Course Description: Critical examination of the historical, political, social, and economic factors that have affected the development and status of African-American people in contemporary society.

Course Description: Introduction to African Studies which will focus on the various disciplinary perspectives through which African society and culture are generally studied. A survey of methods, resources and conceptual tools for the study of Africa.

Course Description: Introduction to the humanist tradition developed by writers, philosophers, and artists of African descent in the West. Attention also given to African sources, as well as European, Caribbean, Latin-American, and North American variations on this tradition.

Course Description: African verbal arts; oral texts from different African cultures. Types of critical response to oral texts, role of oral artists, context and esthetics of oral performance in Africa.

Course Description: Gender relations in traditional and contemporary African society. Involvement of African women in politics, religion, the economy, the arts. African responses to feminist theory. Images of women in African literature.

Course Description: Introduction to the contemporary culture, peoples, politics, and societies of the Caribbean. Topics include movements of people, goods and ideas across the Atlantic world and creative productions within the Caribbean.

Course Description: Survey of the African American images in popular culture (film, television, comedy, sports and music).

Course Description: Evolution of African-American dance, tracing its history and development from West and Central Africa to the United States. Investigates the social and cultural relevance of African American dance and its artistic merits through contributions from its choreographers and performers.

Course Description: Introduction to traditional religions of the sub-Saharan African peoples: emphasis on myths, rituals and symbols in West, East, Central and South African indigenous religions. Examines themes: sacred kingship, divination system, women, prophecy, conversion and adaptation to Islam and Christianity.

Course Description: Introduction to the experiences and contributions of people of African descent in California from the early 18th century to the present.

Course Description: Introduction to the analysis of Afro-American politics, using conceptual frameworks from political science and other social sciences.

Course Description: Special study for undergraduates.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

Course Description: Sociological and historical analysis of the experience, culture, and relations of and between groups considered racial and/or ethnic minorities in the United States.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Introductory survey of Afro-American Studies methods and techniques; problems and methodology in Afro-American Studies.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 010; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Key figures and frameworks in the Black human rights tradition. Significance of Black intellectuals and activists in social movements toward an expanded human rights tradition. Analysis and application of Black studies methods to contemporary social issues.

Course Description: Origin and development of African descent communities and cultures in the Caribbean, and Latin America. Similarities and differences among African descent communities and cultures in terms of religious practices, music, and national identity.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.

Course Description: Study of the origin and development of African descent communities and cultures in the U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.

Course Description: Study of the origin and development of African Descent communities and cultures in Asia.

Course Description: Study of the origin and development of African Descent communities and cultures in Europe.

Course Description: Ecology, population, social and political organization, and culture of West Africa in the precolonial, colonial, and post-colonial periods.

Course Description: Themes and style of new cultural forms in Africa as displayed in art, music, film and writing, especially in regard to blending of indigenous and foreign influences. Social and political forces shaping contemporary cultural expression.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 012; or upper division standing.

Course Description: Kingdoms and monarchies in sub-Saharan Africa and their role in contemporary politics through the comparative political economy approach.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 012 recommended.

Course Description: Political leadership in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on historical, institutional, and biographical influences and outcomes through political economy approaches.

Course Description: Black female social, intellectual, and psychological development. Black women's contributions in history, literature, and social science; life experiences of Black women and philosophical underpinnings of the feminist movement.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Examination of the history of the education of African Americans in the United States. Examination and critique of contemporary theories concerning the schooling of African Americans. (Former AAS 140.)

Course Description: Analysis of social science research to examine relationship between black (African-descent) family structures, patterns of functioning, and political, economic, and social conditions in the U.S.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Black women’s relationships with food. Historical and contemporary representations, self-representations, and misrepresentations in popular culture. Images of African American women in their roles as providers, producers, preparers and consumers of food in both domestic and public arenas from the periods of Black people’s enslavement up through the 21st century.

Course Description: Critical examination of how the intersections of gender, religion, race, sexuality, and socioeconomic status have perpetuated the marginalization of African Americans in public health. Focus on vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS in Black communities.

Course Description: Introduction to the psychological issues faced by African Americans. Description of any disparities in mental health care experienced by African American and Diaspora populations in the United States. Analysis of issues from European/Western and Afrocentric frame of reference. Emphasis on Optimal Theory, a psychological theory based on an Afrocentric world view.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 010; or consent of instructor; upper division status.

Course Description: Exploration and analysis of Black social and political thought in the Americas.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 010 or AAS 080; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Exposition and critical analysis of selected theoretical writings of Black intellectuals, and especially political and social thinkers, in the Americas.

Prerequisite(s): (AAS 010, AAS 080, AAS 145A); or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Afro-American visual arts tradition, folk and formal, in historical and cultural context, from 1600 through Reconstruction.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.

