Introduction to the principles and the methods of biological (physical) anthropology. Overview of the study of human beings in an evolutionary context, our relationship to other primates, and to the rest of the natural world. Examines anatomical, behavioral, and genetic similarities and differences among living primates and basic mechanisms of the evolutionary process.

The concept of culture; social and political organization; language; the supernatural; elementary cultural theory.

Explore the concept of culture, social and political organization, language, the supernatural, and elementary cultural theory.

Anthropological study of prehistory, from human beginnings to the appearance of written records.

Introduces students to Texas archaeology through lectures, interactive virtual labs, and hands-on laboratory sections that emphasize experimentation.

How cultural assumptions affect how we tell and respond to different kinds of stories, including fairy tales, movies, and televised news.

An introduction to the study of culture through communication and the theory of signs.

Introduction to non-human primate knowledge of the physical world, as well as primate social knowledge. Examines non- human primate cognition within an evolutionary and comparative framework, with emphasis placed on comparing and contrasting non-human primate cognition with that of humans and other taxonomic groups.

Introduction to canonical black studies literature, themes, and theories.

Examine cultural and ethical questions related to the exploration of space and the emerging field of astrobiology.

Introduction to the study of indigenous religions in Mesoamerica, a geographic and cultural area spanning north-central Mexico through western Honduras, from approximately 250 BC - AD 1700. Examine the role of religion and ritual in daily life, as well as the lines of evidence available today for understanding them.

Explore the trajectories of various communities many have called the new Latinas/os/xs by identifying how race, gender, sexuality, class, indigeneity, language, migration, and geography influence the lives, identities, and sociopolitical incorporation of new Latinas/os/xs.

Examines the social importance of race and ethnicity both in America and around the world.

Provides a framework for understanding contemporary concerns in Latin America.

Introduction to Indian and south Asian civilization, past and present, including religion, literature, arts, philosophy, and history.

Exploration of over two decades of work produced by and about black queer subjects throughout the circum-Atlantic world. Provides an introduction to various artists and intellectuals of the black queer diaspora, as well as an examination of the viability of black queer aesthetic practice as a form of theorizing.

Subjects include makings and meanings of diaspora, the differences and similarities between diaspora and related concepts such as race, nation, and cultural identity. Focuses on the making of the black Atlantic world, and comparative analysis between black diasporic life and that of other global dispersals, particularly among Asian and indigenous populations, and how resistance serves as a key link.

Historical and cultural analysis of how Jews constructed lives and communities in predominantly Hispanic, Catholic countries of Latin America.

Introduction to ancient Mesoamerica from the time of emerging social inequality in the formative period until the Spanish conquest of Mexico-Tenochtitlan in the sixteenth century.

Mexican American cultural distinctiveness in the areas of social organization, child rearing, food culture, folklore, language, and religion.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Anthropology. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Explore the myriad of indigenous languages of North America and how they are intertwined with culture.

Examine speech play and verbal art (from puns to lies to songs to stories to poetry) from ethnographic and linguistic perspectives in a host of contexts and languages.

Examine invented languages from pidgin and creole languages to Esperanto or Basic English, and contemporary "conlangs" associated with various science fiction and fantasy series.

Examine the place of language in a variety of different political settings--from oblique oratory in small-scale egalitarian communities to ritual "poetry" in cosmic polities to procedural prose in mass bureaucratic states--to illustrate the power of words. Identify the varied ways language sustains and transforms power relations in different political contexts, and thereby takes on a power of its own. Explore a variety of political situations, different modes of political communication, as well as different theories of the "performative" power of words.

Examine language rights as a tool for defending small-scale and minority language communities against the spread of national and global languages.

Introduction to the anthropological study of Christianity, particularly in colonial and post-colonial settings.

Explore anthropological and media studies analyses of technological changes in communications from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries.

Explore an overview of the history, methods, approaches, and ethics of classical archaeology focusing on case studies of major sites and their excavations.

Examine the continuities and transformations in how people have tried to talk to nonhumans in different cultural contexts, whether those be gods, animals, the dead, or machines.

Examine how linguistic practices of (im)politeness and verbal aggression shape--and are shaped by--social hierarchies, cultural contexts, and political dynamics across different contexts, from liberal to anti-liberal. Analyze how seemingly neutral concepts of "civility" and appropriate speech" often mask power relations while exploring how taboo language, conflict talk, and transgressive communication can both challenge and reinforce existing social orders.

