TABLE OF CONTENTS
Schedule of Class Fall 2014
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Course Listings:
Anth 001 Intro to Social & Cultural Anthropology
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Anth 011 Conservation of Archaeological Materials
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Anth 012 Scuba Certification
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Anth 105 Linguistic Anthropology
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Anth 121 World Cultures: Peoples of the Amazon
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Anth 125 Gender & Culture
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Anth 130 Anthropological Theory
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Anth 131/GRS100 Cultural Geograph & Global Societies
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Anth 136 Applied Anthropology
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Field School
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SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
FALL 2O14
Course Number
Anth 001-01
Anth 001-02
Anth 001-03
Anth 001-04
Anth 011
Anth 012
Anth 105
Anth 121
Anth 125
Anth 130
Anth 131/GRS 100
Anth 136
Title
Instructor
Days
Time
Intro to Social & Cultural Anthropology
Janice Stockard
MWF
8:00-9:05
Intro to Social & Cultural Anthropology
Janice Stockard
MWF
10:30-11:35
Intro to Social & Cultural Anthropology
Janice Stockard
M/F
1:00-2:40
Intro to Social & Cultural Anthropology
Karen Sue Rolph
MWF
2:45-3:50
Conservation of Archaeological Materials
James Allan
Tu
5:00-6:30
Scuba
James Allan
Tu
7:00-9:00
Linguistic Anthropology
Jennifer Heung
MWF
10:30-11:35
World Cultures: Peoples of the Amazon
Lynn Meisch
T/Th
9:45-11:20
Gender & Culture
Cynthia Van Gilder
T/Th
11:30-1:05
Anthropological Theory
Cynthia Van Gilder
T/Th
1:15-2:50
Cultural Geography
Jennifer Heung
MWF
11:45-12:50
Applied Anthropology
Lecturer
M/F
1:00-2:40
ANTHROPOLOGY POLICY
1. Students taking an upper division course (Anth 100-135) should have already taken at least one lower division course (Anth 001 or 005) OR have permission of the
instructor.
2. Majors are given priority enrollment in upper division courses. Should you be wait listed, you will be placed in the class after the pre-registration period.
Declare your major or minor now!
3. MINIMUM GRADE REQUIREMENT: A minimum acceptable grade of C- for coursework is required to count toward the major or minor. In addition, the minimum acceptable
grade for the capstone courses, Anth 130 Anthropological Theory and Anth 132 Research Methods, is a C.
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ANTH 001
Introduction to Social & Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 011
Conservation of Archaeological Material
Janice Stockard
Janice Stockard
Janice Stockard
Karen Sue Rolph
Professor Jim Allan
001-01
001-02
001-03
001-04
MWF 8:00-9:05
MWF 10:30-11:35
M/F 1:00-2:40
MWF 2:45-3:50
What is culture and how important is it in explaining the marvelous
variations we see in human behavior around the world? Are gender
roles fixed? Can you distinguish religion from magic? What do
anthropologists do, and how can anthropology contribute to a better
world? Besides giving you a grounding in the basic concepts of
anthropology, this course will help you answer these questions
through readings on the lives of people in different cultures
throughout the world: drug dealers in New York, the world of a
Maasai warrior in Africa, what it’s like to grow up as a poor Mayan
in Guatemala (and eventually win the Nobel Peace Prize), life in an
Iraqi village before Saddam Hussein, how Native South Americans
cope with globalization, and the mysterious rites and rituals of
American college students. The readings, class discussions, and
lectures will be supplemented by slides, videos, CDs, and DVDs.
This class is recommended for 1st and 2nd year students (except for
Anth & Soc majors & minors).
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Tu 5:00-6:30 p.m.
This .25 activity courses will provide students the
opportunity to learn many of the conservation
methods used by archaeological conservators
to stabilize and restore archaeological
materials recovered from both terrestrial and
submerged environments. Students will work
with artifacts recovered from excavations
conducted at Fort Ross State Historic Park
and from ships and shipwrecks abandoned
or wrecked along the California coast in the
19th century. Students will also experiment
with state-of-the-art conservation
approaches being used to stabilize organic
materials such as leather and wood, and will
conduct soils and sediment analysis of samples
recovered from the site of the Russian-American Company's grist
mill, the first windmill built and operated in California.
ANTH 012
Scuba Certification
Professor James Allan
ANTH 105
Linguistic Anthropology
Tu 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Professor Jennifer Heung
Section 2 of An/Soc 007 is a .25 activity course that will allow
students to earn a PADI Open Water scuba certification. The course
is open to all students, but enrollment is limited, and priority will be
given to those students who will be participating in this summer’s
Field School in Maritime Archaeology, to be held in Thunder Bay
National Marine Sanctuary in Lake Huron. Following the
completion of the scuba-training course, students participating in
the Field School in Maritime Archaeology will also take a second,
required training module in which they will earn an AAUS
Scientific Diver certification. A lab fee of $125 is required for the
Open Water scuba course. Students participating in the Scientific
Diver module will pay an additional fee of $85.00. All students will
be required to provide their own mask, snorkel, fins, booties, glove
and weight belt. Arrangements have been made at a local dive shop
to provide these items at a reasonable cost, but students should be
prepared for expenses ranging from $300-$500,
depending on what they will need to
purchase.
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MWF
10:30-11:35
This course offers
students an introduction
to the major areas of
study in anthropological
linguistics, which
examines the close
relationship between
language and
culture. Students will
explore theories on how
language shapes and
reflect our thoughts and identity. Through the exploration of the
major areas of study in linguistic anthropology, we will consider
the role and relationship of language in how we perceive, make
sense of, and act in the world. How do conversations, language
choice, language learning, and coded language contribute to the
way people recognize and act in accordance with larger cultural
patterns and values in society? What do race, class, gender and
sexuality have to do with language and communication? Drawing
from ethnographic studies, media, and film from cultures
throughout the world, students will examine language as it is
actually used, imagined, or talked about to understand and
explore the complex world of meaning-making, which form the
fundamental component of our cultural, political, and economic
lives. Topics we will consider include language and gender,
language and power, bilingualism and heritage learning, and
language as a means of social action.
ANTH 121
World Cultures: Peoples of the Amazon
ANTH 125
Gender & Culture
Professor Lynn Meisch
Professor Cynthia Van Gilder
T/Th 9:45-11:20
The Amazon River, which runs west to east through tropical South
America, is the second longest river in the world, and has the
world's largest drainage basin. Since prehistory the Amazonian
region has been occupied by diverse groups of indigenous peoples,
who have managed to survive and create complex cultures in a
fragile and challenging environment. The arrival of Europeans in
the Americas in 1492 CE brought not only settlers from Europe, but
African slaves, some of whom escaped into the rainforest where they
created unique Afro-indigenous cultures. First we will examine the
eco-system of the Amazon, and its riches and challenges for Afro
and indigenous inhabitants. Then we will briefly look at the past
including the European conquest, the colonial era, and rubber
boom, followed by a focus on such contemporary issues as climate
change, rainforest devastation, the indigenous rights movement,
globalization, tourism, and modern migrations into the Amazon
basin.
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T/Th 11:30-1:05
These days it is not uncommon to hear people make a distinction
between sex and gender, but what does that really mean? While
sex differences are biological, gender encompasses the meanings
and expectations that cultures assign to those differences.
Expectations of “masculinity” and “femininity” can vary greatly
within and among cultures, particularly those that recognize a
third, fourth, or even fifth gender. In this course we will examine
perspectives on the complexity of gender from all four fields of
anthropology, including case studies that draw on ethnography,
primatology, prehistory, and sociolinguistics. Please be aware that
this is a challenging class with a strong theoretical component.
ANTH 130
ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY
Cynthia Van Gilder
ANTH 131
Cultural Geography & Global Societies
(Cross-listed as GRS 100)
T/Th 1:15-2:50
Professor Jennifer Heung
How do anthropologists make decisions about what kinds of
questions to research, data to collect, or conclusions to form? All
steps of the anthropological process are informed by theories, or the
analytical frameworks scholars use to make sense of the cultural
worlds around them. Students in this class will learn the major
schools of thought in the history of anthropology through reading
both primary and secondary sources.
This course is limited to senior anthropology
majors (unless permission to enroll is granted
in writing by the instructor). It is
recommended that students enroll during the
fall semester of their senior year and required
that they have completed both Anth 1:
Introduction to Social and Cultural
Anthropology AND at least one upper division
anthropology class before enrolling.
MWF 11:45-12:50
This course seeks to expose students to the breadth and excitement
of the field of geography. Cultural geography studies the ways
people shape and give meaning to their environment and allows us
to look at the fascinating variety of human activity in the world –
the human landscape. Geographic knowledge is vital to
understanding the national and international issues that dominate
daily news reports: problems of poverty, the environment,
population movements, economic development, etc. Through
lectures, class discussions and activities, films, readings of news
and Internet sources, students will be exposed to a variety of
cultural systems used to understand and construct the home of
humankind. There is a course fee of $100.
STUDENTS TAKING THIS COURSE SHOULD HAVE ALREADY
TAKEN EITHER ANTH 001 OR 005 OR HAVE PERMISSION OF
THE INSTRUCTOR.
FULFILLS DIVERSITY REQUIREMENT BY PETITION.
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ANTH 136
Applied Anthropology
Lecturer
FIELD SCHOOL OPPORTUNITY
M/F 1:00-2:40
Anthropologists increasingly are employed in a variety of jobs
outside of academia. Applied anthropology involves the practical
application of anthropological theory and methods to such areas as
business, the environment, medicine, education, social and economic
development, and the preservation of cultura heritage. This course
introduces students to the methods, theories and roles
anthropologist have in the workplace, including issues of ethics,
analysis and report writing, enabling students to use their
anthropological training in their post-baccalaureate careers.
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The Anthropology Department will again offer the summer field
in maritime archeology during the summer of 2014. Held in
Bermuda, the annual summer field school provides students with
a unique opportunity to learn the theories and methods of
maritime archaeology in one of the world’s greatest repositories of
shipwrecks. The reefs surrounding Bermuda have snared ships
from the Age of Discovery through the 20th century, and their
submerged remains provide an unparalleled laboratory for
conducting archaeological research. Interested students should
contact Professor Jim Allan during the fall semester for
information about the Scuba and Scientific Diver classes that are
offered in the spring, and that provide the required certifications
for students who will be participating in the field school.
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