ANTH 4000 Applied Anthropology
This course is concerned with the development, theory, methods and approaches of applied
anthropology. Through case materials, the course examines both the current and historical
roles and contributions of the various subfields in the application of anthropology
to the problems of culture. Special attention is directed at developing some understanding
and appreciation of the problems and ethics involved in applied or practical activities
and to developing the necessary skills and methods for assuming such a role as an
applied anthropologist.
ANTH 4011 Anthropological Field Methods
For Anthropology majors only. This course engages with the methods of anthropological
thinking and how anthropologist "do" anthropology. It highlights how the ethnographer/informant
relationship informs how questions over "culture" are both found and framed. It focuses
on ethnographic data collection and methods of analysis.
ANTH 4021 Development of Anthropological Thought
An overview of the history of Anthropological thought from its origins to the contemporary
schools of Anthropology, with emphasis on the scientific, intellectual, and sociopolitical
causes and consequences of changes in major conceptual orientations to man and culture.
ANTH 4060 Community Engagement Through Action Research
Focused on doing anthropology by engaging the community as experts and active collaborators.
Requires commitment to think about and do anthropology differently by learning about
and applying the principles of action research. As action researchers, we will engage
in hands-on learning and research to create social change attempting to democratize
the process of research and relationship between the university and community.
ANTH 4110 Design Anthropology
Fundamentals of the field of design anthropology. By collaborating on an applied project,
students gain practice in applied research methods and video ethnography. Since students
come from a mix of anthropology, design, and other backgrounds, they learn to engage
in cross-disciplinary collaboration. Furthermore, they gain experience in working
with clients to translate research into practical applications.
ANTH 4130 Anthropology of Non-Governmental Organizations
This course utilizes an anthropological lens to understand non-governmental organizations.
Students will become conversant with NGO development in Western and non-Western spheres,
and will learn the significance of those narratives within transnational, neoliberal
contexts. Focusing on sectors of human rights, humanitarian aid, environmental activism,
and cultural heritage, students will gain familiarity with the organizational culture
of NGOs, and will explore the diverse and sometimes divergent principles, policies,
and practices guiding global activism. Referencing ethnographic case studies, students
will also explore the other side of the NGO equation, thinking critically about NGO
interface with local communities, economies and governing bodies in order to address
questions of impact, accountability, and efficacy.
ANTH 4200 Health, Healing, and Culture: Medical Anthropology
This course presents contemporary medical anthropology, with a focus on the biocultural
basis of health and global sociocultural variations in illness and healing. Includes
study of comparative health systems, political-economic and ethical issues in health
and care, health professions, patients' views of illness, and cross-cultural definitions
and understandings of disease, illness, and cure.
ANTH 4210 Culture and Human Sexuality
This course is an introduction to the anthropology of sexuality. It focuses on the
history of the study of sexuality in anthropology, with particular attention to significant
debates, interventions, and lessons that have informed the development of anthropological
perspectives on sexuality and the developing field of queer anthropology.
ANTH 4220 Anthropology in Public Health
Introduces students to the contributions of anthropology in public health. It highlights
the socio-cultural perspective on the fundamentals of public health, including but
not limited to international health, domestic health, epidemiology, infectious disease,
child survival, health and gender, and health policy.
ANTH 4230 Psychological Anthropology
Explores the relationship between the self, culture and society. Compares concepts
of self, socialization and behavior in anthropological and psychological theory and
research, universal concepts of human nature, and examines processes of interpretation
by individuals in diverse cultural and social groups over the life span. Sociocultural
contexts of alternative states of consciousness and mental illness are also compared.
ANTH 4300 Migrants and Refugees
This course critically evaluates the multiple, intersecting institutions and processes
that shape international migration. We will examine how international and national
law defines and differently treats people based on categorical distinctions between
"migrant" and "refugee," and consider the ways that people living outside their country
of origin navigate broader political, legal, and social processes as they create spaces
of home, work, and community.
ANTH 4310 Citizenship, Borders and Belonging in the United States
Immigration is a politically and socially charged issue that has been the source of
significant debate nationally and globally. This course focuses on migration to the
United States, and focuses on the ways in which social norms about race, class, gender,
sexuality, and nationality work to frame discussions about who can belong to the United
States as a citizen, and who cannot. Throughout, we will consider how immigration
policies that exclude certain categories of migrants work to not only describe, but
also produce certain bodies, experiences, and histories as able to belong to the nation,
while marking others as deviant and excludable.