Examines the complex social fabric that comprises contemporary Israeli society, and that shapes Israeli identity, practice and politics.

Aims to understand North Korea's historical development and its current workings as a social, cultural, and political/ideological system.

Examines ways in which Asia and other areas of the globe have had connected intellectual, artistic, and social developments with focus on world histories centrally involving Asia from the medieval period to the present.

Examines critical spatial theory, landscape phenomenology, histories of Zionist architecture and urban planning as applied to Israel from the Yishuv period to the present.

Explore the diverse Native cultures of the Southwest, focusing on the philosophical underpinnings and the frameworks of meaning and moral responsibility of indigenous peoples of the American Southwest.

Historical and cross-cultural overview of the relationship between feminine and religious cultural expressions through comparative examinations and analyses of various goddess figures in world religions.

History of major doctrines, practices, and institutions that shaped the development of Hinduism; how religions adapt to social and cultural change and often provide the catalyst for change.

A comprehensive historical overview of gender issues as they are represented in the textual traditions of South Asia.

Examines the history of Mexican immigration to the United States, and provides an overview of migratory patterns dating back to the late prehistoric period through contemporary times.

The prehistory, history, and contemporary racial understanding of Mexican Americans.

Examination of the Russian folktale, its roots in ancient, pre-Christian Slavic religious tradition, its connections with other forms of folklore such as myth and legend, and its transformation in modern Russian literature. Subjects include the continuing influence of folklore explored through various aspects of Russian culture, including literature, music, ballet, film, and popular culture.

Use the tools of cultural anthropology to understand the touristic encounter and the increasing (and decreasing) accessibility of travel and mobility.

Explore the ancient world of the Maya through the lens of architecture and sculpture.

Introduction to Russian political and protest cultures--beyond the headlines and outside the Kremlin walls.

Explore sport as it relates to ritual and religious practice and examine the meaning and nature of sport in cross-cultural perspectives.

Examine the histories and politics of religious practices in the Greater Caribbean, encompassing the islands and Central American coasts as well as the continental diasporas, from Vodou and Rastafari to popular Hinduism.

Consider the power struggles of the democratic process by closely attending to language, rhetoric and performance.

Consider critical questions about the constructions of whiteness and nationalism across the globe. Examine, through an anthropological lens, how the boundaries of whiteness changed throughout history, and its relationship to far-right political groups, to trace the history of white nationalism and its present-day global resurgence.

Examines ethical questions such as the allocation of medical resources, stem cell research and cloning, organ transplantation, abortion, human experimentation, prolonging life and the right to die, suicide, euthanasia, and diagnosis and treatment of illnesses, explored from a global perspective.

Explore the relationship between Blackness and the production of space and place. Examine the tensions and possibilities that emerge when Black people are rendered un-geographic as a fundamental component of racial capitalism while they are simultaneously creating spaces of freedom under constant threats to Black life.

Examine the history and culture of the Himalayan region, including Northeast India, sections of Pakistan and Afghanistan, Tibet, and especially Nepal.

Explore what life is like in today's contested, rapidly growing, and increasingly diverse Jerusalem.

Explore how infrastructure creates relationships between resources, energy, built form, information, and people.

Explore the cultural dimensions of growing, cooking, and eating food by engaging themes of gender, race, indigeneity, embodiment, hunger, and power.

Study European-indigenous encounters in Mesoamerica, a geographic and cultural area spanning north-central Mexico through western Honduras, between approximately 1450-1750. Examine strategies of contact, accommodation, and resistance that indigenous communities and European colonizers used to communicate with each other and negotiate the conduct of daily life in colonial society.

Explore a sensory ethnographic investigation of urban ecology, organized around air, water, earth, and fire as themes for engaging with the city through media and the senses.

Introduction to the artistic traditions of the ancient Maya, tracing their development up to the time of European contact. Students will examine various important themes of Maya culture including history, ritual, and cosmology as revealed in sculpture, hieroglyphs, painting, and architectural design.

Examine a multidisciplinary study of sovereignty, settler colonialism, diaspora, and migration in the Pacific.

