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African American Studies

  • AAS 1310 - Introduction to Africana Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Survey of Africana culture in Americas and throughout the world by examining its origins and development from an African-centered point of reference.

  • AAS 2320 - Introduction to African American Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1303 .

    An introductory analysis of the discipline of African American/Africana Studies, its mission, key theories and major concerns.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  • AAS 2322 - Introduction to African Religions and Philosophy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Traditional African religions and philosophy.

  • AAS 2330 - Black Liberation Theology

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

    This course will examine, compare and contrast the theologies and resulting programmatic actions taken by persons espousing Black Liberation Theology.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  • AAS 2396 - The History of Black Education

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite(s): AAS 2320 : Introduction to African American Studies. This course is designed to explore the texts that early writers produced to chronicle the contributions of African Americans to the making of America and relevant contributions to black education.

  • AAS 3301 - Hip Hop History and Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Hip Hop as a cultural phenomena, expression, and experience for African American people.

  • AAS 3307 - African Spiritual Transformation in the Social Sciences

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: AAS 2320  and AAS 2322 .

    Cultural world views that shape perceptions, thoughts, feelings, behavior, and thus human experience of Africana phenomena. Emphasizing Africana culture, this course will use social science data to investigate the epistemological aspects of critical analysis, communal self-reflection and introspection of the human experience.

  • AAS 3310 - African American Experience through Theatre

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: AAS 2320  or consent of instructor.

    Critical analysis and issues relevant to contemporary works of African-American playwrights in historical and sociological contexts.

  • AAS 3330 - African American Studies Oral History and Field Research

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: AAS 2320  and AAS 3379  or consent of instructor.

    Development of oral history as a discipline and its use in developing sources for African American and Africans history. Practical training in oral interviewing techniques through field work.

  • AAS 3340 - Seminar in African American Sociolinguistics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: AAS 2320  or consent of instructor.

    Significant theories and arguments concerning the genesis, maintenance, and social function of African American English. Changing and diverse character of the African American speech community as described by dialectologists, sociolinguists, and Creologists.

  • AAS 3345 - History of Black Education

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: AAS 2320  or consent of instructor.

    Introduction to African American Studies. Study of the contributions of African Americans to making of America and relevant contributions to black education, including essays, monographs, anthologies, journals and other writings of individuals such as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B . Du Bois and Carter G. Woodson. Additional focus on pivotal events that unmade and reshaped American society and African American education such as Brown vs. The Board of Education, Jim Crow Laws, No Child Left Behind and the School to Prison Pipeline.

  • AAS 3348 - African Americans and the Law

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: AAS 2320 .

    Historical and contemporary analyses of American laws and constitutional decisions affecting African Americans from slavery to the present.

  • AAS 3350 - Slavery and Race Relations in the African Diaspora

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: AAS 2320  or consent of instructor.

    The black experience in the Americas outside of the U.S. Historical and geographical aspects of black life and race relations, both during and after slavery, contrasted with European and Native American experiences. Common themes traced using the cross-cultural approach among Africana ethnic groups.

  • AAS 3354 - African Nationalist Thought and Ethics in the U.S.

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: AAS 2320 .

    Various intellectual traditions and historical developments that contribute to the quest by African people to build or recover cultural sovereignty within the U.S.

  • AAS 3356 - Africana Thought and Philosophy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: AAS 2320  or consent of instructor.

    Political and social philosophies which have shaped the struggle for Black liberation in the United States; strategies and ideologies such as integration, cultural assimilation, nonviolence, passive resistance, direct action, and Pan-Africanism; thoughts and ideas of Africana leadership figures throughout the global diaspora.

  • AAS 3366 - African American Studies Community Internship

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: AAS 2320 .

    Provides minors in African American Studies with supervised practice and educational experiences to study, express, or resolve contemporary issues impacting African and African-descended communities.

  • AAS 3379 - Africana Oratory

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: AAS 2320  or consent of instructor.

    Representative African and African American oratory throughout history.

  • AAS 3394 - Selected Topics Afr Am Stdy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  • AAS 4300 - African Philosophy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: AAS 2320  or consent of instructor.

    Historical and contemporary African philosophical/theological concepts: cosmological, metaphysical, ontological, and ethical world view.

