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2008-2009 Undergraduate Bulletin [Archived Bulletin]
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AFST 3100 - Introduction to African-American Studies
Crosslisted
Also listed as ENG 3100 or PHIL 3100.
Goals: To develop an understanding of several key issues in African-American Studies emphasizing close textural reading and analysis. Additionally, students participate in academic service learning to synthesize textual and experimental learning.
Content: The course materials will focus on critical readings about construction of race as a concept; intersections of race, class and gender; afrocentrism; pan-africanism; diasporic connections; nationalism; religious dimension; literary theory and popular culture.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 1100 - World Prehistory
Goals: To introduce students to the fascinating story of humanity’s deep history as told by archaeology. Students will also gain competency in the critical evaluation of scientific claims and archaeological knowledge.
Content: Survey of over four million years of human prehistory from our earliest hominid ancestors to the rise of ancient states. Topics include the first stone tools and the emergence of human culture, Neanderthals, Upper Paleolithic art, the origins of agriculture, the building of monumental architecture, and culminating with the first states, including those of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Mexico. We will also consider how archaeologists study the past through laboratory exercises, field assignments, and a computer simulation.
Taught: Alternate years, winter term.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 1160 - Introduction to Anthropology
Goals: To enhance understanding and appreciation for human diversity. To introduce basic anthropological concepts and principles. To encourage analytic thinking.
Content: Human behavior is explored in dynamic terms; that is, in terms of cultural coherence, social change, and symbolic interaction. Topics to be covered include how a society adapts to its environment, how people organize themselves in social units, how language serves social purposes, and how religious practices are integrated with other aspects of a culture.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 1200 - Introduction to Field Methods in Archaeology
Goals: To introduce the methods and theory of field archaeology as part of an on-site excavation project.
Context: Varies depending on type of site being excavated. Basic techniques covered include survey, mapping, record keeping, excavation and field conservation.
Taught: Annually, summers.
Corequisite: ANTH 1200L.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 1200L - Lab: Introduction to Field Methods in Archaeology
This lab must be taken concurrently with the ANTH 1200 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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ANTH 1240 - The Ancient Maya
Goals: To have a focused exploration of the various epistemologies related to how we know what we know about the ancient Maya of Mesoamerica. To document the ancient cultural trajectories of the Maya region from the earliest human colonization during Pleistocene times through the arrival of the Spanish in the sixteenth century. To become familiar with and to compare archaeological and ethnohistoric information, theories, and controversies related to the emergence and sustainability and eventual collapse of ancient Maya civilization, and as well, to recognize the cultural continuities characterizing modern Maya descendent communities.
Content: The ancient Maya culture flourished in what are now southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and parts of adjacent Honduras and El Salvador. There in southern Mesoamerica—in a tropical environment viewed by many as “hostile”—we find monumental architectural complexes, a refined great art style, and evidence of a truly impressive and sophisticated civilization. The Maya region has evidence of some of the largest and most densely packed populations known until the advent of industrialization and modern medical advances. Their “experiment” in civilization had some fatal flaws that brought about their downfall around A.D. 900—centuries before the arrival of the Europeans. We stand to learn much from their experience.
Taught: Alternate years, fall term.
Prerequisites: None; ANTH 1160 is recommended.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 1300 - Ethnography: Text and Film
Goals: To introduce students to written and cinematic ethnography, the representations of the peoples and cultures that anthropologists produce. To introduce students to basic anthropological concepts and current debates concerning the ethnographic representation of cultures.
Content: Ethnography is the primary method by which sociocultural anthropologists communicate the results of their investigations into the cultures they study. This course will investigate ethnography–both written and pictorial–as a means of communicating cross-cultural difference. A close reading of ethnography is combined with screenings of numerous ethnographic films, a selection of key theoretical articles, lecture and discussion to understand the relationship between media and the representation of culture. How does one translate experience into text or images? Is “culture” the source or the product of these attempts? How do anthropological attempts at representing culture in ethnographic books and film relate to fiction and entertainment?
Taught: Alternate years, winter term.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 1410 - Indonesian Music and Cultures
Crosslisted
Also listed as MUS 1410.
Goals: Designed for both musicians and nonmusicians, this course is an introduction to the music and cultures of Indonesia. One component is a hands-on introduction to the musical techniques and cultural significance of the Javanese gamelan orchestra, taught by Mr. Joko Sutrisno, Music Director of the Indonesian Performing Arts Association of Minnesota (IPAAM), using instruments on loan from the Schubert Club. In the anthropology side of the class, students will explore the wider social and cultural context in which this tradition is rooted by reading anthropological, literary, historical, and other social science accounts from Indonesia. The goals of the class are: 1) to acquire basic skills in playing gamelan music, a sense of its cultural significance, and an awareness of its social context; and 2) to gain a sense of the history and cultural diversity of Indonesia as a nation-state.
Content: The musical part of the class will involve daily playing in class and outside, regular journal-writing, and a final public recital. The anthropological part of the class will involve readings, lectures, film, and discussions. Written assignments will include journal entries, a midterm test, and short essays.
Taught: Annually, winter term.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 1530 - Human Evolution
Goals: To understand the process of biological evolution and the evolution of the human species.
Content: Study of evolutionary theory, population genetics, comparative primate anatomy and behavior, evolution of social behavior, fossil evidence for primate and hominid evolution, origins of bipedalism, tools.
Taught: Annually.
Corequisite: ANTH 1530L.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 1530L - Lab: Human Evolution
This lab must be taken concurrently with the ANTH 1530 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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ANTH 3000 - Issues in Anthropology
Goals: To introduce students to key theoretical, methodological, and ethical issues within the four subfields of anthropology (biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, cultural anthropology, archaeology). This is a gateway course into the major. Ideally, students should take this course in their sophomore year in conjunction with declaring a major. Recommended for many 3000-level courses.
