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40 College of Arts and Sciences The College of Arts and Sciences offers the Master of Arts or Master of College of Arts Science degree through 16 departments. Multidepartmental and special discipline master’s degrees are offered in social work, social sciences, and Sciences environmental studies, public administration, and molecular and cellular biology. Doctor of Philosophy degrees are offered in biological sciences, chemistry and biochemistry, English, environmental and plant biology, Wilson Hall, College Green history, mathematics, physics and astronomy, and psychology. More than one area of emphasis is available at both degree levels in several of these departments. Benjamin Ogles Interim Dean Each department will provide upon request a brochure describing specific degree requirements, specialized gradate facilities, and any other infor- Howard Dewald mation that prospective students might need. For more information, Associate Dean please visit our Web site (http://www.cas.ohiou.edu/). Maureen Weissenrieder Associate Dean Facilities Graduate Degree Programs http://www.cas.ohiou.edu/ Among the college’s graduate facilities Biological Sciences (M.S., Ph.D.) and equipment are a Tandem van de Chemistry and Biochemistry Graaff nuclear accelerator, several (M.S., Ph.D.) modern nuclear magnetic resonance Economics (M.A., M.F.E.) spectrometers, a nitride MOCVD facility, English (M.A., Ph.D.) the Keck Thin-film Analysis Facility, Environmental and Plant Biology a scanning tunneling microscope (M.S., Ph.D.) with molecular beam expitaxy Environmental Studies (M.S.) growth chamber, several chemical Geography (M.A.) spectrometers, several electron Geological Sciences (M.S.) microscopes, a scanning confocal History (M.A., Ph.D.) microscopy facility, a photomicroscopy Linguistics (M.A.) laboratory, and a mammalian Mathematics (M.S., Ph.D.) recombinant genetics laboratory. Modern Languages: French, Spanish Specialized laboratory facilities include (M.A.) a morphometrics laboratory, an exercise Molecular and Cellular Biology (M.S., physiology laboratory, and a hybridoma Ph.D.) laboratory. A large preserve of remnant Philosophy (M.A.) primary forest, Wayne National Forest, Physics and Astronomy Ohio Department of Wildlife areas, and (M.A., M.S., Ph.D.) a 180-acre land laboratory adjacent Political Science (M.A.) to the campus are all available as Public Administration (M.P.A.) resources for teaching and research. Psychology (M.S., Ph.D.) Ohio University is a member of the Social Sciences (M.S.S.) Association of Systematic Collections; Social Work (M.S.W.) collections include an herbarium Sociology (M.A.) with more than 5,000 plant species, an entomological collection with more than 100,000 insect specimens, Graduate Certificate a vertebrate collection with more Programs than 10,000 species, a paleobotanical collection with more than 100,000 Conservation Biology specimens, and a paleoinvertebrate Contemporary History collection with at least 350,000 Geographic Information Science specimens. Departments in the social Women’s Studies sciences maintain up-to-date computer laboratories, and the Experimental Psychology Research Laboratory and a modern clinical facility serve as resources for training in psychology. College of Arts and Sciences 41 effects and role of school and family in creative 550 Economic Anthropology (5) Curricula and adjustment of black child in predomnantly white Survey of economic arrangements found in society. Childs. various types of cultural systems with emphasis on application of anthropological theory and 582 The Black Family (5) method for understanding particular systems. Courses Black family in America and its important role in development of ethnic differences, strengths, 551 Political Anthropology (5) and strategies. Childs. Cross-cultural survey of political arrangements African American Studies with emphasis on application of anthropological http://www.ohiou.edu/aas/ 691 Professional Seminar (1–15) method and theory to political problems. Class involving contact hours, discussion, and required assignments. If you enroll in an upper- 552 Archaeological Anthropology (5) The Department of African American division undergraduate course under this course Introduction to contemporary archaeology in studies does not offer an academic number, you are required to complete assign- which goals, theory, and method are directed program leading to a graduate degree. ments beyond those required of undergraduates toward reconstruction of extinct sociocultural and to write papers to present to class for systems rather than toward time-space It does, however, offer several graduate discussion. distribution of archaeological materials. courses that enable students to earn a 697 Independent