May 18, 2024  
2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

American Sign Language Interpretation

  
  • ASLI 4398 - Independent Study: Tri-lingual Interpreting

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ASLI 3333  and ASLI 3334 .

    This course presents the theoretical and practical considerations when interpreting between individuals whose native languages differ. This course may be repeated for credit.

  
  • ASLI 4489 - Service Learning - Fieldwork

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: ASLI major, ASLI 3334  and ASLI 4346 .

    Practical experience in a variety of settings that provides interpreting and/or language processing skill development. Professionalism, ethical behavior and client protocol will be considered. May be repeated multiple times.


Anthropology

  
  • ANTH 1300 - Introduction to Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 1303  or equivalent.

    Nature and principles of anthropology, discussion of variation in culture, language, and human biology in time and space.

    Core Category: [80] Social & Behavioral Sciences
    TCCNS Equivalent: ANTH 2346
  
  • ANTH 2301 - Introduction to Physical Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in or completion of ENGL 1303  or equivalent.

    Physical anthropology emphasizing origins and biological diversity of human populations.

    Core Category: [80] Social & Behavioral Sciences
    TCCNS Equivalent: ANTH 2301
  
  • ANTH 2302 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in or completion of ENGL 1303  or equivalent.

    Survey of basic concepts and data in cultural anthropology, focusing on contemporary and recent human groups.

    Core Category: [80] Social & Behavioral Sciences
    TCCNS Equivalent: ANTH 2351
  
  • ANTH 2303 - Introduction to Archaeology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in or completion of ENGL 1303  or equivalent.

    An introduction to the history, methods, and theory within modern archaeology, including discussion of data collection, analysis, dating techniques, and interpretation.

    Core Category: [80] Social & Behavioral Sciences
    TCCNS Equivalent: ANTH 2302
  
  • ANTH 2304 - Introduction to Language and Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in or completion of ENGL 1303  or equivalent.

    Anthropological perspectives on the relation of language and culture including social use of language, language as behavior, and non-verbal communication.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • ANTH 2365 - Aztec and Maya Beliefs and Cosmologies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Survey of the major religious beliefs of Precolumbian people of Mesoamerica; how these people thought about their spiritual life and how one can still find echoes of the beliefs today.

  
  • ANTH 2395 - Selected Topics in Cultural Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

  
  • ANTH 3304 - Demographic Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Demographic methods as applied to small populations. Contributions of anthropologists to general theoretical questions about human populations.

  
  • ANTH 3305 - Psychological Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly ANTH 4315
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1300  or ANTH 2302  or consent of instructor.

    Concepts and methods in Cross-cultural study of personality. Topics include mental illness in comparative perspective.

  
  • ANTH 3306 - Sex and Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly ANTH 4368
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2302  or consent of instructor.

    Anthropological view of nature, culture, and gender. Topics include sociobiology, primate sexuality, and cultural diversity of human sexuality.

  
  • ANTH 3310 - North American Indians

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2302 .

    Society, culture, and cultural history of North American Indians.

  
  • ANTH 3312 - Mexican-American Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2302 .

    Society and culture of Mexican-Americans.

  
  • ANTH 3315 - Muslim Peoples of the Middle East

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2302  or consent of instructor.

    Tenets of classical Islam and beliefs of popular Islam as contexts for considering ethnic groups of the Middle East.

  
  • ANTH 3316 - Society and Culture of India

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: three semester hours in anthropology or consent of instructor.

    Basic social units of Indian life; traditional Indian values.

  
  • ANTH 3320 - Ritual and Performance

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly ANTH 2320 Ritual and Performance
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 and ANTH 2302.

    Introduction to the anthropology of ritual and performance theory in comparative cultural and historical perspectives through a series of concrete ethnographic case studies focusing on ritual in religious experience.

  
  • ANTH 3324 - Peoples and Culture of Latin America

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2302  or consent of instructor.

    Societies and cultures of the peoples of Central America today.

  
  • ANTH 3334 - Us and Them: Ethical Decision-Making in Complex Cultures

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 and ANTH 1300.

    Examine how diverse religions and other cultural belief systems create structures of exclusion and inclusion, tolerance and intolerance, obligation and responsibility.

