Graduate courses
ANTH F603 Political Anthropology Offered Spring Odd-numbered Years
Political systems and the law. Case studies from nonindustrial societies, developing
nations and parapolitical systems or encapsulated societies, such as Native peoples
in the U.S. Political structures and institutions; social conflict, dispute settlement,
social control and the law, political competition over critical resources; and ethnicity.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing. Stacked with ANTH F403. (3+0)
ANTH F605 Archaeological Method and Theory Offered Spring Even-numbered Years
Archaeological methods and analysis as the framework for different perspectives in
archaeology. Application to specific research problems. Prerequisites: ANTH F211 or
permission of instructor. Stacked with ANTH F405. (3+0)
ANTH F606 Folklore and Mythology: Anthropological Perspective Offered As Demand Warrants
Intensive introduction to anthropological theory concerning oral traditions and the
verbal arts. Attention is paid to classic historical approaches, but discussion of
contemporary focus on context and performance is highlighted. Students will research
topics of individual interest. Prerequisites: Upper-division undergraduate anthropology
course or permission of instructor. (3+0)
ANTH F607 Kinship and Social Organization Offered Spring Even-numbered Years
Forms of relatedness in diverse sociocultural systems. Principles of organizing individuals
into social groups and roles. Forms and functions of family, marriage, incest taboo
around the world. Classical and new approaches to the study of kinship; alliance theory,
symbolic kinship, kinship and gender, the substance of kinship, kinship and biotechnology.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. Stacked with ANTH F407.
(3+0)
ANTH F609 Anthropology of Religion Offered Fall Odd-numbered Years
Religion or supernatural belief from the perspective of anthropology. Religion in
the context of circumpolar societies as well as a global phenomenon. Religious practitioners,
ritual, belief systems and the relationship of religious phenomena to other aspects
of social life. New relational and cognitive approaches to the study of religion.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. Stacked with ANTH F409.
(3+0)
ANTH F610 Northern Indigenous Peoples and Contemporary Issues (a) Offered Fall Odd-numbered Year
This course examines a number of issues affecting northern indigenous peoples from
a comparative perspective, including perspectives from Alaska, Canada, Greenland and
the Soviet Union. Issues include the impact of the alienation of land on which these
peoples depend; the relationship between their small, rural microeconomies and the
larger agroindustrial market economies of which they are a part; education, language
loss and cultural transmission; alternative governmental policies towards indigenous
peoples; and contrasting world views. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or upper-division
standing with permission of instructor. Cross-listed with NORS F610. (3+0)
ANTH F612 Paleoecology Offered As Demand Warrants
Advanced study of Quaternary environments. The influences of climatic change and the
interrelationships of physical and biological factors on the distribution and evolution
of biota, including humans, will be discussed. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or
permission of instructor. (3+0)
ANTH F616 Anthropologic Background for Resilience and Adaptation Offered fall
Provides the anthropological background that is necessary for understanding the role
of anthropology in complex systems involving interactions among biological, economic,
and social processes. Designed for incoming students of the Resilience and Adaptation
Program (RAP), who have not received training in anthropology. Prerequisites: Graduate
student enrollment or permission of instructor. (1+0)
ANTH F617 Resilience Internship Offered Fall
Students of the Resilience and Adaptation Program participate in internships to broaden
their interdisciplinary training, develop new research tools and build expertise outside
their home disciplines. Internships are for eight to ten weeks of full time commitment
and take place during the student's first summer in the program. In autumn students
meet to discuss their internship experiences and make public presentations. Prerequisites:
ANTH/BIOL/ECON/NRM F667; ANTH/BIOL/ECON/NRM F668; or permission of instructor. Cross-listed
with BIOL F613; ECON F613; NRM F613. (2+0)
ANTH F623 Human Origins Offered Spring Odd-numbered Years
Analysis of the Plio-Pleistocene hominid fossil record, including comparative primate
and hominid skeletal and dental anatomy, systematics, taphonomy and long-term biobehavioral
adaptations. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. Stacked
with ANTH F423. (2+3)
ANTH F624 Analytical Techniques Offered Fall Even-numbered Years
Classification, sampling, collection and analysis of anthropological data: parametric
and nonparametric significance tests and measures of association, analysis of frequency
data, estimating resemblance using multiple variables, computer simulations and analysis.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing in Anthropology. Stacked with ANTH F424. (3+0)
ANTH F625 Human Osteology Offered Fall Odd-numbered Years
Human skeletal analysis: bone biology, skeletal anatomy, aging and sexing, metric
and non-metric traits of skeleton and dentition, paleopathology, and paleodemography.
