Course Descriptions

1. Introduction to Biological Anthropology. (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. An introduction to human evolution. Physical and behavioral adaptations of humans and their prehistoric and living relatives. Issues in evolutionary theory, molecular evolution, primate behavior, interpretation of fossils. Prehistoric activities, racial differences, genetic components of behavior are defined and evaluated.

2. Introduction to Archaeology. (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Prehistory and cultural growth. Introduction to the methods, goals, and theoretical concepts of archaeology.

2AC. Introduction to Archaeology. (4) Introduction to the methods, goals, and theoretical concepts of archaeology with attention to the impact archaeology has had on the construction of the histories of diverse communities - Native Americans, Hispanics, and Euro-Americans. This course satisfies the American cultures requirement.

3. Introduction to Social/Cultural Anthropology. (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. The structure and dynamics of human cultures and social institutions from a comparative perspective. Case studies will illustrate the principles presented in the course.

3AC. Introduction to Social/Cultural Anthropology. (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. The structure and dynamics of human cultures and social institutions from a comparative perspective with special attention to American cultures and their roots. Case studies will illustrate the principles presented in the course. This course satisfies the American cultures requirement.

R5B. Reading and Composition in Anthropology. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Reading and composition courses based on the anthropological literature. These courses provide an introduction to issues distinctive of anthropological texts and introduce students to distinctive forms of anthropological writing, such as ethnography and anthropological prehistory. Readings will be chosen from a variety of texts by authors whose works span the discipline, from bioanthropology to archaeology and sociocultural anthropology. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement.

12AC. Anthropological Views of American Cultures. (3) Two hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Limited to freshmen and sophomores. Consent of instructor. The seminar will examine anthropologists' research and writing on American cultures (African American, American Indian, Asian American, Chicano/Latino, European American, and people of mixed heritages) plus intercultural relations. Each student will focus on two culture categories, to discover how anthropologists of diverse cultures have described and analyzed those cultures. Have they exhibited ethnocentric, colonialist or other biases? Have they exhibited cultural relativity and empathy? Is there a shared "anthropological view" of American cultures? If not, why not? If so, how so and what is its impact? This course satisfies the American cultures requirement.

24. Freshman Seminar. (1) Course may be repeated for credit with different topic and different instructor. Fifteen hours of seminar per semester. The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Enrollment limited to 15 freshmen.

39. Freshman/Sophomore Seminar. (2) Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. One hour of lecture per unit. Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting.

84. Sophomore Seminar. (1) Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. One hour of seminar per week per unit for fifteen weeks. Sophomore seminars offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty members and students in the crucial second year. Enrollment limited to 15 sophomores.

101. Genetic Anthropology. (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Prerequisites: 1. Human variation in both a racial and non-racial context; basic genetics (both molecular and populational); theories of racial origins, selective bases of human variation.

105. Primate Evolution. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 1 recommended. A consideration of the major groups of primates with an emphasis on the evolution of behavior.

106. Primate Behavior. (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Prerequisites: 1 recommended. Humans, apes, and selected monkeys are the primates of concern, and among this array patterns and degrees of social behavior vary greatly. Lectures present a general introduction to behavior and its ecological context, the interaction of biology and behavior from an evolutionary perspective, and an examination of the roots of modern human behavior.

111. Evolution of Human Behavior. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. This course will ask to what extent human behavior in its various individual, group, social, and cultural dimensions can be understood using the relatively small number of basic principles provided by evolutionary biological considerations.

112. Special Topics in Biological Anthropology. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week and one or more hours of laboratory may be required based on topic. Prerequisites: Anthropology 1 recommended. Varying topics covering current discoveries, research, theories, fieldwork, etc., in biological anthropology.

114. History of Anthropological Thought. (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. This course will present a history of anthropological thought from the mid-19th century to the present, and will draw upon the major subdisciplines of anthropology. It will focus both upon the integration of the anthropological subdisciplines and upon the relationships between these and other disciplines outside anthropology.

115. Introduction to Medical Anthropology. (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Cultural, psychological, and biological aspects of the definitions, causes, symptoms, and treatment of illness. Comparative study of medical systems, practitioners, and patients.

