Anthropology (ANTH)

ANTH 1010:   Introduction to Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Anthropology is the study of all things human, from our biological beginnings to the modern world. This course offers a four-field introduction to anthropology, covering cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, archaeology, and linguistic anthropology.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
WRIT 0940 OR 0970 if required.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 1040:   Introduction to Geography  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course uses perspectives of geography and anthropology to examine how peoples and places are connected. It raises awareness of intersecting contemporary problems, such as social and economic injustice, food insecurity, indigenous survival, conflict, loss of biodiversity, natural resource depletion, and climate change, and it emphasizes the importance of thoughtful and sustainable habitation on Earth.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 1050:   Intro. to Env. and Society  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course focuses on the complex relationships between people and the environment from a social science perspective. It provides an introduction to the ways in which humans interact with, depend on, and shape their environments by looking at current environmental issues, such as climate change, biodiversity conservation, and energy transitions.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 1100:   Ancient Plagues  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This introductory course explores archaeological and skeletal evidence of infectious disease and uses archaeological, bioarchaeological, and cultural historical approaches to examine how humans have adapted to infectious diseases through history. These epidemics affected how we view healthy versus unhealthy individuals, religion, medicine, and marginalized populations. They have caused also lifestyle changes through time that have led to the development of new diseases and their rapid transmission.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 1120:   Women and Power in Anc. Times  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Women’s power in the ancient world was compromised from the outset, and we explore the root causes and consequences of this social inequality. How did women negotiate their limited leadership roles? Were they able to rule "behind the throne" so to speak? How are we to find a woman’s power when it was so habitually cloaked by a man’s dominance? This class will use bioarchaeological evidence to address those questions and examine the breadth of women’s roles and agency in past societies.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 1999A:   Topics in Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Selected topics in anthropology. Content varies. (May be repeated for credit).  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
WRIT 0940 OR WRIT 0970 if required.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 2100:   Cartels, Gangs, & Crime Syndic  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course examines organized crime from a global anthropological perspective. It provides an introduction to concepts such as outlaws, social bandits, gangs, the mafia, cartels, crime syndicates, the illicit economy, protection rents, extortion, and money laundering. The class also discusses efforts by governments, law enforcement, and international bodies to neglect, selectively contain, or eradicate organized crime.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3020:   Anthropological Films  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course examines the use of films in anthropology.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
(WRIT 0940 or 0970 if required) and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3030:   Cultural Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
In this course, students will examine the fundamental principles, concepts, and methods used in cultural anthropology and ethnographic work.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3040:   Biological Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Students will learn how anthropologists study biology to understand human origins and modern biological variation. Course sections include basic genetics and epigenetics, the study of human skeletons from forensic and archaeological sites, observations of modern primates such as chimpanzees and monkeys, and identification and analysis of ancient pre-human fossils.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
Course Fees:
$25.00
  
ANTH 3050:   Archaeology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Archaeology is the subfield of anthropology that studies people through the recovery and analysis of their material and physical remains. This course outlines the history of archaeology, its methods, and contributions to understanding humankind.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3060:   Archaeology of the Anc. Celts  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course introduces students to the archaeological and anthropological study of ancient Celtic populations living in Central and Western Europe from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 500 and examines their cultural impact on the western world.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3080:   Death & Dying in the Anc. Wld  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course uses mortuary analysis of cemeteries, skeletal analysis of the burials, and cultural definitions of death and the afterlife to look at ethnic identity, social status, gender roles, and outsider status.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 3090:   Indians of MS and the South  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Review of the archaeological and ethnographical prehistory of such groups as the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3120:   Muslims in the West  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course explores the diversity of Muslims and Islam in Europe and the United States from the holistic and comparative perspective of cultural anthropology. Students will integrate the religious, socio-economic, political, as well as the cultural and daily aspects of life to understand different ways of being Muslim in multicultural Western societies.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3130:   Intro. to Linguistic Science  
Sociology and Anthropology  
The study of human language.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3140:   Islam and Global Politics  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course is an anthropological exploration oh how Muslims and Muslim societies respond to democracy, civil society, and globalization.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3150:   The African Diaspora  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course is an introduction to several of the most important methods to the study of African Diaspora experiences, including cultural, archaeological, biological, and linguistic approaches. Topics include slavery and colonialism, black revolt in the modern world, black nationalism, religious and ritual forms, foodways, music, genetics and genealogies, speech genres, and material culture.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3160:   Rise and Fall of the MSan Wld  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course reconstructs the rise and fall of the pre-Columbian Mississippian world of the Southeastern Indians (900 CE-1700 CE) through an examination of the variety of polities that existed, the structures of daily life, the political and ideological system, the connections that tied the various polities into a single, interactive world, and the fall of this world with European contact.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3170:   Indians on the S. Frontier  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Examines the place of Native Americans in the South during the frontier era (A.D. 1500-1840), focusing on the changes in Native American life once they became incorporated into the larger world as a result of European colonization.   
