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ACCY 331 - Financial Reporting I
Study of financial accounting and reporting issues, including the conceptual framework, balance sheet and income statement preparation, revenue recognition, time value of money, monetary assets, inventories, plant assets, current liabilities, and long-term debt. Employ authoritative sources in researching accounting issues Must be taken concurrently with UBUS 311.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 310A with a grade of C or better. CRQ: UBUS 310.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 360 - Assurance Services
Study of assurance services including auditing and attestation. Emphasis on underlying concepts, standards, and procedures associated with assurance services, including engagement planning, risk assessment, internal control testing, evidence gathering and documentation, and communication of findings.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 310A with a grade of C or better and ACCY 320 with a grade of C or better. CRQ: UBUS 310.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 370 - Accounting Career Planning Seminar
Explores the various career paths available to accountants. Assists in identifying and developing career goals, job search strategies and skills, and interpersonal skills. Activities include self-assessment and career goal planning, resume writing, mock interviews, networking, and information interviews.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Acceptable score on the Accountancy Qualifying Examination or consent of department.
Credits: 1
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ACCY 411 - Advanced Accounting Information Systems
In-depth study of advanced accounting information systems and applications. Emphasis on applied topics such as database systems, general ledger systems, e-commerce, and internal control issues. Students may not receive credit for both ACCY 411 and ACCY 611.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 310A and ACCY 310S both with a grade of C or better and MGMT 346, or consent of department. CRQ: ACCY 360 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 421 - Advanced Cost Management
Study of advanced topics related to managers’ use of accounting information for management planning and control systems. Topics include advanced costing techniques, division performance measurement, customer profitability analysis, incentive systems, and other contemporary cost management issues.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 320 with a grade of C or better and MGMT 346. CRQ: UBUS 311.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 432 - Financial Reporting II
Study of financial accounting and reporting issues, including accounting for income taxes, pension and other benefit plans, leases, earnings per share, accounting changes, stockholders’ equity, investments and statement of cash flows. Employ authoritative sources in researching accounting issues.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 331 with a grade of C or better.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 433 - Financial Reporting III
Study of financial accounting and reporting issues, including accounting for business combinations, consolidated financial statements, conversion of foreign financial statements, foreign currency denominated transactions, and derivatives and hedging activities. Employ authoritative sources in researching accounting issues.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 432 with a grade of C or better and MGMT 346.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 439 - Contemporary Issues in Financial Accounting
Study of select topics in financial accounting and reporting to supplement knowledge attained in required financial reporting courses.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 432 with a grade of C or better and MGMT 346.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 450 - Taxation of Business Entities and Individuals
Study of basic concepts of federal income taxation related to business entities and individuals. Includes the study of property transactions.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 331 with a grade of C or better.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 455 - Individual Taxation
Study of the basic concepts of federal income taxation as they apply to individuals. Topics include gross income, exclusions, deductions, the taxation of sole proprietors, and computation of gains and losses on the disposition of property. Not available for credit to students with credit in ACCY 309.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 331 with a grade of C or better and junior or senior standing.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 456 - Advanced Federal Taxes
Study of federal taxes imposed on business entities with emphasis on corporations, partnerships, and S corporations including an overview of tax research techniques. Students may not receive credit for both ACCY 456 and ACCY 644.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 455 with a grade of C or better or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 462 - Internal Auditing
Study of internal audit objectives, processes and reporting. Topics include internal audit standards, internal controls, risk assessment, risk-based audit procedures, documentation, and communications. Employ authoritative sources to examine ethical issues, emerging issues, and industry specific issues.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 360 with a grade of C or better and MGMT 346.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 467 - Auditing of Accounting Information Systems
Study of the auditing of computer-based accounting information systems with a focus on control and security. Topics include information technology as it relates to assurance services, internal control assessments, and evidence-gathering activities. A student may not receive credit for both ACCY 467 and 667.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 360 with a grade of C or better and MGMT 346, or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 470 - Accounting Career Skills Seminar
Continuation of ACCY 370. Study of interpersonal skills necessary for a successful accounting career. Explores a variety of situations that accounting professionals experience in their careers and discusses the necessary skills and appropriate behaviors in those situations.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 370 and MGMT 346.
