The department offers courses which are slashlisted so undergraduate students may take an undergraduate 4000-level course while graduate students may take a graduate 5000-level course. The lectures in a slashlisted course are the same. However, students in the 5000-level course have substantial additional requirements beyond those for students in the 4000-level course. These additional requirements are listed in the slashlisted course syllabus.
1113 General Anthropology. An introduction to the anthropological way of thinking about biological evolution, fossil hominids, prehistory, the rise of civilization, ecology, war, the energy crisis, racism, sexism and other contemporary controversies. Emphasis is placed on cross-cultural, linguistic and relativistic perspectives. (F, Sp, Su) [III-SS]
1203 Language Across Cultures (Crosslisted with Linguistics 1203). Theories of language family origins and their relationship to human migration; tpes of human languages; linguistic concept of genetic relatedness; writing systems development; non-Western sociolinguistic and usage phenomena; cultural and scientific importance of endangered languages; how languages become endandered; factors involved in preservation. This course may not count for major credit. (Sp) [IV-NW]
1253 Folklore and Folklife. Introduces the academic study of folklore and folklife by introducing four key concepts: Tradition, community, art and performance. Verbal folklore, material culture, performance genres and customary knowledge will be examined. Issues of cultural diversity and historical change will be addressed. Special emphasis will be placed on exploring traditional cultures in the United States and Europe. (F) [IV-AF]
1413 Great Discoveries in Archaeology. Introduces students to the accomplishments of ancient civilizations around the world. A brief overview of archaeological methods and research and of the precursors of civilizations. Concentrates on major civilizations of the world including Mesopotamia, Europe, Egypt, sub-Saharan Africa, India, China, Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica, South America, and the North American Midwest. (F) [IV-NW]
1523 Prehistoric Foundations of Old World Civilization. The history of humans throughout the Eolithic, Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. Emphasis is placed upon the prehistory of Europe, although Africa and Asia are included wherever a broader knowledge contributes to a better understanding of the prehistoric foundations of Western European cultures. (F) [III-SS]
1613 Indian Peoples of Oklahoma. A general introduction to the traditional cultures and current condition of the 38 diverse Native American groups now resident in Oklahoma. (F, Su) [IV-NW]
1713 Beginning American Indian Languages I (Crosslisted with Native American Studies 1713). May be repeated with change of language; maximum credit 12 hours. Introduction to the structure of an American Indian language with special attention to its phonology, morphology, and syntax. Conversational practice, vocabulary-building and the history and culture of the native speech community also are emphasized. (F, Sp) [I-FL]
1723 Beginning American Indian Languages II (Crosslisted with Native American Studies 1723). Prerequisite: 1713 in the native language listed as course topic. May be repeated with change of language; maximum credit 12 hours. Introduction to the structure of an American Indian language with special attention to its phonology, morphology and syntax. Conversational practice, vocabulary-building, and the history and culture of the native speech community also are emphasized. (F, Sp) [I-FL]
1823 Religion in Everyday Life. This course focuses on the variety of religious phenomena found throughout the world and the theoretical approaches anthropologists use to account for them. Using ethnographic studies of belief in practice, we will seek to understand the role that religions play in the human experience. (F, Sp) [IV-NW]
1913 Plagues & People: Health & Disease in Human Society. The study of the impact of diseases such as malaria, bubonic plague, and AIDS on human society, from their effects on populations to how they have influenced the course of history. Identification of social and cultural factors, conditions that influence and impede the spread of contagious diseases, ethical issues concerning the treatment of the sick, and policies designed to halt epidemics will be examined. The contemporary threat of biological weapons and the impact on local and national public health efforts in the U.S. will be discussed. (Irreg.)
2113 Introduction to Archaeology. To acquaint the beginning student with the discipline of archaeology as it is now practiced within the science of anthropology. (F, Sp) [III-SS]
2203 Peoples of the World. A survey of world cultures, dealing with representative hunting and gathering, horticultural, pastoralist and complex societies. Designed to familiarize the student with the full range of variation of human behavior. (F, Sp, Su) [IV-NW]
2243 Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology. Introduction to theory and practice in sociocultural anthropology. Review key theoretical approaches from the twentieth century, explore how they are applied ethnographically in the study of social institutions -- economic, political, familial, religious -- and cultural processes, and critique them. Selected topics and issues will be explored from different theoretical perspectives. (F, Sp)
2303 General Linguistics (Crosslisted with Linguistics 2303). Humanistic and formal study of natural languages: how they are similar to and different from one another in their use of speech sounds, logical structures and mechanisms that integrate events, objects and speakers in spatio-temporal contexts. The relationship between language and culture; language acquisition and language change. (F, Su) [I-O]
2503 Introduction to Biological Anthropology. Prerequisite: 1113. The student is exposed to historical, theoretical and applied perspectives of biological anthropology. Concentration on human biocultural evolution; human adaptability, variation, and genetics; primatology and primate behavior. The major emphasis is on understanding modern man as a product of biological, cultural, behavioral and environmental interactions throughout his/her evolutionary development.
2613 Native Peoples of North America. An introduction to the native societies and cultures north of Mexico from pre-Columbian times to the present. (Sp, Su) [IV-NW]
2733 Intermediate American Indian Languages (Crosslisted with Native American Studies 2733). Prerequisite: 1723. May be repeated with change of language; maximum credit 12 hours. A systematic review of the structure of an American Indian language. Syntactic control and vocabulary expansion are emphasized. Conversational practice and traditional oral texts are used to develop proficiency. (F, Sp)
2953 Topics in Anthropology. May be repeated with change of topic; maximum credit nine hours. Topics will vary. Acquaints the student with a topic within a subdiscipline of anthropology including anthropological theory and methods. (Irreg.)
