Anthropology

Anthropology is the scientific and interpretive study of humankind, from its beginnings millions of years ago to the present day. The discipline of anthropology begins with a simple but enormously powerful idea: that any particular aspect of human biology and behavior can be fully understood only when it is placed against a background provided by the full range of variability found in human biology and behavior worldwide. This is the comparative perspective, the attempt to explain both the similarities and differences among people in the context of humanity as a whole. Anthropology is therefore composed of multiple subfields. We offer courses in cultural, biological, linguistic, medical, and psychological anthropology. Anthropology majors receive a sound liberal arts education, which provides a needed edge in today's competitive world of careers. Anthropology's scope and intellectual roominess can prepare students to make objective, far-sighted decisions at the professional level in any career field. Anthropology graduates go on to careers in professional anthropology, medicine, law, social work, public health, environmental studies, teaching, translation, laboratory research, international business, and government.

Emory students benefit from a variety of excellent resources for studying anthropology. Students of Anthropology have access to the following laboratories: Laboratory for Darwinian Neuroscience, Paleolithic Technology Laboratory, Ancient DNA Laboratory, Social Cognition and Primate Behavior Laboratory, and Experimental Ethnography Working Group. Students also have opportunities to be involved with ongoing research at the Emory National Primate Research Center, the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, the Michael C. Carlos Museum and The Carter Center. For those students interested in medical anthropology, Emory is affiliated with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Rollins School of Public Health. The department sponsors the Beta chapter of the Lambda Alpha National Anthropology Honors Society; graduates numerous Anthropology honors students each year; and invites all Emory students of Anthropology to participate in the Emory Anthropology Student Society, which organizes exciting events and activities that foster a strong sense of community in the Anthropology department. Please visit the Anthropology Department's website for information about courses, research opportunities, and more: http://anthropology.emory.edu/home/index.html

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Concentrations

Faculty

Chair: Anna Grimshaw
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Robert Paul
Core: Marcela Benitez Anna Grimshaw Craig Hadley Bayo Holsey Bayo Holsey Bayo Holsey Michelle Lampl John Lindo Peter Little Elizabeth V Lonsdorf David Nugent Robert Paul Michael Peletz Kristin D. Phillips Dietrich Stout Debra Vidali Kristen Broehl

Courses

ANT 100-Level Courses

Survey of the study of the human species: its evolution, prehistory, language, and comparative social and cultural systems.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: SS
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Seminar or Lecture series on topics of anthropological interest at an introductory level. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Seminar or Lecture series on topics of anthropological interest at an introductory level. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Seminar on various anthropological topics. Satisfies general education Freshman Seminar.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: FS
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

ANT 200-Level Courses

This course presents an introduction to evolutionary processes and biological bases of behavior. Lectures and readings will be organized around a developmental and life history perspective and will emphasize the importance of context in biological mechanisms and the interaction of social life, behavior, and cognition. Examples drawn especially from humans and nonhuman primates will be used to place human behavior in the Context of other species and to illustrate the dual inheritance of biology and culture in our species. Topics covered will include evolutionary mechanisms, adaptation, phylogenetic constraints, neural and neuroendocrine mechanisms of behavior, life history theory, developmental programs, principles of allometry, sexual selection and alternative reproductive strategies, social bonds and socialization, and the cognitive bases of social interaction in humans and nonhumans.

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

NBB 201

Biological and cultural evolution and adaptation of the human species, fossil populations, human variation, and primate behavior. Methods in biological anthropology, survey of the prehistoric evolution of cultures, contemporary issues in paleoanthropology. Weekly lab in biological anthro methods.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: NS
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course explores key concepts in cultural anthropology. Through engaging ethnographic accounts from different world areas, students will analyze anthropological debates about culture, race, religion, ritual, health, gender, sexuality, politics, and/or exchange and learn about fieldwork methods.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: SS
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 5
GER: SSW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An introduction to the systematic study of human language, surveying the fields of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, child language acquisition, and historical linguistics.

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 201

Principles of archaeological analysis and field excavation.

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

MESAS 204

An introduction to the overall field of global health, its history, methods, and key principles, with case studies illustrating the burden of disease in nations with strikingly different political-economic contexts.