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3180:   Arch. of MS and the South  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course will introduce students to the archaeological study of prehistoric and historic Native American societies in Mississippi and the Southeastern United States. It includes an overview of archaeological research in the region and focuses on theoretical issues, archaeological sites, and data from the major cultural periods.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3190:   Envir. Hist. of the South  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Explores the changes in the Southern environment from the prehistoric era to the modern era, focusing on issues of human/environment interaction, changing patterns of land use, and the subsequent changes in the environment.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3200:   Archaeozoology: Animal Use in  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course uses analysis of animal bones from archaeological sites to explore how people used animals for food, in religion, and as work animals and companions in the past. An equal emphasis is placed on laboratory methods and anthropological theory.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture/Lab  
Course Fees:
$30.00
  
ANTH 3230:   Native North America  
Sociology and Anthropology  
In this course, students will learn about indigenous societies, cultural practices, and histories pertaining to North America.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3240:   North American Archaeology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course will provide students with an overview of prehistoric cultures of North America as understood through anthropological archaeology.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3250:   Archaeology of Mesoamerica  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course is an introduction to the archaeology of Mexico and Central America, from the peopling of the Americas through the rise and fall of states and empires.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3260:   Arch. of Maya Civ.ization  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Students will explore the world of the ancient Maya in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize through archaeology. The course covers architecture, politics and economy, art, hieroglyphs, and aspects of peoples' everyday lives from fashion, to food, festivals, and funerals.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3270:   Archaelology of South America  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Students will learn about representative cultures and culture areas of South America; their relationships and differences; the Inca and other ancient civilizations of the Andes.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3280:   Cult. & Soc in Lat Am & the Ca  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course studies the historical and cultural development of Latin American and Caribbean societies, with emphasis on issues such as legacies of conquest, U.S.-Latin American relations, patterns of economic development, expressions of popular culture, cycles of political change, relationships to the environment, and changing dynamics of gender, class, race, ethnicity, and nationhood.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3290:   Crime, Insecur, & Law in Lat.  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course explores the interface between crime, violence, insecurity, and law in Latin America and the Caribbean. Civilians contend with the insecurity produced by armed actors: organized crime groups, militias, paramilitaries, and state security forces. Crime and violence strain existing legal systems and constitutional republics. This has precipitated a search for new ways to promote law and security and to curb crime and violence.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3300:   Environmental Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
The course introduces students to the relationship between humans and the natural world. Students will look at the range of human production strategies such as hunting and gathering or engagement in capitalist economics and how these strategies function in the face of contemporary environmental and economic challenges. The course also pays special attention to some of the varied meanings of the natural world.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3310:   Indigenous Soc. and the Enviro  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course examines how Indigenous societies have forged complex relationships to natural environments around the world.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3320:   Early Med. Art and Archaeology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Art and architecture of the fourth through early 12th centuries in Eastern and Western Europe. Art of so-called barbarian groups from Hungary to England and Scandinavia, and Christian art of the Carolingian and Ottoman Empires.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3330:   The Mississippian Shatterzone  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course examines the consequences of European contact on the indigenous societies of the American South ca. 1540 to 1730.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3350:   Archaeological Field Session  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Intensive training in archaeological survey and excavation techniques and analysis of archaeological materials.  