  
  • ANTH 3335 - Black Atlantic Religions

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  and ANTH 2302 .

    African religious traditions and rituals in the Americas, considering the role and legacy of slavery, as well as the challenges of freedom. Genesis and transformation of Afro-American cultural forms.

    Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • ANTH 3336 - Caribbean Societies and Cultures

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  and ANTH 2302 .

    Caribbean societies and cultures in historical and anthropological perspectives on the bonds that unite and distinguish these island and mainland peoples.

    Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • ANTH 3338 - Peoples of Africa

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2302  or consent of instructor.

    An introduction to African cultures and societies. Emphasis on anthropological contributions to African Studies and the wider historical and political context in which this continent has been studied. Demography and languages, religions, healing and health care, the arts, kinship and marriage, politics, social differentiation and ethnicity, gender, and economics in cultural encounters and globalization.

  
  • ANTH 3341 - Cultural Ecology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2301 , ANTH 2302 , or ANTH 2303 .

    A survey of the method and theory involved in the study of the relationship of culture and environment, stressing long-term evolutionary change within cultural systems.

  
  • ANTH 3342 - Food and Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1300  or ANTH 2302  or consent of instructor.

    Role and importance of food in different cultures: nutrition, social use of food, and symbolic significance.

  
  • ANTH 3347 - Anthropology of Women

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2302  or consent of instructor.

    The status of women in cross-cultural perspectives.

  
  • ANTH 3348 - Anthropology of Religion

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1300 , ANTH 2302  or consent of instructor.

    Cross-cultural survey of religious beliefs and practices.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • ANTH 3350 - Women and Health: Anthropological Perspectives

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2302  or consent of instructor.

    Cultural foundations contributing to women’s health status in industrial and developing societies.

  
  • ANTH 3360 - Human Variation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1300  or ANTH 2301  or consent of instructor.

    Survey of human biological diversity arising from genetic evolution and responses to diverse environmental conditions.

  
  • ANTH 3361 - Human Origins

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1300 , ANTH 2301  or consent of instructor.

    A survey of primate behavior, primate biology, and the human fossil record for insights into human evolution.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • ANTH 3362 - Monkeys, Apes, and Humans

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1300  or ANTH 2301  or consent of instructor.

    Natural history, social life, and organization of nonhuman primates, stressing studies of free-ranging animals and primate origins of certain human behaviors.

  
  • ANTH 3363 - Race in Anthropological Perspective

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: three hours of anthropology or consent of instructor.

    Reviews major theories of the origin of racial variation and examines the effect of these theories on biosocial research and political action.

  
  • ANTH 3364 - Disease in Antiquity

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment or completion of ENGL 1303 .

    Effects of disease and health on past populations. Includes the origin of syphilis and the impact of new diseases on Native Americans.

  
  • ANTH 3375 - North American Archaeology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2303  or consent of instructor.

    Synthesis of current data and hypotheses concerning cultural development within America north of Mexico prior to European contact.

  
  • ANTH 3377 - Archaeology of Central America

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2303  or equivalent or consent of instructor.

    Surveys the archaeologically known cultures which once occupied the region from Mexico southward to Nicaragua from approximately 40,000 B.C. to 1519 A.D.

  
  • ANTH 3378 - Archaeology of Historic North America

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2303  or equivalent or consent of instructor.

    Results of the archaeological investigation of historically known locations in North America, including colonial settlements, plantations, factory sites, and battle fields.

  
  • ANTH 3379 - Methods in Historical Archaeology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly ANTH 4378
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1300  or ANTH 2303 , or consent of instructor.

    Survey of methods and techniques in historical archaeology.

  
  • ANTH 3380 - Archaeological Method and Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2303  or consent of instructor.

    A survey of methods employed by archaeologists in gathering artifacts and interpreting human behavior from them.

  
  • ANTH 3381 - Global Hinduism

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Cross-Listed As: RELS 3381

    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or ENGL 1310  

    Examine diversity of Hindu practices outside India; compare Hindu practices /beliefs around world; introduce paradigms, theories in religious studies, anthropology, sociology to understand how local /global cultures shape communities and religious practices.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • ANTH 3395 - Topics in Archaeology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2301  or ANTH 2303 .

