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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses

 

Anthropology
  

  • ANTH 1102:Introduction to Anthropology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course is an introduction to anthropology’s four major subfields: biological anthropology, archaeology, cultural anthropology, and linguistics.
  

  • ANTH 2210:Archaeological Discoveries and Debates

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course presents key discoveries and contemporary debates in archaeology and provides an overview of archaeological societies in the New and Old World. Students examine representative sites, artifacts, and important moments in the human past and learn how archaeologists piece together evidence to tell the story of humanity.
  

  • ANTH 2220:The Anthropology of Death

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1101  
    In this course, students examine how anthropologists have looked at the topic of death from a multitude of perspectives. Students explore the importance of death to the field of anthropology and also use it as a lens to examine American attitudes toward and rituals surrounding death.
  

  • ANTH 2223:The Human Skeleton

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course explores human osteology, or the study of the human skeletal system. We cover bone biology, anatomical terminology, bony landmarks, and bone variation to examine topics such as the anthropological use of the skeleton in forensic, genetic, and bioarchaeological contexts.
  

  • ANTH 2777:Anthropology of Tourism

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course introduces students to anthropological explorations of tourists and tourism. It enables students to understand the deep cultural impact of contact through reading historical and contemporary ethnographic works of tourism and tourists, and their respective impacts on cultures and identities.
  

  • ANTH 3300:Anthropological Theory

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3307  and any two of ANTH 3301 , ANTH 3303 , ANTH 3305  
    This course surveys the historical development of anthropological theory. It emphasizes the major theories and theoreticians in the discipline of anthropology and their importance for understanding contemporary anthropological research.
  

  • ANTH 3301:Human Origins

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    This course is an introduction to the evolutionary origins of humans. Major topics include evolutionary theory, primate behavior and taxonomy, the fossil record of human and non-human primate evolution, and the interaction of culture and biology as it relates to human evolution.
  

  • ANTH 3303:Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  
    Languages constitute the social life and cultural practices that anthropologists study. This course introduces the student to anthropological approaches to the study of language use, which is distinct from a linguist’s approach to language. Students learn how languages shape and reflect our thoughts and identities. Students examine the complex world of meaning-making, which form the fundamental component of our social, political, economic, and cultural life.
  

  • ANTH 3305:Principles of Archaeology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Archeology is the subfield of anthropology that has as its goal the understanding of the human past by studying the material remains that people leave. This course covers the history, goals, methods, and theoretical base of current technology. Cultural resource management is introduced as well.
  

  • ANTH 3307:Cultural Anthropology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  
    The comparative study of human cultures and societies through use of cross-cultural analysis of human behavior and case studies. Major foci are comparisons between universal and culturally relative aspects of human behavior, comparative social organization, cultural change and adaptation, and contemporary global cultural problems.
  

  • ANTH 3310:Cultural Diversity in the U.S.

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  
    The interrelated issues of culture, race, ethnicity, identity, gender, and social stratification in American society are examined through a holistic and comparative perspective with an emphasis on the examination of case studies.
  

  • ANTH 3315:Indigenous Peoples of the Southeast United States

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    An examination of the culture of the prehistoric, historic and contemporary Native Americans of the Southeastern U.S. including the Mound Builders, Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, and Seminoles.
  

  • ANTH 3320:Methods in Biological Anthropology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3301  
    This course explores the discipline of physical (biological) anthropology through intensive reading and lab-based research. We cover current topics of study in some of the major subfields such as human biology, primate evolution, osteology, paleoanthropology, and bioarchaeology.
  

  • ANTH 3321:Indigenous Peoples of North America

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  
    The study of contemporary issues affecting Native American peoples through a survey of traditional cultures and culture change.
  

  • ANTH 3335:Archaeology Field Techniques

    3-6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3305  
    This course is an archaeological field course designed to teach students the skills and techniques of modern archaeological survey, excavation, and laboratory analysis. The site of the local field school varies from year to year, but the international opportunity is an archaeological site in Belize, Central America. Contact the professor prior to registration for the determination of credit hours.

     
  

  • ANTH 3340:Religion, Magic, and Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3307  
    This course examines the anthropological approach to religion and magic, which privileges local religious experiences and practices and places them in socio-cultural context. This course encourages students to consider the roles that religions play within broader adaptive systems, and how religions alternately promote both cultural stability and cultural change. Cosmologies, religious systems, and magical systems of thought are explored from an anthropological perspective.
  

