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AFRAS 363 - Sociocultural Analysis of Black Languages
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Same As: LING 363
Social and cultural functions of Black languages, verbal and nonverbal, in Afro-American life, and their profound impact on larger society. Also, a probe into issues concerning validity of Black English.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AFRAS 365A - African American Literature to 1900
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Same As: ECL 365A
Eighteenth and nineteenth century writing by African American authors. Issues of literary form, canon formation, and sociopolitical impact of the literature upon African American culture.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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AFRAS 365B - African American Literature After 1900
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Same As: ECL 365B
Writing by African American authors after 1900. Issues of literary form, canon formation and sociopolitical impact of the literature upon African American and American culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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AFRAS 380 - Blacks in the American Justice System
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Interpretation and application of constitutional principles and judicial decisions to political and social problems faced by Afro-Americans.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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AFRAS 385 - African American Music
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AFRAS 421 - Black Urban Experience
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Major social science literature of international Black urban experience. Behavior, culture, and oppressions unique to urban environment.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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AFRAS 422 - Modern Civil Rights Movement
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AFRAS 423 - Black Nationalism
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Black nationalism in the world, with emphasis on comparative analysis of writings of leading nationalist (and Pan-Africanist) thinkers and theorists.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AFRAS 455 - Africana Class, Gender, and Sexualities
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Intersection of race, class, gender, and sexualities within Africana culture and experience and impact on Africana world-view.
Maximum Credits: 3
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AFRAS 456 - Ethnic and Gender Studies in the Workplace
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for 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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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AFRAS 465 - Africa in Literature and Film
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Same As: FRENC 465
African cultural history through literature and film. Consistency/variety of African cultural expressions and conventions in literature and film.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: Taught in English. This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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AFRAS 466 - Afrofuturism
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Interdisciplinary study of African and African American contributions to science fiction, comic book art, pop culture, and its origins and influences.
Maximum Credits: 9
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
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Conceptual framework of African history and a comparative study of Afro-American institutions.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AFRAS 471 - Africana History
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Comparative history of enslavement of Africans in the Americas and Muslim world, African servitude, and modern day enslavement.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AFRAS 473 - Women in Africa
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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AFRAS 475 - Super Black: The Politics of Representation in Comics
Units: 3 Explorations - Humanities and Fine Arts [CSU C Upper Division]
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Super Black is the exploration of comics focused on the increased prevalence of black comic book characters and their creators. An analytic history of the diverse contributions of Black artists to the medium, covering comics and graphic novels.
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AFRAS 476 - History and Culture of Hip Hop
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Genesis of hip hop as a worldwide culture, with attention to major Africana historical, political, sociological, cultural, and aesthetic precursors.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AFRAS 485 - Blacks in the Arts
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Academic and artistic perspectives on Black participation in and contributions to the creative and performing arts.
May be repeated with new content.
Maximum Credits: 6
Note: See Class Schedule for specific content.
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AFRAS 490 - Senior Seminar
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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AFRAS 496 - Experimental Topics
Units: 1-4
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Selected topics.
May be repeated with new content.
Maximum Credits: 9
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
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
Individual study.
Maximum Credits: 6
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AFRAS 500 - Research Methods
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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: 6
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AFRAS 510 - Black Geographies In and Outside the U.S.
Units: 3 Explorations - Social and Behavioral Sciences [CSU D Upper Division]
Grading Method: LTR: Letter Graded. The class will be offered for letter grade with no option to take it for Cr/NC
Prerequisite(s): Any upper-division AFRAS course or graduate standing.
Experiences, approaches, and methodologies at the intersection of African diaspora theories and Black Geographies. ‘Space’ and ‘place’ in the Black experience within and outside the US. Africana “geographies of experience” alongside geographies of power and the production of difference. May be repeated with different course content.
May be repeated with consent of instructor.
Maximum Credits: 6
Maximum Credit Statement: Six units with consent of instructor.
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AFRAS 518 - The Black Male Experience
Units: 3 Foundations - Ethnic Studies [CSU F]
Grading Method: LTR: Letter Graded. The class will be offered for letter grade with no option to take it for Cr/NC
Prerequisite(s): Upper division or graduate standing.
