Anthropology: ANT

Lower-Division Courses

ANT X01. Biological Anthropology.

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.

ANT X02. Cultural Anthropology.

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

ANT X02H. Cultural Anthropology: Honors.

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

ANT X04. Introduction to Archaeological Studies: Prehistoric Archaeology.

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

ANT X04T. Introduction to Texas Archaeology.

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

ANT X05. Expressive Culture.

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

ANT X07. Culture and Communication.

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

ANT X10C. Primate Cognition.

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.

ANT X10D. Introduction to Black Studies.

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

ANT X10F. African Diaspora Archaeology.

ANT X10G. Ethics of Space Exploration.

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

ANT X10I. Early Mesoamerican Religions.

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.

ANT X10J. The New Latinas/os/xs.

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.

ANT X10L. Introductory Topics in Anthropology.

ANT X10L.2. Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity: An Introduction.

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

ANT X10L.3. Anthropology of Latin America.

Provides a framework for understanding contemporary concerns in Latin America.

ANT X10L.5. Introduction to South Asia.

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

ANT X10L.6. Black Queer Art Worlds.

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.

ANT X10L.7. Diaspora: Race, Nation, and Resistance.

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.

ANT X10M. Mexican American and Latina/o Folkore Across the United States.

ANT X10R. Race, Sex, and Tourism.

ANT X11D. Introduction to Jewish Studies.

ANT X11E. Introduction to Jewish Latin America.

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

ANT X14C. Introduction to Mesoamerican Archaeology.

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.

ANT X18L. Mexican American Culture.

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

ANT X19S. Topics in Anthropology.

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.

ANT X29S. Topics in Anthropology.

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.

ANT X76P. Research Internship.

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.

Upper-Division Courses

ANT X19S. Topics in Anthropology.

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.

ANT X20C. American Indian Languages and Cultures.

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

ANT X20D. Speech Play and Verbal Art.

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.

ANT X20E. Invented 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.

ANT X20F. Politics, Polity, and the Power of Words.

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.

ANT X20G. Endangered Languages.

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

ANT X20I. Talk, Text, and God.

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

ANT X20O. New Media and Communication.

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

ANT X20P. Classical Archaeology: Practice and Ethics.

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

ANT X21C. Communicating with Non-Humans.

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.

ANT X21P. The Politics of Insult.

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.

ANT X22C. Contemporary African Popular Culture.

ANT X22D. Multicultural Israel.

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

ANT X22E. Self and Culture in North Korea.

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

ANT X22F. Big Asian Histories.

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.

ANT X22G. Cultural Geographies of Israel.

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

ANT X22I. Native American Cultures of the Southwest.

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.

ANT X22J. Goddesses in World Religions and Cultures.

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.

ANT X22N. History of Hindu Religious Traditions.

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.

ANT X22O. Gender, Sexuality, and the Family in Indian Religions and Cultures.

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

ANT X22P. Mexican Immigration Cultural History.

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.

ANT X22Q. Mexican American Indigenous Heritage.

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

ANT X22T. Russian Myths and Folktales.

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.

ANT X22U. Anthropology of Travel and Tourism.

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

ANT X22V. Architecture and Sculpture in the Maya World.

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

ANT X22W. Power and Resistance in Putin's Russia.

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

ANT X23C. Sport, Religion, and Society.

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

ANT X23D. Religions of the Caribbean.

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.

ANT X23E. Politics and Performance.

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

ANT X23I. Comparative White Nationalisms.

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.

ANT X23N. Biomedicine, Ethics, and Culture.

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.

ANT X23O. Black Geographies.

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.

ANT X23P. Anthropology of the Himalayas.

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

ANT X23Q. Contemporary Jerusalem.

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

ANT X23R. Anthropology of Infrastructure.

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

ANT X23S. Anthropology of Food.

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

ANT X23T. Colonial Encounters in Mesoamerica.

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.

ANT X23U. Sensing: Elemental Media.

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.

ANT X23V. Maya Art and Architecture.

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.

ANT X23W. Race and Indigeneity in the Pacific.

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

ANT X24C. Science, Magic, and Religion.

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.

ANT X24D. Japanese Religion and Western Imagination.

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.

ANT X24E. Culture and Health.

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

ANT X24F. Anthropology Of Religion.

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

ANT X24G. Environmental Anthropology.

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

ANT X24I. Sounding the City.

Explore the significance of sound for urban social life.

ANT X24J. HIV and AIDS Activism and the Healing Arts.

ANT X24L. Topics in Anthropology.

ANT X24L.13. Musics of India.

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

ANT X24L.17. Nature, Society, and Adaptation.

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.

ANT X24L.24. Archaeology of African Thought.

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

ANT X24L.3. Primitive Technology.

ANT X24L.31. Development And Its Critics.

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.

ANT X24L.33. Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Paleontology.

