5033. PROSEMINARON ETHICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY. Focuses on ethical issues in current
archeology, including collaboration with descendant communities, study of human
remains, repatriation of cultural property, and research collaboration in
international contexts.
5334. HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY. 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: Eighteen hours of Anthropology
or permission of instructor.
5336. ANTHROPOLOGY AND MEDICINE. Cross-cultural study of the
cultural construction and social organization of medical systems in
pre-industrial and industrialized societies, including political economy of
health, ethnomedicine, international health, ethnopharmacology, and biothic.
Prerequisite: Anthropology 2301 or 3301 or permission of instructor.
5344. RESEARCH METHODS IN ETHNOLOGY. Examination of methodologies and techniques
appropriate for different types of ethnological research. Prerequisites:
Advanced standing and ANTH 2301 (or permission of instructor for
non-anthropology majors).
5345. HUMAN DEMOGRAPHY.
Examination of major features of population change, especially natality,
morbidity, migration, and mortality.
5355. HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHWEST. This course will focus on
the development of archaeology in the American Southwest by placing it in
historical context, discussing the social role of archaeology in general,
19th-century exploration and the impact of early archaeological nds, development
of museums, tourism, national monuments, field schools, and the changing role of
the Native Americans.
5359 (ENGL 5371). LINGUISTICS: GENERAL. An introduction to modern linguistic science.
Topics include phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, dialects, writing
systems, child language, language and the brain, and language in education.
5381. FIELD METHODS IN ARCHAEOLOGY. Methods of excavation, recording, and interpretation
used in archaeological research. Fort Burgwin Research Center. Summer only.
Students may petition to have this course fulfill the Lab Science Requirement.
5382. FIELD METHODS IN ARCHAEOLOGY. Methods of excavation, recording, and interpretation
used in archaeological research. Fort Burgwin Research Center. Summer only.
Students may petition to have this course fulfill the Lab Science Requirement.
5681, 5981. FIELD METHODS IN ARCHAEOLOGY. Methods of excavation,
recording, and interpretation used in archaeological research. Fort Burgwin
Research Center. Summer only. Students may petition to have this course fulfill
the Lab Science Requirement.
6034. TEACHING SEMINAR. Non-credit teaching seminar for graduate students.
6301. PRINCIPLES OF ARCHAEOLOGY. An advanced
course in seminar form dealing with the fundamentals of modern archaeology.
6302. STATISTICS IN ANTHROPOLOGY.
This is an introductory graduate-level course describing the specific use of
quantitative and statistical methods in the subdisciplines of archaeology and
cultural anthropology.
6304.MIGRATION, ETHNICITY, AND NATIONALISM.
Examines three interrelated topics: migration, ethnicity, and nationalism.
Focuses on major theoretical positions and specific ethnographic cases.
6305. APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY. The
application of anthropological theories and methods to problems in contemporary
societies, including global business, community development, health care issues,
agricultural/environmental programs, urban planning, tourism projects, and
education policy. Prerequisites: Advanced standing and ANTH 2301 (or permission
of instructor for non-anthropology majors).
6306. ANTHROPOLOGY AND EDUCATION.
The anthropological approach to the study of schools; how an anthropological
framework can provide insight into the nature of education and classroom
interaction.
6307. SEMINAR IN INTERNATIONAL
HEALTH. Provides an overview of issues in international health with a focus
on contributions of anthropology and anthropologists to international health
issues.
6308. CHILDHOOD IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE. Cross-cultural examination of infancy, childhood, and
adolescence. Comparative analysis of the process of enculturation in tribal,
peasant, and modern societies. Prerequisite: ANTH 2301 or 3303 or permission of
instructor.
6310. THE PREHISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST. Coverage of current theoretical and research topics in the
prehistory of the American Southwest, including early human occupation,
sedentism, community organization, and regional abandonments.
6311. APPLIED LINGUISTICS.
Examination of linguistic theory and data in the context of diverse, especially
multilingual, speech communities.
