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department Anthropology (X) |
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Required as preparation for both bachelor's degrees. Evolutionary processes and evolutionary past of human species. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; one field trip. Required as preparation for both bachelor's degrees. General survey of field and laboratory methods, theory, and major findings of anthropological archaeology, including case-study guest lectures presented by several campus archaeologists. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour; fieldwork. Required as preparation for both bachelor's degrees. Introduction to study of culture and society in comparative perspective. Examples from societies around world to illustrate basic principles of formation, structure, and distribution of human institutions. Of special concern is contribution and knowledge that cultural diversity makes toward understanding problems of modern world. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Human population biology in conceptual framework of evolutionary processes. Emphasis on comparative primate behavior, structural anatomy, and fossil record. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, one hour. Discussion of and critical thinking about topics of current intellectual importance, taught by faculty members in their areas of expertise and illuminating many paths of discovery at UCLA. P/NP grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Required as preparation for both bachelors degrees. Introduction to study of communication from anthropological perspective. Formal linguistic methods compared with ethnographically oriented methods focused on context-bound temporal unfolding of communicative activities. Topics include language in everyday life and ritual events, socialization, literacy, multilingualism, miscommunication, political discourse, and art-making as cultural activity. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to study of speech communities in metropolitan areas, with special focus on communities in Los Angeles. Emphasis on ways in which communities share and incorporate speech norms of urban society while maintaining rules for conduct and interpretation of speech within specific speech communities. Topics include language and identity, socialization, social dialects, and communication. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, 90 minutes. Limited to 20 lower division students. Readings and discussions designed to introduce students to current research in discipline. Culminating project may be required. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, three hours. Limited to 20 students. Designed as adjunct to lower division lecture course. Exploration of topics in greater depth through supplemental readings, papers, or other activities and led by lecture course instructor. May be applied toward honors credit for eligible students. Honors content noted on transcript. P/NP or letter grading.
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Tutorial, three hours. Limited to students in College Honors Program. Designed as adjunct to lower division lecture course. Individual study with lecture course instructor to explore topics in greater depth through supplemental readings, papers, or other activities. May be repeated for maximum of 4 units. Individual honors contract required. Honors content noted on transcript. Letter grading.
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Tutorial (supervised research or other scholarly work), three hours per week per unit. Entry-level research for lower division students under guidance of faculty mentor. Students must be in good academic standing and enrolled in minimum of 12 units (excluding this course). Individual contract required; consult Undergraduate Research Center. May be repeated. P/NP grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 8. Intended for students interested in conceptual structure of scientific archaeology. Archaeological method and theory with emphasis on what archaeologists do and how and why they do it. Consideration of field strategies, stratigraphy, chronological frameworks, and other crucial principles of archaeological analysis and interpretation. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 8. Method and theory with emphasis on archaeology within context of anthropology. Themes include theoretical developments over last 50 years, structure of archaeological reasoning, and selective survey of work on problems of general anthropological interest. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 8. Development of Paleolithic cultural traditions in Europe, Africa, Asia, and New World. Emphasis on ordering and interpretation of archaeological data, Pleistocene geology and chronology, and relationship between human cultural and biological evolution. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Prehistory of North American Indians; evolution of Indian societies from earliest times to (and including) contemporary Indians; approaches and methods of American archaeology. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 8 or 9. From earliest Californians through 10,000 years of history, study of diversity in California's original peoples. Aspects of technology, ideology, ecology, and social/political organization. Historic impacts on California Indians by Euro-Americans. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Examination of prehistory of American Southwest from 11,000 years ago to historic times. Emphasis on describing and explaining cultural variation and change, employing evolutionary perspective. Special attention to advent of farming and settled towns, large-scale interactive networks, abandonment of Four Corners area, and historic cultures. P/NP or letter grading.
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Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: course 8. Examination of chiefdom societies in anthropological record, with readings focused on theory and data from archaeological, historical, and ethnographic literature. Illustration of how people in ranked non-state societies created remarkably rich cultures over entire globe beginning several millennia ago in both Old World and Americas. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Archaeology of pre-Hispanic native cultures of Mesoamerica from late Pleistocene through Spanish conquest, with emphasis on formative sociopolitical developments, classic period civilizations, and Aztec society as revealed by archaeology and early Spanish writing. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Designed for juniors/seniors. Specialized consideration of particular regions or topics in archaeology of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica. Specific topics vary but include archaeology and ethnohistory, ancient Mesoamerican religions, Olmec art and archaeology, and Maya. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Requisite: course 8 or 9. Pre-Hispanic and Conquest period native cultures of Andean South America, as revealed by archaeology and early Spanish writing. Incas and their predecessors in Peru, with emphasis on sociopolitical systems, economic patterns, religion, and aesthetic and intellectual achievements. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Comparative anthropological study of first complex societies in Near East, Mesoamerica, and Andes, including early Egyptian, Uruk, Teotihuacan, classic Maya, Wari, and Tiwanaku, with focus on political and economic structures of these societies and on causes of state development and collapse. Concurrently scheduled with course CM214S. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture/demonstration, three hours. Requisite: course 114R. Moche civilization, which flourished on north coast of Peru between A.D. 100 and 800, as revealed by archaeology, iconography, ethnography, and early Spanish writing. Emphasis on Moche aesthetic, technology, and artistic achievements. Letter grading.
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(Same as History M102A.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Historical archaeology requires appreciation of historical sources, archaeology, and material culture. Thematic emphasis, with exploration of breadth of discipline both in Old World and Americas. P/NP or letter grading.
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(Same as History M102B.) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Emphasis on historical archaeology in North America, particularly to some practical applications. P/NP or letter grading.
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