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ANT 180 Artifact Identification: Tucson Basin
1 cr. hrs. 2 periods (.5 lec., 1.5 lab)
Introduction to the recognition, identification, and classification of the various types of artifacts recovered from local
archaeological sites. Includes an overview of prehistoric ceramics in the Tucson Basin, flaked stone technology, ground
stone tool identification, animal bone, marine shell artifacts and historical artifacts.
Information: Same as ARC 180.
Offered: Spring.
ANT 181 Global Positioning Systems Basics
1 cr. hrs. 1 periods (1 lec.)
Introduction to the use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) receivers in a field setting for non-technical applications.
Includes GPS vocabulary, operation, field data collection and data transfer. Also includes using equipment, resources and
facilities of the Archaeology Centre.
Information: Same as ARC/GIS 181.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
ANT 202 Culture and Sexuality
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Anthropological examination of gender identity, roles, relations, and variation. Includes theories and methods of the
anthropology of sex and gender, historical origins and development of the sub-discipline, and sex, gender and sexuality in
cross-cultural, ethnographic perspective. Also includes selected case studies and cross-cultural frameworks for analysis.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
ANT 203 Ethnic Groups and Culture
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Anthropological survey of ethnicity and culture. Includes introduction to ethnicity studies, ethnic group formation and
maintenance, larger social and cultural context, ethnicity and other social variables, cultural context, change and
globalization, and selected case studies.
Offered: May not be offered this year, check class schedule.
ANT 204IN Human Evolution: Ape Men, Cave Women and Missing Links
4 cr. hrs. 5 periods (3 lec., 2 lab)
Study of human evolution and variation. Includes fossil evidence, environmental and cultural change, primate anatomy
and behavior, human genetics, human biology and biocultural interactions. Also includes the use of museum collections,
equipment, resources, and facilities of the Archaeology Centre.
Information: Same as ARC 204IN.
Offered: Spring.
ANT 205 Introduction to Southwestern Prehistory
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Study of the prehistory of the American Southwest from its earliest inhabitants to European contact. Includes
anthropology and its subfields, basics of archaeology, the Southwest, Paleo-Indians, Archaic people, Hohokam, Mogollon,
Anasazi, and other Southwestern cultures, and late prehistoric and historic cultural change.
Information: Same as ARC 205.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
ANT 206 Contemporary Native Americans of the Southwest
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Survey of Native American cultures with emphasis on peoples of the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.
Includes overview of Native groups in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico, environmental zones and
modes of production, cultural and linguistic diversity, cultural configurations, Pan-Native American issues, and frameworks
for understanding Native American culture and experience.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
ANT 208 United States-Mexico Borderlands
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Study of the U.S-Mexico borderlands. Includes a historical overview from the border’s origins in the U.S.-Mexico War and
the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and a comprehensive review of the most significant events and issues of the mid-20th
Century to the present. Also includes geography, sociodemographics, political economy, migration and transmigrants,
media representations, U.S. border policies, enforcement and security/insecurity, violence and peace, gender and
sexuality, U.S-Mexico relations, and popular culture.
Information: Same as MAS 208.
Offered: Spring and Fall.
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