Historical and cross-cultural overview of the constructed concepts of magic, science, and religion through comparative examinations of cultural contexts from the Islamic world, western Europe, the Caribbean, the U.S., and Mozambique.

Examines Japanese religious traditions, with a focus on Zen, through the perspective of people living in non-Japanese societies since the end of World War II. Explores different ways in which non-Japanese have imagined Japanese religious and ethical ideas and both explained Japanese behavior and adopted ideas about Japan into their writings about philosophy and life.

Examine the social and cultural foundations of western medicine as well as an introduction to indigenous and alternative health systems.

Examine a genealogy of the anthropology of religion around the globe from the nineteenth century to the present.

Examine the environment, environmental inequality, and the relationship between culture and ecology.

Explore the significance of sound for urban social life.

Explore the musical traditions of India, with emphasis on Hindustani and Carnatic musical styles, but including examination of other traditions.

Long term trajectories of change in human environment relationships, including issues of human evolution and human nature, violence, population, food, agriculture, urbanization, globalizing modernization, and environmental impacts; issues of sustainability, cultural survival, human rights, and environmental protection.

Archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data as they relate to the foundations of contemporary African and African American societies.

Discuss aspects of the contemporary international aid and development in Asia and beyond. Examine the decision-making within the development industry and the scope of aid as a economic and social force in the contemporary world.

Designed to give students interested in the fields of archaeology, physical anthropology, and paleontology a foundation in the use of geographical information systems (GIS) and the analysis of remotely sensed data from satellites and aerial photographs.

The history of archaeological thought, including the major theoretical trends that have shaped the discipline over time.

Examines the intersections and linkages between race, science, and technology. Review of the array of current anthropological and sociological studies of science, which regard science as an institutionalized set of cultural practices charged with generating objective knowledge of the world.

Explores past and present anthropological representations of Latinos and Latinas in the United States.

Explores the convergences and divergences between ethnographic and narrative journalistic writing, and their potential for producing powerful, richly textured accounts that capture the depth of human experience and the complexity of social life.

An exploration of the complex relationship between anthropological ideas and ethnographic practice. Introduces a broad spectrum of concepts, issues, and theories of culture, and critically examines how these theories and ideas shape anthropological methods and writings.

Anthropological analysis of gender and sexuality that critically evaluates formative concepts and theories that have been subject to recent debates within anthropology, gender studies, and queer theory.

Analysis of the roots of urban unrest, exploring a range of origins: joblessness, state violence, white flight, backlash against civil rights gains, new immigration, and interracial strife. Beyond race and class, subjects include exploring unrest as a mode of pushing the normative boundaries of gender and sexuality in public space. Course material will draw from film, literature, history, geography, and anthropology.

Exploration of various experiences and theories of sex, intimacy, and desire alongside intellectual and artistic engagements with power hierarchies and spirituality across transnational black communities. Subjects include the concept of "erotic subjectivity" from various theoretical and methodological angles, principally within African diasporic contexts.

Examine contemporary theories of globalization, including materials exploring global governance, international monetary policy, migration regulation, offshoring, and cultural hybridity. Focus on case studies in Asia and elsewhere that reveal how these practices impact particular communities.

Anthropological and sociological analysis of space, with a special emphasis on urban theory and culture in the Middle East.

Explores contemporary issues of indigenous peoples around the world through films, literature, and social science readings and focuses on how indigenous peoples are actively working to oppose their oppression and create sustainable futures.

Explores the entwined histories, cultures, and identities of African American and Native American people in North America. Subjects include experiences of racial formation, including how race, power, and indigeneity work in different ways for people in contemporary United States society.

Writing workshop consisting of a series of exercises to add density and texture to ethnographic description by including attention to scene, character, event, situation, and dialogue.

Examines why climate changes, the methods for recording climate change, and includes case studies of the varied responses of past human societies to climate change in different geographic regions and time periods with varying socio-political and economic systems.

Designed to help students understand the basic knowledge and skills needed to operate digital equipment (e.g. GPS and Total Data Stations) commonly used for collecting location data on archaeological sites. Instruction on mapping and grid systems translates into "hands-on instrument operation in simulated archaeological field conditions. Provides an introduction to GIS software and its applications in archaeology as well as an overview of near-surface sensing techniques.

