ANTH 101: Biological Anthropology

Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in ANTH 101H.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

This course examines the biological basis for animal forms and behaviors, including basic genetics and evolution theory; primate classification, ecology, and social behavior; the fossil and archaeological evidence for early human life; and the evolutionary basis for modern human variation in appearance and behavior. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ANTH 101 or ANTH 101H. C-ID ANTH-110.

ANTH 101H: Biological Anthropology (Honors)

Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in ANTH 101.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall odd years

This honors course offers students an advanced introduction to the study of human biology, behavior, and evolution. Topics to be explored include the scientific method; evolution theory; basic genetics; primate classification, ecology, and social behavior; the fossil and archaeological evidence for early human lifeways; and the evolutionary basis for modern human variation in appearance and behavior. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ANTH 101 or ANTH 101H. C-ID ANTH-110.

ANTH 101L: Biological Anthropology Laboratory

Units: 1
Prerequisites: ANTH 101 or ANTH 101H.
Enrollment Limitation: Concurrent enrollment in ANTH 101 or ANTH 101H if prerequisite not met. Not open to students with prior credit in ANTH 101LH.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Laboratory 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

Designed to accompany ANTH 101/ANTH 101H, this laboratory allows students to garner practical experience with the scientific method, genetic models, simulations of evolutionary processes, primate skeletal anatomy, primate behavior and ecology, human osteology, human variation, and casts and artifacts representing selected stages in human evolution. C-ID ANTH-115L.

ANTH 102: Cultural Anthropology

Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in ANTH 102H.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

This course explores how anthropologists study and compare human cultures, including variation in subsistence patterns, social and political organization, economic systems, systems of communication, kinship and family structure, belief systems, aesthetic expression, and recognition of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Cultural anthropology also explores how cultures have been impacted by colonialism and are being shaped by globalization and demonstrates the value of the discipline in the form of applied anthropology. Anthropologists employ high ethical standards while exploring diversity in human culture and highlight the importance of understanding and appreciating that diversity. C-ID ANTH-120.

ANTH 103: Introduction to Archaeology

Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall

This course explores archaeological theory and method, including techniques of field excavations and laboratory analysis. It also uses archaeological data to understand cultures of the past, including Stone Age lifeways, early farming cultures, and emergent civilizations around the world, such as the ancient Egyptians, Maya, and Inca. The course also examines current issues in cultural resource management, ethics in archaeology, and the role of archaeology within the broader field of anthropology. C-ID ANTH-150.

ANTH 104: Native American Cultures

Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Spring

This course explores the diversity of Native American cultures, including Paleo-Indians (known largely from archaeological evidence) and more recent groups (known from historical documents and ethnographic accounts). The course employs the perspective of "cultural ecology" to investigate how environments influence many facets of human culture, including economic systems, social systems, family structure, and artistic and ceremonial activities.

ANTH 105: Evolution of Human Behavior

Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in ANTH 105H.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall

This course explores the biological basis and evolutionary value of human behavior. Students explore current research in genetics and epigenetics, neuroanatomy and endocrinology, along with studies of human culture and animal behavior, to understand phenomena such as human emotions, personality, parenting strategies, mating behaviors, and lifetime responses to stress.

ANTH 107: Gender, Sex, and Sexuality

Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

This course explores and compares the diverse cultural categories of gender and sex including their grounding in biological functions, belief systems, kinship, and popular representation across the globe. It explores sexuality as more than a biological process, viewing sexuality as a human cultural expression. This course contextualizes gender, sex, and sexuality within broader cultural systems as well as global interactions to understand how these categories are shaped and, in turn, shape our lives.

ANTH 120: Global Health

Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

This course explores contemporary human health problems around the world, focusing on economic, political, historical, sociocultural, and environmental factors that underlie disparities. Global health analyzes the causes and consequences of the unequal burden of disease and disability, including infectious disease, climate change, women's health, and food insecurity. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this course introduces major concepts, principles, and research methodology in global health.

ANTH 190: Primate Behavior and Ecology

Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in ANTH 190H.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Spring

This course explores principles of animal behavior and ecology from an evolutionary perspective. Topics include predator avoidance, foraging strategies, mating behaviors, mother-infant bonding, the development of social groups, culture and cognition, and current issues in conservation. The course also emphasizes research methodology through a semester-long project observing primates at the San Diego Zoo or through online alternatives.

ANTH 292: Internship Studies

Units: 0.5-14
Prerequisites: None
Corequisite: Complete 54 hours of work per unit, paid or unpaid.
Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center approval. Fourteen unit maximum in any combination of work experience education and/or internship studies per semester.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU
Course Typically Offered: To be arranged

This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment.

ANTH 296: Topics in Anthropology

Units: 1-3
Prerequisites: None
Acceptable for Credit: CSU
Lecture 1 hour.
Lecture 2 hours.
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: To be arranged

This course gives students an opportunity to study topics in Anthropology that are not included in regular course offerings. Each Topics course is announced, described, and given its own title and 296 number designation in the class schedule.