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Instructional Method: Hybrid.

Instructional Method: Hybrid.

Paleontology of the Turkana Basin (3) This course, offered as a part of the AU Abroad program in Turkana Basin, Kenya, acquaints students with laboratory and field methods of vertebrate paleontology employed in different chronological contexts of the Turkana Basin. In-depth study throughout the course includes following the history of life through time and the evolution of the major groups of vertebrates with special emphasis on mammals.

Anthropology of Tourism (3) Tourism is an exciting area of study providing an opportunity to discuss this growing global industry as a complex cultural phenomenon. Consideration of the impact of tourism on the natural and social environment examines the costs and benefits to host communities in a variety of locations. Specific topics include basic theoretical concepts that frame travel and tourism studies, the economics and politics of tourism, the marketing of identity and authenticity, sex tourism, ecotourism, and study abroad programs. The course includes lectures, films, and follow-up on current events or disasters that have an impact on tourism. Activities outside the classroom include options for visits to local tourist destinations.

Instructional Method: Online. Open only to students in the Health Inequality and Care undergraduate and graduate certificate programs.

Instructional Method: Online. Open only to students in the Health Inequality and Care undergraduate and graduate certificate programs.

Instructional Method: Online. Open only to students in the Health Inequality and Care undergraduate and graduate certificate programs.

Special Tuition Rate. Open only to students enrolled in the Anthropology Master's International program.

Special Tuition Rate. Open only to students enrolled in the Anthropology Master's International program.

Instructional Method: Online. Open only to students in the Health Inequality and Care undergraduate and graduate certificate programs.

Instructional Method: Online. Open only to students in the Health Inequality and Care undergraduate and graduate certificate programs.

Instructional Method: Online. Open only to students enrolled in the Anthropology Master's International program.

Instructional Method: Online. Open only to students in the Health Inequality and Care undergraduate and graduate certificate programs.

Grasping Social Worlds (3) This course focus on major theoretical and interpretive schools in current and past archaeological research that draw attention to material and social processes that helped to shape the human experience across time. Much of this kind of research highlights complex social and political-economic systems or socio-structural conditions, past and present. The course underscores the significance of processual archaeology as well as political-economic (e.g., Marxism) and world systems perspectives to the past 60 years of archaeological research. Key topics include modes of production; resistance and defiance; political ecology and economy; science and scientific methods; ideology; environment; and the nature of the archaeological record and material culture. Open only to Anthropology Master's International Program students. Meets with ANTH-634 001.

State Formations (3) This course examines forces leading to the emergence of early state societies in the New and Old Worlds in a comparative perspective. It explores the key factors, both internal and external to human communities, which have influenced the evolution of state societies. States' relationships with the environment, economic, social, and political institutions of ancient social formations are examined, as well as how ancient states compare with contemporary needs and problems around environmental crisis, social inequality, conflict, and warfare, and other enduring problems of complex societies. Open only to Anthropology Master's International Program students. Meets with ANTH-639 001.

Anthropology of Conservation (3) The seminar brings together social theory and ethnographic case studies in order to examine the ways that environmental conservation remakes spaces and bodies. Students discuss what changing conservation paradigms does to indicate who has agency and responsibility for environmental stewardship as well as the kinds of contributions the analytical perspective of anthropologists can make to conservation practice. Themes addressed include regimes of natural resource management, creating environmental affect, and the ethnography of conservation organizations. Open only to Anthropology Master's International Program students. Meets with ANTH-640 001.