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AFRAS 385 - African American Music
Units: 3 GE
African American music from its African roots to present. Consideration of musical styles, events, significant contributors as well as role of sociocultural values in development of music.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AFRAS 421 - Black Urban Experience
Units: 3 GE
Major social science literature of international Black urban experience. Behavior, culture, and oppressions unique to urban environment.
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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AFRAS 422 - Modern Civil Rights Movement
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): AFRAS 101 .
Key events, strategies, and theoretical debates that emerged from struggle for black equality during modern civil rights movement in the United States from 1945 to present.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AFRAS 423 - Black Nationalism
Units: 3 GE
Black nationalism in the world, with emphasis on comparative analysis of writings of leading nationalist (and Pan-Africanist) thinkers and theorists.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AFRAS 455 - Africana Class, Gender, and Sexualities
Units: 3 GE
Intersection of race, class, gender, and sexualities within Africana culture and experience and impact on Africana world-view.
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AFRAS 456 - Ethnic and Gender Studies in the Workplace
Units: 3
Grading Method: Cr/NC
Same As: AMIND 456 and CCS 456 and WMNST 456 .
Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
History, institutions, and how systemic oppression operates in the professional sphere. Toolkits and strategies for advocacy and allyship in the workplace.
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AFRAS 465 - Africa in Literature and Film
Units: 3 GE
Same As: FRENC 465
African cultural history through literature and film. Consistency/variety of African cultural expressions and conventions in literature and film.
Note: Taught in English. This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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AFRAS 466 - Afrofuturism
Units: 3 GE
Interdisciplinary study of African and African American contributions to science fiction, comic book art, pop culture, and its origins and influences.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AFRAS 470 - Comparative History: Afro-American and African Heritage
Units: 3 GE
Conceptual framework of African history and a comparative study of Afro-American institutions.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AFRAS 471 - Africana History
Units: 3
Major themes in African American historical development as they relate to African survivals in diaspora; growth of free Africana communities; Reconstruction; history of United States social movements; movement leadership and daily life; and concurrent developments in Africa.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement. Not open to students with credit in Africana Studies 471A and 471B.
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AFRAS 472 - African Enslavement
Units: 3 GE
Comparative history of enslavement of Africans in the Americas and Muslim world, African servitude, and modern day enslavement.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AFRAS 473 - Women in Africa
Units: 3 GE
Historical and contemporary roles women have occupied in Africa as political leaders, spiritual authoritative figures, and mothers in various African societies, from classical Africa to the present.
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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AFRAS 476 - History and Culture of Hip Hop
Units: 3 GE
Genesis of hip hop as a worldwide culture, with attention to major Africana historical, political, sociological, cultural, and aesthetic precursors.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AFRAS 485 - Blacks in the Arts
Units: 3
Academic and artistic perspectives on Black participation in and contributions to the creative and performing arts. May be repeated with new content. Maximum Credits: six units.
Note: See Class Schedule for specific content.
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AFRAS 490 - Senior Seminar
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): Open only to majors who have completed the first semester of junior year.
Capstone experience in which mastery of practice, theories, concepts, and issues central to Africana studies is demonstrated.
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AFRAS 496 - Experimental Topics
Units: 1-4
Selected topics. May be repeated with new content.
Note: See Class Schedule for specific content. Limit of nine units of any combination of 296, 496, 596 courses applicable to a bachelor’s degree.
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AFRAS 499 - Special Study
Units: 1-3
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
Individual study. Maximum Credits: six units.
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AFRAS 500 - Research Methods
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): AFRAS 101 with a grade of C (2.0) or better or graduate standing.
Research methods, models, and theories. Strategies for gathering data from and about Africana people towards generating social change. Maximum Credits: six units.
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AFRAS 520 - African Civilization I
Units: 3
Grading Method: Letter (Cr/NC OK)
Only offered at: SDSU San Diego
Prerequisite(s): Upper division or graduate standing.
An intensive investigation into the rise and fall of several major ancient African Civilizations. Civilizations and periods will normally include the classical cultures of Kush, Kemet, Axum, and a survey of the early history of the Sudanic empires.
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AFRAS 521 - African Civilization II
Units: 3
Grading Method: Letter (Cr/NC OK)
Only offered at: SDSU San Diego
Prerequisite(s): Upper division or graduate standing.
