Courses: Anthropology (ANTH)

1300: Introduction to Anthropology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in or completion of ENGL 1303 or equivalent. Nature and principles of anthropology, discussion of variation in culture, language, and human biology in time and space.

2301: Introduction to Physical Anthropology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in or completion of ENGL 1303 or equivalent. Physical anthropology emphasizing origins and biological diversity of human populations.

2302: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in or completion of ENGL 1303 or equivalent. Survey of basic concepts and data in cultural anthropology, focusing on contemporary and recent human groups.

2303: Introduction to Archaeology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in or completion of ENGL 1303 or equivalent. An introduction to the history, methods, and theory within modern archaeology, including discussion of data collection, analysis, dating techniques, and interpretation.

2304: Introduction to Language and Culture
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in or completion of ENGL 1303 or equivalent. Anthropological perspectives on the relation of language and culture including social use of language, language as behavior, and non-verbal communication.

2305: World Archaeology (formerly 3371)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in or completion of ENGL 1303. Current data and hypotheses concerning cultural evolution in various geographical areas around the world.

3302: Introduction to Applied Anthropology (formerly 4330)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2302 or consent of instructor. Survey of major concepts of cultural and social change, evaluation of models of applied change, and application of anthropological concepts and methods to contemporary issues of public concern in the U.S.

3304: Demographic Anthropology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Demographic methods as applied to small populations. Contributions of anthropologists to general theoretical questions about human populations.

3305: Psychological Anthropology (formerly 4315)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 1300 or ANTH 2302 or consent of instructor. Concepts and methods in Cross-cultural study of personality. Topics include mental illness in comparative perspective.

3306: Sex and Culture (formerly 4368)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2302 or consent of instructor. Anthropological view of nature, culture, and gender. Topics include sociobiology, primate sexuality, and cultural diversity of human sexuality.

3310: North American Indians
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2302. Society, culture, and cultural history of North American Indians.

3312: Mexican-American Culture
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2302. Society and culture of Mexican-Americans.

3313: Mexican-American Culture through Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2302 or consent of instructor. Cultural themes of Mexican-American life as perceived through the anthropological analysis of the material culture.

3315: Muslim Peoples of the Middle East
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2302 or consent of instructor. Tenets of classical Islam and beliefs of popular Islam as contexts for considering ethnic groups of the Middle East.

3316: Society and Culture of India
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three semester hours in anthropology or consent of instructor. Basic social units of Indian life; traditional Indian values.

3317: Anthropology of Afro-American Culture
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three hours in anthropology or consent of instructor. The ethnohistory of Afro-Americans and contemporary issues affecting the Afro-American family.

3324: Peoples and Cultures of Central America
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2302 or consent of instructor. Societies and cultures of the peoples of Central America today.

3333: Economic Anthropology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2302 or consent of instructor. Economics, including industrialization, in peasant and aboriginal population groups.

3341: Cultural Ecology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2301, 2302, or 2303. A survey of the method and theory involved in the study of the relationship of culture and environment, stressing long-term evolutionary change within cultural systems.

3342: Culture and Human Nutrition
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: upper division standing. Cross-cultural survey of constraints on dietary behavior of human societies, their nutritional consequences, and their implications for development and moderation.

3346: Modernization in Asia
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2302. Social and cultural changes in contemporary Asian nations.

3347: Anthropology of Women
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2302 or consent of instructor. The status of women in cross-cultural perspectives.

3348: Anthropology of Religion
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2302 or consent of instructor. Cross-cultural survey of religious beliefs and practices.

3349: Anthropology and Three World Religions
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 1300, ANTH 2302, or consent of instructor. Anthropological analysis of three world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam.

3360: Human Variation
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 1300, ANTH 2301 or consent of instructor. Survey of human biological diversity arising from genetic evolution and responses to diverse environmental conditions.

3361: Human Origins
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 1300, ANTH 2301 or consent of instructor. A survey of primate behavior, primate biology, and the human fossil record for insights into human evolution.