6312. CONTEMPORARY THEORY IN
ANTHROPOLOGY.
Development of modern anthropological paradigms, with intensive readings in
science, ethnology, and ecological anthropology and a focus on the potential
utility of theoretical coherence within the discipline.
6314. ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHEAST. Twelve thousand years of prehistory from different
perspectives, including cultural evolution, social and ideological subsystems,
and cultural parallels to Mexico.
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6316. ADVANCED SEMINAR IN ETHNOLOGY I.
Varying topics.
6317. ADVANCED SEMINAR IN ETHNOLOGY II.
Varying topics.
6320. REGIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY. World-wide exploration of ethnography,
exploring similarities in differences across time and space. Course prepares students to write their own regional papers
in preparation for their qualifying exams.
6323. LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS. The
techniques needed for linguistic field work: phonological, morphological, and
syntactic analysis. Students are prepared to work with unwritten languages and
in urban speech communities.
6327. GENDERED LIVES AND GLOBAL CHANGE. Analyze
globalization and its impacts on gender relations and ideology. Examines
the evolving relationship between capitalism and patriarchal social systems,
focusing on theories of change in men's and women's lives.
6332. SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN ANTHROPOLOGY.Varying topics.
6333. LABORATORY ANALYSIS. This
course will introduce students to the identification, analysis, and
interpretation of archaeological materials recovered during the SMU Summer Field
School program, including stone tools, pottery, faunal remains, and sediments.
Students will be responsible for quantification and written summation of
results. Field school students are required to take 4333 or 6333 as part of
their field school experience, but the course is open to all students whether or
not they have taken the summer field school. No prerequisites.
6334. ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE LOWER/MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE.
Survey of human cultural remains within their
contemporary environments, between ca. 2.6 million years ago and the last Ice
Age onset ca. 70,000. Covers latest finds from Africa, Europe, and Asia.
6335. UPPER PLEISTOCENE PREHISTORY.
Examination of cultural development in the Old World from the onset of Wurm
to the end of the Pleistocene. Emphasis on adaptive strategies and systematics
of such studies.
6336. POST-PLEISTOCENE ADAPTATION.
Provides the background of major cultural change following the end of the
last glacial period by examining archaeological and related literature from the
environmental sciences.
6337. ORIGINS OF COMPLEX SOCIETY. Surveys the archaeology evidence for the initial rise of civilization.
Emphasis is placed on the major facts of culture history; the archaeological
problems peculiar to investigation of large-scale societies; and cross-cultural,
evolutionary interpretations of the general phenomenon of pre-industrial
civilization.
6338.PALEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY. Surveys
the evidence for the origins and dispersal of stone tool-using hunter-gatherers
from Africa into Europe, Asia and Australia, up to the end of the last Ice Age.
6339. ANTHROPOLOGY AND NEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY. Surveys
the evidence for the origins and the dispersal of early farming technology and
social organization from the Near East into [mainly] Europe, but also Africa and
Asia, up to the introduction of metalworking.
6342. SCIENCE AND THE HUMAN PAST.
Uses of biological and physical sciences in archaeology: site discovery, dating,
prehistoric ecology, diet, and technology. Prerequisite: ANTH 2363 or
instructor approval.
6343. HEALTH AND MEDICAL SYSTEMS.
Systems analysis of traditional, popular, and scientific medical practice;
examination of medical bureaucracies and the relationship of health care to
other social institutions.
6344. GLOBAL POPULATION PROCESSES: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES.
Focuses on an
anthropological understanding of population processes in a global context.
Addresses some of the major global population processes--nuptiality, fertility,
mortality, migration---and examines them within historical and cross-cultural
frameworks.
6345. HUMAN DEMOGRAPHY.
Examination of major features of population change, especially natality,
morbidity, migration, and mortality.
6347. SEMINAR IN MESO-AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY.
Provides an understanding of contemporary Meso-America by examining the
literature and field data from anthropological and interdisciplinary viewpoints.
6351, 6352, 6353, 6354, 6355, 6156, 6256. RESEARCH IN ANTHROPOLOGY.