6 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
ANTH 3360:   Viking Art and Archaeology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Art and archaeology of Vikings in Scandinavia and in distant lands from Russia to England and Iceland. Covers pre-Viking styles of the fifth century through late 11th century.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3370:   Anthropology of Blues Culture  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course examines the blues in all its myriad social and cultural roles and contexts, using the anthropological models and approaches of the oral and musical arts, linguistics, ethnohistory, ethnography, religion and ritual analysis among others.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3380:   Food, Place, and Power  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course is intended to inform students about the relationship among food, place, and power. We will explore how people, places, governments, and economies are connected through food systems, and how those connections are made possible. In addition to considering the modern (industrial) food system, we’ll consider alternatives to it and how those alternatives are also made to account for social, political, and ecological concerns.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3390:   Art & Archaeology of Pompeii  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course examines the material culture of Pompeii and Herculaneum as a microcosm of Roman art, architecture, history, religion, society, and daily life. It makes use of several categories of archaeological evidence including wall paintings, epigraphy, artifacts, and architecture.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3400:   Lithic Artifact Analysis  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This experiential course introduces the methods that archaeologists use to analyze stone tools and the byproducts of their creation.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3410:   Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Did Atlantis exist? Did ancient astronauts visit the Earth and introduce advanced technology? Topics such as these are investigated, comparing explanations offered by the pseudoscientific approach to those advanced by the scientific methods employed by archaeologists.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3420:   Osteology Directed Study  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course gives students the opportunity to learn lab techniques and work with real archaeological collections. Students will develop the skills needed to identify and curate archaeological assemblages of faunal and human skeletal material. Students will have the opportunity to develop independent projects. May be repeated once for credit.  
1 credit  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture/Lab  
ANTH 3440:   Arch. Sci.: Stones to Drones  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This methods lab-based class introduces students to techniques and technologies archaeologists use to reconstruct the past, from ancient stones to modern phones.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Laboratory  
Course Fees:
$30.00
  
ANTH 3450:   Gndr., Kin., & Citiz. in Korea  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course explores shifting gender roles and the evolution of the Korean family in divided Korea and in Korean diasporic communities. It also explores intersections of citizenship, nationalism, and multiculturalism in both North Korea and South Korea. Topics include family and war, women’s work, queer and trans politics, overseas adoption, the South Korean culture industry, and the cultural influence of the United States in Korea.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3460:   Applied Community Health  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course introduces history, philosophy, and applications of applied anthropology and community health with an emphasis on systems thinking and transdisciplinary action. Explores connections between human, animal, and environmental health. Coaches students on the tools and approaches for working locally and globally in remote teams.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3480:   Evolution & Human Behavior  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course is designed to provide an overview of the goals, methods, and discoveries involved in the scientific study of human behavior from an ecological perspective. This course explores foundational explanations of how ancient and modern environments shape our cognition and emotion, then introduces students to ecological perspectives of reproductive behavior, sociality, exchange, morality, and group conflict. This course evaluates the scientific methods used in field studies, and reviews the discoveries and debates they have produced. The course provides opportunities to gain experience communicating about scientific discoveries in the ecology of human behavior and to apply this newly obtained knowledge to one’s own life experience.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3490:   Medical Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Students examine how health and healing practices are understood in diverse sociocultural contexts, and how they relate to global processes and power structures. Topics include the self, body, illness, healing, and biomedicine.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 3500:   Ice Age North America  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course will introduce students to the archaeological, environmental, and geological evidence related to the timing of human entry into the Americas and fauna extinctions at the end of the ice age.