An intensive investigation into the rise and fall of several major contemporary African Civilizations. Civilizations and periods will normally include the Sudanic Empires of Ghana, Mali, Songhai, as well as modern societies such as the Yoruba, Xhosa, and the Asante.
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AFRAS 585 - Methods in Ethnic Studies Teaching: Decolonial Pedagogies in K-12 Schools
Units: 3
Same As: AMIND 585 , CCS 585 , and DLE 585 .
Prerequisite(s): AFRAS 421 , AMIND 480 , CCS 580 , DLE 515 , or graduate standing.
Approaches, methods, and theories of instruction and assessment to include decolonial, humanizing, and liberatory pedagogies. Development of ethnic studies curricula. Ethnicity, race, and racism.
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AMIND 110 - American Indian Heritage
Units: 3 GE
Major American Indian themes, beliefs, and practices and their impact on Western civilization through institutions, art, literature, philosophy, and religion.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 120 - Written Communication
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): Satisfaction of the SDSU Written Communication Assessment requirement. (See “Graduation Requirements ” section of catalog.) Proof of completion of prerequisite(s) required.
Understanding of rhetoric of written argument from interdisciplinary perspectives, with reference to American Indian content. Designed to develop and enhance composition and reading skills. Focus on writing skills that contribute to academic growth and development.
Note: Not open to students with credit in a higher-numbered composition course or AFRAS 120 or CCS 111B or LING 100B or RWS 100 [or ENGL 100 or POL S 100 ] or RWS 105B .
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AMIND 140 - U.S. History from an American Indian Perspective to 1870
Units: 3 GE-AI
U.S. history from an indigenous perspective pre-Columbian contact to 1870. Examines Native American societies with attention to white intrusion, U.S. constitution and legislation to remove Indians, control of their land and impact upon indigenous culture and society.
Note: This course satisfies the American Institutions requirement in American history and United States Constitution. This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 141 - U.S. History from an American Indian Perspective Since 1870
Units: 3 GE-AI
U.S. history from an indigenous perspective from 1870 to the present. Examines Native American societies, political systems, and reservations. Attention given to historical, contemporary, political, socioeconomic issues, the U.S. and California constitutions and their impact on Native Americans.
Note: This course satisfies the American Institutions requirement in American history and California government. This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 200 - Written Kumeyaay
Units: 4
Only offered at: SDSU San Diego
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
Introduction to the Kumeyaay writing system. Grammar explained based on beginning Kumeyaay. Formerly numbered AMIND 310. May be repeated with consent of instructor. Maximum Credits: eight units.
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AMIND 210 - Indigenous Women and the Arts
Units: 3 GE
How indigenous women have used cultural forms to represent political issues and imagine social possibilities. Cultural forms to include contemporary and traditional material arts, fashion, film, literature, multimedia performance, and music.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 215 - EY American Indian Mentoring Seminar
Units: 1
Grading Method: Cr/NC
Mentoring seminar for American Indian students or those interested in Native issues. Integration of Native knowledge with academic sources. College prep skills and student services. Guest lectures from local and national tribal leaders. Formerly numbered American Indian Studies 296. Maximum Credits: 4 units.
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AMIND 225 - Expository Writing and Research
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): Satisfaction of the SDSU Written Communication Assessment requirement and AFRAS 120 or AMIND 120 or CCS 111B or LING 100B or RWS 100 [or ENGL 100 or POL S 100 ] or RWS 105B . Proof of completion of prerequisite(s) required: Test scores or verification of exemption; copy of transcript.
Intermediate writing development to include rhetoric of spoken, written, and visual texts drawn from interdisciplinary sources.
Note: Not open to students with credit in AFRAS 200 , CCS 200 , LING 200 , or RWS 200 [or ENGL 200 ].
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AMIND 235 - Indians in Comic Books and Graphic Arts
Units: 3
Grading Method: Letter (Cr/NC OK)
Only offered at: SDSU San Diego
Historical, literary, and cultural study of the representation of the Indigenous Peoples of North America in the medium of the American comic books and graphic arts from the 1930s through the present.
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AMIND 296 - Experimental Topics
Units: 1-4
Selected topics. May be repeated with new content.
Note: See Class Schedule for specific content. Limit of nine units of any combination of 296, 496, 596 courses applicable to a bachelor’s degree.
