Anthropology Courses

Number	Name	Units	Description
ANTH 161	Africa Today	1	Examines specific contemporary African societies and cultures from a cross-temporal, cross-cultural perspective. Topics addressed include education, health and healing, religion, development, identity and popular culture. Partially satisfies the Modern Society LADR and satisfies the Other Cultures LADRs. Can count as an elective within the Anthropology major.
ANTH 162	World Cultures & Societies	1	Explores contemporary world cultures and societies from an anthropological perspective and challenges students to think critically and comparatively about cultural diversity, question basic assumptions, and gain new perspectives on the remarkable variety of the human experience. Focuses on shared symbolic systems and social institutions such as kinship/marriage/family; gender; language; economics, politics; food procurement; religion; art; and processes of colonialism; post-colonialism; globalization; development; and transnationalism. In combination with another course, satisfies Modern Society LADR. Serves as a gateway course in the cultural anthropology major.
ANTH 222	World Ethnographies	1	Examines vastly different cultures from around the world through the reading and study of ethnography?richly descriptive and analytic accounts of particular cultures. Identical to Soc 222. Prerequisite: Anth 162 or a Soc gateway course. Satisfies Other Cultures LADR.
ANTH 233	Native North America:Peoples & Cult	1	Explores, through comparisons and contrasts, the socio-cultural systems of Native North Americans across the continent. Topics include: genocide and cultural survival; kinship, family, and gender; human rights, politics and ethnic conflict; education and religion; and cultural representation and identity. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: Anth 162 or a Soc gateway course. Satisfies Other Cultures LADR.
ANTH 238	Middle East: Peoples and Cultures	1	Explores, through comparisons and contrasts, the socio-cultural systems of the central Middle Eastern region, with emphasis on: kinship, family, and gender; politics; the colonial experience; modernization; education; international development; religion; and ethnic conflict. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: Anth 162 or a Soc gateway course. Satisfies Other Cultures (OC) LADR.
ANTH 242	North & West Africa:Peoples & Cult.	1	Explores, through comparisons and contrasts, the socio-cultural systems of northern and western Africa, with emphasis on: kinship, family, and gender; politics; the colonial experience; modernization; education; international development; religion; and ethnic conflict. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: Anth 162 or a Soc gateway course. Satisfies Other Cultures LADR.
ANTH 243	East & South Africa:Peoples & Cult.	1	Explores, through comparisons and contrasts, the socio-cultural systems of eastern and southern Africa, with emphasis on: kinship, family, and gender; politics; the colonial experience; modernization; education; international development; religion; and ethnic conflict. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: Anth 162 or a Soc gateway course. Satisfies Other Cultures LADR.
ANTH 259	Immigration and Transnationalism	1	Examines how various immigrant groups negotiate cultural landscapes as previous identities conflict with present national loyalties and expectations. Also explores pan-ethnic cultural affiliations in urban America and investigates the impacts of transnational citizens on the home culture. Identical to Soc 259. Prerequisite: 112 or a gateway sociology course.
ANTH 309	Research Practicum	0.5	Offers practical experience with research skills and with detailed knowledge of specialized topics through participation in a faculty member's ongoing research program. Experiences may include assistance with research design, data collection; coding, statistical analysis; qualitative data analysis, or written presentation of results. Offered every term. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. 0.50 unit. May be repeated once.
ANTH 311	The World of Islam	1	Examines the religion of Islam, within specific cultures world wide, concentrating on - but not limited to - the Middle East and Asia. Both pre-modern and modern aspects of Islam will be explored, such as the various intellectual schools, Islam and modernity, gender, politics, and globalization. Prerequisite: Anth 112 or a Soc gateway course. Offered alternate years. Satisfies Other Cultures LADRs.
ANTH 316	Comparative Spiritual Traditions	1	Compares and contrasts two different religious traditions, at least one non-Western, in the light of the inner dimension of their beliefs and practices. Utilizes historical, indigenous, textual, philosophical and anthropological sources to uncover similarities and differences among people living these traditions. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: Anth 112 or a Soc gateway course. Satisfies Other Cultures LADRs.
ANTH 325	Methods in Anthropology	1	Application of anthropological theory and research methods in student-designed local research projects. Offered alternate years. Prerequisites: 112 and one additional anthropology course.
ANTH 329	Cult. Adaptation Native Americans	1	Comparison and contrast of the social characteristics and cultural evolution of "plains" and "pueblo" Indians as they adapted to their environments and to the onslaught of whites; includes two-and-a-half-week field trip to the southwest. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: Anth 112 or a Soc gateway course; Soc 318 is recommended. Identical to Soc 329. Satisfies Other Cultures LADRs.
ANTH 332	Food, Body, and Culture	1	Compares different cultures by looking at cuisine and health. Seeks to explore cultural ideas and ideals concerning the human form, specifically through how people physically manipulate and symbolically construct meanings around the food we consume or those considered taboo for human consumption. Prerequisite: Anth 112 or a Soc gateway course. Satisfies: "Topic" in Cultural Anthropology and Other Cultures LADRs.
ANTH 333	Magic, Witchcraft and Religion	1	Examines how ideologies and belief systems such as magic, witchcraft, religion, and science serve to explain and guide individual choices and social actions in other parts of the world as well as in our own backyard. Primary focus will be on non-western cultures, but with some applications to American society. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: Anth 112 or a Soc gateway course. Satisfies Other Cultures LADRs.
ANTH 334	International Development	1	Examines histories, theories, policies, and practices of international development from a comparative cross-cultural perspective. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: Anth 162 or a Soc gateway course. Satisfies Other Cultures LADR.
ANTH 336	Gender in Cross-Cult. Perspective	1	Examines a variety of theoretical perspectives in the study of gender. Explores what it means to be "women" and "men" in different cultures and societies. Investigates categories of gender that permeate people's daily lives, especially in non-western societies. Offered alternate years. Prerequisite: Anth 112or a Soc gateway course. Satisfies Other Cultures LADRs.
ANTH 424	Theory in Anthropology	1	A study of the major theoretical perspectives and prominent scholars that shape the discipline of anthropology. Offered alternate years. Prerequisites: 112 and one additional anthropology course.