Content: Department faculty introduce key issues under consideration in their respective subfields. Critical and close reading of representative articles and monograph allows students to engage active debates within the discipline (e.g., the utility of the concept of race; the role of the environment in cultural change; the uniqueness of human language; the responsibilities of anthropologists to the people they study). Writing assignments allow students to practice different styles of anthropological writing.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160 or consent of instructor. ANTH 3000 is not recommended for first-year students.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3100 - Principles of Archaeology
Goals: To understand principles of archaeology–the varying ways archaeologists recover, analyze, and interpret information about the past. To gain proficiency in general scientific practices, reading archaeological literature, and grant writing. To consider ethical and practical issues in the management of cultural resources, such as why preserve heritage sites, and how to balance the sometimes conflicting views, voices, and histories found in our contemporary world.
Content: Archaeologists are “time detectives” sifting through the material traces of past lives in order to better understand human behavior and human history. Using films, slides, artifacts, and readings, this course focuses on current methods and theories used in American archaeology. Students apply their knowledge by writing a research design as a final project.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3110 - Arctic Archaeology
Goals: To understand how human societies have survived, and occasionally flourished in the Arctic, one of the world’s most extreme environments. To learn about the unique challenges and opportunities faced by archaeologists working in the Far North.
Content: This course draws on the Arctic’s well-preserved archaeology and its rich ethnographic and historic records to explore human settlement, adaptation, and cultural evolution in the circumpolar world. This course uses readings, films, and artifacts to examine the story from the first Arctic inhabitants more than 14,000 years ago to the arrival of Europeans (Vikings in the east and Russians in the west) between 1000 and 250 years ago. Major anthropological issues covered in this course include investigating the causes for hunter-gatherer diversity; the interactions between gender, labor, and economy in Arctic societies; the role of migration, diffusion, and interaction in prehistory; and the relationships between maritime economies and cultural complexity.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3120 - Experimental Archaeology
Goals: To teach students advanced archaeological theory and laboratory methods. Students, working in teams, will design and implement research projects in ethnoarchaeology and/or experimental archaeology.
Content: One of the principle challenges faced by archaeologists wanting to learn about past human cultures is how to study the behavior of humans whom we cannot directly observe, but only understand through the physical clues they left behind. Ethnoarchaeology and experimental archaeology are two powerful tools that help archaeologists meet this challenge. Ethnoarchaeology, observing contemporary human behavior, and experimental archaeology, research that replicates under controlled conditions, behavior of interest, provide insight into the relationships between specific human actions and the archaeological evidence of these actions. The content of this course will include readings extracted from classic examples of experimental and ethnoarchaeological research. We will also engage in advanced laboratory analyses in order to identify specific research questions that students wish to address through their own experimental or ethnoarchaeological research project. Students who have taken an archaeological field methods or laboratory methods course are strongly encouraged to register.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ANTH 3210 or ANTH 3220 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3130 - Excavating Hamline History
Goals: To have students participate as part of an interdisciplinary team excavating a historic site on or near campus. This archaeological excavation is part of research focused on the early history of “Hamline Village.” It is also a public archaeology project with the goal of involving people from throughout the local community including Hancock Elementary students, neighborhood residents, and University alumni.
Content: Students learn basic archaeological field and laboratory methods, principles of historic archaeology, and anthropological approaches to material culture studies through readings and lectures, but primarily through participation. This course emphasizes archaeology as a holistic discipline linking the humanities, fine arts, social sciences, and natural sciences. Students help provide this interdisciplinary perspective by contributing to the overall research, educational, and public archaeology goals through individual and collaborative projects.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3210 - Advanced Field Methods in Archaeology
Goals: To gain additional competence in, and advanced theoretical understanding of, the field methods in archaeology.
Content: Students learn how to map using an alidade or transit and are trained in field photography, flotation techniques, soil sampling and planning excavation strategy.
Taught: Annually, summers.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1200.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3220L - Lab: Laboratory Techniques in Archaeology
This lab must be taken concurrently with the ANTH 3220 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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ANTH 3230 - Made in China: The Cultures of Economic Transformation
Goals: To examine the function of the global production system and the links that bind and transform communities, cultures, nations, and individuals across the global geography. This course focuses on the case of China and its relationship to the US and specifically Minnesota-based transnational corporations. It will examine how the forces that bring goods “made in China” to the shelves of American stores have themselves transformed the lives and lifeways of the people living in China.
Content: This course is designed to provide students with basic knowledge of historical, socioeconomic, and political contexts that will enable them to engage with contemporary China in an informed and knowledgeable manner. It has been designed as explicitly interdisciplinary and will draw upon topics and materials from history, political science, economics, and anthropology. Familiarity with Chinese is not necessary, but language students are strongly encouraged to consider this course. The standard course itinerary includes visits to the cities of Beijing, Datong, Nanjing, Suzhou, and Shanghai.
Taught: Alternate years, extended spring term in China.
Prerequisite: None; an introductory anthropology course and some Chinese language would be helpful.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3240 - Ancient and Modern Maya of Yucatan
Goals: To directly familiarize the students with the prehistory, history, and present-day conditions of the Maya of the Yucatan Peninsula of southern Mexico. The ancient Maya constructed large architectural complexes and were able to sustain some of the largest, most densely-packed populations the world has known until the advent of industrialization and modern medical advances. They were accomplished astronomers and mathematicians. They provide us with an example of a culture that developed a complex state and civilization in an environment many view as “hostile.” Their “experiment” in civilization had some fatal flaws that brought about their downfall around A.D. 900—centuries before the arrival of the Europeans. We stand to learn much from their experience.
Content: Using on-site visits to archaeological and historical sites, museums, to modern Maya communities, students become acquainted with the prehistory, history, and the rural-to-urban ethnographic spectrum of the Maya people of Yucatan. Students are confronted by a variety of alternative explanations and issue-oriented perspectives that deal specifically with the Maya area.
Taught: Alternate years, winter term in Yucatan, Mexico.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3250 - Ancient Civilizations of the Mexican Highlands
Goals: To directly familiarize students with the ancient civilizations of central Mesoamerica as well as with the history and present-day conditions of the peoples of central Mexico. At sites such as Teotihuacan, Tula, El Tajin, Xochicalco, Monte Alban, and Mexico/Tenochtitlan students will have an opportunity to see firsthand the large archaeological sites that testify to the emergence of the varied ancient civilizations of the Mexican highlands ranging from the Olmec–the suggested “parent” culture of Mesoamerica–to that of later Teotihuacan, the Totonac, Zapotec, Mixtec, Toltec, and finally Aztec cultures.