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3510:   Hum. Mob.: St. in Migration  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course explores ancient and modern human migration, including where population movement occurs, who is moving, and how we define individuals and groups of migrants as adventurers, victims, invaders, and refugees. Examples include the U.S. southern border, the Mediterranean Sea, Mississippi, and other places on the landscape to understand human mobility. We also study how anthropologists reconstruct mobility using biological anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3520:   International Migration  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course is an examination of contemporary human migration patterns using theories from demography and sociology as a backdrop to study internal and international migration processes including who migrates, why they migrate, the process of assimilation into the host country, and migration policy.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
ANTH 3530:   Language and Culture  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Interrelations between language, thought, and culture; role of language in cognition; practical studies.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3540:   Hunting Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Explores the cultural, ecological, and evolutionary dimensions of hunting from prehistory to the present. Students examine ethnographic and archaeological data, experiment with replicative studies of hunting technologies, and discuss the ethics and conservation debates surrounding modern hunting practices.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3550:   The Anthropology of Drugs  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This class is dedicated to examining the concept of a drug from an anthropological perspective. What is a drug? Why and how do humans produce them and use them? And how have drugs impacted culture, health, and politics? Topics include global clinical trials, "natural" healing practices, and the impact of the war on drugs in Latin America and elsewhere.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3560:   Anc. Hlth & Dis.-Paleopatholog  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Students will study the natural history of infectious pathogens, their origins, their impact on human history; how health and disease were impacted by world events such as the rise of agriculture, urbanization, empire building, and globalization; and learn how to read archaeological skeletons to distinguish among infectious diseases, trauma patterns, human activity patterns, and debilitating diseases in order to reconstruct the lives of past populations.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3600:   Political Ecology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course examines the cultural politics of nature through a critical engagement with the most pressing environmental issues of the 21st century, such as environmental security and territorial conflict, energy production and toxicity, land management and protected-area conservation, climate change and the green economy.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3620:   Sustainable Development  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course provides a general introduction to the principles of sustainable development. It explores topics such as the history of sustainable development, the precautionary principle, the risk society and well-being, governance and environmental justice, conservation and protected areas, growth-oriented economic paradigms, food systems, renewable energy, and measuring progress.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3630:   Animals in Society  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Considers the role of nonhuman animals as actors and biological beings negotiating a human-directed world. Topics may include domestication, animal use as food and in research, cultural symbolism, and the growing practice of "pet parenting." Using the One Health approach, time is given to both the human and nonhuman perspectives, including animal-assisted interventions, cognition and emotion, and companion animal welfare. From domestication to modern obligations of ethical care and use, this course introduces students to the cross-cultural variety of relationships between humans and other animals.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3650:   Economic Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course seeks a critical engagement with the cultural dynamics of late capitalism. Studying economic production from a comparative perspective, this course centrally examines the topics of gifts, debt, credit, money, and value.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3660:   Geographies of Conflict  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Course Description: Explores conventional mappings of conflict with a focus on warfare between states and military infrastructures; including scales, locations, landscapes, and environments of conflict.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3700:   Archaeology of Poli. Systems  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course is designed to examine the archaeology of ancient political systems. The theoretical concepts and perspectives of sociopolitical complexity and some archaeological examples will be discussed.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 3750:   Digital Archaeology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course introduces students to some of the many technologies integral to modern archaeological fieldwork and research and provides hands-on experiences with instruments and software.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3760:   Forensic Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This lecture/lab methods course provides training in the methods and practices forensic anthropologists use to identify human remains, including osteological age, sex, and pathology useful for forensic and anthropological careers.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
