LOWER DIVISION COURSES

This is not an official university document, and is only meant to serve as a guide to departmental offerings. All interested parties should check with the official UCSB course catalog to confirm the course offerings listed here.

 (Freshman seminars are offered on an irregular basis)

 2. Introductory Cultural Anthropology
(4) Staff
The nature of culture: survey of the range of cultural phenomena, including material culture, social organization, religion, and other topics.

  3. Introduction to Archaeology
(5) Brian Fagan
An introduction to archaeology and the prehistory of humankind from the earliest times up to the advent of literate civilization and cities, also processes of cultural change. Partly self-paced learning.

 3SS. Introduction to Archaeology
(4) Mark Aldenderfer
This course consists of an introduction to the basic principles and techniques of archaeological science followed by a thematic discussion of the major events of the history of humankind from our earliest origins to the appearance of civilization.

 5. Introductory Physical Anthropology
(4) Donald Symons
Human evolution: evolutionary theory, basic genetical concepts, primate evolution and behavior, fossil man, evolution of human behavior and mind.

 7. Introductory Biosocial Anthropology
(4) John Tooby
Prerequisites: Anthropology 2 or 3 or 5 or Psychology 1 or equivalent.
Where do our human-universal emotions, preferences, concepts, and ways of reasoning come from? This course will trace some of the many connections between the inherited design of the modern human mind and the vanished ways of life of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Anthro 7 is an introduction to the scientific study of our evolved, cross-culturally universal human nature, and its impact on human life and institutions. The course addresses such questions as: Are there innate ideas? Why do the psychologies of the two sexes differ? What do women and men find sexually attractive? How did evolution shape the specialized emotions and forms of reasoning that make friendship and cooperation possible? What are love, loyalty, blame, disgust, revenge, guilt, and shame, and why do they exist at all? What is status, and why do people care about it? What is the evolutionary function of sexual jealousy? Was Freud right about the Oedipus Complex? What are the evolutionary and psychological roots of ingroup bias and individual and intergroup aggression? The course will analyze how our evolved mental mechanisms allow children to understand the cultures they are born into, how these mechanisms generate much of the substance of human cultures, and how they can explain many patterns of cultural variation and social structure.

 10. Faces of Culture: A Film Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
(4) Staff
Twenty-six films which have been developed to introduce the student to the diversity of human ways of life will be shown and discussed in this class. The heavy emphasis on visual material is designed to make cross-cultural studies more readily accessible to the California student.

 99. Independent Studies
(1-4) Staff
Prerequisites: students must: 1) have an overall grade point average of 3.0 and 2) consent of instructor. May be taken for a maximum of four units of Anthropology 99 per quarter, and can be repeated for a maximum of eight units. Students are limited to five units per quarter and 30 units total of independent studies courses combined.

Upper division courses (numbered 100 and higher) 

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