Unless otherwise noted, the prerequisite for courses in anthropology numbered 3000-4999 is 1113 or junior standing.
3033 Phonetic Description (Crosslisted with Linguistics 3033). Prerequisite: 2303. Study of the basic principles in forming the phonetic description of human speech. (Sp)
3043 Mythology and Folklore (Crosslisted with Modern Languages and Literatures 3043). Prerequisite: none. The nature and function of myth and folklore in human societies, and the uses to which the study of folklore have been put by anthropologists in both functional and culture-historical analyses of preliterate societies. (F, Sp) [IV-WC]
3053 Phonology (Crosslisted with Linguistics 3053). Prerequisite: Anthropology or Linguistics 3033. Phonology is the study of sound patterns found in human language. Provides a grounding in phonological theory by examining data from several of the world's languages. Covers the phoneme-allophone distinction, distinctive features, feature re-write rules, and a broad sampling of phonological phenomena. (Irreg.)
3063 Language and Culture (Crosslisted with Linguistics 3063). Prerequisite: 2303. The relationships between language and the rest of culture, with emphasis on diachronic as well as synchronic problems. Such crucial issues as the limitation of language on thought and perception and language and conceptualization are also considered. (Sp)
3083 Advanced Studies in Folklore and Expressive Culture. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. Introduces students to the critical study of folklore and public culture. The effects of folklore and public culture on human social interaction and how we interpret and understand these effects will be studied. Topics include festivals, foodways, folk arts and crafts, and musical and other performance genres. (Irreg.)
3263 Studies in Ethnography. Prerequisite: 1113, or 2203 or 2243. Examines the relationship between theory and method in selected ethnographic studies. (Irreg.)
3333 The Aztec World. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. An in-depth analysis of Aztec culture (circa 1519), history, customs, and life-ways leading to an appreciation of a starkly different world view and culminating in a research paper based on primary sources. (F) [IV-NW]
3353 Syntax (Crosslisted with Linguistics 3353). Prerequisite: 2303. An introduction to the fundamental concepts of Chomskyan syntax. Includes theory of categories and constituents, basic syntactic relations, case theory, and binding theory. (F)
3373 Archaeology of Death and Burial. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. Provides a cross-cultural survey of mortuary practices in the ancient world and examines how such practices shaped, and were shaped by, the lifestyles and world views of people in our past. (Irreg.)
3423 Anthropology of Religion. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. A consideration of the nature and role of religion in small-scale societies. Emphasis will be given to the relationship of the various anthropological approaches to religion with the intellectual history of anthropology as a discipline. (Irreg.)
3453 Contemporary Native American Issues. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: 1613 and junior standing, or permission of instructor. A survey of the social, political and economic issues of modern Native American groups. The relationship between native tribal cultures and American economic and government interests will be examined. (Irreg.) [IV-NW]
3503 Oklahoma Prehistory. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. Traces the evolution of Oklahoma's native people from specialized early hunters of 12,000-30,000 years ago to protohistoric villagers representing links to contemporary Indian tribes. The emphasis is on adaptation to diverse environmental settings and evolution of complex societies. (Irreg.) [IV-NW]
3553 Peoples of the Pacific Islands. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. An ethnographic and historical survey of the various peoples of the Pacific (Indonesia, Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia) with emphasis on the peopling of Oceania and varying cultural and social developments and elaborations on an insular environment. (F, Sp) [IV-NW]
3713 Native American Artistic Traditions. Prerequisite: 1613 or junior standing. Covers the artistic traditions of Native Americans and how these traditions offer insight into the thinking, lifeways, beliefs, and philosophies of differing groups of native peoples. Artisans, orations, music and dance will be explored, as well as kinship, infant care, concepts of death and self-respect. (Sp)
3743 American Indian Justice in Cultural Law. Prerequisite: 1613 or junior standing. Designed to enhance understanding of the relationship between American Indians, social control, and cultural laws. How traditional means of justice were applied to deviant behaviors which affected the social harmony and goodwill of the entire group are studied. (F, Sp)
3803 Asian Prehistory. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. A survey of the archaeological remains from the Asian continent beginning with the Paleolithic and continuing through to the beginning of the Historic period. Some emphasis will be placed on the development of Chinese civilization. (Irreg.) [IV-NW]
3810 Internship in Linguistic Anthropology. Prerequisite: 1113, 2303 and six additional credit hours in Anthropology. May be repeated. Maximum credit six hours. Designed to provide training in linguistic anthropology . Internships are arranged on an individual basis with professional linguistic anthropologists or with professionals working in a setting in which cultural linguistic research can be performed. Students must meet criteria for acceptable performance and submit a final paper. (F, Sp, Su)
3883 Archaeology of South America. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. A survey of the archaeological remains from South America with special emphasis on the development of civilization. (F, Sp) [IV-NW]
3893 Maya, Aztec and Inca: High Civilizations of Ancient America. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. An archaeological and ethnological study of the pre-Spanish cultures of Mesoamerica and the Central Andes giving primary emphasis to the Maya of Yucatan, the Aztec of Mexico and the Inca of Peru. (F, Sp) [IV-NW]
3910 Internship In Biological Anthropology. Prerequisite: 1113, 2503 and six additional credit hours in anthropology. May be repeated. Maximum credit six hours. Designed to provide field and/or laboratory training in biological anthropology. Internships are arranged on an individual basis with professional biological anthropologists. Students must meet criteria for acceptable performance and submit a final paper. (Sp, Su)
3920 Internship in Museum Anthropology. Prerequisite: 1113 and six credit hours in Anthropology. May be repeated: maximum credit six hours. Designed to provide hands-on training in anthropological museum work. Internships are arranged on an individual basis with professional museum anthropologists or with professionals working in a museum in which anthropology-oriented museum work is undertaken. Students must meet criteria for acceptable performance and submit a final report. (F, Sp, Su)
3930 Fieldwork in Anthropology. 1 to 8 hours. Prerequisite: permission of instructor or adviser. May be repeated; maximum credit eight hours. Designed to teach the student field methods in archaeology, ethnology or linguistics through actual participation in a field program. The subject matter depends upon the specific summer session and varies from year to year. The course is given during the summer session for a period of eight weeks. (Su)
3940 Internship in Archaeology. Prerequisite: 1113, 2113, 3930. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Designed to provide advanced archaeological field and/or laboratory training for students who already have some archaeological field and/or laboratory experience. Internships are arranged on an individual basis with professional archaeologists. Students must meet criteria for acceptable performance and submit a final report. (F, Sp, Su)
3943 Psychological Anthropology. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. Survey of anthropological studies that make systematic use of psychological concepts and methods; emphasis on the relationship between individual experience and sociocultural phenomena; how the history of the field has influenced current methodological approaches; and topics of interest. (Irreg.)