Inferences on genetic relationships between and patterned behavior within prehistoric
groups derived from skeletal material. Prerequisites: ANTH F315; graduate standing;
or permission of instructor. Stacked with ANTH F422. (3+0)
ANTH F626 Bioarchaeology Offered Spring Even-numbered Years
Innovative methods for studying past interactions between biological and cultural
factors as revealed through human and faunal skeletal and plant remains. From these
data sources, health, diet, social organization and interactions and life histories
of past populations, as well as the environments in which they lived, are reconstructed
and examined. Prerequisites: Graduate standing; or permission of instructor. Recommended:
ANTH F415; ANTH F625. (3+0)
ANTH F629 Structures of Anthropological Argument Offered Fall
Reading and analysis of examples from various paradigms in anthropology, past and
present. Presents a thorough grounding in forms of anthropological argument and preparation
for the research and writing process. Includes evolutionary, Boasian, structural-functional,
structural as well as subdisciplinary linguistic, archaeological and biological forms
of argument. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. (3+0)
ANTH F630 Anthropological Field Methods Offered Spring Odd-numbered Years
Concentration on the practical concerns and aspects of conducting anthropological
field research. Includes the relevant literature and significant discussions on the
different aspects of fieldwork. In addition, students will gain practical experience
in the problems, techniques and methods of fieldwork involving people from similar
or distinct cultural backgrounds. The preparation of research proposals is also given
attention. Prerequisites: Graduate standing in Anthropology or permission of instructor.
(3+0)
ANTH F631 Linguistic Anthropology: Language, Thought, and Action Offered Spring Even-numbered Years
Language and social life. Course surveys the history of linguistic anthropology and
the methods and questions that have driven and distinguished the field. Topics include
descriptive and structural linguistics, historical linguistics, ethnographic approaches
to the study of language and culture, language and action, ethnoscience and cognitive
anthropology, linguistic relativity, semiotics, and language ideologies. Prerequisites:
Graduate standing (3+0)
ANTH F632 Field Methods in Descriptive Linguistics Offered Fall Odd-numbered Years
Introduction to general issues in language field work and to issues specific to working
with little studied and/or endangered languages in particular. Focus on introduction
to writing systems, making recordings, computers and transcriptions, planning consultant
sessions, working with consultants, interviewing, and ethics in the field. Projects
include making transcriptions of familiar language, and later, working on unfamiliar
language with a language consultant, selecting and carrying out a well-defined project,
resulting in a term paper. Prerequisites: LING F318; LING F320; or permission of instructor.
Cross-listed with LING F631. (3+0)
ANTH F634 Field Methods in Descriptive Linguistics II Offered Spring Even-numbered Years
Second semester of Field Methods sequence. Plan linguistic field project, including
field trip, caring for equipment, data handling, community contacts, intellectual
property and repatriation. Course work includes lectures and group elicitation with
a speaker of non-Indo-European language. Projects may involve either the traditional
field work involving finding and working with a consultant, or work involving research
of archival materials on languages no longer spoken. Prerequisites: ANTH F632 or LING
F631. Cross-listed with LING F634. (3+0)
ANTH F637 Methods in Ethnohistorical Research Offered Spring Even-numbered Years
Students of anthropology are introduced to the methods of historical research, particularly
the critical evaluation of written documents, problems of archaic language and paleography,
and methods for assessing art and folklorist tradition as sources of history. Oral
history and the data of language and archaeology are considered. Prerequisites: Graduate
standing in anthropology or permission of instructor. (3+0)
ANTH F645 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective Offered Spring Even-numbered Years
Gender as both cultural construction and social ethnographies relationship is examined
through readings in comparative ethnographies portraying gender roles in a broad variety
of societies, from hunter-gatherer to industrial. New theoretical and methodological
approaches in anthropology for exploring and understanding women's and men's experiences
in their cultural variety are presented. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission
of instructor. Stacked with ANTH F445; WGS F445. (3+0)
ANTH F646 Economic Anthropology Offered Fall Even-numbered Years
Relationships between economic and other social relations. Pre-industrial societies.
