Anthropology (ANTH)
Description: Provides an overview of theory, method, and practice related to archaeological collections and their management. Offers a hands-on approach to the curation of archaeological objects, records, and digital data.
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Recommend some background knowledge of ancient art, history, or languages, a general background course such as AHIS 101, ANTH 252, CLAS 209/CLAS 210, or any of the courses listed in the Archaeology or Digital Humanities minors. Computer/design skills welcome but not necessary.
Description: A new approach to looking at the history and development of ancient cities, combining history and archaeology with digital methods, in particular 3D modeling.
Prerequisites: Junior standing or higher
Description: Learning how to use digital photography to create 3D digital models based on ground-based and aerial photogrammetry for cultural heritage applications.
Prerequisites: 6 hrs ANTH
Description: Theoretical approaches to gender. Emphasis is placed on cross-cultural differences in gender socialization of as it pertains to sexual behavior, power within domestic and public spheres, and the impact of gender on individual aspirations.
Prerequisites: ANTH 212
Description: Cross-cultural variation in family, marriage, and kinship and theories that account for variation in these fundamental areas of social life.
Prerequisites: 12 hours of anthropology or graduate student standing
Description: Survey of digital methods and emergent technologies in Anthropology.
Prerequisites: 9 hrs ANTH.
Description: Origins and developments of anthropological theory, method, and thought. Historical growth of the discipline and schools of thought from The Enlightenment through The Contemporary Period.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of anthropology including ANTH 212
Description: Explores historical and contemporary aspects of the missions, ethical and political issues concerning exhibits and collections held by museums.
Description: Focuses on theoretical and applied significance of health related practices in local and cross-cultural contexts. Cultural constructions of disease, intervention and treatment strategies explored historically and contemporarily.
Prerequisites: ANTH 242 or equivalent.
Description: Anthropological approaches to the study of nutrition. Background to nutrition science; bio-cultural aspects of obesity, fertility, lactose intolerance, and infant feeding practices; biological differences in nutritional requirements, fertility, and mortality; interpretation of nutritional deficiencies in skeletal remains; reconstructing prehistoric diets from archaeological evidence; and evaluation of relationships between dietary patterns and dental remains in fossil record.
Description: Development of Historical Archaeology and current research in the field.
Prerequisites: 9 hrs ANTH
Description: Current concepts and theories used in archaeology to interpret the archaeological record.
Prerequisites: ANTH 232
Description: An areal survey of North American archaeology, methodology, history, and current trends of research. North American prehistory from earliest occupations to The Contact Period.
Prerequisites: ANTH 232
Description: History of archaeological research, taxonomic issues, cultural sequences, current research topics, and collaboration with Native groups within the Great Plains area of North America.
Prerequisites: ANTH 232
Description: Explores the nature and purpose of historic preservation as it pertains to resource management and archaeological research. Legislation that forms the basis for: cultural resource management principles; integration of state programs; and archaeological contractors; within the overall framework of land modification planning.
Description: Introduction to the prehistory of the Maya region and its periphery. Features of the Ancient Maya political, economic, religious, gender and material structures. Main substantive, theoretical and political debates in Mesoamerican scholarship. Interdisciplinary research and the types of methods used to create knowledge about Maya civilization.
Prerequisites: Graduate student standing
Description: Advanced survey of past and present indigenous cultures and heritage of the American Southwest.
Description: Survey of the material remains of Europe and of the various approaches to the study of the European past.
Description: Biological variation of modern humas worldwide through time and space. Standard measurements of phenotypic, e.g. elementary anthropometry. Biological adaptation to environment using recent theoretical perspectives.
Description: Cranio-facial anatomy, development and morphology as well as forensic uses of dentition.
Description: Study of human osteology including histology, pathology, biomechanics and taphonomy.
Description: Biological and health consequences of racial and social inequalities. Psychosocial stress and measurement of health impact. Effects on disease and precursors to disease, including measures of molecular biology (e.g., epigenetics, gene expression), and biomarkers of inflammation, cardiometabolic health, and immune function.
Description: Biological diversity from an evolutionary perspective. The history of the study of human physical growth and biological principles of growth. Genetic, epigenetic and hormonal effects on human and other mammal growth patterns, and environmental factors that influence growth. Effects of nutrition, disease, socio-economic status, pollution, etc. Unique features of human growth in its various stages. How anthropologists interpret variation in growth patterns among human populations and the possible adaptive significance of this variation.
Graded Only
Description: Introduction to the archaeological methods and theories used to assist in the medico-legal investigation of forensics and criminal behavior as well as international humanitarian forensics and international crimes.
Graded only
Description: Investigating and interpreting forensic casework in terms of large-scale mass disaster sites, including mass graves to surface scatter of human remains because of animal scavenging and geological processes (such as gravity, water, physical/chemical weathering).
