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• ANTH 413: Archaeology of Coasts

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Explores the interaction between coastal environments and humans through examination of the archaeological record. Identifies coastal modifications by humans based on the archaeological record. Explores the processes that lead to the destruction or preservation of archaeological resources related to changing sea level. Provides the student the ability to examine the archeological record to understand the interactions between coastal environments, humans, and changing sea levels over the past 15,000 years.
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• ANTH 415: Cultural Resource Management

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Provides an understanding of how cultural resources are being preserved and managed under current American laws and regulations with particular emphasis on historic properties, such as historic buildings and archaeologi-cal sites. Case studies and field trips are incorporated so that students gain a thorough understanding of key problems and issues in historic preservation and cultural resource management.
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• ANTH 420: Environmental Anthropology

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Introduces environmental anthropology, the study of the relationship between the natural environment and human social and cultural life. Il-lustrates the importance of understanding human-environment interactions in studying contemporary issues in global development, and in investigating the past. Explores major analytical and methodological approaches in envi-ronmental anthropology, including ecological anthropology, ethnoecology, political ecology, and environmental justice. (Titled Cultural Geography before 2016-17.)
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• ANTH 425: Archaeological Theory and Research Design

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Reviews the broad range of field, analytical, and interpretive methods adopted by archaeologists over the past century and guides students through the design and implementation of a research project of their own. Discussed against the backdrop of the constantly shifting theoretical set-ting, this survey also prepares students for the task of critically assessing published research conducted by other archaeologists and locating such research within this dynamic theoretical landscape.
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• ANTH 430: Anthropology of Food

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Focuses on the influences of biology, culture, political economy, and history on what and how peoples of the world eat. Readings, lectures, films, and projects link the dietary implications of foraging, crop domestication, state formation, and industrial capitalism to food choices and health. Examines various sociocultural practices relating to the uses of food in marking social difference, maintaining social relationships, and dealing with cultural constructions of health, illness, and the body. Considers the influence of the agricultural revolution, colonization, and globalization on the transforma-tion of food meanings, practices, and availability.
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• ANTH 444: Medical Anthropology

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Focuses on the study of human confrontation with disease and illness and on the adaptive arrangements made by various human groups for dealing with theses dangers. Health and disease are viewed from a broad array of micro and macro perspectives, e.g., evolutionary, ecological, and psycho-social. For nursing and social work students as well as social and biological science students.
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• ANTH 450: Health Disparities

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Explores health status and healthcare disparities across groups based on race/ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status/social class, nativity, refugee and citizen status, and other cultural and demographic characteristics. Uses a social determinants of health perspective to consider how social, cultural, environmental, political, and economic conditions produce unequal and inequitable health outcomes, with special focus on disadvantaged popula-tions. Addresses agency and empowerment of populations seeking and accessing health and health care. Includes different levels of public health interventions that can improve health outcomes, better calibrate access to health care, and improve health equity within populations.Previously Offered As: (Also offered as SOC 450; may not be taken for duplicate credit.)
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• ANTH 456: Ethnographic Research Methods

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Provides a background in qualitative and quantitative techniques used in anthropological research. Concentrates on the ethics of research with people, formulation of hypotheses, design and use of appropriate research techniques, and data analysis. Emphasizes development of field notes, inter-viewing techniques, developing genealogies, and participant observation.
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• ANTH 457: Applied Anthropology

  3.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Focuses on the anthropologist as an agent of social change and bridges the gap between theories of cultural behavior and the policies that affect contemporary cultures. Examines the historical role of anthropologists in early public administration and explores the work of contemporary applied anthropologists in domains of practice such as international development, health, human rights, business and marketing, the environment, education, and in their role as advocates for marginalized communities. Activities allow students to apply anthropological methods and concepts to better appreciate and communicate the value of these skills in varied professional settings.
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• ANTH 460: Ethnographic Field School

  6.00 Credits

  Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

  
  Ethnographic research training in the field. Emphasizes the application of qualitative research methods, the recording of data in research journals and the maintaining of field diaries, the categorizing and organizing of data, and the writing of research reports.
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