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.

Directed at non-majors (with no anthropology prerequisite), this course is intended to introduce the student to the diversity and unity of religious beliefs and practices in everyday life throughout the world through the lens of the social science anthropology. This includes the study of religions both textual and non-textual, large-scale and small- scale. The course content will include ethnographic materials as well as an examination of various methods and theoretical approaches used in anthropology in the cross-cultural study of religion.

The world encompasses a liberating array of cross-cultural variation in how humans interpret sexual difference. ANT 401 explores the theoretical and substantive basis for contemporary thinking about gender from an anthropological perspective. Gender content is explored in several cultures representing all levels of sociocultural complexity. Additional topics include the history of the study of gender within anthropology and the impact of development on gender systems in the global South. A primary objective is for the student to reflect upon her/his own gendered self.

Anthropological approaches to the study of gender have proliferated since the 1970s. The primary objective of this seminar is to provide participants with an overview of some of the salient "schools" that have emerged, and through comparison, critically to assess their limitations and utility for both theoretical and applied objectives.

Detailed study of the metabolism of vitamins and the role of vitamins in the metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and minerals.

An in-depth study of macronutrient metabolism and how it can be influenced by nutrition in both ruminant and non-ruminant species. Students will learn the important principles of macronutrient metabolism in domestic animals through lectures, evaluation of the current scientific literature and presentations.

To introduce the student to the principles and application of kinesiologic electromyography (EMG). Kinesiological EMG research incorporates the study of human movement with direct assessment of the muscles involved with human motion. The primary aim for this course is to provide the student with background and practical knowledge of kinesiological EMG in order to be able to perform and critically analyze kinesiological EMG studies. Students will enhance their understanding of neuromuscular properties of skeletal musculature.

Principles and applications of environmental biotechnology for water quality control. Process microbiology and kinetics for various water and wastewater treatment processes.

Application of systems analysis, mathematic modeling, and optizimation in water resources management and design. Solution of engineering problems found in water supply, water quality, urban drainage, and river basin development and management by use of linear, nonlinear, and dynamic programming models.

An intensive survey of the vertebrate classes with emphasis on trends and processes in evolution, classification, phylogeny, ecology, and adaptations in morphology and behavior. Lecture, three hours; laboratory, four hours per week.