Explore the multidimensional lives, experiences, and development of Black men and boys within the context of their families, communities, and society at large from Afrocentric and Black masculinist perspectives.
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AFRAS 520 - African Civilization I
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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AFRAS 521 - African Civilization II
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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AFRAS 542 - Afrocentricity
Units: 3 Foundations - Ethnic Studies [CSU F]
Grading Method: LTR: Letter Graded. The class will be offered for letter grade with no option to take it for Cr/NC
Prerequisite(s): Upper division or graduate standing.
An investigation into the origins, evolution, applications, and critiques of Afrocentricity. Engage with concepts such as centeredness, agency, cultural location, dislocation, orientation, and historical disorientation.
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AFRAS 585 - Methods in Ethnic Studies Teaching: Decolonial Pedagogies in K-12 Schools
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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AMIND 110 - American Indian Heritage
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Major American Indian themes, beliefs, and practices and their impact on Western civilization through institutions, art, literature, philosophy, and religion.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 120 - Written Communication
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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 ECL 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
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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
Grading Method: LTR: Letter Graded. The class will be offered for letter grade with no option to take it for Cr/NC
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: 8
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AMIND 210 - Indigenous Women and the Arts
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 215 - EY American Indian Mentoring Seminar
Units: 1
Grading Method: CNC: Credit/No Credit
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
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AMIND 225 - Expository Writing and Research
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LTR: Letter Graded. The class will be offered for letter grade with no option to take it for Cr/NC
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 ECL 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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: Not open to students with credit in AFRAS 200 , CCS 200 , LING 200 , or RWS 200 [or ECL 200 ].
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AMIND 230 - Intermediate Written Kumeyaay
Units: 4
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Prerequisite(s): Completion of AMIND 200 Written Kumeyaay.
Intermediate Kumeyaay grammar and literacy. Follows AMIND 200 Written Kumeyaay.
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AMIND 235 - Indians in Comic Books and Graphic Arts
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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AMIND 296 - Experimental Topics
Units: 1-4
Grading Method: CNC: Credit/No Credit
Selected topics.
May be repeated with new content.
Maximum Credits: 9
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
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Pre-twentieth century American Indian oral and symbolic traditions including creation and origin legends, coyote stories, ceremonial songs, oratory, and memoirs.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 320 - American Indians in Contemporary Society
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 331 - The American Indian Political Experience
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 350 - American Indian Environmental Management
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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AMIND 370 - Tribal Gaming: Cultural and Political Context
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 380 - Re-Indigenizing Cultural Heritage/Cultural Resources Management
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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AMIND 420 - Indian Peoples of California
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Indian peoples of California. Their histories and cultures from oral traditions to contemporary issues. Focus on selected Indian tribes and communities.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 430 - American Indian Poetry and Fiction
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Contemporary American Indian poetry and fiction explored in works of Welch, Ortiz, Momaday, Silko, Deloria, Allen, Erdrich, and others.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 435 - Indians through Film and Television
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Ethnographic film-making. Impact of movies and television on popular concepts of Indians. Films viewed in class.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 440 - American Indian History
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Historical analysis of Indian-White contact. Emphasis on the impact of historical events upon the various cultures.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 451 - American Indian Identity
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 456 - Ethnic and Gender Studies in the Workplace
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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AMIND 460 - American Indian Languages
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 480 - Issues in American Indian Education
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 485 - Federal Indian Law
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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AMIND 496 - Topics in American Indian Studies
Units: 1-3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
An undergraduate seminar.
Maximum Credits: 6
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: CNC: Credit/No Credit
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.
Maximum Credits: 1
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AMIND 499 - Special Study
Units: 1-4
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
Individual study.
Maximum Credits: 6
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AMIND 585 - Methods in Ethnic Studies Teaching: Decolonial Pedagogies in K-12 Schools
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 101 - Human Biocultural Origins
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 102 - Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 103 - Introduction to Archaeology and World Prehistory
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 6
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ANTH 111 - Anthropology of the Night: Sleep, Dreams, and Demons
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 112 - Conspiracy and Culture
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 113 - Pseudoscience and Science in Archaeology
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
How we know what we know using anthropology and archaeology case studies from around the world.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 296 - Experimental Topics
Units: 1-4
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Selected topics.