Course Fees:
$25.00
  
ANTH 3850:   Topics in Anthropology Abroad  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Students complete approved coursework at a university outside the U.S. May be repeated once for credit with permission of department chair for a total of 6 hours toward the degree.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3900:   Bioarchaeology Abroad  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Students learn bioarchaeological methodology and practice application in a field setting. Instruction focuses on excavation and forensic analysis of human remains from archaeological contexts.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture/Lab  
ANTH 3910:   Arch. Fld. Session Abroad  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Students learn archaeological methodology and practice application in a field setting. Instruction focuses on excavation techniques, mapping, data recording, and laboratory analysis of artifacts.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture/Lab  
ANTH 3920:   Fld. Study: Cult. of the Andes  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Interdisciplinary study of the Andes, emphasizing the continuing encounter between European and indigenous civilizations. Topics include theories of social change and identity formation, religious and cultural syncretism, indigenous political and social movements, and the region's socioeconomic development. Taught in Bolivia.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3930:   Ethnographic Fld. Meth. Abroad  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Introduction to qualitative research methods appropriate for cross-cultural field studies. Students learn ethnographic and sociocultural research techniques at an approved field site, conducting original research that culminates in a capstone project.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3940:   Mesoamerican Art  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Interdisciplinary approach to the history of the arts of Mesoamerica, from 1500 B.C.E. to the Spanish conquest, covering Olmec, Maya, Mixtec, and Aztec civilizations.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 3999A:   Topics in Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Selected topics in anthropology. The content will vary. May be repeated for credit.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 4030:   Empire and Revolution  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course is an investigation of colonial and post-colonial eras and revolutionary action through attention to sociocultural theories of revolution, as well as ethnographies, histories, and case studies.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 4040:   Southern Folklore  
Sociology and Anthropology  
History and contemporary role of folk culture in the South as shown in ballads, folk tales, religion, and folk arts and crafts.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 4050:   Bone Det. I: Hum. Osteology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This laboratory-based seminar is an introduction to human skeletal anatomy. It combines forensic and archaeological methods to teach students how to identify and analyze human bone from archaeological sites.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture/Lab  
Course Fees:
$30.00
  
ANTH 4060:   Methods in Ethnohistory  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Examines the cross-disciplinary concepts and methods to reconstruct the past of people who left no written record.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 4070:   Methods in Ethnography  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Qualitative research methods appropriate for field studies. Students learn ethnographic and sociocultural research techniques, including participant observation and depth interviewing.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 4080:   Lab. Methods in Archaeology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
An overview of the analytical techniques of archaeology, emphasizing their development, application, and literature.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
ANTH 3050 and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
Course Fees:
$40.00
  
ANTH 4090:   Anthropological Theory  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course will provide a historical overview of the major theoretical trends in anthropology.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 4110:   Anthropology of Pol. & Power  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This seminar in political anthropology examines how power operates in state and nonstate societies, with a focus on contemporary issues such as citizenship, sovereignty, urban segregation, and national security.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 4120:   Earth, Wtr., & Fire: Ceramic A  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course will introduce techniques for the analysis of ceramic technology from ancient to modern societies, combining theory and analytical methods with hands-on experience in a laboratory setting.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
Course Fees:
$20.00
  
ANTH 4130:   Pub. Arch.: Thry and Meth.  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course provides theoretical and practical experience in public archaeology in the United States. Topics covered include the history and implementation of legislation affecting cultural resources, and a variety of field and lab methods used by current practitioners.  
