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  • ANTH 3140: Cultures Latin America

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course is an introduction to the peoples and cultures of Latin America. It begins with an overview of the cultural geography of Latin America and the people of this region. The course examines how European and African contact and the mixing of cultural, economic, and political values have shaped this geographic space. Current Latin American issues are presented in a historical context. A major theme throughout the course is that anthropological methods and theory can be used to frame and solve contemporary Latin American issues.
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  • ANTH 3145: Human Migration

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Every society in the world is currently experiencing rapid economic, social, political and technological changes in response to expanding market economies and diffusion of information. Due to the extent of contemporary migration, society is being shaped by immigrants and the children of immigrants. Migration is highly selective and the outcomes of migration are diverse. This course will enable the student to confront these issues through lectures, readings, discussions and assignments. As students learn of the causes and effects of migration in prehistory and in the contemporary, they will gain a broad understanding of human mobility as a force for social evolution.
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  • ANTH 3151: Peoples of the Pacific

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Theories of settlement, distinctive features of island cultures, social and political organization and stratification, and integrative mechanisms such as trading, feasting, warfare, and marriage alliance.
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  • ANTH 3153: Black Atlantic

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Anthropological perspective on people of African descent in the United States, Caribbean, Latin America, and South Africa. Begins by looking at the three sides of Atlantic slavery: Western Europe, West and Southern Africa, and slave societies of the New World and South Africa. Examines maroon societies founded by fugitive slaves, the threat of slave revolution in the age of American revolutions, and politics of racial categorization and stratification in the aftermath of slavery. Finally, we take a comparative approach to language, the family, sexuality, conflict and class, religion, arts and ideologies among these cultures.
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  • ANTH 3154: Brazilian Culture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    An introduction to the culture of Brazil. Consideration of Brazil as a multicultural society, comparing it to other major settler societies of the New World, including the U.S. and the rest of Latin America. We will consider Indian societies before and after contact, and we will compare slavery in the U.S. and Brazil. Why have race relations and definitions of race developed differently in the two countries? We will look at authority, class, and violence. We will examine the culture of religion, sexuality, Carnival, music, and the media.
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  • ANTH 3220: Intro to Forensic Anth

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Forensic anthropology uses physical anthropology, archaeology, and medical-legal investigation procedures to describe and identify human remains. This course will give students a general understanding of forensic anthropology within the broader context of the forensic sciences. Students will gain basic knowledge of the human skeleton, including dentition and will learn methods for description and identification of human remains. They will also be introduced to case studies that demonstrate the actual practice of forensic anthropology. This course may be taken concurrently with ANTH 3271 (Human Osteology) and it is a prerequisite for ANTH 5272 (Forensic Anthropology).
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    General Education Course

  • ANTH 3234: Genes, Health & History

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course will use human genes to study health and history. Through genetic data, we will see how populations have grown, moved, and mixed. We will also see how humans have adapted to a changing environment, with results that are sometimes beneficial and sometimes unfortunate. The first part of the course provides background on evolution, the second uses genes to study history, and the last deals with adaptive and maladaptive consequences of evolution.
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    General Education Course

  • ANTH 3252: Human Biology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Advanced treatment of human biological variation at individual and population levels. Patterns of physiological and genetic variation as adaptive responses to local ecological conditions, disease, and diet. Prerequisites: ANTH1010 OR ANTH1020 OR ANTH1050 OR BIOL1030 OR BIOL1610 OR BIOL1620.
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  • ANTH 3261: Paleoanthropology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Advanced treatment of hominid fossil record from Miocene to recent. Related data in archaeology, geology, geochronology, taphonomy, and paleoclimatic reconstructions. Prerequisites: ANTH1020 OR ANTH1030.
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  • ANTH 3271: Human Osteology

    4.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Human osteology is an intense laboratory course on the biology of human connective tissues. The course focuses on bone and tooth anatomy. It also includes sections on the microstructure of hard tissues, growth and development, age determination, sexual differentiation, stature reconstruction, disease, trauma, and decomposition. Students must allow for flexible non-class study time in the laboratory. This course may be taken concurrently with ANTH 3220, and it is a prerequisite for ANTH 5272. ANTH 3271 and 5272 cannot be taken simultaneously.
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