  • ANTH 3345:Food and Culture

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3307  
    This class takes a global look at the social, symbolic, and political-economic roles of food, including how people in different cultures and environments throughout history define themselves through their foodways. The course explores a cross-cultural range of identities and socialities built through food production, preparation, and consumption, and how these change over time.
  

  • ANTH 3350:Cultures and Societies of the World

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3307  
    A comparative survey of culture and social organization in various regions of the world with a focus on contemporary social problems, cultural change and adaptation.
  

  • ANTH 3355:Capitalisms and Cultures in Asia

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  
    This course compares and contrasts various forms of capitalisms and cultures in Asia to understand the dynamics of society and political life. This course enables students to develop a global perspective on critical issues that concern policymakers, business-strategists, development-workers, and academics from an anthropological perspective. Students compare and contrast various forms of capitalism in Asia from an anthropological vantage point for understanding dynamics of society and political life in Asia.
  

  • ANTH 3360:Anthropology and Africa

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3307  
    This course introduces students to methods, theories, and topics in African historical and contemporary anthropology. Particular emphasis is placed on how people from the West have encountered and come to understand African peoples and vice versa. This course examines how the colonial encounter helped structure methodological and conceptual formulations in anthropology and subsequent critiques and revisions. It also examines many contemporary African issues through the lens of anthropology.
  

  • ANTH 3365:Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102   
    This course explores the Afro-Brazilian experience in multi-racial Brazil, where the majority of the population is of African descent. This course focuses on how Afro-Brazilian culture, politics, music, samba, capoeira (martial arts), carnival and religion have impacted and often defined Brazilian society and culture. The course also focuses on Brazilian racial identity, social movements and racism. Brazil is constantly situated within the African Diaspora.
  

  • ANTH 3375:Engaged Archaeology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  
    Although archaeology is a scholarly subject, it is not divorced from contemporary issues. In this class, students learn the role that archaeology plays in various publics and communities. Students identify and engage stakeholders related to an archaeological site and undertake a hands-on project such as developing a heritage management plan or a collaborative excavation plan. Students also evaluate competing interpretations of the past and develop a narrative that incorporates multiple understandings of material culture.
  

  • ANTH 3380:Maya Archaeology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3305  
    This course is designed to introduce students to the ancient Maya, whose civilization flourished in the lowlands of Central America between 1000 B.C. and A.D. 1500. It also examines reasons for the rise and fall of classic Maya civilization, including topics such as the development of complexity, settlement, subsistence, art and architecture, ritual and religion, and intellectual achievements.
  

  • ANTH 3390:Lab in Archaeology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3305  
    This course introduces laboratory methods through a project-oriented, hands-on format. A major focus of the course is on the inferential processes through which archaeologists recover and understand the past. This course also introduces many of the important principles and concepts that archaeologists use to analyze, manage, curate, and publish artifacts and the data associated with them. In addition, it allows the opportunity to have some hands-on experience with artifacts. Hands-on experiments in class help reinforce the theoretical concepts. Finally, the main goal is for the student to get basic “literacy” with respect to archaeological analysis and develop good lab habits rather than master any particular kind of analysis.
  

  • ANTH 3397:Anthropology Practicum

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3300 , ANTH 4450 , 90 credit hours completed, and permission of the instructor.
    This course is a structured field-based or on-campus research experience in a supervised setting related to anthropology. Practical experience is combined with scholarly research in the topical area of the practicum under the guidance of a faculty committee. Projects are selected in advance of the semester of the practicum. Students learn to apply research skills in a practical setting.
  

  • ANTH 3398:Internship in Anthropology

    variable 1-12 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3300 , ANTH 4450 , 90 credit hours completed, and permission of the instructor.
    A structured off-campus experience in a supervised setting that is related to the student’s major. Practical experience is combined with scholarly research in the topical area of the internship, under the guidance of an interdisciplinary faculty committee. Sites must be selected in advance of the semester of the internship.

    Notes: A departmental internship orientation session is scheduled once a semester.
  

  • ANTH 3521:Ethnography of Media: Global Perspectives

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102 , or permission of the instructor.
    This course examines how media images and usage shape the identities of individuals and groups around the world. Drawing on ethnographic studies done by anthropologists, this course prepares students to see how representations of peoples, places, practices, and events in the media shape our ideas about others and ourselves. Individuals’ and groups’ relationship with the media is the key element in understanding how people relate to each other within and across cultures and political boundaries.
  