Examines cultural and linguistic views on eating and how we talk about what we eat in the contemporary era. Combines scholarly literature, videos, and readings about food subjects that circulate in popular culture, and considers how flows of dietary images and discourses shape race/ethnicity, gender, social class, and other identifications.

Introduction to the archaeology of Atlantic Europe with particular emphasis on the Bronze Age and Iron Age periods. Examines the diversity and commonalities of European adaptations, investigates how geography influenced trade of goods and ideas, as well as the profound changes brought about by a new conceptualization of the world and the innovations of the Bronze and Iron Ages.

Takes a critical look at anthropologists' quests to shifting the legacy of anthropology from the colonial toward freedom and liberation. Explores anthropology's relationship to human rights, violence, questions of race, gender, and sexuality, imperialism and neoliberalism, and the ways that some anthropologists have chosen to use their field work in new and different ways.

Introduction to emerging work by indigenous queer theorists, largely from the United States. Examines cultural conflicts between the west and indigenous world views and practices surrounding monogamy and marriage, same-sex marriage, enforced gender binaries, sexual identities and practices, their regulation by the colonial state, and implications for indigenous people.

Examines evolutionary theory, intelligent design, and creationism, and how they interact.

Exploration of anthropological literature describing Japanese conceptions of self and body, and analysis of the intersection of these conceptions of self with Japanese ideas about religion, morality, aging, and medicine.

Focusing primarily on the 20th and 21st Centuries, explores the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) and considers how these ideas have intersected with other aspects of society, particularly religion, including recent arguments that SETI itself has developed into a religion. Examines meanings and motivations behind issues such as Percival Lowell's quest to prove the existence of canals on Mars and the development of Scientology.

Explores the linkages between development, security, and, society. Examines a series of recent transformations that have drawn the relationship between international development and various forms of security together. Through an exploration of recent anthropological work, examines subjects such as: human security, the relationship between development and humanitarian intervention, strategies for planning in the face of climate change, disaster management, and new technologies of warfare and security.

Introduction to core tenets of political ecology. Focuses on ethnographic approaches and introduces key debates in the field--such as the relationship between environment and violence, the critique of Malthusian and neo-Malthusian notions of scarcity and limits, the links between conservation and dispossession, and more. Explores the uses of political ecology in key contemporary debates over social and environmental change, from climate change to waste management.

Explores how Inca civilization developed, how the Incas grew from a small highland state into a mighty empire, and how a small number of Spaniards and their allies were able to bring the Inca dynasty to an end. Read accounts of the Incas written in the first years of Spanish colonial rule, and review the latest archaeological discoveries.

Examine the ways in which Arab immigrant identities have been negotiated and co-opted socially, but also institutionally, in various countries in the Western Hemisphere.

Examine an introduction to theories of colonial critique and visual culture studies. Explore the history of the Indigenous peoples of the Eurasian north.

Examines the relations between Asians and Blacks in the United States.

Surveys black women's experiences living with and confronting state oppression around the world. Takes an historical, social, and theoretical look at the roots of this oppression and inequality, and how black women have chosen to respond to it locally and globally.

Comparative study of the peoples of Indonesia, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, and other countries.

Black cultures and societies in the New World, and their African heritage.

Critically examine the globalization phenomenon in Latin America, focusing on history and ethnography.

Use an anthropological framework to think critically and analytically about global past and contemporary issues in health. Examine the root causes of health, illness, and inequality.

Examine the daily life of people in Mesoamerica, from the earliest inhabitants in the region to the myriad ways that Precolumbian life and archaeology affect the lives of people today.

Examine ordinary people's experience of socialism in the Soviet Union and the plural interpretations of this experience after the USSR's collapse.

Explore the ways in which sexuality intersects with money, intimacy, power, and labor in the context of global economic processes.

Explore the histories and presence of indigenous Austin.

Examine how ecological concerns are articulated and perceived in different cultural contexts.

Examines how Jews have been represented and constituted in American public culture as a race, religion, and/or nation through distinct institutions and display practices.

Examine concepts such as place, character, objects, subjects, cultural forms, everyday life, and feeling states or structures such as trauma, love, hope, depression, the even keel, and melodrama through a writing workshop. Explore how to articulate structures of feeling with models of culture and the self. Analyze and experiment with modes of ethnographic attention, the importance of telling detail, and methods of participant observation.