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AMIND 300 - American Indian Oral Tradition
Units: 3 GE
Pre-twentieth century American Indian oral and symbolic traditions including creation and origin legends, coyote stories, ceremonial songs, oratory, and memoirs.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 320 - American Indians in Contemporary Society
Units: 3 GE
Sociological understanding of the American Indian groups in contemporary society with emphasis on the relationship to dominant society and why the focus has been on Indians as social problems.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 331 - The American Indian Political Experience
Units: 3
Same As: POL S 331
Prerequisite(s): AMIND 110 or POL S 102 .
Social and political responses to dominant group policies by American Indian as compared to other minority groups.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 350 - American Indian Environmental Management
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): AMIND 110
Indigenous astronomical, botanical, and ecological knowledge with emphasis on California Indians. Integration of traditional knowledge and western sciences in contemporary tribal governmental efforts at environmental management.
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AMIND 370 - Tribal Gaming: Cultural and Political Context
Units: 3 GE
Same As: HTM 370
Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
Social and political context of American Indian tribal gaming, political relationships between federal and tribal governments, contemporary examples of tribal gaming, sociocultural and economic forces leading to gaming as strategy for economic development, and responses by non-Indian communities to tribal gaming.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 380 - Re-Indigenizing Cultural Heritage/Cultural Resources Management
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations of Learning II.B., Social and Behavioral Sciences. AMIND 110 .
Historical, geographical, political, social, and regulatory context of cultural/environmental resource management and its impact on Native peoples. Economic and political pressures of development, government to government consultation, activism. Creative and effective approaches to tribal cultural heritage preservation.
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AMIND 420 - Indian Peoples of California
Units: 3 GE
Indian peoples of California. Their histories and cultures from oral traditions to contemporary issues. Focus on selected Indian tribes and communities.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 430 - American Indian Poetry and Fiction
Units: 3 GE
Contemporary American Indian poetry and fiction explored in works of Welch, Ortiz, Momaday, Silko, Deloria, Allen, Erdrich, and others.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 435 - Indians Through Film and Television
Units: 3 GE
Ethnographic film-making. Impact of movies and television on popular concepts of Indians. Films viewed in class.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 440 - American Indian History
Units: 3 GE
Offered at: SDSU Main Campus and SDSU Imperial Valley
Historical analysis of Indian-White contact. Emphasis on the impact of historical events upon the various cultures.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 451 - American Indian Identity
Units: 3 GE
Same As: ANTH 451
Multidisciplinary perspectives on American Indian identity today. Topics include perspectives from political, ethnic, cultural and legal standpoints, both within and outside of indigenous communities, as well as diachronic variation in perspectives.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 456 - Ethnic and Gender Studies in the Workplace
Units: 3
Same As: AFRAS 456 and CCS 456 and WMNST 456 .
Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
History, institutions, and how systemic oppression operates in the professional sphere. Toolkits and strategies for advocacy and allyship in the workplace.
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AMIND 460 - American Indian Languages
Units: 3 GE
Same As: ANTH 460 and LING 460
Structures of American Indian languages. Language families of North America, history, and present circumstances. Interdependence of language and culture, differences in ways of speaking. Issues of language endangerment, language death, language maintenance, and language revitalization.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 480 - Issues in American Indian Education
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): AMIND 110 .
Cross-cultural differences in learning styles, emphasis on Native American styles. Cross-cultural differences in child socialization related to readiness for school. Literacy-related practices in oral communities. Bilingual education in Native American communities. Local educational empowerment.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 485 - Federal Indian Law
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): AMIND 110 , AMIND 140 , or AMIND 141 .
Legal relationship between the United States and Indian people and Indian tribes as field of Indian law was developed and has changed over the years until the present.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 496 - Topics in American Indian Studies
Units: 1-3
An undergraduate seminar. Maximum Credits: six units.
Note: See Class Schedule for specific content. Limit of nine units of any combination of 296, 496, 596 courses applicable to a bachelor’s degree.
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AMIND 498 - American Indian Community Service Experience
Units: 1
Grading Method: Cr/NC
Service learning experience in local American Indian community, mentoring, tutoring, or interning at Indian Education Center, Indian Health Center, or similar experience. Minimum of 35 contact hours. Service experience coordinated by supervising American Indian studies faculty with target community organization.
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AMIND 499 - Special Study
Units: 1-4
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
Individual study. Maximum Credits: six units.
