From little league baseball to the world of college and professional sports and the numerous ESPN channels that track them, it is clear that sports play a significant role in our culture and society and yet, we often take for granted this significance. This course introduces students to the anthropology of sports through an examination of the rituals, political and economic dimensions, and social and cultural meanings of sports from around the globe in both the past and the present.

This course is directed at non-majors (with no anthropology prerequisite) and will introduce students to the science of biological anthropology. Students will critically examine the ways in which biology, the environment, society, and culture come together to form the human condition. Guided by evolutionary theory and the scientific method, we will explore the evolutionary history of modern Homo sapiens from early primate origins to our recent hominin ancestors.

Directed at non-majors, this course introduces students to the diversity of cultural experience in today's world. Goals of the course include gaining an appreciation of the equality of everyone's shared humanity and unique identities both locally and globally; to understand global experiences of cultural diversity through forced or chosen migration; to understand how categories of identity, including racialized, gendered, ethnic, religious, age, class and national identities -- shaped by power -- are social and cultural, and not biological.

Directed at non-majors, this course introduces students to the diversity of cultural experience in today's world. Goals of the course include gaining an appreciation of the equality of everyone's shared humanity and unique identities both locally and globally; to understand global experiences of cultural diversity through forced or chosen migration; to understand how categories of identity, including racialized, gendered, ethnic, religious, age, class and national identities -- shaped by power -- are social and cultural, and not biological.

This is a survey of the aboriginal Native American cultures of North America and of the impact of four centuries of British, French, Spanish, and Russian contact on Native American societies. Particular emphasis is placed on comparing and contrasting cultural characteristics of Native American groups living in ecologically diverse regions of North America. The course will include consideration of the status of Native Americans in present-day North America.

This course explores the ways in which differences in factors such as nationality, ethnicity, age, gender, class, and occupation shape experiences of globalization. We will analyze and interpret rapidly changing patterns of global production, consumption, politics, resistance, adaptation, and identity construction around the world.

A course with special assignments for study of special topic usually involving preparation of a final paper. Student must identify a clearly defined topic and a specific faculty member as instructor. All work to fulfill this course must be detailed clearly and described fully in advance using the approved learning contract. The student and faculty member will need to agree on a general schedule of student/faculty meetings during the semester to discuss the progress of the project. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits. Letter Grade only.

A community-based or field-based experience in Anthropology under the supervision of a faculty member. May be repeated to a maximum of 15 credits. Pass-fail only.

May be repeated three times to a maximum of 12 credits.

Practical experience in which the student applies the theory and method of anthropology to a project defined by the student in consultation with a partnering organization and a faculty advisor. Instructor consent required. Course may be taken for up to six credit hours.