Explore the public construction and display of traditional American folk culture by studying popular folklife-oriented tourist sites.

Analyze social groups using digital methods and a process of self-reflection focused on technological mediations of experience.

Examine sound, themes of listening, noise, silence, audio technology, vibration, and voice.

Applies concepts and practices from visual ethnography to the study of memory, place, and everyday life. Subjects include developing counterintuitive and subversive approaches to practices of looking and techniques of representation.

Examines the interplay between material culture and Jewish identity and thought in contemporary America.

Examine race-based diagnostics tools and treatment guidelines that reinforce antiquated and scientifically inaccurate notions of biological race. Discuss the upstream structures that enable downstream violence, such as police brutality. Analyze, through an abolitionist lens, various systems of power in medicine, culture, and society to trace the colonial logics, practices, and institutions in the afterlife of slavery pertaining to health, illness and disease, healthcare, and public health in the United States and globally.

Explore the development of methodological and analytic tools for the examination of visual culture.

Examines the anthropology of "nature" and "natural resources," with particular attention to the communities in the arctic and subarctic regions. Use ethnographies to learn about the cultures of peoples who inhabit northern latitudes, especially their cosmological modes of belief and their ecological ways of life.

Examine Black feminist theories and practices around the world from a transnational and comparative perspective.

Studies the history of Native Americans in Texas using concepts and evidence from anthropology, history, archaeology, historical geography, and Native American studies.

The ethnohistory of some of the most influential Native American groups on the plains, from the arrival of the Spanish through the reservation period.

Explores the evidence of human activities on the central and southern plains from prehistoric to historical times (ca. 11,000 BC to ca. AD 1850).

The stories, myths, and people behind some of the great archaeological discoveries.

Develop a geographical and historical orientation to Europe and examine the cultural complexity of Europe via ethnography.

Examine mobility as a point of inquiry into questions of identity, community, belonging, place and landscape, art, representation, cultural difference, experience, and history.

Explore the archaeological process of identification and classification of historic artifacts.

History of the interactions of the indigenous peoples of the Americas with Africans, Asians, and Europeans over the past five hundred years.

Explore landscapes, conservation, and human-environment dynamics in the Maya region of Central America from more than 10,000 years ago to modern times. Compare sustainable practices from the past with those of indigenous Maya communities today to guide the future.

Explore a thorough overview of Cultural Resource Management (CRM). Designed for students who are interested in pursuing a career in archaeology.

Examine the daily life of people in the Mexica (commonly known as Aztec) empire after the Spanish conquest.

Explore recent theoretical, methodological, and thematic developments in historical archaeology with particular focus in North America and the Caribbean.

Introduction to field and laboratory work in archaeology including survey, excavation, artifact processing and cataloging, and initial artifact or sample analysis.

Explore the concepts of membership, belonging, immigration and citizenship in the Latina/o/x experience. Examine how historically, politically, socially and culturally, Latinas/os/xs have been construed as belonging or not belonging members of the United States society.

Study Mesoamerican indigenous documents and oral traditions to reconstruct different aspects of the life and culture of the past and present populations of Mesoamerica. Apply a methodological approach to the study of indigenous primary sources from Mesoamerica, written during the Late Postclassic (c. 1200-1524 CE) and the beginning of the Colonial period, including oral tradition. Explore religion, socio-political organization, territory and territoriality, economy, gender roles, and the norms and values of everyday life.

Explore technologies of displacement, as well as tactics, digital media work, mapping projects, and activism that communities engage with to resist dispossession. Examine, locally and globally, the displacement and resistance effects of various events including infrastructure projects and gentrification.

Focuses on the Spanish colonies in Latin America.

Explore the complex ethical challenges which arise when studying people, their communities, their languages, and their past. Engage with real-world case studies, ethical frameworks, and debates, flipping the anthropological gaze to focus on the anthropologist's behaviors and decisions.

Explore Florida archaeology from the earliest inhabitants to the present day. Focus on the experiences of Indigenous Floridians, the role played by Florida in the Atlantic Slave Trade, and the continuous but highly varied nature of immigration to and from the Sunshine State.

Examine the broad spectrum of animal worlds, particularly as they intersect with human social activities. Analyze various interactions between humans and nonhumans in a variety of social settings.