3950 Internship in Cultural Anthropology. Prerequisite: 1113 and six credit hours in cultural anthropology. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Designed to provide field training in cultural anthropology. Internships are arranged on an individual basis with professional cultural anthropologists or with professionals working in a setting in which cultural anthropology research can be performed. Students must meet criteria for acceptable performance and submit a final report. (F, Sp, Su)
3953 Proseminar in Anthropology. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Topics will vary and are intended to acquaint undergraduate majors with subdisciplines through specialized study involving anthropological theory, methodology, the preparation, development and writing of reports. (F, Sp)
3960 Honors Reading. 1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: admission to Honors Program. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Honors Reading will provide students with the opportunity to develop an appropriate body of reading materials on topics not covered in detail in routine coursework. Students will be obliged to assume the primary initiative in selecting the topic, compiling the bibliography and completing the reading, and will report their progress in weekly sessions to their instructor. Credit will be given in this course only after an intensive oral examination. (F, Sp)
3970 Honors Seminar. 1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: admission to Honors Program. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. The topics addressed in this course will cover highly circumscribed areas of anthropological inquiry which are intensively investigated during the course of the semester. Originality of research and approach will be required and each student will be expected to contribute to the proceedings as a relatively mature scholar. (Irreg.)
3980 Honors Research. 1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: admission to Honors Program. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Provides an opportunity for the gifted honors candidate to work at a special project under the guidance of a professor in the student's major department. (F, Sp)
G4003 Museum Anthropology I. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. Introduces the student to a wide range of topics and issues in the practice of anthropology in museums. Museums will be examined as cultural, political, and educational institutions. Students will gain exposure to exhibition design, collection curations, and museum operations. (F)
G4023 Museum Anthropology II. Prerequisite: 4003. Consideration of the philosophical and practical issues of education programs in museum settings. Case studies in community-museum relations. Planning and development of exhibit and program components. Policies and procedures or curatorial practice for collection preservation and documentation. (Sp)
4033 Story, Performance, Event. Prerequisite: 2303 and junior standing. Covers the verbal art and performance aspects of linguistic anthropology. Focuses on oral storytelling as we have come to understand it and will have as its main concern how people tell stories. Students will get an overview of verbal art and performance where and when storytelling occurs. (Irreg.)
4053 Morphology (Slashlisted with 5053; Crosslisted with Linguistics 4053). Prerequisite: 3053 and 3353. Introduces and develops theories and concepts of morphology including word formation, derivation, inflection, non-concatenative morphs, covert categories, prosodic phenomena, morphosyntactic categories and clitics. Data from non-Western languages will be prominent. No student may earn credit for both 4053 and 5053. (Irreg.)
4073 Anthropology of Jews and Jewishness. Prerequisite: 11113 or junior standing. Explores major anthropological issues through the lens of ethnography conducted in Jewish communities around the world. The particular combinations of race, religion, ethnicity, identity, and gender as they are understood and expressed by Jews cross-culturally challenge our understanding of continuity and change in human societies. (Irreg.)
4103 People and Plants. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. Examines the direct relationships between people and plants, focusing on traditional peoples of the world. Topics include paleoethnobotany, folk classification, agriculture, hallucinogens and medicines. (Irreg.) [III-SS]
4113 Anthropology Capstone. Prerequisite: 1113, 2113, 2243, 2303, 2503, and senior standing. Important historical and contemporary ideas and theories in anthropology. Content varies by semester. (Irreg.)
4143 Economy and Culture: Production, Exchange, Consumption. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. This class is an introduction to the issues, methods, and concepts of economic anthropology. Included are issues of production, distribution, and consumption in non-western and western societies. Other topics include the comparison of gifts and commodities, inequality, economy as a moral system, and the evolution of global economies. (Irreg.)
4163 The Study of Material Culture (Slashlisted with 5163). Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. Focuses on the study of the things people make and the broader social contexts in which objects are used, circulated, made meaningful, and consumed. Methods and theories developed in geography, folklore, cultural anthropology, archeology, and related social sciences will be examined. No student may earn credit for both 4163 and 5163. (F)
4193 Human Adaptability (Slashlisted with 5193). Prerequisite: 2503. The study of biological adaptations of human populations to environmental conditions. Human adaptability as a subfield of physical/biological anthropology will be examined from historical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives. No student may earn credit for both 4193 and 5193. (Irreg.)
