This senior capstone experience will emphasize data analysis, thesis writing and preparation of findings for public presentation.

In this course students learn how to process, analyze, and produce technical reports describing artifacts collected from archaeological sites.

This is an experiential course that covers the methods archaeologists use to analyze stone tools and debitage. These methods include identification of toolstone sources, reconstruction of past lithic technologies, and explanation of assemblage variability.

This course provides students with hands-on training in the fundamentals of ethnographic field techniques. Students will learn skills including research design, ethics, participant-observation, survey and interviewing techniques, sampling, and various data analysis procedures.

Students receive credit by securing an internship with an organization or agency (public health, violence prevention, humane society, museum, national park, etc.).

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

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

Individual research is conducted under the supervision of a faculty member. Topic and format must be approved by the Department Chairperson and Dean.

One of the most important, and most unnoticed, developments in international politics since the end of the Cold War is the rise of an international humanitarian order. In this course, we will examine the growth of the humanitarian system, how it relates to international politics, and the ways it shapes both humanitarians and beneficiaries.

This course provides a comparative overview of selected traditional Native American cultures as well as other historic and contemporary cultures of the American Southwest in terms of their history, social organization, belief systems, oral traditions, political economy and adaptation to change. The course also examines intersectionality and social justice in the Greater Southwest region.