ANTH 4320 Contemporary Middle East: Society, Culture, and Politics
This course addresses the society, culture and politics of the contemporary Middle
East. It is the companion course to ANTH 3500, Peoples and Cultures of the Middle
East, but can be taken without having taken that class before.
ANTH 4400 Environmental Anthropology
This course focuses on environmental questions, theories, problems, issues, and possible
solutions illustrated by case studies from different cultures around the world. We
will examine environmental issues pertaining to land, sea and natural resources, food
production systems, deforestation, population problems, poverty and environmental
justice, natural hazards and risks, resource conflicts and warfare, over-fishing,
economic development, mineral and oil extraction, landscapes, and biodiversity conservation.
ANTH 4500 Language and Culture
This course focuses on an introduction to linguistic anthropology, designed to acquaint
students with some of the ways in which languages and cultures are connected to each
other, in that communication patterns are culturally structured. Three broad areas:
1) how language offers resources to individuals to help them accomplish their goals;
2) how language offers resources to institutions and social groups that help them
maintain their power; and 3) how language shapes our thought patterns. Students will
learn the basic techniques of analyzing conversations by working on a semester-long
project.
ANTH 4510 Anthropology of Virtual Communication
Students will examine four orientations that distinguish an anthropological approach
to virtual communication, and will read ethnographic case studies. They will learn
how virtual communication practices link to community-building, political activism,
hacking, reproducing and contesting inequalities, youth culture, gaming, and managing
personal relationships. Each student will conduct a research project on a group that
engages in virtual communication.
ANTH 4520 Food, Culture, Globalization
This course will provide an overview of the theoretical ways in which the topic of
food can be addressed from an anthropological perspective. Exploring the food and
traditions of various cultures will allow us to examine the role food plays in identity,
class, gender, technology and globalization
ANTH 4550 Race, Ethnicity, and Identity
The concepts of race and ethnicity, and the cultural meanings attributed to perceived
racial and ethnic differences, have significantly shaped the development of societies
across the globe. This course will focus on the cultural construction of racial and
ethnic categories with a geographic focus on the United States. We analyze how racial
and ethnic boundaries have developed over time, especially in and through intersecting
norms about gender, sexuality, class, and nationality; and we examine the complex
ways that hierarchies of race and ethnicity are represented, reproduced, and/or contested
in U.S. politics and culture.
ANTH 4601 Anthropology of Education
This class will introduce issues and approaches relevant to the study of education
within the field of anthropology, including methods used in the study of education
and schooling, and the significance of cultural transmission. Students are exposed
to works in the field of anthropology about cultural difference, minority status and
learning. Highlights new perspectives and critiques related to contemporary educational
problems found in societies such as the U.S.
ANTH 4701 Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology
Selected topics of interest and significance in sociocultural anthropology. While
this course is offered on a regular basis, particular topics are taught irregularly.
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 1010 or 2300, or consent of department. May be repeated for
credit as topics vary.
ANTH 4701-001 Violence, Terror, and Terrorism: Creating Cultures of Fear
This course will offer a broad examination of violence and terrorism in cross-cultural
context. It has been designed to give you grounding in the basic concepts in defining
the social creation of fear, as well as the historical perspectives of specific case
studies from around the world and within the U.S. We will critically analyze the way
that social structures and the media create, maintain, and change the expression and
experience of terror. Finally, there will be opportunity for students to divide into
groups to pursue and present their own research on issues of violence and terror.
ANTH 4701-005 Holistic Health and Alternative Healing
This course provides students with core concepts related to holistic health and alternative
medicine. Students will be part of various educational activities aimed to stimulate
understanding of cross-cultural principles involved in holistic health. A critical
analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of currently available practices of alternative
medicine is pursued in this course.
ANTH 4701-007 Anthropology of Business
Anthropologists have developed numerous tools for analyzing culture and culture change.
Many of these can be put to use in studying business organizations. This course is
a look at business organizations from an anthropological point of view. Often an organization's
productivity or lack thereof is directly related to the degree to which its strategy
and culture mesh. Methods used in anthropology can aid in defining the specific culture
of an organization and in providing strategies for change within it. Thus this course
will explore those anthropological tools that can be useful in increasing productivity
in business organizations.