Course Description: Afro-American visual arts tradition, folk and formal, in historical and cultural context, from Reconstruction to the present.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.

Course Description: Socio-political dimensions of Afro-American musical forms like spiritual, work song, minstrelsy blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, gospel, soul and contemporary pop, and related verbal arts like preaching, toasting, rapping.

Course Description: Recurrence of cultural tropes in the works of major black world authors and formation of an African-oriented canon. Principal activities include critical reading and discovery of literature as a cultural resource.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 010 or AAS 012 or AAS 018; upper division standing.

Course Description: Colonial and post-colonial sub-Saharan African literature and the African oral traditions from which it emerged. Genres and themes of African literature from the 19th century to the present.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR).

Course Description: Comparative study of the African American dance forms in the U.S.A., Brazil, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad. Examination of ritual, folk, and popular dance forms and the socio/historical factors that have influenced these forms.

Course Description: Relationship between language and identity in literature from Africa and the African Diaspora. Use of pidgins, Creoles, translation from African languages and impact of language policies.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 012; or upper division standing.

Course Description: Political and social developments in 20th-century South Africa as illustrated by a range of South African writing. Response of different writers to race relations, impact of government policy on types and context of writing.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.

Course Description: Theory and history of African American folklore and folklife, including music, material culture, oral narrative, proverbs, and humor. African and Caribbean cultural influences on New World folk genres will be probed.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 010.

Course Description: Comparative and historical survey of Islam in the regional and cultural settings of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas.

Prerequisite(s): RST 060 or AAS 012 or AAS 110.

Course Description: Comparative study of African religious heritage in the Americas: Jamaica, Trinidad, Cuba, U.S.A., Haiti, and Brazil. Emphasis on the origins and development of Candomble, Santeria, Shango, Vodun, and Rastafarianism in the New World.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 010; AAS 015; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Examination of the historical role of Christian belief and practice as well as the institution of the Black Church in the experience of African Americans, from slavery to the present.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 010; AAS 015; or consent of instructor; upper division standing.

Course Description: Study of Black documentary history and understanding of the use of the documentary form for political purposes. Discussion of documentary theory. Each student, singly or in a team, will create and carefully edit a documentary project.

Prerequisite(s): FMS 001; AAS 170; and consent of instructor; AAS 050 recommended.

Course Description: History of the representation of African Americans in television; how the representations reflect social and political forces in American society. Role of African Americans in actively shaping their representation.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 050 recommended.

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Course Description: Comparative approach in the study of fictional film and video dealing with the African American experience drawing on film and cultural studies to examine and discuss selected works.

Prerequisite(s): FMS 001; AAS 050 recommended.

Course Description: Comparative approach in the study of dramatic films and videos that treat black life in Africa and Europe. Critical attention focused on the imaginative construction of ethnicity, race, nationality, gender, and sexuality in each particular work.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 015 or AAS 050 or ENL 160 or ENL 162; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Critical analysis about what it means to be Black/African American in the United States today. Topics include old and new diasporas, immigration, national origin, language, religion, class, education, politics, identity and cultural heritage.

Course Description: Black documentary history and documentary theory. Use of black documentary for political purposes.

Prerequisite(s): FMS 001; AAS 170; AAS 050 recommended.

Course Description: Creation of documentary projects, with students working in production crews.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 175A; and consent of instructor.

Course Description: Examination of the ways in which the processes of the extraction, purification and use of natural resources and the complex regimes of valuation and commodification they (re)produce lead to cooperation and conflict in contemporary Africa and beyond.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 012 or AAS 110.

Course Description: Existing (in)capacities in the structures of state and society in Africa for people to live well. Topics include institutions and practices that define state and civil society encounters in Africa; democracy, ethnicity, economic crisis, religion, citizenship, etc.

Course Description: Exploration of modernity and globalization and their dimensions and impacts in/on Africa. Examination of modern necessities and constrains in Africa in relation to (neo)colonialism, transnational encounters, technology, gender, risk, ritual, identity, culture, etc.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 012; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Social and political effects of racial and ethnic categorization in Latin America, including issues of economic production, citizenship, national belonging, and access to resources. Emphasis is on peoples of African, Indigenous, and Asian descent.

Course Description: History, aesthetics, urban context, and economics of hip-hop in the US, and its globalization. Hip-hop's four artistic elements-rap, deejaying, breakdance, and aerosol art-allow the examination of issues of race, ethnicity, and gender in youth culture and American society.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Investigation of hip-hop youth cultures outside the United States using globalization and Cultural Studies theories. Analysis of international hip-hop sites in Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, and the Middle East through reading, discussion, and visiting virtual sites.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 181 preferable, not required.

Course Description: Study of the history and current state of policing, prisons and protest movements in the U.S. through Black Studies framework and methods.

