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ANTH 200 - INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF LANGUAGE Credits: 3 Overview of the scientific study of the structure and function of language. Introduces the main fields of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics. Highlights the interdisciplinary relationship of linguistics with anthropology, sociology, psychology, and cognitive sciences. Cross-list: LING 200. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 201 - INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Credits: 3 Introduction to the history, methods, and concepts of social/cultural anthropology, which is devoted to the systematic description and understanding of cultural diversity in human societies. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 203 - HUMAN ANTIQUITY: AN INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND PREHISTORY Credits: 3 This course offers a broad introduction to the human past as revealed by evolutionary studies of both biochemical and fossil evidence, and by archaeological studies of human cultural behavior. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 205 - INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY Credits: 3 An introduction to the elementary concepts of the discipline through a series of case studies. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 210 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF DEATH Credits: 3 An introduction to anthropological and archaeological concepts and methods through a study of rituals surrounding death, dying, and disposal of the dead. Topics will include the definition of death, remembering and forgetting the dead, grief and mourning, tombs and funerary monuments, human sacrifice, forensic reconstructions. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 212 - PERSPECTIVES ON MODERN ASIA Credits: 3 A team taught interdisciplinary course focusing on the political, social and economic forces that are shaping the lives of the nearly one-half of the world's population that lives in Asia. Provides a selective, in-depth look at certain important areas of East, Southeast and South Asia that reflect larger themes and problems. Cross-list: ASIA 212. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 235 - NANOTECHNOLOGY: CONTENT AND CONTEXT Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.frazer.rice.edu/nanotech Nanotechnology is science and engineering resulting from the manipulation of matter's most basic building blocks: atoms and molecules. This course is designed for humanities and science students who want to explore the content of nanotechnology, (e.g., the methods of visualization, experimentation, and manufacture, and technical feasibility) with the social context of nanotechnology (issues of ethics, regulation, risk assessment, history, funding, intellectual property, controversy, and conflict). Preference will be given to freshmen and sophomore students. Register for CHEM 235 to receive Group 3 distribution credit; register for ANTH 235 to receive Group 2 distribution credit. You may receive credit only for one group, not both. Cross-list: CHEM 235, HIST 237. Preference given to freshmen and sophomores. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 280 - ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE EAST Credits: 3 This course provides an introduction to and critical examination of the extensive ethnographic literature written by sociocultural anthropologists on the peoples and cultures of the Middle East (including North Africa). Major themes of this literature are reviewed and analyzed, and current trends are studied by reading recent works. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 290 - THE HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE (TO BE NAMED) Credits: 3 This course focuses intensively on the history and ethnography of a single people, the selection of which changes from year to year. Using all available materials, this course provides an introduction to the approaches of the discipline and how they have changed, registered by the different ways anthropologists and others have represented the same subjects over time. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 298 - BIOTECHNOLOGY, 1900 TO NOW Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~anth298/ The technical manipulation of living matter from humans, animals, and plants is both a scientific and a social undertaking. This course is designed for humanities and science students who want to know more about how biotechnology came into existence, and the questions, controversies and changes which come with the ability to engineer living things. A series of case studies of contemporary events in cloning, patenting, genetically modified organisms, and stem cell research will be set in the context of the 20th century history of biotechnology. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 300 - LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS Credits: 3 Course URL: http://http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ling300/ A hands-on, data-oriented approach to how different languages construct words and sentences. Students will develop skills in linguistic problem solving and the foundations for pursuing grammatical description. Topics: word classes, morphology, tense-aspect-modality, clause structure, word order, grammatical relations, existentials/possessives/locatives, voice/valence, questions, negation, relative clauses, complements, causatives. Cross-list: LING 300, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 500. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 301 - PHONETICS Credits: 3 Introductory study of sound as it relates to speech and sound systems in the world's languages. Speech sounds are examined in terms of production mechanisms (articulatory phonetics), propagation mechanisms (acoustic phonetics), and perception mechanisms (auditory phonetics). Includes a basic introduction to Digital Signal Processing. Cross-list: LING 301, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 501. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 302 - ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY: A SURVEY Credits: 3 A survey of the major theorists and theoretical schools of social-cultural anthropology. Strongly recommended for majors. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 304 - URBANIZATION IN THE THIRD WORLD Credits: 3 This course will engage in transnational and comparative approaches to urban issues in the Third World. Topics will include migration, shelter struggles, urban informality, violence, social movements, gender, race, and ethnic engagements with public and private spaces of the city and cinematic representations. Cross-list: ASIA 304. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 305 - HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS Credits: 3 Exploration of the nature of language change. Topics covered include sound change syntactic and semantic change, modeling language splits, the sociolinguistics of language change, and the history of European languages. Cross-list: LING 305, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 505. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 308 - HISTORY AS A CULTURAL MYTH Credits: 3 Explores ideas of history and attitudes toward the past as culturally conditioned phenomena. Emphasizes history as a statement of cultural values as well as conceptualizations of cause, change, time, and reality. Cross-list: SWGS 336, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 508. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 309 - GLOBAL CULTURES Credits: 3 This course will examine specific cultural debates and issues that have "overflowed" national boundaries. Topics will include student movements, democracy and citizenship, and the internationalization of professional and popular culture. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 509. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 310 - CONTEMPORARY CHINESE CULTURE Credits: 3 This introductory course is designed to encourage ways of thinking about: Cultural China--a broad-ranging concept that includes the People's Republic of China, the newly established Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Hong Kong, the Republic of China on Taiwan, and overseas Chinese communities throughout the world. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 311 - MASCULINITIES Credits: 3 This course deals with masculinities in the West, concentrating on concepts of masculine protagonism and personhood. Readings explore identities constructed in realms such as law, politics, finances, art, the home, and war. Cross-list: SWGS 333, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 511. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 312 - AFRICAN PREHISTORY Credits: 3 Thematic coverage of developments throughout the continent from the Lower Paleolithic to medieval times, with emphasis on food production, metallurgy and the rise of cities and complex societies. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 512. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 313 - LANGUAGE AND CULTURE Credits: 3 Course URL: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~ANTH313 Investigates the relation between language and thought, language and worldview, language and logic. Cross-list: LING 313, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 513. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 314 - GENETICS: SCIENCE AND SOCIETY Credits: 3 The course uses an interdisciplinary perspective to examine the claims and counter-claims made regarding genetics and new technologies for identifying and manipulating genetic material. The course will cover biological basics of genes, DNA, and epigenesis; cultural and historical aspects of approaches to genetics, including eugenics past and present; and ethical issues arising from new genetic technologies. Cross-list: BIOS 307. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 315 - INTRODUCTION TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF INFORMATION AND NETWORKS Credits: 3 History and social study of information and network technologies. Thematic focus on communication, exchange, information/knowledge production and institutions of property and contract law. Empirical topics include networking technologies, money and financial institutions, free software and open source, cryptography, standards bodies, history of the internet, patents, copyright, trademark, and contract law. Includes North America, Europe, and South Asia. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 515. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 316 - CULTURAL ANALYSIS Credits: 3 This course is specifically intended for lower level undergraduates as a means of gaining familiarity with the analytical tradition of cultural anthropology from the beginning of the Twentieth Century. The course is intended to provide students with background for upper level courses in the department. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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ANTH 319 - SYMBOLISM AND POWER Credits: 3 This course considers anthropological theories of the state and examines ethnographic accounts of states in some unexpected places - that is, outside the official realm of government bureaucracies and institutionalized politics. Topics include so-called "stateless societies," planning and bureaucratic rationality, violence and power, and ethnographic methods for studying the state. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 519. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Anthropology
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