ANTH 4701-009 Gender and Islam
This course is an introduction to the anthropological study of gender and Islam. Broadly
speaking, this course seeks to provoke thought about: 1) what it means to take Islam
as an object of anthropological analysis, 2) how gender is mediated by religious discourses
and practices, and 3) how feminist theory has grappled with the question of religion
- or how the faithful have grappled with the question of feminism. We will be addressing
a variety of contemporary issues significant for Muslim women and men. These may include:
the practice of veiling, kinship and family, political and intimate violence, education
and work, sexualities, religious practice and interpretation, and Islamic feminisms.
Islam will be treated as a varying body of discourses and practices, and different
Sunni, Shi'I, and Sufi examples will be explored. The course is grounded in ethnographic
and historical texts written by and about Muslim women in places as diverse as Egypt,
Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, and the US.
ANTH 4701-029 The Anthropology of Sport
Like few other social phenomena, sport evokes immense passion across cultures, times,
and places. In this course, we will study the historical and cultural contexts of
making, playing, and watching sport in order to understand this passion. Students
will first define sport in a cross-cultural context. Then we will explore the political
and economic conditions of the global spread and popularity of certain 'western' sports.
Finally, we will examine the gender, racial, and class prejudices of sport culture
and the political structures of social inequality. Keep in mind that students need
not enter the class with knowledge of or experience with any particular sport. All
they need to be successful is an interest in studying sport as a vehicle to understanding
historical, cultural and social dynamics.
ANTH 4701-034 Anthropology of Christianity
In this course, we will question our understanding of Christianity as simply a religion,
and discover its tremendous impact as a social and cultural force throughout history
and in the world today. Though Christianity is the largest organized religious movement
in the world, anthropology has given it little direct attention. Recent decades however
have seen an explosion of anthropological studies of the culture, social practices,
and discourse of Christianity. In the first part of this course we explore anthropological
concepts such as social power, ritual, cosmology, and prayer within the diverse religion(s)
known as Christianity. We will also consider the ethnographic paradox of Christianity,
which sees itself as a global, universal force and yet has been radically re-envisioned
and localized by specific cultures around the world, several of which we will read
about. Within this course we will also examine the intersections of Christianity with
other facets of societies, such as U.S. politics, medieval European monarchies, and
anthropology itself.
ANTH 4701-036 Anthropology and Social Media Culture
This seminar takes an anthropological approach to exploring the ways in which we navigate
our social lives in a virtual world. The innovation of social media sites brought
with it the freedom of unbounded sociality, where due to a single click you can gain,
or lose, thousands or even millions of "friends". Yet it is worth considering how
this new "virtual culture" can encompass both an expanse of sociality, as well as
a social prison, in which we enslave ourselves by the constant selfexamination over
how to display and manage our online profiles. Applying Foucault's theories on the
"Panopticon", as elaborated within Discipline and Punish (1975), we will embody a
social media persona in order to explore how we manage our friendships, sexuality,
politics, morality, and ultimately our SELVES in the virtual world.
ANTH 4701-041 Introduction to LGBTQ Studies
This course will introduce students to LGBTQ Studies, an interdisciplinary field that
seeks to uncover and analyze how power works in relation to categories and norms about
gender, sex, and sexuality. The course utalizes an intersectional approach to examine
how norms and heirarchies of gender, sex, and sexuality are socially constructed in
and through categories of race, ethnicity, class, ability, generation, and nation.
We explore a variety of sites to understand how cultural meanings about gender, sex,
and sexuality are produced and circulated, including the law, medicine, psychology/psychiatry,
media, the academy, and social activism.
ANTH 4701-043 Environment, Culture, and Health
Surveys the relationships among humans, health, and environment using theoretical
foundations of anthropology and environmental health, research methods used in the
study of culture and health, and domestic and international case studies. Considers
ways human health is impacted by natural and human made environmental forces including
climate change, development and use of resources, environmental justice, environmental
health inequalities, and sickness.
ANTH 4720 Human Rights Anthropology
This course will focus on the events that led to the burgeoning of human rights as
a concept and as something in need of protection. We will examine the global, regional,
and local ideologies and doctrines at the heart of human rights violations and studies.
These ideologies and doctrines include militarism, extremism, relativism, liberalism,
and neoliberalism. The human rights violations addressed in this course will include
genocide, ethnocide, mass violence, mass disappearances, gendered violence, child
soldiering, human trafficking, and other forms of political and structural violence.
