ANTH 1HL
HONORS PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY LABORATORY
1 Unit
Prerequisite: Honors Institute participant. Advisory: Eligibility for ENGL 1A or ESLL 26; not open to students with credit in ANTH 1L. Corequisite: Completion of or concurrently enrollment in ANTH 1H. Not Repeatable. 1 hour lecture-laboratory, 2 hours laboratory. (36 hours total per quarter) Introductory laboratory course focusing on scientific methodology to explore/experiment with topics from Anthropology lecture sections. Topics include Mendelian genetics, population genetics, human variability, forensics, medical anthropology, epidemiology, hominid dietary patterns, non-human primates, primate dental and skeletal anatomy, fossil hominids, chronometric dating, environmental challenges to hominids, environmental impact of hominid behavior, general methodologies utilized in physical anthropological research, and the general study of hominids as bio-culturally adapting animals. As an honors course, it is a full thematic seminar with advanced teaching methods focusing on major writing, reading, and research assignments, student class lectures, group discussions and interactions. Material covered will be enhanced and research techniques and methodologies explored in greater depth than in the non-honors version of this course. [FHGE: Non-GE; Transferable: CSU; UC pending]
ANTH 1L
PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY LABORATORY
1 Unit
Corequisite: Completion of, or concurrent enrollment in ANTH 1. Not Repeatable. 1 hour lecture-laboratory, 2 hours laboratory. (36 hours total per quarter) Introductory laboratory course focusing on scientific methodology to explore/experiment with topics from Anthropology lecture sections. Topics include Mendelian genetics, population genetics, human variability, forensics, medical anthropology, epidemiology, hominid dietary patterns, non-human primates, primate dental and skeletal anatomy, fossil hominids, chronometric dating, environmental challenges to hominids, environmental impact of hominid behavior, general methodologies utilized in physical anthropological research, and the general study of hominids as bio-culturally adapting animals. [FHGE: Natural Sciences; Transferable: UC/CSU]
ANTH 2A
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
4 Units
Not Repeatable. 4 hours lecture. (48 hours total per quarter) Introduction to the study of human culture and the concepts, theories, and methods used in the comparative study of sociocultural systems. Subjects include subsistence, political organization, language, kinship, religion, social inequality, ethnicity, gender, and culture change. Discussion of anthropological perspectives to contemporary issues. [FHGE: Social & Behavioral Sciences; Transferable: UC/CSU]
ANTH 2B
PATTERNS OF CULTURE
4 Units
ANTH 3
PREHISTORY: THE SEARCH FOR LOST CIVILIZATIONS
4 Units
Not Repeatable. 4 hours lecture. (48 hours total per quarter) Comparative study of patterns in culture. Introduction to ethnographic research and applications of different methods and theories for studying and interpreting societies. [FHGE: Non-GE; Transferable: UC/CSU]
Not Repeatable. 4 hours lecture. (48 hours total per quarter) Survey of world prehistory as reconstructed by archaeologists. Human culture history from Stone Age beginnings to establishment and collapse of the world’s first major civilizations. Covers societies from Asia and Africa to Europe and the Americas. Introduction to archaeological methods and interpretation. First use of tools, social complexity, urbanization, domestication of plants and animals, and the rise and fall of civilizations. [FHGE: Social & Behavioral Sciences; Transferable: UC/CSU]
ANTH 4
FIRST PEOPLES OF NORTH AMERICA
4 Units
Not Repeatable. 4 hours lecture. (48 hours total per quarter) Survey of Native American societies and cultures, north of Mexico, from a cultural perspective. Includes social organization, economics, technology
and belief systems. Historic and current relationship between the federal government and the Native Americans. Contemporary issues of Native American communities. [FHGE: Non-GE; Transferable: UC/CSU]
ANTH 5
MAGIC, SCIENCE & RELIGION
4 Units
ANTH 6
PEOPLES OF AFRICA
4 Units
ANTH 8
INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY
4 Units
ANTH 8L ANTH 8LX ANTH 8LY
ARCHAEOLOGY LABORATORY
1 Unit 2 Units 3 Units
ANTH 12
APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY
4 Units
ANTH 13
INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY
4 Units
Not Repeatable. 4 hours lecture. (48 hours total per quarter) Explores the ways in which people have attempted to gain mastery over the natural and supernatural worlds beginning with prehistoric times and concluding with modern day society and the contemporary world. Cross-cultural study of the beliefs about the nature of reality, spirituality, death, magic, science and healing. [FHGE: Social & Behavioral Sciences; Transferable: UC/CSU] Not Repeatable. 4 hours lecture. (48 hours total per quarter) Historical and contemporary cultural diversity of Africa emphasizing its social, political and economic organizational structures. Focus on the three religious influences by which African peoples and their resources have been exploited. Problems of acculturation and urbanization as they relate to modernization and expansion of international trade and development. [FHGE: Non-GE; Transferable: UC/CSU] Not Repeatable. 4 hours lecture. (48 hours total per quarter) Introduction to the historical development, theory and techniques of archaeological research and fieldwork. Development of comparative approach to the study of ancient cultures. Focus on cultural resource management, survey and selection of field sites, dating, excavation, artifact classification, interpretation of data and written analysis. [FHGE: Social & Behavioral Sciences; Transferable: UC/CSU]
Advisory: Enrollment is limited to six times within the ANTH 8L group; UC transferability is limited to 3 units maximum for ANTH 8L, 8LX & 8LY. May be taken 6 times for credit. 3 hours laboratory for each unit of credit. (36–108 hours total per quarter) Laboratory methods and techniques of archaeology, including cataloging, care and analysis of artifacts, bone recognition, and archaeological excavation. [FHGE: Non-GE; Transferable: UC/CSU] Not Repeatable. 4 hours lecture. (48 hours total per quarter) Applied anthropology focuses on the use of anthropological theories and perspectives in real-world contexts of practice or problem-solving. Course provides students with tools designed to help understand and solve problems arising as a result of culture change, modernization and globalization. Major areas of study include development anthropology and the use of technology in field settings, anthropology and health care, anthropology and advocacy, such as in social work settings, anthropology and law, organizational and business anthropology, and land and resource management. [FHGE: Social & Behavioral Sciences; Transferable: UC/CSU]
Prerequisite: ANTH 1 or BIOL 40A. Not Repeatable. 4 hours lecture. (48 hours total per quarter) Introduction to the application of physical anthropology to the medicolegal process and its emphasis on the identification of human skeletal remains. Subjects include basic human osteoology and odontology, assessment of age at time of death, sex, ancestry, trauma analysis, pathology, crime scene analysis, animal scavenging, and identification procedures. Focuses on the varying arenas in which forensic anthropology is utilized ranging from crime scene investigation, missing person identification, human rights, and humanitarian investigations. [FHGE: Non-GE; Transferable: UC/CSU]
All courses on this page are Title 5 degree applicable credit courses unless otherwise noted. Foothill College 2012–2013 • www.foothill.edu
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