  • AAS 4330 - The Black Church in America

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 , MATH 1310 , and AAS 2320  or equivalent.

    The institutional church’s role in the life of black Americans and influence in the black community.

  • AAS 4370 - Seminar in African American Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: AAS 2320  and AAS 2322  or consent of instructor.

    Historical, intellectual, and professional foundations of African American Studies.

  • AAS 4373 - Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: AAS 2320  or consent of instructor.

    Study of selected twentieth century African American leaders examining issues and schema of race, gender, and class. The leaders and their relationship in mass social movement.

  • AAS 4377 - Seminar on W.E.B. DuBois

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: AAS 2320  or consent of instructor.

    Writings and ideas of W.E.B. DuBois from an interdisciplinary perspective.

  • AAS 4440 - Model African Union Seminar

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: AAS 1310 , AAS 2320 , and AAS 4370  or consent of instructor.

    Historic and political process of the design and maintenance of the African Union. Requires travel to Washington, D.C. to participate in the Model African Union conference. Students to defray expenses for air travel and lodging.

Air Force Science

  • AFSC 1201 - Foundations of the USAF I

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Overall roles and missions of the USAF; career fields available. Emphasis on military customs and courtesies, appearance standards, core values, written and personal communication. Introduction to American military history.

  • AFSC 1202 - Foundations of the USAF II

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Overall roles and missions of the USAF; career fields available. Emphasis on military customs and courtesies, appearance standards, core values, written and personal communication. Introduction to American military history.

  • AFSC 2201 - Evolution of Air Power I

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Key historical events and milestones in the development of air power as a primary instrument of United States national security. Core values and competencies of leaders in the United States Air Force. Tenets of leadership and ethics.

  • AFSC 2202 - Evolution of Air Power II

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Key historical events and milestones in the development of air power as a primary instrument of United States national security. Core values and competencies of leaders in the United States Air Force. Tenets of leadership and ethics.

  • AFSC 3301 - Air Force Leadership Studies I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Leadership, management fundamentals, professional knowledge, Air Force personnel and evaluation systems, and leadership ethics. Case studies of Air Force leadership and management situations.

  • AFSC 3302 - Air Force Leadership Studies II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Leadership, management fundamentals, professional knowledge, Air Force personnel and evaluation systems, and leadership ethics. Case studies of Air Force leadership and management situations.

  • AFSC 3801 - Field Training

    Credit Hours: 9.0
       
    Prerequisite: AFSC 2202  or consent of department chair.

    No military obligation is associated with this course. Four week off-campus field training practicum. Introduces student to Air Force leadership. Places student in demanding and stressful leadership situations.

  • AFSC 4301 - National Security Affairs I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Evolution of the role of national security in a democratic society with emphasis on policy formation, competing values, and organizations. Civilian control of the military; roles of the services; functions of the Air Force Commands.

  • AFSC 4302 - National Security Affairs II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Evolution of the role of national security in a democratic society with emphasis on policy formation, competing values, and organizations. Civilian control of the military; roles of the services; functions of the Air Force Commands.

American Culture

  • AMER 3300 - The Americas: Identity, Culture, and Power

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  and MATH 1310 .

    Introduction to the cultures and histories of the peoples of the Americas.

  • AMER 3390 - American Cultural Internship

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: junior standing and consent of instructor.

    Supervised field experience through placement.

  • AMER 3398 - Independent Study

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

    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  • AMER 4300 - Senior Seminar in American Cultures

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

    Intensive study of the peoples and the cultures of the Americas including extensive writing requirements. May be repeated for credit.

American Sign Language Interpretation

  • ASLI 1301 - Elementary American Sign Language I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly COMD 1301
    Introduction to American Sign Language (ASL); understanding and expression of frequently used signs, basic rules of grammar and non-manual aspects of ASL.

    TCCNS Equivalent: SGNL 1301
  • ASLI 1302 - Elementary American Sign Language II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly COMD 1302
    Prerequisite: ASLI or equivalent.

    Continuation of Elementary ASL I (ASLI 1301 ); understanding and expression of a broader lexicon of signs, advanced grammar and non-manual aspects of ASL.

    TCCNS Equivalent: SGNL 1302
  • ASLI 1310 - Fingerspelling in American Sign Language

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Development of the fingerspelling and numeral system of American Sign Language. Expressive skills focus on speed, clarity, and accuracy. Receptive skills focus on whole word, phrase recognition, and comprehension.