Credits: 1
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ACCY 472 - Independent Study in Accountancy
Individually arranged study of an accounting topic or topics that are not part of our regular course offerings. May be repeated to a maximum of 3 semester hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 331 with a grade of B or better and ACCY 360 with a grade of B or better and MGMT 346 and subject to a faculty member’s discretion and availability and consent of department.
Credits: 1-3
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ACCY 473 - Internship in Accountancy
Full-time work for at least 10 weeks in the accountancy/financial function of a sponsoring organization. Students submit periodic reports and deliver an oral presentation to the Department of Accountancy internship coordinator for grading. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 310A and ACCY 310S and ACCY 320 and ACCY 331 and ACCY 360 and ACCY 370 and MGMT 346 and junior standing and consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 475 - C.P.A. Problems I
Study of accounting principles and practices for issuers, nonissuers, and governmental entities. Discussion of related theory and completion of relevant, complex problems. Computer-based practice in the solution of typical problems encountered in the C.P.A. exam. May not be used as an accountancy elective.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 476 - C.P.A. Problems II
Study of auditing principles and practices for issuers, nonissuers, and governmental entities. Discussion of related theory and completion of relevant, complex problems. Computer-based practice in the solution of typical problems encountered in the C.P.A. exam. May not be used as an accountancy elective.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 480 - Governmental and Not-For-Profit Accounting
Study of state and local government accounting; not-for-profit organization accounting including tax issues and industry specific issues in healthcare and colleges and universities; Government Auditing Standards and the Single Audit Act; and federal government accounting.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ACCY 331 with a grade of C or better and MGMT 346.
Credits: 3
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ACCY 490 - Current Topics in Accountancy
Study of new developments in accountancy including current topics and issues. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours when topics vary.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of department.
Credits: 1-3
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ACCY 499 - Honors Directed Research in Accountancy
Open only to students participating in the University Honors Program. Individually arranged research in an accountancy topic of the student’s selection which must be approved by the student’s Honors adviser, the faculty member supervising the research, and by the department chair.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: MGMT 346 and consent of department.
Credits: 3
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Adult and Higher Education |
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CAHA 401 - Introduction to Adult and Higher Education
Introduction to the field of adult and higher education and the various contexts in which it resides such as: basic education, high schools, community colleges, universities, private schools, businesses, governmental agencies, the military, nonprofit organizations, and religious institutions.
Credits: 3
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CAHA 431X - Techniques of Tutoring and Learning Assistance
Crosslisted as LTRE 431. Methods and techniques for peer tutoring, supplemental instruction, learning assistance, or literacy tutoring. Development of tutorial resource materials. Basic assessment and remedial or developmental processes in content area tutoring, study strategies, and learning assistance. Experiences with tutorial programs, learning assistance programs, or supplemental instruction groups.
Credits: 3
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CAHA 490 - Workshop in Adult and Higher Education
Opportunity provided to work cooperatively under the guidance and supervision of an experienced educator in adult and higher education contexts. Intensive analysis of specific programs of adult and higher education. Literature of the field and techniques of studying agency problems. Special projects assigned to each student for intensive study. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours. Enrollment in more than one section of this course during a semester is permitted.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of department.
Credits: 1-3
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CAHA 492 - Special Topics in Adult and Higher Education
Topics announced. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 semester hours when topic varies. Enrollment in more than one section of this course during a semester is permitted.
Credits: 1-3
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CAHA 497 - Independent Study
Independent study under direction of a faculty member. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of department.
Credits: 1-3
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CAHE 493 - Leadership in the College Experience
Advanced exploration of specific leadership roles and other issues in college settings. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 semester hours when leadership topic varies.
Credits: 3
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AHCD 318 - Medical Terminology
Study of the basic language related to medical science and to the allied health professions incorporating anatomy and physiology and pathophysiology. Emphasis on word analysis using case studies and medical reports.
Credits: 3
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AHCD 440 - Introduction to Teaching in the Allied Health Professions
Introduction to principles of learning, instructional strategies, interpersonal relationships, evaluation and instructional design as these topics relate to clinical instruction in the allied health professions.
Credits: 1-3
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AHCD 444 - Independent Study in Health Sciences
Independent study of current topics in the health sciences under faculty supervision. May be repeated or taken concurrently to a maximum of 6 semester hours.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of school.