119. Special Topics in Medical Anthropology. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: Upper division status and consent of instructor. Special topics in cultural, biomedical and applied approaches to medical anthropology.

121A. American Material Culture. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 2 or consent of instructor. Patterns in material culture as it reflects behavioral and psychological aspects of American culture since the 17th century. Topics include architecture, domestic artifacts, mortuary art, foodways, and trash disposal. Euro-American, African American, and Native-American examples are considered.

121AC. American Material Culture. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 2 or consent of instructor. Patterns in material culture as it reflects behavioral and psychological aspects of American culture since the 17th century. Topics include architecture, domestic artifacts, mortuary art, foodways, and trash disposal. This course satisfies the American cultures requirement.

121B. Theoretical Approaches in American Historical Archaeology. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 2 or consent of instructor. This course will provide a background in the theoretical and methodological development of American historical archaeology, with particular emphasis on the ways in which archaeologists have approached the integration of archaeological, documentary, oral historical and ethnohistoric data. Emphasis on continuing theoretical developments in the discipline. Politics of historical archaeology, and ways in which historical archaeologists and other public historians make the past relevant to the present.

121C. Historical Artifact Identification and Analysis. (4) Two hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: 121A or 121B recommended and consent of instructor. Learn to work with historical artifacts from the stage of recovery through the stages of analysis and interpretation. The focus is on the analysis of materials (i.e., ceramic, glass, metal, bone, shell artifacts) recovered from historic sites. Skills acquired include how to identify, date, record, illustrate, photograph, catalog, and interpret historical archaeological materials through a combination of lectures, lab exercises, and a research paper.

122A. Archaeology of North America. Prerequisites: 2. Formerly 122. Prehistory of North American Indians; prehistoric culture areas; relations with historic Indians.

122D. World of Ancient Maya. (4) A survey of the history of development of Maya society and culture in Central American pri to Eurpean contact in the 16th century AD.

122E. Andean Archaeology: People of the Andes. (4) This course covers the archaeology and history of the indigenous societies of the Andean region of South America. The lectures and readings emphasize major political, economic, social, and symbolic processes in the development of the Andean civilizations. Particular attention is paid to the development of the early states along the coast of Peru. The development of major centers in the highlands, and the relationship between the political, economic, and religious systems of the later empires and earlier political structures and social processes, are also emphasized.

122F. California Archaeology. (4) Prehistory of California Indians; selected archaeological sites and current issues in interpretations.

122G. Archaeology of the American Southwest. (4) This course will outline the development of vative cultures in the American Southwest from Paleo-Indian times (ca. 11,500 BC) through early European contact (ca. A.D. 1600). Topics to be covered include the greater environment, early foaging culture, the development of agriculture and village life, the emergence and decline of regional alliances, abandonment, and reorganization, and changes in social organization, external relations and trade. The course is designed as an advanced upper division seminar for students majoring in anthropology with an emphasis in archaeology. Can be taught as a distance learning course with another university.

123A. Stone Age Archaeology. (4) Prerequisites: 2. Overview of stone age cultures and development. Selected topics or geographic areas of paleolithic research.

123C. Archaeology of Europe. (4) Prerequisites: 2. Selected topics and research problems in the archaeology of the Pleistocene and/or post-Pleistocene of Europe.

123D. Archaeology of East Asia. (4) Prerequisites: 2 recommended. Prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology in China, Japan, and Korea.

124A. Archaeology of the South Pacific. (4) Selected topics and research problems in the archaeology of the southern Pacific from prehistory through to the establishment of complex chiefdoms in many locales. Stress on current issues and interpretations.

124AC. Hawaiian Ethnohistory. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Developmental foundations of the 20th-century multicultural society of Hawaii, during the period 1778-1900, explored through an explicitly anthropological perspective. The following ethnic groups are emphasized: Native Hawaiians, British-American whites, Chinese, and Japanese. This course satisfies the American cultures requirement.

C125A. Archaeology of East Asia. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology in China, Japan, and Korea.

