ANTH385

041467

This course is a student driven exploration of major themes in anthropology with the goal of building and expanding your understanding of the four-subfield approach in American Anthropology. Students will work in small research teams to engage archaeological, biological, linguistic, and sociocultural anthropology in the exploration of questions within major topics such as Migrations and Movement, People and Animals, Health and Healing, Religion and Spirituality, Subsistence and Technology, Deep Time and Human Evolution, and Community Based Research and Cultural Heritage. Students will work with several research teams throughout the semester to conduct a deep dive into specific research questions, significant players, and important methods and analytical approaches within their selected research themes. Students will practice anthropological field skills such as note taking, observation, interviewing, and public information sharing throughout the course, including during a mid-semester field trip. For the final students will form new groups, based on their interests to expand on and present one of the topics that drew their attention during the semester, to prepare a poster or presentation to share in a public session modeled after a professional conference.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate

015057