    Topics focus on detailed studies of methods and concepts in archaeology. May be repeated when topics vary.

  
  • ANTH 3396 - Selected Topics in Cultural Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: junior standing or consent of instructor.

    Selected Tops in Cultural Anth

  
  • ANTH 3397 - Topics in Physical Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2301  or consent of instructor.

    A detailed survey of concepts and data on a select topic of physical anthropology. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

  
  • ANTH 3399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of the program chair.

  
  • ANTH 4192 - Research Practicum I

    Credit Hours: 1.0
       
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in anthropology and consent of instructor.

    Practical training and experience in anthropological analysis procedures and write-up of primary data.

  
  • ANTH 4198 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
       
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in anthropology or consent of instructor.

  
  • ANTH 4292 - Research Practicum I

    Credit Hours: 2.0
       
    Prerequisite: not more than 12 semester hours from DIGM 3252 , ARCH 4353 , ANTH 4342 , ANTH 4391 , 4395, 4396, and consent of instructor.

    Practical training and experience in anthropological analysis procedures and write-up of primary data.

  
  • ANTH 4298 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2.0
       
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in anthropology or consent of instructor.

  
  • ANTH 4301 - Language and Cultural Cognition

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2304  or consent of instructor.

    Explores key issues and debates in classic and contemporary works in anthropological linguistics, as well as ethnographic approaches derived from linguistics and literary criticism. Chomskyian “revolution”, semantics, structuralism, post-structuralism and postmodernism, semiotics, discourse analysis, ethnography of speaking, verbal art performance, metaphor and other symbolism, and connections between myth, history, and memory.

  
  • ANTH 4310 - Theories of Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2302 .

    Historical development of anthropological thought, with emphasis on contemporary theoretical systems.

  
  • ANTH 4325 - Data Analysis in Archaeology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2302  and consent of instructor.

    Artifact processing, cataloging, classifying, entering variables into computer databases, and computer based statistical analysis of artifacts to determine behavioral patterns.

    Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • ANTH 4330 - Applied Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly ANTH 3302
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2302  or consent of instructor

  
  • ANTH 4331 - Medical Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2302  or consent of instructor.

    Relationship between health and culture including aspects of human culture that affect acceptance of health care and adaptation to disease.

  
  • ANTH 4337 - Anthropology of the Life Cycle

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2302  or consent of the instructor.

    Cross-cultural analysis of the life cycle, including household cycle, health, gender issues, and aging.

  
  • ANTH 4338 - Visual Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2302 .

    Visual anthropology uses theories of ethnography to understand human behavior and meaning through visual media.

  
  • ANTH 4340 - Anthropology Through Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1300  or ANTH 2302  or consent of instructor.

    Discusses a selection of well-known novels as reflections of the cultural contexts of the authors and compares their uses and meanings as cultural documents for modern readers.

  
  • ANTH 4342 - Anthropology of Wine

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1300 , ANTH 2302 , and ANTH 2303  or consent of instructor.

    Cross-cultural study of the origin and development of wine and its nutritional, economic, social, and ideological uses.

  
  • ANTH 4351 - Human Osteology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2301  or ANTH 3361  or Anatomy or Physiology.

    Use of the human skeleton in anthropological research.

  
  • ANTH 4352 - Biomedical Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2301  or consent of instructor.

    Interrelationships between disease and culture and the role of adaptation in the disease process.

  
  • ANTH 4360 - Citizenship and Political Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 1300 and ANTH 2302

    This course examines the history and anthropology of citizenship in comparative perspective, with special attention to globalization and the changing terrain of contemporary politics and debates.

  
  • ANTH 4372 - Maya Archaeology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly NTH 3372
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2303  or consent of instructor.

    Current data and hypotheses concerning the evolution of human behavior within the “Maya Area” of southern Mexico, Honduras, Belize, and Guatemala prior to Spanish contact.

  
  • ANTH 4373 - Archaeology of the Aztecs and Their Neighbors

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly NTH 3373
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2303  or consent of instructor.

    Current data and hypotheses concerning the evolution of culture within Mexico north of the Maya area prior to Spanish contact.

