Anthropology
ANTH 100X 3 Credits
Individual, Society and Culture (s)
An examination
of the complex social arrangements guiding individual behavior and common
human concerns in contrasting cultural contexts. Also available via Independent
Learning. (3 + 0) Offered Fall,
Spring
ANTH 101 3 Credits
Introduction to Anthropology
(s)
Human societies and cultures based on the findings
of the four subfields of the discipline: archaeological, biological, cultural
and linguistic. Also available via Independent Learning. (3 + 0)
Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 105 1 Credit
Introduction to the History
and Culture of the Seward Peninsula
(Cross-listed
with HIST 105)
Cultural history of the Seward Peninsula peoples for
the last 10,000 years using physical anthropology, ethnography, ethnohistory,
linguistics, archaeology, ecology and climatology. Eskimo and Euroamerican
cultures which have existed in western Alaska. (1 + 0) Offered
As Demand Warrants
ANTH 111 3 Credits
Ancient Civilizations
(s)
Major civilizations of the Old and New World from
a comparative, anthropological perspective. Antecedents and influences of
these civilizations on their neighbors. Economics, science, religion and
social organization of these civilizations. (3 + 0) Offered Fall
ANTH 123 3 Credits
Origins of Alaska's Native
Peoples (s)
Origins and affinities of Alaska Native
peoples from an archaeological perspective. Prehistory examination of Yup'ik,
Inupiaq, Aleut, Tlingit and Athabascan groups. (3 + 0) Offered
As Demand Warrants
ANTH 211 3 Credits
Fundamentals of Archaeology
(s)
Methods and techniques of archaeological field
and laboratory research. (2 + 3) Offered Fall
ANTH 214 3 Credits
World Prehistory (s)
Explores
the archaeological evidence from the Old and New Worlds for the development
of human culture, from the very beginning of humankind to the rise of ancient
urban societies. (Prerequisite: ANTH 100X or
ANTH 111 or ANTH 211X or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2007-08)
(3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 215 3 Credits
Fundamentals of Social/Cultural
Anthropology (s)
Introduction to the basic concepts,
subfields and techniques of social/cultural anthropology. Includes non-Western
and Western ethnographic topics, and discussion of career options. (Recommended:
ANTH 211.) (3 + 0)
Offered Spring
ANTH 221 3 Credits
Introduction to Biological
Anthropology (n)
Survey of genetics, evolutionary mechanisms,
adaptation, primate studies, the human fossil record and human variation.
Provides a basic understanding of humans from a biological, evolutionary
and temporal perspective. (3 + 0) Offered Fall
ANTH 230 3 Credits
The Oral Tradition: Folklore
and Oral History (h)
Study and collection of folklore
and oral history. Importance of oral tradition in human communication and
the advantages and disadvantages of recording and studying it. Sociocultural
anthropology and anthropological linguistics in relation to oral traditions.
Methods of folklorists, historians and academicians. Field project required.
(3 + 0) Offered As Demand
Warrants
ANTH 242 3 Credits
Native Cultures of Alaska
(s)
(Cross-listed with ANS 242)
The traditional Aleut, Eskimo and Indian (Athabascan
and Tlingit) cultures of Alaska. Eskimo and Indian cultures in Canada. Linguistic
and cultural groupings, population changes, subsistence patterns, social
organization and religion in terms of local ecology. Pre-contact interaction
between groups. Also available via Independent Learning. (3 + 0)
Offered Fall, Spring
ANTH 245 3 Credits
Culture and Global Issues
(s)
Introduces students to the anthropological study
of globalization and global issues including the deterritorialization of
culture, global social movements, culture and capital, immigration and culture,
and modern and postmodern approaches to the study of culture and society.
Begins with the history of global ethnography, but focuses primarily on contemporary
issues. (Prerequisites: ANTH 100X.) (3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 301 3 Credits
World Ethnography (s)
Survey
of ethnographic research on peoples and cultures of selected geographic
regions of the world, in both historical and contemporary perspective.
Content of the course varies and is contingent on available faculty expertise.
