Anth 120S             Culture, Heritage and Identity        3

This course explores how communities understand and preserve their heritage, whether it be through historical documents, ethnographic descriptions, archaeology, or oral history, and how these ways of understanding heritage are used to maintain identity and cultural values.

Anth 151S             Introduction to Anthropology           3

A comprehensive, systems-oriented study of general anthropology covering the four major subfields (archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and ethnology).  This course is recommended as a beginning course for students who have had no previous background in anthropology.  Fall and winter terms.

Anth 171T            World Archaeology             4

This course serves as an introduction to the great multiplicity of cultures of the past. In reviewing world archaeology, students are introduced not only to the great range of archaeological techniques, but also to how Western perception of other peoples’ pasts have colored our interpretations.  Offered on demand.

Anth 201T            Introduction to Archaeology             4

This course is designed to introduce the beginning student to the basic techniques, concepts, and theories of archaeology and its relation to the wide field of anthropology.  Fall and winter terms.

Anth 208N            Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Cultural Survival           4

Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is an integrated body of spiritual and practical knowledge that has evolved over vast stretches of time through the successful adaptation of a culture to its local environment. In this course, students will be introduced to the ways in which different cultures organize and categorize domains of TEK, including plants, animals, landscapes and kin. This class will also address the growing question of cultural survival in relation to environmental loss, as it is increasingly apparent that cultural diversity is directly related to biological diversity.

Anth 213S             Peasant Societies 4

This course provides a study of agricultural societies throughout the world and the position of these societies within more complex systems.  The instructor may select a specific area for in-depth study to complement a more general, systemic perspective on world peasantries.  Winter term.

Anth 215R            Magic and Religion             3

This course provides an inquiry into the forms that spiritual and religious beliefs take cross-culturally and investigates the various practices and symbols through which these beliefs are expressed and enacted in public life.  Summer session.

Anth 217R            Cultural Images of Women and Men             4

This course examines the images of gender and sexuality that permeate our society and that contribute to the definition and delimitation of identity and autonomy.  Special attention is given to examining social hierarchies that underlay and are modified by the discourse surrounding and representations of male and female behavioral expectations.  Any and all cultural products will be our objects of inquiry and analysis, from film and advertising to autobiography and other self-portraits.  Our goal is to arrive at a coherent understanding of the relationship of images to social power, equality, and inequality.  Offered on demand.

Anth 220               Colorado Archaeology       3

This course covers the prehistoric and historic archaeology of Colorado.  It examines the historical development of archaeology in the state, our current state of knowledge, and how Colorado archaeology has developed in relation to the wider goals of archaeology.  Offered on demand.

Anth 236Tx          Introduction to Biological Anthropology            4

This course provides a study of the biological development of humankind and the modern understanding of human variation from a technological, critical, ethical, and evolutionary perspective.  Topics to be explored in the classroom and laboratory contexts include the biological basis of the race concept, the workings of Mendelian genetics, forensic anthropology and the basics of primate evolution.

Anth 243S             Food: Systems of Production, Distribution, and Consumption       4

This course explores the centrality of food systems in local and global contexts.  It examines the interrelated historic, economic, political and gendered features of food production, distribution, and consumption via cross-cultural comparison.  Special attention is paid to the dialectic of material and symbolic elements where our goal is to understand the place of food in systems of power that include familial, cultural, industrial and institutional forms.

Anth 259               Field Training in Archaeology           4-8

Actual on-site training in the techniques of archaeological survey and excavation.  Students spend full days, five days a week, in the field for seven weeks.  They receive intensive instruction in field survey, remote sensing, and all aspects of excavation, recording, mapping, photography, artifact classification, field laboratory techniques, and site interpretation.  A written description of the field school for each year will be furnished to prospective students.  Summer term.

                Prerequisite:  Consent of the instructor.

Anth 299               Individual Study          2-4

This course is to be used in a limited manner to provide learning experiences in lower-division anthropological inquiry not provided by the major departmental offerings.  A learning contract will be established for the student, with expectations stated explicitly.  This course may not be used to fulfill major requirements or to replace a major departmental offering.  Fall, winter, and summer terms.

                Prerequisite:  Comp 150 and consent of instructor.

Anth 302               Research Issues in Evolutionary Anthropology            2

An exploration of the changing knowledge base of hominid and primate evolution.  Alternate years.

                Prerequisite:  Anthropology 236Tx or permission of instructor.

Anth 303W           Anthropological Debates        4

This course fulfills the anthropology major’s Group W composition requirement.  It is organized around a controversial theme and debate within the discipline.  The student will enter into this debate by reading, writing, and speaking.  Course debate themes will alternate from semester to semester.  Examples of course themes include the “race” concept, indigenous rights, ethics, repatriation, archaeological theory, food and nutrition, among others.  Fall and winter terms.