  • ASLI 2301 - Intermediate American Sign Language I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly COMD 2301
    Prerequisite: ASLI 1302  or equivalent.

    Expansion on Elementary ASL I and Elementary ASL II (ASLI 1301  and ASLI 1302 ); understanding and expression of an expanded lexicon including the use of classifiers and rules for categorization.

    TCCNS Equivalent: SGNL 2301
  • ASLI 2302 - Intermediate American Sign Language II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly COMD 2302
    Prerequisite: ASLI 2301  or equivalent.

    Continuation of Intermediate ASL I (ASLI 2301 ); understanding expression of a wide lexicon for story telling in ASL including the use of classifiers and non-manual expression.

    TCCNS Equivalent: SGNL 2302
  • ASLI 2333 - Introduction to American Sign Language Interpreting

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly ASLI 3311
    Prerequisite: ASLI 1302 , placement testing into ASLI 2301 , or permission of the instructor.

    Overview of the field of American Sign Language Interpreting.

  • ASLI 2335 - Multiculturalism & Diversity in ASL Interpreting

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ASLI 2301  or instructor approval.

    Analysis of cultural diversity and how it impacts the work of interpreters, both linguistically and paralinguistically. Emphasis will be placed on subcultures within the Deaf and hard-of-hearing communities.

  • ASLI 3330 - Consecutive Interpreting and Translation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ASLI Majors. Concurrent enrollment in ASLI 3360  required unless instructor approval obtained.

    Models of interpreting theory and the process of consecutive interpreting will be explored. Intralingual ability will be emphasized. Cognitive processing skills will be analyzed and practiced for translation skill development.

  • ASLI 3333 - Interactive Interpreting I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ASLI majors and ASLI 3330 .

    Theoretical strategies for interpreting simultaneously between spoken English and American Sign Language will be introduced. Intensive practice involving interlingual skills will be incorporated into course content.

  • ASLI 3334 - Interactive Interpreting II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ASLI majors and ASLI 3333 .

    Enhanced techniques for interlingual skill development for interpreting simultaneously between spoken English and American Sign Language.

  • ASLI 3360 - Advanced American Sign Language

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ASLI Majors, ASLI 2302  and COMD 3301 .  Concurrent enrollment in ASLI 3330  required unless instructor approval obtained.

    Linguistic competence is emphasized by modeling, analyzing and dissecting complex language techniques of American Sign Language including classifiers, depiction, mouth morphemes, narration, idiomatic language and description ability.

  • ASLI 4335 - Advanced Interpreting Techniques and Skills in ASL/English

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ASLI 3333  and ASLI 3334 . Builds on the ASL interpreting skills acquired in ASLI 3333  and ASLI 3334 .

    Increasing task demands and complex communication contexts are emphasized.

  • ASLI 4346 - American Sign Language Transliteration and Educational Interpreting

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ASLI major and ASLI 3334  or permission of the instructor. Interpreting in classroom settings.

    The interpreter’s role with educators, interpreting issues related to school-age students, and federal regulations related to interpreting.

  • ASLI 4368 - Linguistics of American Sign Language

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ASLI 3330  or permission of the instructor.

    Linguistic theories as they apply to American Sign Language. Syntax, grammar, and other linguistic elements unique to spatially/visually based languages.

  • ASLI 4397 - Selected Topics in American Sign Language Interpreting

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ASLI 3333  and ASLI 3334 .

    Theoretical and practical issues as well as intense practice for skill development in emerging ASL topic areas. This course may be repeated for credit.

  • 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 Pre-Columbian 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 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 3351 - Politics of Healthcare and the Latino Community

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

    An anthropological overview of U.S. health politics as they impact a growing and diverse Latino population. Latino utilization of health services, health needs and practices, and disparities in accessing healthcare will be explored.

  • 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 4193 - Research Practicum

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 1
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in anthropology and consent of instructor.

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

    Note: No more than three hours of research practicum may be applied to the major or the minor.
  • 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 4293 - Research Practicum

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in anthropology and consent of instructor.

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

    Note: No more than three hours of research practicum may be applied to the major or the minor.
  • ANTH 4298 - Independent Study

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

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