3362: Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 1300, ANTH 2301 or consent of instructor. Natural history, social life, and organization of nonhuman primates, stressing studies of free-ranging animals and primate origins of certain human behaviors.

3363: Race in Anthropological Perspective
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: three hours of anthropology or consent of instructor. Reviews major theories of the origin of racial variation and examines the effect of these theories on biosocial research and political action.

3364: Disease in Antiquity
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment or completion of ENGL 1303. Effects of disease and health on past populations. Includes the origin of syphilis and the impact of new diseases on Native Americans.

3374: Inca Archaeology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2303 or consent of instructor. Synthesis of current data and hypotheses concerning cultural development within the Andean area of South America prior to Spanish contact.

3375: North American Archaeology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2303 or consent of instructor. Synthesis of current data and hypotheses concerning cultural development within America north of Mexico prior to European contact.

3377: Archaeology of Central America
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2303 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Surveys the archaeologically known cultures which once occupied the region from Mexico southward to Nicaragua from approximately 40,000 B.C. to 1519 A.D.

3378: Archaeology of Historic North America
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2303 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Results of the archaeological investigation of historically known locations in North America, including colonial settlements, plantations, factory sites, and battle fields.

3379: Methods in Historical Anthropology (formerly 4378)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 1300, ANTH 2303, or consent of instructor. Survey of methods and techniques in historical archaeology.

3380: Archaeological Method and Theory
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2303 or consent of instructor. A survey of methods employed by archaeologists in gathering artifacts and interpreting human behavior from them.

3395: Topics in Archaeology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2301 or 2303. May be repeated when topics vary. Topics focus on detailed studies of methods and concepts in archaeology.

3397: Topics in Physical Anthropology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2301 or consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topic varies. A detailed survey of concepts and data on a select topic of physical anthropology.

3399: Senior Honors Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester. Prerequisite: approval of the chair.

4198:4298:4398:4498: Special Problems
Cr. 1-4 per semester, or more than four by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: six semester hours in anthropology or consent of instructor.

4310: Theories of Culture
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2302. Historical development of anthropological thought, emphasis on contemporary theoretical systems.

4320: Principles of Anthropology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: nine semester hours of introductory anthropology courses or consent of instructor. Concepts and principles of the major subfields of anthropology as they interrelate to the scientific study of humans.

4321: Anthropology of Human Growth
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2301 or consent of instructor. Cross-cultural examination of human physical growth from conception to maturity.

4324: Anthropological Genetics
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2301 and three semester hours of biology or consent of instructor. Effects of evolutionary forces and demographic structure in small human populations.

4325: Clinical Anthropology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: six semester hours in anthropology. Clinical perspective in anthropology fieldwork. Emphasis on anthropological psychotherapy and intervention in the context of ethnic diversity.

4331: Medical Anthropology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2302 or consent of instructor. Relationship between health and culture including aspects of human culture that affect acceptance of health care and adaptation to disease.

4333: Technology and Human Problems (formerly 3321)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2302 or social and behavioral science core course or consent of instructor. A cross-cultural perspective involving economic, political, and ecological problems.

4334: Ethnomedicine Health Care in Ethnic Cultures
Cr. 3. (3.0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2302 or consent of instructor. Anthropological perspective on the study of health and illness in various ethnic cultures, including folk medical beliefs and practices, cultural patterns for coping with illness, health care seeking patterns and current health issues affecting the family.

4335: Ethnic Cultures
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2303 or consent of instructor. Analysis of several selected ethnic groups. Focus is on the effects of nationalism on ethnic groups, stereotyping groups, ethnic symbols and styles, and persistence and change in ethnicity.

4336: Anthropology and Art
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2302 or consent of instructor. Anthropological approaches to the cross-cultural analysis of art, including visual, verbal, and dance forms and concepts of aesthetics.

