 Special Problems 1-3 Units
Prerequisite: Faculty permission.
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This course is an independent study of special problems and is offered for 1.0-3.0 units. 9 hours supervision. (000533)
Grade Basis: Credit/No Credit
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 6 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 405 Making the Museum 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
Museums are complex, with many moving parts from exhibit curation, collection management, and educational programming to fundraising, marketing and volunteer coordination. In this course, students learn the day-to-day operations of museums and the varied roles and responsibilities in effectively running a museum in the 21st century. We cover topics on museum ethics, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, program planning, fundraising and development, and outreach. Students develop a holistic view of the major functions of museums and are introduced to the diversity of careers available to them in the museum field. Bringing together this knowledge, the course culminates in a final project where students develop their own museum. 3 hours lecture. (000545)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 410 Forensic Science Methods and Science Evidence 3 Units
Prerequisite: ANTH 311.
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
The course introduces advanced methods in forensic science, following the collection and analysis of evidence from crime scene investigation to laboratory analysis. It examines the nature of scientific evidence including the laws that govern and define evidence and its admission as scientific testimony in the court of law. Students are introduced to the practical application of forensic science using a hands-on experiential learning model. 3 hours lecture. (022527)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 411 Human Origins 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
Evolution of the human being as a biological entity and as a culture-bearing primate. Emphasis is placed upon ecological principles and problems as they relate to the fossil record. 3 hours lecture. (000552)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 412 Human Variation 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
The nature of human biological variation and an examination of its genetic and cultural basis. 3 hours lecture. (000553)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 413 Bioarchaeology 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
This course will familiarize the student with current applications, developments, and methods in bioarchaeology. The course will emphasize the value of human skeletal studies in the interpretation of past human lifeways, and will address theoretical developments that intersect subfields within physical anthropology, cultural anthropolgy, and archaeology. Classes will be a combination of lecture, discussion, and student presentations. 3 hours lecture. (020600)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 414 Human Growth and Development 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
The individual from prenatal period through growth and sexual maturation to old age and death. Special emphasis upon the cross-cultural and holistic approaches to the study of people and their role in human evolution. 3 hours lecture. (000555)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 415 Forensic Anthropology 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
Anthropological principles and knowledge applied within the legal system. Topics include the history of the field, biological parameters determined from the skeleton, postmortem interval, and ethics. 3 hours seminar. (000557)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 420 Origins of Early Civilization 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
An examination of the data and major theories concerning the rise of civilizations, using as case studies early Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Mexico, and Peru. The significance of food production, ecology, writing, and the centralized state in the evolution of complex societies. 3 hours lecture. (000561)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 421 Archaeology of North America 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
The study of prehistoric North America north of Mexico. An investigation of cultural origins, development, and differentiation based on the analysis of selected archaeological complexes and traditions. Case study examples of contemporary method and theory in American archaeology. 3 hours lecture. (000562)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 423 Human Behavioral Ecology 3 Units
3 Units Typically Offered: Inquire at department
This course serves as an introduction to the evolutionary processes influencing human behavior grounded in the paleoanthropological study of foraging peoples and an examination of cross-cultural patterns in human behavior. Emphasis will be placed on an evolutionary ecological perspective where aspects of human adaptation are viewed as the result of long-term survival strategies. 3 hours seminar. (000570)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division; Sustainable Course
ANTH 424 California Archaeology 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
This course provides an overview and examination of the historical development and pre-colonial record of archaeology in California. Topics include archaeological method and theory, cultural chronologies, regional and temporal patterns in the archaeological record, important sites and their potential links to native peoples in California. Controversial issues and contributions to modern archaeology are also considered. 3 hours lecture. (000572)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 425 Historical Archaeology 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
This course examines the method and theory of American historical archaeology as it specifically relates to the broader study of American material culture and sociocultural experiences in North America from the period of European exploration to the recent past through archaeological and documentary evidence. 3 hours lecture. (000574)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 428 Experimental Archaeology 3 Units
Prerequisite: ANTH 302.
