Class Notes: This course is a linked lecture/lab.  Students must register for section L02, L05, or L06 in order to register for this section.

Description: Introduces the study of human biological evolution, both processes and outcomes, from primate ancestors to fossil hominids to contemporary human populations. Methods of obtaining and interpreting data concerning the genetic, biological and evolutionary basis of physical variation in living and skeletal populations. Note: 3 hours of lecture and a 2 hour lab each week. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 4 Credits. GT: Course is approved by the Colorado Dept of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer, GT-SC1

Description: An application of the concept of culture to several aspects of the human experience, including gender relations, emotion and personality, cognition, language, health and healing and economic behavior. In exploring these dimensions of the human experience, the course focuses on selected cultures from each of the world's major geographic areas. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits. GT: Course is approved by the Colorado Dept of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer, GT-SS3

Description: This class explores the differences between science and pseudoscience specifically within the realm of anthropology.  Scientific method and critical thought are employed in a way that trains students to question and recognize the difference between fact and fiction in data.  Max hours:  3 Credits.

Description: An in-depth analysis of the phenomena of culture and application of the culture concept to understanding cultural diversity in the modern world. Applies the concept of culture to several basic aspects of human social life, for example: social class and gender relations, ethnicity, racism and sexism, education, health and economic behavior. Students explore these issues in the context of case studies of particular groups and/or communities, focusing primarily on the diversity of cultural expression in contemporary U.S. Note: This course may count for the International Studies major or minor. See your INTS advisor for more information. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Description: Explores of 3.5 million years of human cultural development that examines the prehistory of Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Patterns and processes that underlie the earliest hominid expansion out of Africa, tool use, origins of fire, the peopling of the Americas, the development of metallurgy, the domestication of plants and animals and the rise of cities and the state are examined. Emphasis is on both regional developments and landmark projects that have helped clarify prehistory. Note: Introductory course in Archaeology (ANTH 1302) recommended. Term offered: fall, spring. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Description: Designed to give students a chance to evaluate critically some practical or theoretical problem under faculty supervision and to present results of their thinking to fellow students and instructors for critical evaluation. Prereq: Junior standing or higher. Cross-listed with ANTH 5000. Repeatable. Max hours: 9 Credits.

Description: Surveys the ways of deriving meaning from anthropological data by numerical means, including, but not confined to basic statistical procedures.  Prereq: Junior standing or higher.  Cross-listed with ANTH 5053.  Max hours: 3 Credits.

Description: This flexible course offers an advanced treatment of issues in human biological evolution. Topics may emphasize morphological evolution, behavioral evolution, the environment of human evolution, non-human primate comparative information.  Prereq: Junior standing or higher.  Cross-listed with ANTH 5500.  Max hours: 3 Credits.

Description: Focuses on the human fossil record for the taxon Homo sapiens, including the earliest members of this group ("early" or "archaic" Homosapiens), the Neanderthals and so-called "anatomically modern" Homosapiens. The goal of the course is to survey the major issues within the area of modern human origins, and to learn about the evolutionary relationships, lifeways and behaviors of these groups.  Prereq: Junior standing or higher.  Cross-listed with ANTH 5580.  Max hours: 3 Credits.

Description: Introduces students to the theories and concepts of medical anthropology, the study of human health and illness. Explores conceptions of the body, modalities of healing, the clinical encounter, and new medical technologies. Prereq: Junior standing or higher. Cross-listed with ANTH 5600. Max Hours: 3 Credits.

Description: Much of the data collected in the social sciences is interview and text-based. This course explores methods for collecting and analyzing these data and theoretical paradigms that underlie these methods. Restriction: Restricted to Graduate and Graduate Non-Degree Majors. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Description: Explores contemporary theoretical methodological perspectives in archaeology. Structured to proceed from a survey of the history of archaeological thought based on recent retrospectives, to an analysis of works reflecting current perspectives and directions. Topics include: archaeological interpretation, classical versus scientific archaeology, versus culture-history, functionalist and materialist paradigms, ethno-archaeological and text-based studies, neo-evolutionism, interactionist models, Marxist perspectives, processual theory. Note: this course assumes that students have completed undergraduate coursework in archaeology.  Prereq: Graduate standing.  Max hours: 3 Credits.