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AFS 2002 The African Experience: An Introduction to African Studies
Credits: 3.
Introductory study of African society and culture that examines the richness, diversity, and time-depth of African civilizations. (S and N)
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Credits: 3.
Introduces the four subfields of anthropology (sociocultural, biological, linguistic and archaeology) through analyses of the cultural, social and biological dimensions of human variation. Appropriate first course for students considering major or minor in anthropology as well as non-majors fulfilling general education requirement. (S)
ANT 2140 Introduction to World Archaeology
Credits: 3.
The global study of human culture from its origins to the present through the recovery, description and analysis of archaeological remains.
ANT 2149 Lost Tribes and Sunken Continents
Credits: 3.
Examines the claims of popular writers in archaeology that mysterious archaeological sites, statues, etc. were influenced by outer space visitors. Problems of diffusion: discussed include Stonehenge, pyramids, Easter Island, Maya spaceships, Atlantis and Mu, Nazca Lines and other archaeological mysteries. (H)
Credits: 3.
Examines aspects of sexuality from a cross-cultural viewpoint and traces the development of an individual's sexuality and sexual identity. Sexual anatomy and functioning, gender roles and the interplay of behavior and sexual ethics are discussed. (S and D) (WR)
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Credits: 3.
Application of the sustainability concept to the study of human interactions with the biophysical environment across space and time. Focuses on human perceptions of and interactions with their biotic surroundings and the myriad linkages between biological, cultural and linguistic diversity.
Credits: 3.
The nature of culture. The content of cultures; languages, subsistence, economic structures, art and religion in human societies. The integration of culture. (S and D)
ANT 2700 Introduction to Applied Anthropology
Credits: 3.
The utility and application of anthropological theories, methods and knowledge for the solution of specific human problems, including discrimination, hunger, disease and underdevelopment. (S and D)
ANT 3141 Development of World Civilization
Credits: 3.
Discussion of archeological evidence for the development of civilization in its regional variants from the earliest beginning to the dawn of written history. Analyzes causes of cultural development in Old and New World Centers. (H and N)
Credits: 3.
Archaeological materials relating to prehistoric North American cultures. The origins of the North American Indian, Historic Indian and colonial materials. (H) (WR)
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Credits: 3.
Detailed examination of Aztec culture and society at 1500 AD from ethnohistorical and archaeological evidence, including family life; social, political and economic organization; warfare; religion; and relationships with neighboring peoples. Not open to students who have taken ANT 3163. (H and N)
Credits: 3.
Evolution of the Inca Empire is traced back archaeologically through earlier Andean states and societies to the beginning of native civilization. (H and N)
Credits: 3.
The history and purpose of anthropological museums in the formation of the discipline and the modern role of the museum in both anthropological education and research.
Credits: 3; Prereq: one course in archaeology.
Introduces the identification, analysis and interpretation of animal remains from archaeological sites. Methods of quantification and skeletal measurements to understand technology and human behavior are addressed. Topics include identification of subsistence patterns, coastal economies, animal domestication, taphonomy, environmental inferences from faunal remains and historical use of subsistence resources.
Credits: 3.
Cross-cultural survey of beliefs and practices dealing with the supernatural, magic, and religion. Conceptualization of the supernatural. Sacred specialists, their function, and social position. Theories of comparative religion in light of anthropological data. (S and D)
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ANT 3302 Sex Roles: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Credits: 3.
Anthropological perspective on division of labor by sex in different world societies. Variation in sex roles in economic, religious, political domains. Socialization and the life cycle. (S and D)
Credits: 3.
A comprehensive introduction to the diversity and change of Chinese culture and society based on ethnographic studies, theoretical analysis, and historical survey by Western as well as Chinese scholars. (S and N) (WR)
Credits: 3; Prereq: basic knowledge of photography or instructor permission.
Uses photography and film as tools and products of social science. Ways of describing, analyzing and presenting behavior and cultural ideas through visual means. Projects and laboratory work with visual anthropology. (WR)
Credits: 3; Prereq: sophomore standing.
Examination of the cultural bases for the consumption of commodities in modern society, employing anthropological concepts and social science methods. Primary emphasis is on the social relationships enacted between people and the things they live with. (S)
Credits: 3.