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
The primary emphases of this course is to familiarize students with the field of experimental archaeology, introduce them to ancient technologies, and develop their ability to formulate and test hypotheses. Students review the foundational literature of the field, as well as analyze recent studies. They also receive hand-on experience in recreating ancient technologies through in-class exercises. Students then apply what they have learned by designing and implementing their own experimental archaeology projects, and presenting their results in a poster session. 3 hours lecture. (021826)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 432 Religion and Society 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
The sacred is real in all societies, and can be sensed in many ways. Spiritual practice can transform our understanding of reality, reorganize our lives, and shape history. It can be a tool of oppression or the spark of revolutions, a creator of boundaries or a gateway to compassion, transcendence, and communion with the natural world. It has given birth to many of humanity's greatest intellectual, artistic, and scientific achievements. We explore how these forces are alive and active in a vast range of human cultures around the global. 3 hours lecture. (000577)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 435 Culture, Health, and Healing 3 Units
Typically Offered: Spring only
This course explores the personal, bodily, and social dimensions of well-being and suffering, emphasizing cross-cultural ethnographic research in many languages and traditions. Film, music, and literature are woven together with anthropological texts and materials. Through studies of witchcraft, gendered violence, chronic illness, and spirit possessions, we examine how experiences such as pain, madness, and ecstasy are produced and understood across a vast array of societies. We compare the body and the person in disparate healing practices, as these each are shaped by varied lifeways and beliefs. We also consider the impact of systemic inequalities, social movements, and population sciences on health and illness worldwide, through studies of child survival, urban poverty, new reproductive orders, and international responses to infectious diseases. 3 hours seminar. (000579)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 437 Globalization and Human Rights 3 Units
3 Units Typically Offered: Inquire at department
Globalization began long before Columbus invaded the Americas, yet our lives today are ever more shaped by globalized economies, politics, and ideas. Why do these forces sometimes result in plunder, repression, or genocide but sometimes instead bring enhanced well-being and new freedoms? This course explores historical and contemporary global movements of people, commodities, technologies, and ideas. It focuses especially on the emergence of modern human rights as well as their place in today's postcolonial world. 3 hours lecture. (000582)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division; Sustainable Course
ANTH 443 Visual Anthropology 3 Units
Prerequisite: ANTH 303 or faculty permission.
Typically Offered: Spring only
This course explores visual aspects of culture and the use of images for the description, analysis, communication, and interpretation of human behavior. Media examined include, photography, film, video, new media, and art. Students develop ethnographic projects based on original research and using available media technologies. 3 hours lecture. (000586)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 461 People, Objects and Collections 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
Have you ever imagined being the behind-the-scenes person who works with the objects that most people only see in museum exhibits? This is your chance to learn how museums collect and care for objects through hands on activities and class discussion. Be accessioning objects into the Museum of Anthropology collections students will practice key skills in handling and caring for collections. We also discuss current issues and approaches in collections management. By the end of the course, students should be able to either pursue a job working at a museum or have a greater appreciation of what happens behind the closed doors. 6 hours activity. (000596)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 462 Learning and Engagement in Museums 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
This course focuses on how museums and other cultural institutions educate the public. By exploring the learning experiences of visitors in museums students gain a foundation in the methodological and theoretical underpinnings in contemporary museum education. Through class activities students learn how to apply learning theories and pedagogical strategies, visitor studies, and hands-on surveying to create, test, implement, and evaluate educational programs. This course offers a unique opportunity for students to gain hands-on experience, using the Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology as our laboratory. Students apply knowledge learning in the classroom and build on project experiences to engage in museum education work. 3 hours lecture. (021649)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 465 Public Interpretation 3 Units
Prerequisite: Faculty permission.