Course may be repeated once for credit when content varies. (Prerequisites:
ANTH 100X or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2007-08) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 302 3 Credits
Ethnography of Siberia
(s)
Survey of ethnographic research on peoples and
cultures of Siberia, including the Russian Far East, in both historical and
contemporary perspective. (Prerequisite: ANTH 100X or permission of instructor.
Next offered: 2006-07.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 308W,O 3 Credits
Language and Gender
(s)
(Cross-listed with LING 308W,O and WMS 308W,O)
Examination of relationships between language and gender,
drawing on both ethnographic and linguistic sources. Topics include power,
socialization and sexism. (Prerequisites: COMM 131X or 141X; ENGL 111X and
ENGL 211X or ENGL 213X or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2007-08)
(3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 309 3 Credits
Circumpolar Archaeology
(s)
Archaeology of the circumpolar world from initial
occupations through the historic period. Cultural and chronological variability
in human adaptation to high latitudes. Causes and consequences of population
movement, environmental change, and cultural interaction in the old and new
world, as understood through archaeology. (Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Next offered: 2007-08) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 313 3 Credits
Ethnography of Alaska
(s)
Survey of ethnographic research on peoples and
cultures of Alaska, in both historical and contemporary perspective. Content
of the course varies and may cover Aleuts and other peoples of the Alaskan
Southwest; Inupiaq and Inuit peoples; peoples of the Alaskan Southeast; or
Athabascan peoples. (Prerequisite: ANTH 100X or permission of instructor.
Next offered: 2007-08.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 315 3 Credits
Human Biology (n)
Biology
of recent and modern human populations, including systematics, behavior,
ecology and inter- and intrapopulation genetic and morphological variations.
Human adaptations to heat, cold, high altitudes, and changing nutritional
and disease patterns. Human skeletal biology, including metrical and non-metrical
variation, aging and sexing skeletal remains, and paleopathology. (Prerequisite:
ANTH 221 or BIOL 103X. Next offered: 2007-08) (2 + 3) Offered
Alternate Spring
ANTH 317 3 Credits
Human Growth and Development
(n)
Life-span approach to physiological (and cognitive)
growth and development in fossil through modern humans. Begins with a summary
of human biology and genetics. Proceeds through major phases in life: prenatal,
infancy, childhood, adolescence, adult and old age. Includes detailed soft
and hard tissue developments in these phases of life. (Prerequisite: ANTH
221.) (3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 320W 3 Credits
Language and Culture:
Applications to Alaska (s)
(Cross-listed with ANS
320W)
Language, ethnicity and their interrelationships. Communicating
ethnic identity. Patterns of language use which affect communication between
ethnic groups. Applicability of these concepts to Native/non-Native communication
patterns. (Prerequisite: ENGL 111X, ENGL 211X or ENGL 213, LING 101,
or permission of instructor.) (3 + 0) Offered Spring
ANTH 360 3 Credits
Indigenous Art and Culture
(h)
(Cross-listed with ART 360)
Overview of the aesthetic expressions of the cultures
of Africa, Oceania and Native North America. Cultural and social factors will
be studied through the visual art from these areas. (3 + 0) Offered
As Demand Warrants
ANTH 365 3 Credits
Native Art of Alaska (h)
(Cross-listed
with ANS 365 and ART 365)
Art forms of the Eskimo, Indian and Aleut from prehistory
to the present. Changes in forms through the centuries. (Prerequisite: Advanced
standing or permission of instructor.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall
ANTH 366 3 Credits
Northwest Coast Indian
Art (h)
(Cross-listed with ANS 366 and ART 366)
Arts of the Northwest Coast Indians and the place of
art in their culture. (3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 367 3 Credits
Eskimo Art (h)
(Cross-listed
with ANS 367 and ART 367)
Eskimo art from Alaska, Canada and Siberia beginning
with the earliest known pieces to the beginning of the 20th century. (Next
offered: 2007-08) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 383 3 Credits
Athabascan Peoples of
Alaska and Adjacent Canada (s)
Contemporary conditions
and traditional heritage of the Athabascan populations of Alaska and Canada.