  
  • ANTH 4375 - Archaeology of the Southeastern United States

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite:   or consent of the instructor.

    Data and hypotheses concerning the prehistoric cultures of the southeastern United States with particular emphasis on their evolution.

  
  • ANTH 4376 - Archaeology of Texas

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly NTH 3376
    Prerequisite:   or consent of instructor.

    Prehistoric cultures and lifestyles of Texas Indian groups.

  
  • ANTH 4377 - Archaeology of the African Diaspora

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite:   or consent of instructor.

    Survey of archaeological research conducted on sites occupied by Africans and African Americans in the New World since 1600. Origins and evolution of the cultures constructed by enslaved and free people of African descent from 1600 to 1900.

  
  • ANTH 4379 - Archaeology of the Southwestern United States

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite:   or consent of instructor.

    Data and hypotheses concerning the prehistoric cultures of the southwestern United States with particular emphasis on their evolution.

  
  • ANTH 4380 - Field Methods in Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in anthropology or consent of instructor.

    Methods applied by the anthropologist living among primitive and peasant peoples.

  
  • ANTH 4381 - Archaeological Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in anthropology or consent of instructor.

    Theoretical approaches currently used in archaeology. Emphasis on comparison of data and interpretation based upon the theoretical approach of the researcher.

  
  • ANTH 4382 - Laboratory Methods in Archaeology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite:   or consent of instructor.

    Techniques of classification, taxonomy, functional analysis, processing, and curation of artifacts recovered from archaeological sites.

  
  • ANTH 4383 - Applied Archaeology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2303, and completion of, or concurrent enrollment in ANTH 3379 or ANTH 3380

    An examination of state and federal historic preservation regulations as they relate to applied archeology and the various private, public, and energy industry sectors.

  
  • ANTH 4384 - Anthropology of HIV

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2301  or ANTH 2302  or consent of instructor.

    Overview of AIDS as both a biological and sociocultural phenomenon. What is AIDS, what causes it, who gets it, and how to control it.

  
  • ANTH 4386 - Method and Theory in Applied Archaeology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2303, ANTH 4383.

    Archeological theory and project planning from applied archeological research design to project implementation.

  
  • ANTH 4387 - Data Analysis and Report Writing in Applied Archaeology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 2303, ANTH 4383.

    Presentation of basic analytic techniques employed in an assessment of archaeological site significance, along with the technical writing skills needed for meeting the reporting requirements associated with contract archaeology.

  
  • ANTH 4388 - Anthropology Internship Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  and consent of instructor.

    Independent study option to document acquired experience in an approved internship program under the supervision of a faculty member.

    Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • ANTH 4389 - Ethnographic Field Work I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: not more than twelve semester hours from DIGM 3252 , ARCH 4353 , ANTH 4342 , ANTH 4391 , 4395, 4396, and consent of instructor.

    Practical field training and experience in ethnographic research procedures.

  
  • ANTH 4390 - Ethnographic Field Work II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: not more than twelve semester hours from DIGM 3252 , ARCH 4353 , ANTH 4342 , ANTH 4391 , 4395, 4396, and consent of instructor.

    Practical field training and experience in ethnographic research procedures.

  
  • ANTH 4391 - Archaeological Field Work I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: not more than twelve semester hours from DIGM 3252 , ARCH 4353 , ANTH 4342 , ANTH 4391, 4395, 4396, and consent of instructor.

    Practical field training and experience in archeological research procedures.

  
  • ANTH 4392 - Archaeological Field Work II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in anthropology and consent of instructor.

    Practical field training and experience in anthropological research procedures.

  
  • ANTH 4393 - Research Practicum

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in anthropology and consent of instructor.

    Practical training and experience in anthropological analysis procedures and write-up of primary data. No more than three hours of research practicum may be applied to the major or minor.

  
  • ANTH 4394 - Selected Topics in Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • ANTH 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in anthropology or consent of instructor.

  
  • ANTH 4399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ANTH 3399  and approval of the chair.

  
  • ANTH 4498 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 4.0
       
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in anthropology or consent of instructor.


Arabic

  
  • ARAB 1501 - Beginning Arabic I

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 5    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Restricted to nonnative speakers of Arabic. Introduction to modern spoken and written Arabic. Listening comprehension, oral communication, reading and writing.