Credits: 1-6
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AHCD 480 - Internship: Allied Health and Communicative Disorders
Supervised internship in health and human services to include agency/facility visits, discussion and observation of service provision, and entry level experiences.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Junior or senior standing and consent of school.
Credits: 3
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AHCD 490 - Senior Seminar
Introduction to research topics in allied health and communicative disorders with discussion of research questions and methodologies. Participation in a research project under faculty direction required.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Senior status, with a GPA of 3.30 or higher at the completion of 90 hours, or consent of school.
Credits: 3
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AHCD 494 - Workshop in Allied Health and Communicative Disorders
Application of principles of allied health and communicative disorders or rehabilitation to problems of special interest to the participant. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 semester hours. Available for concurrent enrollment.
Credits: 1-3
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AHCD 498 - Tutorial in Allied Health and Communicative Disorders
Directed individual study and research in special areas of allied health and communicative disorders. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 semester hours. Available for concurrent enrollment.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of school.
Credits: 1-3
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Anthropology |
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ANTH 101 - Human Origins
Approaches to the study of human physical origins and early cultural development. Analysis of the fossil record of humans and differentiation into modern populations. The origin of major stone tool traditions. Examination of early cultural developments such as art, agriculture, city life, and ancient states.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 102 - Rise of Civilization
Forces leading to the emergence of early civilizations in the Near East, Egypt, China, Mesoamerica, and South America. Aspirations, problems, and needs addressed in the art, literature, history, and other enduring contributions of the pristine civilizations of antiquity. Examination of ancient achievements and values from humanistic and artistic perspectives.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 120 - Anthropology and Human Diversity
Survey of human cultural diversity throughout the world. Anthropological approaches to understanding multiculturalism. Examination of factors underlying human diversity.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 210 - Exploring Archaeology
Survey of the basic concepts and principles employed by archaeologists as cultural anthropologists with illustrations from world prehistory.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 220 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
The concept of culture; its origin, development, and diversity. Culture as an adaptive mechanism. Theory and method of cultural anthropology applied to the analysis of selected cultures.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 230 - Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Nature and function of language; anthropological motivations for the study of language; contributions of anthropological linguistics; distribution and relationships of languages of the world.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 240 - General Physical Anthropology
Outline of the principles and subject matter of human evolutionary history, race formation and classification, genetics, evolutionary theory, and interrelations between cultural and physical anthropology.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 301 - American Culture
Examination of a series of topics in American culture including the impact of industrialism, the rise of feminism, the current popularity of sports, the role of advertising, and the changes in the structure of the family. Focus on what anthropological culture theory can tell us about our own culture.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 302 - Asian American Cultures
Introduction to the study of Asian American cultures. Review of the history of migration from Asian countries to the United States, and examination of the contemporary ethnographic portrayals of different Asian communities. Emphasis on the lives of Southeast Asian refugees and migrants who have come to the U.S. in the last 25 years. Uses anthropological writings on changing patterns of kinship, social organization, economics and religion, as well as first-person literary accounts.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 303 - Indians of North America
Description and analysis of the cultures of native peoples of North America. Social, economic, and religious life; languages and arts of representative North American Indian groups.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 304 - Muslim Cultures in Anthropological Perspective
Cultures and social issues of the Islamic regions in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. History, development, and spread of Islam. Anthropological aspects of selected Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian cultures, including social organization, gender, marriage, and law in an Islamic context.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 310 - The Archaeology of Oceania and Southeast Asia
Descriptive and comparative study of the origins and rise of complex societies in Oceania and Southeast Asia.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 312 - The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
Early Neolithic times to the Greco-Roman period, including Neolithic agriculture, society, and brutal ritual; political formation and unification under the early Pharaohs; the building and use of monumental burial architecture; and societal collapse and reformation.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 313 - Archaeology through Fiction
Introduction to ancient world cultures, including Egypt, the Middle East, Rome, Europe, and North America through novels that use archaeological data and characters. Topics include assessing the accuracy of data, borrowing from scholarly literature, and connections to current controversies over looting, site destruction, and the faking of antiquities.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 326X - Survey of World Music
Crosslisted as MUSC 326. Survey of traditional music (both folk and classical/court) in world cultures. Examination of the relationship of music to selected aspects of the peoples and cultures of East, South, Central, and Southeast Asia, Australia, Polynesia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ. Junior standing or consent of school. There is no prerequisite for musical ability.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 328 - Anthropology of Religion