C125B. Archaeology and Japanese Identities. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Formerly Formerly Anthropology 125B. Course explores stereotypical images of traditional Japanese culture and people through archaeological analysis. Particular emphasis will be placed on changing lifeways of past residents of the Japanese islands, including commoners, samurai, and nobles. Consideration will be given to the implications of these archaeological studies for our under,standing of Japanese identities.

127A. Introduction to Skeletal Biology and Bioarchaeology. (4) An introduction to skeletal biology and anatomy to understand how skeletal remains can be used in reconstructing patterns of adaptation and biocultural evolution in past populations, emphasizing a problem-based approach to bioarchaeological questions.

127A. Introduction to Skeletal Biology and Bioarchaeology. (4) An introduction to skeletal biology and anatomy to understand how skeletal remains can be used in reconstructing patterns of adaptation and biocultural evolution in past populations, emphasizing a problem-based approach to bioarchaeological questions.

128A. Special Topics in Archaeology/Area. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 2 recommended. Special topics in archaeology which meet the area requirement for the anthropology major.

128M. Special Topics in Archaeology/Method. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: 2 recommended. Special topics in archaeology which meet the method requirement for the anthropology major.

129A. Prehistoric Art. (4) Draws on study of art in non-literate societies and on archaeology to explore a range of prehistoric arts in cultural contexts; e.g

129C. Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherers. (4) Course will provide an overview of hunter-gatherer archaeology, focusing on the history of hunter-gatherer archaeology in North America and Britian; long-term changes in hunter-gatherer subsistence, settlement, mortuary/ceremonial practices and crafts/trade; social archaeology of hunter-gatherers including studies of gender, cognition, and cultural landscapes; and discussions of the relevance of hunter-gatherer studi,es in the context of world archaeology.

129D. The Archaeology of Global Change. (4) This course explores the interface between archaeology, ecology, geography, environmental studies, and geomorphology to understand global change. The geographic scope is global and will cover time periods ranging over the Holocene and at time to the Pleistocene.

129E. Household Archeology. (4) This class explores the questions: why study the archaeology of households? How do we define households and how can we identify and study them archaeologically? What research questions, strategies, and methodologies does the archaeological investigation of households entail? How does the study of households contribute to multiscalar approaches for understanding social organization? Why is this important? What are the causes and,effects of changing scales of analysis?

130. History and Theory of Archaeology. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 2. A critical review of the historical background and philosophical premises of past and present anthropological theory with respect to its concepts of time and change.

C131. Geoarchaeological Science. (4) Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: 2 or Earth and Planetary Science 50, or consent of instructor. This survey and laboratory course will cover a broad range of current scientific techniques used in the field and in the analysis of geoarchaeological materials. The course includes field and laboratory studies in analytical chemistry, geology, petrology/petography and a survey of dati,ng materials in archaeology, the historical development of geoarchaeological science and other aspects of archaeological science applied to geoarchaeological materials.

132A. Analysis of Archaeological Ceramics. (4) Discussion of and laboratory instruction in methods of analysis of ceramics used by archaeologists to establish a time scale, to document interconnections between different areas, sites, or groups of people, to suggest what activities were carried out at particular sites, and to understand the organization of ceramic production itself.

134. Analysis of the Archaeological Record. (4) Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: 2 or consent of instructor. Guidance in the preparation of excavated materials for publication, including sampling and analysis strategy, drawing, photography and write-up.

134A. Field Course in Archaeological Methods. (6) Course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: 2 or consent of instructor. Practical experience in the field study of archaeological sites and materials. Coverage may include reconnaissance, mapping, recording, and excavation. (F,SP)

134B. Archaeological Laboratory Practicum. (1) One hour of lecture and two to eleven hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. This is a practical laboratory analysis course that offers a team of students the opportunity to work closely with faculty on an aspect of their laboratory research in archaeological physical or natural sciences, or archaeological material analysis. May be taken concurrently with other laboratory courses or as,the logical follow-up to a field school. Projects will vary by course.

135. Paleoethnobotany: Archaeological Methods and Laboratory Techniques. (4) Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: 2 and consent of instructor. An introduction to the basic approaches and techniques in archaeobotanical analysis. A series of different data types and their unique approaches will be discussed, including phytoliths, pollen, and DNA, with an emphasis on macrofloral remains. Laboratory study will include the,major classes of plant remains likely to be encountered in archaeological sites. Discussion will emphasize the use of plant remains to answer archaeological questions, rather than study the plant remains for their own sake. Microscope work and computing will be included.