Study samples of what people do with human remains to help understand belief systems, conceptions of death, rituals, and many other aspects of societies, past and present. Examine how anthropologists study human remains to learn about past societies, religion, politics, economics, diet, health, and other subjects. Learn ethical aspects of handling human remains.

Examine the ethical and social implications of scientific discoveries and technological advancements, especially as they have affected disenfranchised populations in the United States and internationally. Use civil discourse to mindfully explore difficult topics and develop intellectual, scientific, and ethical literacy.

Examine structures of settler colonialism and how indigenous peoples resist those structures.

Examine indigenous creative practices within and in response to mainstream popular culture.

Examine the concept of intersectionality within feminist thinking to analyze gender, race, and indigeneity in the context of ongoing colonial formations.

Explores the structures of family, kinship, and religion in Japan since 1868 and their roles in the creation and expression of national and individual identities.

Study the changes and continuities of socio-political categories in African contexts from the period of formal colonial rule to the present day.

Explore music, dance, and other artistic forms as modes of political expression and community building.

Explore a comparative approach to understanding how and why food is a central component of contemporary sovereignty discourse.

Analyze health and illness as a lens for exploring Asian cultures and societies. Discuss themes, concepts, and approaches in anthropology to interrogate the interaction between culture, medicine, and society.

Recent and contemporary manifestations of the Koreas in the world and the world in the Koreas. Subjects include labor and marriage migration, educational sojourning, transnational adoption, tourism, international sport, corporate expatriation, and media flows.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Anthropology. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Examine the verbal artistic traditions such as jokes, story-telling, song, chant, poetry, etc., of Native American peoples.

Examination of the theoretical approaches that have established the intellectual foundations of contemporary sociocultural anthropology.

Introduction to to curation and ethics in archaeology largely through hands-on training with various collections and archives housed at the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory (TARL).

Comparative and functional anatomy of primates, including humans; emphasis on adaptations and evolution of the various taxa.

Introduction to methods used in conducting ethnographic research; emphasis on research design, analysis, writing, and ethical considerations.

Films viewed and discussed. How is cultural meaning communicated? What systems of signification are involved? What are possibilities and limitations of ethnographic films?

The culture of cities, including the distinctive forms of expressive culture, ethnic and racial conflict, and political or economic activity that cities generate.

Develop an anthropological perspective on disinformation and conspiracy theories and examine how these phenomena are embedded in cultural, social, and political contexts. Explore the ways in which disinformation is constructed, disseminated, and maintained within different media ecologies.

Focus on ways Eastern Europe is depicted on American television screen. Use anthropological framework to study multiple types of television shows, including reality tv, network dramas, and miniseries. Analyze ethnic, racial, national, and gender representation and what these constructions tell us about the ways that Eastern Europe is imagined.

Studies primate behavior and why primates do what they do, including basic theoretical principles and the models used to explain primate behavior.

The basics of how organisms interact with their environment, focusing on a wide range of primates from a comparative perspective. Discusses how various aspects of ecology are used to conserve primate populations.

The study of primate behavior and the methods by which animal behavior is observed and documented. Students conduct a research project and write a report.

Detailed examination and analysis of morphological trends evident in the hominid fossil record.

Explore the diversity of power relationships and structures across primates, the methods used to document and analyze them, and the theories for why they arise.

Explore major subjects in anthropology, toxicology, and public health pertaining to the study of environmental exposures and disease/illness in the context of the current understanding of epigenetic processes. Analyze epigenetic mechanisms, gene transcription, the relationship between the environment and the epigenome, and epigenetics, health. Assess the main findings in the field and discuss their relevance to anthropology, public health, medicine, and in general.

Explore "life history theory" and how it pertains to the traits related to growth and reproduction, life, and death in primates.

Provides an introduction to the scientific study of sexual behavior, mate choice, and reproduction in humans from the perspective of evolutionary biology; examines a wide range of genetic, ecological, social, physiological, and behavioral aspects of human sexuality.

An in-depth study of current topics, controversies, and literature on the evolution, morphology, genetics, and behavioral ecology of primates, including humans.

The theory and practices of conservation biology as applied to primates. Explores species and community characteristics influencing extinction risk, current threats to primates, and potential conservation strategies.

