Course Descriptions 2009-2010 Catalog

Anthropology

ANT 101 Cultural Anthropology: GT-SS3
3 Credits
Studies human cultural patterns and learned behavior. Includes linguistics, social and political organization, religion, culture and personality, culture change and applied anthropology. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses (GT-SS3).

ANT 107 Introduction To Archaeology: GT-SS3
3 Credits
Introduces the science of recovering the human prehistoric and historic past through excavation, analysis, and interpretation of material remains. Includes a survey of the archaeology of different areas of the Old and New Worlds. Also includes the works of selected archaeologists and discussions of major archaeological theories. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses (GT-SS3).

ANT 111 Physical Anthropology: GT-SS3
3 Credits
Studies human biology and its effects on behavior. Includes principles of genetics and evolution, vertebrates and primates, human origins, human variation and ecology. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses (GT-SS3).

ANT 121 Cultures Of The Southwest
3 Credits
Includes the major prehistoric cultures (Paleoindian, Desert Culture, Anasazi, Hohokam, Mogollon) and ethnographic views of the historic cultures (Pueblos, Navajo, Apache, Pima, Papago, Spanish-American, and Anglo-American). The purpose of the study is to trace the stages through which these cultures have passed in order to evaluate environmental influences on human activities and to perceive human influences on the environment. Recommended preliminary coursework: ANT 101 or ANT 107. Recommended subsequent coursework: ANT 215, Anthropology Field Studies and Special Topics in Anthropology.

ANT 215 Indians Of North America: GT-SS3
3 Credits
Studies Indians of North America from the origins of native peoples in the New World, through the development of geographic culture areas, to European contact and subsequent contemporary Native American issues. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses (GT-SS3).

ANT 275 Special Topics In Anthropology
1-6 Credits
Provides opportunity for off-campus field experience or study of a special topic in anthropology. Field study may occur at archaeological sites, museums, host educational institutions, within ethnographic situations, or other anthropologically appropriate places. Study of special topic may include that derived from physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, or other anthropological discipline.

ANT 280 Southwest Field Exploration
2 Credits
Introduces the social, religious, economic, and cultural development of selected American Indian societies and Hispanic settlements of the American Southwest. Major ruins, archaeological sites, museums, reservations, and/or pre-statehood communities are explored by field trip.
PREREQUISITE: Instructor’s permission.

ANT 285 Independent Study
1-6 Variable Credits
Allows the student to independently study certain aspects of anthropology. It provides opportunity to investigate an area of interest that developed in an introductory course.

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