Northern Arizona University

 

Graduate Level Courses in Anthropology

Some courses may not be offered every semester. Check with the Department and the current Class Schedule for information about when specific courses are offered. The number of credits that you may receive for each class appears in parenthesis after each course listing. Prerequisites and fees appear in italics.

ANT 501 Food and Culture The nature of food in a cultural setting is explored. Food and cooking are extremely social providing an innovative avenue towards understanding culture, espceially social and gender relations. (3)

ANT 511 Introduction to Anthropological Fieldwork An integrated approach to anthropological fieldwork with varying emphases on archaeology and ethnology depending on the field problem. Prerequisite: 12 hours of anthropology coursework. Special fee. (3-6)

ANT 512 Advanced Anthropological Fieldwork A continuation of ANT 511 for those students already having some field experience who wish to specialize in a research topic or methodology and to develop leadership capacity in fieldwork research. Prerequisite: ANT 511 or its equivalent. Special fee.(3-6)

ANT 517 Southwestern Archaeology The archaeology of the American Southwest from the arrival of people until the early historic period. (3)

ANT 524 Cultural Resource Management. History, legislation and procedures of managing prehistoric and historic cultural resources, including archaeological conservation and mitigation, preparation and review of proposals, and reporting requirements. (3)

ANT 525 Historic Preservation Locating, recording, and studying sites of human activity and the encompassing social and cultural systems of historic times. Deals with studying communities, preservation of sites, and legal aspects of cultural resource management. (3)

ANT 528 Anthropology & Education The process of learning culture in cross-cultural perspective.(3)

ANT 546 Culture Change Anthropological approaches to the study of social and cultural change. (3)

ANT 547 The Study of the Future Definition of the future; reasons for study of the future; people's development of interest in the future; state of futures study today. (3)

ANT 548 Anthropology of Development Anthropological perspectives on development, underdevelopment, and the introduction of socioeconomic change in non-industrial and newly industrializing societies. (3)

ANT 550 Analysis of Archaeological Materials Overview of laboratory techniques used to analyze archaeological materials, including ceramics, lithics, and floral and faunal remains. (3)

ANT 551 Quaternary Archaeology The major events and theoretical and methodological issues of Pleistocene prehistory.(3)

ANT 552 Ceramic Analysis Methods and techniques used to analyze archaeological ceramics to interpret technology, economics, function, chronology, formation processes, and social interaction. (3)

ANT 553 Faunal Analysis Analysis and interpretation of animal bones from archaeological sites, emphasizing both practical and theoretical applications. (3)

ANT 554 Paleoethnobotany Archaeological analysis of the interrelationships between people abd plants in prehistory through the study of archaeobotanical macroremains, phytoliths, and pollen. (3)

ANT 555 Lithic Analysis Theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of archaeolohical lithic materials emphasizing hands-on experience in analytical and manufacturing techniques. (3)

ANT 556 Gender in Archaeology Critically evaluates evidence for evolution of sex differences, sexual divisions of labor, social constructions of gender, and gender hierarchies from prehistory to the present. Letter grade or pass-fail. Prerequisites: undergraduate anthropology major or minor or women's studies minor plus enrollment in anthropology graduate program or at least one previous graduate anthropology course. (3)

ANT 559 CRM: Indigenous Perspectives Introduction to Native American perspectives regarding cultural resource management. Three main questions are addressed: who owns the past, who manages the past, and who tells the stories. (3)

ANT 568 Quantitative Research Methods Emphasizes quantitative ethnological theory and method. Course objective is to give students a variety of techniques and their rationale for designing and evaluating anthropological research with a problem-oriented focus. Prerequisite: statistics. Special fee. (3)

ANT 569 Ethnographic Research Methods Intensive, in-depth, direct naturalistic observation for the discovery and description of culture. Special fee. (3)

ANT 575 Paleopathology The study of human disease patterns and the analysis of human skeletal remains. (3)

ANT 580 Medical Anthropology Advanced concepts and methods in cross-cultural study of illness, healers, epidemiology, and political economy of health and their impact in health. (3)