Survey of the race concept from the perspectives of cultural and biological anthropology. Examines patterns of human biological variation, traces history of race concept and explores experiences of racism in cross-cultural perspective. (S and D) (WR)
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Credits: 3.
The role of food in human culture through time and in different geographical settings. Among topics considered are the biological basis of human diet and how it differs from other primates; how food habits develop and change as a result of cultural interaction; and the ritual and religious uses of food. Diets of traditional cultures and the effects of modernization on diet and health are examined.
Credits: 3; Prereq: sophomore standing.
Examines the ways in which diverse societies in the United States and abroad construct illness and health experiences, balance healing traditions with multiple forms of medical practice and integrate the human experiences of illness, recovery and death with the technical world of biomedicine. (S and N)
ANT 3514C Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Credits: 4.
Introduces the subfield of anthropology that focuses on the natural history of humankind. Through lecture and laboratory, the course surveys a range of materials that focus on the diversity of the Order Primates with emphasis on human and primate variation, adaptation and evolution. (B)
Credits: 3; Prereq: ANT 3514C, BSC 2010/2011 or PCB 4674.
Survey of human anatomy from evolutionary and embryological perspectives. The phylogenetic and functional basis for human form. Anatomical principles underlying developmental and functional disorders are explored through clinical and comparative examples.
ANT 3520 Skeleton Keys: Forensic Identification
Credits: 3.
Survey of forensic anthropology, an applied field of biological anthropology, focusing the wider scope of skeletal biology on problems of medicolegal significance, primarily in determining personal identity and cause of death from human remains.
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Credits: 3.
The role of speech in individual, social and cultural settings. Linguistic basis of thought and perception. Mythological studies and analysis. Bilingualism, biculturalism and minority language politics in current perspective. (S and N) (WR)
Credits: 3; Prereq: Junior standing in anthropology.
This is a communication course aimed at professional writing in the discipline of anthropology. (C) (WR)
ANT 3930 Junior Topics Class in Anthropology
Credits: 3.
This course is designed for junior level students to explore special topics classes in the various subfields of anthropology.
Credits: 3.
Examines the nature of human rights cross-culturally, focusing on the history of the concept, universalism vs. particularism, religion, gender, race, regionalism, and modern human rights conventions.
ANT 4034 History of Anthropological Theory
Credits: 3; Prereq: one cultural anthropology course, or instructor permission.
The history and development of anthropological theory. Methods in anthropological research. Directed reading of major theoretical publications. (S) (WR)
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Credits: 3; Prereq: one course in archeology and/or anthropology, or instructor permission.
Survey of the theoretical and methodological tenets of anthropological archaeology; critical review of archaeological theories, past and present; relation of archaeology to anthropology. (S)
ANT 4112 Ideology and Symbolic Approaches in Archaeology
Credits: 3; Prereq: instructor permission.
Critically examines the development of thought in archaeology that goes beyond a materialist interpretation of culture. This seminar explores questions of causality and the role of mind and culture as a mediator between the environment and political, economic and social structures.
Credits: 3; Prereq: instructor permission.
Introduces the principles and applications of experimental archaeology, drawing on a broad range of case studies that illustrate the numerous experimental methods that archaeologists have used to solve analytic or interpretive problems.
Credits: 3; Prereq: ANT 2140 or ANT 3141.
Basic principles of archaeological science. Field and laboratory techniques (site survey, mapping, excavation, artifact analysis, dating). Foundational methods to interpret archaeological data to understand cultural and natural processes in the past. Legal and ethical issues of heritage management and stewardship of the archaeological record. (WR)
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Credits: 3; Prereq: instructor permission.
Theory and case studies in environmental archaeology, integrating zooarchaeology, archaeobotany and geoarchaeology, are used to interpret past human interactions with the natural environment.
Credits: 3; Prereq: ANT 2140, ANT 3141 or instructor permission.
An in-depth study of the pre-Hispanic Maya civilization based on archaeological and epigraphic information. Includes methods for constructing knowledge of this civilization and discussion of current controversies.
Credits: 1 to 3; Prereq: an introductory-level archeology course.