May be repeated with new content.
Maximum Credits: 9
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
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 302 - Principles of Archaeology
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 303 - Principles of Socio-Cultural Anthropology
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 304 - Principles of Anthropological Linguistics
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 312 - Archaeological Field Techniques
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Six hours of activity.
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 302 .
Archaeological excavation of significant sites in San Diego. Techniques of excavation, recording, and surveying.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 331 - Pestilence, People, and War: A Bioarchaeological Perspective
Units: 3 Explorations - Natural Sciences and Quant. Reasoning [CSU B Upper Division]
Grading Method: CNC - Letter (Cr/NC OK)
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101 or BIOL 100.
An introduction to paleopathology, bioarchaeology, and human biology within the interdisciplinary framework of epidemiological research. Exposure to method and theory in the study of disease within anthropology and its applications to biomedicine.
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ANTH 333 - Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in the Americas
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 348 - Historical Archaeology
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 349 - Roots of Civilizations
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 350 - Cultures Around the Globe
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 353 - Sustainability and Culture
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 355 - Exploring Primate Behavior
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 360 - From the Grave: Modern Forensic Anthropology
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 365 - Pets and Plates: Archaeology of Domestic Animals
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LTR: Letter Graded. The class will be offered for letter grade with no option to take it for Cr/NC
Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing.
Examines the long-term relationship humans have with animals. Follows the beginnings of hunting through domestication and examines the rise of modern society’s industrial relationship to domesticated animals.
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ANTH 395 - Introduction to the Anthropology Major
Units: 1
Grading Method: CNC: Credit/No Credit
Coursework, faculty, and learning objectives for the anthropology major. Professional standards and ethics in the field of anthropology.
Maximum Credits: 1
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ANTH 402 - Dynamics of Biocultural Diversity
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 404 - Evolution of Human Behavior
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LTR: Letter Graded. The class will be offered for letter grade with no option to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 405 - Technology, Personhood, and the Body
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 410 - Language in Culture
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 102 .
Survey of anthropological interests in the study of language and of linguistic interests in the sociocultural context of language.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 422 - Music and Culture
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 424 - The Supernatural in Cross-Cultural Perspective (C)
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Same As: REL S 424
Magic and religion. Conceptions of the supernatural in a cross section of world’s cultures. Anthropological theories relating to supernatural beliefs and practices.
Note: Courses for Area (C) Theories and Methods, are identified in the course title as (C). This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 439 - Cultural Comparisons Through Film
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Principles of cultural anthropology to include signs and proxemics, cultural prerequisites, kinship and social organization, and law and values. Feature and documentary films.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 440 - Mesoamerican Civilization Before the Europeans
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 442 - Cultures of South America
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the general education cultural diversity requirement.
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ANTH 443 - Anthropology of Violence
Units: 3
Grading Method: LTR: Letter Graded. The class will be offered for letter grade with no option to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 445 - Culture, Gender, and Race in Sports
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 451 - American Indian Identity
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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ANTH 460 - American Indian Languages
Units: 3 GE
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
Note: This course satisfies the ethnic studies [ES] requirement.
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ANTH 471 - Archaeology of North America
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 101 or ANTH 102 .
Origins of the American Indian and survey of the main prehistoric cultures of the North American continent.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 483 - Topics in Anthropology
Units: 3
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
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: 6
Note: See Class Schedule for specific content.
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ANTH 495 - Internship in Applied Anthropology
Units: 1-3
Grading Method: CNC: Credit/No Credit
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.
Maximum Credits: 3
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ANTH 496 - Experimental Topics
Units: 1-4
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Selected topics.
May be repeated with new content.
Maximum Credits: 9
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
Grading Method: LCR: Letter Grade with Cr/NC available. The grading default for the class will be letter grade, but students can opt to take it for Cr/NC
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
Individual study.
Maximum Credits: 6
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