2006-2007 Academic Year - Trinity University

SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH 3-91
ANTH 4352
ANTH 4354
Anthropology Special Topics
Occasional courses will be offered on current events or desired topics that students
bring to the attention of the Department Chair. A student may repeat this course if
the topics are different. A maximum of nine semester hours can be taken in ANTH
3-91 or 3394.
Mind, Body & Society: Seminar
This course examines the nature of mind, body and society, and the intimate
dialectical relationship among them. Individual minds make human society
possible, while the emergence of the individual mind or consciousness occurs
through social processes. Human minds and social being exist in the framework of
a material body, which profoundly influences social behavior and individual
experience. (Also listed as SOCI 4352.)
Prerequisites: Junior standing, and at least 2 of the following courses: SOCI 2311,
2323, 3327, 3332, 4361, ANTH 3327, 3364, 3367, 4361, WAGS 2310.
Seminar on Primatology
Advanced study of human evolution, ecological conservation, and culture and
behavior by investigation of human’s closest living relatives, the non-human
primates. Includes completion of a research project involving primate observation
and original data collection about primate behavior.
Prerequisite: ANTH 2310.
ANTH 4361
Social Theory
A critical survey of the foremost paradigms in contemporary sociological and
anthropological theory. The course emphasizes the historical intellectual location of
major theoretical traditions, especially the works of Durkheim, Marx, and Weber.
Contemporary schools of thought include functionalism, cultural ecology, conflict
and rational choice theories, symbolic interactionism and dramaturgical analysis,
phenomenology and ethnomethodology, structuralism, feminist theories, world
systems analysis, and structuration theory. For each, special attention is given to
how to evaluate theories and how theoretical paradigms are linked to empirical
research. (Also listed as SOCI 4361.)
Prerequisites: Five Sociology (Anthropology) courses and permission of instructor.
Courses arranged on an independent study basis with the guidance and
consent of instructor:
ANTH 3-71, 4-71 Anthropology Internship
Field work experience in a setting arranged and approved by the student, professor,
and agency selected. Supervision and guidance must be provided in the field and
contact with the professor must be maintained. A student may repeat the course for
a maximum of six semester hours. This course is taken Pass/Fail.
ANTH 3-72, 4-72 Archaeological Practicum
Participation in an approved excavation in the Mediterranean world, Western
Europe, or the Near East. Students will be expected to receive instruction in
excavation techniques and in the recording and study of the site and the material.
Two weeks’ work will normally be counted as equivalent to 1 credit, up to a
maximum of 3 credits. (Also listed as CLAS 4-72.)
ANTH 3-73
ANTH 3-90
Archaeological Fieldwork
Field work experience in a setting arranged and approved by the student, professor,
and agency selected. Supervision and guidance must be provided in the field.
Anthropology Independent Study
Individual research in selected areas. A student may repeat the course for a
maximum of six semester hours. A project proposal must be submitted to and
approved by the professor supervising the research prior to registration.
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