4 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture/Lab  
Course Fees:
$20.00
  
ANTH 4140:   Legal Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course is a comparative study of the foundations of social order and the legitimization of how power is exercised within state and nonstate societies.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 4150:   Historical Archaeology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
The course will demonstrate how researchers work with not only archaeological data but also historical documents, oral histories, and ethnographies in order to interpret the recent past. Students will get a comprehensive survey of methods, theories, and discoveries in historical archaeology.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 4170:   Envir.ism: Society, Pol., Law  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This seminar examines environmental activism at the intersection of society, politics, and law. Taking a global perspective, the course highlights the challenges facing environmentalist movements, such as resource extra-activism, corporate impunity, regulatory capture, unequal access to the legal system, accelerating pollution, and climate change.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 4180:   Climate Futures & Eco-Pol. in  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course explores environmental politics in Latin America and the Caribbean during the age of climate change. It provides an introduction to debates about the Anthropocene, the transition to green capitalism, and the search for climate justice across the region.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 4190:   Dental Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This is a laboratory class that explores the application of data from human and nonhuman dentitions to anthropological questions. Topics covered include dental anatomy, development, evolution, variation, and pathology.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
Course Fees:
$30.00
  
ANTH 4200:   Environmental Archaeology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course examines the paleoecological context in which past humans interacted with the natural environment over the span of thousands of years – extending back in time to the last ice age.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 4250:   Bone Det. II: Blgcl Profiles  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course uses lecture and laboratory techniques to teach bioarchaeological and forensic skeletal analysis. Students will practice human skeletal inventory and biological profile analysis, and will learn the methodological techniques to estimate sex, age, stature, ethnicity, trauma patterns, and pathology.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
ANTH 4050 and 24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
Course Fees:
$30.00
  
ANTH 4270:   Cultural Resource Management  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Introduces the legal, historical, and ethical foundations of Cultural Resource Management in the United States. Students learn to identify, evaluate, and protect cultural resources through applied exercises, case studies, and report writing. Graduate students undertake additional research and professional development assignments.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 4999A:   Topics in Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Selected topics in anthropology. The content will vary. May be repeated once for credit.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
24 Earned Credits.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 5070:   The Archaeology of Landscape  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course is an exploration of the economic, social, political, and ideological dimensions of natural and cultural landscapes. Students will read and discuss approaches from critical geography, social theory, anthropology, archaeology, and related disciplines.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 5090:   Language Evolution  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Exploration of the development of human language as the result of evolutionary and other processes.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 5111:   Cross-Cult. St. in Ethnography  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Comparative study of the cultural areas of the world, emphasizing the effects of ecology in the differential development of culture.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 5112:   Cross-Cult. St. in Ethnography  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Comparative study of the cultural areas of the world, emphasizing the effects of ecology in the differential development of culture.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 5220:   Quantitative Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
An examination of the theory and techniques of quantitative analysis in anthropology with particular emphasis on practical application.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture/Lab  
ANTH 5410:   Individual Study Project  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Course may be repeated for credit with permission of department chair  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
ANTH 5420:   Osteology Directed Study  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course gives students the opportunity to learn lab techniques and work with real archaeological collections. Students will develop the skills needed to identify and curate archaeological assemblages of faunal and human skeletal material. Students will have the opportunity to develop independent projects. May be repeated once for credit.  
1 credit  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture/Lab  
ANTH 5450:   Seminar in Linguistics  
Sociology and Anthropology  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 5570:   The Archaeology of Landscape  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course is an exploration of the economic, social, political, and ideological dimensions of natural and cultural landscapes. Students will read and discuss approaches from critical geography, social theory, anthropology, archaeology, and related disciplines.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 5590:   Language Evolution  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Exploration of the development of human language as the result of evolutionary and other processes.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 5611:   Cross-Cult. St. in Ethnography  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Comparative study of the cultural areas of the world, emphasizing the effects of ecology in the differential development of culture.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 5612:   Cross-Cult. St. in Ethnography  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Comparative study of the cultural areas of the world, emphasizing the effects of ecology in the differential development of culture.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 5720:   Quantitative Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
An examination of the theory and techniques of quantitative analysis in anthropology with particular emphasis on practical application.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture/Lab  
ANTH 5910:   Individual Study Project  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Course may be repeated for credit with permission of department chair  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
ANTH 5920:   Osteology Directed Study  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course gives students the opportunity to learn lab techniques and work with real archaeological collections. Students will develop the skills needed to identify and curate archaeological assemblages of faunal and human skeletal material. Students will have the opportunity to develop independent projects. May be repeated once for credit.  