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

HLTH 250
SOC 250

Introduces students to the growing field of development studies and provides a solid foundation for subsequent course work in the Minor. Key topics include human rights, gender, environment, poverty and inequality, democratic reforms and governance, market reforms, rural development, and conflict.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: SS
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The course provides an introduction to visual anthropology. It has two foci: the anthropological study of visual practices (painting, art markets, photography, the museum); and anthropological work pursued through film and photography.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Human biology from conception to senescence, in an evolutionary and cross-cultural context, emphasizing neural and neuroendocrine processes underlying behavior and reproduction. Conception, fetal development, birth, infant growth, puberty, pregnancy, adult sexuality, and aging.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: NS
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Studies East Asian calligraphy in artistic, cultural, and historical contexts, starting with the immediate aspects of calligraphy as a traditional art form, and then reaching beyond the classically defined discipline to examine its aesthetic values, intellectual metaphors, and moral criteria.

Credit Hours

GER

HAP

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

EAS 216
CHN 216
ARTHIST 216

Credit Hours

GER

HAPW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

EAS 216W
CHN 216W
ARTHIST 216W

Comparative study of disease ecology and medical systems of other cultures; sociocultural factors affecting contemporary world health problems; cultural aspects of ethnomedicine and biomedicine; ethnicity and health care.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: SS
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: SSW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course introduces the evidence base for the science of health and emphasizes STEM educational translations to the population, clinic and individual levels. Innovative efforts are needed to drive changes in health care from a reactive, disease-focused system to a proactive health-focused one.

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

HLTH 210

Study of language in context, focusing on relations between language and culture, thought, social identity, and political process.

Credit Hours

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 240

Study of language in context, focusing on relations between language and culture, thought, social identity, and political process.

Credit Hours

GER

HSCW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 240W

Course surveys cultural diversity in the contemporary world through current ethnographies from different world areas.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: HSC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Course surveys cultural diversity in the contemporary world through current ethnographies from different world areas.

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: HSCW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Debates and issues of the contemporary industrial food system and emerging alternatives; experiential learning in farmers markets, cooking, and local farm; independent research and ethical alternatives for a more sustainable food system.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Introduction to Jewish populations and cultures within the framework of four fields of general anthropology: biological, archaeological, cultural, and linguistic.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

JS 258
REL 258

This course introduces students to the cross-cultural study of gender and sexuality, providing anthropological perspectives on femininity, masculinity, heteronormativity, gender variance, same sex relations, and various theories and methods that are relevant to the study of these phenomena.Students who have taken ANT_OX 265 may not repeat this course for credit.

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

WGS 265

The aim of this course is to show how anthropologists (biological, cultural, and archaeologists) structure their research hypotheses, organize their data, select and run statistics, and describe their written results and discussions.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course will provide a critical and rigorous examination of sex, gender, and sexuality by delving into the biological underpinnings and evolutionary roots of primate sexual behavior, and the historical and contemporary approaches to understanding the nuance of human sexuality.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: SS
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Anthropological perspectives on the people and cultures on different regions of the world. May be repeated for credit when topic varies. HSC, may be repeated when topic changes.

Credit Hours

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

AFS 280R

Seminar or lecture series on topics of anthropological interest at an intermediate level. Maybe repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Seminar or lecture series on topics of anthropological interest at an intermediate level. Maybe repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

ANT 300-Level Courses

This course surveys the social behavior, behavioral ecology, and adaptations of nonhuman primate species, the extant prosimians, monkeys, and apes.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: SNT
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course will examine the origins of modern humans, their unique cultural abilities, and their relationships to more archaic beings, such as Neanderthals. What makes us human and how we evolved will be explored.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: SNT
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This class surveys issues, methods and theory in Paleolithic Archaeology. Rather than providing a detailed review of prehistory, it examines key debates and the methods used to address them. Special attention is given to stone tool analysis, including substantial practical work. work.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: SNTW
Requisites: ANT 201 or ANTH_OX 201 or ANT 204 or ANTH_OX 204 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

Upper-level intro to basis of complex human behavior in the brain, focused on human brain structure and function. The overall goal is to master the anatomy underlying higher human capacities, acknowledging how our brain's evolutionary past can inform our understanding of how the brain works now.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: SNT
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Comparative study of primate mating strategies and sexual behavior.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: SNT
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Comparative study of primate mating strategies and sexual behavior.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: SNTW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This class aims to integrate data and theory from genetics, geology, and paleoanthropological evidence to trace the evolution of the human species. Opposing theories regarding the interpretation of data will be the focus of student evaluation.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: SNT
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: SNTW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Prerequisite: Anthropology 201 or Biology 142. Application of evolutionary theory to social behavior of a variety of animals, including humans.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: SNT
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Prerequisite: Anthropology 101, 201, or 302. Relationship between ecology and individual and social behavior, dominance relations, intelligence, and communication. Topic varies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: SNT
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course examines human as well as non-human primate communication systems from an evolutionary perspective. Topics covered include signal structure and function, information content of signals, honesty, deceit, and the evolution of language in humans.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: SNT
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Introduction to the evolution, diversity, and social significance of human diet and nutrition.