Course Description: Study of the history and current workings of police, prisons, and protest movements globally through Black Studies frameworks and methods.

Course Description: Intensive study of special topics in African American film.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 170; AAS 050 recommended.

Course Description: Intensive treatment of a special topic or problem in African or African Diaspora Studies.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing in African American African Studies (AAS) courses or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Supervised internship in community, government, or private institutions, in all subject areas offered by the African American & African Studies Program.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; completion of 12 units of upper division study in African American African Studies (AAS) courses; upper division standing.

Course Description: Directed reading, research and writing culminating in preparation of a senior honors thesis under the direction of faculty advisor.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

Course Description: Directed reading, research and writing culminating in preparation of a senior honors thesis under the direction of faculty advisor.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 194HA; consent of instructor.

Course Description: Leading of small voluntary discussion groups affiliated with one of the department's regular courses.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of major committee; upper division standing with major in African American African Studies.

Course Description: Directed group study.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

Course Description: Special study for advanced undergraduates.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

Course Description: Introduction to history of African American Studies. Topics include: research agendas, policy implications, debates, crises, and institutional frameworks.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.

Course Description: Introduction to the history and current organization of African Studies as area of intellectual investigation. Offers an opportunity to review research agenda and policy implications, debates, crises, and institutional frameworks surrounding the production of knowledge about Africa.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.

Course Description: Integrative conceptual framework includes History, Geography, Political Economy, Culture, Aesthetics as tools to investigate the African Diaspora. Engage African Diaspora theories within student's research projects understanding issues developing from the movement of Africans to the rest of the world.

Course Description: Relationship between theory and methodology, with emphasis on identifying relevant methodological approaches and constructing theoretically informed research projects for studying the experience of people of African descent whether on the African continent or in the rest of the world.

Course Description: Intensive study in special thematic topics in Africa, African Diaspora, and African American Studies. Course materials to be selected by the instructor.

Prerequisite(s): AAS 201 or AAS 202 or AAS 203 or AAS 204; or consent of Instructor.

Course Description: Group study.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing.

Course Description: Directed group study in African Studies.

Course Description: Directed research.

Course Description: Teaching assistant training practicum.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; graduate standing.

Course Description: Evolutionary theory and mechanisms of evolution; basic population and quantitative genetics; primatology; biological and cultural diversity within Homo sapiens; paleoanthropology.

Starting Winter Quarter 2025, this course is no longer offered.

Course Description: Evolutionary theory and mechanisms of evolution; basic population and quantitative genetics; primatology; biological and cultural diversity within Homo sapiens; paleoanthropology.

Course Description: Introduction to cultural diversity in its many forms and methods used by anthropologists to account for it. Relational dynamic of culture, history, and power in constituting "social facts" and "realities." Critical thinking of contemporary concerns.

Course Description: Development of archaeology as an anthropological study; objectives and methods of modern archaeology.

Course Description: Exploration of the role of language in social interaction and world view, minority languages and dialects, bilingualism, literacy, the social motivation of language change. Introduction of analytical techniques of linguistics and demonstration of their relevance to language in sociocultural issues.

Course Description: Skills for scientific thinking; designing, implementing, analyzing, interpreting, presenting, and criticizing research. Collection and analysis of original data. Basic statistical methods.

Course Description: Introduction to the biology of birth, childhood, marriage, the family, old age, and death. Examines comparative characteristics of nonhuman primates and other animals as well as cross-cultural variation in humans by study of selected cases.

Course Description: Introduction to the anthropological study of cultural diversity. Case studies of eight societies will be presented to illustrate and compare the distinctive features of major cultural regions of the world. Concludes with a discussion of modernization.

Course Description: Figure of the zombie as window into ideas about race, economic exploitation, and what it means to be human. Zombie lore in the Afro-Atlantic world and its re-imagining in contemporary pop culture.

Course Description: Myths about human evolution. Use of evidence from evolutionary biology, geology, paleontology, archaeology, and genetics to dispel misconceptions about human evolution.

Course Description: Broadly surveys patterns and changes in the human species' physical and cultural evolution from earliest evidence for "humanness" to recent development of large-scale complex societies or "civilizations." Lectures emphasize use of archaeology in reconstructing the past.

Course Description: The archaeological evidence for domestication of plants and the origins of agricultural societies. Anthropological context of agriculture and the effects on sexual division of labor, social inequality, wealth accumulation, warfare, human health, and sedentism.

Course Description: History of human and animal relationships and how animals have influenced social and economic structures of past societies. Why, when and how humans used animals in the context of hunting, domestication, secondary products, ritual, companionship, and conservation.

Course Description: Archaeological approaches for studying mummies and the process of mummification in the ancient world. Analytical techniques used, environmental factors promoting mummification, and archaeological conservation of mummified bodies.