1 credit  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture/Lab  
ANTH 5950:   Seminar in Linguistics  
Sociology and Anthropology  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 6010:   Anthropological Thry and Meth.  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Study of the history of theory and methods in the field of anthropology.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 6020:   Globalization and the US South  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course is an analysis of the U.S. South within a global context.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 6030:   St. in Empire and Revolution  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This is an interdisciplinary seminar investigating colonial and postcolonial eras with focus on subjugation, resistance, and revolutionary action across class, racial, gender, national, and religious boundaries.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 6041:   Professional Development I  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This is a 1-hour professional development course designed to introduce incoming anthropology graduate students to the department, faculty, and the discipline. Z grade.  
1 credit  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 6042:   Professional Development II  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This is a 1-hour course designed to marshal second-year anthropology graduate students through the thesis-writing process. Z grade.  
1 credit  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 6060:   Sem in Cult. & Linguistic Anth  
Sociology and Anthropology  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 6070:   Sem in Biocultural Anthro  
Sociology and Anthropology  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
Course Fees:
$25.00
  
ANTH 6080:   Seminar in Archaeology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
A review of the major theoretical development in archaeology with an emphasis on the implications for methods and applications.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 6090:   Seminar in Res. Des. & Method  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Training in the fundamentals of research design from conceptualization to execution. Students learn techniques for framing an orginal research question, doing background research, and conducting actual research.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 6100:   The Mississippian Shatterzone  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This advanced course examines the consequences of European contact on the indigenous societies of the American South, ca. 1540-1730.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 6110:   Adv. Anthro of Pol. & Power  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This seminar in political anthropology considers the exercise and legitimization of power in state and nonstate societies. Focusing on theories of power, this course examines a variety of contemporary topics such as sovereignty, citizenship, hegemony, discipline, and national security.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 6120:   Earth/Wtr./Fire: Adv. Ceramic  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course will cover advanced techniques for the analysis of ceramic technology from ancient to modern societies, combining theory and analytical methods with hands-on experience in a laboratory setting.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
Course Fees:
$20.00
  
ANTH 6130:   Pub. Arch.: Thry and Meth.  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course provides theoretical and practical experience in public archaeology in the United States. Topics covered include the history and implementation of legislation affecting cultural resources, and a variety of field and lab methods used by current practitioners.  
4 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
Course Fees:
$20.00
  
ANTH 6140:   Advanced Legal Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This advanced course is a comparative study of the foundations of social order and legitimization of how power is exercised within state and nonstate societies.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 6150:   Fndmtls. of Linguistic Sci.  
Sociology and Anthropology  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 6160:   Rise and Fall of the MSan Wld  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course examines the archaeological and ethnohistorical reconstruction of the pre-Columbian Mississippian world of the Southeastern Indians (1000 CE to 1700 CE).  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 6170:   Historical Archaeology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
The course will demonstrate how researchers work with not only archaeological data but also historical documents, oral histories, and ethnographies in order to interpret the recent past. Students will get a comprehensive survey of methods, theories, and discoveries in historical archaeology.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 6180:   Arch. of MS and the South  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course provides an advanced overview of the archaeological study of prehistoric and historic Native American societies in Mississippi and the southeastern United States. It includes an overview of archaeological research in the region and focus on issues, archaeological sites, and data from the major cultural periods.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 6190:   Advanced Dental Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This advanced laboratory class explores the application of data from human and nonhuman dentitions to anthropological questions. Topics covered include dental anatomy, development, evolution, variation, and pathology.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Laboratory  
ANTH 6200:   Adv. Methods in Ethnography  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This seminar will introduce students to research design, data collection and analysis, and ethnographic writing. Special attention will be given to the fundamental aspects of ethnography through hands-on experience with fieldwork and through critical reading of ethnographic texts.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 6211:   Readings in Anthropology I  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Review of the major contributions of leading anthropologists.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
