The following courses, numbered 5000-9999, are offered for graduate credit. Courses numbered 5000-6999 which are offered for undergraduate credit only may be found in the undergraduate bulletin, as well as all other undergraduate courses (numbered 0900-4999). Courses in the following list numbered 5000-6999 may be taken for undergraduate credit unless specifically restricted to graduate students as indicated by individual course limitations. For interpretation of numbering system, signs and abbreviations, see University Courses.
Prereq: ANT 2100 or consent of instructor. Social-cultural effects of urbanization from a cross-cultural perspective with emphasis on the developing area of the world. The process of urbanization; the anthropological approach in the area of urban studies. (Y)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or 2110 or consent of instructor. Interrelationships between the cultural and biological aspects of humans; human genetic variability, human physiological plasticity and culture as associated mechanisms by which humans adapt to environmental stress.
(Y)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or 5200 or consent of instructor. Ethnographic and comparative study of power, politics, and political organizations in non-state and state societies and in the colonial encounter; evolutionary, functionalist, practice-oriented, Marxist, feminist, and Foucauldian approaches to the study of power. (I)
Prereq: CRJ 2000 or ANT 2110 or consent of instructor. Introductory survey of the natural, medical, and behavioral sciences with regard to forensic applications. Topics may include: toxicology, forensic pathology, fingerprints, ballistics, analysis of the human skeleton, body fluid identification. (B)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or SOC 2010 or consent of instructor. Critical reading of classical and contemporary ethnographies (anthropological descriptions and interpretations of societies and cultures, based on fieldwork). Analysis of theoretical approaches to the study of culture, social relations, and social organizations; ethnographies in historical and comparative perspectives; nature of ethnographic representation and knowledge. (Y)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or consent of instructor. Required for majors. Intensive introduction to research methods, techniques and issues in anthropology. Students engage in a research experience supervised by the instructor, write a field journal, and complete a final exam. Exercises focus on data collection, data management, and data analysis. Techniques include participant observation, fieldnotes, and interviewing. Students learn how to use software packages employed by anthropological researchers in the computer lab. (Y)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or consent of instructor. Evolutionary and cultural bases of gender roles using a world sample, division of labor, marriage and sexual behavior, power and ideology. (I)
A triple heritage has contributed to the shaping of lives of African descent: the indigenous, Islamic and Christian religions. Analysis of these legacies, their specificity, interplay and significance in Africa, the Caribbean, South and North America. (I)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or 3200. For advanced upper-level undergraduates with a background in anthropology, and graduate students. Current theoretical and methodological approaches to investigation of past societies; frameworks include culture history, processual, structuralist, neo-Marxist; methods and techniques used to investigate ancient environments, subsistence strategies, ideologies, and social, political and economic organizations. (Y)
Prereq: consent of instructor; ANT 5270 recommended. Introduction to reconnaissance and excavation of sites; preparation and cataloging of specimens; analysis of data. Material Fee as indicated in the Schedule of Classes (B)
Required for undergraduate majors. Prereq: ANT 2100 or 5200 or consent of instructor. Explore the rich interconnections of language and culture in distant and local communities, in contexts where languages are declining or developing anew, and in life cycle and ordinary contexts of daily life. Students are also expected to explore their own language and cultural backgrounds and those to which they are drawn. (F)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or 5200 or consent of instructor. Contemporary linguistic anthropologists see language as a form of social action. How has this understanding of language in society evolved? Read classic works of linguistic anthropology and contemporary studies in this growing field. Engage in research in language in society. (W)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or 5200 or consent of instructor. The nature and variety of religious belief and practice; theoretical interpretations. (B)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or 5200 or consent of instructor. Required for majors. History of ideas and explanatory theories in anthropology; continuities and disjunctures in