Academic Calendar - 2020 ARCHIVE
Western University Academic Calendar. - 2020ARCHIVE
Anthropology
An introduction to anthropology (the study of human beings, past and present) co-taught by specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology. Students will explore anthropological approaches to and findings concerning: human evolution; variation and adaptation; diverse forms of social, political, and economic organization; culture; ritual; language; communication; identity; gender; health; social inequality; and globalization.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 1021A/B, Anthropology 1022A/B, Anthropology 1025F/G, Anthropology 1026F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Note: Students interested in earning essay course credit are encouraged to take Anthropology 1025F/G and Anthropology 1026F/G instead of Anthropology 1020.
Course Weight: 1.00
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An introductory course teaching basic concepts in the study of socio-cultural and linguistic practices worldwide. It underscores shared human experiences as well as our rich diversity. Topics include, changing socio-cultural and economic institutions, political and religious systems, and the role of language in the workings of power, indexicality and identity.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1025F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introduction to aspects of Biological Anthropology and Archaeology which help us to understand the place of humankind in nature. Topics to be covered include heredity, human evolution and variability, archaeological method, the development of culture, the domestication of plants and animals, and the rise of civilization and the state.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1026F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introductory course teaching basic concepts in the study of socio-cultural and linguistic practices worldwide. It underscores shared human experiences as well as our rich diversity. Topics include, changing socio-cultural and economic institutions, political and religious systems, and the role of language in the workings of power, indexicality and identity.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1021A/B..
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introductory course teaching basic concepts in the study of socio-cultural and linguistic practices worldwide. It underscores shared human experiences as well as our rich diversity. Topics include, changing socio-cultural and economic institutions, political and religious systems, and the role of language in the workings of power, indexicality and identity.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1021A/B..
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
This course is also offered at:
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An introduction to aspects of biological anthropology and archaeology which help us to understand the place of humankind in nature. Topics to be covered include heredity, human evolution and variability, archaeological method, the development of culture, the domestication of plants and animals, and the rise of civilization and the state.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1022A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
This course is also offered at:
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An introduction to aspects of biological anthropology and archaeology which help us to understand the place of humankind in nature. Topics to be covered include heredity, human evolution and variability, archaeological method, the development of culture, the domestication of plants and animals, and the rise of civilization and the state.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1022A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
This course is also offered at:
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Introduction to basic concepts and methods of modern linguistics. Topics include articulatory and acoustic phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. This course is a prerequisite for subsequent linguistics courses in the Department of Anthropology and/or the Linguistics program.
Antirequisite(s): Linguistics 2288A/B.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The field of archaeology, with emphasis on the major discoveries of the discipline. Topics include the evolution of humans, their spread throughout the world, the origins of agriculture, urbanization, and the development of early civilizations. Major archaeological sites like Olduvai Gorge, Stonehenge, Giza, Ur and Teotihuacan will be discussed.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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An examination of spectacular archaeological sites around the world, including many on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The course covers sites of complex hunter-gatherers and farmers, and early states and empires in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Aegean, Asia and Mesoamerica, the Andes and the Classical World.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the relationship between language and sex/gender systems from a critical linguistic anthropology perspective. Areas investigated include: language and gender stereotypes; gender variation in language usage; power and women's status; and male vs female communicative styles in different contexts.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 2251F/G, the former Linguistics 2185A/B, the former Linguistics 2286F/G, the former Linguistics 2287F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Arts and Humanities or Social Science course.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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We examine languages and dialects that are associated with particular regions, cultures, and/or ethnic groups in Canada, including Indigenous languages, French, English and immigrant languages. We consider language structures, variation and ways that languages relate to the identity of groups which speak them.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 2252F/G, or the former Linguistics 2185A/B, the former Linguistics 2285F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Arts and Humanities or Social Science course.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Today, with over half the world population living in cities, urban field sites have become the norm for many anthropologists. Through case studies, this course introduces key topics, debates, and insights associated with urban anthropology and invites reflection on the contributions anthropology can make to urban studies.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An examination of natural resource development emphasizing the interplay between indigenous people, the state and transnational developers. Topics include: environmentalism and livelihood; land rights; corporate power and state policies; common property and community-based resource management; NGOs in environmental politics; sustainability and the greening of development.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 2203F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introduction to the Caribbean and circum- Caribbean, emphasizing religion, aesthetic styles, current political processes, and relationships of the region and its peoples to Canada.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 2211F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Usually only two of Anthropology 2211F/G, Anthropology 2212F/G, Anthropology 2216F/G, and Anthropology 2219F/G will be offered in any given year.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Focusing on the cultures of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, this course reveals how people often understood as peripheral are at the centre of global processes. The course addresses topics including social structure, gender, politics, economies, ecologies, cosmologies, and the representation of Pacific peoples.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 2212F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Usually only two of Anthropology 2211F/G, Anthropology 2212F/G, Anthropology 2216F/G, and Anthropology 2219F/G will be offered in any given year.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The cultural history of Latin American societies. Topics include the historical formation of indigenous communities, and a wide variety of contemporary social problems in Latin America.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 2216F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Usually only two of Anthropology 2211F/G, Anthropology 2212F/G, Anthropology 2216F/G, and Anthropology 2219F/G will be offered in any given year.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A critical examination of approaches that tend to homogenize and dehistoricize Middle Eastern peoples. The course provides an historical overview that reveals regional heterogeneity, and shifts in peoples, powers and borders. Due to the immensity and complexity of the region, the thematic focus will change regularly.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Usually only two of Anthropology 2211F/G, Anthropology 2212F/G, Anthropology 2216F/G, and Anthropology 2219F/G will be offered in any given year.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Sociocultural Anthropologists commonly debate the foundations of their discipline. What are the goals of Sociocultural Anthropology? How should we be doing it, and why? For whom do we do it? This course contextualizes such key debates focusing especially on what they tell us about the discipline's past, present, and future.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E) or Anthropology 1025F/G or Anthropology 1021A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A survey of the major areas of biological anthropology, including heredity, paleo-anthropology, human adaptability and variability, and growth and development.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), or one of Anthropology 1025F/G or Anthropology 1021A/B and one of Anthropology 1026F/G or Anthropology 1022A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics available in the Department.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course provides an overview of the goals, theory and analytical methods of archaeology as practised by anthropologists. The course serves to provide a basic appreciation of how one is able to go from the material remains of past peoples to statements about the nature of their cultural systems, and also, how archaeologists are uniquely poised to address certain general questions of concern to all anthropologists.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), or one of Anthropology 1025F/G or Anthropology 1021A/B and one of Anthropology 1026F/G or Anthropology 1022A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An overview and critical evaluation of reconstructions of past ways of life in the Arctic. The course will introduce prehistoric cultures as archaeologically defined and examine the use of ethnography in archaeological interpretation, the role of cultural contact in culture change, and the use of archaeology in constructing contemporary identity.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E) or Anthropology 1026F/G or Anthropology 1022A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The prehistoric societies of Ontario and surrounding areas. Topics include the entry of humans into the New World and their arrival in Ontario; development of agriculture; appearance of historic period societies such as the Huron, Neutral and Ojibwa; impact of European settlement and economic systems on native societies.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 2233F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), or one of Anthropology 1025F/G or Anthropology 1021A/B and one of Anthropology 1026F/G or Anthropology 1022A/B, or Anthropology 2100, or Indigenous Studies 1020E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will focus primarily on the prehistory of the Peruvian Andes and Coast, with some overlap into Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and Amazonia. We will study the area's archaeological record in some detail, touching on a variety of themes that are of general archaeological interest, e.g. agricultural origins, trade, the rise of complex societies, the role of religious ideology, and the interpretation of archaeological evidence.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: Indigenous Studies 2234F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), or one of Anthropology 1025F/G or Anthropology 1021A/B and one of Anthropology 1026F/G or Anthropology 1022A/B, or Anthropology 2100, or Indigenous Studies 1020E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Note for Main campus: Students intending to apply for the Archaeological Summer Field Course in Peru are strongly encouraged to take this course first.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will focus primarily on the prehistory of the Peruvian Andes and Coast, with some overlap into Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and Amazonia. We will study the area's archaeological record in some detail, touching on a variety of themes that are of general archaeological interest, e.g. agricultural origins, trade, the rise of complex societies, the role of religious ideology, and the interpretation of archaeological evidence.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: Indigenous Studies 2234F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), or one of Anthropology 1025F/G or Anthropology 1021A/B and one of Anthropology 1026F/G or Anthropology 1022A/B, or Anthropology 2100, or Indigenous Studies 1020E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Note for Main campus: Students intending to apply for the Archaeological Summer Field Course in Peru are strongly encouraged to take this course first.