G4233 Seminar in Advanced Curatorial Practice. Prerequisite: 4003. Provides opportunities for advanced instruction and practical experience in the curation and utilization of anthropology collections. (F)
4253 The Anthropology of Communities (Slashlisted with 5253). Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. Designed to introduce students to the community in applying anthropological field techniques and theory. while gaining training in method and theory in class, students will be given assignments to execute in community settings. Particular emphasis will be placed on ethnicity, gender and seniority as ethnological parameters. No student may earn credit for both 4253 and 5253. (Irreg.)
4293 Gender and Health. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. Provides an overview of the complex scientific and cultural interface between sex, gender, and health. Topics covered include gender identity and biological sex, various life cycles issues such as birth, sexual maturity, reproduction, and post-reproductive years. (Irreg.)
4303 Women and Development in Africa (Slashlisted with 5303). Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. Examines women's involvement in economic development in Africa. Some consideration will be given to family structure and social stratification, as well as women's participation in the social, political and economic spheres. Avenues for viable social change will also be considered. No student may earn credit for both 4303 and 5303. (Irreg.) [IV-NW]
4313 Introduction to Native American Languages (slashlisted with 5313). Prerequisite: 2303. Survey course into the nature and distribution of Native American languages, with a focus on North and Meso America. Topics include the typology of native languages, language families and real features and cultural domains, and language contact. This course will not satisfy the foreign language requirements. No student may earn credit for both 4313 and 5313. (Irreg.)
4330 Topics in Linguistic Anthropology (Slashlisted with 5330). 1 to 4 hours. Prerequisite: 2303. May be repeated with change of content; maximum credit twelve hours. Intensive examination of new developments in the field of anthropological linguistics. Topics reflect interests of faculty, but may include issues of language revitalization, language shift, multilingualism, language and identity, storytelling traditions, language change, or language contact. No student may earn credit for both 4330 and 5330 on the same topic. (Irreg.)
4363 Linguistic Field Methods (Crosslisted with Linguistics 4363). Prerequisite: 2303, 3053, and 3353. An introduction to all phases of linguistic field techniques including training in the selection of informants, the use of recording devices, and most important, the actual collection and analysis of linguistic materials. (Irreg.)
4383 Archaeological Origins of Inequality. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. Examines the origins of human inequality using archaeological data. The focus will be on social and political inequality that emerged with the development of hierarchical societies, but will also address gender and age inequalities. (Irreg.)
4483 Contemporary Native American Language Studies (slashlisted with 5483). Prerequisite: 2303. This course is a study of Native American languages focusing on issues of language contact, multilingualism, performance, and writing systems. Central themes include the richness of polysynthesis and the relationship between grammatical structures and culture. Course concludes with a discussion of language loss and revitalization. No student may earn credit for both 4483 and 5483. (Irreg.)
4550 Linguistic Structures of North America. 3 to 6 hours. Prerequisite: Anthropology or Linguistics 2303. An examination of the structure of a number of Native American languages which is intended to provide the major in Linguistics or Anthropology with a detailed knowledge of several important Indian tongues. (Sp)
4553 Human Evolutionary History (Slashlisted with 5553). Prerequisite: 1113 and 2503 or permission of instructor. Biological anthropology course focusing on the subfield of paleoanthropology, concerned with the examination of the origins of modern Homo sapiens. Focus on evolutionary theory and processes of evolutionary change; theory and method of paleoanthropological research; primate archaeological/fossil record, emphasizing the evolution of hominoids and hominids; analysis and interpretation of fossil records; and major trends, issues, and debates in paleoanthropology. No student may earn credit for both 4553 and 5553. (Irreg.)
4593 Anthropology of Human Reproduction. Prerequisite: 2503 or junior standing. Examines the major features of human fertility and reproduction, exploring the interactions between physiology, ecology, and behavior. The course applies an anthropological perspective to such issues as cross-cultural patterns of fertility, the timing and probability of conception, age at first and last reproduction, and male reproductive physiology. (Irreg.)
4603 Human Variation (Slashlisted with 5603). Prerequisite: 2503. Provides an understanding of human biological variation from an evolutionary, historical, and anthropological perspective. An examination of the history of classification of human variation, including concepts of race; the genetic basis of variation, including variation in discrete and complex traits; population-based variation; and human behavioral genetics. No student may earn credit for both 4603 and 5603. (Irreg.)
4623 Approaches to Cross-Cultural Human Problems. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. Introduces students to the complex problems of contemporary global-scale cultures and helps them better understand their place on this global arena. This course will look at specific international issues or problems, and relate them to processes occurring in many parts of the world. (Irreg.) [IV-NW]
4633 Cultures of Latin America. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. Using ethnographic evidence, we will examine the legacy of the conquest and the development of modern states and identities in parts of Mesoamerica, central America, South America, and the Caribbean. (Irreg.) [IV-WC]
4653 Ethnology of the Greater Southwest. A survey of Indian tribes in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, their history, development, differentiation and cultural adjustment to the environment. Each of the important tribal groups is examined in detail to offer illustrations for discussions on the more general level. (Irreg.)
4663 Native Peoples of the Plains (Slashlisted with 5663). Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. An ethnographic and historical survey of the native peoples of the Plains culture area of North America. No student may earn credit for both 4663 and 5663. (Irreg.)
G4673 Anthropology of the Caddoan People. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. Integrates linguistic, ethnographic, historical and archaeological data to study the origin, spread and character of the Caddoan-speaking tribes who occupied the Plains' eastern border at the time of the earliest European contact. (Irreg.)
G4693 Native Peoples of the Southeastern United States. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. An in-depth effort will be made to understand the native cultures which originated east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio. Major consideration will be given to the "civilized" tribes -- Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks and Seminoles. Also covered will be lesser-known tribes such as the Yuchi, Natchez and Catawbas. Aboriginal conditions and social structure will be emphasized rather than recent history. (Irreg.)