ANTH 6212:   Readings in Anthropology II  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Review of the major contributions of leading anthropologists.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Independent Study  
ANTH 6260:   Arch. of Maya Civ.ization  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Students will explore the world of the ancient Maya in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize through archaeology. The course covers architecture, politics and economy, art, hieroglyphs, and aspects of peoples' everyday lives from fashion to food, festivals, and funerals.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 6270:   Cultural Resource Management  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Introduces the legal, historical, and ethical foundations of Cultural Resource Management in the United States. Students learn to identify, evaluate, and protect cultural resources through applied exercises, case studies, and report writing. Graduate students undertake additional research and professional development assignments. Traditional format.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 6300:   Human Osteology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This laboratory-based course is an introduction to human skeletal anatomy geared toward advanced students and graduate students. It combines forensic and archaeological methods to teach students how to identify and analyze human bone from archaeological sites.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 6400:   Lithic Artifact Anlys./Adv. Li  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This experiential course introduces the methods that archaeologists use to analyze stone tools and the byproducts of their creation. Students taking Anth 640: Advanced Lithic Artifact Analysis for graduate-level credit must conduct additional analyses and write a comprehensive report.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 6440:   Advanced Archaeological Sci.  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This methods lab-based class introduces graduate and advanced students to techniques and technologies archaeologists use to reconstruct the past, from ancient stones to modern phones.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Laboratory  
ANTH 6500:   Archaeozoology: Animal Use in  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course uses analysis of animal bones from archaeological sites to explore how people used animals for food, in religion, and as work animals and companions in the past. An equal emphasis is placed on laboratory methods and anthropological theory.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 6510:   Hum. Mob.: Adv St. in Migratio  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This advanced course explores ancient and modern human migration, including where population movement occurs, who is moving, and how we define individuals and groups of migrants as adventurers, victims, invaders, and refugees. Examples include the U.S. southern border, the Mediterranean Sea, Mississippi, and other places on the landscape to understand human mobility. We also study how anthropologists reconstruct mobility using biological anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 6530:   Field Methods in Archaeology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Training in excavation methods and interpretation of results through supervised field work.  
6 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Laboratory  
ANTH 6540:   Linguistic Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
The complex intersections of language, culture, race, ethnicity, and gender will be explored through social interactions and their dynamics.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 6560:   Adv. Paleopathology: Anc. Hlth  
Sociology and Anthropology  
Paleopathology is the study of health and disease in past populations from an evolutionary and biocultural perspective. Students will study the natural history of infectious pathogens, their origins, their impact on human history; how health and disease were impacted by world events such as the rise of agriculture, urbanization, empire building, and globalization; and learn how to read archaeological skeletons to distinguish among infectious diseases, trauma patterns, human activity patterns, and debilitating diseases in order to reconstruct the lives of past populations.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 6700:   Adv. Archaeology of Poli. Syss  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course is designed to examine the archaeology of ancient political systems. Specific goals include discussing the major trends, concepts, and perspectives in the transformation of political organizations and social integration. A secondary goal is examining the empirical evidence for, and archaeological correlates of, political organization. The course will not cover all theories about past political systems, or serve as a survey of the rise and development of political forms in complex societies around the world. Rather, it is intended to be a direct and focused course dealing with several key aspects of political systems and how archaeologists identify and theorize about such systems using the archaeological record.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
ANTH 6750:   Advanced Digital Archaeology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course provides an in-depth overview of the technologies that are being used to discover, analyze, interpret, present, and display archaeological materials. Students will be able to understand how these technologies work, what they can be used for, and their limitations.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 6760:   Advanced Forensic Anthropology  
Sociology and Anthropology  
This course provides training in the methods, practices, and theoretical frameworks used in forensic anthropology used to identify age, sex, ancestry, and pathology used in forensic and anthropological careers.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
ANTH 6997A:   Thesis  
Sociology and Anthropology  
No grade  
1 - 12 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Thesis