Scientific archaeology has a problem: fringe ideas about mysteries of the past attract more interest than scholarly accounts of these same mysteries. In discussing the "mysterious" side of archaeology, this course asks why consideration of the past invites some of the most bizarre speculations about human life. Why do fringe theories about lost civilizations, intergalactic interactions, and mysterious technologies gain more popularity than mainstream theories? Why should serious archaeologists and students pay any attention to such "wacko" ideas?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.