Content: Using on-site visits to archaeological and historical sites, museums, and modern Mexican highland indigenous communities, students become acquainted with the prehistory, history, and the rural-to-urban ethnographic spectrum of the cultures of central Mexico. Students are confronted by a variety of alternative explanations and issue-oriented perspectives that deal specifically with the central area of Mesoamerica.
Taught: Alternate years, extended spring term in central Mexico.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3260 - Pilgrims, Travelers, Tourists
Goals: To introduce students to the history and sociocultural contexts of various forms of travel from religious pilgrimage to the rise of mass tourism and how each structures knowledge and experience of other places and peoples.
Content: Historical and contemporary travel narratives, ethnography, films, and guest lectures will be supplemented with theoretical essays to examine the power of the practice of travel in various forms both historical and contemporary. This course will emphasize the connections and tensions between various forms of the journey and issues such as self-knowledge, authenticity, class, the nature of “others,” and the construction of “culture.”
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160 or GLOB 1910, or consent of instructor.
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ANTH 3270 - Exploring Ancient Southeast Asia
Goals: To directly familiarize students with the evidence for the emergence and development of the prehistoric cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia by focusing on the rich archaeological record found in Thailand, Cambodia, and their neighbors. To acquaint students with the history and present-day conditions of the peoples of that area. Beginning with early sites such as Ban Chiang and the Pha Taem Rock Paintings site through later complex sites such as Phimai, Phanom Rung, Angkor, Sukhothai, and Ayutthaya, students have an opportunity to see firsthand the major archaeological sites that testify to the emergence of the varied ancient civilizations of Southeast Asia—ranging from the earliest village sites through the impressive architectural and hydraulic management legacies of Khmer domination, through the period when Thai civilization was born and came to politically and culturally dominate much of the Southeast Asian mainland.
Content: Using on-site visits to archaeological and historical sites, museums and modern indigenous communities, students become acquainted with the prehistory, history, and the rural to urban ethnographic spectrum of the cultures of Southeast Asia. Students are confronted by a variety of alternative explanations and issue oriented perspectives that deal specifically with Mainland Southeast Asian concerns.
Taught: Alternate years, winter term in Southeast Asia.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3280 - Ancient Civilizations of Southeast Asia
Goals: To offer an interdisciplinary survey of the complex cultural diversity that characterized ancient Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia). To be aware of, to be able to synthesize, and to be able to evaluate how archaeological anthropologists have employed analytical techniques and systemic perspectives to understand prehistoric traditions culminating in the formation of the complex societies and states of ancient Southeast Asia.
Content: Comparative archaeological and primary and secondary historical information, theories, and controversies related to the origins of the various cultures and civilizations (ancient Hoabhinian, Ban Chiang through later Khmer, Thai, Burmese, Malay, Indonesian cultures) that flourished in ancient Southeast Asia from the earliest human colonization during Pleistocene times to the arrival of Islam and the European powers.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3300 - Ethnographic Research Methods
Goals: To gain experience with a variety of ethnographic research methods and techniques.
Content: Reading and discussion of exemplary ethnographies; delimiting a social field in which to conduct research; generating a research proposal; establishing rapport with members of the community; making observations of human behavior in natural settings; and documenting ethnographic data (through written field notes, interviews and transcripts, photography, audio- or video-recordings, etc.).
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3310 - Ancient Civilizations of Middle America
Goals: To offer an interdisciplinary survey of the complex cultural diversity that characterized ancient Mesoamerica (central to southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Western Honduras, El Salvador). To be aware of, to be able to synthesize, and to be able to evaluate how archaeological anthropologists have employed analytical techniques and systemic perspectives to understand prehistoric cultural dynamics that contributed to the rise of the various prehistoric complex societies of ancient Middle America.
Content: Comparative archaeological and ethnohistorical information, theories, and controversies related to the various cultures and civilizations (Olmec, Zapotec, Mixtec, Totonac, Teotihuacan, Maya, Toltec, Aztec) that flourished in Mesoamerica from the earliest human colonization during Pleistocene times through the arrival of the Spanish in the sixteenth century.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3320 - North American Archaeology
Goals: To offer an interdisciplinary survey of the complex cultural diversity that characterized ancient North America (Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico). To be aware of, to be able to synthesize, and to be able to evaluate how archaeological anthropologists have employed analytical techniques and systemic perspectives to understand prehistoric cultural dynamics that contributed to the emergence and development of the various archaeological traditions of ancient North America.
Content: Comparative archaeological and ethnohistorical information, theories, and controversies related to the various regional archaeological traditions that developed in North America from the earliest human colonization during Pleistocene times through the arrival of the Europeans.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3330 - North American Indian History and Cultures
Goals: To provide experience in ecological and functional analysis of traditional American Indian cultures. To gain an understanding of the implications of historic and contemporary social policies for American Indians.
Content: In-depth examination of the ecological adaptation of one or more indigenous North American cultures. Use of the Science Museum of Minnesota collections in the functional analysis of artifacts from a variety of culture areas. History of U.S. Government policy and contemporary problems. Extensive use is made of films, ethnographies, novels, poetry, and biographical materials.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3340 - Exploring the Ancient Civilizations of Peru
Goals: To directly familiarize students on site in Peru with the prehistory, history, and present day conditions of the peoples of Andes, their diverse ecosystems ranging from the arid coastal deserts to the high mountains. Ancient civilizations in the Andes attained a high degree of sophistication, producing large architectural complexes, a wide range of artistic and craft forms, and complex political organizations, culminating in the Inca Empire. This course will provide comparative archaeological and ethnohistorical information, theories, and controversies related to the various cultures and civilizations that flourished there (Chavin, Cupisnique, Chimu, through that of the Quechua-speaking Inca) from the earliest human colonization during Pleistocene times through the sixteenth century arrival of Francisco Pizarro to current times.
Content: Using on-site visits to archaeological and historical sites, museums, and to modern rural through urban communities, students will become aware of, be able to synthesize, and be able to evaluate how archaeological anthropologists have employed analytical techniques and systemic perspectives to understand prehistoric cultural dynamics that contributed to the rise of the various complex societies of ancient Peru. In addition to archaeological concerns, students become acquainted with the diverse ecologies and the rural-to-urban ethnographic spectrum of the cultures of contemporary Peruvian Andean life. Students are confronted by a variety of alternative explanations and issueoriented perspectives that deal specifically with the Andean region.