Course Weight: 0.50
This course is also offered at:
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Recovering remains and identifying victims and perpetrators of crimes is at the core of forensic science. This course details methods used in crime scene analysis using a case study format. Topics include: archaeology, entomology, vital statistics (i.e., age, sex, stature, race) of skeletons, fingerprinting, and DNA (nuclear and mitochondrial).
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Social Science, Health Sciences, or Science course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the growth, development and aging of the human body using evolutionary, comparative and cross-cultural approaches. We will draw on practical methods from bioarchaeology and forensics, theoretical perspectives from biological evolution and evolutionary ecology, cultural aspects from cultural anthropology, and clinical perspectives from modern medical studies.
Prerequisite(s): Any one of the following: Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1022A/B, Anthropology 1026F/G, Sociology 1020, Sociology 1021E, Biology 1225, Biology 1290B, Health Sciences 1001A/B and Health Sciences 1002A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Humans are a remarkably adaptable species who have colonized almost all regions of our planet. This course examines the mechanisms that underlie our adaptability, including human biological diversity, the ways we adapt to environmental stress, and the resilience of our species in response to rapid environmental and cultural change.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year, including at least one course in Social Science, Science, or Health Sciences. Recommended: Anthropology 1020, Anthropology 1021A/B, Anthropology 1022A/B, Anthropology 1025F/G, Anthropology 1026F/G, Geography 1100, Geography 1300A/B, Geography 1400F/G, Geography 1500F/G, Biology 1225, Biology 1290B, Health Sciences 1001A/B or Health Sciences 1002A/B.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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While alive our bodily tissues store a tremendous amount of information. These clues can be used to tell a lot about a person’s life and death. This information is explored in three contexts: Living Individuals, Recently Deceased Individuals (focus on forensic applications), and Older Deceased Individuals (focus on archaeological applications).
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Social Science, Health Sciences, or Science course.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Mummies are of interest to archaeologists and to the general public. Mummies are people and they speak to us from across the centuries. This course takes an interdisciplinary, scientific and cultural approach to the study of human mummies to discuss issues of ethics, science and cross-cultural perspectives on death.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Social Science, Health Sciences, or Science course.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Introduces theories and methods of linguistic anthropology. Topics include: the relationship between language and thought, connections between linguistic practices and social categories, the role of language in cultural practices.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), or Anthropology 1021A/B, or Anthropology 1025F/G, or Anthropology 1027A/B, or Linguistics 2288A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines reading and writing from an anthropological perspective. It looks at how writing originated based on archeological evidence and at the sociocultural consequences of this invention. Then it explores various writing systems around the world as well as the effects of the introduction of literacy in societies.
Prerequisite(s): One of Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1022A/B, Anthropology 1026F/G, Anthropology 1027A/B, Linguistics 2288A/B or permission from the instructor.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Structures and patterns in spoken and written language are analyzed in interactional contexts using various models. Topics include: conversation analysis, speech acts, pragmatics, discourse markers, and transcription.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1027A/B or Linguistics 2288A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the artful and playful use of spoken language in relation to social organization and cultural practices. Topics include: structures and patterns in speech play, participation of the audience in the performance, evaluation of competence, issues of authenticity and identity, and the tension between tradition and innovation.
Prerequisite(s): One of Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1021A/B, Anthropology 1025F/G, Anthropology 1027A/B, Linguistics 2288A/B or permission from the instructor.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the relationship between language and sex/gender systems from a critical linguistic anthropological perspective. Areas investigated include: language and gender stereotypes; gender variation in language usage; power and women's status; and male vs female communicative styles in different contexts. An essay on a relevant topic is required.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 2151A/B, the former Linguistics 2185A/B, the former Linguistics 2286F/G, the former Linguistics 2287F/G.
Prerequisite(s): One of Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1021A/B, Anthropology 1025F/G, Anthropology 1027A/B, Women's Studies 1020E, Women's Studies 1021F/G, or Linguistics 2288A/B.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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We examine languages and dialects that are associated with particular regions, cultures, and/or ethnic groups in Canada, including Indigenous languages, French, English and immigrant languages. We consider language structures, variation and ways that languages relate to the identity of groups which speak them.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 2152A/B, the former Linguistics 2185A/B, the former Linguistics 2285F/G.
Prerequisite(s): One of Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1021A/B, Anthropology 1025F/G, Anthropology 1027A/B, Indigenous Studies 1020E, or Linguistics 2288A/B.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course focuses on endangered languages and the local and global factors affecting language vitality and revival. Practical strategies for sustaining and reviving languages, including language documentation and revitalization, will be addressed with examples coming from various areas of the world and special focus on Indigenous languages of the Americas.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 2253A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week. Cross-listed with Indigenous Studies 2253A/B.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Critical assessment of feminist theory and methodology for cross-cultural interpretations. Topics include: critical examination of gender, division of labor, power, production and reproduction, ideology, communication, "nature"; controversies over nature/nurture, nature/culture, public/private.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines how changing notions of social control, sanitation, property value, class, security, and individual well-being have shaped the social production of green spaces in urban environments. We will also explore how green spaces are experienced by urban inhabitants and influence their imagination of the city.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Archaeology is often portrayed in popular culture: on television and in the movies, on the internet, in comics, video games and news media. This course examines how both non-archaeologists and archaeologists present archaeology to the public and considers what these representations imply about the relationship between archaeology and modern society.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course focuses on communities of commodity producers and consumers in an integrated global political economy. Weekly lectures centre on particular commodities (rubber, gold, sapphires, oil, water, etc.) and on how anthropologists have attempted to study the roots and effects of their production and consumption.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Bodies are physical and sensual, personal and public, the result of evolution, and yet flexibly attuned to local histories and desires. This course will take a biocultural approach to exploring what bodies are, how they are used, by whom, for what purposes, and how we come to know such things.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A consideration of conservation issues confronting primatologists, including: conservation assessment, variables for understanding the conservation biology of nonhuman primate populations, biogeographic patterns contributing to declining primate populations, strategies in primate conservation, and how ethnoprimatology - the study of interactions between humans and nonhuman primate populations - can be useful in primate conservation.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course considers the behavioral patterns, and diversity, exhibited across species of the Order Primates. Critical examination of theoretical models developed to explain primate behavior is emphasized. Topics covered, using species comparisons, include socioecological contexts of primate behavior, reproduction, growth and development, kinship and dominance, communication and cognition.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Modern zoos characterize themselves as key players in conserving endangered species. But, is this message getting across to zoo visitors? This course utilizes anthropological and interdisciplinary approaches to assess key aspects of zoo-based conservation action, and the extent to which zoos can generate public engagement in 21st century conservation concerns.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the dynamics of family and kinship cross-culturally in traditional and globalizing contexts. We will explore themes including variability in family form, marriage patterns, gender relations, household economics, historical change in family structure, and the effects of globalization and modernity on family structure and practice.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines various aspects of tourism from an anthropological point of view. Topics will include the cultural effects of tourism on both hosts and guests, on the political and economic issues involved in tourism, on the connection between tourism and environmental concerns, and on conflict over local resources.