Credit Hours

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

AFS 311

This course focuses on theory and method for understanding variation in prehistoric skeletal populations. Determination of age and sexual activity, disease and demography will be undertaken.

Credit Hours: 6
GER: SNT
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The social construction of race relies on differences that lack biological significance. The social and biological cast of racism from the continued entrenched concept of race in America is considered.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The course focuses on the key methods adopted in the study of ancient DNA, such as next generation sequencing and population genetics, as well as a thematic approach to the major evolutionary questions. Topics include human migrations, archaic humans, domestication, and ancient pathogens.

Credit Hours

GER

SNT

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

BIOL 315

This course is concerned with evaluating neuroscientific, psychological and behavioral evidence of modern human cognitive specializations as well as archeological, paleontological, and comparative evidence of their evolutionary origins.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: SNT
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Neurobiological substrates supporting human social cognition and behavior. Review and synthesis of relevant research in neuropsychology, psychiatry, neuroimaging, and experimental animal research.

Credit Hours

GER

SNT

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

NBB 317

This is a research seminar exploring the intersection of genomics, the environment, and lifestyle/behavior as it pertains to human health from a developmental perspective with the aim of understanding human health over the lifespan.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

HLTH 312

This course will describe and explain variation in male parental care across species, across cultures and across individuals within a culture. Emphasis will be placed on hormonal and neurobiological foundations of paternal care, evolutionary theory, ethnography and developmental psychology. .

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

NBB 319

Cross-cultural study of gender and women's lives in diverse cultures, including the United States; comparative study of work, child-rearing, power, politics, religion, and prestige.

Credit Hours

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

WGS 340

Cross-cultural examination of how language reflects, maintains, and constructs gender identities. Topics include differences in male/female speech, the grammatical encoding of gender and childhood language socialization.

Credit Hours

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

WGS 333
LING 333

Cross-cultural ethnographic study of women's religious lives, including ritual and leadership roles, forms and contexts of religious expression, and negotiations between dominant cultural representations and women's self-representations.

Credit Hours

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

REL 328
WGS 328

Credit Hours

GER

HSCW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

REL 328W
WGS 328W

This course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of food insecurity. To do so, we study what food insecurity is, how it is defined and measured, how it is experienced and managed by people in different settings, what causes it, and what its consequences are for human well-being.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Focuses on cultural approaches to mental health and illness.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HSC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The course will take a contemporary view on how population genetics has changed our understating of the biological explanation of race.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HSCE
Requisites: Juniors or Seniors only or permission of instructor required for enrollment.
Cross-Listed: None

Biological and cultural adaptations to disease, the role of specific diseases in evolution, social epidemiological patterns related to culture, contemporary issues in disease control, and economic development. Diseases covered include malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, diabetes, and depression.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: SNT
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Biological and cultural adaptations to disease, the role of specific diseases in evolution, social epidemiological patterns related to culture, contemporary issues in disease control, and economic development. Considers a variety of diseases including malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, and malnutrition.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: SNT
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Disease emerges as humans disrupt their environment, exposing them to novel pathogens. Students will examine this pattern from the Paleolithic to the present pattern of globalization of antibiotic-resistant pathogens.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: SNT
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: SNTW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This class explores issues such as what makes for a healthy self or person, the role of religious practices and belief in healing, and the relationship of body and mind.

Credit Hours

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

EAS 337

This course surveys the global landscape of challenges to physical and mental health that confront us today, and traces the emergence of biosocial approaches to both explaining and tackling these challenges.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

How paradigms of health-focused beliefs and systems develop, are maintained, and change reflect history, society, and technology. We interrogate the scientific basis for present biomedical concepts that have co-opted concepts of the human body's health and well-being.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

HLTH 310

This course studies relations between language and society, relations between language and sociocultural context. Topics may include: language variation; multilingualism; verbal interaction; discourse analysis; ethnography of communication; sociolinguistics of Spanish.