Taught: Alternate years, winter term in Peru.
Prerequisite: None; ANTH 3470 is recommended.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3360 - Race: Biological Fact or Cultural Construct?
Goals: To understand and critically evaluate the concept of race in the history of anthropology and to understand the role anthropology has played in the development of a Euro-American racial world view. To understand the biological processes that produce clinal patterns of human variation and the distinction between these processes and the cultural construction of racial categories.
Content: The race concept, biological determinism, Boasian opposition to racial determinism, polytypic human variation and adaptation, behavioral genetics, American racial world view and its attitudinal, behavioral, and institutional manifestation as racism.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3370 - Minnesota Archaeology
Goal: To study the 10,000-year history of the peoples and cultures of what is now Minnesota, with special emphasis on American Indian history from glacial times through the European invasion and the treaty period of the 1800s.
Content: Examination of changing perceptions of American Indian history. Material culture is examined in relationship to environment and life ways. The role of the world view and spirituality in harmonizing lifestyle with the environment.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3390 - Field Experience in Ghana
Goals: To become familiar with Ghanaian history and cultural worlds; to learn about the socio-political and economic conditions typical of much of West Africa; and to gain experience in field methods in the context of a foreign country.
Content: The arts and music of Ghana; timber, cocoa, and gold of the Ashanti region; Islamic influences in the Northern region; nature preserves; the trans-Atlantic slave trade; and how to transform sensory experiences into ethnographic representations.
Taught: Alternate years, extended spring term.
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3410 - Africa, Music, and Cultural Production
Crosslisted
Also listed as MUS 1415
Goals: To acquaint students with instrumental resources and structures in West African music, while simultaneously learning about social life and cultural production in African worlds.
Content: In Africa and African diasporas, music has always been and continues to be a vital form of cultural expression. This course focuses on cultural production and the formation of identities in contemporary Africa, through exploring how African/Black music contributes to the ways in which Africa is represented and consumed in the world. In theoretical terms, the course will query how Africa is produced in the global imagination through performance, but students will also gain practical experience with drum ensemble music. Using indigenous instruments and an African approach to musical training, the class will learn rhythms and songs from West Africa, and also become exposed to African/Black music from other parts of the world.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3415 - Africa in Crisis
Goals: To learn about the cultural consequences for Africans of consistent exploitation of the continent’s natural resources and its human beings. To interrogate the reasons for said “exploitation,” and explore specific responses and resistances to socio-political turmoil in given locales.
Content: Immersion in current journalistic, literary, cultural, and cinematic representations of various “crises” on the continent. Students will become more aware of root causes of some of the strife and destitution they often associate with Africa as a result of Hollywood and mass media representations. The course is reading, film-viewing, and speaking-intensive. Students will learn a method of discussing emotionally charged issues (human experiences with genocide, corruption and brutality, drought, famine, political oppression, rape, AIDS, and so forth) by honoring all class members’ input and perspectives.
Taught: Alternate years, fall.
Prerequisite: None.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3420 - African Ensemble
Crosslisted
Also listed as MUS 1420
Goal and content: Performance of African and Afro-American drum ensemble styles involving vocal performance as well as indigenous instruments.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: None.
Credits: 1 credit each term
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ANTH 3430 - Transnational Migration and Diasporic Communities
Goals: To understand the migratory routes, transnational linkages, and imaginative connections maintained by globally dispersed peoples in the contemporary world. To prepare sensitive and informed global citizens ready to apply their understandings to address social and political issues of the day.
Content: Interdisciplinary approach to the study of migration and diasporas. Instructor introduces theoretical perspectives. Instructor and guest experts present model case studies. Students research and present additional case studies.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160 or GLOB 1910.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3440L - Lab: Human Osteology and Skeletal Identification
This lab must be taken concurrently with the ANTH 3440 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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ANTH 3450 - Bioarchaeology
Goals: To explore how the study of human skeletal remains and the collaboration of biological anthropologists and archaeologists, using a regional population approach, have enhanced our knowledge of the bio-cultural adaptation of humans.
Content: Bones are eloquent voices from the past. From the single skeleton of the Iceman Otzi to the preserved remains at Vesuvius or the remains of Finnish immigrants in northern Minnesota, human skeletal remains have much to reveal about the past. Problem oriented research topics include the peopling of North America, the biological consequences of the shift to agriculture, the effects of contact and European colonization on populations of the Americas, and the origin and expression of warfare. Methodological approaches include mortuary archaeology, paleodemography, paleopathology, dietary reconstruction, biodistance, biomechanics, and bone chemistry. The ethical and legal factors affecting the study of human remains are also considered.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160. ANTH 3440 is strongly recommended.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3460 - From Development to Globalization
Goals: This course surveys the socio-cultural, economic, political relationships that bind the lives of those at the global center with those at the periphery–offering historical and contemporary contexts for understanding the profound disparities in wealth, health, life expectancy, population density, and access to opportunity evident in our world.
Content: Socio-cultural and historical contexts are introduced and investigated through an emphasis on primary sources, theoretical essays and course lectures, supplemented with two ethnographic case studies. Throughout the course students will be challenged to understand the context of the contemporary world system and their place in it. Drawing broadly on contemporary literature from economics, political science, rural sociology, and anthropology this course will focus on issues such as: post-coloniality, the global division of labor, global production, cultures of consumption, global poverty, Cold War developmentalism, intellectual property issues, post-modernism, and social responses to globalization.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160 or consent of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3470 - Prehistory of the Non-Mediterranean World
Goals: To survey and become aware of the complex diversity of cultural developments that occurred outside of the mainstream of the Western tradition. To compare the early culture histories of the non-Western world as well as the related interpretative theories.