G4713 Statistical Concepts in Anthropology. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. An introduction to anthropological statistics. Emphasis will be placed on anthropological research design and analysis of anthropological data. (Irreg.)
4743 Culture Contact in the New World. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. Examines culture contact and colonialism using archaeological data. The main focus of the course will be on European colonialism in the new world, but other cases may be examined. Historical, ethnographic, and linguistic data will also be discussed. (Irreg.)
G4763 Archaeological Analysis -- Methods, Theory and Practice. Prerequisite: 2113. Devoted to the laboratory phase of analyzing archaeological data derived from survey or excavation. The procedures and methods used for classifying and studying the raw data provided by the fieldwork. Laboratory (Irreg.)
4793 Computing in Anthropology. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing, anthropology major. Designed for anthropology students who wish to master a selection of computer programs used in the collection, analysis, and dissemination of anthropological data. Significant anthropological resources available through the Internet, and basic quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques will be discussed. Students will design and complete a research project to be published on the Internet. (Sp)
4813 Archaeology of North America (Slashlisted with 5813). Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. A course in the prehistory of the American Indian. Study of the prehistory of North America north of Mexico. Consideration of the various archeological areas of the continent in terms of the prehistoric sequence of events from the earliest times up to European contact. No student may earn credit for both 4813 and 5813. (Irreg.) [IV-NW]
G4833 Archaeology of the Great Plains. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. A detailed survey of the archaeological remains from the Great Plains from the earliest occupation of the area until the reservation period. (Irreg.)
G4853 Archaeology of the Greater Southwest. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. A detailed survey of the prehistoric sequence in the American Southwest and northwestern Mexico from earliest times up to the time of European contact. (Irreg.)
4863 Archaeology of the Southeast (Slashlisted with 5863). Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. A study of the prehistoric and early historic Native American culture histories. Some attention will be given to historic African and European cultures in the Southeast. Emphasis will be placed on long-term social change, pan-regional trends and colonial transformations. No student may earn credit for both 4863 and 5863. (Irreg.)
4873 Desert Cultures of North America. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. Anthropological study of various cultures, prehistoric and historic, including Indian, Spanish and modern American, as they reflect adaptation to arid environments in western North America; the relationship between aridity and human culture. (Irreg.) [III-SS]
4903 Race and Ethnicity. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. This course introduces a broad spectrum of issues, concepts and methods in the anthropology of race and ethnicity. The goal is to teach students to think, read and write critically about race and ethnicity from a cross-cultural perspective, a strategy that encourages better understanding of the various forms of structural oppression that structure everyday lives. (Irreg.)
4923 Medical Anthropology. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. Looks at the relationship of culture and biology in an ecological perspective. Reproduction, patterns of death and disease, nutrition and stress are examined. The effects of cultural behavior on the immune, endocrine, metabolic and central nervous systems are studied in detail. (Irreg.)
G4933 Advanced Biological Anthropology. Prerequisite: 2503 or permission of instructor. May be repeated with change of content; maximum credit nine hours. Special topics in biological anthropology such as advanced human osteology, human variation, and theory of evolutionary change. (Irreg.)
G4943 Human Osteology and Paleopathology. Prerequisite: 2503. Allows the student to develop a basic familiarity with human skeletal remains, standard anatomical terminology, and methods and techniques of data collection. In turn, these osteological skills will provide a means to explore questions of human adaptability, variation, evolution, patterns of health and disease in prehistory, and the applicability of these findings to contemporary problems.
4953 Special Topics in Anthropology. Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. May be repeated with change of content; maximum credit six hours. Topics will vary and are intended to acquaint the advanced anthropology major with subdisciplines through specialized study involving anthropological theory, methodology, the preparation, development and writing of reports. (Irreg.)
G4973 Introduction to Faunal Analysis (Slashlisted with 5973). Prerequisite: 2113. An introductory-level look at animal bone analysis as performed by archaeologists and zooarchaeologists. The bones of birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals, as well as mollusk shell are discussed under the topics of taxonomy, taphonomy, age and sex determination, morphometrics, seasonality, and specialized techniques. Identification of bone and discussions relating recent advances in animal bone analysis are typical class activities. No student may earn credit for both 4973 and 5973. (Irreg.)
4980 Bachelor of Arts Thesis. 1 to 6 hours. Prerequisite: anthropology major; junior standing. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Original research in cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, archaeology, or anthropological linguistics. The research will be done under the auspices of an appropriate faculty member; a written thesis on the research is required. (Irreg.)
4990 Independent Study. 1 to 3 hours. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Contracted independent study for topic not currently offered in regularly scheduled courses. Independent study may include library and/or laboratory research and field projects. (Irreg.)
Unless otherwise noted, the prerequisite for courses in anthropology numbered 5000 and above is graduate standing.
G5013 Phonetics and Phonemics. Prerequisite: graduate standing. This class focuses on the phonetic and phonological skills needed for describing world languages. Topics covered under phonetics include articulatory phonetics, ear training, and using acoustic computer programs. Topics in phonology will cover variation and allomorphy in many languages, writing phonological rules, and the analysis of tone and stress. (F)
G5023 Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology III. Prerequisite: 5123, 5223. Recent ethnographies are used to critique current sociocultural theory in anthropology. Students will be required to write analytical essays as a means of understanding the relationship between ethnography and theory. (Irreg.)
G5043 Folklore, Folklife and Expressive Culture. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Introduces the academic study of folklore and folklife. Focus is on theories and methods used to document and interpret expressive culture, including a wide array of verbal, material, performance, and customary genres. Ethnographic, comparative, literary, geographic, historical, and psychological perspectives will be explored. Emphasis will be placed on contextual studies understanding art in community settings. (Irreg.)