6357. AN INTORDUCTION TO STATISTICS IN ANTHROPOLOGY. An introductory graduate-level course describing the
specific use of quantitative and statistical methods in the subfield of
archaeology.
6363. TRANSFORMING LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN A GLOBAL AGE. Examination
of local communities in light of theories about local/global relations. Case studies consider how global issues transform local community practices in
the United States and elsewhere.
6367. COMPARATIVE PEASANT SOCIETY.
Economic and social institutions of contemporary peasant societies are
examined with special focus upon the changes they are undergoing in the 20th
century. Prerequisite: ANTH 2301 or permission of instructor.
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6368. NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY.
Prehistory from the peopling of the New World through initial contacts with
European civilization; regional sequences and ecological changes.
6371. THE NATURE OF AGING PROCESSES.
General considerations and theories of aging in various populations; factors
affecting aging, mental and psychomotor abilities in aging, aging of biological
systems, nutrition and metabolism of aged populations; body composition changes
and aging; physical activity effect on aging; diseases of aging; and
rehabilitation of the aged.
6377. THE HUMAN FOSSIL RECORD. An examination of morphology, classification, and evolutionary relationships in
the human fossil record. Covers the Pliocene through the emergence of modern
Homo sapiens. Comparisons using the departmental fossil collection.
Prerequisite: ANTH 2315 or permission of the instructor.
6384. GLOBAL ISSUES AND DEVELOPMENT: AN OVERVIEW.
Principles of cultural dynamics, innovation, diffusion,
and social movements shown by non-literate and peasant societies as they meet
Western civilization. Prerequisite: Anthropology 2301 or junior standing or
instructor approval.
6390, 6391. CURRENT ISSUES IN ANTHROPOLOGY. Seminar on selected topics.
6398, 6399. Thesis.
7000. Research.
7312. ARCHAEOLOGY OF MESO-AMERICA.Seminar on archaeological evidence for prehistoric civilization of Mexico.
7313. ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY.
Logical and rational structure of discourse in archaeology. Evaluation of the
quality of arguments, propositions, and constructs based on archaeological
information.
7314. PREHISTORY OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA.
Seminar on Stone Age and early Iron Age archaeology. Emphasis on critical
analysis of typological and regional sequences.
7315. PREHISTORY OF EUROPE.
Survey of Paleolithic archaeology. Includes western Russia. Emphasis on lithic
technology and paleo-environment with critical analysis of interpretations.
7316. PREHISTORY OF NORTH AFRICA AND THE NILE VALLEY.
Seminar on the prehistoric range of human occupation up
to the earliest literate period.
7317. ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH STRATEGIES.
An examination of the logistics and strategies used in project development
and fieldwork, through project completion. Emphasis is upon individual student
problems.
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.
7321. CERAMIC ANALYSIS FOR ARCHAEOLOGISTS.
Examination of procedures for analyzing ceramic artifacts, with special
attention to problems of style, typology, dating, and provenience.
7331. PREHISTORY OF SOUTHWEST ASIA.
Intensive examination of the theory and data of Near Eastern prehistory from
earliest times through the development of the Neolithic.
7333. DATA ANALYSIS FOR CULTURAL
ANTHROPOLOGY. In this course students explore various methods of data
analysis using their own data sets or those of a member of the faculty. The
class combines lecture and discussion with hands-on applications.
Prerequisites: ANTH 5344 and ANTH 6302 (or STAT equivalent) or permission of the
instructor.
7341. CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGICAL
LITERATURE. Varied readings in numerous ethnological journals will be
surveyed. Students will report their findings orally and in written form.
7342. SEMINAR IN SOCIAL ORGANIZATION.
A seminar on kinship and social organization in both traditional and more
contemporary societies focusing on various theoretical approaches to the
understanding of social structure.
7351. RESEARCH STRATEGIES IN ETHNOLOGY.
Consideration of theoretical and practical aspects of field work:
preparation for research, conduct in the field, and data analysis.