4337: Anthropology of the Life Cycle
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2302 or consent of the instructor. Cross-cultural analysis of the life cycle, including household cycle, health, gender issues, and aging.

4340: Anthropology through Literature
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 1300, ANTH 2302, or consent of instructor. Discusses a selection of well-known novels as reflections of the cultural contexts of the authors; compares their uses and meanings as cultural documents for modern readers.

4343: Ethnicity and Multiculturalism
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 1300, ANTH 2302, or consent of instructor. Perspectives and theories on ethnicity and multiculturalism in modern nation states.

4344: Anthropology of Meaning, Myth, and Interpretation
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: six hours of cultural anthropology, or consent of instructor. Human cultural imagination as expressed in myths, world view, art, religion, ritual and play, with emphasis on the necessity of interpretation in human life.

4345: Social Organization
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2302 or consent of instructor. Cross-cultural analysis of social organization with emphasis on typologies and comparative theories.

4350: Computer Applications in Anthropology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: six semester hours in anthropology or consent of instructor. Applications of computers to anthropological data.

4351: Human Osteology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2301, 3361 or Anatomy or Physiology. Use of the human skeleton in anthropological research.

4352: Biomedical Anthropology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2301 or consent of instructor. Interrelationships between disease and culture and the role of adaptation in the disease process.

4353: Biocultural Adaptation
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2301 or consent of instructor. Mechanisms of human adaptability integrating findings from ecology, physiology, social and cultural anthropology and geography.

4372: Maya Archaeology (formerly 3372)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2303 or consent of instructor. Current data and hypotheses concerning the evolution of human behavior within the "Maya Area" of southern Mexico, Honduras, Belize, and Guatemala prior to Spanish contact.

4373: Archaeology of the Aztecs and Their Neighbors (formerly 3373)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2303 or consent of instructor. Current data and hypotheses concerning the evolution of culture within Mexico north of the Maya area prior to Spanish contact.

4375: Archaeology of the Southeastern United States
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2303 or consent of the instructor. Data and hypotheses concerning the prehistoric cultures of the southeastern United States with particular emphasis on their evolution.

4376: Archaeology of Texas (formerly 3376)
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2303 or consent of instructor. Prehistoric cultures and lifestyles of Texas Indian groups.

4377: Archaeology of the African Diaspora
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2303 or consent of instructor. Survey of archaeological research conducted on sites occupied by Africans and African Americans in the New World since 1600. Origins and evolution of the cultures constructed by enslaved and free people of African descent from 1600 to 1900.

4380: Field Methods in Anthropology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: six semester hours in anthropology or consent of instructor. Methods applied by the anthropologist living among primitive and peasant peoples.

4381: Archaeological Theory
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: six semester hours in anthropology or consent of instructor. Theoretical approaches currently used in archaeology. Emphasis on comparison of data and interpretation based upon the theoretical approach of the researcher.

4382: Laboratory Methods in Archaeology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 2303 or consent of instructor. Techniques of classification, taxonomy, functional analysis, processing, and curation of artifacts recovered from archaeological sites.

4383: Applied Archaeology
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 1300 or 2303 or consent of instructor. Methods in archaeology as they relate to salvage and research on sites located on public lands.

4384: Anthropology of HIV
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: ANTH 2301 or 2302 or consent of instructor. Overview of AIDS as both a biological and sociocultural phenomenon. What is AIDS, what causes it, who gets it, and how to control it.

4392: Research Practicum I
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: six semester hours in anthropology and consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. Only three semester hours may be applied toward the major or minor. Practical field training and experience in anthropological research procedures.

4393: Research Practicum II
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: six semester hours in anthropology and consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. Only three semester hours may be applied toward the major or minor. Practical training and experience in anthropological analysis procedures and write-up of primary data.

4394: Selected Topics in Anthropology
Cr. 3. (3-0).

4399: Senior Honors Thesis
Cr. 3 per semester. (3-0). Prerequisite: ANTH 3399 and approval of the chair.