Prerequisite(s): At least a 0.5 Essay course in any faculty.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores sex and gender as concepts that are socially and culturally constructed within and across cultures. Emphasizing critical and thoughtful reading, analysis, and discussion, the course addresses how shared understandings of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion and class affect people’s experiences of their social worlds.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course takes an anthropological approach to exploring music as an aspect of culture in both present and ancient societies. It focuses on how music is used to negotiate individual and collective identities in multiple world contexts using methods and issues relating to the ethnographic study of music behaviours.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores anthropological approaches to the study of crisis, disaster, and emergency. We will look at theoretical frameworks for understanding disaster and apply them to case studies of disasters ranging from fires and hurricane to earthquakes and humanitarian emergencies.
Prerequisite(s): At least 0.5 essay course in Arts and Humanities or Social Science.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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What are these categories of race, ethnicity and identity? These are hotly contested categories that are constantly shifting. This course will introduce students to anthropological conceptions of race and ethnicity and how these have shaped human identity over the 19th through 21st centuries.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the economic lives of people across a variety of cultures. Topics will include social and political economy, economics and morality, gifts and exchange, labour and production, commodities and consumption, fair trade, and concepts of land and mortgage.
Prerequisite(s): At least a 0.5 Essay course in any faculty.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Third World responses to development from an anthropological perspective, with emphasis on the impact of market institutions on indigenous societies. Topics include the impact of aid, wage labor and urbanization on peasant communities; local versus national priorities in development; and risk aversion and technological innovation among small farmers.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will examine human migration from an anthropological perspective that includes a brief historical overview of human mobility, case studies from around the world, and theoretical attempts to explain and predict human migration.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines populations forcibly uprooted from their original habitats due to armed conflict, famine, environmental disasters and 'development.' It emphasizes the need to examine displacement in specific contexts. Topics include: the impact of displacement on society and culture, 'home' and exile, humanitarian aid, resistance and resilience in host-countries.
Prerequisite(s): Any Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A comparative study of the role of new information and communications technologies in the developing world. Topics include: connectivity and access; adoptions and appropriations; communications in development; mobile
phones and transnational migration; youth, gender and mobile technologies; the internet and popular politics; new technologies and expanded worlds.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course focuses on the anthropological study of clothing and fashion. It will critically examine the meaning of clothing and the role it plays in the formation of identities and the negotiation of power inequalities. It will further explore the social and political-economic processes that influence clothing production and consumption.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 2293F/G taken in 2015-2016.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An exploration of the social and cultural basis of health, disability, disease, and healing. We will examine patterns of illness and epidemics, social and cultural aspects of risk, the use of ritual in healing, and the politics of health, among other issues, from an ethnographic and historical perspective.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Arts and Humanities or Social Science course.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Arts and Humanities or Social Science course.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Arts and Humanities or Social Science course.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Arts and Humanities or Social Science course.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Arts and Humanities or Social Science course.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will explore the methodology of fieldwork in Sociocultural Anthropology. The emphasis will be less on reading about anthropology and more on actually doing what anthropologists do. Assignments will focus on participant observation and include talking with people, observing what they are doing and taking part in their activities.
Antirequisite(s): The former Anthropology 2223F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 3 or 4 in any Anthropology module.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Students elicit and record linguistic data from a native speaker of a designated language and then study its phonological and lexical-grammatical systems. Selected aspects of the language are analyzed in terms of current problems in linguistic theory.
Prerequisite(s): Linguistics 2247A/B or the former Anthropology 2247A/B and Linguistics 2248A/B or the former Anthropology 2248A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A survey of practical applications of linguistic theory. Topics may include discussion of the relevance of linguistic research to language teaching and learning, communication disorders, language policy development and language revitalization, translation and intercultural communication, media, law, business, communication technologies, and social justice.
Antirequisite(s): The former Anthropology 2243F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Enrolment in third or fourth year, and Linguistics 2247A/B or Linguistics 2248A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the reconstitution of identities as people reclaim histories and territories, challenging nation-states and traditional identity references. The course examines different situations through case studies in colonial and post-colonial societies. Key issues to be discussed include: memory/history; territory, displacement and deterritorialization; citizenship, nation and the state.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course and registration in third year or higher in any program.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course provides a practical introduction to field methods and preliminary laboratory techniques of archaeology. Practical training will be given at a field camp to be held at an archaeological site near London.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2229F/G and registration in Anthropology module Year 3 or 4. Application required.
Extra Information: Sessions and hours by arrangement.
Permission must be obtained by application to the Department by July 15th of the academic year prior to when the course is scheduled to be offered. Applications are available in the Department of Anthropology.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines contemporary theoretical frameworks in
archaeology and explores how they shape and are shaped by current issues, the development of new methods, and archaeological practice around the globe.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2229F/G and registration in Year 3 or 4 in any Anthropology
module.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An overview of issues concerning hunter-gatherers from both an archaeological and ethnographic perspective. Topics include: the usefulness of the "hunter-gatherer" category, debates about the original state of human nature, and the causes of subsistence and societal variability including the shift to agriculture and the development of non-egalitarian societies.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introduction to the range of information about past human groups gleaned from the animal remains. Lectures will cover various topics in zooarchaeological theory and practice. Labs will teach the basics of skeletal identification for fish, birds and mammals, and will provide experience in the identification of fragmentary archaeological remains.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2229F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture/lab hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introduction to current theoretical and methodological issues in bioarchaeology. Use of ancient human, animal, and plant tissues to reconstruct relationships among biology, culture and environment in international contexts is emphasized. Topics include: diet, demography, disease, identity, mobility, landscape, childhood, gender, ideology, political economy, violence, work, urbanism, and globalization.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2226A/B or Anthropology 2229F/G or instructor's permission.
Extra Information: 3 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines how archaeologists interpret the archaeological record dating from European colonial expansion to the emergence of modern capitalism. We will explore how the material and written record allow archaeologists to understand class, gender, racial and power differences, and consider the implications of these findings for contemporary archaeological practice.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2229F/G or Anthropology 2233F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course provides students with a hands-on introduction to the identification, analysis and interpretation of a range of archaeological artifacts including lithics, ceramics and organics. Students will work with archaeological collections that are available for analysis.
Extra information: 3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2229F/G or permission of the instructor.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced, hands-on introduction to the practice of field archaeology. Students will participate in intensive, problem-oriented, research excavations and field laboratory work on an undisturbed archaeological site. Students should be prepared to cover necessary travel and living expenses. Limited enrollment. 4 weeks.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2229F/G, and registration in year 3 or 4 of any Anthropology module, or permission of the Department Chair.
Extra Information:
Permission by application to the Department of Anthropology. Students intending to apply to participate in this course are strongly encouraged to prepare by taking a relevant second year area course in archaeology.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course offers students the opportunity to study current issues in anthropology through participation in extended fieldtrips and collaborative research projects during Intersession or summer terms. Students should be prepared to cover necessary travel and living expenses. Details typically will be available in the Department by October. Applications required.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in year 3 or 4 of any module and permission of the instructor.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course offers students the opportunity to study current issues in environmental anthropology through participation in extended fieldtrips and collaborative research projects during Intersession or summer terms. Students should be prepared to cover necessary travel and living expenses. Applications required and available in on Anthropology website.
Prerequisite(s): Application required.
Extra Information: 4 weeks.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course offers students the opportunity to study current issues in anthropology through participation in short-term fieldtrips and collaborative research projects during Intersession or summer terms. Students should be prepared to cover necessary travel and living expenses. Details typically will be available in the Department by October. Applications required.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in year 3 or 4 of any module and permission of the instructor.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course is about doing fieldwork to preserve an archaeological site using non-invasive and minimally intrusive methods. Fieldwork will focus on the archaeology of past archaeologies, the use of geophysical equipment, and address the contested heritage values such locales hold in society that we as archaeologists need to service.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any program.