Description and analysis of religious and ritual activities and how they articulate with other aspects of culture.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 220.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 329 - Anthropology and Contemporary World Problems
Examination of selected contemporary world problems such as hunger and food systems, population, inequality, colonialism and underdevelopment, human conflict, environmental degradation, the challenges of indigenous peoples and peasants, and globalization. Application of a deep temporal cultural evolutionary context and a broad crosscultural framework to the study of contemporary world problems not inherent to the human condition.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 331 - Language and Culture
Relationships of language to other forms of cultural behavior; influence of linguistic structure and categories on modes of thought and cognition; reflections of cultural emphases in language; forms of language and their distribution.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 230 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 341 - Primatology
Crosslisted as BIOS 341X. Study of nonhuman primates, both living and extinct. Focus on primate biology in its broadest sense. Topics include primate taxonomy, behavior, natural history traits, ecology, reproduction, feeding and locomotor adaptations, anatomy, and paleontology. Lectures and laboratory.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 240 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 342 - Forensic Anthropology
Detailed survey of the methods and techniques used by forensic anthropologists. Topics include crime scene investigation, body exhumation, body decomposition, age at death, sex determination, ancestry, and individual identification. Discussion of individual case reports and mass disaster cases.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 343 - Extinction: Where the Wild Things Were
Crosslisted as ENVS 343X. Examination of the processes of natural selection, genetic drift, the formation of new species, and extinction. Review of natural extinction events due to environmental change as well as human-induced extinctions of prehistoric, historic and modern species.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 361 - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women
Examination of the diversity of women’s lives cross-culturally from an experiential and structural viewpoint. Emphasis on the interlocking dimensions of women’s experiences including nationality, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and religion. Drawing on examples from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and ethnic populations within the U.S., course readings explore commonalities and differences in women’s social positions, cultural knowledges, life-cycle changes, and gender relationships.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 363 - Globalization and Corporate Cultures
Broad overview of anthropological perspectives on development, globalization, and corporate culture in the international setting. Population shifts, global trade, ideology, technology, and organizational cultures with special attention to applied problems of intercultural communication in Western and non-Western corporate settings.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 402 - Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific Islands
Ethnographic and ethnological survey and analysis of the societies and cultures of the Pacific Islands. Primary focus on the lifeways of the indigenous peoples of the area with a secondary focus on the role which information about the lifeways of peoples of the Pacific Islands has played in the development of anthropological theory.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 220 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 403 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa South of the Sahara
Descriptive and analytic examination of representative African societies dealing with their culture, histories, economic, political, and social organization, as well as religion and arts. Contemporary problems of culture change and social transformation within the context of decolonization.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 220 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 405 - Peoples of Mesoamerica
Cultural background of Mesoamerican ethnic groups; historical and contemporary sociocultural systems of Indian, black, and mestizo groups in rural and urban areas. Attention to the processes of acculturation, urbanization, and current cultural modifications influenced by contemporary society.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 220 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 407 - Peoples and Cultures of Insular Southeast Asia
Introduction to the social and cultural diversity of insular Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Emphasis on the region’s geography, colonial experience, and patterns of social organization kinship, religious belief, ethnic pluralism, and authority.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 408 - Peoples and Cultures of Mainland Southeast Asia
Introduction to the social and cultural diversity of mainland Southeast Asia–Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Emphasis on the area’s geography, history, kinship and social organization, religious beliefs (especially Theravada Buddhism), ethnic diversity, and contemporary problems.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 410 - Archaeology of Africa
Detailed, analytical survey of African prehistory from the earliest evidence of human occupation to the time of extra-African contact.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 210 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 411 - Archaeology of Europe
Origins and development of prehistoric cultures in Europe from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 210.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 412 - Ancient North America
Survey of ancient peoples and archaeological cultures throughout North America with attention to their lifeways, artifacts, and natural settings.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 210 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 413 - Illinois Archaeology