135B. Environmental Archaeology. (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Prerequisites: 2.The major issues, research objectives, databases, and techniques involved in the study of past society's relationship and interaction with the natural environment. Particularly methods that use "noncultural" information in archaeological research, but with a cultural orientation. Major subjects addressed will be paleoenvironmental recons,truction; human-environment interaction, impact, and environmental degradation; paleodiet and domestication; land-use and social environments; with an emphasis on ecofactual analysis.

136A. Museum Exhibit Curation and Design. (4) Three hours of lecture and four hours of studio per week. A practical introduction to contemporary museum approaches to exhibition design, with particular application to the design of exhibits that present cultural heritage in anthropology, art, and natural history museums. Both the theory of museum exhibit desing and practice will be covered, including critiques of representation; issues of cultural heritage; con,versation, education, and installation standards; and incorporation of interactivity, including through digital media.

136B. Museum Methods. (4) This course will introduce participants to the fundamentals of contemporary museum practices. It is intended for two groups of students: individuals who may be thinking of conducting research in museums, and may benefit from an understanding of the way these institutions work; and individuals who may be thinking of museum work as a post-graduate career. The course will include both discussion of museum concepts and practical applicat,ion of these concepts through real-world exercises. While the course fulfills the method requirement, it covers practices of art, natural history, and science museums as well.

136C. Multimedia Authoring Part 1. (4) One hour of lecture and four hours of laboratory per week. This course is the first part in a two-part series of courses that coach students in research and presentation of archaeological information through nonlinear multimedia authoring. The content of the course varies and may focus on an area or a topic depending on instructor. Students experience the first stage of multimedia authoring process: research, planning, a,nd design. The focus is on content development and evaluation of digital research sources, with an introduction to software skills and practice.

136D. Multimedia Authoring Part 2. (4) One hour of lecture and four hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: 136C. This course is the second part in a two-part series of courses that coach students in research and presentation of archaeological information through nonlinear multimedia authoring. The content of the course varies and may focus on an area or a topic depending on instructor. Students work in a team, building on research in 136C to design and,develop an interactive hypermedia project. There is a focus on the real-world practice of multimedia authoring, including detailed storyboarding, design of interactivity and navigation, deep content research, and keeping to production timetables.

136E. Digital Documentation and Representation of Cultural Heritage. (4) One hour of lecture and four hours of laboratory per week. A practical, hands-on overview of cutting-edge digital technology that is being used and developed for the documentation of archaeological sites. This course outlines a digital documentation strategy for collecting, processing, and integrating digital data from a variety of different media into a dataset that holistically describ,es place, including landscape, architecture, and other cultural artifacts.

136F. Digital Archaeology from Field to Classroom. (4) Students will receive no credit for 136F after taking 134B. This is a course that builds on the fieldwork conducted by the participants in the Summer Sessions field schools in archaeology. Students who participated in the field schools work as post-excavation leads in small groups to guide new students through the processing of the multimedia record and other digitized archaeological data.

136H. Archaeology After-School Program. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: 2 or consent of instructor. An opportunity to work with sixth-graders in exploring the worlds of archaeology, history, and computer-based technologies. Meets the method requirement for the anthropology major.

136I. Archaeology and the Media. (4) Prerequisites: 2. Focus on the use of digital media to create narrative about the practice and products of archaeology. Students build a critical awareness of the way digital media are used by archaeologists, journalists, film and TV producers, and others. Students will experience the introductory stage of the digital media authoring process.

136J. Archaeology and the Media Method. (4) Prerequisites: 136I. Focus on the use of digital media to create narratives about the practice and products of archaeology. Students work in teams to produce short videos (digital narrative or digital stories) from their own research. Students share equally the responsibilities of research and writing, directing, camera, sound recording, and editing. This course satisfies the method requirement for the anthropology,major.