                Prerequisites:  Comp 150 or Comp 126 or Comp 250, and Anth 210 or Anth 201.

Anth 310               Geoarchaeology                  4

This course offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of archaeology. The conceptual foundations and historical relationships between archaeology and the geosciences are explored. The major focus of this course is on the methods and techniques borrowed from the geosciences (geology, geography, geomorphology) that relate to the reconstruction of the archaeological landscape.

Anth 313               The Archaeology of Greece and Rome             4             

This course examines the past of Greece and Rome, from the Bronze Age to the end of the Classical and Imperial periods, drawing on both archaeology and other relevant disciplines.  The course situates the development of classical archaeology in its historical and socio-political context and addresses some current issues of relevance to both classical archaeology and archaeology in general.  

Anth 314               Greece: Culture, Archaeology           4

This off-campus course introduces students to the rich culture, archaeology and history of Greece through an intensive study of some of the major archaeological, historical and cultural sites and locations in Greece and the Aegean Islands. Students will be expected to participate in all activities and also conduct independent research on topics of their choice. This course requires that the class travel to Greece and the Greek islands and, therefore, requires additional fees.

Anth 316               Internship in Anthropology    1-6

This course offers a guided framework for practical experience for work carried out by students in discipline-related governmental and non-governmental agency projects.  Interns will be involved in effective public service in order to promote student understanding of complex social, political, economic, scientific, and philosophical issues.  Internship examples include, but are not limited to, work in archaeological, museum, and public health contexts.  Course credit is based on 1) satisfactory performance of 30 hours of work for each credit earned; 2) fulfillment of a learning contract with a faculty sponsor; and 3) the satisfactory completion of a final project, usually a paper.  Offered fall, winter, and summer terms.

                Prerequisite:  Consent of instructor.

Anth 320               Archaeological Lab Techniques       4

This lecture course covers laboratory techniques and the analysis of prehistoric artifacts, with special emphasis on lithic, ceramic and bone technologies. This course also introduces the student to the preparation of technical reports.

                Prerequisite:  Anth 201.

Anth 330               Prehistory of the Southwest          4

This course provides a comprehensive survey of the major archaeological traditions of the prehistoric Southwestern United States, and the environmental and cultural influences that made them distinct.  Fall term.

Anth 340               Ancient Egypt      3

Using archaeological data, this course examines the development of a major civilization and its relationship to both the earlier civilizations of Mesopotamia and the later developing civilizations of the Mediterranean.  

Anth 341               Prehistory of Europe           4

This course provides a survey of early cultures of Europe from the earliest evidence of humans until the development of civilizations.  

The primary focus of this course is the development of the indigenous cultures of North America, with a secondary emphasis on the influences of the societies of Central and South America. Emphasis is also placed on evaluating the degree to which our understanding of the past is influenced by both the discipline of anthropology and by contemporary Western values.   

Anth 350               Ethnology of Mesoamerica               4

This course provides a comparative study of major cultural topics concerning contemporary ethnic groups of central Mexico and northern Central America.  Geography, demography, ecology, and prehistory will be touched upon, while social, economic, and political systems will be studied in more depth.  

Anth 351               Ethnology of Andean South America             4

Indigenous peoples and peoples of mixed descent are studied in terms of their past and present cultural and political-economic experiences.  Particular emphasis is given to understanding the ways the North American and Andean worlds intersect, as well as to the ways that Andean studies reflect and influence trends in anthropological thought.  

Anth 353               Ethnology of India              4

While we are overwhelmed by the cultural diversity of the Indian subcontinent, this course focuses on the unity of cultures in the area.  Topics include the caste system, contemporary economic and political systems, and a brief look at geography, demography, ecology, and prehistory.  Tribal peoples will be studied in addition to peasantries.  

Anth 355               Anthropology of Gender    4

This course offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis of the nature and origin of gender concepts cross-culturally, particularly as they relate to explaining gender hierarchy.  Topics to be covered include the contributions of feminist thought to social scientific theories, the cultural construction of gender categories, and the relationship of gender to power.

                Note:  This course is the same as WS 355.  Credit will be given for only one of these courses.

Anth 356               Ecological Anthropology   4

This course provides a comparative study of human populations in ecosystems, stressing the relationship between culture and the biophysical environment with the focus on cultural adaptations.  Implications for anthropological theory, sociocultural evolution, and contemporary problems will be investigated.  Alternate winter terms.

Anth 357               Medical Anthropology       4

The medical systems of indigenous peoples are analyzed cross-culturally from the perspectives of epidemiology, symbolism, history, a political economy.  Topics will include the development of medical anthropology, the medical traditions of Ayurvedic, humoral, shamanic, and biomedical practitioners, theories of cause and cure, and applied practice.  This course is recommended for pre-health and social science majors. Fall term.

