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 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: 2007-08.) (3 + 0) Offered As Demand Warrants
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 213X,
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 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: 2008-09.) (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 and 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: 2008-09.) (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: 2008-09.)
(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: 2008-09.) (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: 2008-09.) (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 428 3
Credits
Ecological Anthropology and Regional Sustainability (n)
Biological, environmental and cultural factors and their
interplay in defining the human condition, with examples from the 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 LING 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 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 318, LING 320, or permission of instructor.
Next offered: 2008-09.) (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 a 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 in archival materials on languages no longer spoken.
(Prerequisites: ANTH 432 or LING 431; Next offered: 2007-08.)
(3 + 0) Offered 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 the experiences of women and men 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: 2008-09.) (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:
2008-09.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring
ANTH 602 3
Credits
Anthropology of Art
(Stacked with ANTH 402 and ART 402)
Anthropological study of art in a 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: 2008-09.) (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 are 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: 2008-09.)
(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: 2008-09.) (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
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. Next offered:
2008-09.) (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 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 627, or permission of instructor. Next
offered: 2008-09.) (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: 2007-08.)
(3 + 0) Offered Alternate Fall
ANTH 637 3
Credits
Methods in Ethnohistorical Research
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: 2008-09.) (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 200X 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
Integrated Assessment and Adaptive Management
(Cross-listed with BIOL 649, ECON 649 and NRM 649)
Interdisciplinary exploration of 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.
(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 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 in order
for them to be able to meet their core requirements.) (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<
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(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:
2008-09.) (3 + 0) Offered Alternate Spring