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
How do we communicate with the public? We need to be able to create a compelling story and share information about what we do and why it is important. In this course, students learn key skills in public interpretation by exploring the methods, philosophy, and utility of different forms of written and verbal interpretation for public audiences. As a class we research a topic to develop key themes and information used to create exhibit text, adult and/or children interpretive materials, outdoor displays, and public programs. Students develop skills used in a range of careers including anthropology, archaeology, and museum studies. 3 hours laboratory, 2 hours lecture. (000598)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 467 Exhibit Research, Design, and Installation 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
How do museums create exhibitions? In this course, students learn first-hand the necessary steps involved in researching, designing, and installing a museum exhibition. Students become part of a curatorial team in the development of a professional exhibition to open at the Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology. This is an opportunity to see how art, education, and scientific research are combined to create displays for the public. 6 hours activity. (000621)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 6 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 468 Current Topics in Museum Studies 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
This course has been designed to introduce students to relevant areas of research and theoretical perspectives that concern museums and museum professionals today. Museums have become places that enrich the lives our communities in a variety of ways. As institutions with a public mission to educate and enlighten, museums devote considerable time to civic engagements, inclusiveness, honoring diversity, and good stewardships of cultural heritage while making sure museums thrive and run smoothly. Drawing on the specialization of instructors in the Department of Anthropology's Museum Studies Program, this source will cover a diversity of current topics in museum studies ranging from material culture, visitor studies, and museum education to community participation and new museum theory. 3 hours lecture. (021823)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 478 Zooarchaeology: Vertebrate Identification and Analysis 4 Units
4 Units Typically Offered: Spring only
Zooarchaeology involves the identification and interpretation of animal remains from archaeological sites. Topics covered include the nature of the archaeofaunal record, units of quantification, taphonomy, the selective utilization of animals and subsistence strategies. A variety of case studies will also be reviewed. Laboratory activity centers around the identification of archaeofaunal remains from selected locations in California. 3 hours laboratory, 3 hours lecture. (000602)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 4 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division; Sustainable Course
ANTH 480 Advanced Field Archaeology 4 Units
Prerequisite: ANTH 380.
Typically Offered: Fall only odd years
Advanced individual training in archaeological fieldwork, including organization of projects, supervision of field crews, use of specialized field techniques, and preliminary analysis of field data. 1 hour lecture, 9 hours supervision. (000604)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 4 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 481 Human Identification 3 Units
Prerequisite: ANTH 301.
Typically Offered: Fall only
Physical anthropological methods and techniques, such as anthropometry, dermatoglyphics, osteology, and paleopathology as applied to problems of human identification. Credit for repeating this course depends upon your taking it from a different instructor each time. 3 hours laboratory, 2 hours lecture. (000607)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 6 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 482 Laboratory Methods in Archaeology 3 Units
Typically Offered: Spring only
Independent supervised training in the methods of data description, interpretation, and presentation. Methods of describing, classifying, analyzing, and illustrating archaeological finds, and the preparation of reports for publications. 6 hours activity. (000609)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 483 Field Methods in Ethnography 3 Units
Prerequisite: ANTH 303 or faculty permission.
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
Cultural anthropologist study people by talking, living, and working with them. These are among the most powerful ways to understand worldviews that are different from our own. The methods of participant-observation offers one of our best hopes of understanding the ideas, beliefs and values of societies and cultures across the globe. Students in this course learn to do ethnography, the ethics of fieldwork, and how to analyze empirically collected data. In this course, students become ethnographers through a supervised research project. 6 hours activity. (000610)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 484 Archaeological Site Surveying 3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall only even years
Methods and techniques of locating archaeological and historical cultural resources in the field. Proper site recordation by means of photographs, drawings, maps, and appropriately filled-out site survey forms for cultural resource management purposes. 6 hours activity. (000613)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 6 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 485 Formal Methods for Anthropology 3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
A survey of selected mathematical and logical methods and models of relevance to various problems in anthropology. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of anthropological data. 3 hours seminar. (000530)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 487 Heritage Resource Planning 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
The social and institutional frameworks, legislative bases, procedures, and practices of prehistoric and cultural resources management taught by means of case studies of legislative documents, management studies, and environmental impact reports. The investigation of selected resources and preparation of appropriate descriptive, evaluative, and management reports. 3 hours lecture. (000617)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 489A Biological Anthropology Internship 1-6 Units
Prerequisite: Faculty permission.
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This internship is offered in the area of physical anthropology. Work experience in the community or region is designed for each student. A maximum of 6 units of internship may be counted toward the major. 15 hours supervision. (000622)
Grade Basis: Credit/No Credit
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 15 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 489B Archaeology Internship 1-6 Units
Prerequisite: Faculty permission.
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This internship is offered in the area of archaeology. Work experience in the community or region is designed for each student. A maximum of 6 units of internship may be counted toward the major. 15 hours supervision. (020235)
Grade Basis: Credit/No Credit
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 15 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 489C Cultural Anthropology Internship 1-6 Units
Prerequisite: Faculty permission.
