Anthropology (BS)

Focuses on the ways in which research findings are produced by diverse theories and methods in the anthropological sciences, usually in combination with other life and physical sciences, with a strong focus on combination anthropological conceptual frameworks with quantitative methodologies.

Archaeological and historical study of the three best-known ancient cultures of Mesoamerica and South America.

Archaeology through its most important discoveries.

Introduces concepts and methods of sociocultural anthropology, with illustrative materials from a variety of communities in a globalizing world. Explores the concept of culture and examines a variety of social, political and economic dimensions of how humans organize their lives.

Physical anthropology and archaeology. Evidence and processes of human evolution and of culture change. Primates. Fossil hominids and their tools. Race, variation, and heredity. Environment and human biology. Prehistoric culture and society.

Covers topics of immediate or special interest to a faculty member and students.

Teaches how to do Bayesian data analysis using MCMC methods. Includes practical application with specific problems; also covers a range of historical and theoretical topics including probability theory, the history of Bayesian data analysis and frequentist alternatives, Markov chains and causality. Introduces students to executing Bayesian analysis via MCMC methods and also helps them see how these methods work and why they had to wait until the late 20th century to become widespread.

Statistical and quantitative strategies for envisioning and exploring archaeological, physical anthropological, bioarchaeological, and socialcultural data. Univariate and bivariate methods. A basic understanding of algebra is necessary to be successful in this course.