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AMIND 585 - Methods in Ethnic Studies Teaching: Decolonial Pedagogies in K-12 Schools
Units: 3
Same As: AFRAS 585 , CCS 585 , and DLE 585 .
Prerequisite(s): AMIND 480 , AFRAS 421 , CCS 580 , DLE 515 , or graduate standing.
Approaches, methods, and theories of instruction and assessment to include decolonial, humanizing, and liberatory pedagogies. Development of ethnic studies curricula. Ethnicity, race, and racism.
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ANTH 101 - Human Biocultural Origins
Units: 3 GE
Humankind’s place in nature; fossil evidence for hominid evolution; evolutionary theory; racial, clinal and genetic variability; relationship of physical and cultural adaptations; the rise of civilization.
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ANTH 102 - Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Units: 3 GE
Cross-cultural survey of systems of social, political, and economic organization, language, gender, kinship, religion, and subsistence; culture change and intercultural connections; ethnographic field methods and theories of culture; contemporary applications.
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ANTH 103 - Introduction to Archaeology and World Prehistory
Units: 3 GE
Archaeology emphasizing the modern relevance of understanding the past. Beginning six to seven million years ago in Africa, highlighting the physical and cultural evolution of our human lineage.
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ANTH 111 - Anthropology of the Night: Sleep, Dreams, and Demons
Units: 3 GE
Human nighttime activities and cultural understandings regarding the nocturnal world. Cultural context and physiological, psychological, and social roots and ramifications of dreams, sleep, and supernatural encounters.
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ANTH 112 - Conspiracy and Culture
Units: 3 GE
Conspiracy theories in cultural context to include physiological, psychological, and social dimensions. Power dynamics, voices of dissent, and culturally varied ways commitments to “false” beliefs are created, maintained, and diffused.
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ANTH 113 - Pseudoscience and Science in Archaeology
Units: 3 GE
How we know what we know using anthropology and archaeology case studies from around the world.
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ANTH 296 - Experimental Topics
Units: 1-4
Selected topics. May be repeated with new content.
Note: See Class Schedule for specific content. Limit of nine units of any combination of 296, 496, 596 courses applicable to a bachelor’s degree.
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ANTH 301 - Principles of Biological Anthropology
Units: 3
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101 .
Theory and method in biological anthropology. Hands-on collection and interpretation of data in primate comparative anatomy, human evolution, human skeletal biology, human adaptability, and primate behavioral observation.
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ANTH 302 - Principles of Archaeology
Units: 3
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 103 .
History, method, and theory of archaeological data acquisition and interpretation. Methods of data recovery and analysis suitable to resolution of historical and processual questions. Archaeological examples from a worldwide sample of prehistoric and historic societies.
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ANTH 303 - Principles of Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 102 .
Development of theories which explain nature of culture and cultural variation. Applications of theory of culture to field methods in ethnography and interpretation of ethnographic findings.
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ANTH 304 - Principles of Anthropological Linguistics
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 102 .
Structural nature of language. How languages differ, change and influence each other. Language families of the world. Significance of language for human social life in a variety of cultures.
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ANTH 312 - Archaeological Field Techniques
Units: 3
Six hours of activity.
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 302 .
Archaeological excavation of significant sites in San Diego. Techniques of excavation, recording, and surveying.
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ANTH 333 - Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in the Americas
Units: 3 GE
Same As: LATAM 333
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 102 or LATAM 101 .
History and contemporary forms of identity to include ethnicity, gender, nationality, race, and sexuality in Canada, Latin America, and United States.
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ANTH 348 - Historical Archaeology
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 102 .
How historical texts and archaeological artifacts are used to understand colonial expansion and indigenous response across the globe over last half millennium. Incorporates native and European worldviews in investigation of archaeological sites from historical times.
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ANTH 349 - Roots of Civilizations
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
Origins and major attributes common to civilizations. Form and function of fundamental characteristics in different civilizations. Examples taken from Africa, Asia, the Near East and the New World.
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 350 - Cultures Around the Globe
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 102 .
Cultural patterns of representative peoples. Industries, arts, social organization and supernaturalism considered with view to environmental adjustment, historical development and functional interrelation. Ethnological theories reviewed and applied in interpreting illustrative societies.
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 353 - Sustainability and Culture
Units: 3 GE
Same As: SUSTN 353
Examination of efforts of anthropology to understand sustainability and provide solutions to human-environmental problems. Compares and explores sustainability in a variety of contexts and scales, from San Diego region to diverse communities around the world.