ANTH 4730 Feminist Anthropology
Focuses on the development and current-day practices of feminist anthropology, with
special attention to significant theories, themes of study, and debates within the
field. Critical analysis of the social construction of sex/gender and deeper understanding
of the ways that categories of sex/gender are constructed in and through cultural
norms about sexuality, race, ethnicity, indigeneity, class, and nationality.
ANTH 4740 Anthroplogical Perspectives in Tourism
Explores representations of the exotic "other" in host vs. guest encounters before
examining such intricacies of global tourism as heritage and authenticity, staging
and commodification, development, gender inequality, and sustainability. Through ethnographic
case studies, students explore and compare these phenomena in cultural tourism, eco-tourism,
spiritual tourism, and biomedical tourism.
ANTH 4751 Culture, Religion, and Ritual
This course focuses on comparing religious and supernatural belief across cultures,
through the perspective of anthropology. The origin, development and function of religions
in human societies, as well as classic anthropological concerns about the role of
myth, ritual, ethics, magic and shamanism in society. By comparing what is "religious"
in many cultures, students will develop a better understanding of the relationship
between human beings, religion, and their own religious beliefs.
ANTH 4755 Anthropology of Stuff and Things
This course approaches human relationships in and with the material world from an
anthropological perspective. Equipped with an array of theoretical perspectives and
methodologies to analyze material culture ranging from art, architecture and adornment
to tools, technology and transportation, students will study how people create, value,
exchange, consume, contest, discard and dwell in a world of "stuff and things".
ANTH 4760 Inequality, Social Justice, and the City
This course is a historical and ethnographic examination of urban society and how
people-centered movements might regain "rights to the city". Focuses on local examples
of urban social justice causes.
ANTH 4765 Urban Beings
Examines the human experience in cross-cultural urban contexts from an anthropological
perspective. Balancing materialist and ideological explanations of sociocultural arrangements,
ethnographic readings and case studies showcase stunning diversity and surprising
similarity in urban dwellings and dwellers. Students conduct independent research
analyzing urban beings in the DFW Metroplex.Martina Spangrud, BA
ANTH 4770 Ethnographic Field School
First hand field methods in anthropology. Students will put in practice the unique
field methods used in anthropology, especially "participant observation," through
travel to a domestic or international field site and becoming immersed in the local
culture. Students gain an in-depth understanding of contemporary and historic culture
through relevant literature on the area and anthropological field methods, and through
practical experience by putting field techniques and methods of data gathering and
analysis to work in the field.
001 Mexico
002 Saudi Arabia
003 Ghana
004 Egypt
ANTH 4900-4910 Special Problems
Individual study on specific research topics or subject matter not contained within
the normal anthropology inventory at UNT. The course allows individuals to pursue
research on topics of interests through readings or directed activity under the guidance
and supervision of a faculty member on a one-to-one basis.
ANTH 4920 Cooperative Education in Anthropology
Supervised work in a job directly related to the student's major, professional field
of study or career objectives. Prerequisite(s) 12 hours credit in anthropology; student
must meet the employer's requirements and have consent of the department chair. May
be repeated for credit.
ANTH 4951 Honors College Capstone Thesis
Students must be an Honors College student to take this course. It entails a major
research project prepared by the student under the supervision of a faculty member
and presented in standard thesis format. Prerequisite(s): completion of at least 6
hours in honors courses; completion of at least 12 credit hours in anthropology coursework;
approval of the department chair and CLASS dean; approval of the dean of the Honors
College.
GRADUATE COURSES
ANTH 5000 Seminar in Sociocultural Anthropology
A survey of anthropological attempts to understand and explain the similarities and
differences in culture and humans.
Additional Notes: This course serves as a high level introduction (review) to the
discipline of anthropology with a primary emphasis on sociocultural anthropology,
that also allows individuals to pursue their own particular or specific interests.
The course is designed for graduate students combining anthropology with other fields
as part of their graduate programs but whose exposure and background in the discipline
is limited, and undergraduate seniors bringing their undergraduate program to a conclusion
and planning on pursuing further additional training and careers in anthropology.
ANTH 5010 Anthropological Thought and Praxis I
Considers the history of anthropological concepts, the major historical debates in
anthropological theory and historical tensions between applied and theoretical knowledge.
Special emphasis is given to critical examination of concept and theory formation
and the application of anthropological ideas to the problems of everyday life.
ANTH 5021 Anthropological Thought and Praxis II
Considers contemporary anthropological concepts and theories and the major debates
that have been produced by them. Special emphasis is given to the most recent tensions
and debates on the relationships between theoretical and applied knowledge. Specific
attention is paid to the relationships between social theory and social policy formation.