British, French, American, German, Belgian, Russian, and Third World anthropologies. (Y)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or consent of instructor. Concepts and theory in medical anthropology from cultural and biological perspectives. Topics include: cross-cultural aspects of sex and gender in health and illness, life course, sexuality, birth and death, bio-cultural approaches to healing and treatment, international health and epidemiology. (B)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or consent of instructor. Cultural construction of the life course; age categories such as childhood and old age examined from cross-cultural, historical, political and economic perspectives. Special attention to women's aging; role of biology and ethnicity in aging and death and dying. (B)
Prereq: consent of instructor. Field placement in a health service agency. Students provide volunteer assistance to an agency while conducting participant observation research exercises. Utilization of field experience to learn about urban health issues and research methodology. (I)
Physical, spiritual, legal, economic, political, cultural, and ethical issues at the end of life, examined as stories about individuals, families, and communities. (Y)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or consent of instructor, or CBS 2010. Survey of the history and characteristics of cultures in Mesoamerica prior to and after colonization, from the Maya and Olmec to the Aztec and their descendants. (I)
Introduction to basics of museums, museum work, and museum theory. Topics include: collections management, data bases, interpretive exhibit methods, current issues in museum studies, legal concerns, role of museums as educational institutions. (I)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or 5200 or consent of instructor. The application of anthropological concepts and methods to contemporary issues of public concern in the United States and abroad. (B)
Prereq: consent of undergraduate adviser. Open only to students admitted to Salford Exchange Program. Credit earned through approved upper division coursework at the University of Salford, England, as part of WSU-Salford Exchange Program. (F,W)
Prereq: upper division or graduate standing. Required for majors. Review and integrate central practices and theories in anthropology through discussion of the four major subfields and applied areas of anthropology. Special attention will be given to new developments in the different fields. Recommended for new graduate students without extensive background in anthropology; also open to those outside anthropology who desire a thorough view of research areas and theoretical perspectives in anthropology. (Y)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or consent of instructor. Subsaharan African cultures and societies; emphasis on both complex and simple political systems. (I)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or 5200 or consent of instructor. Culture and social changes. Origins and functional relationships, regional variation in population, settlement, culture contact, religion, migration, social institutions. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes .
(I)
Required for first year graduate students. Examination of some major debates in anthropology in historical and contemporary perspective; continuities and breakthroughs. (Y)
Prereq: ANT 6300. Required for first-year Ph.D. students. Continuation of ANT 6300. (B)
Oral history as a methodology for research. Interviewing procedures and techniques of indexing, transcribing, and analyzing historical content of oral history interviews. (I)
Human ability to create symbols to communicate. Oral tradition and myth; utopia and uchronia and the imaginary construction of the world; art and the eschatological discourse. (I)
Prereq: ANT 6300 or 6310 or 5200. Use of economic analysis in anthropology. Difference between Western and non-Western economies and economic models; methods of analysis of non-Western economies and non-rationalized sectors of Western economies. (B)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or consent of instructor. Interface of cultural, scientific and political factors in the formation of health policy. Focus on specific health problem (e.g., AIDS, aging); analysis of social construction of the problem, and political and medical aspects. (I)
Prereq: ANT 2100, 3200, or consent of instructor. Study of precolumbian cultures of South America. Archaeological and ethnohistorical data beginning with the Inca; foundations of Inca civilization; major cultures from different regions and periods in South American prehistory. (B)
Prereq: ANT 5270 or 5280, or consent of instructor. Emphasis on application of theory, practice, and research. Topics include: cultural resource management, ceramic analysis, settlement pattern studies, materialities, historical archaeology, archaeological data management. (Y)
Prereq: ANT 2110 or consent of instructor. Selected topics in physical anthropology. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes .
(I)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or 5200 or consent of instructor. Selected topics in cultural anthropology. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes . (I)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or consent of instructor. New and emerging topics in medical anthropology or topics presented by visiting faculty in areas of theory, practice, and methodology. (B)
Prereq: ANT 2100 or consent of instructor. Biological and cultural aspects of alcohol and drug use and abuse considered in the context of medical anthropology and its theory, practice and research. (B)
Prereq: consent of instructor. Students gain firsthand experience in conceptualizing, conducting, and/or implementing applied research in business and other organizations. (F,W)
Prereq: NUR 8060 or equiv. For students who have already developed a research proposal and are in the process of conducting a qualitative study. Practical application of data collection, analysis and interpretation. (Y)
Prereq: ANT 6300 or 6310 or consent of instructor. Qualitative methods techniques and research design. Students conduct independent field research and learn data collection methods. (B)
Prereq: ANT 7200. Students continue their field research and learn to analyze and draw theoretical conclusions from their data. Training in computer and other tools for data analysis and theory building. (B)
Prereq: advanced undergraduate or graduate training in general research methods and statistics; open to upper level undergraduates with consent of instructor. Hands-on approach to understanding the strengths and potential pitfalls of the survey method. Topics include: design of survey research (including theory, measurement and ethics), sampling (including special populations), questionnaire development and survey administration. (F)
Prereq: graduate standing. Review of theories of poverty from various economic/political perspectives; historical intervention policies; current literature on interplay of racial, economic, and spatial factors on growing economic inequality among urban whites and African-Americans. Political rationale and meaning of `underclass' debate.
(B)
Physical, spiritual, legal, economic, political, cultural, and ethical issues at the end of life, examined as stories about individuals, families, and communities. (Y)
Central concepts and theories. Current developments, problems and contemporary research orientations. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes . (B)
Central concepts and theories. Current developments, problems and contemporary research orientations. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes . (Y)
Prereq: ANT 2110. Current developments, problems, research orientations. Topics to be announced in Schedule of Classes. (B)
Prereq: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Required of students in medical anthropology concentration or applied medical anthropology M.A. program. Core concepts and theoretical approaches, including: aging, life course, childhood, old age, disability, chronic illness, infectious disease, international health, organization of health care institutions, health policy, political economy of health, women's health, reproduction, technology, the body, bioethics, culture and cognition, death and dying, race and ethnicity, violence, sex and sexuality. (B)
Prereq: graduate standing or consent of instructor. Required of students in medical anthropology concentration or applied medical anthropology M.A. program. Continuation of ANT 7680. (B)
Prereq: graduate standing. Applications of anthropology to domestic and international business and industrial practices. Topics include: technology, material culture, and consumption; industrial anthropology; organizational culture and reform; anthropology of capitalism; globalization. (B)
For any class designated as Web, contact online: (http://www.classschedule.wayne.edu). Interdisciplinary distance-learning course that focuses on worldwide migration across international borders, and its health-related effects on individuals, families and nations. (Y)
Basic concepts, practices, and skills needed to develop and present a grant proposal competitive for funding. (W)
Prereq: written consent of adviser and graduate officer. Research problem which involves fieldwork or intensive and systematic reading of original technical literature. (T)
Prereq: written consent of adviser and graduate officer. (T)
Prereq: written consent of adviser and graduate officer. Open only to graduate students. A research problem which requires field work or intensive and systematic reading of original technical literature. (T)
Prereq: written consent of adviser and graduate officer. Open only to graduate students. A research problem which requires field work or intensive and systematic reading of original technical literature. (T)
Prereq: written consent of adviser and graduate officer. Open only to graduate students. A research problem which requires field work or intensive and systematic reading of original technical literature. (T)
Prereq: written consent of instructor and graduate officer. Open only to advanced graduate students. Research problem requiring intensive study of original documents, specialized literature, and/or field research with write-up. (T)
Prereq: written consent of adviser and graduate officer. (T)
Prereq: consent of adviser and written consent of graduate officer. Open only to graduate students. A research problem which requires field work or intensive and systematic reading of original technical literature. (T)
Prereq: written consent of adviser. (T)
Prereq: consent of adviser. (T)
Prereq: consent of department. For Ph.D. program applicants. Offered for S and U grades only. Research in preparation for doctoral dissertation. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; Ph.D. candidate in department. Required in academic-year semester following advancement to Ph.D. candidacy. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; ANT 9991. Required in academic-year semester following ANT 9991. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; ANT 9992. Required in academic-year semester following ANT 9992. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; ANT 9993. Required in academic-year semester following ANT 9993. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: consent of dissertation adviser; completion of 30 credits in ANT 9999, or 9991-9994. Offered for S and U grades only. (T)
Prereq: Candidacy Status or consent of the Graduate School. Offered for S and U grades only; interim Y mark permitted. (T)