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 355 - Exploring Primate Behavior
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations of Learning II.A. Natural Sciences and Quantitative Reasoning. If a biological sciences course is not taken to satisfy Foundations of Learning II.A. 2. Life Sciences, a college course in biological sciences is required.
World of our closest living relatives. What it means to be a primate, where primates live, how primates have evolved into different groups and adapted to different environments, and what primates are threatened with extinction and why.
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ANTH 360 - From the Grave: Modern Forensic Anthropology
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations of Learning II.A. 2. Life Sciences. If a biological sciences course is not taken to satisfy Foundations of Learning II.A. 2. Life Sciences, a college course in biological sciences is required.
Physical anthropology and skeletal biology within medicolegal context. Methodologies used in science of forensic anthropology, as interdisciplinary nature and authorities in related fields.
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 365 - Animals, Culture, and the Environment
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations of Learning II.B. Social Sciences. If a social sciences course is not taken to satisfy Foundations of Learning II.B. Social Sciences, a college course in biological sciences is required.
Exploration of human-animal relationships in archaeology and modern society, from early hunting to the evolution of domestication. Biological, cultural, and environmental changes associated with human-animal relationships.
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ANTH 395 - Introduction to the Anthropology Major
Units: 1
Grading Method: Cr/NC
Coursework, faculty, and learning objectives for the anthropology major. Professional standards and ethics in the field of anthropology.
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ANTH 402 - Dynamics of Biocultural Diversity
Units: 3 GE
Offered at: SDSU Main Campus and SDSU Imperial Valley
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the General Education requirement in Foundations of Learning II.A.2. Life Sciences. If a biological sciences course is not taken to satisfy Foundations of Learning II.A.2. Life Sciences, a college course in biological sciences is required.
Interaction of biology and culture in human populations. Relating genetic and cultural processes to the changes in human populations over time.
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 404 - Evolution of Human Behavior
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101 or BIOL 101 .
Evolutionary approaches to human behavior to include evolutionary psychology, gene-culture coevolution, and human behavioral ecology. Evolution of cooperation and altruism, human health and survival, human mating, parenting, and violence and warfare.
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 405 - Technology, Personhood, and the Body
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
How interaction with present-day technologies mediates thought surrounding bodies, identities, and sociocultural worlds. Examination of the influence of communication, medical, and surveillance technologies, among others.
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ANTH 410 - Language in Culture
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 102 .
Survey of anthropological interests in the study of language and of linguistic interests in the sociocultural context of language.
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ANTH 422 - Music and Culture
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 102 .
How the forms, functions and meanings of music vary crossculturally. Understanding a society’s music historically, holistically and experientially, with emphasis on non-Western music. Universals of music and music use. Ethnological theories of music and music change.
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 424 - The Supernatural in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Units: 3 GE
Same As: REL S 424
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 102 .
Magic and religion. Conceptions of the supernatural in a cross section of world’s cultures. Anthropological theories relating to supernatural beliefs and practices.
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 439 - Cultural Comparisons Through Film
Units: 3 GE
Principles of cultural anthropology to include signs and proxemics, cultural prerequisites, kinship and social organization, and law and values. Feature and documentary films.
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 440 - Mesoamerican Civilization Before the Europeans
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 102 .
Pre-European cultures and civilizations of Mexico and upper Central America from 25,000 years ago to arrival of Spanish in 1517. Regional histories, economies, social organizations, ideologies, and political systems, settlement patterns, architecture, and art.
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 442 - Cultures of South America
Units: 3 GE
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 102 .
Indian cultures in terms of origins, migration, relation to habitat, cultural variation and relevance to contemporary trends. Development of Inca civilization, the effects of the Spanish conquest and its aftermath.
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 443 - Anthropology of Violence
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 102 .
Individual and collective acts of armed violence in variety of historical and cultural settings. Structural violence with attention to how poverty and inequality are related to violence and suffering. Warfare and aggression on the part of colonial powers and the modern state.
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ANTH 445 - Culture, Gender, and Race in Sports
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 102 .
Intersection of culture, gender, and race through sports in Europe, Latin America, and North America at amateur, community-based, and professional levels. Consideration of sports’ participation and fandom and how gender, nationality, and race affect those processes.
