Anthropology (ANTH)
Description: Introduction to the study of society and culture, integrating the four major subfields of anthropology: archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, and physical anthropology.
Description: An introductory survey of the peoples and cultures who have lived in the Great Plains. It assumes no detailed knowledge of anthropological concepts and methods. North American and Euroamerican Plains life-styles from the prehistoric past, early historic, and modern periods. Emphasis on the ways different people used and adapted to the Plains. Common themes and artifacts of Plains people given special treatment.
Description: Interdisciplinary study of the natural environment, social environment, human heritage, arts and humanities of the Great Plains.
Prerequisites: Good standing in University Honors Program or by invitation.
Description: Topics vary.
Description: Introduction to a wide range of topics in Anthropology.
Description: Introduction to ethnology and its subfields. Standard topics, problems, and theories considered in ethnology, social anthropology, culture and personality, and applied anthropology.
A required, introductory, pre-professional course for teaching endorsement in English as a Second Language.
Description: Introduction to research in education about migratory, displaced, immigrant, and refugee populations in the United States and elsewhere in the world; Examination of the intersection of migration, education, family, youth cultures, language use, pedagogy, literacies, policy, and transnationalism as key concepts for the 'glocal' activities in which human beings participate in everyday life.
Description: Fosters understanding of the relationship between food and culture. Uses food as a lens to explore general topic areas such as identity, gender, language, family, nutrition, and health.
Description: Past and present survey of human beliefs and practices related to death.
Description: Introduction to what archaeologists do and what they have learned about humans in the past. Emphasis on methods archaeologists use to study the past and traces the record of human developments up to the rise of cities.
Description: Ancient civilizations of Mexico and Central America including the Ancient Maya, Aztecs, and Toltecs. Anthropological theories and methods dealing with archaeological data about urbanism, architecture, art, human-environment interaction, etc. in ancient Mesoamerica.
Prerequisites: Must also enroll in ANTH 242L
Description: Biological anthropology is the study of human and non human primate biological evolution and biocultural variation. This includes genetics, mechanisms of change, growth and development, primate ecology, and the fossil record.
Description: Basic principles of forensic anthropology, including osteology, development of a biological profile, decomposition, trauma and forensic archaeology.
Description: Introduction to complex societies around the world and the role of archaeological heritage in contemporary debates.
Description: Explores the emergence and persistence of ancient and newly emergent infectious diseases by focusing on the intersection of cultural, historical, ecological, and political factors related to the transmission and experience of infectious disease.
Description: Explores some of the historical, biological, economic, medical, and social issues surrounding globalization and health consequences.
Requires contributing to an ongoing web-based project.
Description: Practical and theoretical introduction to the concepts, tools, and techniques of digital humanities. Electronic research, text encoding, text processing, and collaborative research.
Description: Critical comparative examination of colonization and decolonization and its impact on modern day globalization.
Description: Examination of current topic from an anthropological perspective.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Only 3 credit hours will count towards the Anthropology major.
Description: By participation in research projects students learn basic field techniques and the relationship between research design and execution.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Research experience with or under direction of a faculty member.
Prerequisites: ANTH 232
Description: Overview of theory, method, and practice related to archaeological collections management and other post-fieldwork activities.
Description: Advanced survey of past and present indigenous cultures of the American Southwest.
Description: Physical and behavioral diversity of primates through the evolutionary framework.
Description: Introduction to the ethnography of a specific region of the world, outlining the history and current lifeways of various peoples of the of the region. Regional areas of focus could include: Africa, East Asia, the US, Middle East and North Africa, as well as Indigenous peoples of Latin America, Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains, Indigenous peoples of North America.
Description: Causes, conduct, and consequences of socially organized aggression and combat; an evolutionary survey of "warfare" as conducted by insects, nonhuman primates, and human societies from simple hunting and gathering bands to modern states; anthropological, sociological, psychological, and evolutionary biological theories of the causes of warfare; the relationship between warfare and demography, disease, ideology, colonialism, technology, economy and child rearing; and the nature of societies with no record of war and the mechanisms utilized by warlike societies to create peace. Warfare in different times, places, and levels of social complexity.
Description: Explores the evolutionary history of humans and our close relatives.
Description: Introduction to concept of heritage, digital heritage applications, and hands-on experience in creating digital heritage products using desktop and mobile devices.
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: Advanced exploration of current topics from an anthropological perspective.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Independent reading or research under direction of a faculty member.
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.
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.
Prerequisites: 6 hrs ANTH
Description: Collection, management, visualization, and analysis of quantitative anthropological data. Exploratory and confirmatory data analysis. Data analytics.
Prerequisites: ANTH major or minor; junior or senior standing.
Description: A semester project that integrates and applies theories, concepts, and processes learned throughout the anthropology major.
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.
Prerequisites: ANTH 232
May be repeated. Topics vary by semester.
Description: Survey of vocabulary, techniques, and ideas needed to research major materials found in archaeological sites.
Prerequisites: ANTH 232
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: Topics vary.
Prerequisites: ANTH major or minor; junior or senior standing.
Description: Topic varies.
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 of a faculty member.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Independent research leading to a thesis.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Independent research leading to a thesis.