Foundations and Core Courses
Foundations Component
SOCS
1010 - Anthropology: Global Perspectives
AHUM
1910 - Ancient Worlds
Core Component
Core
2410 - Science & Religion in Dialogue
Core
2601 - Native North America and Social Change
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SOCS 1010 Anthropology: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
Explores human diversity in time and space from the standpoint
of cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, and archaeology.
Develops a framework for understanding how culture provides
human beings with the ability to interpret, change, create,
and even destroy their world. Considers several different
areas of the world, each with its own microenvironment, traditions,
ideas, and customs. Required of all anthropology majors.
4 qtr. hrs.
AHUM 1910
ANCIENT WORLDS
Uses the field of archaeology to illustrate the perspectives,
methods, and results of humanistic inquiry. Investigates
human belief and creativity prior to the rise of literate
society and the modern world. These aspects of life
are examined through the study of human material culture,
including portable objects, representational art, architecture,
and culturally-modified landscapes. Either AHUM 1910
or ANTH 1103 is required of all anthropology majors.
4 qtr. hrs.
CORE 2410
SCIENCE & RELIGION IN DIALOGUE
This course addresses the supposed conflict between science
and religion. It identifies the sources of that ill-framed
notion, and proffers a means that accords dignity and distinction
to each enterprise without attempting to unify or synthesize
in a simplistic way. To accomplish that task, we focus on
the lives, the scientific discoveries, the religious commitments
and struggles of three individuals who fundamentally shaped
modernity: Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein.
4 qtr. hrs
CORE 2601
Native North America and Social Change
An interdisciplinary study of the events and processes that
have shaped and continue to influence the indigenous peoples
of North America. Emphasis is placed on the period following
the creation of the United States and Canada and especially
on the latter half of the 20th century, in which Indians mounted
increasingly vocal efforts to retake their lives and destinies.
4 qtr. hrs.
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