BA in Anthropology: Sociocultural Emphasis (51.5 hours*)

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1. Complete the following:
   ANTHR 101 : Social/Cultural Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 101 : Social/Cultural Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W, Sp, Su
   DESCRIPTION:	Aspects of society and culture: kinship, beliefs, economy, and political order among peoples worldwide. Methods and perspectives used in social/cultural anthropology.
   NOTE:	Honors also.
   
   
   ANTHR 110 : Introduction to Archaeology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 110 : Introduction to Archaeology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W, Sp
   DESCRIPTION:	Review of great archaeological discoveries about the ancient world. Overview of world prehistory.
   
   
   ANTHR 150 : Anthropology Career Preparation. (.5:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 150 : Anthropology Career Preparation. (.5:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F
   DESCRIPTION:	Overview of anthropology major and graduation requirements; preparing for senior thesis sequence; career opportunities; and graduate school application process.
   
   
   ANTHR 205 : Foundations of Anthropological Theory. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 205 : Foundations of Anthropological Theory. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	Anthr 101.
   DESCRIPTION:	Ideas from Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Steward studied for a secure foundation for understanding the antecedents of current theory.
   
   
   ANTHR 206 : Contemporary Theory. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 206 : Contemporary Theory. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	Anthr 205.
   DESCRIPTION:	Important current theoretical frameworks in anthropology.
   
   
   ANTHR 247 : Applied Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 247 : Applied Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W
   DESCRIPTION:	Anthropological principles and methods applied to business, education communication, development projects, and health sciences.
   
   
   ANTHR 300 : Biological Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 300 : Biological Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W, Sp
   DESCRIPTION:	Relationships between human biology, environment, social structure, and culture. Concepts and data on race, primates, evolution, population genetics, growth, and sociobiology.
   
   
   ANTHR 309 : Language in Culture and Society. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 309 : Language in Culture and Society. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W, Sp
   DESCRIPTION:	Sociocultural categories and processes as expressed through, and determined by, language. Semiotics: language as sign system. Ethnosemantics, syntactic analysis, translation problems, ethnography of speaking/communication.
   
   
2. Complete 6 hours from the following:
   ANTHR 311 : Museums and Cultures. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 311 : Museums and Cultures. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F
   DESCRIPTION:	Role of museums in society. Analyzing museum content, use, and sociology. On-site visits to area museums
   
   
   ANTHR 314 : Museum Registration and Legal/Ethical Issues. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 314 : Museum Registration and Legal/Ethical Issues. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W
   PREREQUISITE:	Anthr 311.
   DESCRIPTION:	Managing museum collections: cataloging, loans, ethics, legal issues, object handling, basic object conservation. Practical experience working with museum objects.
   
   
   ANTHR 317 : Native Peoples of North America. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 317 : Native Peoples of North America. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W even years
   DESCRIPTION:	Indian groups at the time of the European arrival; social organization, beliefs, values, economy, and adaptation to environment.
   
   
   ANTHR 320 : Anthropology of Europe. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 320 : Anthropology of Europe. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W even years.
   DESCRIPTION:	Europe's role in the anthropological imagination; ethnographies of contemporary European populations; themes: nationalism/postnationalism/transnationalism; postsocialism, postcolonialism, immigration; ethnic identity and cultural politics; the commodification of culture. Regional emphasis may vary.
   
   
   ANTHR 326 : Central American Society. (3:2:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 326 : Central American Society. (3:2:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F
   DESCRIPTION:	History, culture, society, and life among peoples of Mexico and Central America.
   
   
   ANTHR 330 : Peoples of Africa. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 330 : Peoples of Africa. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W odd years
   DESCRIPTION:	Political, economic, and social organization, family life, language, worldview, religion, ritual, artistic expression, ecological adaptation, and contemporary development issues among rural and urban sub-Saharan peoples.
   
   
   ANTHR 335 : Peoples of India. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 335 : Peoples of India. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W odd years
   DESCRIPTION:	Society and culture on Indian subcontinent. Stratification, kinship, marriage, religion, politics, economics.
   
   
   ANTHR 340 : Peoples of the Middle East. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 340 : Peoples of the Middle East. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F even years.
   DESCRIPTION:	Ecology, social organization, and beliefs of nomadic, rural, and urban groups between western Africa and Pakistan.
   
   
   ANTHR 343 : Chinese Culture and Society. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 343 : Chinese Culture and Society. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F; W odd years.
   DESCRIPTION:	Cultural and social institutions of traditional and modern China, including Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or other areas of Chinese impact.
   
   
   ANTHR 345 : American Culture. (3:2:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 345 : American Culture. (3:2:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F odd years.
   DESCRIPTION:	Unity and diversity in U.S. life. Social/cultural change processes illustrated and analyzed. Anthropological study of complex cultures. Seminar-type course involves substantial reading, writing, discussion.
   
   
   ANTHR 346 : Anthropology of Mormonism. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 346 : Anthropology of Mormonism. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   DESCRIPTION:

   Intensive analysis of Mormon society and culture using a range of anthropological perspectives.
   
   
   ANTHR 390R : Special Topics in Regional Anthropology. (.5-3:ARR:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 390R : Special Topics in Regional Anthropology. (.5-3:ARR:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	On dem.
   DESCRIPTION:	Subjects related to a particular area or people.
   NOTE:	Offered when unique opportunities or needs arise.
   