Impact of Euroamericans on these populations and cultures. (Prerequisite:
ANTH 242 or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2006-07.) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 384 3 Credits
History of Anthropology
(s)
Major theoretical approaches in anthropology chronologically
from formulation of the discipline of anthropology to current theory. Nature
of the discipline, its goals and methods, and the relevance of theoretical
perspectives to interpretations in anthropology. (Prerequisite: ANTH 215
or permission of instructor.) (3 + 0) Offered Fall
ANTH 402 3 Credits
Anthropology of Art (s)
(Stacked
with ANTH 602 and cross-listed with ART 402)
Anthropological study of art in cross-cultural perspective.
Social context of art production and use, cross-cultural variations in definition
of an artist's role. (Prerequisites: Senior standing or permission of instructor.)
(3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 403W,O 3 Credits
Political Anthropology
(s)
(Stacked with ANTH 603)
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: ANTH
215; COMM 131X or 141X; ENGL 111X; ENGL 211X or ENGL 213X; or permission
of instructor. Next offered: 2006-07.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate
Spring
ANTH 405 3 Credits
Archaeological Method
and Theory (s)
(Stacked with ANTH 605)
Archaeological methods and analysis as the framework
for different perspectives in archaeology. Application to specific research
problems. (Prerequisite: ANTH 211. Next offered: 2007-08.) (2 + 3)
Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 407 3 Credits
Kinship and Social Organization
(s)
(Stacked with ANTH 607)
Forms and function of family and household organization,
kinship and marriage in diverse human sociocultural systems. Case studies
from tribal and complex societies including contemporary United States. (Prerequisite:
ANTH 215 or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2007-08) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 409 3 Credits
Anthropology of Religion
(s)
(Stacked with ANTH 609)
Religion or supernatural belief from the perspective
of anthropology. Religion in the context of "primitive" society as well as
its role in complex society. Religious practitioners, ritual, belief systems
and the relationship of religious behavior to other aspects of social behavior.
(Prerequisite: ANTH 100x and ANTH 215 or permission of instructor. Next offered:
2007-08)
(3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 411O 3 Credits
Senior Seminar in Anthropology
(s)
The integrated nature of anthropological inquiry.
Includes a four-field approach to anthropology in a discussion-intensive
setting. Student may focus on an interdisciplinary theme or a topic other
than their own specialization. (Prerequisites: COMM 131X or 141X; anthropology
major with senior standing; or permission of instructor.) (3 + 0)
Offered Spring
ANTH 415 3 Credits
Zooarchaeology and Taphonomy
Identification
of bones, how vertebrate bone remains may be used to study archaeological
site formation processes, site organization, subsistence practices and
animal procurement strategies. Preservation in modern depositional environments,
paleoecology, vertebrate mortality profiles and demographic structure,
site seasonality, bone breakage, taphonomy and faunal remains and human
land use practices. (Next offered: 2006-07.)
(2 + 3) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 422 3 Credits
Human Osteology
(Stacked
with ANTH 625)
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. (Prerequisite: ANTH 221 or permission of instructor.)
ANTH 423 3 Credits
Paleoanthropology
(Stacked
with ANTH 623)
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: ANTH 221;
or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2006-07.) (2 + 3)
Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 424 3 Credits
Analytical Techniques
(Stacked
with ANTH 624)
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. (Prerequisite: ANTH 211 or 221;
and any college level mathematics course or permission of instructor. Next
offered: 2006-07.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 426 3 Credits
Bioarchaeology (n)
(Stacked
with ANTH 626)
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: ANTH
211; ANTH 221 or equivalent. Next offered: 2007-08.) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 428W 3 Credits
Ecological Anthropology
and Regional Sustainability (n)
Biological, environmental
and cultural factors and their interplay in defining the human condition,
with examples from Arctic and other populations. (Prerequisites: ENGL 111X,
ENGL 211X or ENGL 213X, Junior standing, or permission of instructor. Next
offered: 2007-08.) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 432 3 Credits
Field Methods in Descriptive
Linguistics I (h)
(Stacked with ANTH 632 and ANTH
631 and cross-listed with LING 431)
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 records,
computers and transcriptions, planning consultant sessions, working with
consultants, interviewing, and ethics in the field. Projects include doing
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 318, LING 320, or permission
of instructor. Next offered: 2006-07.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate
Spring
ANTH 434 3 Credits
Field Methods in Descriptive
Linguistics II (h)
(Stacked with ANTH 634 and LING
634 and cross-listed with LING 434)
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 432 or LING
431; Next offered 2007-2008.) (3 + 0) Alternate Fall
ANTH 445 3 Credits
Gender in Cross-Cultural
Perspective (s)
(Stacked with ANTH 645 and Cross-listed
with WMS 445)
Gender as both cultural construction and social 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. (Prerequisite: ANTH 215 or WMS 201 or permission of instructor.