Course Description: How humans adapted to diverse ecologies through cultural and genetic changes. Illustrations include evolution in response to disease, dietary, social, and communication challenges.

Course Description: Interdisciplinary look at the earliest evidence for art and symbolic behavior. Method and techniques to investigate Prehistoric art. Interpretative framework and relevance for understanding the role of symbolic activities in traditional societies.

Course Description: History of the Vikings through the Slavic and Mediterranean regions in the East and across the vast North Atlantic region to the west. Emphasis on archaeology and sagas to understand Viking culture from the 8th to 11th centuries.

Course Description: Introduction to the study of sexuality, particularly to the meanings and social organization of same-sex sexual behavior across cultures and through time. Biological and cultural approaches will be compared, and current North American issues placed in a wider comparative context.

Course Description: Introduction to shamanism and witchcraft, focusing especially on shamanism. Cross-cultural patterns, evolutionary and psychological foundations, archaeological evidence, and analogues such as money managers. Concepts examined via comparative and cognitive approaches.

Course Description: Drugs, politics, science, society in a cultural perspective: emphasis on roles of science, government and the media in shifting attitudes toward alcohol, marijuana, Prozac and other pharmaceuticals; drug laws, war on drugs and global trade in sugar, opium, cocaine.

Course Description: Aspects of modern consumer cultures in capitalist and socialist countries. Transformations of material cultures over the past century. Case studies on the intersections of gender, class, and culture in everyday consumption practices.

Course Description: Introduction to core concepts in anthropological and social theory using Star Trek as a teaching vehicle. Emphasis on thinking anthropologically about everyday life and popular culture.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Basic survey of the primates as a separate order of mammals; natural history and evolution of primates; consideration of hypotheses for their origin.

Course Description: Survey of anthropological techniques as applied within the legal system, including scene documentation and recovery, human identification, and trauma analysis. Examination of error and uncertainty, ethics, and human rights in forensic anthropology.

Course Description: Work experience off and on campus in all subject areas offered in the Department of Anthropology under the supervision of a member of the faculty.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

Course Description: Primarily intended for lower division students.

Course Description: Special study for undergraduates.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

Course Description: Discussion of the theoretical and philosophical developments in cultural anthropology from the 19th century to the present.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Interdisciplinary study of diversity and change in human societies, using frameworks from anthropology, evolutionary ecology, history, archaeology, psychology, and other fields. Topics include population dynamics, subsistence transitions, family organization, disease, economics, warfare, politics, and resource conservation.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 001 or ANT 002 or ESP 030 or EVE 100 or BIS 101 recommended.

Course Description: Integration of the interests of resident and indigenous peoples with the conservation of natural resources and ecosystems, using case study examples from both the developing and developed world.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 or GEL 001 or ESP 030 recommended.

Course Description: Political economy of environmental struggles. Relationship between social inequality (based on race, class and/or gender) and ecological degradation. Articulation of local peoples, national policy, and the international global economy in the contestation over the use of environmental resources.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Cultural dimensions of law and political power. Colonial and postcolonial legal regimes, bureaucratic reason, legalized violence, sovereign power, and human rights.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Anthropological approaches to scientific visualization techniques, informatics, simulations. Examination of different visualization techniques toward understanding the work involved in producing them, critical assessment of their power and limits, especially when visualizations are used socially to make claims.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 or STS 001 or STS 020 recommended.

Course Description: Race and racial formations in science, technology, and medicine. History of racial thought in scientific and medical research; colonial and decolonial modes of knowledge production; the racialization of technology; intersectional approaches to technoscience, social justice, environmental justice, and health care equity.

Course Description: The ethnographic and literary imagination. Relationship between fiction & anthropology, narrative form, modalities of ethnographic encounter, social & historical phenomena, aesthetics, poetics, language, and the question of representation.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Culture, cognition, meaning, and interpretation; language and the classification of experience; communication and learning in crosscultural perspective.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 004 or LIN 001 recommended; ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Introduction to critical medical anthropology. Topics include anthropological analysis of bio-medicine, psychiatry, systems of knowledge and healing, the body, emotions, and clinical encounters in a cross-cultural perspective.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: The varieties of production, exchange, and consumption behavior in precapitalist economies, their interaction with culture and social-political organization, and the theories that account for these phenomena. The effects of capitalism on precapitalist sectors.

Course Description: Theorizations of economy and society. The rise of modern capitalism and new social and political formations. Relationships between value and violence, subjectivity, the unconscious, money, imperialism and different understandings of exchange and the political.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Analysis of popular protest in Third World and indigenous societies ranging from covert resistance to national revolts. Comparative case studies and theories of peasant rebellions, millenarian movements, social bandits, Indian "wars", ethnic and regional conflicts, gender and class conflicts.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Discussion of anthropological theories of religion with emphasis on non-literate societies. Survey of shamanism, magic and witchcraft, ritual and symbols, and religious movements. Extensive discussion of ethnographic examples and analysis of social functions of religious institutions.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Starting Winter Quarter 2025, this course is no longer offered.