   
3. Complete 6 hours from the following:
   ANTHR 402 : Quantitative Methods for Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 402 : Quantitative Methods for Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F
   DESCRIPTION:	Quantitative methods in archaeology and sociocultural anthropology, including methods of organizing, exploring, and presenting data, probability, and statistical inference.
   
   
   ANTHR 412 : Museum Collections Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 412 : Museum Collections Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F
   PREREQUISITE:	Anthr 311, 314.
   DESCRIPTION:	Instruction and practice in aspects of managing museum collections: writing catalogs, processing donations, preserving objects.
   
   
   ANTHR 414 : Museum Projects. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 414 : Museum Projects. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W
   PREREQUISITE:	Anthr 311, 314.
   DESCRIPTION:	Supervised experience in a museum working with exhibitions, public programs, or research.
   
   
   ANTHR 430 : Moral and Ritual Institutions. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 430 : Moral and Ritual Institutions. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F
   DESCRIPTION:	Anthropological approaches to religion; its content and relation to other social institutions in societies ranging from gatherers to industrialists.
   
   
   ANTHR 431 : The Family, Marriage, and Kinship. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 431 : The Family, Marriage, and Kinship. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W; F odd years.
   DESCRIPTION:	Nature of kinship; parent-child, sibling, grandparental relationships. Genealogical basis of society: family, lineage, clan, kindred organization. Marital status; in-law relations; joking and avoidance behavior; divorce.
   
   
   ANTHR 432 : Economic and Political Institutions. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 432 : Economic and Political Institutions. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W
   DESCRIPTION:	Connections between wealth and power: political and legal systems in state and nonstate societies; expansion of capitalism and technology into remote global regions.
   
   
   ANTHR 436 : Symbolic Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 436 : Symbolic Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W odd years.
   DESCRIPTION:	Social use and understanding of semiotics, signs, symbols, and other meaningful forms as critically constitutive of culture.
   
   
   ANTHR 439 : Psychological Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 439 : Psychological Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   DESCRIPTION:

   The relationship between culture and mind. Examines whether the concept of the person varies cross-culturally, how emotions may differ in different societies, the psychological implications of cultural approaches to childrearing.
   
   
   ANTHR 443 : Quantitative Ethnographic Methods. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 443 : Quantitative Ethnographic Methods. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W
   DESCRIPTION:	Using quantitative tools to analyze qualitative data.
   
   
   ANTHR 490R : Special Topics in Theory and System. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 490R : Special Topics in Theory and System. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	On dem.
   DESCRIPTION:	Subjects related to anthropological theory or the operation of social systems.
   NOTE:	Offered when unique opportunities or needs arise.
   
   
4. Complete 3 hours from the following:
   ANTHR 434 : Medical Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 434 : Medical Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F odd years; W even years.
   RECOMMENDED:	Anthr 247.
   DESCRIPTION:	Interactions between culture and health in comparative perspective, emphasizing social, historical, and ecological determinants.
   
   
   ANTHR 437 : Man, Women, and the Culture of Gender. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 437 : Man, Women, and the Culture of Gender. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   RECOMMENDED:	Anthr 247.
   DESCRIPTION:	Gender roles across culture relative to health, ethnicity, economic development, kinship, war, etc.
   
   
   ANTHR 441 : Anthropology of Development. (3:3:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 441 : Anthropology of Development. (3:3:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   DESCRIPTION:

   Theory, practice, and research methods regarding the anthropological study and resolution of poverty, disease, malnutrition, displacement, and inadequate educational opportunities.
   
   
   ANTHR 450 : Anthropology of Education. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 450 : Anthropology of Education. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W odd years
   PREREQUISITE:	Anthr 101, 205, 206.
   DESCRIPTION:	Anthropological theories of and qualitative research in child rearing, enculturation, cognition, informal education, schools, literacy, multicultural and multilingual education, and cultural transmission and acquisition.
   
   
   ANTHR 511 : Museums and Cultures. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 511 : Museums and Cultures. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F even years
   DESCRIPTION:	Museums in society. Cultural foundations of museum content and sociology of museum use. Analyzing museum studies literature with on-site visits to area museums.
   
   
5. Complete an additional 3 hours of electives from section 3 or 4 above.
6. Complete the following:
   ANTHR 442 : Ethnographic Skills. (3:2:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 442 : Ethnographic Skills. (3:2:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W, Sp
   PREREQUISITE:	Anthr 205, 206.
   DESCRIPTION:	Methods, rationale, limitations, and ethical issues of participant observation, interviewing, quantitative measurement, and other procedures of ethnographic fieldwork. Local field project.
   
   
   ANTHR 495 : Ethnographic Field Project. (3-6:0:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 495 : Ethnographic Field Project. (3-6:0:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Sp, Su
   PREREQUISITE:	Anthr 205, 206, 442.
   DESCRIPTION:	Conduct field work, maintain field notes, and write a paper incorporating both descriptive and analytic components.
   
   
   ANTHR 499R : Senior Thesis. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 499R : Senior Thesis. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	Anthr 205, 206, 422, 495 (for sociocultural); 205, 206, 215, 454R, 455R, 456R (for archaeology).
   DESCRIPTION:	Supervised analysis and write-up of data generated during field project.
   
   

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