Extra Information: Application required (see Department website). Lecture/fieldwork, 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Individual reading and research of current interest in Anthropology. Students are responsible for making arrangements with an Anthropology faculty member. An application must be completed with approval from the Instructor and the Chair. Applications are available on the Anthropology website.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third year in any program. Application required.
Extra Information: Hours to be arranged with Instructor.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics may be available in the Department.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third year in any program.
Extra Information: 3 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Ethnographies are the written products of fieldwork in sociocultural anthropology. This course will introduce students to ethnography by guiding them through readings of classic and recent examples of the genre, concerning diverse topics, people and contexts. Special attention will be paid to the relationship between ethnographic research and writing.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any Anthropology module.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines how various stages in the human lifecourse are understood and experienced differently in diverse socio-cultural contexts. It begins with a cross-cultural examination of theories of conception and then proceeds similarly through discussions of birth, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, elderhood, death and the afterlife.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will combine general principles of vertebrate paleontology and evolutionary biology to examine the fossil evidence for primate and human evolution. Important events, such as primate and hominid origins will be investigated in detail, emphasizing the cross-disciplinary nature of this field of study.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2226A/B and registration in year 3 or 4 in any module.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course provides an overview of the fossil evidence for human evolution as a background for the critical examination of controversies in the field. Areas to be explored include human taxonomy, the evolution of human behaviour and the origin of modern humans.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2226A/B and registration in year 3 or 4 in any module.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An exploration of the role that skeletal material plays in providing anthropological information. Emphasis will be placed on the analytical techniques used in osteology and odontology for: measuring biological adaptability in archaeological populations; creating individual biographies; the reconstruction of cultural activities.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2226A/B and registration in year 3 or 4 in any module.
Extra Information: 1 lecture hour, 2 laboratory hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course uses approaches from sociolinguistics and historical linguistics to explore topics related to variation across and within languages and linguistic changes over time. Topics covered may include: sound change, morphological change, syntactic change, linguistic reconstruction, variations according to class, gender, age, ethnicity, communities of practice, and place.
Prerequisite(s): Linguistics 2247A/B or the former Anthropology 2247A/B and registration in third or fourth year of any Linguistics or Anthropology module.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The role of bioanthropology in the genesis of the emerging field of evolutionary medicine is explored. We examine the natural history of the diseases that affect modern western societies as reconstructed from our ancestral remains and historical texts, and the implications of disease history for understanding causes of modern diseases.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An examination of cultural attitudes to diet and subsistence and their effects on human biology in both ancient and modern contexts. Areas to be explored include: subsistence strategies and modelling; food ideology and metaphor; processing and preparation; the effects of diet on growth and development; diet related diseases.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2222F/G and Anthropology 2226A/B and registration in year 3 or 4 in any module.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course offers students the opportunity to study current issues in language revitalization through participation in collaborative research projects on site with a community partner. Projects will vary depending on the needs of the community and the skillset brought by the students.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 3306A/B, Anthropology 3323A/B if taken in the Summer of 2016.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in year 3 or 4 of any module and permission of the instructor.
Extra Information: lecture/fieldwork, 3 hours.
Recommended for students in Anthropology, Indigenous Studies or Linguistics.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores where anthropology came from, what influenced its early questions, and how those questions evolved over time, through an examination of some classic anthropological work on society and culture.
Antirequisite(s): the former Anthropology 3301E.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any Anthropology module.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the various principles through which societies are organized, by examining the construction of social formations and social identities over time in contexts of differential power.
Antirequisite(s): the former Anthropology 3301E.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 3350F and third or fourth year standing in any anthropology module.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will provide students with a foundation to think critically about occupying health and disability and to use an anthropological lens to provide students with skills to critically evaluate health- occupation- and disability-related experiences both locally and globally.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any Anthropology module or Disability Studies module.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 hour online.
Course Weight: 0.50
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As one of the most popular monsters in film, zombies speak to us about our own desires and fears. This course locates the contemporary figure of the zombie in cultural and historical perspective, with specific focus on the zombie in Haitian and American cultures.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any program.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Advanced special topics in refugee and migrant studies.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Arts and Humanities or Social Science 1.0 or 0.5 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores current anthropological debates, trends in anthropological practice, and contemporary theoretical frameworks that inform the ways in which anthropology is applied within and outside of universities.
Antirequisite(s): The former Anthropology 4400E.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 3350F (or the former Anthropology 3301E), and registration in Year 4 in any Anthropology module.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores digitizing archaeology and interacting with the past digitally. The intent is to understand the implications for practice, and for the digital heritage arising from a digital archaeology. Digital novices and experienced users will easily manage the expectations for this course, including hands-on experiences using digital equipment.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in fourth year in Anthropology, and permission of the instructor determined by application.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will explore disease and diet in past human populations. A range of topics within paleopathology, the study of ancient disease, and paleodiet, the study of ancient diet, will be investigated to learn what can and cannot be discerned about human health in the past.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in fourth year in Anthropology, and permission of the instructor. Completion of Anthropology 3338F/G is recommended.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Through an anthropological approach to the study of ethics and morality, the course explores how value and meaning are socially, culturally, and historically produced. It covers a range of ethnographic case studies that explore how ethical and moral values operate in various contexts, from everyday talk to international humanitarian intervention.
Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year in an Anthropology module and by application (see Department website).
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines linkages between linguistic practices and relations of power, drawing primarily on tools and methodologies of Linguistic Anthropology and Discourse Analysis. Topics such as racism, disability, migration will be addressed.
Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year in an Anthropology module and by application (see Department website).
Extra Information: 3 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the interaction between habitual activity and energetics throughout human evolution, prehistory, and the recent past. Particular focus will be placed on the energetic biology of species, and how it has changed throughout human evolution in relation to habitual activity and changing resources use.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in fourth year in Anthropology and permission of the instructor.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Anthropology 2226A/B and Anthropology 3336F/G are recommended prior to registration.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores how analytical techniques are applied in archaeology and bioanthropology. The focus is not on any specific analytical technique per se. Rather, the coursefocuses on the theoretical context and paradigm within which techniques are applied and results interpreted and the broad anthropological questions that they can address.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in fourth year in Anthropology and permission of the instructor.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Completion of Anthropology 3308F/G and/or Anthropology 3311F/G is recommended prior to registration.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will examine the principles and concerns that are integral to the practice of applied archaeology in North America and the role of applied archaeology in heritage management. The course will review legislation and professional practices that govern applied archaeologists who undertake Cultural Resource Management (CRM).
Prerequisite(s): Registration in fourth year in Anthropology. Application Required.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Individual reading and research of current interest in Anthropology. Students are responsible for making arrangements with an Anthropology faculty member. An application must be completed with approval from the Instructor and the Chair. Applications are available on the Anthropology website.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in fourth year in any program with approval from the Instructor and the Department Chair.
Extra Information: Hours to be arranged with Instructor.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics may be available in the Department.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in fourth year in any program.
Extra Information: 3 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Students will be integrated into a faculty research project, gaining hands-on experience in research through sustained interaction with a faculty supervisor. The instructor and the student will apply to the Department Chair detailing the research activities that the student will undertake; approval from Department Chair required.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in fourth year in any Anthropology module, with a minimum average of 80% in courses at the 2000-level and above, or instructor permission.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics may be available in the Department.
Prerequisite(s): Application required.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics may be available in the Department.
Prerequisite(s): Application required.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics may be available in the Department.
Prerequisite(s): Application required.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics may be available in the Department.
Prerequisite(s): Application required.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics may be available in the Department.
Prerequisite(s): Application required.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics may be available in the Department.
Prerequisite(s): Application required.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Anthropology
An introduction to anthropology (the study of human beings, past and present) co-taught by specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology. Students will explore anthropological approaches to and findings concerning: human evolution; variation and adaptation; diverse forms of social, political, and economic organization; culture; ritual; language; communication; identity; gender; health; social inequality; and globalization.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 1021A/B, Anthropology 1022A/B, Anthropology 1025F/G, Anthropology 1026F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Note: Students interested in earning essay course credit are encouraged to take Anthropology 1025F/G and Anthropology 1026F/G instead of Anthropology 1020.