Next offered: 2007-08.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 446 3 Credits
Economic Anthropology
(s)
(Stacked with ANTH 646)
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.
(Prerequisite: A cultural anthropology class or permission of instructor.
Next offered: 2006-07.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 451 3 Credits
Quaternary Seminar
(Cross-listed
with GEOS 452 and stacked with ANTH 651 and GEOS 651)
Discussion of the Quaternary Period (relatively recent
past
— spanning the past two million years) in order to gain a better understanding
of the landscape, biota and climate of the present day. Quaternary studies
are concerned with the historical dimension of the natural sciences. This
seminar will range widely over diverse interdisciplinary subjects of Quaternary
interest, such as paleoclimatology, paleobiogeography, vertebrate paleontology
and sedimentology. (Prerequisites: GEOS 215, 304 and 322.) (3 + 0)
Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 465 3 Credits
Geoarchaeology
(Cross-listed
with GEOS 465)
Geological context of archaeological sites and the geologic
factors that affect their preservation, with emphasis on Alaska. Includes
a one or two-day weekend field trip in late April or early May. Course fee:
$60. (Prerequisite: GEOS 101X, an introductory course in archaeology, or
permission of instructor.) (3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 470 3 Credits
Oral Sources; Issues in Documentation (h)
(Cross listed with NORS 470 and Stacked with ANTH 670 and
NORS 670)
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. (Prerequisite: At least one undergraduate ANTH course
and one undergraduate HIST course, or permission of instructor.) (3 + 0)
Offered Fall
ANTH 472 3 Credits
Culture and History in the North Atlantic (s)
(Stacked with ANTH 672 and NORS 672)
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. (Prerequisite:
ANTH 100X. Recommended: ANTH 215. Next offered: 2006-07.) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 602 3 Credits
Anthropology of Art
(Stacked with ANTH 402 and ART 402)
Anthropological study of art in cross-cultural perspective.
Social context of art production and use, cross-cultural variations in definition
of an artist's role. (Prerequisite: Senior standing or permission of instructor.)
(3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 603 3 Credits
Political Anthropology
(Stacked with ANTH 403W,O)
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. (Prerequisite: Graduate
standing. Next offered: 2006-07.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate
Spring
ANTH 605 3 Credits
Archaeological Method and Theory
(Stacked with ANTH 405)
Archaeological methods and analysis as the framework
for different perspectives in archaeology. Application to specific research
problems. (Prerequisite: ANTH 211 or permission of instructor. Next offered:
2007-08.)
(2 + 3) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 606 3 Credits
Folklore and Mythology: Anthropological Perspective
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. (Prerequisite: Upper-division
undergraduate anthropology course or permission of instructor.) (3 + 0)
Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 607 3 Credits
Kinship and Social Organization
(Stacked with ANTH 407)
Forms and function of family and household organization,
kinship and marriage in diverse human sociocultural systems. Case studies
from tribal and complex societies including contemporary United States. (Prerequisite:
Graduate standing or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2007-08.)
(3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 609 3 Credits
Anthropology of Religion
(Stacked with ANTH 409)
Religion or supernatural belief from the perspective
of anthropology. Religion in the context of "primitive" society as well as its role in complex
society. Religious practitioners, ritual, belief systems and the relationship
of religious behavior to other aspects of social behavior. (Prerequisite:
Graduate standing or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2007-08.)