137. Energy, Culture and Social Organization. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. This course will consider the human dimensions of particular energy production and consumption patterns. It will examine the influence of culture and social organization on energy use, energy policy, and quality of life issues in both the domestic and international setting. Specific treatment will be given to mind-sets, ideas of progress, cultural variation in time perspectives,and resource use, equity issues, and the role of power holders in energy related questions.

138A. History and Theory of Ethnographic Film. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 or 114.The course will trace the development of ethnographic film from its beginnings at the turn of the century to the present. In addition to looking at seminal works in the field, more recent and innovative productions will be viewed and analyzed. Topics of interest include the role of visual media in ethnography, ethics in filmmaking, and the problematic r,elationship between seeing and believing. Requirements include film critiques, a film proposal, and a final exam.

138B. Field Production of Ethnographic Film. (5) Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisites: 138A (no exceptions). This course is devoted to training students in methods of ethnographic field film production. Based on the previous coursework in Anthro 138A, students will work toward the production of an ethnographic video from elected project proposals. In addition to weekly discussions of student projects, guest consultants a,nd lecturers will lend their expertise on aspects of production as well as editing.

139. Controlling Processes. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: Those with at least one social science course will be more familiar with the subject matter. This course will discuss key theoretical concepts related to power and control and examine indirect mechanisms and processes by which direct control becomes hidden, voluntary, and unconscious in industrialized societies. Readings will cover language, law, politics, religion, medicine, sex,, and gender.

141. Comparative Society. (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Prerequisites: 3 or consent of instructor. Theories of social structure, functional interrelationships of social institutions. Primary emphasis on non-Western societies.

142. Kinship and Family. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3. Comparative study of the family and kinship systems in non-state and state societies.

144. Social and Cultural Change. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 or consent of instructor. Western theories of evolutionary and revolutionary change inform our general understanding of societies past and present. This course will evaluate these models by reading about the particular and multifarious experiences of social change in different times and places, and will consider new forms of consciousness and culture generated by the colon,ial encounter, agrarian transition, industrialization, emigration, and the impact of cosmopolitan culture on non-Western societies.

145. Urban Anthropology. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 or consent of instructor. A consideration of anthropological concepts and methods for the urbanization process in towns and cities.

147A. Anthropology of Gender. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 or consent of instructor. The course explores major developments within feminist theory in the 20th century within an international context, with special attention to issues of class, culture, race, ethnicity, and sexuality.

147C. Globalization and Gender in the Asia Pacific. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Globalization and its reworking of gender systems and rights is analyzed using market-state relations, and accelerated transnationalism. Contemporary capitalism involves the reformation of the world economy, with consequences for relations between state and society. Transnationalism refers to the flow of people, goods, cultures, and politics across national borders prompte,d by markets, migrations, criminal syndicates, etc. Interconnection between regions and nation-states transforms modern life.

C147B. Sexuality, Culture, and Colonialism. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 or Sociology 3. An introduction to social theory and ethnographic methodology in the cross-cultural study of sexuality, particularly sexual orientation and gender identity. The course will stress the relationships between culture, international and local political economy, and the representation and experience of what we will provisionally call homosexual and tran,sgendered desires or identities.

148. Anthropology of the Environment. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 or consent of instructor. Surveys anthropological perspectives on the environment and examines differing cultural constructions of nature. Coverage includes theory, method, and case materials extending from third world agrarian contexts to urban North America. Topics may include cultural ecology, political ecology, cultural politics of nature, and environmental imagina,ries.

149. Psychological Anthropology. (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Prerequisites: 3 or consent of instructor.In the contemporary world, different systems of knowledge, philosophies, and techniques of the self, understandings of normality and pathology, illness and healing, are increasingly engaged in a dialogue with each other in the lives, on the bodies, and in the imagination of people. The terms of this dialogue are often une,qual and painful, yet they are also productive of new subjectivities and new voices. It is the task of a renewed psychological anthropology to study and reflect on these processes. Topics to be covered in this class include new forms of the subject and ethics at the intersection of psychical/psychiatric, political, and religious processes and discources; ethno-psychiatry, psychoanalysis, the psychology of colonization and racism; anthropological approaches to possession and altered states, emotion, culture, and the imagination, madness and mental illness. The specific stress will be on the stakes of anthropology of the psyche today, for an understanding of power and subjugation, delusion and the imagination, violence, and the possibility of new forms of life.