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.

ANT X24L.39. Theories of Archaeology.

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

ANT X24L.41. Science, Technology, and Race.

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.

ANT X24L.42. United States Latino and Latina Ethnographies.

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

ANT X24L.43. Creative Nonfiction and Ethnography.

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.

ANT X24L.44. Ethnographic Theory and Practice.

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.

ANT X24L.45. Queer Ethnographies.

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.

ANT X24L.46. Urban Unrest.

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.

ANT X24L.48. Sex and Power in the African Diaspora.

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.

ANT X24L.49. Global Markets and Local Cultures.

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.

ANT X24L.51. The Cities of the Middle East.

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

ANT X24L.53. Global Indigenous Issues.

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.

ANT X24L.54. Black Native American Relations in the United States.

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.

ANT X24L.56. Ethnographic Writing.

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.

ANT X24L.57. Archaeology of Climate Change.

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.

ANT X24L.58. Digital Data Systems in Archaeology.

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.

ANT X24L.59. Graffiti and Poster Art in the Islamic World.

ANT X24L.63. Food and Culture.

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.

ANT X24L.64. The Bronze Age and the Iron Age in Atlantic Europe.

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.

ANT X24L.65. Anthropology for Liberation.

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.

ANT X24L.66. Indigenizing Queer Theory.

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.

ANT X24L.68. Creation and Evolution: Human Origins in Scientific and Religious Discourses.

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

ANT X24L.69. Japanese Concepts of Body and Self.

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.

ANT X24L.7. Introduction to African Prehistory.

ANT X24L.71. Extraterrestrial Intelligence: Culture, Religion, and Imagination.

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.

ANT X24L.72. Development, Security, and Society.

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.

ANT X24L.73. Political Ecology.

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.

ANT X24L.74. Inca World.

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.

ANT X24L.75. Arab Latin Americas.

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.

ANT X24L.76. Indigenous Peoples of Russia and the USSR.

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

ANT X24L.77. Blacks and Asians: Race and Social Movements.

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

ANT X24L.78. Black Women and the State.

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.

ANT X24L.8. Cultures of Southeast Asia.

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

ANT X24L.9. The African Diaspora in the Americas.

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

ANT X24N. Muslim Women in Politics.

ANT X24O. Globalization in Latin America.

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

ANT X24P. Gender and Labor in Global Asia.

ANT X24Q. Global Perspectives of Health, Illness, and Inequality.

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.

ANT X24R. Daily Life in Mesoamerica.

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.

ANT X24S. The Global City.

ANT X24U. Socialism's Past and Futures.

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

ANT X24V. Sexuality in Global Perspective.

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

ANT X24W. Mapping Indigenous Austin.

Explore the histories and presence of indigenous Austin.

ANT X25C. Cultures of Sustainability.

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

ANT X25D. Representation of Jews in the American Public Sphere.

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.

ANT X25E. Ethnographies of Emotion.

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.

ANT X25F. Cultural Heritage on Display.

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

ANT X25G. Technoculture.

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

ANT X25I. Sonic Ethnography.

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

ANT X25J. The Photographic Image.

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.

ANT X25O. American Jewish Material Culture.

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

ANT X25P. Abolition Medicine.

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.

ANT X25Q. Practices of Looking.

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

ANT X25R. Cultures and Ecologies.

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.

ANT X25S. Global Black Feminisms.

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

ANT X25T. Jewish Folklore.

ANT X25U. Austin Jews in the Civil Rights Era.

ANT X25V. Jewish Cuba.

ANT X25W. Shamanism and the Primitive.

ANT X26C. Native Americans in Texas.

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

ANT X26D. Native Americans in the Plains.

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

ANT X26E. Plains Archaeology: Prehistory and History.

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).

ANT X26F. Great Discoveries in Archaeology.

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

ANT X26G. Europe Via Ethnography.

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

ANT X26I. Traveling Culture.

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

ANT X26J. Historic Artifacts.

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

ANT X26L. Cultures in Contact.

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

ANT X26M. Sustainable Maya Geographies - Past to Future.

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.

ANT X26N. Cultural Resource Management.

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

ANT X26O. Empires: Aztec and Spanish.

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

ANT X26P. Historical Archaeology.

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

ANT X26Q. Archaeological Field and Lab Methods.

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

ANT X26R. Latina/o/x Citizenship.

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.

ANT X26S. Mesoamerican History and Oral Tradition.

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.

ANT X26T. Displacement and Resistance.

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.

ANT X27D. Colonial Latin American Archaeology.

Focuses on the Spanish colonies in Latin America.

ANT X27E. Ethics in Anthropology.

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.

ANT X27F. Making Florida.

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.

ANT X27M. Animal Studies.

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.

ANT X27R. Human Remains.

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.

ANT X27S. Science and Society.

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.