(3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 610 3 Credits
Northern Indigenous Peoples and Contemporary Issues
(Cross-listed with NORS 610)
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 area a part; education, language loss and cultural
transmission; alternative governmental policies towards indigenous peoples;
and contrasting world views. (Prerequisite: Graduate standing, or upper-division
with permission of instructor. Next offered: 2007-08.) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 612 3 Credits
Paleoecology
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. (Prerequisite:
Graduate standing or permission of instructor.) (3 + 0) Offered
As Demand Warrants
ANTH 617 2 Credits
Resilience Internship
(Cross-listed
with BIOL 613, ECON 613 and NRM 613)
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 the autumn
students meet to discuss their internship experiences and make public presentations.
(Prerequisites: ANTH/BIOL/ECON/NRM 667 and 668 or permission of instructor.)
(2 + 0)
Offered Spring and Fall
ANTH 618 3 Credits
Historical Archaeology
Historical
archaeology of the Americas examines colonial and frontier archaeology
as experienced by Euroamericans, in addition to contact and post contact
archaeology of Native North Americans. Current perspectives in American
historical archaeology, including a review of goals, problem orientation
and the manner in which archaeological and documentary data are used for
anthropological interpretation. (Prerequisites: ANTH 405 or 605 or permission
of instructor.) (3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 623 3 Credits
Paleoanthropology
(Stacked
with ANTH 423)
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. Next offered: 2006-07.) (2 + 3)
Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 624 3 Credits
Analytical Techniques
(Stacked
with ANTH 424)
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. Next offered: 2006-07.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate
Fall
ANTH 625 3 Credits
Human Osteology
(Stacked
with ANTH 422)
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. (Prerequisite: ANTH
315, graduate standing or permission of instructor. Next offered 2007-08.)
Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 626 3 Credits
Bioarchaeology
(Stacked
with ANTH 426)
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 625; ANTH 415. Next
offered: 2007-08.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 629 3 Credits
Structures of Anthropological
Argument
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)
Offered Fall
ANTH 630 3 Credits
Anthropological Field
Methods
Concentration on the practical concerns and
aspects of doing 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. Next offered:
2006-07.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 631 3 Credits
Language and Culture Seminar
In-depth
examination of the interrelation between language and culture in the context
of the theories of human communication, semiotics and maintenance of cultural
boundaries. In particular, the influence of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
in anthropological thinking today and the field of ethnoscience will be
examined, as well as language change in contact situations with emphasis
on emergence of pidgin and Creole languages and effects of the introduction
of writing. (Prerequisites: Graduate standing; previous credit in anthropological
or descriptive linguistics, or permission of instructor. Next offered:
2007-08.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 632 3 Credits
Field Methods in Descriptive
Linguistics I (h)
(Stacked with ANTH 432 and LING
431 cross-listed with LING 631)
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 records,
computers and transcriptions, planning consultant sessions, working with
consultants, interviewing, and ethics in the field. Projects include doing
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 627, or permission of
instructor. Next offered: 2006-07.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate
Spring
ANTH 634 3 Credits
Field Methods in Descriptive Linguistics II (h)
(Stacked
with ANTH 434 and LING 434 and cross-listed with LING 634)
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 632 or LING
631; Next offered 2007-2008.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 637 3 Credits
Methods in Ethnohistorical Research
In
the seminar, 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. Next offered: 2007-08.) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 645 3 Credits
Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (s)
(Stacked with ANTH 445 and WMS 445)
Gender as both cultural construction and social 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. (Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor.
Next offered: 2007-08.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 646 3 Credits
Economic Anthropology
(Stacked with ANTH 446)
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.
(Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of instructor. Next offered:
2006-07.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 647 3 Credits
Regional Sustainability
(Cross-listed with BIOL 647, ECON 647 and NRM 647)
Explores the basic principles that govern resilience
and change of ecological and social systems. The principles are applied at
the level of populations, communities, regions and 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 Alaska
examples. (Prerequisite: Graduate standing in a natural science, social science,
humanities or interdisciplinary program at UAF, or permission of instructor.)