ANTH 5031 Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods
This course will teach students anthropological fieldwork methods, building on any
prior experience they may have. Students will learn through readings and discussion,
and by conducting a semester-long fieldwork project. Students will become familiar
with traditional long-term fieldwork approaches used in applied anthropology. Topics
include: the relationship of research to theory; designing a project; ethics; data
collection; analysis of data; and presentation of findings. The class will focus on
the following fieldwork approaches: observation, interviewing, and focus groups. Students
will learn about software and engage in collaborative teamwork.
ANTH 5032 Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods for Non-Majors
Designed to teach non-majors the basics of ethnographic and qualitative methods. Students
develop the skills necessary to conduct qualitative research through reviewing and
applying the relationship of research to theory, research ethics, project design,
data collection (observation, interviewing and focus groups), coding, analysis of
data through the use of computer software, and presentation of findings.
ANTH 5041 Quantitative Methods in Anthropology
Provides basic principles and techniques of research design, sampling, and elicitation
for collecting and comprehending quantitative behavioral data. Procedures for data
analysis and evaluation are reviewed, and students get hands-on experience with SPSS
in order to practice organization, summarizing, and presenting data. The goal is to
develop a base of quantitative and statistical literacy for practical application
across the social sciences, in the academy and the world beyond.
ANTH 5050 Preparation for Practice and the Applied Thesis
Emphasis on planning the applied thesis project, professional development, and bringing
students into the community of practice of applied/practicing anthropologists. Students
learn skills in client development, project design, proposal writing, informational
interviews, how to obtain a job, how to succeed in the workplace, and networking.
In addition, students are exposed to contested issues in the field and career trajectories
of practitioners. A number of practitioners are invited as guest speakers.
ANTH 5060 Advanced Community Engagement through Action Research
Focuses on various approaches to action research by engaging the community as experts
and active collaborators and by thinking about and doing anthropology differently.
Advanced action-oriented learning and research to create social change attempting
to democratize the process of research and the relationships between the university
and community.
ANTH 5070 Evaluation in Anthropological Practice
Defines and promulgates an anthropological component to a solid basis of research
and method already existing in evaluation. Investigates the links between anthropological
methods and theory with evaluation. Addresses common methodological, logistic and
theoretical issues that occur in the course of conducting evaluation projects using
holistic, mixed method and qualitative designs.
ANTH 5100 Organizational Anthropology
Anthropologists have developed numerous tools for analyzing culture and culture change.
Many of these can be put to use in studying business organizations. This course is
a look at business organizations from an anthropological point of view. Often an organization's
productivity or lack thereof is directly related to the degree to which its strategy
and culture mesh. Methods used in anthropology can aid in defining the specific culture
of an organization and in providing strategies for change within it. This course explores
those anthropological tools that can be useful in increasing productivity in business
organizations.
ANTH 5110 Design Anthropology
Fundamentals of the field of design anthropology. By collaborating on an applied project,
students gain practice in applied research methods and video ethnography. Since students
come from a mix of anthropology, design, and other backgrounds, they learn to engage
in cross-disciplinary collaboration. Furthermore, they gain experience in working
with clients to translate research into practical applications.
ANTH 5130 Advanced Anthropology of Non-Governmental Organizations
Utilizes an anthropological lens to understand the organizational culture of non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) and NGO development in Western and non-Western spheres, with
emphasis on their impacts in local and global, neoliberal contexts. Examines diverse
and sometimes divergent principles, policies, and practices guiding human rights efforts,
humanitarian aid, environmental activism, and cultural heritage.
ANTH 5201 Medical Anthropology
This course presents perspectives in contemporary medical anthropology, with a focus
on the biocultural basis of health and sociocultural variations in illness and healing
(ethnomedicine). Study of comparative health systems, political-economic and ethical
issues in health and care, health professions and patients' views of illness.
ANTH 5210 Anthropology in Public Health
Introduction to the contributions of anthropology to public health. Highlights the
socio-cultural perspective on the fundamentals of public health, including but not
limited to international health, domestic health, epidemiology, infectious disease,
child survival, women's and men's health, and health policy.
ANTH 5300 Migrants and Refugees
Focuses on the factors embedded in people's displacement, either through migration
or refugee movements. Aims at identifying the cultural processes that promote displacement
and those emanating from the consequences of displacement. Emphasizes the human factor
encapsulated in the phenomenon of displacement.