Course Weight: 1.00
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An introductory course teaching basic concepts in the study of socio-cultural and linguistic practices worldwide. It underscores shared human experiences as well as our rich diversity. Topics include, changing socio-cultural and economic institutions, political and religious systems, and the role of language in the workings of power, indexicality and identity.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1025F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introduction to aspects of Biological Anthropology and Archaeology which help us to understand the place of humankind in nature. Topics to be covered include heredity, human evolution and variability, archaeological method, the development of culture, the domestication of plants and animals, and the rise of civilization and the state.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1026F/G.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introductory course teaching basic concepts in the study of socio-cultural and linguistic practices worldwide. It underscores shared human experiences as well as our rich diversity. Topics include, changing socio-cultural and economic institutions, political and religious systems, and the role of language in the workings of power, indexicality and identity.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1021A/B..
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
This course is also offered at:
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An introductory course teaching basic concepts in the study of socio-cultural and linguistic practices worldwide. It underscores shared human experiences as well as our rich diversity. Topics include, changing socio-cultural and economic institutions, political and religious systems, and the role of language in the workings of power, indexicality and identity.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1021A/B..
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
This course is also offered at:
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An introduction to aspects of biological anthropology and archaeology which help us to understand the place of humankind in nature. Topics to be covered include heredity, human evolution and variability, archaeological method, the development of culture, the domestication of plants and animals, and the rise of civilization and the state.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1022A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
This course is also offered at:
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An introduction to aspects of biological anthropology and archaeology which help us to understand the place of humankind in nature. Topics to be covered include heredity, human evolution and variability, archaeological method, the development of culture, the domestication of plants and animals, and the rise of civilization and the state.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1022A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
This course is also offered at:
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Introduction to basic concepts and methods of modern linguistics. Topics include articulatory and acoustic phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. This course is a prerequisite for subsequent linguistics courses in the Department of Anthropology and/or the Linguistics program.
Antirequisite(s): Linguistics 2288A/B.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The field of archaeology, with emphasis on the major discoveries of the discipline. Topics include the evolution of humans, their spread throughout the world, the origins of agriculture, urbanization, and the development of early civilizations. Major archaeological sites like Olduvai Gorge, Stonehenge, Giza, Ur and Teotihuacan will be discussed.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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An examination of spectacular archaeological sites around the world, including many on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The course covers sites of complex hunter-gatherers and farmers, and early states and empires in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Aegean, Asia and Mesoamerica, the Andes and the Classical World.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the relationship between language and sex/gender systems from a critical linguistic anthropology perspective. Areas investigated include: language and gender stereotypes; gender variation in language usage; power and women's status; and male vs female communicative styles in different contexts.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 2251F/G, the former Linguistics 2185A/B, the former Linguistics 2286F/G, the former Linguistics 2287F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Arts and Humanities or Social Science course.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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We examine languages and dialects that are associated with particular regions, cultures, and/or ethnic groups in Canada, including Indigenous languages, French, English and immigrant languages. We consider language structures, variation and ways that languages relate to the identity of groups which speak them.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 2252F/G, or the former Linguistics 2185A/B, the former Linguistics 2285F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Arts and Humanities or Social Science course.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Today, with over half the world population living in cities, urban field sites have become the norm for many anthropologists. Through case studies, this course introduces key topics, debates, and insights associated with urban anthropology and invites reflection on the contributions anthropology can make to urban studies.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An examination of natural resource development emphasizing the interplay between indigenous people, the state and transnational developers. Topics include: environmentalism and livelihood; land rights; corporate power and state policies; common property and community-based resource management; NGOs in environmental politics; sustainability and the greening of development.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 2203F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introduction to the Caribbean and circum- Caribbean, emphasizing religion, aesthetic styles, current political processes, and relationships of the region and its peoples to Canada.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 2211F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Usually only two of Anthropology 2211F/G, Anthropology 2212F/G, Anthropology 2216F/G, and Anthropology 2219F/G will be offered in any given year.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Focusing on the cultures of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia, this course reveals how people often understood as peripheral are at the centre of global processes. The course addresses topics including social structure, gender, politics, economies, ecologies, cosmologies, and the representation of Pacific peoples.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 2212F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Usually only two of Anthropology 2211F/G, Anthropology 2212F/G, Anthropology 2216F/G, and Anthropology 2219F/G will be offered in any given year.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The cultural history of Latin American societies. Topics include the historical formation of indigenous communities, and a wide variety of contemporary social problems in Latin America.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 2216F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Usually only two of Anthropology 2211F/G, Anthropology 2212F/G, Anthropology 2216F/G, and Anthropology 2219F/G will be offered in any given year.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A critical examination of approaches that tend to homogenize and dehistoricize Middle Eastern peoples. The course provides an historical overview that reveals regional heterogeneity, and shifts in peoples, powers and borders. Due to the immensity and complexity of the region, the thematic focus will change regularly.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Usually only two of Anthropology 2211F/G, Anthropology 2212F/G, Anthropology 2216F/G, and Anthropology 2219F/G will be offered in any given year.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Sociocultural Anthropologists commonly debate the foundations of their discipline. What are the goals of Sociocultural Anthropology? How should we be doing it, and why? For whom do we do it? This course contextualizes such key debates focusing especially on what they tell us about the discipline's past, present, and future.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E) or Anthropology 1025F/G or Anthropology 1021A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A survey of the major areas of biological anthropology, including heredity, paleo-anthropology, human adaptability and variability, and growth and development.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), or one of Anthropology 1025F/G or Anthropology 1021A/B and one of Anthropology 1026F/G or Anthropology 1022A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics available in the Department.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course provides an overview of the goals, theory and analytical methods of archaeology as practised by anthropologists. The course serves to provide a basic appreciation of how one is able to go from the material remains of past peoples to statements about the nature of their cultural systems, and also, how archaeologists are uniquely poised to address certain general questions of concern to all anthropologists.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), or one of Anthropology 1025F/G or Anthropology 1021A/B and one of Anthropology 1026F/G or Anthropology 1022A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An overview and critical evaluation of reconstructions of past ways of life in the Arctic. The course will introduce prehistoric cultures as archaeologically defined and examine the use of ethnography in archaeological interpretation, the role of cultural contact in culture change, and the use of archaeology in constructing contemporary identity.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E) or Anthropology 1026F/G or Anthropology 1022A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The prehistoric societies of Ontario and surrounding areas. Topics include the entry of humans into the New World and their arrival in Ontario; development of agriculture; appearance of historic period societies such as the Huron, Neutral and Ojibwa; impact of European settlement and economic systems on native societies.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 2233F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), or one of Anthropology 1025F/G or Anthropology 1021A/B and one of Anthropology 1026F/G or Anthropology 1022A/B, or Anthropology 2100, or Indigenous Studies 1020E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will focus primarily on the prehistory of the Peruvian Andes and Coast, with some overlap into Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and Amazonia. We will study the area's archaeological record in some detail, touching on a variety of themes that are of general archaeological interest, e.g. agricultural origins, trade, the rise of complex societies, the role of religious ideology, and the interpretation of archaeological evidence.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: Indigenous Studies 2234F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), or one of Anthropology 1025F/G or Anthropology 1021A/B and one of Anthropology 1026F/G or Anthropology 1022A/B, or Anthropology 2100, or Indigenous Studies 1020E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Note for Main campus: Students intending to apply for the Archaeological Summer Field Course in Peru are strongly encouraged to take this course first.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will focus primarily on the prehistory of the Peruvian Andes and Coast, with some overlap into Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and Amazonia. We will study the area's archaeological record in some detail, touching on a variety of themes that are of general archaeological interest, e.g. agricultural origins, trade, the rise of complex societies, the role of religious ideology, and the interpretation of archaeological evidence.