Examination of the current state of knowledge of Illinois archaeology. Recent archaeological discoveries in our state provide a much improved picture of prehistoric life here. Time covered is from the first arrival of people in what is now Illinois until the establishment of cities during the last century. Emphasis on the technology, natural setting, chronology, subsistence, population, settlement, and social structure for each archaeological tradition and time period.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 210 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 414 - Archaeology of Mesoamerica
Descriptive and analytical examination of pre-Columbian cultures of Mexico and Central America.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 210.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 415 - Archaeology of the American Southwest
Origins and diversification of prehistoric cultures in the Southwest.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 210.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 417 - Archaeology of South America
Description and analysis of human occupation of the South American continent from its initial occupation to the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores. Emphasis on interrelationships between areas and models purporting to explain sociopolitical evolution.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 210.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 418 - Applied Archaeology
Detailed examination of the operational framework, methods, and techniques of applied archaeology and scrutiny of their rationales. Instruction in the skills needed in the new working environment of most of the archaeology that is done within the United States.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 419 - Archaeology of Mediterranean Civilizations
Detailed analysis of the rise of civilizations in the Mediterranean basin from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Comparative course focusing on the regions of the Balkans, Egypt, Greece, the Levant, and Italy.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 210 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 421 - Social Organization
Description of social systems; exploration of the regularities and variations in the several facets of social structure emphasizing the interrelatedness of the parts of culture and culture as a functioning entity.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 120 or ANTH 220.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 422 - Gender in Southeast Asia
Detailed analysis of conceptions of gender across Southeast Asia. Review of theoretical approaches in gender studies and ethnographic material from the region.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 120 or ANTH 220, or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 425 - Environment and Anthropology
Human adaptation to the natural environment, including interconnections between ideologies, social systems, economics, political structures, and ecology. Historical development of environmental studies in anthropology, particularly ecological anthropology, up through and including the emergence of political ecology and environmental anthropology. Topics include ecological adaptation of non-industrial societies, communal resources, world food and population, industrial food systems, contemporary environmentalism, and the relationship between science, policy and the state.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 220 or consent of the department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 426 - Political Anthropology
Political activities and how they articulate with other institutions. Presentation of various interpretations and theories that have been applied to the data.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 220.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 427 - Economic Anthropology
Analysis of economic behavior and institutions and how they articulate with other aspects of culture.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 220.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 428 - Ritual and Myth
In-depth examination of the approaches, theories, and methodologies in the anthropological study of ritual and myth. Topics include the feasibility of distinguishing ritual from non-ritual both cross-culturally and within particular societies, most recent studies of ritual focusing on sacrifice, ritual as performative action, ritual symbolism, ritual function vs. form, types of rituals, the study of myths, structural-symbolic analysis of sacred myths, phenomenological-symbolic analysis of myths, myths of origin and myths of death, and the relationship between myth and ritual. Ritual and myth also considered in relation to ideas about the maintenance of cosmological and sociopolitical systems.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 220 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 432 - Nature and the Environment Across Cultures
Investigation of the different ways people conceptualize nature and the environment across cultures. Focus on out-of-awareness cultural models, that is, intermediary mental organizations of meaning that stand between universal concepts and culturally bound realizations. Critical evaluation of a number of projects that attempt to use local and/or indigenous knowledge in managing the relationship between people, nature, and the environment is included.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 433 - Fundamentals of Cognitive Anthropology
Examination of relationship between human mind and human culture. Critical analysis of major areas of cognitive anthropological research in kinship, ethnobiology, cultural models, distributed cognition, and spacial relationships. Consideration of the interface of contemporary cognitive anthropology and general cognitive science.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 230 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 435 - Space in Language and Culture
Crosslisted as GEOG 435X. Exploration of how various languages express spatial relationships by using different parts of speech, how culture shapes ways of organizing and using space in daily and ritual behavior, and the mental organization of spatial knowledge, with emphasis on universal patterns that generate cultural and individual realizations.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 230 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 438 - Cultural Models: The Language of Culture
Cultural models as intermediary mental organizations of meaning that stand between universal concepts and culturally bound realizations. Origin of the concept in various disciplines such as anthropology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and cognitive psychology. Research on cultural models in various cultures.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 230 or consent of the department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 440 - Fossil Humans
The human fossil record. Emphasis on interpretation of morphology and theory in human paleontology.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 240 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 441 - Sex and Gender in Primates