Course Description: Survey of anthropological approaches to understanding the logic of structuralism and symbolism in cultural analysis. Focus on how structural and symbolic interpretations relate to cultural and linguistic universals and to the philosophical basis of relativism in the social sciences. (Former ANT 125.)

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Crucial theories of modernity and post-modernity. How postmodernism is distinct from modernism, why it is related to the collapse of certainty about our collective reality and what it reveals about the status of reason, the self, and collective experience. Readings draw from various philosophical-theoretical, artistic and political literatures.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Theories of development and current critiques. Colonial legacies and post-colonial realities. Roles of the state and NGOs, population migrations, changing gender identities, cash-earning strategies, and sustainability issues. Stresses importance of cultural understandings in development initiatives. Case studies emphasizing non-industrial societies.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Current Third World and Western development issues concerning women in agriculture, industry, international division of labor, political movements, revolutions, politics of health, education, family and reproduction. Impact of colonialism, capitalism, the world system, and international feminism on women and development.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Survey of approaches to urban living: political structures, organization of labor, class relations, world views. The evolution of urban life and its contemporary dilemmas. Cross-cultural comparisons discussed through case studies.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Family, marriage, household and social organization from a cross-cultural and evolutionary perspective. Emphasis on case studies that illustrate human variation, theories that account for this variation, and recent advances in the treatment of this data.

Starting Winter Quarter 2025, this course is no longer offered.

Course Description: Exploration of self, identity, and family systems cross-culturally. Impact of class, gender, race, ethnicity, ruralization, urbanization, and globalization on notions of selfhood in different social/cultural systems.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Recent works in medical anthropology and the science studies of medicine dealing with social and cultural aspects of global health issues such as AIDS, pandemics, clinical trials, cultural differences in illnesses, diabetes, organ trafficking, medical technologies, illness narratives, and others.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Cultural dimensions of recent economic and political developments frequently termed "globalization."

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Internal and international migration from an anthropological perspective, including causes, processes, and political, economic, and cultural effects of spatial mobility and displacement. Emphasizes the interplay of identity, place, and power in diverse cultural and historical contexts.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Analysis of the complex interactions between ecological dynamics and political processes employing the emerging approach of political ecology. Case studies of environmental degradation (e.g., desertification, logging, mineral extraction, petroleum, water) from various cultural and geographic regions.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: History of the relationship between anthropology and psychoanalysis. Exploration of anthropology of emotions, colonial psychology, contemporary ethno-psychiatry, studies on personhood, possession, magic, altered states, subjectivity, and definitions of the normal and the pathological in different contexts and cultures.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Exploration of various oceanic cultures and their engagement with the sea. Piracy, smuggling, exchange, maritime legal regimes, offshore policing, media infrastructures, and ocean ecologies.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Buddhist meditation and ritual as a cultural system that adapts to global and local forces of change. Anthropological theory and method in understanding global culture transmission, including Buddhist reform movements in Asia and Buddhist practice in the West.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Examining human practices through their inscription in old and new media; evaluating the emergent fields of “cyber” and “digital” anthropology; and problematizing terms and concepts routinely deployed in studies of media worlds (platform, social media, hologram, algorithm, remediation, curation, animation).

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.

Course Description: Overview of the use of film in anthropology and its advantages and limitations in comparison to written ethnographic descriptions. Essential features of ethnographic films. Film production in anthropological research and problems encountered in producing films in the field.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Study and practice of the relation between meditation and cultural conditioning; comparison of Buddhist practice with other cultural constructions of mind, body, brain, thought, emotion, and self.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Basic concepts in and approaches to ethnographic field research. Problem formulation, research design, qualitative and quantitative data collection procedures, and techniques for organizing, retrieving, and analyzing information. Ethnographic description and constructed inference. Students will organize and conduct individual research projects.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Comparative analysis of class/race/gender inequality, concentrating on the ways in which beliefs about descent, "blood," and biological difference interact with property and marital systems to affect the distribution of power in society.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Gender and sexuality in foraging bands, horticultural and pastoral tribes, agricultural and industrial states. Debates on cultural evolution and distribution of gender hierarchies. Impact of politics, economics, religion, social practices, women's movements on gender and sexuality. Culture, nature and sexuality.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Starting Winter Quarter 2025, this course is no longer offered.