  • ANTH 3777:Global Ethnographies of Labor

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  
    This course establishes the centrality of labor in understanding social identities and social change around the world. It emphasizes the cross-cultural meaning of “labor.” Through ethnographies, it locates the effects of larger global processes like development, war, tourism, and their changing impact on meaning of labor for people’s individual and collective identities.
  

  • ANTH 3999:Anthropology of Gender

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  
    This course introduces students to anthropological approaches to studying gender relationships in various cultural contexts. It familiarizes students with the relationship between feminism and anthropology. It examines how the research of feminist anthropologists shaped the central theoretical, methodological, and ethical concerns within anthropology. It also emphasizes why ethnographic methods are essential for understanding the complex gender relationships in a globalizing world.
  

  • ANTH 4100:Directed Applied Research

    1-6 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Any upper-division anthropology course and approval of the instructor and department chair.
    This course offers students an opportunity to investigate anthropologically-oriented concepts and issues by assisting in faculty-led research or scholarship. Course content and instructional methodologies are identified by the faculty’s needs and expectations.
  

  • ANTH 4400:Directed Study in Anthropology

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Approval of the instructor and department chair.
    Covers special topics and seminars external to regular course offerings. May include original research projects and practicum experiences.
  

  • ANTH 4405:Human Variation

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3301  
    This course provides an understanding of the nature and extent of human biological variation, as well as an understanding of how it is studied. The course focuses on two separate yet inter-connected topics: the biological variation that exists within our species, Homo sapiens; and the concept of race.
  

  • ANTH 4411:Bioarchaeology of Greece

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3301  or ANTH 3305  or ANTH 3350  
    This course introduces students to the practice of bioarchaeology in Greece from the early 1900’s through today. Students trace the development of bioarchaeology from its early roots in typology through the paradigm shift of the New Physical Anthropology to modern scientific analyses of human skeletal remains. Case studies and classic anthropological texts are read and discussed.
  

  • ANTH 4420:Lab in Forensic Anthropology

    0 Class Hours 6 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  or ANTH 3320  and permission of the instructor.
    This laboratory class provides an overview to the field of forensic anthropology for undergraduates. Forensic anthropology is an applied field of physical anthropology that seeks to recover, identify, and evaluate human skeletal remains within a medico-legal context. This generally includes the determination of an unidentified individual’s sex, age, ancestry, stature, and in many cases, circumstances surrounding death.
  

  • ANTH 4421:North American Archaeology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3305  
    An introduction to archaeological goals, methods, and interpretation of the prehistory of North America.
  

  • ANTH 4422:Archaeology of Asia

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  or ASIA 3001 
    This course examines cultural and historical developments in Asia from approximately 10,000 BCE through 1600 CE. Students learn about the rise of complex societies, cities, and states; early economies; empires; and the role of archaeology in modern Asia. Along the way, students engage in major debates that have arisen from competing interpretations of the archaeological record.
  

  • ANTH 4423:Bone Biomechanics

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3320  
    This course examines the mechanical properties of our skeletal organ system. The study of skeletal biology and biomechanics allow anthropologists to understand the function of the skeleton and how it can be used to interpret the lifeways of past peoples. Research from this field is key to the study of paleopathology, prehistoric subsistence strategies, locomotion, and bone trauma.
  

  • ANTH 4425:Historical Archaeology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3305  
    The course introduces students to methods and issues in American historical archaeology. Particular emphasis is placed upon archaeological methods and documentary research, changing gender roles, ethnicity, and technological innovations. Case studies will focus on the South but other regional contexts may also be included.
  

  • ANTH 4430:Environmental Anthropology Field Methods

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1102  
    This course exposes students to the field of environmental anthropology as they experience fieldwork in the natural environments of Georgia. The intensive field methods and research approaches in this course allow students to learn how to work as part of an anthropological research team as they examine and evaluate global research issues in environmental anthropology at the local and regional level. The course includes topical lectures, field methods, lab analysis, and interactive team projects.
  

  • ANTH 4450:Research Methods in Anthropology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: STAT 1401 , ANTH 3307 , and any two of ANTH 3301 , ANTH 3303 , ANTH 3305 .
    Major theoretical ideas and methods used in anthropological research are examined with a focus on applying them in research and practice.
  

  • ANTH 4490:Special Topics in Anthropology

    3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Prerequisites will vary with each course. The prerequisites will be listed in the schedule of classes.
    Selected topics of interest to faculty and students.