(3 + 0) Offered Fall
ANTH 648 3 Credits
Integrative Modeling of Natural and Social Systems
(Cross-listed with BIOL 648, ECON 648 and NRM 648)
Provides a modeling approach to structuring knowledge
from natural and social scientific disciplines so that relevant aspects of
a complex societal problem are considered for the purpose of making management
and policy decisions. Designed to help graduate students use models to integrate
understanding about interactions among natural and social systems for the
purpose of managing biological and human resources. (Prerequisite: STAT 200
or equivalent, graduate standing in a natural science, social science, humanities
or interdisciplinary program at UAF or another university, or permission
of instructor. The course is designed to fit into the sequence of the Resilience
and Adaptation program's core courses. It is open to other graduate students
interested in and prepared to conduct interdisciplinary studies relating
to regional sustainability. Recommended: ANTH/BIOL/ECON/NRM 647.) (3 + 3)
Offered Fall
ANTH 649 3 Credits
Adaptive Management
(Cross-listed with BIOL 649, ECON 649 and NRM 649)
Interdisciplinary exploration of theoretical and practical
considerations of adaptive management. Students survey concepts important
in understanding societal and professional-level decision-making. Students
work as individuals and in small teams to undertake in-depth case studies
with relevance to adaptive management problems. Collectively, the class builds
a portfolio of cases that are used as the basis of a final overview analysis.
(Prerequisite: Graduate standing in a natural science, social science, humanities
or interdisciplinary program at UAF or another university, or permission
of instructor. The course is designed to fit into the sequence of the Resilience
and Adaptation program's core courses. It is open to other graduate students
interested in and prepared to conduct interdisciplinary studies relating
to regional sustainability. Recommended: ANTH/BIOL/ECON/NRM 667; and ANTH/BIOL/ECON/NRM
647 and 648. In case of enrollment limits, priority will be given to graduate
students in the Resilience and Adaptation program.) (3 + 0) Offered
Spring
ANTH 651 3 Credits
Quaternary Seminar
(Cross-listed with GEOS 651 and stacked with ANTH 451 and
GEOS 452)
Discussion of the Quaternary Period (relatively recent
past
— spanning the past two million years) in order to gain a better understanding
of the landscape, biota and climate of the present day. Quaternary studies
are concerned with the historical dimension of the natural sciences. This
seminar will range widely over diverse interdisciplinary subjects of Quaternary
interest, such as paleoclimatology, paleobiogeography, vertebrate paleontology
and sedimentology. (Prerequisites: Graduate standing or permission of instructor.)
(3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants
ANTH 652 3 Credits
Research Design and Professional Development Seminar
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) Offered Spring
ANTH 653 3 Credits
Current Perspectives in Cultural Resource Management
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. Next offered: 2007-08.) (3 + 0)
Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 667 1 Credit
Resilience Seminar I
(Cross-listed
with BIOL 667, ECON 667 and NRM 667)
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. (Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in the Resilience and Adaptation
graduate program or permission of instructor. Recommended: ANTH/BIOL/ECON/NRM
647 [taken concurrently].) (2 + 0) Offered Fall
ANTH 668 1 Credit
Resilience Seminar II
(Cross-listed
with BIOL 668, ECON 668 and NRM 668)
Provides a forum for new students of the Resilience
and Adaptation graduate program to explore issues of interdisciplinary research
that are 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 667; and ANTH/BIOL/ECON/NRM
647 or permission of instructor.) (2 + 0) Offered Spring
ANTH 670 3 Credits
Oral Sources; Issues in
Documentation
(Cross-listed with NORS 670 and stacked
with ANTH 470 and NORS 470)
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. (Prerequisite: At least one undergraduate ANTH course and
one undergraduate HIST course, or permission of instructor.) (3 + 0)
Offered Fall
ANTH 672 3 Credits
Culture and History in
the North Atlantic
(Stacked with ANTH 472 and cross-listed
with NORS 672)
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. (Prerequisite:
Graduate standing or permission of instructor. Next offered: 2006-07.)
(3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring