Undergraduate
ANTH 2302: People of the Earth: Humanity's First Five Million Years (used to be Prehistoric Cultures) - Human biological and cultural evolution from the appearance of ancestral humans in Africa to agricultural origins and the rise of the world's great civilizations. Meets Human Diversity Co-Requirement.
ANTH 3304: North American Archaeology - North America's human past, from the earliest colonization by Ice Age peoples and their descendants who colonized the continent, to the clash of cultures that followed the arrival of Europeans in 1492. Meets Human Diversity Co-Requirement.
CF 3360: The North American Great Plains: Land, Water, Life - In the late 19th century, the North American Great Plains, which extend from central Canada to West Texas, was mapped as the Great American Desert, a place to be crossed, not settled. This course looks across disciplinary boundaries to see what geology, ecology, climate studies, archaeology, ethnology, and history reveal of past, present and (perhaps) the future of life of European Americans and Native Americans on the Great Plains.
ANTH 3399 (CFA 3399): Ice Age Americans - Ice Age peopling of America, reconstructed by archaeology, linguistics, and molecular biology, among other disciplines, and what that reveals of how people adapted to a truly New World. Meets the Human Diversity Co-Requirement.
ANTH 5334: History of Anthropology, Part One - Analytical history of anthropology from the classical period to the 20th century. More than just what happened when, this course explains the content and development of theory, method, and interpretation. Prerequisite: 18 hours of Anthropology or permission of instructor.
Graduate
ANTH 5334: History of Anthropology, Part One - Analytical history of anthropology from the classical period to the 20th century. More than just what happened when, this course explains the content and development of theory, method, and interpretation. Prerequisite: 18 hours of Anthropology or permission of instructor.
ANTH 6301: Principles of Archaeology - An advanced seminar course dealing with the fundamentals of modern archaeology.
ANTH 6332: Seminar in Paleoenvironments
ANTH 7313: Archaeological Theory - Logical and rational structure of discourse in archaeology. Evaluation of the quality of arguments, propositions, and constructs based on archaeological information.
ANTH 7317: Archaeological Research Strategies - An examination of the logistics and strategies used in project development and field work through project completion. Emphasis is upon individual student problems.
ANTH 7318: Late Pleistocene Prehistory of North America - Seminar on the late Pleistocene human occupation of North America from the time of initial colonization, with an emphasis on paleoclimates, paleoenvironments, and human adaptations. SPRING 2012