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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Processes and course of human evolution; primatology; biological and social diversity within Homo sapiens; human paleontology. GE Credit: SciEng, Div, Wrt.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.) McHenry, Weaver, Marshall
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Introduction to cultural diversity and the methods used by anthropologists to account for it. Family relations, economic activities, politics, gender, and religion in a wide range of societies. Current problems in tribal and peasant societies. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.) Yengoyanr
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Development of archaeology as an anthropological study; objectives and methods of modern archaeology. GE credit: SocSci, Div.—I, II, III. (I, II, III) Bettinger, Darwent Steele
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Exploration of the role of language in social interaction and world view, minority languages and dialects, bilingualism, literacy, the social motivation of language change. Introduction of analytical techniques of linguistics and demonstration of their relevance to language in sociocultural issues. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.—I. (I.)
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Seminar—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 1 and consent of instructor. Course primarily for majors. Integration of related disciplines in the study of biological anthropology through discussion and research projects. Principal emphasis in human adaptation to the environment. GE credit: SciEng, Wrt.—III. (III.) Isbell
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Lecture—2 hours; laboratory/discussion—1 hour; fieldwork—1 hour. Skills for scientific thinking; designing, implementing, analyzing, interpreting, presenting, and criticizing research. Collection and analysis of original data. Basic statistical methods. GE credit: SocSci, Wrt.—II. (II.) McElreath
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour; term paper. Introduction to the biology of birth, childhood, marriage, the family, old age, and death. Examines comparative characteristics of nonhuman primates and other animals as well as cross-cultural variation in humans by study of selected cases. GE credit: SciEng, Div, Wrt.—I (I.) Harcourt
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Web virtual lecture—3 hours; web electronic discussion—1 hour; term paper. Introduction to the biology of birth, childhood, marriage, the family, old age, and death. Examines comparative characteristics of nonhuman primates and other animals as well as cross cultural variation in humans by study of selected cases. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 15. GE credit: SciEng, Div, Wrt.
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Introduction to the anthropological study of cultural diversity. Case studies of eight societies will be presented to illustrate and compare the distinctive features of major cultural regions of the world. Concludes with a discussion of modernization. GE credit: SocSci, Div.—III. (III.) Sawyer
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Broadly surveys patterns and changes in the human species' physical and cultural evolution from earliest evidence for “humanness” to recent development of large-scale complex societies or “civilizations.” Lectures emphasize use of archaeology in reconstructing the past. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.—I. (I.) Eerkens
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. The archaeological evidence for domestication of plants and the origins of agricultural societies. Anthropological context of agriculture and the effects on sexual division of labor, social inequality, wealth accumulation, warfare, human health, and sedentism. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours. Introduction to the study of sexuality, particularly to the meanings and social organization of same-sex sexual behavior across cultures and through time. Biological and cultural approaches will be compared, and current North American issues placed in a wider comparative context.—III. (III.) Donham
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Drugs, politics, science, society in a cultural perspective: emphasis on roles of science, government and the media in shifting attitudes toward alcohol, marijuana, Prozac and other pharmaceuticals; drug laws, war on drugs and global trade in sugar, opium, cocaine. (Same course as Science and Technololgy Studies 32)—I. (I.) Dumit
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Lecture/discussion—4 hours; term paper. Aspects of modern consumer cultures in capitalist and socialist countries. Transformations of material cultures over the past century. Case studies on the intersections of gender, class, and culture in everyday consumption practices. Offered in alternate years. GE Credit: Div, SocSci, Wrt.—(I.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Evolutionary analyses of human nature, beginning with Lamarck, Darwin, Spencer and contemporaries, and extending through social Darwinism controversies to contemporary evolutionary anthropology research on human diversity in economic, mating, life-history, and social behavior. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.—III. (III.) Winterhalder
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Basic survey of the primates as a separate order of mammals; natural history and evolution of primates; consideration of hypotheses for their origin.—I. (I.) Isbell
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 2 or consent of instructor. Discussion of the theoretical and philosophical developments in cultural anthropology from the 19th century to the present. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 137. (Former course 137.) GE credit: SocSci.—I (I.) Donham
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 1 or 2 or Environmental Science and Policy 30 or Evolution and Ecology 100 or Biological Sciences 101. Interdisciplinary study of diversity and change in human societies, using frameworks from anthropology, evolutionary ecology, history, archaeology, psychology, and other fields. Topics include population dynamics, subsistence transitions, family organization, disease, economics, warfare, politics, and resource conservation. (Same course as Environmental Science and Policy 101.) GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.—II. (II.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: one lower division course in the social sciences, upper division standing. Comparative survey of the interaction between diverse human cultural systems and the environment. Primary emphasis given to people in rural and relatively undeveloped environments as a basis for interpreting complex environments. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 133. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.—III. (III.) Orlove
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 2 or Geology 1 or Environmental Science and Policy 30. Integration of the interests of resident and indigenous peoples with the conservation of natural resources and ecosystems, using case study examples from both the developing and the developed world. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 121N. (Former course 121N.)
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 2 or consent of instructor. Political economy of environmental struggles. Relationship between social inequality (based on race, class, and/or gender) and ecological degradation. Articulation of local peoples, national policy, and the international global economy in the contestation over the use of environmental resources. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 134N. (Former course 134N.) GE credit: SocSci, Div.—I. (I.) Sawyer
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 1 or 2 or Environmental Science and Policy 30 or Evolution and Ecology 100 or Biological Sciences 101. Interdisciplinary study of social and cultural evolution in humans. Culture as a system of inheritance, psychology of cultural learning, culture as an adaptive system, evolution of maladaptations, evolution of technology and institutions, evolutionary transitions in human history, coevolution of genetic and cultural variation. Only two units of credit to students who have completed Environmental Science and Policy 101 or course 101 prior to fall 2004. (Same course as Environmental Science and Policy 105.) GE credit: SocSci, Wrt.—III. (III.) McElreath
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Lecture—3 hours; extensive writing or discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 2 or Science & Technology Studies 1 or Science & Technology Studies 20. Anthropological approaches to scientific visualization techniques, informatics, simulations. Examination of different visualization techniques toward understanding the work involved in producing them, critical assessment of their power and limits, especially when visualizations are used socially to make claims. Offered in alternate years. (Same course as Science & Technology Studies 109.) GE credit: SocSci, Wrt.—II. (II.) Dumit
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 2. The role of language analysis and linguistic theory in the development of sociocultural anthropology. Language, culture, and thought; the linguistic accomplishment of social action; language ideology; language and social power. Language as cultural mediator of politicoeconomic process. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.—II. (II.) Shibamoto Smith
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: course 4, or Linguistics 1 and course 2. Consideration of language in its social context. Methods of data collection and analysis; identification of socially significant linguistic variables. Contributions of the study of contextualized speech to linguistic theory. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.
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