Antirequisite(s) at Main campus: Indigenous Studies 2234F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), or one of Anthropology 1025F/G or Anthropology 1021A/B and one of Anthropology 1026F/G or Anthropology 1022A/B, or Anthropology 2100, or Indigenous Studies 1020E.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Note for Main campus: Students intending to apply for the Archaeological Summer Field Course in Peru are strongly encouraged to take this course first.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Recovering remains and identifying victims and perpetrators of crimes is at the core of forensic science. This course details methods used in crime scene analysis using a case study format. Topics include: archaeology, entomology, vital statistics (i.e., age, sex, stature, race) of skeletons, fingerprinting, and DNA (nuclear and mitochondrial).
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Social Science, Health Sciences, or Science course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the growth, development and aging of the human body using evolutionary, comparative and cross-cultural approaches. We will draw on practical methods from bioarchaeology and forensics, theoretical perspectives from biological evolution and evolutionary ecology, cultural aspects from cultural anthropology, and clinical perspectives from modern medical studies.
Prerequisite(s): Any one of the following: Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1022A/B, Anthropology 1026F/G, Sociology 1020, Sociology 1021E, Biology 1225, Biology 1290B, Health Sciences 1001A/B and Health Sciences 1002A/B.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Humans are a remarkably adaptable species who have colonized almost all regions of our planet. This course examines the mechanisms that underlie our adaptability, including human biological diversity, the ways we adapt to environmental stress, and the resilience of our species in response to rapid environmental and cultural change.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of first year, including at least one course in Social Science, Science, or Health Sciences. Recommended: Anthropology 1020, Anthropology 1021A/B, Anthropology 1022A/B, Anthropology 1025F/G, Anthropology 1026F/G, Geography 1100, Geography 1300A/B, Geography 1400F/G, Geography 1500F/G, Biology 1225, Biology 1290B, Health Sciences 1001A/B or Health Sciences 1002A/B.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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While alive our bodily tissues store a tremendous amount of information. These clues can be used to tell a lot about a person’s life and death. This information is explored in three contexts: Living Individuals, Recently Deceased Individuals (focus on forensic applications), and Older Deceased Individuals (focus on archaeological applications).
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Social Science, Health Sciences, or Science course.
Extra Information: 3.0 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Mummies are of interest to archaeologists and to the general public. Mummies are people and they speak to us from across the centuries. This course takes an interdisciplinary, scientific and cultural approach to the study of human mummies to discuss issues of ethics, science and cross-cultural perspectives on death.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Social Science, Health Sciences, or Science course.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Introduces theories and methods of linguistic anthropology. Topics include: the relationship between language and thought, connections between linguistic practices and social categories, the role of language in cultural practices.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), or Anthropology 1021A/B, or Anthropology 1025F/G, or Anthropology 1027A/B, or Linguistics 2288A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines reading and writing from an anthropological perspective. It looks at how writing originated based on archeological evidence and at the sociocultural consequences of this invention. Then it explores various writing systems around the world as well as the effects of the introduction of literacy in societies.
Prerequisite(s): One of Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1022A/B, Anthropology 1026F/G, Anthropology 1027A/B, Linguistics 2288A/B or permission from the instructor.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Structures and patterns in spoken and written language are analyzed in interactional contexts using various models. Topics include: conversation analysis, speech acts, pragmatics, discourse markers, and transcription.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 1027A/B or Linguistics 2288A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the artful and playful use of spoken language in relation to social organization and cultural practices. Topics include: structures and patterns in speech play, participation of the audience in the performance, evaluation of competence, issues of authenticity and identity, and the tension between tradition and innovation.
Prerequisite(s): One of Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1021A/B, Anthropology 1025F/G, Anthropology 1027A/B, Linguistics 2288A/B or permission from the instructor.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the relationship between language and sex/gender systems from a critical linguistic anthropological perspective. Areas investigated include: language and gender stereotypes; gender variation in language usage; power and women's status; and male vs female communicative styles in different contexts. An essay on a relevant topic is required.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 2151A/B, the former Linguistics 2185A/B, the former Linguistics 2286F/G, the former Linguistics 2287F/G.
Prerequisite(s): One of Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1021A/B, Anthropology 1025F/G, Anthropology 1027A/B, Women's Studies 1020E, Women's Studies 1021F/G, or Linguistics 2288A/B.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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We examine languages and dialects that are associated with particular regions, cultures, and/or ethnic groups in Canada, including Indigenous languages, French, English and immigrant languages. We consider language structures, variation and ways that languages relate to the identity of groups which speak them.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 2152A/B, the former Linguistics 2185A/B, the former Linguistics 2285F/G.
Prerequisite(s): One of Anthropology 1020 (formerly Anthropology 1020E), Anthropology 1021A/B, Anthropology 1025F/G, Anthropology 1027A/B, Indigenous Studies 1020E, or Linguistics 2288A/B.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course focuses on endangered languages and the local and global factors affecting language vitality and revival. Practical strategies for sustaining and reviving languages, including language documentation and revitalization, will be addressed with examples coming from various areas of the world and special focus on Indigenous languages of the Americas.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 2253A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week. Cross-listed with Indigenous Studies 2253A/B.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Critical assessment of feminist theory and methodology for cross-cultural interpretations. Topics include: critical examination of gender, division of labor, power, production and reproduction, ideology, communication, "nature"; controversies over nature/nurture, nature/culture, public/private.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course examines how changing notions of social control, sanitation, property value, class, security, and individual well-being have shaped the social production of green spaces in urban environments. We will also explore how green spaces are experienced by urban inhabitants and influence their imagination of the city.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Archaeology is often portrayed in popular culture: on television and in the movies, on the internet, in comics, video games and news media. This course examines how both non-archaeologists and archaeologists present archaeology to the public and considers what these representations imply about the relationship between archaeology and modern society.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course focuses on communities of commodity producers and consumers in an integrated global political economy. Weekly lectures centre on particular commodities (rubber, gold, sapphires, oil, water, etc.) and on how anthropologists have attempted to study the roots and effects of their production and consumption.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Bodies are physical and sensual, personal and public, the result of evolution, and yet flexibly attuned to local histories and desires. This course will take a biocultural approach to exploring what bodies are, how they are used, by whom, for what purposes, and how we come to know such things.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A consideration of conservation issues confronting primatologists, including: conservation assessment, variables for understanding the conservation biology of nonhuman primate populations, biogeographic patterns contributing to declining primate populations, strategies in primate conservation, and how ethnoprimatology - the study of interactions between humans and nonhuman primate populations - can be useful in primate conservation.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course considers the behavioral patterns, and diversity, exhibited across species of the Order Primates. Critical examination of theoretical models developed to explain primate behavior is emphasized. Topics covered, using species comparisons, include socioecological contexts of primate behavior, reproduction, growth and development, kinship and dominance, communication and cognition.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Modern zoos characterize themselves as key players in conserving endangered species. But, is this message getting across to zoo visitors? This course utilizes anthropological and interdisciplinary approaches to assess key aspects of zoo-based conservation action, and the extent to which zoos can generate public engagement in 21st century conservation concerns.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the dynamics of family and kinship cross-culturally in traditional and globalizing contexts. We will explore themes including variability in family form, marriage patterns, gender relations, household economics, historical change in family structure, and the effects of globalization and modernity on family structure and practice.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines various aspects of tourism from an anthropological point of view. Topics will include the cultural effects of tourism on both hosts and guests, on the political and economic issues involved in tourism, on the connection between tourism and environmental concerns, and on conflict over local resources.