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This internship is offered in the area of cultural anthropology. Work experience in the community or region is designed for each student. A maximum of 6 units of internship may be counted toward the major. 15 hours supervision. (020236)
Grade Basis: Credit/No Credit
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 15 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 489D Museum Studies Internship 1-6 Units
Prerequisite: Faculty permission.
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This internship is offered in the area of museum studies. Work experience in the community or region is designed for each student. A maximum of 6 units of internship may be counted toward the major. 15 hours supervision. (020237)
Grade Basis: Credit/No Credit
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 15 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 495 Applied Anthropology 3 Units
Prerequisite: ANTH 303 or faculty permission.
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
Anthropology examines the diversity of the worlds' cultures, but cultural diversity exists within a context defined by conflicting values, injustice, and inequality. In this course, students learn how to use anthropological theories and methods to understand and solve people's problems in the real world. 3 hours seminar. (000630)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 496HW Proseminar in the History of Theory and Methods in Anthropology - Honors (W) 3 Units W, GW
Prerequisite: GE Written Communication (A2) requirement, ANTH 303, acceptance into the Honors Program.
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This investigation of the method and theory of anthropological thought of the last century is directed to individual research interests and problem development for the honors thesis. Seminar format. 3 hours seminar. (000632)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division; Writing Course; Graduation Writing Assessment
ANTH 496W Proseminar in the History of Theory and Method in Anthropology (W) 3 Units W, GW
Prerequisite: GE Written Communication (A2) requirement; ANTH 303.
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
Investigation of the history of the development of theory and method in anthropological thought and practice from the nineteenth century to the present. Seminar format. 3 hours seminar. (000631)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division; Writing Course; Graduation Writing Assessment
ANTH 497 Anthropology Forum 1 Unit
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
Examines current developments in theory and research in the entire field of anthropology through a series of presentations by a wide variety of individuals who are actively involved at the frontiers of anthropological knowledge. 1 hour lecture. (000633)
Grade Basis: Credit/No Credit
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 6 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 498 Special Topics 1-3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This course is for special topics offered for 1.0-3.0 units. Typically the topic is offered on a one-time-only basis and may vary from term to term and be different for different sections. See the Class Schedule for the specific topic being offered. 3 hours lecture. (000634)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course more than once
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 499 Special Problems 2-3 Units
Prerequisite: Faculty permission.
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This course is an independent study of special problems offered for 1.0-3.0 units. You must register directly with a supervising faculty member. 9 hours supervision. (000638)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 6 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 499H Honors in Anthropology 3 Units
Prerequisite: ANTH 496HW and faculty permission.
Typically Offered: Spring only
Independent study resulting in a piece of scholarly or creative work involving substantial research to be completed and publicly presented. The course must be taken during the second semester of your senior year, subsequent to successful completion of ANTH 496HW. This course is not available to graduate students. 3 hours seminar. (000639)
Grade Basis: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Upper Division
ANTH 600 Core Seminar in Anthropology 3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall only
A critical examination of the basic foundation literature in the subdisciplines of anthropology. 3 hours seminar. (000640)
Grade Basis: Graduate Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Graduate Division
ANTH 601 Seminar in Biological Anthropology 3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall only
A critical examination of selected theories and methods in physical anthropology, and/or the generation of new theories and methods pertinent to selected problems in physical anthropology. 3 hours seminar. (000645)
Grade Basis: Graduate Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 6 units
Course Attributes: Graduate Division
ANTH 602 Seminar in Archaeology 3 Units
Typically Offered: Spring only
A critical examination of selected theories and methods in archaeology, and/or the generation of new theories and methods pertinent to selected problems in archaeology. 3 hours seminar. (000650)
Grade Basis: Graduate Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 6 units
Course Attributes: Graduate Division
ANTH 603 Seminar in Cultural Anthropology 3 Units
Typically Offered: Spring only
A critical examination of selected theories and methods in cultural anthropology, and/or the generation of new theories and methods pertinent to selected problems in cultural anthropology. 3 hours seminar. (000657)