Examines the early stages of human evolution in Africa starting from the last common great ape ancestor through the origin of the genus Homo, looking at the behavioral and morphological adaptations that characterize the earliest stages of human evolution.

The comparative and functional anatomy of the head and neck in primates and other mammals.

Explore background information and gain hands-on experience with the molecular (DNA extraction, PCR, SNP genotyping) and bioinformatic (principal component analysis, admixture analysis) techniques commonly used in molecular anthropology.

Explore an overview of the major types of parasites and pathogens of primates and other mammals, their natural history, ecology, and population dynamics, and their role as selective agents on aspects of primate physiology, behavior, and sociality.

Explore the patterns of biological variation within and between human populations, including variation in phenotypic, genetic, and behavioral traits. Consider both the microevolutionary and cultural processes that influence that variation. Examine how studies of human variation have impacted society in the past and present. Discuss human biological variation; the history of the concept of race and of eugenics/race science; fundamental principles of genetics and evolution; human genetic and biocultural adaptation; and contemporary issues in human genetics, health, and disease.

Introduction to thinking about, characterizing, and working with relational data in network formats (such as fundamentals of network science, social network analysis, and graph theory) and their applications in the study of social and biological systems.

Basic principles of molecular genetics and population genetics as they relate to the study of humans and other primates.

An integrated perspective on the comparative anatomy, physiology, and ecological significance of sensory adaptations in primates.

Examination of the fossil record for nonhuman primate evolution, including basic concepts of the anatomy, ecology, and systematics of living primates.

The evolution of the culture and language of German immigrants to Texas from the 1840s through the present and how they have influenced other ethnic groups in Texas.

Derivation of chronology and cultural information from archaeological data; the role of archaeology in modern life.

The analysis of artifacts, features, architecture, and other remains recovered in the field.

The political, social, and cultural relationship between North and South Korea, and between the Koreas and the United States, since 1945.

Maya prehistory and history: the archaeological record, codices and inscriptions, and Spanish conquest writings.

Explore the long history and cultural development of Maya peoples from Mexico and Central America, ranging from the earliest occupation of the Maya territory to the present. Explore several fields of the Maya population, including sociopolitical organization, technology, economy, religion, spirituality, genocides, cultural revitalization, and artistic expressions.

Explore different aspects of Classic Maya daily life, their relationship with the environment, and the factors that influenced the transformation of the Maya civilization at the end of the Classic period.

Cultural history of Texas and neighboring areas, from early prehistoric times to Anglo-American settlements.

Problems in planning, organizing, and carrying out archaeological surveys and excavations.

Comprehensive study of the human skeleton, with special attention to methods of identification.

Focus on the applied study of the skeleton in humans and other mammals and the methods of analysis used in biological anthropology, forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, and zooarchaeology.

Explore current interests in sociolinguistic research literature. Examine language and gender; social, regional, and ethnic dialects of American English; language use in African American communities; language and identity in a pluralistic society; and language, literacy, and education.

Supervised fieldwork in a business or community setting related to the student's career and research interests. Students conduct research and apply anthropological skills to real-world problems.

Supervised individual research on selected problems in anthropology.

Individual reading of selected works for one semester, followed in the second semester by the writing of an honors thesis.

Conduct research and apply archaeological skills to field research, artifact analysis, or management of archaeological records and collections.

Individual instruction in specialized problems of advanced research in archaeology.

A major category of archaeological topics in which the emphasis is on anthropological theory pertinent to archaeological data and its interpretation.

Explore a rotating series of themes of central importance to the professional practice of archaeology. Examine the legal and ethical dimensions of fieldwork, laboratory analysis, and other workplace interactions. Learn about professional practices specific to the state of Texas, as well as formal and informal strategies for engaging with property owners, descendant communities, and other public stakeholders.

Long-term ecology as reconstructed from settlement and land-use histories. Empirical case studies in environmental history from the Mediterranean region, the Near East, and Mesoamerica. Applications to degradation, desertification, sustainability, and global change.

A major category of archaeological topics in which the emphasis is on techniques and procedures pertinent to the analysis of prehistoric data.

Prehistoric cultural developments of a major geographical area; comparative cultural developments in ecologically similar areas.

Individual instruction in specialized problems of advanced research in social anthropology.