Prerequisite(s): At least a 0.5 Essay course in any faculty.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores sex and gender as concepts that are socially and culturally constructed within and across cultures. Emphasizing critical and thoughtful reading, analysis, and discussion, the course addresses how shared understandings of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion and class affect people’s experiences of their social worlds.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course takes an anthropological approach to exploring music as an aspect of culture in both present and ancient societies. It focuses on how music is used to negotiate individual and collective identities in multiple world contexts using methods and issues relating to the ethnographic study of music behaviours.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores anthropological approaches to the study of crisis, disaster, and emergency. We will look at theoretical frameworks for understanding disaster and apply them to case studies of disasters ranging from fires and hurricane to earthquakes and humanitarian emergencies.
Prerequisite(s): At least 0.5 essay course in Arts and Humanities or Social Science.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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What are these categories of race, ethnicity and identity? These are hotly contested categories that are constantly shifting. This course will introduce students to anthropological conceptions of race and ethnicity and how these have shaped human identity over the 19th through 21st centuries.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the economic lives of people across a variety of cultures. Topics will include social and political economy, economics and morality, gifts and exchange, labour and production, commodities and consumption, fair trade, and concepts of land and mortgage.
Prerequisite(s): At least a 0.5 Essay course in any faculty.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Third World responses to development from an anthropological perspective, with emphasis on the impact of market institutions on indigenous societies. Topics include the impact of aid, wage labor and urbanization on peasant communities; local versus national priorities in development; and risk aversion and technological innovation among small farmers.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will examine human migration from an anthropological perspective that includes a brief historical overview of human mobility, case studies from around the world, and theoretical attempts to explain and predict human migration.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines populations forcibly uprooted from their original habitats due to armed conflict, famine, environmental disasters and 'development.' It emphasizes the need to examine displacement in specific contexts. Topics include: the impact of displacement on society and culture, 'home' and exile, humanitarian aid, resistance and resilience in host-countries.
Prerequisite(s): Any Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A comparative study of the role of new information and communications technologies in the developing world. Topics include: connectivity and access; adoptions and appropriations; communications in development; mobile
phones and transnational migration; youth, gender and mobile technologies; the internet and popular politics; new technologies and expanded worlds.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course focuses on the anthropological study of clothing and fashion. It will critically examine the meaning of clothing and the role it plays in the formation of identities and the negotiation of power inequalities. It will further explore the social and political-economic processes that influence clothing production and consumption.
Antirequisite(s): Anthropology 2293F/G taken in 2015-2016.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An exploration of the social and cultural basis of health, disability, disease, and healing. We will examine patterns of illness and epidemics, social and cultural aspects of risk, the use of ritual in healing, and the politics of health, among other issues, from an ethnographic and historical perspective.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Arts and Humanities or Social Science course.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Arts and Humanities or Social Science course.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Arts and Humanities or Social Science course.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Arts and Humanities or Social Science course.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Arts and Humanities or Social Science course.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will explore the methodology of fieldwork in Sociocultural Anthropology. The emphasis will be less on reading about anthropology and more on actually doing what anthropologists do. Assignments will focus on participant observation and include talking with people, observing what they are doing and taking part in their activities.
Antirequisite(s): The former Anthropology 2223F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in Year 3 or 4 in any Anthropology module.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Students elicit and record linguistic data from a native speaker of a designated language and then study its phonological and lexical-grammatical systems. Selected aspects of the language are analyzed in terms of current problems in linguistic theory.
Prerequisite(s): Linguistics 2247A/B or the former Anthropology 2247A/B and Linguistics 2248A/B or the former Anthropology 2248A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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A survey of practical applications of linguistic theory. Topics may include discussion of the relevance of linguistic research to language teaching and learning, communication disorders, language policy development and language revitalization, translation and intercultural communication, media, law, business, communication technologies, and social justice.
Antirequisite(s): The former Anthropology 2243F/G.
Prerequisite(s): Enrolment in third or fourth year, and Linguistics 2247A/B or Linguistics 2248A/B.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the reconstitution of identities as people reclaim histories and territories, challenging nation-states and traditional identity references. The course examines different situations through case studies in colonial and post-colonial societies. Key issues to be discussed include: memory/history; territory, displacement and deterritorialization; citizenship, nation and the state.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course and registration in third year or higher in any program.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course provides a practical introduction to field methods and preliminary laboratory techniques of archaeology. Practical training will be given at a field camp to be held at an archaeological site near London.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2229F/G and registration in Anthropology module Year 3 or 4. Application required.
Extra Information: Sessions and hours by arrangement.
Permission must be obtained by application to the Department by July 15th of the academic year prior to when the course is scheduled to be offered. Applications are available in the Department of Anthropology.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines contemporary theoretical frameworks in
archaeology and explores how they shape and are shaped by current issues, the development of new methods, and archaeological practice around the globe.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2229F/G and registration in Year 3 or 4 in any Anthropology
module.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An overview of issues concerning hunter-gatherers from both an archaeological and ethnographic perspective. Topics include: the usefulness of the "hunter-gatherer" category, debates about the original state of human nature, and the causes of subsistence and societal variability including the shift to agriculture and the development of non-egalitarian societies.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introduction to the range of information about past human groups gleaned from the animal remains. Lectures will cover various topics in zooarchaeological theory and practice. Labs will teach the basics of skeletal identification for fish, birds and mammals, and will provide experience in the identification of fragmentary archaeological remains.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2229F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture/lab hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An introduction to current theoretical and methodological issues in bioarchaeology. Use of ancient human, animal, and plant tissues to reconstruct relationships among biology, culture and environment in international contexts is emphasized. Topics include: diet, demography, disease, identity, mobility, landscape, childhood, gender, ideology, political economy, violence, work, urbanism, and globalization.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2226A/B or Anthropology 2229F/G or instructor's permission.
Extra Information: 3 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines how archaeologists interpret the archaeological record dating from European colonial expansion to the emergence of modern capitalism. We will explore how the material and written record allow archaeologists to understand class, gender, racial and power differences, and consider the implications of these findings for contemporary archaeological practice.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2229F/G or Anthropology 2233F/G.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course provides students with a hands-on introduction to the identification, analysis and interpretation of a range of archaeological artifacts including lithics, ceramics and organics. Students will work with archaeological collections that are available for analysis.
Extra information: 3 hours.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2229F/G or permission of the instructor.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An advanced, hands-on introduction to the practice of field archaeology. Students will participate in intensive, problem-oriented, research excavations and field laboratory work on an undisturbed archaeological site. Students should be prepared to cover necessary travel and living expenses. Limited enrollment. 4 weeks.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2229F/G, and registration in year 3 or 4 of any Anthropology module, or permission of the Department Chair.
Extra Information:
Permission by application to the Department of Anthropology. Students intending to apply to participate in this course are strongly encouraged to prepare by taking a relevant second year area course in archaeology.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course offers students the opportunity to study current issues in anthropology through participation in extended fieldtrips and collaborative research projects during Intersession or summer terms. Students should be prepared to cover necessary travel and living expenses. Details typically will be available in the Department by October. Applications required.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in year 3 or 4 of any module and permission of the instructor.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course offers students the opportunity to study current issues in environmental anthropology through participation in extended fieldtrips and collaborative research projects during Intersession or summer terms. Students should be prepared to cover necessary travel and living expenses. Applications required and available in on Anthropology website.
Prerequisite(s): Application required.
Extra Information: 4 weeks.
Course Weight: 1.00
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This course offers students the opportunity to study current issues in anthropology through participation in short-term fieldtrips and collaborative research projects during Intersession or summer terms. Students should be prepared to cover necessary travel and living expenses. Details typically will be available in the Department by October. Applications required.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in year 3 or 4 of any module and permission of the instructor.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course is about doing fieldwork to preserve an archaeological site using non-invasive and minimally intrusive methods. Fieldwork will focus on the archaeology of past archaeologies, the use of geophysical equipment, and address the contested heritage values such locales hold in society that we as archaeologists need to service.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any program.
Extra Information: Application required (see Department website). Lecture/fieldwork, 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Individual reading and research of current interest in Anthropology. Students are responsible for making arrangements with an Anthropology faculty member. An application must be completed with approval from the Instructor and the Chair. Applications are available on the Anthropology website.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third year in any program. Application required.