G5053 Morphology (Slashlisted with 4053; Crosslisted with Linguistics 5053). Prerequisite: 3053 and 3353. Introduces and develops theories and concepts of morphology including word formation, derivation, inflection, non-concatenative morphs, covert categories, prosodic phenomena, morphosyntactic categories and clitics. Data from non-Western languages will be prominent. No student may earn credit for both 4053 and 5053. (Irreg.)
G5073 Anthropology of Religion. Prerequisite: graduate standing. This graduate seminar embraces an approach to the anthropology of religion that is both interdisciplinary and rooted in particular places and historical contexts. The goal is to provide grounding in traditional approaches to the subject that will serve as a framework for practice-oriented ethnography of contemporary religion in various contexts. (Irreg.)
G5083 Quantitative Methods in Anthropology. Prerequisite; graduate standing. Introduces students to the basics of quantitative analysis in the field of anthropology. Topics include parametric and non-parametric measurements of significance and association, mulitvariate techniques, and concepts useful to anthropologists such as spatial analysis and sampling. (Irreg.)
G5123 Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology II. Prerequisite: 5223. Introduces students to different unit and levels of sociocultural analysis. Students will be required to address a series of research problems as a means of understanding sociocultural analysis. (Irreg.)
G5153 Ethnography of Communication. Prerequisite: graduate standing. This course focuses on language use in larger discourse and cultural contexts and how language is used to conduct the social life and the dynamics of culture. Topics include topic and focus, deixis, reported speech, speaking styles, strategies, and genres, and language and ethnicity. (F)
G5163 The Study of Material Culture (Slashlisted with 4163). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Focuses on the study of the things people make and the broader social contexts in which objects are used, circulated, made meaningful, and consumed. Methods and theories developed in the fields of geography, folklore, cultural anthropology, archaeology, and related social sciences will be examined. No student may earn credit for both 4163 and 5163. (F)
G5193 Human Adaptability (Slashlisted with 4193). Prerequisite: 2503, graduate standing. The study of biological adaptations of human populations to environmental conditions. Human adaptability as a subfield of physical/biological anthropology will be examined from historical, theoretical, and methodological perspectives. No student may earn credit for both 4193 and 5193. (Irreg.)
G5213 Ethnographic Methods. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Survey of ethnographic methods in anthropological research, with weekly fieldwork assignments and writing exercises. First half of class devoted to current theoretical debates, including the post-modern controversy and literary issues in classic ethnography. Second half of class devoted to hands-on research, including participant-observation, interviews, field notes, databases, and linguistic elicitation. (Irreg)
G5223 Theories of Culture. Prerequisite: graduate standing and Anthropology major or graduate standing and permission of instructor. Survey of anthropological theorists and theories of culture (evolutionary, functional, cognitive, ecological, structural, symbolic, etc.) and their impact on research methods in each of the four fields of anthropology and related disciplines. Emphasis will be given to a discussion of primary texts written by the major theorists. (F)
G5253 The Anthropology of Communities (Slashlisted with 4253). Designed to introduce students to the community in applying anthropological field techniques and theory. while gaining training in method and theory in class, students will be given assignments to execute in community settings. Particular emphasis will be placed on ethnicity, gender and seniority as ethnological parameters. No student may earn credit for both 4253 and 5253. (Irreg.)
G5263 Feminist Anthropology. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Examines a variety of relevant books and articles on feminist anthropological theory, an area in which the literature has expanded voluminously since the 1970s. Broad topical areas are as follows: Boasian Contributions to Feminist Anthropology; Women in the Field; Women and Work; and, the New Ethnography. (F)
G5273 Topics in Social Anthropology. May be repeated; maximum credit 12 hours. Topics vary. (F, Sp)
G5293 Origins of Complex Society. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Examines the origins and development of complex society and the institutionalization of social inequalities. Complexity is examined along a changing scale of sociopolitical organization, from small “egalitarian” societies to middle-range “chiefdoms” to large archaic states, using both archaeological and ethnographic examples. (Sp)
G5303 Women and Development in Africa (Slashlisted with 4303). Prerequisite: graduate-level social science course. Examines women's involvement in economic development in Africa. Some consideration will be given to family structure and social stratification, as well as women's participation in the social, political and economic spheres. Avenues for viable social change will also be considered. No student may earn credit for both 4303 and 5303.
G5313 Introduction to Native American Languages (Slashlisted with 4313). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Survey course into the nature and distribution of Native American languages, with a focus on North and Meso America. Topics include the typology of native languages, language families and real features and cultural domains, and language contact. This course will not satisfy the foreign language requirements. No student may earn credit for both 4313 and 5313. (Irreg.)
G5330 Topics in Linguistic Anthropology (Slashlisted with 4330). 1 to 4 hours. Prerequisite: graduate standing. May be repeated with change of content; maximum credit twelve hours. Intensive examination of new developments in the field of anthropological linguistics. Topics reflect interests of faculty, but may include issues of language revitalization, language shift, multilingualism, language and identity, storytelling traditions, language change, or language contact. No student may earn credit for both 4330 and 5330 on the same topic. (Irreg.)
G5343 Anthropological Demography. Prerequisite: graduate standing. This course will consider demography, the study of human populations, from an anthropological perspective. The course will focus on critical discussion of the readings, which will cover theory, methods, and empirical case studies, and will emphasize small-scale societies, natural fertility populations, and developing countries. (Irreg.)