Credit Hours

1 - 4

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 340

Credit Hours

1 - 5

GER

HSCW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 340W

In-depth study of the relationship between language and culture by examining anthropological approaches to the study of language. You will learn how language both reflects and creates thought, culture and power relationships. You will also learn basic ethnographic methodology through a research project.

Credit Hours

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

LING 341

Explores the sociocultural dynamics of media institutions and the everyday use of different media in diverse societies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HSC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Explores the sociocultural dynamics of media institutions and the everyday use of different media in diverse societies.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HSCW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The course offers an introduction to ethnographic cinema. It focuses on classic and contemporary films. Students explore issues concerning the nature of evidence, salvage anthropology, the politics of representation, concepts of participation and collaboration, aesthetics and ethnography.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

FILM 343

Using insights from cultural anthropology, Black cultural studies, & geography, this course critically explores "Black geographies" to theorize the ways race and space are mutually constituted in our modern world. Students will analyze intersections of race, space, and place in contemporary Atlanta.

Credit Hours

GER

HSCE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

AAS 344

This interdisciplinary course surveys research in psychology, neuroscience, anthropology, and religious studies to investigate the role of compassion and empathy in human health and how practices for cultivating compassion are secularized and implemented in schools, prisons, and other settings.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

HLTH 348

Human health is intrinsically linked to dietary practices. The pharmacological properties of foods will be examined and case studies of dietary complexes will be examined in order to better understand the food-medicine continuum as a determinant of health and well-being.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

HLTH 340
BIOL 344

Anthropological perspectives on social change and economic development in the Third World today. Population growth, agricultural development, political instability, colonialism, imperialism, and urban problems in cultural context.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HSC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HSCW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course explores the changing shape of the global economy and its relationships.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HSC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course explores the changing shape of the global economy and its relationships.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HSCW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

The purpose of this course is to provide students with a selected overview of the history, debates, and major topical issues in anthropological studies of culture and economy. It will show how anthropologists study the economic bases of social and cultural life in both agrarian and urban societies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HSC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

An exploration of the archaeological evidence for economic patterns in the ancient Mediterranean world, including the emergence of complex, hierarchized centers, long distance networks, maritime trade and predation, coinage, and slavery. Case studies range from Mesopotamia to the Roman world.

Credit Hours

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

CL 355

Survey of the significance and functions of ritual in human life. Ethnographic accounts of sacred ritual followed by more theoretical readings dealing with the structure and function of human ritual, viewed as a special and primitive form of communication.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HSC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Close reading of selected plays of Shakespeare in which ritual and other performance genres become central issues and problems. Readings in performance theory parallel reading of the plays.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HSC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Examination of the history of cooperative efforts between classics and anthropology, and focuses on ongoing efforts in studies of ritual and religion, kinship studies, and archaeological theory.

Credit Hours

GER

HSC

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

CL 368

Examination of the history of cooperative efforts between classics and anthropology, and focuses on ongoing efforts in studies of ritual and religion, kinship studies, and archaeological theory.

Credit Hours

GER

HSCW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

CL 368W

The course provides a multi-disciplinary approach to the universal human experience of death. It covers themes such as the process of death (biological and cultural), the human cadaver, grief and mourning, ritual responses, mass death, suicide, ethical issues, etc.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HSC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HSCW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course explores fieldwork-based case studies as a central practice in anthropology. Students learn to critically engage ethnographic texts (visual and textual), attending to content, approach and style. They will develop writing skills through exercises that combine description with analysis.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Intersections between anthropology and art, design, performance, and creative narration are explored in this course as we deploy a variety of ethnographic methods for documenting the human condition in multimodal, multisensorial, and performance-based formats.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Studies music and dance of Indigenous peoples of the Arctic and how they reflect languages, social structures, philosophies, and the geography and history of each region. Examines changing historical and social dynamics and cultural traditions. Introduces ethnomusicology theory and research methods.

Credit Hours

GER

HAPE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

MUS 376

Credit Hours

GER

HPWE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

MUS 376W

This course introduces students to ethnographic fieldwork methods and explores through both case study analysis and class-based ethnodrama processes how applied theater and performance (theater, dance, and spoken word) can be used to present anthropological insights and ethnographic material.

Credit Hours

GER

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

THEA 377

Credit Hours

GER

XAW

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

THEA 377W

The course explores human trafficking from the era of the trans- Atlantic slave trade to present-day instances of trafficking in productive and reproductive labor. Through primary and secondary sources, the students learn about the racial and gender ideologies undergirding this phenomenon.

