Anthropology (ANTH)
ANTH 1013, Intro to Cult & Social Anthrop (3 Credit Hours)
3 lecture hours per week, 0 lab hours per week, 3 contact hours per week
Diversity of human cultures; nature of culture, social organization, subsistence patterns, economics, law, politics, religion, language, and other institutions of culture viewed in cross-cultural perspective.
ANTH 2003, Intro to Forensic Anthropology (3 Credit Hours)
3 lecture hours per week, 0 lab hours per week, 3 contact hours per week
Forensic anthropologists work with medical teams, law enforcement, and government agencies to solve problems of medico-legal significance, which generally involve human bodies and the artifacts associated with them. This class explores the medico-legal discipline of forensic anthropology with a focus on human skeletal remains, including identifying remains based on sex, gender, ethnicity, and age; crime scenes; dentition; and assessing trauma to human remains.
ANTH 2023, Physical Anthropology (3 Credit Hours)
3 lecture hours per week, 0 lab hours per week, 3 contact hours per week
Physical anthropology includes the concepts of human diversity in the areas of physical adaptation, emergence of Homo sapiens, origins of language and culture, impact of food production and sedentary culture on the human physical landscape, man on the land, medical evolution of disease in culture, and the human reflection in the archaeological record.