G5363 Linguistic Anthropology (Crosslisted with Linguistics 5363). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Course covers the history of theory in linguistic anthropology, starting with the early work of Boas, Sapir, and Whorf, and continuing with the writings of Levi-Strauss, Hymes, Basso, Silverstein, Bakhtin, and Hill. Surveys contemporary trends in discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and cognitive linguistics. Course is a required core course for anthropology graduate students.(F, Sp)
G5403 Human Growth. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Examines human growth from a biocultural perspective. Human growth is shaped by genes and factors including physical environment, nutrition, disease, and activity. Topics include basic principles of growth and development; assessment methods; growth in primates and early hominids; ecological, genetic, and other factors influencing population variation in growth and the developmental basis of disease. (Irreg.)
G5413 Public Archaeology (Slashlisted with 4413). Prerequisite: graduate standing, permission of instructor. Focus is on the articulation of graduate academic training in archaeology with current federal rules and regulations, and educational outreach concerning archaeological research and goals. Emphasis is on advanced training in the preservation and management of archaeological resources. No student may earn credit for both 4413 and 5413.
G5453 Advanced Faunal Analysis. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Designed to provide the experience of discovering the past technologies that apply to the manufacture, use, and discard of objects made from or technologies utilizing animal remains. (Irreg.)
G5483 Contemporary Native American Language Studies (slashlisted with 4483). Prerequisite: 2303 and graduate standing. This course is a study of Native American languages focusing on issues of language contact, multilingualism, performance, and writing systems. Central themes include the richness of polysynthesis and the relationship between grammatical structures and culture. Course concludes with a discussion of language loss and revitalization. No student may earn credit for both 4483 and 5483. (Irreg.)
G5513 Historical Anthropology. Prerequisite: 5023 or 5273. An examination of historiography and its relation to selected issues in the anthropological study of historical process. (F)
G5543 Research Design. Prerequisite: 5023, 5123 and 5223. Studies ethnographic research methods and design. An overview of current practices and theoretical disputes, followed by group discussion of individual class members' unique research design problem. (Irreg.)
G5553 Human Evolutionary History (Slashlisted with 4553). Prerequisite: graduate standing. Biological anthropology course focusing on the subfield of paleoanthropology, concerned with the examination of the origins of modern Homo sapiens. Focus on evolutionary theory and processes of evolutionary change; theory and method of paleoanthropological research; primate archaeological/fossil record, emphasizing the evolution of hominoids and hominids; analysis and interpretation of fossil records; and major trends, issues, and debates in paleoanthropology. No student may earn credit for both 4553 and 5553. (Irreg.)
G5563 Medicine and Society. Prerequisite: 5023 or 5273. Current theoretical concerns in medical anthropology examined through investigations of six topical areas: representations of sickness, medicine and social control, medical pluralism and ethnomedicine, the politics of reproduction, transcultural psychiatry, and the political economy of health care. Emphasis is on the social construction of the experience of sickness and the health ramifications of sociopolitical processes. (Irreg.)
G5583 Mobility and Sedentism. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Focus on the concepts of mobility and sedentism in the archaeological record. The concepts are defined and discussed in their many forms, and the relationships between the mobility/sedentism continuum and other factors such as the use of agriculture, population size, the natural environment, social organization, skeletal impacts, ritual, and kinds of artifacts are considered. Appropriate ethnographic literature is used extensively. (Irreg.)
G5603 Human Variation (Slashlisted with 4603). Prerequisite: 2503, graduate standing. Provides an understanding of human biological variation from an evolutionary, historical, and anthropological perspective. An examination of the history of classification of human variation, including concepts of race; the genetic basis of variation, including variation in discrete and complex traits; population-based variation; and human behavioral genetics. No student may earn credit for both 4603 and 5603. (Irreg.)
G5613 Morphosyntax. Prerequisite: 5013. This course will familiarize the student with morphological and syntactic phenomena from a large array of languages. Morphological processes, inflectional and derivation, grammatical categories, and problems in morphemic analysis will be covered. Syntactic phenomena covered includes cliticization, noun incorporation agreement, valence, causation, subordination structures, and head/dependent and word order typologies. (Sp)
G5623 Descriptive Linguistic Methods I. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. This course is an introduction to field methods in linguistic anthropology, with emphasis on the preliminary phases of documenting indigenous languages. Course begins with the elicitation of basic vocabulary before progressing to the analysis of sound patterning, grammatical patterning, and elementary sentence structures. Also covers the development of writing systems for previously unwritten languages. (Irreg.)
G5633 Descriptive Linguistic Methods II. Prerequisite: 5623 or permission of instructor. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Continued exploration of field methods in linguistic anthropology, with emphasis on developing the materials for a dictionary, grammatical description and morphology and syntax of language introduced in 5623. Also covers computerized databases. (Irreg.)
G5653 Paleoethnobotany. Prerequisite: graduate standing. The study of people and plants in the past. Discussion of types of anthropological questions that can be answered, the types of data studied, and the analytic approaches used. Emphasis will be on macroplant remains, mostly seeds and woods, and development of basic laboratory skills. Laboratory (Irreg.)
G5683 Prehistoric Human Ecology. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. The interactions between humans and their environments are critical for human survival and have been of anthropological interest for decades. Prehistoric human ecology is studied through a variety of approaches. Along with a discussion of human ecology as a set of theoretical approaches, we will deal with specific case studies. The class is not focused upon paleoenvironmental reconstructions nor is it a lab course dealing with analysis of environmental data. (Irreg.)
G5693 Thesis/Dissertation Writing. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. The goal of this seminar is to provide a supportive space for discussing the craft of writing, sharing tips for organizing data, and critiquing drafts of works in progress. Every student will be required to circulate thesis chapters, which will form the texts for the seminar. (Irreg.)
