First-Year Courses
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This course examines blacks in sports. It focuses on sport as a microcosm of the larger society and also addresses sport's relationship to politics, economics, race relations, and South African apartheid. It looks at the history of blacks in sports as well as three aspects of sports that appear to be racially biased; position allocation, performance differentials, and rewards and authority structure.
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Multidisciplinary introduction to Africa emphasizing the richness, diversity and dynamism of the African experience and presented through lecture discussions of culture, social structure, history, economy, politics and other aspects of Africa's development.
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The course focuses on the chronological development of jazz from its beginnings on the plantation to its present state as a world concert music. Various styles such as ragtime, blues, gospel, spirituals, rhythm and blues, rock, soul, etc, are examined.
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MUSIC 0711
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MUSIC 0711
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Designed for non-majors, this course presents a broad introduction to the goals and techniques of today's archeology through readings, videos, and short exercises. The course reviews global human prehistory from the earliest appearances of human ancestors some 4 million years ago through the development of the Ancient Egyptian, Mayan, Chinese, and Inca Civilizations.
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Pyramids, tombs, burial mounds, graves, skeletons, mummies; the stuff of gothic romance. But the way people disposed of their dead also tells us an amazing amount about life in the past. We will look at the wide range of burial practices in the world, including the "American way of death", and then concentrate on the physical remains themselves. What do burial practices indicate as to beliefs, rituals, religion and society?
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Examines the nature of modern archaeological research. Lectures look at how archaeologists work in the field, their analytic techniques, and some of the principal methodological and theoretical problems facing the field. Specific examples are used to illustrate these topics.
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This course is an introduction to general anthropology emphasizing the interaction of human biology and behavior. The course considers what it means to be human by examining the biocultural interface of both present and past human populations. Topics of discussion will include human adaptation to extreme environments, cross-cultural variations in infant sensorimotor development and biological and cultural diversity in general. An understanding and appreciation of the how's and why's of human biological and cultural variation will be stressed.
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This course is designed to introduce the undergraduate to the issues, theories and methods of physical anthropology. Beginning with a consideration of evolutionary, genetic and geologic principles, the course goes on to consider, the diversity of fossil and extant primates, including humans. Issues in anatomy, paleontology and behavior will all be addressed.
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By examining the behavior and customs of peoples throughout the world, the course considers what it means to be human. We will describe the patterns of marriage, family organization, warfare and political behavior, economic systems, rituals, etc., Of other peoples, especially those of tribal societies, and compare these with American social patterns. Anthropological films and slide presentations will supplement lectures.
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This course surveys the biological and cultural heritages which distinguish humans from other advanced evolutionary forms. Through physical anthropology and prehistory, it outlines major developments over the past five million years. Through linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, it describes the universal features of social institutions and human behavior, drawing comparative examples from primitive, traditional, and modern societies.
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SECOND LEVEL LANGUAGE
PREQ: LING 0151 or ARABIC 0121; MIN GRAD 'C'
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