Content: Comparative archaeological information, theories and controversies related to cultural developments in the following areas: (1) Middle East (Early Foundations), (2) South Asia (principally India), (3) East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan), (4) Mainland and insular Southeast Asia (Early Foundations), (5) Oceania, (6) Sub-Saharan Africa, (7) Central America, (8) Andean South America, (9) Temperate Europe (north and beyond the Roman Empire), and (10) the Lowlands of South America.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3480 - Cultural Ecology
Goal: To discuss and analyze how anthropologists have developed and applied the ecosystem concept to questions about how modern and ancient peoples have interacted with their environment. To understand how anthropologists have developed systems models of cultures as finely attuned adaptive systems. To learn how to develop explanatory models that relate cultural behavior to ecological considerations.
Content: The comparative development of human cultural adaptive strategies to the major ecosystems of this planet: arctic, arid zone, grasslands (temperate and tropical), high altitude systems, and forests (boreal, temperate, and tropical). The methodologies and techniques employed in cultural ecological studies.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3490 - Language, Culture, and Society
Goals: To explore the relationship between: a) language structure and performance; b) world view, cultural categories, values, beliefs, attitudes, folk models, and ideologies; and c) social action, organization, relations, and events. To think about the ways in which language is embedded in social contexts of use by reading about other speech communities and reflecting upon our own.
Content: A mix of theoretical discussions and empirical examples from both western and non-western traditions, past and present, and field observations by students of language use. Ethnographic examples from American Indian and immigrant groups.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: None.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3500L - Lab: Forensic Anthropology
This lab must be taken concurrently with the ANTH 3500 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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ANTH 3530 - Culture, Illness, and Health
Goals: To introduce students to the subdiscipline of medical anthropology, and to study health, illness, and healing from a cross-cultural perspective.
Content: The study of affliction and healing in non-Western as well as Western societies; ways in which the social construction of well-being affects therapy managing strategies across a range of human societies; analysis of how power is utilized to privilege some sectors and deprive other groups of basic standards of community health; and the meaning of signs of sickness and suffering as a way of interpreting their relationship to broader social themes including technology, ritual, and religion. The course is designed to provide students with a framework for understanding the historical and social construction of healing practices and beliefs.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisites: Previous coursework in anthropology or the social sciences.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3540 - Museums, Exhibitions, and Representation
Goals: This course presents students with an introduction to museums and exhibitions, and their social, political, and cultural roles in society. It provides students with basic theoretical approaches for examining the power and politics of collection, display and representation at work in museums. It examines specific examples of the ways that museums and exhibitions provide spaces for articulating and practicing different communities and identities, and their relationship to “others.” Finally, the course provides students with an introduction to aspects of museum collection, exhibit design, and public interpretation.
Content: The course is taught using a mixture of theoretical readings, ethnographies, field excursions to local museums, and a student field project. Topics covered include: a basic introduction to the history of collecting and display; the beginnings and institutionalization of museums; different museums and their publics; theories of representation and cultural production; and the design, collection, and curation of museum exhibits.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3570 - Religion, Culture, and the State
Crosslisted
Also listed as REL 3570.
Goals: To introduce students to the sociopolitical and intellectual issues posed by the intersection of claims on and by people in the name of “religion,” “culture,” and “the state.” To investigate the contested relationship between modern nation-states and religions. To prepare sensitive and informed global citizens ready to apply their understandings to address issues of the day.
Content: Theoretical and methodological discussion, followed by case studies presented by guest experts and by students.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160 or REL 1100 or GLOB 1910.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 3580 - Cultural Psychology
Goals: To investigate the ways in which culture and psyche make each other up, and to gain experience conducting interviews.
Content: Beginning with the premise that all psychologies are “ethno-psychologies” and systems of health care are best understood when approached through the matrix of culture, this course will explore a wide range of issues broadly construed under the category of cultural psychology and mental health. Lectures and readings focus on the “borderland” between anthropology, psychiatry/psychology, and medicine. Students conduct person-centered ethnographic interviews in order to analyze the ways individuals tend to think of themselves in relation to their cultural worlds.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1160 or PSY 1330.
Credits: 4 credits
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ANTH 5260 - Anthropological Thought and Theory
Goals: To become familiar with the kinds of explanations and methods anthropologists have used and/or are currently using to analyze cultural phenomena. To develop critical thinking.
Content: Theoretical statements and exemplary analyses covering a spectrum of approaches employed by 19th and 20th century anthropologists.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: At least two 3000-level anthropology courses.
Credits: 4 credits
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ART 1130 - Drawing and 2-D Design
Goals: To gain an understanding of the basic elements and principles of drawing and 2-D design. To foster an awareness of the cultural and aesthetic significance of the basic concepts that form the foundation of the visual arts.
Content: Elements of line, value, shape, perspective, texture, and principles of design and composition.
Credits: 4 credits
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ART 1140 - Beginning Life Drawing
Goals: To learn and apply the basic elements and principles of drawing to drawing the human figure.
Content: Study of line, contour, shape, value, foreshortening, composition, design, and principles of light and shade while drawing from the live model.
Credits: 4 credits
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ART 1300 - Beginning Pottery
Goals: To provide the necessary skills and technical vocabulary for forming, glazing, decorating, and firing pottery and to form the basis for an aesthetic understanding of pottery within the larger context of art.
Content: Basic skills for making pottery on the potter’s wheel and handbuilding with slabs and coils; decorating, glazing, and firing techniques; ideas and attitude for understanding pottery aesthetics in a contemporary, social and historical context.
Credits: 4 credits
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ART 1510 - Beginning Sculpture
Goals: To learn the fundamental principles of three-dimensional perception. To learn to apply basic techniques and principles to making sculpture. To introduce a variety of sculpture material, including clay, plaster, metal, stone and wood. To introduce the processes of sculpture, including modeling, casting, carving and construction.
Content: The elements of sculpture, concepts of form and space, aesthetic theory, mold-making and casting, development of the individual aesthetic. Technical processes as required by individual projects (bronze casting, welding, stone carving, woodcarving, wax working, plaster, etc.).
Credits: 4 credits
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ART 1540 - Beginning Painting
Goals: To learn how to manipulate and control the aesthetic elements of line, color, texture, shape, tension, etc. on a two-dimensional surface.
Content: Oil, acrylic, watercolor, and/or non-traditional painting mediums and techniques of application will be used and encouraged. Stretcher construction, framing, and presentation will also be stressed. The emphasis is on visual thinking and creative problem solving.