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ANTH 451 - American Indian Identity
Units: 3 GE
Same As: AMIND 451
Multidisciplinary perspectives on American Indian identity today. Topics include perspectives from political, ethnic, cultural and legal standpoints, both within and outside of indigenous communities, as well as diachronic variation in perspectives.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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ANTH 460 - American Indian Languages
Units: 3 GE
Same As: AMIND 460 and LING 460
Structures of American Indian languages. Language families of North America, history, and present circumstances. Interdependence of language and culture, differences in ways of speaking. Issues of language endangerment, language death, language maintenance, and language revitalization.
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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ANTH 471 - Archaeology of North America
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101 or ANTH 102 .
Origins of the American Indian and survey of the main prehistoric cultures of the North American continent.
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ANTH 483 - Topics in Anthropology
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101 or ANTH 102 and upper division standing.
Archeological, biological, linguistic, or sociocultural dimensions of anthropology. May be repeated with new content. Maximum Credits: six units.
Note: See Class Schedule for specific content.
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ANTH 495 - Internship in Applied Anthropology
Units: 1-3
Grading Method: Cr/NC
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 301 , ANTH 302 , ANTH 303 , ANTH 304 .
Supervised field placement of students in campus or community organization, museums, cultural resource management firms, social service and development agencies, forensic laboratories and other offices including business firms where concepts and principles of anthropology can be put into practice. May be repeated for maximum credit three units.
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ANTH 496 - Experimental Topics
Units: 1-4
Selected topics. May be repeated with new content.
Note: See Class Schedule for specific content. Limit of nine units of any combination of 296, 496, 596 courses applicable to a bachelor’s degree.
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ANTH 499 - Special Study
Units: 1-3
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
Individual study. Maximum Credits: six units.
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ANTH 501 - Primate Behavior and Ecology
Units: 3
Grading Method: Letter (Cr/NC OK)
Only offered at: SDSU San Diego
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 301 or ANTH 355 or graduate standing.
Ecology and behavior of nonhuman primates to include history of primate ecological research, feeding ecology, predation, demography and dispersal, reproduction, conflict and cooperation, conservation as well as contemporary primatology.
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ANTH 504 - Seminar in Human Adaptability
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101 , ANTH 301 , BIOL 100 , or graduate standing.
Biocultural responses to environmental and social stressors. Human adaptability history, methods, and theory. Behavioral, biological, cultural, developmental, and genetic responses to stress. Linkages between human adaptability, human variation, and social and health disparities.
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ANTH 505 - Human Osteology
Units: 3
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory.
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 301 .
Identification of individual bones and teeth; sex, age, and racial variation; stature reconstruction; continuous and discontinuous morphological variations; paleopathology. Training in observations, measurements, and analyses.
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ANTH 508 - Medical Anthropology
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 303 .
Socio-cultural ecology of disease, medical health beliefs and practices in cultural context, and complexities of health care delivery in pluralistic societies.
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ANTH 510 - Environmental and Ecological Anthropology
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 303 .
Ecological thinking in anthropology with focus on relationships between human environmental and ecological systems in tribal, peasant, and industrial societies. Cultural aspects of how and why human societies have maintained or undermined their ecosystems.
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ANTH 520 - Ethnographic Field Methods
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 303 .
Problems and techniques of field work in ethnographic and social anthropological research; field work projects conducted using various qualitative and quantitative research techniques. Students work with informants in various settings.
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ANTH 529 - Urban Anthropology
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 303 .
Urban adaptations of past and present societies. Descriptive topics and applied concerns regarding urban origins, migrations, kinship, ethnicity, stratification, and change. Ethnographic examples drawn from Western and non-Western societies.
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ANTH 531 - Methods in Applied Anthropology
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 303 .
Anthropological concepts and methodologies to solve human problems in both western and non-western societies through intervention, community development, impact assessment, and cultural communication.
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ANTH 532 - Anthropology of Development and Conservation
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 303 .
Anthropological perspectives on design, implementation, and assessment of development projects and conservation initiatives in “Third World.” Interlinkages between resource exploitation, underdevelopment, and local autonomy; and political and ethical dilemmas faced by anthropologists involved in projects.
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ANTH 533 - Race, Ethnicity, and Identity
Units: 3
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 303 .
Theories and practices of race, ethnicity, and identity from a cross-cultural and anthropological perspective. History of race in US and other regions, focusing on how identities are constructed around concepts of difference.
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