Course Description: Ethnographic survey of West Africa and Congo Basin with analyses of representative societies which illustrate problems of general theoretical concern. Major consideration will be the continuities and discontinuities between periods prior to European contact and the present.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Ethnographic survey of Eastern and Southern Africa with analyses of selected societies which illustrate problems of interest to anthropologists. Major consideration will be given to continuities and discontinuities between periods prior to European contact and the present.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Social, economic, political, and religious lives of Russian, American, Canadian, and Greenlandic Arctic people (Yup'ik, Iñupiat, Inuit). Topics include Arctic ecosystems, archaeological record of human occupation, ethnohistorical and ethnographic accounts, arctic people in popular culture, and contemporary issues.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 or ANT 003 recommended.

Course Description: Peoples of the Middle East (including North Africa). Discussions of class relations, kinship organization, sex/gender systems, religious beliefs and behavior, ethnic relations, political systems. Impact of world systems, political and religious movements and social change. (Former ANT 136.)

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Patterns of culture and social organization from prehistory to the present, in the context of historical, ecological, economic, and political settings. Emphasis on the relation of ethnic minorities to national states.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Introduction to contemporary social structure of Latin America. Origins, maintenance and changes in inequality: economic responses to poverty, sociocultural responses to discrimination, and political responses to powerlessness.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: South Asian cultures and societies with a focus on performance, embodiment, and space from several disciplinary fields. Topics may include colonialism, nationalism, religious traditions, media, popular culture, cities, social movements, modernity, body-cultures, identity, gender, and diasporas.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Recent ethnographies of different nation-states and socio-political spaces in Europe. Topics include the question of old and new boundaries, historical and contemporary constructions of Europe, migration and ethnicity, citizenship, belonging, multiculturalism, and post/socialisms.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: South Asian cinema of last 100 years in the context of cultural, social, and political changes. South Asian history, Independence, Partition, urban life, class, migration, postcolonial identity, diaspora, gender, sexuality, religion, sport, performance, etc.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Examining contemporary Chinese culture and political economy through reading ethnographic studies on recent transformations in rural and urban Chinese society. Special attention is given to state power, popular culture, spatial mobility, city space, and gender.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002 recommended.

Course Description: Origin and relationships of the prosimians, monkeys, and apes.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 001 or BIS 002B or BIS 002C or EVE 010 recommended.

Course Description: Nature and results of the evolutionary processes involved in the formation and differentiation of humankind.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 001 recommended.

Course Description: Introduction to human genetics. Principles of inheritance, the human genome, population genetics, mutation, genetic diversity, using DNA to study ancient human history, personal genomics. Human genetics as a tool to understand the patterns and processes of human migration. Introduction to the major concepts in human genetic and genomic research.

Prerequisite(s): BIS 002B C- or better or MCB 010 C- or better.

Course Description: Examines ecological diversity and evolution of social systems of prosimians, monkeys, and apes, placing the social behavior of the primates in the context of appropriate ecological and evolutionary theory.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 001 or ANT 054 or EVE 010 recommended.

Course Description: Examination of the ecology of primates within an evolutionary framework. Theoretical concepts in individual, population, and community ecology, illustrated with primate (and other vertebrate) examples, with additional discussion of primate and rainforest conservation.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 001 or EVE 010 recommended.

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Course Description: Scientific methods of studying, describing and analyzing the behavior and ecology of primates.

Prerequisite(s): (ANT 054 or ANT 154A or ANT 154B or NPB 102); (STA 013 or STA 013Y or STA 032 or STA 100 or SOC 046B); ANT 154CL (can be concurrent).

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Course Description: Design and conduct of scientific "field studies" of the behavior of group-living primates at the California National Primate Research Center.

Prerequisite(s): (ANT 054 or ANT 154A or ANT 154B or NPB 102); (STA 013 or STA 013Y or STA 032 or STA 100 or SOC 046B); ANT 154C (can be concurrent); concurrent enrollment with ANT 154C required.

Course Description: Study of the taxonomic, ecological and cultural diversity of Primates and how human activities impact tropical ecosystems. Emphasis on case studies and applied research methods. Includes discussion about career opportunities in conservation.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 001 or ANT 054 recommended.

Course Description: Human skeleton from archaeological, forensic, and paleontological perspectives, including anatomical nomenclature, variation with sex and age, function, evolution, growth, and development of bones and teeth. Hands-on study and identification of human skeletal remains.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 001 or ANT 001Y recommended.

Course Description: Human skeletons from archaeological, forensic, and paleontological contexts. Bone and tooth structure, growth, and development; measurement, statistics, and biomechanics; assessment of age, sex, weight, height, and ancestry; and indicators of illness, injuries, diet, and activities.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 156A; or equivalent.

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Course Description: Advanced concepts in human genetics and genomics. Identification of genes underlying human health and disease. Use of genomic data in clinical settings and examination of biases associated with 'personalized medicine." Emphasis on current human genomic technology and critical reading of scientific papers.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 153 or BIS 101 or EVE 102 or EVE 131 or EVE 175 or MCB 162 or MCB 182.