Description: Study of geographic concepts and critical analysis of applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in humanities and social sciences and application of geospatial tools for humanities and social science research; learn how to collect, manage, analyze, and visualize spatial data for real-world projects
Prerequisites: ANTH 444/844 or parallel
Description: Human skeletal identification and trauma analysis as a model for understanding the applied field of forensic anthropology. Focuses on the wider scope of human skeletal biology dealing with problems of medico-legal significance, primarily in the determination of personal identity and cause of death from skeletonized human remains, as well as both interpretation and analysis of biological data toward this aim.
Description: Develop a museum exhibit to professional standards and participate in the process from conception through installation and ribbon-cutting. Study copy writing, object conservation, 3D model-building, graphic design, prototype development, exhibit construction techniques, and formative assessment.
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Description: Provide students with real, in-depth experience in collaboratively creating digital humanities projects. Guided by faculty with expertise in a broad range of digital humanities methods and resources, students work in teams to tackle challenges proposed by UNL researchers and/or local and regional humanities organizations.
Description: Explores the diversity of beliefs and rituals surrounding the mysteries of birth, life, death and beyond.
Description: Human adaptive systems and their ecological contexts. The dynamic inter-relationships between subsistence, technology, social behavior, human demography, and ecological variability.
Prerequisites: Sophomore status
Description: Efforts by academic scholarship and experts in the field to influence the process of development and socioeconomic change in the modern world.
Prerequisites: ANTH 232
Description: Explores the scientific manner in which archaeologists use controlled experiments to better understand life in the past.
Prerequisites: Sophomore status
Description: Various perspectives on the intersection of human rights, development, and the environment in a global perspective.
Prerequisites: 9 hrs ANTH including ANTH 212.
Description: Survey of hunter-gatherer society and its ecological and social adaptations. Hunters-gatherers and their important role in human history and evolution.
Description: Survey of theory, method, and practice in describing and interpreting archaeological landscapes.
Prerequisites: ANTH 212
Description: Introduction to practical and theoretical issues involved in designing and undertaking qualitative field research.
Description: Research methods for material culture study applied to textiles and dress. Methodologies for artifact study and skills. Fiber microscopy as a tool for artifact analysis. Conceptual development, application and evaluation of a model for artifact study.
Prerequisites: 6 hrs ANTH
Description: Collection, management, visualization, and analysis of quantitative anthropological data. Exploratory and confirmatory data analysis. Data analytics.
Description: Exploration and deep evaluation of concept of heritage, digital heritage applications, and hands-on experience in creating digital heritage products using desktop and mobile devices.
Description: Survey of basic concepts, methods and approaches used in the analysis of archaeological pottery.
May be repeated. Topics vary by semester.
Description: Survey of vocabulary, techniques, and ideas needed to research major materials found in archaeological sites.
May be repeated. Topics vary by semester.
Description: Survey of vocabulary, techniques, and ideas needed to research major materials found in archaeological sites.
May be repeated. Topics vary by semester.
Description: Survey of vocabulary, techniques, and ideas needed to research major materials found in archaeological sites.
Prerequisites: 9 hrs of anthropology beyond ANTH 110.
Description: Recent issues and topics in the field of anthropology, including the subfields of cultural, biological, and archaeological anthropology.
Description: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in archaeology and anthropology; lecture provides fundamental spatial concepts and a computer lab teaches skills on data acquisition, data integration, spatial analysis, and digital cartography.
Description: Topics vary.
Prerequisites: 9 hrs ANTH
Description: Structured professional experience in archaeological research, administration, or curation outside the traditional academic setting.
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing; and permission.
Description: A structured professional experience outside the traditional academic setting designed to allow students to learn and use anthropological skills and knowledge and to develop professional networks.
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: Independent reading or research under direction by a faculty.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Only 3 hours may count toward the major.
Description: Further practical experience in field research.
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: Independent research under direction by a faculty.
Prerequisites: Admission to masters degree program and permission of major adviser
Description: Exploration of effective writing, adapting proposals for different audiences, reviewing grants and manuscripts, and preparing professional presentations (talks, papers, posters).
Description: Intensive study of theory and method in ethnology, with special attention to current research literature.
Description: Research in literacy and schooling.
Description: Empirical and theoretical research into the sociocultural problems and the lived experiences of people across educational, family and community settings.
Description: Theory and method in prehistory and historic archaeology. Current research literature in the field.
Description: Intensive study of theory and method in bioanthropology, with special attention to current research literature.
Description: Methods, theories, and practices of digital humanities scholarship.
Description: Research or reading in selected problems in anthropology, including the preparation of research for publication.