Relevance of formal economics to small-scale societies and developing nations. Exchange,
formal and substantive economics, market economics, rationality, political economy
and the economics of development. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of
instructor. Stacked with ANTH F446. (3+0)
ANTH F647 Global to Local Sustainability Offered Fall
Explores the basic principles that govern resilience and change of ecological and
social systems. Principles are applied across a range of scales from local communities
to the globe. Working within and across each of these scales, students address the
processes that influence ecological, cultural and economic sustainability, with an
emphasis on northern examples. Prerequisites: Graduate standing and permission of
instructor. Cross-listed with BIOL F647; ECON F647; NRM F647. (3+0)
ANTH F649 Integrated Assessment and Adaptive Management Offered Spring
An interdisciplinary exploration of the theoretical and practical considerations of
integrated assessment and adaptive management. Students survey concepts important
in understanding societal and professional-level decision-making. Students work as
individuals and as a team to undertake case studies with relevance to integrated assessment
and adaptive management. Collectively, the class builds a portfolio of cases and conducts
an integrated assessment. Note: In case of enrollment limit, priority will be given
to graduate students in the Resilience and Adaptation Program in order for them to
be able to meet their core requirements. Prerequisites: Graduate student standing
in a natural science, social science, or interdisciplinary program at UAF or another
university or permission of instructor. The course is designed to fit into the sequence
of Resilience and Adaptation Program's core courses. It is open to other graduate
students interested in and prepared to conduct interdisciplinary studies relating
to sustainability. Recommended: ANTH/BIOL/ECON/NRM F647; ANTH/BIOL/ECON/NRM F648;
ANTH/BIOL/ECON/NRM F667. Cross-listed with BIOL F649; ECON F649; NRM F649. (3+0)
ANTH F652 Research Design and Professional Development Seminar Offered Spring
How to develop problem-based research in anthropology and prepare research proposals,
grant proposals and publications along with critical evaluations of similar material.
Topics include preparation of oral presentations for professional meetings, lectures
and seminars; curriculum vitae preparation; and project budgeting. Prerequisites:
Upper-division anthropology course or permission of instructor. (3+0)
ANTH F653 Current Perspectives in Cultural Resource Management Offered Fall Odd-numbered Years
Cultural resource management. Includes historic preservation and environmental law.
Reviews pertinent legislation pertaining to the protection of historic properties
and presents a series of real world problems confronted by archaeologists. Cultural
resource management will be treated historically within a context of the development
of American archaeology. Emphasis on practical aspects of career development. Prerequisites:
Graduate standing or permission of instructor. (3+0)
ANTH F667 Resilience Seminar I Offered Fall
Provides a forum for new students of the Resilience and Adaptation graduate program
to explore issues of interdisciplinary research that are relevant to sustainability.
A considerable portion of the seminar is student-directed, with students assuming
leadership in planning seminar activities with the instructor. Prerequisites: Enrolled
in Resilience and Adaptation Graduate Program or permission of instructor. Recommended:
ANTH/BIOL/ECON/NRM F647. Cross-listed with BIOL F667; ECON F667; NRM F667. (2+0)
ANTH F668 Resilience Seminar II Offered Spring
Provides a forum for new students of the Resilience and Adaptation graduate program
to explore issues of interdisciplinary research relevant to sustainability. The seminar
provides support to each student planning his/her summer internship and preparing
and presenting a thesis research prospectus. Prerequisites: ANTH/BIOL/ECON/NRM F647;
ANTH/BIOL/ECON/NRM F667; or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with BIOL F668;
ECON F668; NRM F668. (2+0)
ANTH F670 Oral Sources: Issues in Documentation Offered Alternate Fall
Preparation for recording and use of oral resources. Examines how meaning is conveyed
through oral traditions and personal narratives and the issues involved with recording
and reproducing narratives. Includes management of oral recordings, ethical and legal
considerations, issues of interpretation and censorship and the use of new technologies
to access and deliver recordings. Prerequisites: At least one undergraduate ANTH course
and one undergraduate HIST course, or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with
NORS F670. (3+0)
ANTH F672 Culture and History in the North Atlantic Offered Spring Odd-numbered Years
Study of ancient Norse culture and society. Includes readings of Old Norse poetry
and Icelandic sagas in translation, with secondary analyses and archaeological background.
Includes Greenlandic myths and contemporary ethnographic accounts of Iceland, Greenland
and the Faroe Islands. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor.
Cross-listed with NORS F672. (3+0)
ANTH F675 Political Ecology of the Oceans Offered Alternate Spring
Introduction to the field of political ecology in the marine sphere. Topics include
the sociology of scientific knowledge, traditional and local ecological knowledge,
politics of resource management, processes of marine enclosure, environmental values,
marine conservation, environmental justice, and colonialism and economic development.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing; or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with FISH
F675. (3+0)
ANTH F680 Marine Sustainability Internship Offered Fall
Internship program in marine ecosystem sustainability to broaden students' interdisciplinary
training, develop new research tools, build expertise outside their home discipline,
gain exposure to careers, and gain a unique perspective on research problems. Internships
are for a minimum of 8 weeks and take place during the summer. In the autumn students
report on and meet to discuss their internship experiences. Prerequisites: MSL F652
or permission of instructor. Cross-listed with MSL F680 and FISH F680. (0+0+5-16)