ANT - Anthropology

Courses

ANT 1001: Cultural Anthropology: GT-SS3

Credits 3.00
Examines the study of human cultural patterns, including communication, economic systems, social and political organizations, religion, healing systems, and cultural change.

ANT 1003: Intro to Archaeology: GT-SS3

Credits 3.00
Introduces the science of recovering the human prehistoric and historic past through excavation, analysis, and interpretation of material remains. The course provides a survey of the archaeology of different areas of the Old and New Worlds, the works of selected archaeologists, and major archaeological theories.

ANT 1005: Biological Anthropology w/Lab: GT-SC1

Credits 4.00
Focuses on the study of the human species and related organisms, and examines principles of genetics, evolution, anatomy, classification, and ecology, including a survey of human variation and adaptation, living primate biology and behavior, and primate and human fossil evolutionary history.

ANT 1208: Archaeology of World Rock Art: SS3

Credits 3.00

Introduces the archaeology of New and Old World rock art dating from the historic past to over 30,000 years ago using a scientific perspective. Presents classification, recordation, dating, analysis, management and conservation, research ethics and protocols, and symbolic and ethnographic interpretation, and addresses other formal approaches that are established as well as emerging theory. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category.

ANT 2125: Anthropology of Religion: GT-SS3

Credits 3.00
Explores the culturally universal phenomenon of religion including cross-cultural varieties of beliefs in the supernatural and the religious rituals people employ to interpret and control their worlds.

ANT 2550: Medical Anthropology: GT-SS3

Credits 3.00
Explores the basic principles of medical anthropology, an applied field within the discipline of cultural anthropology, including the cross-cultural study of illness, health, healing, death, globalization, and the interaction of medical systems between cultures. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses. GT-SS3.