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Anthropology

AN101(3) INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY F/SP/SU/DE

This course is an introduction to anthropology: the comparative study of human beings. The basic principles of archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics and physical anthropology are explored as they relate to the study of human beings, and to each other as subdisciplines of anthropology.

 

AN203(3) INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY F/Odd Years

This course presents a broad overview of the practice and principles of archaeology introducing regional, maritime, and international approaches. The course covers locating sites, site surveying, mapping, sampling, excavation, and the recording of cultural remains, alongside contemporary issues in cultural resource management. In-class learning is supplemented with intensive field course preparation and participation.

 

AN212(3) CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY F

This course involves the study of culture, the central concept of anthropology. Traditional and contemporary theories regarding the nature, structure and dynamics of culture are examined, as well as human social institutions: marriage and the family, kinship and descent, social organization, subsistence patterns, economic systems, political organization, social control, religion and magic and the arts.