Practical experience in aspects of the cultural resource management process are provided through a one-semester rotation of work in the Office of State Archaeology (OSA), Museum of Anthropology (UKMA), and the program for Cultural Resource Assessment (PCRA). Students are assigned tasks at each work assignment rotation during the semester and are evaluated on the basis of work performance and a journal summary of this experience by a committee of their supervisors.

Seminar in the development of anthropological approaches to cultural meaning in actions, thought, and language from the 1960s. Includes the social structural approach to symbolism and ritual, cognitive approaches to meaning, the anthropology of experience and expression, interpretive and post-modern approaches, and topical applications of these approaches.

This seminar explores the interrelationships between social processes, development and the environment. It provides the graduate student with the necessary theoretical and analytical tools to examine the social and cultural processes of environmental degradation and change. Topics include political ecology, health impacts of development, deforestation, resource tenure systems, environmental grassroots movements and large-scale development organizations.

Half-time to full-time work on thesis. May be repeated to a maximum of six semesters.

Half-time to full-time work on thesis. May be repeated to a maximum of six semesters.

Half-time to full-time work on thesis. May be repeated to a maximum of six semesters.

Half-time to full-time work on thesis. May be repeated to a maximum of six semesters.

Half-time to full-time work on thesis. May be repeated to a maximum of six semesters.

Half-time to full-time work on thesis. May be repeated to a maximum of six semesters.

Half-time to full-time work on thesis. May be repeated to a maximum of six semesters.