Credits: 4 credits
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ART 1800 - Beginning Printmaking
Goals: To learn the methods and means of intaglio printmaking processes; to further the student’s own artistic goals.
Content: Demonstration and use of the various engraving tools, the use and application of various grounds, aquatints and acids, and instruction in the printing process.
Prerequisites: ART 1130 and 1140 and permission of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ART 3140 - Life Drawing
Goals: To learn and apply the basic elements and principles of drawing to drawing the human figure.
Content: Study of line, contour, shape, value, foreshortening, composition, design, and principles of light and shade while drawing from the live model.
Prerequisite: ART 1140.
Credits: 4 credits
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ART 3300 - Intermediate Ceramics
Goals: To provide the necessary skills and technical vocabulary for forming, glazing, decorating, and firing pottery and to form the basis for an aesthetic understanding of pottery within the larger context of art.
Content: Basic skills for making pottery on the potter’s wheel and handbuilding with slabs and coils; decorating, glazing, and firing techniques; ideas and attitudes for understanding pottery aesthetics in a contemporary, social and historical context.
Prerequisite: ART 1300.
Credits: 4 credits
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ART 3510 - Intermediate Sculpture
Goals: To learn the fundamental principles of three-dimensional perception. To learn to apply basic techniques and principles to making sculpture. To introduce a variety of sculpture material, including clay, plaster, metal, stone and wood. To introduce the processes of sculpture, including modeling, casting, carving and construction.
Content: The elements of sculpture, concepts of form and space, aesthetic theory, mold-making and casting, development of the individual aesthetic. Technical processes as required by individual projects (stone carving, woodcarving, wax working, plaster, etc.).
Prerequisite: ART 1510.
Credits: 4 credits
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ART 3540 - Intermediate Painting
Goals: To learn how to manipulate and control the aesthetic elements of line, color, texture, shape, tension, etc. on a two-dimensional surface.
Content: Oil, acrylic, watercolor, and/or non-traditional painting mediums and techniques of application will be used and encouraged. Stretcher construction, framing, and presentation will also be stressed. The emphasis is on visual thinking and creative problem solving.
Prerequisite: ART 1540.
Credits: 4 credits
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ART 3800 - Intermediate Printmaking
Goals: To learn the methods and means of intaglio printmaking processes; to further the student’s own artistic goals.
Content: Demonstration and use of the various engraving tools, the use and application of various grounds, aquatints and acids, and instruction in the printing process.
Prerequisites: ART 1800 and permission of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ART 3880 - Mixed Media
Goals: To develop aesthetic and technical problem-solving ability using traditional and non-traditional, as well as historical materials and methods.
Content: Drawing projects in a variety of media. Professional aspects of visual arts, curatorship, and conservation.
Prerequisite: ART 1130 and 1140, or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ART 5330 - Advanced Ceramics
Goals: To achieve greater understanding of clay, glaze, and firing techniques in support of a student’s individual expression and goals.
Content: Work in wheel throwing, handbuilding or molds; production of functional and non-functional work. Clay and glaze technology may be included. Class assignments and critiques allow students to plan their own direction and to work toward achieving their individual expressive goals in clay.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ART 5710 - Advanced Sculpture
Goals: To further develop abilities as demonstrated in Art 3510. Emphasis on professional working attitude and development of individual aesthetic.
Content: Advanced problems in three-dimensional image-making to be determined by the student.
Prerequisites: ART 3510 and permission of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ART 5740 - Advanced Painting
Goals: To further the student’s abilities in painting. Creativity and personal expression are emphasized.
Content: Preparing a professional portfolio.
Prerequisites: ART 3540 and permission of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ART 5820 - Advanced Drawing
Goals: To learn advanced drawing principles and techniques and to develop a personal aesthetic.
Content: Experimentation with a variety of drawing materials. Study of the relationship of principle and technique to content.
Prerequisites: ART 1130 and 1140; or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ART 5900 - Advanced Printmaking
Goals: To achieve a greater mastery of printmaking.
Content: Further exploration of the intaglio process, introduction of the mezzotint, use of lift-grounds, and demonstration of multiple-plate printing. Professional attitude toward work is stressed.
Prerequisites: ART 1800 and 3800 and permission of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ART 5950 - Senior Seminar
Goals: To explore contemporary issues in art, with special focus on art theory and the professional presentation of images. To address archival preservation, exhibition installation, and health and safety issues related to the use of materials in the visual arts. To provide studio seniors with a capstone experience, which would combine art theory and exhibition practicum. The instructor will be the advisor for their senior exhibition.
Content: Readings in theory and criticism, exhibitions in local museums and galleries, and lectures by visiting scholars and artists.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: Studio arts major in senior year, or permission of the department chair.
Credits: 4 credits
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ARTH 1200 - Western Traditions: Prehistory to the Middle Ages
Goals: To explore the arts from prehistoric times through the Middle Ages, and to promote an understanding that a work of art is a reflection of the culture in which it was created. To gain an understanding of formal principles and the materials and techniques of artistic production.
Content: The traditions of painting, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts in the western world from roughly 20,000 BC to the fourteenth century. Some comparison to non-western works is presented. Major monuments are considered in light of religious, political, social, economic, and geographic conditions. Special emphasis is placed on the iconography and cultural context of the works, along with the methods and materials of artistic production. This course is strongly advised as a foundation for ARTH 1210.
Taught: Annually, fall term.
Credits: 4 credits
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ARTH 1210 - Western Traditions: Renaissance to Contemporary
Goals: To introduce the major monuments of art history from the fourteenth century through the Pop Art of the 1960s, and to promote an understanding that a work of art is a reflection of the culture in which it was created. To gain an understanding of formal principles and the materials and techniques of artistic production.
Content: The traditions of painting, sculpture, architecture, and the graphic and decorative arts in the western world from the fourteenth century through contemporary times. Major monuments are considered in light of religious, political, social, economic,and geographic conditions. Special emphasis is placed on the iconography and cultural context of the works, along with the methods and materials of artistic production.
Taught: Annually, spring term.
Prerequisite: While it is not required, students are strongly advised to take ARTH 1200 before taking ARTH 1210.