Processing of data recovered in field excavations; includes cleaning, identification, cataloguing, classification, drawing, analysis, responsibilities of data reporting.
Credits: 3; Prereq: instructor permission.
A seminar that draws on case studies to examine the theoretical and methodological approaches to enthnoarchaeology. Students will apply these approaches in field exercises.
Credits: 3; Prereq: instructor permission.
Seminar that draws on case studies to explore problems at the intersection of measured time in archaeology, and the practice and reckoning of time in mostly non-Western societies.
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Credits: 3; Prereq: At least one 2000 or 3000 level ANT course or instructor permission.
Advanced analysis of experiences and strategies for tackling classic dilemmas of the human condition in interconnected cultural works. Examination of how basic lifestyle decisions and actions are experienced locally and their global consequences. Anthropological theories and concepts are discussed in tandem with case studies from around the world.
Credits: 3; Prereq: one course in anthropology, or instructor permission.
A consideration of economic philosophies and the behavioral bases of formal economic theories. Cross-cultural studies of production, distribution and consumption, money and the acquisition of goods. The latest materials from cultural ecology, Marxism, formalism, substantivism and discourse centered approaches are reviewed. (S) (WR)
Credits: 3.
An examination of legal systems cross-culturally with a focus on the interrelationship of law with culture, society, economics and politics.
Credits: 3; Prereq: an introductory course in the social sciences, or instructor permission.
The problem of identifying political behavior. Natural leadership in bands, tribes and small groups. Acephalous societies and republican structures. Kingship and early despotic states. Theories of bureaucracy. (S)
ANT 4323 People of Mexico and Central America
Credits: 3.
The settlement and early cultures of the area with an emphasis on the rise of the major culture centers. The impact of European civilization and surviving Indians. (S and N) (WR)
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Credits: 3.
Ethnology of Brazil; historical, geographic, and socioeconomic material is covered and representative monographs from the various regions of Brazil are read. The contribution of the Indian, Portuguese and African to modern Brazilian culture. (S and N) (WR)
Credits: 3.
Investigation into cultural contact that has taken place in the Caribbean and results of that contact in terms of peoples and sociocultural units produced and processes of cultural change involved. (S and N)
Credits: 3.
An anthropological survey of the culture, history and ethnographic background of the peoples of Africa. A basis for appreciation of current problems of acculturation, nationalism, and cultural survival and change among African peoples. (S and N) (WR)
ANT 4354 The Anthropology of Modern Africa
Credits: 3.
Study of continuity and change in contemporary African societies with special reference to cultural and ethnic factors in modern nations. (S and N) (WR)
ANT 4366 Family, Gender and Population in China
Credits: 3; Prereq: instructor permission.
This seminar examines the processes by which the family system, gender relations, and population configuration interact with each other to become powerful forces in shaping contemporary China's political, social and economic conditions. (S and N)
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Credits: 3; Prereq: ANT 2140.
An anthropological survey of the culture, history and ethnographic background of the circumpolar Artic. An investigation of the problems of acculturation, human ecology, cultural survival and self-determination of Northern Indigenous Peoples.
ANT 4403 Environment and Cultural Behavior
Credits: 3.
The interaction of people and their environment as mediated by cultural institutions. Levels of socioeconomic adaptation in hunting and gathering, pastoral and agricultural societies. Warfare and ritual as ecological mechanisms. (S) (WR)
Credits: 3.
A survey of the field of medical anthropology and its interdisciplinary context. The course examines contemporary approaches and the development of an applied field concerned with human sickness and healing.
ANT 4468 Health and Disease in Human Evolution
Credits: 3; Prereq: ANT 3514C, or instructor permission.
Review of pathology as evidenced in fossil and archaeological records. Interpretation of disease in a biocultural context.
Credits: 3 Prereq: ANT 2000.
Introduces the basic theoretical, methodological, ethical and practical concerns in the making of ethnography. In addition to readings and discussions, students will conduct a micro-project to gain hands-on experience in ethnography. (S)
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Credits: 3; Prereq: ANT 3514C and instructor permission.
Human skeletal identification for the physical anthropologist and archaeologist. Techniques for estimated age at death, race and sex from human skeletal remains. The measurement of human skeleton for comparative purposes. (B)
ANT 4530 Seminar in Molecular Anthropology
Credits: 3; Prereq: BSC 2011 or instructor permission.