  
  • ARAB 1502 - Beginning Arabic II

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 5    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: successful completion of ARAB 1501  with a minimum grade of C- in the twelve months immediately prior to enrollment or by placement exam immediately prior to enrollment.

    Expansion of the listening and oral skills previously acquired. Listening comprehension, oral communication, reading and writing.

  
  • ARAB 2301 - Intermediate Arabic I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: successful completion of ARAB 1502  with a minimum grade of C- in the twelve months immediately prior to enrollment or by placement exam immediately prior to enrollment.

    Listening comprehension, oral communication, reading and writing.

  
  • ARAB 2302 - Intermediate Arabic II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: successful completion of ARAB 2301  with a minimum grade of C- in the twelve months immediately prior to enrollment or by placement exam immediately prior to enrollment.

    Listening comprehension, oral communication, reading and writing.

  
  • ARAB 2307 - Arabic for Native Speakers I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: placement by examination.

    Designed for Arab-American and other students from an Arabic-speaking background. Emphasis on basic skills in reading, spelling, and composition.

  
  • ARAB 3301 - Advanced Modern Standard Arabic I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARAB 2302  or ARAB 2308  or placement by examination.

    Readings of Arabic materials, including poems, short stories, plays, and newspaper articles dealing with social, political, and cultural issues, and the development of writing skills through free composition exercises.

  
  • ARAB 3302 - Advanced Modern Standard Arabic II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARAB 3301  or placement by examination.

    Advanced readings of Arabic materials, including poems, short stories, plays, and newspaper articles dealing with social, political, and cultural issues, and continued development of writing skills through free composition exercises.

  
  • ARAB 3303 - Qur’anic and Classical Arabic

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARAB 3302 , or placement by examination, or consent of instructor.

    Readings and analysis of the Qur’an and Hadith (Sayings of the Prophet).

  
  • ARAB 3305 - Introduction to Arabic Culture, Language, and Islam

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARAB 3302  or equivalent.

    Students may not receive credit for both ARAB 3305 and ANTH 3306 . Taught in Arabic. Arabic culture through studies of topics such as the origins of the language, relations with the West, social and political issues, the role of women, and the role of Islam.

  
  • ARAB 3306 - Introduction to Arabic Culture, Language, and Islam

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Students may not receive credit for both ANTH 3305  and ARAB 3306. Taught in English. Arabic culture through studies of topics such as the origins of the language, relations with the West, social and political issues, the role of women, and the role of Islam.

  
  • ARAB 3312 - Introduction to Arabic Literature in Translation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Arabic literary culture from the earliest recorded sources to the present; essentials of the history and culture of the Arabs.

  
  • ARAB 3313 - Qur’an as Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 ..

    Literary and historical study of the Qur’an in the context of late antique religious literature (ca. 180-632 CE), including texts from the Jewish, Christian, Zoroastrian and pagan spheres. Taught in English.

  
  • ARAB 3314 - Women and Gender in Arabic Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Critical survey of literature by and about Arab women focusing on a particular theme. Taught in English.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • ARAB 3340 - Modernity and Rationalism in Islamic Tradition

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Systematic analysis of classical Islamic philosophical discourse and its contribution to the development of Islamic Modem ism and Arab Enlightenment; including the Qur’an, Ghazali, Averroes, Muhammad Abduh, and Nasr Abu Zayd. Taught in English

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • ARAB 3397 - Selected Topics in Arab Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Topics vary depending on needs of Department and students. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.


Architecture

  
  • ARCH 1198 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • ARCH 1200 - Introduction to Architecture Design, Industrial Design, & Interior Arch

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 1200.

    Introduction to architecture, industrial design, and interior architecture theory, history, technology, and practice.

  
  • ARCH 1359 - Design Since 1945

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ARCH 1200.

    Interdisciplinary history of modern and contemporary design, concentration on 1945 to the present. Reading and writing based on primary and secondary sources.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • ARCH 1360 - Architectural Sketching I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: major in the College of Architecture and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ARCH 1200

    Architectural sketching. Representing and interpreting architecture and entourage using conventional techniques and skills.

 

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