ANT X28C. Contemporary Issues in Native American and Indigenous Studies.

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

ANT X28D. Popular Culture and Indigenous Futurities.

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

ANT X28E. Decolonial Intersectionality.

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

ANT X28F. Religion and Family in Japanese Society.

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.

ANT X28G. Coloniality in West Africa.

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

ANT X28I. Expressive Arts of Global Africa.

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

ANT X28J. Native Food Sovereignty.

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

ANT X28N. Culture, Medicine, and Society in Asia.

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.

ANT X29K. Transnational Korea.

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.

ANT X29S. Topics in Anthropology.

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.

ANT X29V. Native American Verbal Art.

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

ANT X30C. Theories of Culture and Society.

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

ANT X31C. Archaeological Curation: Theory and Practice.

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).

ANT X32L. Primate Anatomy.

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

ANT X36L. Native American Cultures North of Mexico.

ANT X40C. Ethnographic Research Methods.

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

ANT X44K. Films: An Anthropological Perspective.

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

ANT X45C. Urban Cultures.

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

ANT X45D. The Anthropology of Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories.

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.

ANT X45E. Eastern Europe on American TV.

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.

ANT X46L. Primate Social Behavior.

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

ANT X46M. Comparative Primate Ecology.

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.

ANT X47C. Methods in Primate Biology.

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.

ANT X48. Human Origins and Evolution.

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

ANT X48C. Sex Violence Power.

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.

ANT X48E. Environmental Epigenetics.

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.

ANT X48I. Comparative Primate Development.

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

ANT X48J. Sex and Human Nature.

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.

ANT X48K. Current Topics in Biological Anthropology.

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

ANT X48K.10. Primate Conservation.

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.

ANT X48K.11. Early Hominid Evolution.

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.

ANT X48K.8. Evolutionary Anatomy of the Head and Neck.

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

ANT X48M. Molecular Anthropology.

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.

ANT X48P. Primates, Parasites, and Pathogens.

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.

ANT X48R. Race, Science, and Human Variation.

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.

ANT X48S. Social and Biological Networks.

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.

ANT X49D. Anthropological Genetics.

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

ANT X50C. Primate Sensory Ecology.

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

ANT X51E. Primate Evolution.

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

ANT X51G. Language, Culture, and the Texas German Experience.

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.

ANT X53. Archaeological Analysis.

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

ANT X53E. Archaeological Laboratory Analysis.

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

ANT X58F. The Two Koreas and the United States.

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

ANT X58Q. Supervised Research.

ANT X60K. The Civilization of the Maya.

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

ANT X61L. Maya Studies: Past, Present, and Future.

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.

ANT X61M. Maya Collapse.

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.

ANT X62. Field Archaeology.

ANT X62K. Archaeology of Texas and Vicinity.

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

ANT X62M. Archaeological Techniques.

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

ANT X66. Anatomy and Biology of the Human Skeleton.

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

ANT X66D. Bones: Advanced Identification and Analysis of the Mammalian Skeleton.

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.

ANT X73F. Historical Perspectives on the German Language.

ANT X74M. Sociolinguistics.

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.

ANT X76P. Research Internship.

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.

ANT X79. Problems in Anthropology.

Supervised individual research on selected problems in anthropology.

ANT X79H. Honors Tutorial Course.

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

Graduate Courses

ANT X19S. Topics in Anthropology.

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.

ANT X29S. Topics in Anthropology.

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.

ANT X76P. Research Internship.

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.

ANT X80I. Professional Internship in Archaeology.

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

ANT X80J. Conference Course in Archaeology.

Individual instruction in specialized problems of advanced research in archaeology.

ANT X80K. Topics in Archaeological Method and Theory.

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

ANT X80K.6. Ethnohistory and Archaeology.

ANT X80P. Professional Practices in Archaeology.

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.

ANT X82N. Geo-Archaeology and Environmental History.

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.

ANT X83M. Topics in Archaeological Techniques and Procedures.

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

ANT X83M.1. Conference Course.

ANT X83M.2. Technological Analysis: Lithics.

ANT X83M.4. Technological Analysis: Ceramics.

ANT X83M.6. Field Projects.

ANT X83N. Field Archaeology.

ANT X84M. Topics in Regional Archaeology.

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

ANT X84M.1. Conference Course.

ANT X86J. Conference Course in Social Anthropology.

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

ANT X88. Topics in Biological 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.

ANT X88.11. Hominid Paleoecology.

ANT X88.13. Primate Ecology.

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

ANT X88.5. Primate Evolution.

ANT X88.7. Human Evolution.

ANT X88.8. Primate Anatomy.

ANT X88.9. Primate Behavior.

ANT X88C. Applied Data Analysis.

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.

ANT X88D. Violence, Sovereignty, and Religion.

Explore the relationships among violence, sovereignty, and religion.