150. Utopia: Art and Power in Modern Times. (4) Four hours of lecture per week. Modern times have been dominated by utopian visions of how to achieve a happy future society. Artists in competing social systems played a central role in the development of these visions. But artistic experiments were filled with paradoxes, contributing to the creation not only of the most liberating and progressive ideals and values but also to the most oppressive regimes and i,deologies. The course questions: what is art, what can it achieve and destroy, what is beauty, artistic freedom, and the relationship between esthetics, ethics, and power?

151. Anthropology of Tourism. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. (1) Variations in touristic motivations and behavior and (2) the political, economic, and cultural impact of tourism on host cultures and communities.

152. Art and Culture. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Graphic and plastic arts and their relations to culture in non-literate societies; illustrative material from the Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

156B. Culture and Power. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. The course examines how representations are situated within fields of power and, in turn, how political considerations are translated into cultural forms. Topics include: philosophy and history of social science, power/knowledge, the social, difference and power, social science and ethics.

157. Anthropology of Law. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 or consent of instructor. Comparative survey of the ethnography of law; methods and concepts relevant to the comparative analysis of the forms and functions of law.

158. Religion and Anthropology. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 or consent of instructor. A consideration of the interplay between religious beliefs and institutions and other aspects of culture.

160. Forms of Folklore. (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Prerequisites: Upper division standing. A world-wide survey of the major and minor forms of folklore with special emphasis upon proverbs, riddles, superstitions, games, songs, and narratives.

160AC. Forms of Folklore. (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Prerequisites: Upper division standing. A world-wide survey of the major and minor forms of folklore with special emphasis upon proverbs, riddles, superstitions, games, songs, and narratives. This course satisfies the American cultures requirement.

161. Narrative Folklore. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 or consent of instructor. The study of folktales, myths, legends, and other forms of verbal art; methods and theories of folklore.

162. Topics in Folklore. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 or consent of instructor. Special topics in folklore or ethno-musicology.

162AC. Topics in Folklore. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: Upper division standing. This course satisfies the American cultures requirement.

163AC. American Folklore. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. The course will cover both the materials and scholarship of American folklore. Generally speaking, the course will treat Native American folklore first, then European, Mexican, and Asian American folklore (including American immigrant traditions), and finally African American folklore. There will be a midterm, a final exam, and a library research paper of at least 7-10 pages. This course satisfies t,he American cultures requirement.

166. Language, Culture, and Society. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 or consent of instructor.This course examines the complex relationships between language, culture, and society. The materials in the course draw on the fields of linguistic anthropology, linguistics, sociolinguistics, philosophy of language, discourse analysis, and literary criticism to explore theories about how language is shaped by, and inb turn shapes, our understa,ndings about the world, social relations, identities, power, aesthetics, etc.

169B. Research Theory and Methods in Socio-Cultural Anthropology. (5) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week. Prerequisites: 3. Introduction to research problems and research design techniques. Will involve local field research on the collection, analysis, and presentation of data. This course requires 15 hours of work per week including class time, outside work and preparation. One section meeting per week will be required.

169A. Data Analysis and Computational Methods. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 2 or consent of instructor. This course capitalizes on a successful approach of using definitional formulas to emphasize concepts of statistics, rather than rote memorization in both qualitative and quantitative anthropology. This conceptual approach constantly reminds the students of the logic behind what they are learning. Procedures are taught verbally, numer,ically, and visually, to reach students with different learning styles.

170. China. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Chinese culture and society with an emphasis on the village level.

171. Japan. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Ethnological treatment of historic and modern Japanese culture, covering history, art and religion; family, kinship and community organization; political, economic and occupational patterns; cultural psychology and social problems in modern Japan. The approach utilizes both sociological and psycho-cultural forms of analysis.

172AC. Special Topics in American Cultures. (4) Course may be repeated for credit with different instructor. Three hours of lecture per week. Various topics which meet the American cultures requirement, taught by members of the Social/Cultural faculty. See the Schedule of Classes for each semester, and the department's Internal Catalog for course title, description, instructor name, and specific format. This course satisfies the American cultures requirement.

