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  • ANTH 3480: Global Christianity

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores the key issues that have arisen in the literature that explores Christianity from an anthropological perspective. Examines the development of Christianity from its historical origins to its current status as a "world religion." Discusses how Christianity becomes relevant to different cultural contexts in the modern world. Analyzes Pentecostal, Evangelical Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, and Catholic forms of Christianity.
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  • ANTH 3500: Discourse Semiotics and Representation

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores classical theoretical positions on representation, meaning, discourse, and poetics. Examines performance of culture and the implications of performance theory for scientific epistemology and methodology. Surveys recent work by anthropologists who grapple with these theoretical concerns in empirical research in a range of global settings.
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  • ANTH 3550: Memory and History

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Studies how societies remember and represent their past and present in various contexts. Examines how societies employ different senses of temporality in these processes. Explores the relationships with historiography and ethnohistory and how anthropologists and historians have dealt with these issues.
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  • ANTH 3560: Peace Violence and Human Morality

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores the cultural patterning of violence and nonviolence. Draws on theories of human values and ethics to understand how people morally justify different types of violent action, such as riots, genocide, warfare, and ritual violence. Explores cultural processes of pacifism, self-sacrifice, and reconciliation.
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  • ANTH 3660: Globalized Society

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores the development and reactions to globalization. Traces the formation of community of nation-states and multilateral agencies called "global society." Explores the implications of global society for peoples far removed from this sphere of social organization. Provides an understanding of the world in which nation-states and their citizens are enmeshed.
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  • ANTH 3700: Culture Psychology and Mental Health

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores interrelationships of individual personality to elements of Western and non-Western sociocultural systems. Examines relations of sociocultural contexts to self, motives, values, personal adjustment, stress and pathology using case histories and ethnography. Discusses the idea of self and personality, normality and deviance, and mental health and mental illness across social and cultural boundaries.
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  • ANTH 3720: Applied Anthropology

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ANTH 1010G, ENGL 2010, and University Advanced Standing. Surveys the ethics and methods used by applied anthropologists. Surveys a range of areas where applied work is performed, including development anthropology, anthropology and health, industrial anthropology, anthropology and marketing, etc. Also explores the political, social, and theoretical implications of applied work.
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  • ANTH 3750: Bioarchaeology

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ANTH 1020 and ENGL 2010 with a minimum C+ grade and University Advanced Standing. Focuses on the biological and contextual study of human remains recovered from archaeological sites. Presents an updated synthesis of bio-archaeological science dealing with the study of the human skeleton to reconstruct patterns of biological stress, infectious disease, lifestyle and physical activity, diet, violent death, and genetic relationships in the past. Temporal coverage principally falls on the last 10,000 years of history, and the spatial scope is global. Involves the dynamic nature of skeletal tissues and the influences of environment and culture on human variation. Acquired skills will be of value to any students interested in skeletal studies including archaeology, bioarchaeology, paleopathology, forensic science, vertebrate biology, biomedical sciences, and behavioral science.
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  • ANTH 3830: Biology and Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (ANTH 1010G or ANTH 1020) and (ENGL 2010 with a minimum grade of C+) and University Advanced Standing. Explores the interactions of nature and nurture as a complex whole, rather than as mutually exclusive possibilities or separate streams of influence. Includes a significant research project.
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  • ANTH 3850: Ethnographic Methods

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ANTH 1010G and University Advanced Standing. Examines the utility of ethnographic research techniques for answering different research questions. Formulates research ethics protocols. Engages in participant observation research and teaches techniques for recording observations in field notes. Employs ethnographic writing genres to compose reports on original research. Develops skills in qualitative interview techniques and the analysis of qualitative data.
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