                Note:  This course counts towards the research requirement in the major.

                Prerequisite:  Comp 150.

Anth 365               Language and Culture        4

This course introduces students to the relationship between language and culture. Attention will be paid to a diversity of human communicative behavior, both spoken and unspoken, with a focus upon aspects of communication such as the structural properties of language, cross-cultural variations in language use, the contextualization of meaning, and how language is affected by such variables as gender identity and group affiliation.

Anth 370                Research Methods in Anthro      4

This course will examine the use of quantitative methods in anthropological research, through the application of traditional statistical techniques, exploratory data analysis, and GIS. Students will be introduced to various archaeological and ethnographic examples using the tools of SPSS statistical software, GIS, and ArcView.

                Prerequisite:  Anth 201 and 210 and Math 110 or Math 201 of Psyc 241 or ES 242.

Anth 371               Ethnology of Amazonian South America      3

Selected societies of the Amazon region are studied in this comparative survey which opens with consideration of the ways that the region and its peoples have played a large role in European fantasies of Utopia and acts of global economic and political expansion.  The major focus of the course is on the relationship of Amazonian peoples to their ecosystem and the ways they continue to struggle to achieve autonomy over their threatened territories and ways of life.

Anth 388               Ethnology of the Southwest              4

This course provides a comparative overview of selected American Indian cultures of the American Southwest in terms of their history, social organization, belief systems, oral traditions, political economy, and responses to change as they intersect with non-Indian peoples.  Alternate years.

Anth 395               History of Anthropological Thought               4

This course provides a genealogical and critical look at the major philosophical, historical, and scientific elements that have contributed to anthropological thought and practice—both archaeological and ethnological—since the early 19th century.  Although this course is specifically required for the anthropology major, it is recommended for any student interested in the development of social scientific thought and the ways it plays out in students’ own intellectual autobiographies.  

                Prerequisite:  Anth 201 and 210.

Anth 402               Advanced Archaeological Laboratory Techniques      4

This lecture course covers advanced laboratory techniques and the analysis of prehistoric artifacts, with special emphasis on lithic, ceramic and bone technologies. This course also further develops the student’s ability in the preparation of technical reports.

                Prerequisite:  Anth 201 and Anth 320.

Anth 403               Advanced Archaeological Field Techniques  4

This course provides advanced training in the techniques of archaeological survey and excavation.  Students spend full days, five days a week, in the field for a total of seven weeks.  In addition to intensive instruction in all aspects of field survey and excavation, training includes research design preparation, hypothesis generation, field test propositions, and excavation sampling design.  Students may serve as crew chiefs and direct field laboratory sessions.  A written description of the field school for each year will be furnished to prospective students.  

                Prerequisite:  Anth 259.

Anth 406               Ethnobotany of the Southwest         4

This class offers students the opportunity to conduct in-depth research regarding traditional plant knowledge unique to the various cultures of the Greater Southwest and to become familiar with the important and useful plants endemic to the region.  Winter term.

                Note:  This course counts towards the research requirement in the major.

                Prerequisite:  Comp 150 or Comp 250 or Comp 126.

Anth 450               Advanced Research in Latin American Anthropology                2

Students will work all term on a focused research project that requires previous knowledge and expertise in Latin American sociocultural systems.  Common course readings and class discussions will center around research methods appropriate to work in the broad region of Latin America, to ethical implications for such research, and to possible applications of research.  Guidance will be provided to those students who wish to formulate their research into a post-baccalaureate Fulbright grant proposal.  Fall term and on demand.

Anth 455               Advanced Research in the Anthropology of Gender    2

Students will work all term on a focused research project that requires familiarity with gender theory and discourse in the social sciences, history, literature, or philosophy.  Common course readings and discussions will center around feminist research methods, and the ethical implications and applications of such research.  Guidance will be provided to those students who wish to formulate their research into a post-baccalaureate Fulbright grant proposal.  Winter term and on demand.

Anth 496               Senior Capstone Seminar in Anthropology    4

This course provides a context for advanced reading, writing, and seminar discussion centered on integrating the undergraduate anthropological career and on thinking about and working towards incorporating an anthropological focus in the student’s life beyond college.  As a capstone course, the Senior Seminar provides a rich opportunity to reflect upon and synthesize, through various written and oral projects, the many dimensions of the anthropological intellectual experience.  Fall and winter terms.

                Prerequisites:  Anth 303W, Anth 395, and consent of instructor.

Anth 499               Independent Study             1-6

Individual research is conducted under the supervision of a faculty member. Topic and format must be approved by the Department chairperson and the dean. 50 contact hours are the equivalent of one credit hour. This course may not be used to meet major requirements in lieu of an existing course offered by the department.