COURSE DESCRIPTIONS ANTHROPOLOGY ANTH-1001 (6) Introductory Anthropology (3 hrs and ANTH-1001 | ANTH-1002. Lecture) This course provides a general introduction to the four main branches of anthropology: archaeological, ANTH-2100 (3) Method and Theory in Cultural cultural, linguistic, and physical (biological). Topics include Anthropology (3 hrs Lecture) This core course surveys human evolution, the nature of culture and language, the the essentials of theory and method in the anthropological diversity of past and present societies and their ways of study of culture and society. It examines central concepts life, and the causes and consequences of social and and perspectives in relation to their past development and cultural change. Some instructors may devote substantially current status, and their applications in ethnographic and more time to certain topics than do others. Students are ethnological research. advised to consult with individual instructors for details. Requisite Courses: ANTH-1001(6), ANTH-1002(3) or Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course ANTH-1005(3) or permission of the instructor and ANTH-1002 | ANTH-1003 | ANTH-1005. [prerequisite(s)]. ANTH-1002 (3) Introductory Cultural Anthropology ANTH-2103 (3) Ethnography of North American First and Linguistics (3 hrs Lecture) This course is a general Peoples (3 hrs Lecture) This course surveys the cultures introduction to the comparative study of culture and and societies of Indigenous peoples in Canada and select language. Topical emphases vary. In cultural anthropology regions of the United States from the beginnings of they may include economic and political organization, European contact to the present day. Topics include kinship and marriage, ritual and belief, and the causes and economy, social structure, mythology, religion, and culture consequences of cultural change in the contemporary change. world. In Linguistic Anthropology they may include language structure, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and the ANTH-2108 (3) Myth, Magic and Shamanism (3 hrs ethnography of language. Some instructors may devote Lecture) In this course, the related concepts of myth, substantially more time than others to certain topics. magic, and shamanism, which form the core of religion in Students are advised to consult with individual instructors oral societies, are examined with the intent of discovering for details. the conceptions of nature, humanity, and the supernatural Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course that are symbolically expressed in these phenomena and and ANTH-1001 | ANTH-1005. give them unity. ANTH-1003 (3) Introductory Biological Anthropology ANTH-2116 (3) Visual Anthropology (3 hrs Lecture) and Archaeology (3 hrs Lecture) This is a general Visual Anthropology is the study of the visual aspects of introduction to the study of the biological nature and origins culture. This includes material culture photographs, films of the human species, and of the cultural and biological and videos. In this course we focus on ethnographic films record of the past. Topical emphases vary but may include and videos. With roots in the late 19th Century, basic principles of biological evolution, the human fossil ethnographic films have flourished as a way of record, modern human variation, and archaeological documenting many different cultures. The advent of digital evidence of the development and diversification of society cameras in the 1980s transformed and democratized the and culture from earliest times to the rise of ancient practice of ethnographic filming. In this course students civilization. critically examine the words of influential ethnographic Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course filmmakers. They also learn to make videos, thereby gaining and ANTH-1001. a deeper understanding of some of the challenges by filmmaking. ANTH-1005 (3) Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: Requisite Courses: ANTH-1001(6), ANTH-1002(3) or Indigenous Focus (3 hrs Lecture) This course is a ANTH-1005(3) or permission of the instructor general introduction to the comparative study of human [prerequisite(s)]. social and cultural life. Topical emphases vary but may include language, economic and political organization, ANTH-2119 (3) Medical Anthropology (3 hrs Lecture) kinship and marriage, ritual and belief, and the causes and Medical anthropology is a subfield of anthropology. It consequences of social and cultural change in the informs our understandings of the experiences and contemporary world. This course focuses primarily on distribution of health, the prevention and the treatment of Indigenous peoples in North America. Some instructors may the sick in different cultural groups and the role of devote substantially more time than others to the study of pluralistic medical systems. Critical health disparities linguistics. Students are advised to consult with individual between marginalized populations in developed countries instructors of details. as well as between developing and developed countries Experimental Course - This course is offered on a trial are increasingly prevalent and complex in nature. This basis to gauge interest in the topic. Students who course looks at ethnomedicine, disease ecology and successfully complete this course receive credit as Indigenous perspectives on health and illness. indicated. Cross-listed: BANT-2119(3). Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and BANT-2119. archaeology and development of the methodologies Requisite Courses: ANTH-1001(6), ANTH-1002(3) or employed. ANTH-1005(3) or permission of the instructor Requisite Courses: ANTH-1001 or ANTH-1003 or [prerequisite(s)]. permission of the instructor [prerequisite(s)]. ANTH-2121 (3) Traditional Japanese Culture (3 hrs ANTH-2202 (3) Archæology of North America (3 hrs Lecture) This course surveys traditional Japanese culture Lecture) This course surveys the archaeology of North through an exploration of visual and dramatic arts, American indigenous peoples before European contact. literature, philosophy, and religion. Special emphasis is Major culture areas are examined, including the Southwest, placed on cross-cultural roots that bridged Japan with its Northwest Coast, Arctic, Plains, and Northeast. The neighbouring countries in East Asia. The historical regional focus may vary from year to year. foundations of popular Japanese contemporary culture - Manga, Anime, and high technology to name a few - are ANTH-2210 (3) Rise of New World Civilization (3 hrs also discussed. Lecture) This course covers the period from the origins of Cross-listed: EALC-2721(3) and REL-2721(3). agriculture to the rise of historically recorded New World Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course civilizations such as Aztec, Inca, and Maya. Special and EALC-2721 | REL-2721. emphasis is given to the background and origin of food production through the domestication of plants and animals, ANTH-2122 (3) Anthropologists in the Community (3 and to the development of urban centres. Regional hrs Lecture) Anthropologists are often engaged in emphasis may vary from year to year. research directly with communities. This may involve Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course partnerships, collaboration or supporting communities and ANTH-2206. directly as they lead their own research. Applied anthropology is a sub-field of anthropology which explores ANTH-2211 (3) Rise of Old World Civilization (3 hrs ways anthropologists work in communities to help identify Lecture) This course examines the origins and and resolve challenges and grow opportunities using development of civilization in the Old World with emphasis anthropological knowledge and methods. This course on the prehistoric archaeological record. Topics discussed provides students with an introduction to community based include the forces behind an increase in population density, research methods and research design in anthropology. the role of civilization and urbanism in state formation, and Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course the problem of collapse of Old World civilizations, such as and ANTH-3103. ancient Egypt, the Near East, China, and the Indus Valley. Requisite Courses: ANTH-1001(6), ANTH-1002(3) or Regional emphasis may vary from year to year. ANTH-1005(3) or permission of the instructor Cross-listed: CLAS-2004(3). [prerequisite(s)]. Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and CLAS-2004. ANTH-2160 (3) Indigenous People and the Industrial State (3 hrs Lecture) The course considers the situation of ANTH-2214 (3) Archaeological Field School (3 hrs Field Indigenous peoples in the regions of Africa, the Americas, Study) This course number allows students who complete Asia and the Pacific. While these people have distinct a recognized archaeological field school weighted at three cultural histories, their relations to nation-states are similar credit hours to transfer equivalent credit to the University in important ways. Tensions between indigenous people of Winnipeg. Only field schools offering both a theoretical and the industrial state centre on such issues as external lecture component and an intensive field component are market dependency, diversification, and size of the accepted. Students must meet all requirements set by government sector. Students critique standard definitions individual field schools. of progress and efficiency. The implications of contemporary