ANT X88J. Conference Course in Biological (Physical) Anthropology.

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

ANT X88K. Topics in General Anthropology.

ANT X88K.2. Anthropology of Education.

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

ANT X88K.5. Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Methods.

ANT X89. Topics in Unwritten Languages.

Intensive instruction in selected unwritten, usually aboriginal, languages.

ANT X89D. Research and Grant Proposal Writing for Social Sciences and Humanities.

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.

ANT X89J. Conference Course in Unwritten Languages.

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

ANT X89K. Topics in Regional Ethnography.

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

ANT X89K.1. Conference Course.

ANT X89K.10. Indo-European Culture and Religion.

ANT X89K.17. Mexican America.

ANT X89K.19. Race and Ethnicity in American Society.

ANT X89K.20. South Asia: History and Ethnography.

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.

ANT X91. Topics in Social Anthropology.

ANT X91.15. History and Anthropology.

ANT X91.22. Representation and Signification.

ANT X91.27. Consciousness and Resistance.

ANT X91.32. Gender, Ethnicity, and Nationalism.

ANT X91.34. Ethnographies of Global Asia.

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

ANT X91.35. Ethnographic Methods for the Study of Religion.

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

ANT X91.36. The New Middle East: A Critical Approach.

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

ANT X91.37. Gender, Islam and Representation in the Modern Middle East.

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.

ANT X91.4. Cultural Construction of Masculinity.

ANT X91.7. Researching Women in Institutions.

ANT X91C. Anthropology of East Asia.

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.

ANT X91L. Topics in Research Methods in Physical Anthropology.

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

ANT X91L.6. Analysis of Primate Anatomy.

ANT X91L.8. Primate Sensory Ecology.

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

ANT X92C. Core Topics in Anthropology.

ANT X92G. AnthroLab.

ANT X92J. Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Behavior, Genetics, and Variation.

ANT X92K. Introduction to Graduate Archaeology.

Core course.

ANT X92L. Introduction to Biological Anthropology: Primate Morphology and Evolution.

ANT X92M. Introduction to Graduate Social Anthropology.

Core course.

ANT X92N. Introduction to Graduate Linguistic Anthropology.

Core course.

ANT X92P. Introduction to Cultural Forms.

Core course.

ANT X92R. African Diaspora Anthropology.

ANT X92S. Introduction to Graduate Feminist Anthropology.

Core course.

ANT X92T. Mesoamerica and Borderlands.

ANT X93. Topics in Linguistic Anthropology.

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

ANT X93.14. Language and Power.

ANT X93.3. Speech Play and Verbal Art.

ANT X93.7. Discourse Analysis.

ANT X93.8. Ethnography of Speaking.

ANT X93J. Conference Course in Linguistic Anthropology.

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

ANT X94J. Conference Course in Cultural Forms.

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

ANT X94M. Topics in Folklore, Public Culture, and Cultural Studies.

ANT X94M.13. Cultural Poetics.

ANT X94M.19. Foundations of Ethnomusicology.

ANT X94M.20. Field Methods in Ethnomusicology.

ANT X94M.26. Marxism and Expressive Culture.

ANT X94M.29. Object, Matter, and Desire.

Examines various questions regarding matter and meaning.

ANT X94M.30. Affect.

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

ANT X94M.31. Public Culture.

Introduction to the theory and ethnography of public culture.

ANT X94M.32. Deleuze.

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

ANT X94M.33. Cultural Critique.

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

ANT X94M.34. New Ethnographic Writing.

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

ANT X94M.35. Indigenous Cultural Politics.

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

ANT X94M.36. Representational Practices.

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

ANT X94M.37. Cultural Analysis: The Case of Class.

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

ANT X94M.38. Cultural Analysis: The Case of Race.

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

ANT X94M.39. Cities in Time and Space.

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

ANT X94M.4. Anthropology of the Performing Arts.

ANT X94M.40. Anthropology and Mass Media.

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

ANT X94M.41. Anthropology of Science.

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.

ANT X94M.42. Foucault and Cultural Studies.

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

ANT X94M.43. Black Queer Studies.

ANT X94M.44. Advanced Topics in Black Feminisms.

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

ANT X94M.45. Contemporary Cuban Public Culture(s).

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

ANT X94M.46. Black Public Culture: Diasporic Texts and Contexts.

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

ANT X95K. Cultural Adaptation and Change.

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

ANT X97. Conference Course in Anthropology.

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

ANT X97F. Doctoral Forum.

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

ANT X98. Thesis.

ANT X98R. Master's Report.

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

ANT X98T. Supervised Teaching in Anthropology.

ANT X99W. Dissertation.

Professional Courses

ANT X19S. Topics in Anthropology.

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.

ANT X29S. Topics in Anthropology.

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.

ANT X76P. Research Internship.

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.