Evolution, Culture, and Cognition

Boster

ANTH 106 Introduction to Anthropology

This course is concerned with the biological and cultural development of humans from their origin to the present. A brief survey of human evolution is followed by a comparative study of behavior and beliefs of our own and other societies.

ANTH 232 Cognitive Anthropology

The study of how the content of thought or knowledge, is created, organized, and distributed in human communities. Topics include cultural models of the mind, emotions, personality, and relationships.

ANTH 244 Culture, Language, and Thought

Anthropological contributions to the study of language, culture, and their relationship. Topics include the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and the application of cognitive anthropological methods and theory to the study of folk classification systems.

ANTH 268 Cultural Research

The theoretical foundations and basic methods used to collect and analyze cultural data.

ANTH 332 Cognitive Anthropology

 

The study of how the content of thought or knowledge, is created, organized, and distributed in human communities. Topics include cultural models of the mind, emotions, personality, and relationships.

ANTH 343 Anthropological Linguistics

Interrelations of language and culture and applications of linguistic theory and techniques to analysis of ethnographic data.

ANTH 382 Universals in Human Behavior

Examination of evidence regarding cross-cultural universals in human behavior. Selected topics within the following domains may be reviewed: culture, social and emotional behavior; cognitive behavior and development; language and language acquisition.

ANTH 3xx Cognitive Ecology

An introduction to recent work exploring the variety of ways in which we can understand human cognition as a product of evolution.

 

D'Andrade

ANTH 237 Psychological Anthropology

Cross-cultural overview of critical issues regarding the relationship between individual personality and sociocultural systems, and mental health and illness.

ANTH 268 Cultural Research

The theoretical foundations and basic methods used to collect and analyze cultural data.

ANTH 283 Theories of Society

Theories about human culture and society. Attempts to formulate general theories that integrate cultural, social, and psychological factors in the ethnographic investigation of human life.

ANTH 312 Seminar: Contemporary Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology

ANTH 335 Psychological Anthropology

The seminar explores theoretical and empirical relationships between the individual and sociocultural systems, and it seeks to identify worldwide principles of human behavior.

ANTH 375 Ethnographic Methods Laboratory

Intensive study of selected tools for ethnographic data collection and analysis. Design and implementation of specialized ethnographic inter views; protocols, event histories, life histories, censuses, identity construction. OLS and logistic regression, demographic methods, triads tests, consensus analysis, ProFit analysis, multidimensional scaling, cluster and factor analysis, scale construction and validation, and text analysis.

Handwerker

ANTH 100/100W Other People's Worlds

A survey of the development, contributions, and contemporary social problems of selected non-Euroamerican peoples and cultures.

ANTH 220/220W Social Anthropology

A comparative study of social structure including an analysis of kinship, marriage, community organization, political and economic institutions, and the role of the individual in these institutions.

ANTH 309 Violence, Stress, and Social Support

This seminar surveys theory and observations bearing on the nature, sources and consequences of traumatic stress, stressors, and social support in human populations.

ANTH 321 Ethnographic Methods I

Theoretical foundations and basic tools used to conduct professional field studies in anthropology. Research design; moral and ethical dimensions of field work; designing and conducting informal, semistructured and structured interviews (one-on-one and in groups); managing field notes, questionnaires, and data; computer data management; summary statistics and graphics; identifying and interpreting random variation; modeling and testing explanations.

ANTH 322 Ethnographic Methods II

Theoretical foundations and basic tools used to conduct professional field studies in anthropology. Research design; moral and ethical dimensions of field work; designing and conducting informal, semistructured and structured interviews (one-on-one and in groups); managing field notes, questionnaires, and data; computer data management; summary statistics and graphics; identifying and interpreting random variation; modeling and testing explanations.

ANTH 339 Cultural Dynamics

An analysis and comparison of contemporary anthropological theories of sociocultural dynamics, with an investigation of selected problems in the study of change and persistence.

ANTH 352 Medical Anthropology

An over view of current theory and practice in medical anthropology.

ANTH 353 Applied Anthropology

An overview of various applications of anthropology to solve human problems both internationally and within the United States. Emphasis upon history of applied anthropology, ethical considerations, and specific roles of anthropologists in development.

 

ANTH 375 Ethnographic Methods Laboratory

Intensive study of selected tools for ethnographic data collection and analysis. Design and implementation of specialized ethnographic inter views; protocols, event histories, life histories, censuses, identity construction. OLS and logistic regression, demographic methods, triads tests, consensus analysis, ProFit analysis, multidimensional scaling, cluster and factor analysis, scale construction and validation, and text analysis.

ANTH 389 Population Ecology

This seminar surveys theory and observations bearing on the causes and consequences of changes in fertility and mortality rates, and in the configuration of causes of mortality and morbidity in human populations.

Sosis

ANTH 100/100W Other People's Worlds

A survey of the development, contributions, and contemporary social problems of selected non-Euroamerican peoples and cultures.

ANTH 234 Culture and Religion

Religion as a social institution, with emphasis on the social and psychological functions of religious beliefs and practices. Materials are drawn from a wide range of historical and contemporary societies.

ANTH 236 Human Behavioral Ecology

The application of the theory of natural selection to the study of human culture and behavior, with emphasis on the interaction between humans and their environment.

ANTH 306 Human Behavioral Ecology

This seminar will apply the theory of natural selection to the study of human behavior in an ecological setting, with particular focus on the adaptive features and biological design of human behavior.

ANTH 312 Seminar: Contemporary Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology

ANTH 334 Culture and Religion

Theories and problems in the analysis of nonwestern religious systems.

Wilson

HRTS 301 Contemporay Debates in Human Rights

LAW 883 Post Conflict Justice