Credit Hours

GER

HSCE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

HIST 378
AFS 378
LACS 378

Credit Hours

GER

HSWE

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

HIST 378W
AFS 378W
LACS 378W

This course is an introduction to a diverse selection of Indigenous musics of North America. Particular attention will be paid to ways in which music articulates and shapes issues of tradition and modernity, place and identity, revitalization and resurgence, and sovereignty and self-determination.

Credit Hours

GER

ETHN

Requisites

MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 or ANT 202 or ANT 202W or ANTH_OX 202 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

MUS 379

Credit Hours

GER

CWE

Requisites

MUS 200 or MUS_OX 200 or ANT 202 or ANT 202W or ANTH_OX 202 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

MUS 379W

How have anthropologists approached the study of Muslim cultures and politics and what have we learned from their scholarship about ritual and religion, gender and subjectivity, law and social justice, and the politics and poetics of "writing culture"?

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HSC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course reviews the local human and biological impact of conservation programs that affect primate communities in five areas of the world. Students discuss: methods, primate/plant interactions, forest fragmentation, historical perspectives on conservation and land use, agroforestry, ecotourism, and reintroductions. Students will become more aware of how conservation issues affect behavior and ecology of primates in nature.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Uses an ecological perspective to address the basic question of why and how humans evolved. Discussions include scrutinizing both biotic and abiotic factors that may have influenced the evolution of early hominids in East Africa.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: SNT
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course focuses on the biological and ecological processes that have influenced primate anatomy, behavior, distribution, evolution, and extinction, as evidenced in the fossil record.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Seminar or lecture series of topics of anthropological concern. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: HSC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

(May be repeated for credit when topic varies.) Seminar or lecture series of topics of anthropological concern.

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: HSCW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

May be repeated for credit when topic varies. Seminar or lecture series of topics of anthropological concern.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

May be repeated for credit when topic varies. Seminar or lecture series of topics of anthropological concern.

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Seminar or lecture series of topics of anthropological concern.May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Seminar or lecture series of topics of anthropological concern.May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Includes courses taken abroad that can count towards Anthropology credit at Emory. For detailed instructions on receiving approval, visit OISP's website at http://college.emory.edu/oisp/programs/

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Includes courses taken abroad that can count towards Anthropology credit at Emory. For detailed instructions on receiving approval, visit OISP's website at http://college.emory.edu/oisp/programs/

Credit Hours: 1 - 5
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course examines the social and cultural-political dimensions of law, discipline, and disorder in a wide variety of human societies, providing cross-cultural perspectives on how people manage conflict, construe justice, and organize and experience power, discipline, and resistance.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: HSC
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: HSCW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Consultation with faculty prior to registration required.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

ANT 400-Level Courses

Topical seminar for advanced students in biological anthropology.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: ANT 201 or ANTH_OX 201 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

Topical seminar for advanced students in cultural anthropology..

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data. Theoretical and methodological problems in biocultural anthropology. The study of how to design and execute studies that attend to both the biological and cultural dimensions of anthropology.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

A new science of health is emerging. The evolutionary background for generic processes will be discussed and the challenges posed by modern lifestyles will be the focus of this class.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

ANT 231 or HLTH 210 and BIOL 141 and BIOL 142 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.

Cross-Listed

HLTH 411

Mankind has long recognized that plants are extremely useful as source of medicine. Medical traditions based on botanical sources are found in all human cultures and date back to prehistory. In this course both ancient and modern day botanical traditions across many cultures will be examined.

Credit Hours

GER

None

Requisites

None

Cross-Listed

HLTH 440
BIOL 442

Design of research strategies for the study of human cultures. Data collection techniques including participant observation, interviewing, genealogies, hypothesis testing, and the qualitative and quantitative analysis of data.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Covers the evolutionary and anatomical foundations of psychological, especially social and emotional, development, as well as comparative socialization and cross-cultural varieties of enculturation. Among the topics covered will be relevant parts of: life history theory and cultural evolution.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This seminar focuses on the past, present, and future of primate studies. In this course, students will delve into historical perspective, consider theoretical advances, examine methodological approaches, and critically assess the future trajectories of research in primate behavior and cognition.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: ANT 302 or PSYC 320 or BIOL 320 or PSYC 325 or BIOL 325 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CW
Requisites: ANT 302 or PSYC 320 or BIOL 320 or PSYC 325 or BIOL 325 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

Advanced seminar or lecture series on topics of anthropological concern. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Advanced seminar or lecture series on topics of anthropological concern. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Credit Hours: 4
GER: CW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Departmental invitation to Honors Program necessary before registration.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: XA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Departmental invitation to Honors Program necessary before registration.

