This course uses archaeology, epigraphy, ethnohistory, and ethnographic analogy to explore the origin, florescence and decline of the ancient Maya (1000 BC to 1500 AD). The class ties economics, politics, social organization, and religion into a holistic understanding of the ancient Maya world.
This course provides an anthropological study of cultures and societies of Eurasia and Eastern Europe. The course considers the demise of Soviet socialism and the emergence of democracy and market economies. We examine how people experience political, cultural, and economic transformations in their social relations and in their everyday lives.
This course introduces the student to how anthropologists approach the study and practice of economic development. It explores cross-culturally how local populations have responded to development; the different topics of development anthropology, such as agriculture and rural development; and the ways anthropological knowledge is applied in addressing development problems.
Examines the concepts, aims and methodology of archaeology as a scientific discipline within the social sciences. Attention given to the basic principles and recent advances of archaeological field work and post-field analysis.
This course aims to give graduate students a firm grounding in the development of anthropological thought from its roots in Enlightenment social philosophy and 19th century evolutionism to the emergence of poststructuralist theory in the late 20th century. Upon completion of this course students should be thoroughly familiar with the major theoretical schools and debates in the history of anthropology and the broader social discourses that shaped them.
This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of epidemiology, as the methodological approach, which underlies biomedical research, and will examine the ways that the methodologies of anthropology and epidemiology complement each other in the study of health and disease. The course will examine the points of similarity between anthropology and epidemiology particularly as regards the importance of examining sociocultural phenomena in order to better understand the origins of disease.
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.
Field research as part of a long-range anthropological research program for graduate interns training under direct faculty supervision. Provides student with experience conducting scientific research as research team member. Report required. Laboratory, three hours to full time.
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.
The physics of stars from star formation to stellar death. Topics include stellar structure and evolution, energy generation and transport, the late stages of stellar evolution and stellar remnants.
