WSU Graduate Courses - Anthropology/ATH

ATH 542 SEX AND GENDER (Credits: 4)

Study of male and female roles and how they vary from one society to the next. Topics include sex and gender stereotypes, physical and behavioral differences, and cross-cultural differences in roles and status.

ATH 546 ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION (Credits: 4)

(Also listed as REL 562.) Anthropological approach to the meaning and function of religion in social life, and the nature of the thought or belief systems that gave rise to different forms of religious life. Emphasis on primitive and peasant societies.

ATH 569 FIELD SCHOOL IN ARCHAEOLOGY (Credits: 6 TO 12)

Excavation training on prehistoric sites.

ATH 599 STUDIES IN SELECTED SUBJECTS (Credits: 1 TO 4)

Problems, approaches, and topics in the field of anthropology. Topics vary.

ATH 600 SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHAEOLOGY (Credits: 4)

Advanced study of various specialized aspects of archaeology.

PREREQUISITE: 12 HOURS OF ANTHROPOLOGY REQUIRED.

ATH 610 SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY (Credits: 4)

Examines selected topics concerning the method and theory of anthropological thought and their relationship to the allied disciplines of economics, linguistics, art, politics, and history. Emphasis on current trends influencing research in cultural anthropology. Topics vary.

PREREQUISITE: 12 HOURS OF ANTHROPOLOGY OR UNDERGRADUATE
DEGREE IN SOME OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCE AND
PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR.

ATH 646 PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF SOUTH ASIA (Credits: 4)

Survey and analysis of cultural diversity and unity in Southern Asia, particularly India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.

ATH 648 DEVELOPMENT OF ETHNOLOGICAL THOUGHT (Credits: 4)

Surveys historical development of ethnological thought; emphasizes theories of social and cultural change.

ATH 650 POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (Credits: 4)

(Also listed as PLS 650.) Study of that part of the culture of primitive societies that is recognized as political organization. An attempt is made to show how in less complex, primitive societies, new local communities come into being through fission.

PREREQUISITE: 12 HOURS OF ANTHROPOLOGY OR UNDERGRADUATE
DEGREE IN SOME SOCIAL SCIENCE AND PERMISSION
OF INSTRUCTOR.

ATH 655 BIOMEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (Credits: 4)

An anthropological perspective of health and illness in selected societies of the world that integrates physical, social, and cultural dimensions of disease, nutrition, fertility
and population growth, health beliefs and practices, and the consequences of culture change and modernization.

ATH 658 ANTHROPOLOGY OF WOMEN'S HEALTH (Credits: 4)

Integrates biological and sociocultural dimensions of women's health throughout the world. Examines cross-cultural variation in disease and illness and the sociocultural contexts that define models of women's health.

ATH 665 SEMINAR IN WOODLAND ARCHAEOLOGY (Credits: 4)

Intensive review of the prehistoric Woodland period (600 BC-AD 900) of eastern North America. Regional cultures such as Adena and Ohio Hopewell. Trade, economy, political organization, and mortuary customs are considered.

ATH 675 HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY (Credits: 4)

Focuses on the post-European discovery period of America; archaeological interpretations of colonial, plantation, industrial, frontier, and urban sites and materials are explored in seminar discussions, and through lab analysis of southwest Ohio site collections.

PREREQUISITE: ATH 242.

ATH 692 DIRECTED STUDIES IN ANTHROPOLOGY (Credits: 2 TO 4)

May be taken for letter grade or pass/unsatisfactory.