Constitutes one of two principal categories of courses in biological anthropology covering substantive studies in primate behavior, primate anatomy and evolution, human evolution, and growth and development.

An introduction to the biology and ecology of living primates--prosimians, monkeys, apes, and humans.

A hands-on, practical overview of methods and tools for applied data science for graduate students and senior undergraduates in the natural and social science disciplines.

Explore the relationships among violence, sovereignty, and religion.

Individual instruction in specialized problems of advanced research in biological anthropology.

A study of social life in contemporary American schools from an anthropological perspective.

Intensive instruction in selected unwritten, usually aboriginal, languages.

Draft and revise proposals for dissertation research or write-up grants with peer review, learn about research design, methods, data collection, and analysis, as well as strategies for presenting one's project within the genre of grant proposal within the scope of social science and humanities research areas.

Individual instruction in specialized problems in selected unwritten, usually aboriginal, languages.

Anthropological surveys and analyses of societies and cultures of distinctive world areas.

Issues in the history and ethnography of the Indian subcontinent. Topics may include class, caste, and ethnicity; communalism and secularism; colonialism and postcolonialism; the state and ethnic violence; anthropology, Indology, and history.

Methods and ethnographic study of transnational Asia and the Asian diaspora.

Explore the use of ethnographic research methods for the study of religion.

Examine new analytical approaches to understanding the Middle East, including its social and political dynamics, utilizing an interdisciplinary approach.

Examine representations of women across majority Muslim countries and explore how women producers and consumers navigate within the framework of regulations set by religious and governmental bodies.

Explore contemporary anthropological research on East Asia, with a focus on a set of broad subjects (money, mobilities, cosmologies, media, etc.), and a consideration of what constitutes "the anthropological approach" to these subjects.

In this second major category of courses in physical anthropology are listed those that have research techniques as their principal focus.

An integrated perspective on the comparative anatomy, physiology, and ecological significance of sensory adaptations in primates.

Core course.

Core course.

Core course.

Core course.

Core course.

Training and individual research in subjects concerning the relations between language and culture.

Individual instruction in specialized problems of advanced research in linguistic anthropology.

Individual instruction in specialized problems of advanced research in cultural forms.

Examines various questions regarding matter and meaning.

A survey of theories of affect, including those of Freud, Foucault, and Deleuze, feminist theory, phenomenology, globalization theory, and ethnography.

Introduction to the theory and ethnography of public culture.

The major works of Gilles Deleuze, including the study of the ontology of differences and flow, resonance, affect, vitality, lines of flight, and assemblage.

Various forms of cultural critique, including culture jamming, speed theory, experimental ethnographic writing, posthumanism, postpositivism, and the memoir.

Reading and writing new forms of ethnography, including experimental writing, performative writing, new journalism, and the memoir.

The worldwide significance of indigenous movements, identities, and cultural forms.

Theories of representation and representational practices, including the representation of collective selves and others in colonial and ethnographic narratives, collections, and displays.

The development of class analysis in history, sociology, and anthropology, including innovative approaches to the reproduction and performance of class identities.

Current uses of cultural analysis across a range of disciplines, focusing on how race is accounted for in a variety of invocations of culture.

The difficulties associated with making cities intelligible in terms of their distinctive historical and cultural dynamics.

Anthropology and mass media both inside and outside the West. Includes television, film, and popular music.

Anthropological perspective on the position of scientific disciplines within their broader social contexts and the transformations of social orders based on developments of scientific knowledge.

Examination of Foucault's major works, including an assessment of his theoretical and methodological contributions to scholarly research and political activism.

Theory and practice of black and Third-World feminisms, including as political space, activist methodology, artistic inspiration, and scholarly choice.

The major preoccupations and tensions of public culture in the state of Cuba and the nation of individual Cubans.

Survey of cultural expressions and political moments of African-descended people since the social, cultural, and political upheavals of the 1970s.

A graduate-level introduction to cultural behavior, adaptation, evolution and transformation, with emphasis on demography, diffusion, migration, ethnicity, and institutions.

Individual instruction for graduate students on specialized problems of advanced research.

Development of skills in writing, revision, and presentation of papers and grant proposals, and in job hunting.

Preparation of a report to fulfill the requirement for the master's degree under the report option.