Grade Basis: Graduate Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 6 units
Course Attributes: Graduate Division
ANTH 605 Seminar in Museum Studies 3 Units
Typically Offered: Inquire at department
A critical examination of selected theories and methods in museology and/or the generation of new theories and methods pertinent to selected problems in the museum field. 3 hours seminar. (000658)
Grade Basis: Graduate Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 6 units
Course Attributes: Graduate Division
ANTH 610A Professionalism in Biological Anthropology 3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This course is offered in the area of Biological Anthropology. Student shadow faculty in a course of the instructor's choosing that best aligns with the student's career path. 9 hours supervision. (022286)
Grade Basis: Graduate Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Graduate Division
ANTH 610B Professionalism in Archaeology 3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This course is offered in the area of Archaeology. To foster professional development, student shadow faculty in a course of the instructor's choosing that best aligns with the student's career path. 9 hours supervision. (022287)
Grade Basis: Graduate Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Graduate Division
ANTH 610C Professionalism in Cultural Anthropology 3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This course is offered in the area of Cultural Anthropology. To foster professional development, students shadow faculty in a course of the instructor's choosing that best aligns with the student's career path. 9 hours supervision. (022288)
Grade Basis: Graduate Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Graduate Division
ANTH 610D Professionalism in Museum Studies 3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This course is offered in the area of Museum Studies. To foster professional development, students shadow faculty in a course of the instructor's choosing that best aligns with the student's career path. 9 hours supervision. (022289)
Grade Basis: Graduate Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Graduate Division
ANTH 689 Internship in Anthropology 3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
3 hours lecture. (000666)
Grade Basis: Credit/No Credit
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Graduate Division
ANTH 689A Internship Exhibit Research and Design 3 Units
Prerequisite: Consent of Museum Studies Coordinator.
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
See description below 9 hours supervision. (000667)
Grade Basis: Credit/No Credit
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 6 units
Course Attributes: Graduate Division
ANTH 689B Internship in Museum Management 3 Units
Prerequisite: Consent of Museum Studies Coordinator.
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
See description below. 9 hours supervision. (000668)
Grade Basis: Credit/No Credit
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 6 units
Course Attributes: Graduate Division
ANTH 689C Internship in Curatorial Practices 3 Units
Prerequisite: Consent of Museum Studies Coordinator.
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
See description below. 9 hours supervision. (000669)
Grade Basis: Credit/No Credit
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 6 units
Course Attributes: Graduate Division
ANTH 689D Internship in Museum Education 3 Units
Prerequisite: Consent of Museum Studies Coordinator.
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
See description below. 9 hours supervision. (000670)
Grade Basis: Credit/No Credit
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 6 units
Course Attributes: Graduate Division
ANTH 689E Internship in Museum Conservation 3 Units
Prerequisite: Consent of Museum Studies Coordinator.
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
ANTH 689A - ANTH 689E: Work experience in off-campus museum designed for each student. 9 hours supervision. (000671)
Grade Basis: Credit/No Credit
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 6 units
Course Attributes: Graduate Division
ANTH 696 Candidacy Exam 1 Unit
Prerequisite: Graduate status.
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This course is for graduate students taking the Candidacy Exam only. 3 hours supervision. (015814)
Grade Basis: Report in Progress: CR/NC
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 1 unit
Course Attributes: Graduate Division
ANTH 697 Independent Study 1-3 Units
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This course is a graduate-level independent study offered for 1.0-3.0 units. 9 hours supervision. (000673)
Grade Basis: Report in Progress: Graded
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 6 units
Course Attributes: Graduate Division
ANTH 699P Master's Project 1-3 Units
Prerequisite: Faculty permission.
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This course is a master's study offered as a Master's Project for 1.0-3.0 units. You must register directly with a supervising faculty member. 0 hours supervision. (021632)
Grade Basis: Report in Progress: CR/NC
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Graduate Division
ANTH 699T Master's Thesis 1-3 Units
Prerequisite: Faculty permission.
Typically Offered: Fall and spring
This course is a master's study offered as a Master's Thesis for 1.0-3.0 units. You must register directly with a supervising faculty member. 9 hours supervision. (000675)
Grade Basis: Report in Progress: CR/NC
Repeatability: You may take this course for a maximum of 3 units
Course Attributes: Graduate Division