Credits: 4 credits
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ARTH 1300 - Dante and the Visual Arts
Goals: To familiarize students with one of the great works of Western culture, Dante’s Divine Comedy, and, of that work, to read its most well-known component, the Inferno. To explore the interaction of art and literature through study of artists’ interpretations of the Inferno from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Arts studied include painting, sculpture, and book/manuscript illustration.
Content: Students will read all of Dante’s Inferno (which is the first of three parts of the Divine Comedy, the other two being Purgatorio and Paradiso) and will study visual imagery created as illustration of this work or as inspired by this work.
Taught: Alternate years, concurrently with ARTH 3300.
Credits: 4 credits
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ARTH 1310 - High Renaissance Art in Italy
Goals: To explore the art and culture of the High Renaissance in Italy through in-depth study of four major artists of the period: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian.
Content: This course focuses on the lives and works of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian within the cultural context of the High Renaissance in Italy. The course will address issues of biography, patronage, and art theory.
Taught: Alternate years, concurrently with ARTH 3310.
Credits: 4 credits
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ARTH 3300 - Dante and the Visual Arts
Goals: To familiarize students with one of the great works of Western culture, Dante’s Divine Comedy, and, of that work, to read its most well-known component, the Inferno. To explore the interaction of art and literature through study of artists’ interpretations of the Inferno from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Arts studied include painting, sculpture, and book/manuscript illustration.
Content: Students will read all of Dante’s Inferno (which is the first of three parts of the Divine Comedy, the other two parts being Purgatorio and Paradiso) and will study visual imagery created as illustration of this work or as inspired by this work.
Taught: Alternate years, concurrently with ARTH 1300.
Prerequisites: ARTH 1200 and ARTH 1210, or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ARTH 3310 - High Renaissance Art in Italy
Goals: To explore the art and culture of the High Renaissance in Italy through in-depth study of four major artists of the period: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian.
Content: This course focuses on the lives and works of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian within the cultural context of the High Renaissance in Italy. The course will address issues of biography, patronage, and art theory.
Taught: Alternate years, concurrently with ARTH 1310.
Prerequisites: ARTH 1200 and ARTH 1210, or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ARTH 3500 - Art of the Italian Renaissance
Goals: To explore major artistic developments in Italian art from the 13th-16th centuries within their cultural, political, social, and esthetic contexts.
Content: The emphasis of the course will be on painting, sculpture, and architecture.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisites: ARTH 1200 and ARTH 1210, or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ARTH 3900 - 19th-Century Art in Europe
Goals: To explore major artists and artistic developments in Western Europe in the 19th century within their cultural, political, social, and esthetic contexts.
Content: The emphasis of the course will be on painting, but significant developments in sculpture and architecture will be considered as well. This course is strongly advised as a foundation for ARTH 3910.
Taught: Annually, fall term.
Prerequisites: ARTH 1200 and ARTH 1210, or permission of the instructor. Students are strongly advised to take an art history course at the 3000-3500 level before taking ARTH 3900.
Credits: 4 credits
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ARTH 3910 - 20th-Century Art in Europe and the United States
Goals: To explore the arts of the 20th century in Europe and the United States, and to examine individual artists and artworks in light of their respective artistic movements and cultural contexts. To analyze relationships between theory and image, as well as relationships between artistic periods.
Content: Sculpture and painting of the 20th century in Europe and the United States. Special attention is given to major artistic movements, theoretical explorations, and the role of the avant-garde.
Taught: Annually, spring term.
Prerequisites: ARTH 1200 and ARTH 1210, or permission of the instructor. Students are strongly advised to take ARTH 3900 prior to taking ARTH 3910.
Credits: 4 credits
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ARTH 5000 - Senior Art History Research
Goals: To conduct independent research appropriate for the discipline of art history. To develop a senior research paper necessary for graduation.
Content: Independent research concluding with a major paper on a topic appropriate for the discipline of art history. Each student shall work closely with the instructor in topic selection, research methodology, development, and evaluation of the paper.
Prerequisites: ARTH 1200, ARTH 1210, and ARTH 3910, or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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ARTH 5010 - Senior Art History Research Honors*
Goals: To conduct independent research appropriate for the discipline of art history. To develop a senior research paper necessary for graduation.
Content: Independent research concluding with a major paper on a topic appropriate for the discipline of art history. Each student shall work closely with the instructor in topic selection, research methodology, development, and evaluation of the paper. The Senior Art History Honors tutorial is considered a year-long project.
Prerequisites: ARTH 1200, ARTH 1210, and ARTH 3910, or permission of instructor. In addition, the student must be a senior with a grade point average of 3.5 or higher in the Art History major and of 3.0 in cumulative coursework to qualify for graduation with Honors. The student must have written permission of the instructor to register for Senior Art History Research Honors.
Typically, students register for this course in the fall term and complete it in the spring term of their senior year. Upon successful completion, the * in the course title will include the actual honors project title on the official transcript of the student.
Credits: 4 credits
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ARTH 5450 - Senior Seminar: Methodologies of Art History
Goals: This course acquaints students with various methodological approaches used within the field of art history. Through analyzing and applying these various methods, students practice critical reading and discussion skills, and exercise writing, research, and speaking skills necessary to execute an advanced research project in the field of art history.
Content: Students will study various methodological approaches used in the field of art history and apply them to their own research project through completion of a written project as well as an oral presentation.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisites: ARTH 1200, ARTH 1210, and ARTH 3910, or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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BIOC 3820L - Lab: Biochemistry I
This lab must be taken concurrently with the BIOC 3820 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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BIOC 3830L - Lab: Biochemistry II
This lab must be taken concurrently with the BIOC 3830 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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BIOL 1120 - Biology of Human Function
Goals: To introduce non-science majors to human structure and function. To develop an appreciation of advances in biological technologies.
Content: The function of cells and organ systems, emphasizing the physical mechanisms used to maintain a state of dynamic equilibrium.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 4 credits
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BIOL 1120L - Lab: Biology of Human Function
This lab must be taken concurrently with the BIOL 1120 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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BIOL 1130 - Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
Goals: To understand the ecological, evolutionary, geological, and historical factors which have led to the current distribution and abundance of organisms; to examine the changes in these distributions due to human activities; and to evaluate conservation strategies for different types of organisms.