ANT 581 Language, Power, and Medicine Cross-cultural explorarion of power relationships between language, clinical encounters, and medical research and publication in which patients are healed or alienated and medical entities are socially constructed as real. (3)

ANT 599 Contemporary Developments (1-3)

ANT 600 Anthropological Theory The nature and history of theory in anthropology. (3)

ANT 603 Applied Anthropology Anthropological methods and principles applied to problems of cross-cultural communication and sociocultural change; directed sociocultural change, community development, medical anthropology, and other topics. (3)

ANT 605 Pre-Thesis Seminar Development of skills and knowledge necessay for planning, organizing, and carrying out thesis research in anthropology Prerequisites or Corequisites: ANT 568, and either 569 or 635, depending on student's sub-discipline. (3)

ANT 607 Pre-Internship Seminar Preparation for internship; includes practicum training in developing, presenting and evaluating position papers, proposals, and work plans; literature search and use of secondary data. Ethics and professional development for work in settings outside academia. Prerequisites or Corequisites: ANT 568, 603, and either 569 or 635, depending on student's sub-discipline. (3)

ANT 608 Field Work Experience Applied track internship. Special fee. ANT 609 Post-Internship Seminar (3) Emphasis on preparing and presenting internship reports and developing skills in report writing and presentation. Prerequisite : ANT 608. (1-12)

ANT 609 Post-Thesis Seminar Empasizes preparing and presenting internship reports and developing skills in report writing and presentation. Prerequisites or corequisites: ANT 607, 568, 603, and either 569 or 635 depending on the student's subdisciplicine. (3)

ANT612 Ethics in Anthropological Research This course explores the ethical principles and ethical dilemmas encountered in anthropological research. It includes principles for the protection of humans in research, and a model for resolving ethical dilemmas in anthropological research. (3)

ANT 614 Ethnography of Communication Presents theoretical models of "comparative speaking," treating communicative events as systems of social activity analyzed in relation to cultural contexts. ANT 615 Southwest Ethnology: Pueblo (3) Survey of Southwest Pueblo Indian cultures and their immediate historical antecedents. (3)

ANT 615 Southwest Ethnology: Pueblo Survey of Southwest Pueblo Indian cultures and their immediate historical antecedents. (3)

ANT 616 Southwest Ethnology: Non-pueblo Survey of Southwest non-Pueblo Indian cultures and their immediate historical antecedents. (3)

ANT 618 Latin American Ethnology This seminar deals with selected topics of contemporary peoples of Latin America. It focuses on the human condition and problems in Latin America. (3)

ANT 628 Gender and Healing in South Asia: India, Bengladesh, Nepal, Pakistan Explores social structure, family life, discourse, gender relations, and practices and understanding of healing in India, Bengladesh, pakistan, and Nepal. (3)

ANT 630 Computer Use in Anthropological Research Applications of computers in research, including computer programming, use of packaged programs for statistical data analysis, and simulation and modeling. Prerequisite : Statistics. Special fee. (3)

ANT 635 Archaeological Theory An introduction to the theory of archaeology, stressing the historical development of the discipline and major theoretical perspectives in contemporary archaeology. (3)

ANT 636 Archaeological Method and Inference Provides extensive and intensive experience in the application of archaeological methods for gathering and analysing archaeological data. (3)

ANT 638 Psychological Anthropology Cultural influences on personality and the individual's impact on society. (3)

ANT 639 Anthropology of American CultureSurvey of American culture, specifically organizations, politics, bureaucracy, and ideology, from an anthropological perspective. (3)

ANT 660 Selected Advanced Topics Examination of specific topical and area problems in physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, and archaeology. Graduate Research. (1-6)

ANT 697 Independent Study (1-3)

ANT 698 Graduate Seminar (1-3)

ANT 699 Thesis (1-6)

ANT 714 Advanced Seminar in Linguistic Anthropology Advanced theoretical and methodological readings in linguistic anthropology will be applied in a final research project resulting in a paper publishable in a peer-review journal. (3)