G5703 Geoarcheology. Prerequisite: graduate standing. Addresses systematic ways of describing and recording soils and/or geological deposits in which archeological sites are found. Skills emphasized in class will be applicable to evaluating the taphonomic integrity of buried archeological sites and to preliminarily assessing their age and the environmental conditions during and after their habitation by people. (Sp)
G5743 Anthropology and American Indians. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. This course is intended to increase the understanding of American Indians and their relationship with American anthropology from about 1846 to the present. Through readings and discussion, an attempt will be made to open a dialogue between the field of anthropology and American Indians and bridge the gap of misunderstanding between scholars, non-Indians, and Indians. (Irreg.)
G5783 Ceramics in Archaeology. Prerequisite: graduate standing. The theoretical frameworks surrounding the analysis of ceramics in archaeology are discussed. Topics considered may include analytic methods, origins, mobility and sedentism, function, production, gender, specialization, distribution, style, ethnicity, household size, ideology, and social identity. (Irreg.)
G5803 Theories of Identity. Prerequisite: 5223 and graduate standing. Considers the relationship between ethnicity and other social categories on processes such as race, peoplehood, culture, tradition, heritage, nationality, religion, gender, and class. (Sp)
G5813 Archaeology of North America (Slashlisted with 4813). Prerequisite: 1113 or junior standing. A course in the prehistory of the American Indian. Study of the prehistory of North America north of Mexico. Consideration of the various archeological areas of the continent in terms of the prehistoric sequence of events from the earliest times up to European contact. No student may earn credit for both 4813 and 5813. (Irreg.)
G5833 Theories of Social Organization. Prerequisite: 5023 or 5273. A survey of current approaches to the description and analysis of social interaction between community members. Emphasis is placed on distinguishing intra-community interaction from inter-community interaction. (Sp)
G5893 Topics in Archaeology. May be repeated; maximum credit 12 hours. Topics will vary. Laboratory (F, Sp)
G5913 Topics in Biological Anthropology. Prerequisite: 1113 or permission. May be repeated with change of topic; maximum credit 12 hours. An opportunity for a seminar with research paper for the graduate major with a special interest in biological anthropology. Laboratory (F, Sp)
G5923 Lithic Technology and Analysis. Prerequisite: 6713. Instructs students in identification of kinds and sources of stone used prehistorically on the Southern Plains and their eastern border and helps students develop skills in flintknapping as an aid to the process of analyzing archaeological materials. (Irreg.)
G5943 Grasslands Adaptations. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Evolutionary theory as applied to grassland adaptations. Topics include grassland ecology, bison ecology, climactic changes, and horticultural adaptations. The focus is on the North American plains. (Irreg.)
G5973 Introduction to Faunal Analysis (Slashlisted with 4973). Prerequisite: graduate standing. An introductory-level at animal bone analysis as performed by archaeologists and zoo archaeologists. The bones of birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals, as well as mollusk shell are discussed under the topics of taxonomy, age and sex determination, morphometrics, seasonality, and specialized techniques. Identification of bone and discussion relating recent advances in animal bone analysis are typical class activities. No student may earn credit for both 4973 and 5973. (Irreg)
G5980 Research for Master's Thesis. Variable enrollment, two to nine hours; maximum credit applicable toward degree, four hours. Laboratory (F, Sp, Su)
G5990 Special Anthropological Problems. 1 to 3 hours. May be repeated; maximum credit 12 hours. Permits the student to investigate a specific problem in terms of currently available data. It may be within any field of anthropology recommended by the instructor or adviser. (F, Sp, Su)
G6440 Research in Biological Anthropology. Prerequisite: Graduate standing. May be repeated; maximum credit six hours. Permits students to undertake independent fieldwork or laboratory research in biological anthropology. Such research is normally limited to original or unpublished work. (Irreg.)
G6590 Fieldwork in American Indian Languages (Crosslisted with Linguistics 6590). 3 to 6 hours. Advanced field experience in the recording and analysis of Native American languages, including a discussion of problems in selecting and effectively utilizing informants. (Irreg.)
G6613 Seminar in Social Anthropology. May be repeated with change of subject matter; maximum credit 15 hours. Advanced study in various areas of the field. (Sp)
G6633 Method and Theory in Biological Anthropology. Prerequisite: graduate standing. The core course in biological anthropology. Historical development of biological (physical) anthropology; the development and application of method and theory in the major subfields of biological anthropology. (Sp)
G6650 Advanced Fieldwork in Anthropology. 3 to 8 hours. Prerequisite: permission of chairperson and dean of the Graduate College. Students interested in this summer program should request a Special Announcement from the Department of Anthropology. Laboratory (Su)
G6713 Archaeological Theory. Prerequisite: graduate standing. This course explores archaeological theory, its evolution and context. As an anthropological core class, it stresses the articulation of archaeological theory within its wider parent discipline, anthropology. (F)
G6750 Research in Archaeology. 1 to 4 hours. Permits the student to undertake independent research. Such research is normally limited to original or unpublished work. (Problems to be solved by library research are properly within the scope of 5990.) Laboratory (F, Sp)
G6803 Advanced Archaeological Theory. Prerequisite; 6713. An advanced course in archaeological theory focusing especially on those theories prominent in the last decade. The course concentrates on theoretical frameworks that might form the students' dissertation research. (Irreg,)
G6810 Research in Ethnology. 1 to 4 hours. Permits the student to undertake independent fieldwork to study some problems in ethnology. (F, Sp, Su)
G6980 Research for Doctor's Dissertation. 2 to 16 hours. Laboratory (F, Sp, Su)
Updated: April 19, 2008