Current M.A. Courses
The Anthropology Department offers numerous courses each semester that cover a broad range of topical areas within the three fields of Anthropology: Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, and Cultural Anthropology. Please visit this site often as the contents are updated for each semesters course offerings.
Please visit the Graduate Course Catalog for more information on our graduate program, and the concentration specific pages for all of our Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, and Cultural Anthropology courses.
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Anthropology 5305 | Anthropological Statistics
Field | General Anthropology (Core)
In this course students will learn how to statistically analyze anthropological data. Students will gain a firm understanding of basic quantitative statistics, will be able to evaluate quantitative methods presented in anthropological research papers, and will be prepared for classes in more advanced statistical methods.
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Anthropology 5308 | Cultural Resource Management and Archaeology
Field | Archaeology
In this course students will examine various topics relevant to cultural resource management including state and federal laws, survey, testing, mitigation, and developing final reports.
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Anthropology 5311 | Seminar in Cultural Anthropology
Field | Cultural Anthropology
In this course, students will learn the historical foundations of cultural anthropology, its key theories and methods, and examples of its contemporary practice. Topics will include evolutionism, functionalism, structuralism, ethnoscience, neo-Marxism, postmodernism, and modernity.
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Anthropology 5313 | Seminar in Archaeology
Field | Archaeology
In this course, students will learn the historical foundations of archaeology, its key theories and methods, and examples of its contemporary practice in New World and Old World archaeology.
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Anthropology 5322 | Peoples and Cultures of Africa
Field | Cultural Anthropology
This course is a general introduction to the contemporary peoples and cultures of Africa. Students will examine the social structure, economy, political systems, and religions of African cultures in the context of the radical economic and social transformations affecting the area.
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Anthropology 5333 | Research Design in Biological Anthropology
Field | Biological Anthropology
This course provides students with an introduction to the principles and processes by which research projects in biological anthropology are devised and executed. It focuses on the issues of finding a topic to research, defining its scope and limitations, developing a research bibliography, and elaborating a research design.
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Anthropology 5341 | Gross Anatomy
Field | Biological Anthropology
Students in this course examine the macroscopic structure of organs and soft and hard tissues in the human body. The course is divided into these units: back and thorax, neck and head, and upper and lower limb. Cadaver-based dissection labs accompany lecture topics.
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Anthropology 5347 | Archaeology of North America
Field | Archaeology
This course examines human settlement of North America from the end of the Pleistocene to European discovery.
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Anthropology 5355 | Seminar in Culture Theory
Field | Cultural Anthropology
An intensive examination of the principal theoretical positions in cultural anthropology, with an emphasis on the preparation of students with ethnographic analysis and fieldwork.
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Anthropology 5376 | Advanced Methods in Skeletal Biology, Part II
Field | Biological Anthropology
This course focuses on technical case report writing and evidentiary best practices in forensic anthropological analysis of human skeletal remains. In addition to biological profile estimation techniques, research methods and theoretical foundations used for trauma analysis and taphonomic interpretation will be reviewed.
Prerequisite: ANTH 5375 with a grade of "C" or better.