Course examines current applications of molecular data to questions of human evolution and genetics, based on most recent journal articles.
Credits: 3; Prereq: BSC 2011 or instructor permission.
Examines molecular genetics of human disease. Discusses a range of diseases from single-gene recessive defects to complex diseases.
Credits: 3.
The evolution of cognition among primates and the behavioral, social and phylogenetic influences on cognitive processes. Theories of learning and imitation and their impact on analysis of ecological and social decisions.
Credits: 3.
Deals with the taxonomy, distribution and ecology of primates. The range of primate behavior for each major taxonomic group is explored. (WR)
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Credits: 3; Prereq: ANT 3514C or instructor permission.
Survey of primate evolution from Paleocene through Miocene epochs. Methods of paleontological inference. Emphasis on problems of taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography and functional morphology in the fossil record.
Credits: 3; Prereq: ANT 3514C or the equivalent.
This course surveys the evidence for the evolution of humankind. Emphasis is placed on the late Miocene to Pleistocene human fossil record and its interpretation. Basic principles of geology, systematics, evolutionary theory, functional morphology, and phylogenetic reconstruction are introduced and used to aid in understanding the human fossil and archaeological records. (B)
ANT 4740 Introduction to Forensic Science
Credits: 3.
Basic concepts and topics in forensic science, medicine and criminalistics. Also provides basic understanding of the fundamental concepts of scientific methodology.
Credits: 6; can be repeated up to 12 credits. Prereq: 6 credits of anthropology or instructor permission.
Excavation of archaeological sites, recording of data, laboratory handling and analysis of specimens, and study of the theoretical principles which underlie field methods and artifact analysis.
Credits: 3; Prereq: At least one 2000 or 3000 level ANT, LAS, or AFS course or instructor permission.
Investigation into how our emerging digital environment is affecting humans and societies. The study of digital technologies in comparative cultural contexts. Analysis of digital technology as a form of material culture. Introduction to theoretical perspectives on digital phenomena and the applications of these technologies in anthropology and other disciplines.
Credits: 1 to 5; can be repeated up to 9 credits. Prereq: instructor permission.
Individual, supervised research on a specific topic in anthropology.
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ANT 4907 Research Projects in Anthropology
Credits: 1 to 5; can be repeated with change in content up to 9 credits. Prereq: instructor permission.
For students undertaking directed research in supplementary or regular coursework or on special problems.
ANT 4911 Undergraduate Research in Anthropology
Credits: 0 to 3; can be repeated with change in content up to 6 credits.
Course provides firsthand, supervised research in Anthropology. Projects may involve inquiry, design, investigation, scholarship, discovery or application in Anthropology.
ANT 4914 Department Honors in Anthropology
Credits: 3; Prereq: undergraduate coordinator permission.
Open to students meeting department honors criteria and normally taken in the senior year. Students will develop special interests and write an essay based upon this research.
Credits: 3 to 5; Prereq: 10 credits in anthropology or instructor permission. With permission, can be repeated with change in content up to 9 credits.
Rotating content in anthropology.
Credits: 3; Prereq: Senior standing in anthropology.
Capstone course for anthropology majors focusing on the integration of core knowledge from the subfields of anthropology and their application to historical and contemporary topics. Explores application of anthropological knowledge for both pre-professional development and non-professional careers.
ANT 4956 Overseas Studies in Cultural Anthropology
Credits: 3 to 9; can be repeated with change in content up to 9 credits. Prereq: undergraduate advisor permission.
Provides a mechanism by which coursework taken as part of an approved UF study abroad program can be recorded on the UF transcript and counted toward graduation.
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ENC 3254 Professional Writing in the Discipline
Credits: 3; can be repeated with change in content up to 6 credits. Prereq: ENC 1101 or ENC 1102.
A communication course adjusted to a specific professional discipline, the discipline to be determined by need. Covers major elements of organizational communication with emphasis on composition of reports, proposals, letters and memos, manuals, and oral presentations. Course materials and assignments are relevant to the specific discipline. (C) (WR)
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