Extra Information: Hours to be arranged with Instructor.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics may be available in the Department.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third year in any program.
Extra Information: 3 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Ethnographies are the written products of fieldwork in sociocultural anthropology. This course will introduce students to ethnography by guiding them through readings of classic and recent examples of the genre, concerning diverse topics, people and contexts. Special attention will be paid to the relationship between ethnographic research and writing.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any Anthropology module.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines how various stages in the human lifecourse are understood and experienced differently in diverse socio-cultural contexts. It begins with a cross-cultural examination of theories of conception and then proceeds similarly through discussions of birth, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, elderhood, death and the afterlife.
Prerequisite(s): Any Arts and Humanities or Social Science 0.5 or 1.0 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will combine general principles of vertebrate paleontology and evolutionary biology to examine the fossil evidence for primate and human evolution. Important events, such as primate and hominid origins will be investigated in detail, emphasizing the cross-disciplinary nature of this field of study.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2226A/B and registration in year 3 or 4 in any module.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course provides an overview of the fossil evidence for human evolution as a background for the critical examination of controversies in the field. Areas to be explored include human taxonomy, the evolution of human behaviour and the origin of modern humans.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2226A/B and registration in year 3 or 4 in any module.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An exploration of the role that skeletal material plays in providing anthropological information. Emphasis will be placed on the analytical techniques used in osteology and odontology for: measuring biological adaptability in archaeological populations; creating individual biographies; the reconstruction of cultural activities.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2226A/B and registration in year 3 or 4 in any module.
Extra Information: 1 lecture hour, 2 laboratory hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course uses approaches from sociolinguistics and historical linguistics to explore topics related to variation across and within languages and linguistic changes over time. Topics covered may include: sound change, morphological change, syntactic change, linguistic reconstruction, variations according to class, gender, age, ethnicity, communities of practice, and place.
Prerequisite(s): Linguistics 2247A/B or the former Anthropology 2247A/B and registration in third or fourth year of any Linguistics or Anthropology module.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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The role of bioanthropology in the genesis of the emerging field of evolutionary medicine is explored. We examine the natural history of the diseases that affect modern western societies as reconstructed from our ancestral remains and historical texts, and the implications of disease history for understanding causes of modern diseases.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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An examination of cultural attitudes to diet and subsistence and their effects on human biology in both ancient and modern contexts. Areas to be explored include: subsistence strategies and modelling; food ideology and metaphor; processing and preparation; the effects of diet on growth and development; diet related diseases.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 2222F/G and Anthropology 2226A/B and registration in year 3 or 4 in any module.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course offers students the opportunity to study current issues in language revitalization through participation in collaborative research projects on site with a community partner. Projects will vary depending on the needs of the community and the skillset brought by the students.
Antirequisite(s): Indigenous Studies 3306A/B, Anthropology 3323A/B if taken in the Summer of 2016.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in year 3 or 4 of any module and permission of the instructor.
Extra Information: lecture/fieldwork, 3 hours.
Recommended for students in Anthropology, Indigenous Studies or Linguistics.
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This course explores where anthropology came from, what influenced its early questions, and how those questions evolved over time, through an examination of some classic anthropological work on society and culture.
Antirequisite(s): the former Anthropology 3301E.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any Anthropology module.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines the various principles through which societies are organized, by examining the construction of social formations and social identities over time in contexts of differential power.
Antirequisite(s): the former Anthropology 3301E.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 3350F and third or fourth year standing in any anthropology module.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will provide students with a foundation to think critically about occupying health and disability and to use an anthropological lens to provide students with skills to critically evaluate health- occupation- and disability-related experiences both locally and globally.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any Anthropology module or Disability Studies module.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 hour online.
Course Weight: 0.50
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As one of the most popular monsters in film, zombies speak to us about our own desires and fears. This course locates the contemporary figure of the zombie in cultural and historical perspective, with specific focus on the zombie in Haitian and American cultures.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any program.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Advanced special topics in refugee and migrant studies.
Prerequisite(s): Any first year Arts and Humanities or Social Science 1.0 or 0.5 Essay course.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in third or fourth year in any program.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores current anthropological debates, trends in anthropological practice, and contemporary theoretical frameworks that inform the ways in which anthropology is applied within and outside of universities.
Antirequisite(s): The former Anthropology 4400E.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology 3350F (or the former Anthropology 3301E), and registration in Year 4 in any Anthropology module.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores digitizing archaeology and interacting with the past digitally. The intent is to understand the implications for practice, and for the digital heritage arising from a digital archaeology. Digital novices and experienced users will easily manage the expectations for this course, including hands-on experiences using digital equipment.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in fourth year in Anthropology, and permission of the instructor determined by application.
Extra Information: 3 hours per week.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will explore disease and diet in past human populations. A range of topics within paleopathology, the study of ancient disease, and paleodiet, the study of ancient diet, will be investigated to learn what can and cannot be discerned about human health in the past.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in fourth year in Anthropology, and permission of the instructor. Completion of Anthropology 3338F/G is recommended.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Through an anthropological approach to the study of ethics and morality, the course explores how value and meaning are socially, culturally, and historically produced. It covers a range of ethnographic case studies that explore how ethical and moral values operate in various contexts, from everyday talk to international humanitarian intervention.
Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year in an Anthropology module and by application (see Department website).
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course examines linkages between linguistic practices and relations of power, drawing primarily on tools and methodologies of Linguistic Anthropology and Discourse Analysis. Topics such as racism, disability, migration will be addressed.
Prerequisite(s): Fourth-year in an Anthropology module and by application (see Department website).
Extra Information: 3 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores the interaction between habitual activity and energetics throughout human evolution, prehistory, and the recent past. Particular focus will be placed on the energetic biology of species, and how it has changed throughout human evolution in relation to habitual activity and changing resources use.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in fourth year in Anthropology and permission of the instructor.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Anthropology 2226A/B and Anthropology 3336F/G are recommended prior to registration.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course explores how analytical techniques are applied in archaeology and bioanthropology. The focus is not on any specific analytical technique per se. Rather, the coursefocuses on the theoretical context and paradigm within which techniques are applied and results interpreted and the broad anthropological questions that they can address.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in fourth year in Anthropology and permission of the instructor.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Completion of Anthropology 3308F/G and/or Anthropology 3311F/G is recommended prior to registration.
Course Weight: 0.50
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This course will examine the principles and concerns that are integral to the practice of applied archaeology in North America and the role of applied archaeology in heritage management. The course will review legislation and professional practices that govern applied archaeologists who undertake Cultural Resource Management (CRM).
Prerequisite(s): Registration in fourth year in Anthropology. Application Required.
Extra Information: 3 hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Individual reading and research of current interest in Anthropology. Students are responsible for making arrangements with an Anthropology faculty member. An application must be completed with approval from the Instructor and the Chair. Applications are available on the Anthropology website.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in fourth year in any program with approval from the Instructor and the Department Chair.
Extra Information: Hours to be arranged with Instructor.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics may be available in the Department.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in fourth year in any program.
Extra Information: 3 lecture/seminar hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Students will be integrated into a faculty research project, gaining hands-on experience in research through sustained interaction with a faculty supervisor. The instructor and the student will apply to the Department Chair detailing the research activities that the student will undertake; approval from Department Chair required.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in fourth year in any Anthropology module, with a minimum average of 80% in courses at the 2000-level and above, or instructor permission.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics may be available in the Department.
Prerequisite(s): Application required.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics may be available in the Department.
Prerequisite(s): Application required.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics may be available in the Department.
Prerequisite(s): Application required.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics may be available in the Department.
Prerequisite(s): Application required.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics may be available in the Department.
Prerequisite(s): Application required.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Special topics of current interest in Anthropology. List of special topics may be available in the Department.
Prerequisite(s): Application required.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.