174AC. California Historical Anthropology. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Combining historical archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography, this course will take account of ethnic groups and their interaction in early colonial California; Native Americans; mission, presidio, pueblo, and rancho communities of Spanish/Mexican California; Russian frontier society at Fort Ross; and American expansion into California, especially the Gold Rush. The course will a,lso examine how the colonial past affects ethnic relations and cultural identity among contemporary California Indians. This course satisfies the American cultures requirement.

176. Contemporary Latin America. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. Emphasis on Iberian-Indian assimilation, African influences, development of folk-peasant societies, and the concept of national cultures. Discussion of contemporary issues will also be covered.

179. Ethnography of the Maya. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 recommended. An introduction to the anthropological study of Maya people in Southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. The course focuses on certain parts of the Maya region, emphasizing selected themes and problems. We will explore regional history through the development of Maya studies and the historical transformations of Maya societies. These themes will be traced through s,tudies of the Classic Maya, the Spanish conquest and colonization, indigenous resistance and rebellion, and recent pan-Maya activism.

180. European Society. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Representative groups in historical and modern perspective. Rural-urban relationships and the dynamics of change.

181. Themes in the Anthropology of the Middle East and Islam. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 recommended. Cultures of the contemporary Near East, with special emphasis upon Arab populations.

183. Topics in the Anthropological Study of Africa. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 and/or 114.The course will focus on African societies and cultures, as well as on issues relating to the history of Africanist anthropology. Images and constructs of Africa or Africans will thus be contextualized in relation to prevailing anthropological theories at different times, and in different regions of the continent.

184. South Asia. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Cultural traditions, social organization, and social change, with an emphasis on India and Pakistan.

186. Southeast Asia. (4) Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 or other social science introductory course. This course examines the current political, economic, and cultural dynamism of the region. Topics include colonialism, patron-colonialism, gender relations, capitalism, and the postcolonial state.

188. Topics in Area Studies. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. Special topics in cultural areas not otherwise covered. (F,SP)

189. Special Topics in Social/Cultural Anthropology. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 or consent of instructor. Various topics covering current research theory, method; issues of social and cultural concern; culture change, conflict, and adaptation. May combine more than one subdiscipline of Anthropology.

189A. Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology/Area. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 recommended. Special topics in cultural anthropology which meet the area requirement for the major.

189M. Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology/Method. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of lecture per week. Prerequisites: 3 recommended. Special topics in cultural anthropology which meet the method requirement for the major.

C200. Human Evolution. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Topic to vary each semester.

210. Special Topics in Physical Anthropology. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

215B. Advanced Medical Anthropology. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Three hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Anthropological theory, data, and methodology in relation to the health sciences. Lectures, readings, and supervised field research. May be taken in association with Medical Anthropology at UCSF.

219. Topics in Medical Anthropology. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Comparative study of mental illness and socially generated disease: psychiatric treatment, practitioners, and institutions.

220. Western North America. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

221. Pre-Columbian Central America. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

222. Archaeology of South America. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

226. Archaeology of the Pacific. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two hours of seminar per week. Subject matter will vary; current issues and debates in the archaeology of the Pacific, e.g

227. Historical Archaeology Research. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Graduate standing with some background in archaeology, or undergraduates who have taken 2, or consent of instructor. Historical archaeology seminar. Subject matter will vary from year to year.

228. Method. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Various topics and issues in the methods of archaeological analysis and interpretation: style, ceramics, architectural analysis, lithic analysis, archaeozoology, etc.

229A. Archaeological Research Strategies. (4) Three hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Required for all first and second year graduate students in archaeology. Three hours of seminar discussion of major issues in the history and theory of archaeological research and practice. To be offered alternate semesters.

229B. Archaeological Research Strategies. (4) Three hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. Required for all first and second year graduate students in archaeology. Three hours of seminar discussion of the research strategies and design for various kinds of archaeological problems. To be offered alternate semesters.

229C. Writing the Field in Archaeology. (4) Two hours of seminar per week. This seminar is intended to guide students in the definition of a field within archaeology, from initial conceptualization to writing of a field statement, dissertation chapter, or review article.

