ANTH 4960–01, CRN 21465
Dr. Emily Dean
May 26-June 30, 2009
This is a 6 credit course and requires instructor's permission to register.
This course introduces students to archaeological excavation, survey, and laboratory techniques through work at an actual archaeological site. In addition to practical hands-on training, there will be occasional field-trips and lectures on regional prehistory, history, geomorphology, and ecology. Prerequisites: ANTH 2030 or equivalent strongly recommended. For more information: http://www.suu.edu/hss/archeology/
ANTH 1010–01, CRN 31501
Dr. Emily Dean
MWF 11:00-11:50 am, ED 202
This course is a General Education, "Knowledge Area: Social and Behavioral Sciences (S)" course. It is also a required course for the upcoming Anthropology minor and counts as a Sociology elective.
Are you interested in exploring ‘foreign’ cultures and learning about the diversity of the human experience around the globe? Cultural Anthropology is concerned with the cross-cultural analysis of similarities and differences in social phenomena such as marriage practices, family structure, gender relations, economic strategies, and religious beliefs. This course introduces the key concepts of the discipline through lectures, films, and class discussions of cultures from the Americas, Africa, Europe, Polynesia, and Asia. Homework assignments and class discussions are intended to foster multicultural understanding as well as encourage self-reflection and critical analyses of our own world views and cultural beliefs.
ANTH 1020-01, CRN 32770
Dr. Emily Dean
MWF 1:00-1:50 pm, CN 231
This course is a General Education, "Knowledge Area: Interdisciplinary (D)" course. It is also a required course for the upcoming Anthropology minor, and counts as a Sociology elective.
Are you intrigued by the primate studies of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey? Fascinated by the latest discoveries of ancestral humans in Africa? Have you ever wondered what accounts for the physical variation we see in human groups? This course examines these issues as well as offering an anthropological perspective on important questions such as:
This course includes a research fieldtrip to San Diego over Harvest Holiday. On this field-trip we will conduct primate observations at the San Diego Zoo, view the exhibits on human evolution at San Diego’s Balboa Park Museum of Man, and camp out right next to the Pacific Ocean!
ANTH 3001-01. CRN 32470
Dr. Emily Dean
MWF 2:00-2:50 pm, CN 231
Counts as an upper division elective for Sociology and for Anthropology.
This seminar adopts an anthropological perspective to examine indigenous cultures of North, Central, and South America. We address pre-contact culture history; the experience of colonialism; struggles for indigenous sovereignty; racial, ethnic, and tribal identity; religious traditions; the significance of the landscape; and struggles to preserve ‘traditional’ cultures and languages. In addition to class discussions and lectures, we will go on at least one field trip, hear from guest speakers, watch films, and attend relevant cultural events.
Sociology and Anthropology of Religion
ANTH 3160-01/SOC 3850-01. CRN 32771/30673
Dr. Emily Dean
MWF 10:00-10:50 am, ED 202
Counts as an upper division elective for Sociology and for Anthropology.
This course is an introduction to the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion. We begin with a review of sociological and anthropological perspectives on the origins, functions, and social roles of religious beliefs and practices. The remainder of the course is spent exploring various topics within the anthropology of religion – such as mythology and creation stories, religious taboos, notions of ritual contamination and purity, rituals and rites of passage, religious pilgrimage, altered states of consciousness, ‘shamanism,’ magic and witchcraft – each illustrated by ethnographic studies from around the world.
Office Hours:
TR 10:00 - 12:30 pm or by appointment
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