Course Description: Computer lab in human genetics and genomics. Emphasizes hands-on engagement with human genetic/genomic data. Ancestry analysis, pedigrees, de novo Mendelian disease.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 153 or EVE 102 or EVE 131 or EVE 175 or MCB 162 or MCB 182; concurrent enrollment in ANT 157 encouraged.

Course Description: Current theoretical frameworks for explaining the evolution of sex differences and for understanding the interrelationship between biological processes and cultural construction of gender roles.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 001 recommended.

Course Description: Impacts of infectious diseases on human and other primate populations, illustrated with past and present epidemiological studies from around the world. Theoretical concepts and applied questions, from local outbreaks to pandemics.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 001 or ANT 001Y or BIS 002B; or consent of instructor.

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Course Description: Origins, evolution, and disappearance of Neandertals. Emergence of humans like us in both anatomy and behavior. Interpretation of the fossil and archaeological records of Europe and Africa. Genetics of living and fossil humans.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 001 or ANT 001Y or equivalent recommended.

Course Description: Introduction to history and development of archeological theory and method, with particular emphasis on the basic dependence of the latter on the former. Stress is on historical development of archaeology in the New World.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 003 recommended.

Course Description: Survey of data relating to the peopling of the New World. Cultural adaptation and development of early inhabitants of North and South America.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 003 recommended.

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Course Description: Survey of the prehistory of Europe from its earliest human inhabitants, to the Neandertals and first modern humans, and through early agricultural and complex societies. Analysis and interpretation of the European archaeological record for understanding human dispersals into Europe.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 003 recommended.

Course Description: Prehistory of the Andean region, especially Peru, from the earliest hunting and gathering societies through the Inca. Focus on the use of archaeological data to reconstruct ancient human adaptations to the varied Andean environments.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 003 recommended.

Course Description: Discussion and analysis of archaeology and archaeological practice in California. Emphasis on precontact periods and earliest contact, from the late Pleistocene through to time of the Spanish Missions.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 003 recommended.

Course Description: Survey of prehistory of Africa from early human ancestors, through modern human origins, and into early agricultural and complex societies and the Bantu expansion. Analysis and interpretation of the African archaeological record, incorporating human paleontology and genetics.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 003 recommended.

Course Description: Study and interpretation of the ancient and modern lifeway in which peoples support themselves with primitive technologies and without benefit of domesticated plants and animals.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 003 recommended.

Course Description: Survey of the prehistory of Asia from the earliest human occupations to the rise of complex societies. Special focus on fossil and archeological records.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 003 recommended.

Course Description: Theories and methods for studying animal skeletal remains from archaeological sites. Identification and quantification of zooarchaeological material, cultural and natural processes affecting animal bones pre- and postburial, and use of faunal remains for determining past human diets and past environments.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 001 or ANT 003 recommended.

Course Description: Survey of archeological field methods and techniques. Strategies for survey and site location, mapping of artifacts and features, geophysical techniques, and hand excavation and analysis of stratigraphy.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 003.

Course Description: On-site course using archaeological methods and techniques held at a field location in the western United States, generally California or Nevada. Incorporates basic methods of archaeological survey, mapping, and excavation.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 181; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Scientific techniques used to study the chemical and physical properties of archaeological materials. Types of anthropological questions that can be addressed with different methods. Preparation and analysis of archaeological materials.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 003 recommended.

Course Description: Museum preparation, advanced field investigation, and guidance in preparation of museum material for publication.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 003 recommended.

Course Description: Examination of the role of lithic, ceramic, textile and wooden implements as elements in prehistoric survival and development. Emphasis is descriptive, but the significance of material resources as factors in prehistoric adaptation, settlement patterns, and culture change are discussed.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 003 recommended.

Course Description: Basic concepts of lithic analysis. General introduction on the place of stone tool technology in the archeological record. Physics, terminology and methodological concepts behind the study of stone tools. Review of the development of stone tool technology from its emergence.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 003 recommended.

Course Description: Examination of legal foundations and goals of cultural resource management in the United States, with a focus on archaeological resources. Review of state and federal regulations, guidelines for assessing eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, professional practices to preserve and mitigate damage to resources, and public outreach practices.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 003; or consent of instructor; ANT 170 recommended.

Course Description: Intensive treatment of a special anthropological topic or problem.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.

Course Description: Work experience off and on campus in all subject areas offered in the Department of Anthropology under the supervision of a member of the faculty.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; upper division standing.

Course Description: Independent study of an anthropological problem involving the writing of an honors thesis.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; open only to majors of senior standing who qualify for honors program.

Course Description: Leading of small voluntary discussion groups affiliated with one of the department's regular courses.

Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing with major in Anthropology and consent of Department Chairperson.

Course Description: Directed reading and group discussion of selected anthropological problems.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

Course Description: Special study for advanced undergraduates.

Course Description: Historical development of socio-cultural theory within anthropology, from mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. Focus on original theory texts in context of historical developments in the field as a whole.

Course Description: Critical readings of selected ethnographies that examine a wide range of important topics and analytical issues in social and cultural anthropology. Emphasis on how and why ethnographic writing has changed over time and its relationship with contemporary theoretical explorations.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate student in Anthropology or consent of instructor.

Course Description: History of thought in biological anthropology and analysis of major theoretical problems in the field. Suggested for all first-year graduate students lacking intensive preparation in biological anthropology.

Course Description: History of archaeology and archaeological theory and analysis of archaeological research methodology.

Course Description: Advanced consideration of fundamental issues in anthropological theory. Emphasis on critical examination of major contemporary debates between proponents of competing theories.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 002; ANT 137; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: History of thought in anthropological linguistics. Consideration of the historical development of fundamental ideas in anthropological linguistics, of major theoretical issues, and of research methodology.

Course Description: Formulation of research problems and preparation of research proposals; relationships between theory and method, funding, pre-fieldwork preparations, entering the community, field research techniques, and problems of ethics; intensive work on proposal writing.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

Course Description: Relationship between conducting participant observation of others and writing it up,emphasizing the processual rift between the reality of fieldwork and its written representation. Study of various literary genres and textual strategies used in cultural anthropology.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 137; ANT 201; or the equivalent.

Course Description: Guided preparation of a Ph.D. dissertation proposal or MA thesis/report. Discussion of literature review, hypothesis testing, research design and grant writing as relates to anthropology. Culminates in an oral capstone presentation to the department

Course Description: Analysis of various phases of culture, such as religion, economics, law, and folklore.

Course Description: Interdisciplinary seminar evaluating contributions from ecological anthropology, political economy, cultural constructivism, postmodernism, and feminism towards development of theories of political ecology. Historical relationships between local/global power structures, environmental degradation, and resistance movements. Case studies of desertification, deforestation, mining, conservation, development.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Techniques for analyzing archeological data; application to various prehistoric cultures.

Course Description: Examination of the nature of archaeological data with a focus on the quantitative and statistical techniques available to model, analyze, display, and make sense of such data.

Course Description: Advanced study on current problems in New World Prehistory and archaeology.

Course Description: Advanced study on current problems in Old World prehistory and archaeology.

Course Description: Techniques of eliciting, recording, and analyzing; work with a native speaker.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 110; ANT 111.

Course Description: Problems of rural transformation arising out of political and economic interaction between national elites and rural regional and local populations under varying conditions of induced change in postcolonial societies. Attention given to the implications of this interaction for rapid economic growth.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 223; ANT 265; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Explores the nature of modern cities, urban socioeconomic life, and urban culture and politics from an anthropological perspective.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor; graduate standing.

Course Description: Selected current methodological and theoretical problems in the analysis of nonindustrial economic systems.

Prerequisite(s): ANT 122; or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Advanced study of current problems in the anthropological study of religion.

Course Description: A presentation of current anthropological theories of the origins and nature of the modern nation-state in both the First and Third Worlds, with special reference to state ideology (nationalism) and forms of control.

Course Description: Consideration of approaches to the study of social inequality, and responses of subordinated groups. Emphasis on situating approaches to contemporary social theory, concrete research problems, and political strategies. Topics: formation of consciousness and identity; collective action, accommodation to frontal resistance.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of first-year graduate work or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Exploration of one of the core paradigms within contemporary anthropological inquiry, "culture and power." Focus on how distinct theoretical perspectives–Marxism, post-Marxism, structuralism, post-structuralism, and feminism–have examined the mutually constitutive nature of culture and power.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

Course Description: Intersections of gender, identity, and selfhood cross-culturally and historically. How the self is feminized and masculinized, and interfaces with sexual, race, class, work, national, minority, and majority identities under different historical, cultural, and social structural conditions.

Course Description: Comparative examination of family systems in historical context and of reproductive behaviors and strategizing. A major theme is how family-system norms specify the relative desirability of differently configured offspring sets. Cases are drawn from Western Europe and South and East Asia.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing in one of the social sciences including History.

Course Description: Interdisciplinary approach to political movements of protest, reform, and revolution emphasizing historical comparison and evaluation of major theoretical approaches including world systems, resource mobilization, state & culture, rational choice, moral economy, social class and gender.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of first-year graduate work recommended.

Course Description: Diachronic analyses of traditional institutions in sub-Saharan Africa.

Course Description: Advanced study on current problems in North American ethnography and culture history.