Theories of the evolution of sex differences and associated gender roles in human and nonhuman primates including primate mating systems, sperm competition, mate choice, parental care, aggression, and cooperation.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 240 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 442 - Biocultural Perspectives on the Human Skeleton
Topical and interpretative study of the human skeleton with relation to the study of past human populations, especially in relation to the analysis of prehistoric economy, social behavior, and physical interaction with the biocultural environment. Reconstruction of paleodiet, impact of undernutrition on growth and development, bone microstructure, dental disease, other markers of stress, impact of specific behavioral repertoires on the human skeleton, and masticatory and nonmasticatory adaptations of the craniofacial complex.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 240 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 443 - Human Adaptation and Variation
History of the concept of race; current approaches to human variability. Selective aspects of continuous and discontinuous traits: blood groups, hemoglobins, etc.; race and I.Q.; sex differences. Ecological influences on human variation.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 240.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 444 - Primate Ecology and Conservation
Study of living nonhuman primates with an understanding of how primates have adapted to their environment and how this information is essential for conservation planning.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 240 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 445 - Primate Evolution
Crosslisted as BIOS 435X. Primate fossil record, emphasis on adaptation and phylogeny.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 240 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 446 - The Human Skeleton
Detailed study of human bones and teeth, including growth, sex identification, aging and stature estimation, and bone pathologies.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 240 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 447 - Primate Anatomy
The skeletal anatomy of living primates including primate dental and skeletal adaptations, phylogeny, speciation, and biogeography.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 240 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 448 - Uses and Abuses of Evolutionary Theory
Review of the history of evolutionary theory, challenges to evolutionary theory, and the concept of biological determinism as applied to the human species. Examination of how contemporary anthropological research in human behavioral ecology and gene-culture evolution contributes to understanding human behavior.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 450 - Ethics and Research Design in Anthropology
Examination of ethical decision making in anthropological procedures and an introduction to research designs and organizational skills in the practice of anthropology.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: One 200-level anthropology course or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 451 - History and Theory of Anthropology
Overview of the history of anthropological institutions and the historical development of anthropological concepts. Attention given to schools of thought and associated leading anthropologists in all major fields of anthropology.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 220.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 452 - Contemporary Culture Theory
Examination of the development of anthropological culture theory starting with structuralism and moving on through symbolism to postmodernism. Focus on the writings of the major theorists.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 220.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 453 - Archaeological Theory
Development of archaeological theory from the mid-19th century to the present. Connections of archaeological theory to major anthropological issues.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 210 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 460 - Methods in Ethnography
Theory and practice in methods of ethnographic research. Problems and techniques in participant observation, structured and nonstructured interviews, questionnaires, indirect measures, documentation, and recording. Ethics of ethnographic research.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 220 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 461 - Methods in Archaeology
Introduction to the analysis of ceramics, lithics, botanical and faunal remains, settlements, and other archaeological material. Emphasis on selecting techniques for analysis and interpreting analytical results.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 210 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 462 - Collections Management
Lectures and practical experience in various aspects of museum work particularly those related to the handling and care artifacts. Original research will be carried out on an artifact in the museum collection.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: Consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 463 - Ethnohistory
Approaches to locating, evaluating, and utilizing oral and written historical sources in ethnographic and anthropological investigations.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 220.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 465 - Medical Anthropology
Survey of interactions between infectious and parasitic diseases, genetic predispositions, and specific cultural habits, attitudes, and beliefs. Includes cognitive systems as they relate to disease theory in various cultures and examples of folk medical practices and beliefs.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 220 or ANTH 240 or consent of department.
Credits: 3
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ANTH 466 - Hunters-Gatherers and the Transition to Food Production
Hunter-gatherers as a societal type and the foraging of wild foods as an economic activity. Topics include defining “hunter-gatherers,” the origins and evolution of hunting and gathering, optimal foraging theory, the cross-cultural analysis of foraging societies, the origins of food production, and the persistence of foraging as an economic activity among food producing societies. The scope and limits of diversity among societies and practices associated with the exploitation of wild food resources are also considered.
Prerequisites & Notes
PRQ: ANTH 220 or 210 or consent of the department.
Credits: 3
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