Research (1–15) 555 Medical Anthropology (5) minor concentration in African World For students desiring to pursue independent Non-western medical systems and theories of Studies. The courses provide a broad research projects under supervision of a health and disease causation; social basis for faculty member and resulting in term paper or diagnosis and cure; curing rituals; symbolism interdisciplinary approach to the black equivalent. Usually a sequel to previous of health and illness. Ecological factors in health experience and include the social subject-matter course. and nonhealth; systematic connections between health or illness and both way of life and sciences, communication, education, environmental situation. psychology, and the arts and human- 556 Seminar in Methodology and Field ities. Several courses contribute to Anthropology Research (5) degree programs in African and Latin http://www.cas.ohiou.edu/socanth/ A graduate seminar in anthropological field methods, designed to present the basic American studies. Graduate students No graduate degree in anthropology is methodology literature and prepare students pursuing a degree in communication, to conduct anthropological field research. offered, but some graduate courses are education, international studies, health Since anthropology has subfields (cultural offered each quarter. These contribute anthropology, archaeology, physical sciences, sociology, history, political particularly to degree programs in Asian anthropology), the methodological literature science, or philosophy will find a minor and techniques presented vary by instructor’s studies, African studies, Latin American emphasis in the African world experi- specialty. When taught by a cultural studies, environmental studies, and anthropologist, the focus will often be on ence to be useful. sociology, as well as other programs ethnographic methods. African American Studies Courses such as communication, comparative 557 Anthropology of Religion (5) Survey of various aspects of religion in their (AAS) arts, creative writing, dance, ecology, cultural setting with emphasis on the use economics, education, film, food of anthropological theories for an objective 501A Images of Blacks (4) understanding of religion. Examines the sources and the effects of the dom- and nutrition, geography, linguistics, inant negative images of blacks that have per- philosophy, and political science. 560 Kinship (5) vaded American culture—bucks, coons, buffoons, Theoretical framework and ethnographic work improvident, children, devoted Christians, Anthropology Courses (ANTH) on kinship systems of various world cultures; etc.—with a view to showing how they relate to non-western family systems; kinship terminolgy; slavery and the subsequent exclusion of blacks 501 Anthropology and Film (5) social change in kinship systems. from the mainstream of American life. Also Prereq: 101. The use of film as a medium for 561 North American Prehistory (5) examines alternative images. Materials are drawn recording cultural information; as a technique Analysis and interpretation of the cultural from a variety of areas—literature, sciences, for observation, analysis, and interpretation evolution of indigenous North American Indian pseudosciences, media, and visual arts. Rose. of cultural information; and as a means for cultures. Emphasis on cultures from Ohio and 530 Social Theories of Underdevelopment (5) presenting information about cultures, human the Midwest. Systematic review of problems of social change adaptation, human evolution, and anthropologi- cal research itself. 563 Gender in Prehistory (5) in developing areas from multidisciplinary point Examines the application of gender studies as an of view. Attention to problems of agrarian 545 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (5) analytic tool for archaeological reconstructions. reforms, urbanization as social process, and A cross-cultural comparative inquiry into the way Considers evolving gender roles within a wide regional disparities within framework of single different non-Western cultures define femininity range of past cultural settings. nation state, among others. Comparative analysis and masculinity. Taking the view that gender is of problems of social development undertaken a cultural construction, the course examines the 564 Near East Prehistory (5) typologically. Rhodes. relationships between gender ideas and such Scrutiny of the archaeological data and features of social systems as kinship and political consequent reconstruction of the evolutionary 531 Third World Ethnic Politics (5) process affecting cultures in the Near East. Review of various theories of race. Critique of hierarchy. Ethnographic fieldwork materials are explored in light of current gender theories. Analysis begins with