Credit Hours: 1 - 8
GER: XAW
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

Consultation with faculty prior to registration required.

Credit Hours: 1 - 4
GER: XA
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

This course culminates the minor in Development Studies, with common readings and class meetings and a final presentation of completed projects to the Faculty Capstone Committee. The steering committee will approve service learning opportunities, internships, and research projects.

Credit Hours: 3
GER: None
Requisites: None
Cross-Listed: None

ANT 499 is an integrative experience intended to deepen students' understanding of the field of Anthropology. It will include reflections on the field, practice, and ethics of anthropology as well as on diverse approaches to doing, writing, and representing anthropological research.

Credit Hours: 3 - 4
GER: None
Requisites: ANT 202 or ANTH_OX 202 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

Credit Hours: 3 - 4
GER: CW
Requisites: ANT 202 or ANTH_OX 202 or equivalent transfer credit as prerequisite.
Cross-Listed: None

Anthropology

Concentrations

Faculty

Courses

ANT 100-Level Courses

ANT 101: Introduction to Anthropology

ANT 185: Anthropology: Special Topics

ANT 185W: Anthropology: Special Topics

ANT 190: Freshman Seminar:Anthropology

ANT 200-Level Courses

ANT 200: Foundations of Behavior

ANT 201: Concepts & Meth in Biol Anth

ANT 202: Concepts & Meth in Cult Anth

ANT 202W: Concepts & Meth in Cult Anth

ANT 203: Foundations of Linguistics

ANT 204: Introduction to Archaeology

ANT 205: Foundations of Global Health

ANT 207: Foundation Development Studies

ANT 208: Foundations in Visual Anth.

ANT 210: Hum Biol:Life Cycle Approach

ANT 217: East Asian Calligraphy

ANT 217W: East Asian Calligraphy

ANT 230: Medical Anthropology

ANT 230W: Medical Anthropology

ANT 231: Predictive Health and Society

ANT 240: Language and Culture

ANT 240W: Language and Culture

ANT 250: Today's World: Special Topics

ANT 250W: Today's World: Special Topics

ANT 252: Fast Food/Slow Food

ANT 258: Anthropology of the Jews

ANT 265: Anthro.of Gender & Sexuality

ANT 270: Quantitative Methods for Anth

ANT 276: Queer Anthropology

ANT 280R: Anthro. Perspectives

ANT 285: Anthropology; Special Topics

ANT 285W: Anthropology; Special Topics

ANT 300-Level Courses

ANT 302: Primate Behavior & Ecology

ANT 303: Modern Human Origins

ANT 304W: Paleolithic Archaeology

ANT 305: The Human Brain

ANT 306: Primate Mating Strategies

ANT 306W: Primate Mating Strategies

ANT 307: Human Evolution

ANT 307W: Human Evolution

ANT 308: Evolution of Social Behavior

ANT 309: Seminar in Primate Behavior

ANT 310: Communication in Primates

ANT 311: Nutritional Anthropology

ANT 312: Human Skeletal Biology

ANT 314: Race&Racism:Myths&Realities

ANT 315: Ancient DNA & Human Evolution

ANT 316: Evolution: Human Brain & Mind

ANT 317: Human Social Neuroscience

ANT 318: Devlp Origins: HLTH+Well-Being

ANT 319: Anthropology of Fatherhood

ANT 324: Women in Cross-Cultr Persp

ANT 325: Language, Gender and Sexuality

ANT 328: Women, Religion & Ethnography

ANT 328W: Women, Religion & Ethnography

ANT 330: Global Food Security

ANT 331: Cross-Cult Iss in Mental Hlth

ANT 332: Race in the Age of Genomics

ANT 333: Disease & Human Behavior

ANT 334: Evolutionary Medicine

ANT 336: Anth. of Emerging Disease

ANT 336W: Anth. of Emerging Disease

ANT 337: Religion Health and Healing

ANT 338: Global Health:Biosocial Model

ANT 338W: Global Health: Biosocial Model

ANT 339: Defining Health: Biocult.Persp

ANT 340: Topics in Sociolinguistics

ANT 340W: Topics in Sociolinguistics

ANT 341: Advanced Language and Culture

ANT 342: Media and Culture

ANT 342W: Media and Culture

ANT 343: Ethnographic Cinema

ANT 344: Blackness & Politics of Space

ANT 348: Compassion and Human Health