230. Special Topics in Archaeology. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

235. Special Topics in Museum Anthropology. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two hours of seminar per week. Contemporary issues in museum studies from an anthropological perspective.

240A. Fundamentals of Anthropological Theory. (5) Four to six hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Enrollment is strictly limited to and required of all anthropology and medical anthropology graduate students who have not been advanced to candidacy. Anthropological theory and practice--following the rest of the world--have been undergoing important restructuring in the past decade. The course is organized to reflect this fact. We will begin by looking at,recent debates about the nature and purpose of anthropology. This will provide a starting point for reading a series of classic ethnographies in new ways as well as examining some dimensions of the current research agenda in cultural anthropology.

240B. Fundamentals of Anthropological Theory. (5) Four to six hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Enrollment is strictly limited to and required of all anthropology and medical anthropology graduate students who have not been advanced to candidacy. Anthropological theory and practice--following the rest of the world--have been undergoing important restructuring in the past decade. The course is organized to reflect this fact. We will begin by looking at,recent debates about the nature and purpose of anthropology. This will provide a starting point for reading a series of classic ethnographies in new ways as well as examining some dimensions of the current research agenda in cultural anthropology.

250A. Psychological Anthropology. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250B. Gender Anthropology. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250C. Globalization. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250D. Violence and Resistance. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250E. Anthropology of Politics. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250F. Religion. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250G. Anthropology of Ethics. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250H. Art and Culture. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250I. Anthropology of Law. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250J. Ethnographic Field Methods. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250K. Colonialism and Postcolonialism. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250L. Urban Anthropology. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250M. Ecological Anthropology. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250N. Classic Ethnography. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250O. Practice Theory. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250P. Development. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250Q. Voices of the Subject. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250R. Dissertation Writing. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250S. Material Culture. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250T. Indigenous Peoples. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250U. Race, Ethnicity, and Identity. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250V. Tourism. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250W. Process of Social Control. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

250X. Special Topics. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two to three hours of seminar per week.

260. Problems in Folklore. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

C261. Theories of Narrative. (4) Three hours of seminar per week. This course examines a broad range of theories that elucidate the formal, structural, and contextual properties of narratives in relation to gestures, the body, and emotion; imagination and fantasy; memory and the senses; space and time. It focuses on narratives at work, on the move, in action as they emerge from the matrix of the everyday preeminently, storytelling in conversation--as key to f,olk genres--the folktale, the legend, the epic, the myth.

C262A. Theories of Traditionality and Modernity. (4) Course may be repeated for credit with different topic and different instructor. Three hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. This seminar explores the emergence of notions of tradition and modernity and their reproduction in Eurocentric epistemologies and political formations. It uses work by such authors as Anderson, Butler, Chakrabarty, Clifford, Derrida, Fou,cault, Latour, Mignolo, Pateman, and Poovey to critically reread foundational works published between the 17th century and the present--along with philosophical texts with which they are in dialogue--in terms of how they are imbricated within and help produce traditionalities and modernities.

C262B. Theories of Traditionality and Modernity. (4) Course may be repeated for credit with different topic and different instructor. Three hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor. This seminar explores the emergence of notions of tradition and modernity and their reproduction in Eurocentric epistemologies and political formations. It uses work by such authors as Anderson, Butler, Chakrabarty, Clifford, Derrida, Fou,cault, Latour, Mignolo, Pateman, and Poovey to critically reread foundational works published between the 17th century and the present--along with philosophical texts with which they are in dialogue--in terms of how they are imbricated within and help produce traditionalities and modernities.

270B. Fundamentals of Language in Context. (4) Three hours of seminar per week. Intensive introduction to the study of language as a cultural system and speech as socially embedded communicative practice. This is the core course for students wishing to take further coursework in linguistic anthropology.

280B. Africa. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

280C. South Asia. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

280D. China. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

280X. Special Topics in Area Studies. (4) Course may be repeated for credit. Two hours of seminar per week. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

300. Graduate Pedagogy Seminar. (2) Two hours of seminar per week. Must be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Training in both the logistics and the pedagogical issues of undergraduate teaching.