ANTH 5400 Environmental Anthropology
Emphasis on theory, major environmental questions, problems, issues, and possible
solutions illustrated by case studies from different parts of the world. Examination
of environmental issues pertaining to land/sea and natural resources, food production
systems, deforestation, population problems, poverty and environmental justice, natural
hazards and risks, resource conflicts and warfare, over-fishing, economic development,
globalization and transnationalism, mineral and oil extraction, landscapes, biodiversity
conservation, the commons, ecofeminism, and valuation of nature. Course goals are
to provide a global sample of the literature in environmental anthropology; a survey
of concepts, issues, theories, methods and practices in environmental anthropology;
and an in-depth acquaintance with a particular topic in environmental anthropology
through an individual research project.
ANTH 5620 Anthropology of Education
Examines issues and approaches relevant to the study of education within the field
of anthropology. Provides an introduction to anthropological concepts and anthropological
methods used in the study of education and schooling. Includes an examination of the
relation between anthropology and education as it pertains to cultural transmission.
In addition, it looks at cultural difference, minority status, and educational outcomes.
It also highlights current perspectives and critiques relevant to educational "problems"
and emerging solutions derived from an anthropological perspective of education.
ANTH 5700 Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology
Applied ethnographic investigation, analysis and discussion of a significant, contemporary
topic of interest to students in various graduate programs. May be repeated for credit
as topics vary.
ANTH 5700.002 Nature and Culture
In this intensive, interdisciplinary graduate seminar, students will investigate one
of the greatest questions of our time. Namely, how to traverse the nature/culture
divide? Much recent work in the environmental social sciences has focused on overcoming
western nature/culture dualistic thinking that originates as early as Plato and Aristotle,
was crystallized in the Early Modern Era by Rene Descartes, and manifests itself throughout
the ideological and material expressions of our modern industrial world system. Concerns
over peak oil, environmental degradation and pollution, and global climate change
are have made this project ever more pressing and relevant. Yet, there is no general
framework or even a useful overview of the history and current expression of the nature/culture
dualism. Work in this vein has remained piecemeal and largely only suggestive. In
this class we will research what work exists and attempt to synthesize what we find
into a useful narrative with which to approach what many think is the greatest problem
facing our contemporary world.
ANTH 5710 Symbolic/Cognitive Anthropology
Anthropological consideration of symbolism provides a unique view of cultural beliefs
and values as stamped in the process of policy making. Attention is given to how symbols
are used to give meaning to social life and how symbols define and create belief systems,
including traditional anthropological concerns with religion, kinship, politics, economics,
business and advertising.
ANTH 5730 Advanced Feminist Anthropology
Advanced critical analysis of the social construction of sex/gender and the ways that
categories of sex/gender are constructed in and through cultural norms, with special
attention to the impacts of feminist anthropology on both anthropology and gender
studies.
ANTH 5740 Advanced Anthroplogical Perspectives in Tourism
Explores representations of the exotic "other" in host vs. guest encounters before
examining such intricacies of global tourism as heritage and authenticity, staging
and commodification, development, gender inequality, and sustainability. Through ethnographic
case studies, students explore and compare these phenomena in cultural tourism, eco-tourism,
spiritual tourism, and biomedical tourism.
ANTH 5755 Advanced Anthropology of Stuff and Things
This course approaches human relationships in and with the material world from an
anthropological perspective. Equipped with an array of theoretical perspectives and
methodologies to analyze material culture ranging from art, architecture and adornment
to tools, technology and transportation, students will study how people create, value,
exchange, consume, contest, discard and dwell in a world of "stuff and things".
ANTH 5760 Advanced Studies in Urban Anthropology
With a focus on social justice, this course will provide a historical and ethnographic
account of cities from the theoretical perspective of urban anthropology. Students
will apply the course material to the urban aspects of their own research projects
through small group discussions, writing assignments, discussion leading, and oral
presentations.
ANTH 5900-5910 Special Problems
Individuals study on specific research topics or subject matter not contained within
the normal Anthropology inventory at UNT. The course allows individuals to pursue
research on topics of interests through readings or directed activity under the guidance
and supervision of a faculty member on a one-to-one basis.
ANTH 5950 Applied Thesis
To be scheduled with consent of department. 6 hours required. No credit assigned until
thesis has been completed and filed with the graduate school. Continuous enrollment
required once work on thesis has begun.
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