Content: Fundamentals of population ecology, community ecology and evolution; classification of organisms; patterns of biodiversity in space and time; extinctions and their causes; conservation genetics; design of nature preserves.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 4 credits
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BIOL 1130L - Lab: Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
This lab must be taken concurrently with the BIOL 1130 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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BIOL 1140 - Human Heredity and Disease
Goals: To introduce students to the principles of heredity, genetic technology, examples of hereditary diseases, and related societal concerns. To confront students with ethical choices that society will need to make regarding new genetic technologies.
Content: Modes of inheritance, gene and chromosomal behavior, hereditary disease, DNA structure, mutation, gene regulation, cancer, genetic engineering, gene therapy.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 4 credits
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BIOL 1140L - Lab: Human Heredity and Disease
This lab must be taken concurrently with the BIOL 1140 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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BIOL 1150 - Biology of Women
Goals: To introduce students to the basic aspects of reproductive biology, biological bases of gender differences, and women’s health. The course will also provide a context for examining the social and political framework within which science is done, and the extent to which scientific studies may be conducted as objective or value-neutral activities.
Content: Course topics will include reproductive anatomy and physiology, sexual development and differentiation, hormones and reproductive cycle regulation, pregnancy and childbearing, reproductive technologies, STDs and AIDS, women and aging, and women and cancer. Students will practice methods of scientific inquiry and analysis, and assess the strengths and limitations of scientific approaches toward understanding the biology of women.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 4 credits
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BIOL 1150L - Lab: Biology of Women
This lab must be taken concurrently with the BIOL 1150 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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BIOL 1160 - Biology of Behavior
Goals: To engage non-science majors in exploring how the behavior of animals is shaped by their environments, genetics, and evolutionary history. To develop skills in oral communication, computer use, and the scientific method by designing and conducting experiments. To foster a sense of wonder and curiosity about the behavior of animals.
Content: An exploration of animal behavior. This course will introduce the process of scientific inquiry while investigating how and why animals have developed their particular solutions to problems of life such as finding food, shelter, and mates, avoiding predators and disease, and producing offspring. Topics will include fundamental principles of evolution, genetics, sensory physiology, and behavioral ecology as ways to explore the causes of behavior and why different behavior patterns have evolved in various kinds of animals. Labs will focus on developing and testing student-generated research questions.
Taught: Occasionally, winter or summer term.
Prerequisites: None.
Credits: 4 credits
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BIOL 1160L - Lab: Biology of Behavior
This lab must be taken concurrently with the BIOL 1160 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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BIOL 1170 - Natural History of Minnesota
Goals: To understand the ecological, evolutionary, geological, and historical factors which have led to the current distribution and abundance of organisms in Minnesota and the upper Midwest; to examine the changes in these distributions over time; to demonstrate the principles of scientific thinking using a multidisciplinary approach.
Content: Fundamentals of global and regional climates, regional weather, fundamental geological processes, interpretation of maps and other geographical information, principles of ecology and evolution, classification and identification of organisms. Teaching Methods: Experiential learning during field trips to sites throughout the region. Assignments: homework, field exercises, exams, and participation.
Taught: Occasionally, summer only.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required; application and interviews for admission take place during spring semester. Students must contact the instructor for application materials and further details.
Credits: 4 credits
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BIOL 1800 - Principles of Ecology and Evolution
Goals: This course is designed for potential biology majors and others needing majors-level biology. To introduce ecological and evolutionary principles, and how these relate to understanding the origins and diversity of life on earth. To gain experience in the practice of science by posing research questions, designing and conducting experiments or observations to answer these questions, and presenting the results publicly. To develop skills in oral communication, use of the computer as a scientific tool, and functioning as a member of a goal-oriented team. To foster a sense of wonder and curiosity about biological diversity.
Content: An exploration of ecology and evolution. Topics will include interactions among organisms and with their environment, transmission genetics, micro and macroevolutionary processes, and the origin and diversity of life. Throughout the course, we will discuss examples of how ecological and evolutionary principles can enhance our understanding of environmental and medical issues. The course will introduce skills needed for conducting biological research, with emphasis on development of research questions and experimental design.
Taught: Fall term.
Prerequisites: None. Concurrent registration in CHEM 1130 recommended.
Non-science majors seeking the Hamline Plan “N” through Biology should take a course in the BIOL 1100 series rather than taking BIOL 1800.
Credits: 4 credits
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BIOL 1800L - Lab: Principles of Ecology and Evolution
This lab must be taken concurrently with the BIOL 1800 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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BIOL 1820 - Principles of Plant and Animal Physiology
Goals: To introduce the basic principles of plant and animal physiology emphasizing structure-function relationships, mechanisms of integration of cellular, tissue and organ functions, and the concept of homeostatic balance. To gain experience in the practice of science by posing scientific questions, designing experiments or observations to answer these questions, and presenting the results of these studies in a public forum. To increase skills in the following areas: oral and written communication, use of the computer as a scientific tool, functioning as a member of a goal-directed team.
Content: Physiological mechanisms for the regulation of water balance, gas exchange, and energy balance in both plants and animals will be covered. The role of cells, tissues, and organs in physiological process; function and regulation of the endocrine, digestive, respiratory, vascular, and nervous systems in animals.
Taught: Spring term.
Prerequisites: BIOL 1800 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4 credits
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BIOL 1820L - Lab: Principles of Plant and Animal Physiology
This lab must be taken concurrently with the BIOL 1820 lecture.
The lab itself has zero credit value.
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BIOL 3050 - Principles of Genetics
Goals: To acquire an understanding of the basic principles of transmission genetics, molecular genetics, and population genetics. Students will be able to explain these principles and discuss projects and problems in which these principles are relevant. To gain experience in the practice of science by posing scientific questions, designing experiments or observations to answer these questions, and presenting the results of these studies in a public forum. To increase skills in the following areas: oral and written communication, use of the computer as a scientific tool, functioning as a member of a goal-directed team.
Content: Mendelian genetics, genetic mapping, cytogenetics and chromosome abnormalities, genetic engineering methods and applications, genomics, gene regulation and developmental genetics, the genetics of cancer, population genetics, and microevolution.
Taught: Fall term.
Prerequisites: CHEM 1130 with grade of C- or better, or concurrent registration in CHEM 1130.
Credits: 4 credits
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