Course Catalog • Anthropology

Online course. Covers the four primary fields of anthropology: Biological anthropology, Linguistics, Social Anthropology, and Archeology. Concepts and approaches to each field, using past and present examples from around the world will be examined, with an emphasis on the unity of the anthropological approach. Future directions of human experiences are explored. Application of fundamental concepts to contemporary events. Eight written assignments, personal ethnography, midcourse and final examinations. View the ANTH 100 course preview. Instructor: James Mielke.

This course is available only for 3 hours when taken through Independent Study.

Tuition and FeesUndergraduate resident students pay: $ 881.70 USD
Undergraduate nonresident students pay: $ 1,950.00 USD
Graduate resident students pay: $ 1,036.50 USD
Graduate nonresident students pay: $ 2,163.75 USD

Textbooks (separate purchase):

• Haviland et al. Anthropology, 11th ed., Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2005.
• Podolefsky and Brown. Applying Anthropology: An Introductory Reader, 8th ed., McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2007.

Online course. Covers the mechanisms and principles of Darwinian evolution with special emphasis on human and primate data. Lecture topics include genetics, variation, primate ethology, and the fossil evidence for human evolution, Mendelian and population genetics, blood group systems, quantitative morphological variation, and fossil human and primate skeletal material. Thirteen written assignments; midcourse and final examinations. View the ANTH 104 course preview. Instructor: Anne Justice.

This course is available only for 4 hours when taken through Independent Study.

Tuition and FeesUndergraduate resident students pay: $ 1,175.60 USD
Undergraduate nonresident students pay: $ 2,600.00 USD
Graduate resident students pay: $ 1,382.00 USD
Graduate nonresident students pay: $ 2,885.00 USD

Textbooks (separate purchase):

• Jurmain et al. Introduction to Physical Anthropology, 10th ed., Thomson/Wadsworth.

An introduction to the nature of culture, language, society, and personality. Included in this survey are some of the major principles, concerns, and themes of cultural anthropology. The variety of ways in which people structure their social, economic, political, and personal lives. Emphasized are the implications of overpopulation, procreative strategies, progress and growth of cultural complexity, developments in the Third World, and cultural dynamics in Western, as well as non-Western societies. Required online readings. Required e-mail assignment submission. Nine written assignments; midcourse and final examinations. View the ANTH 108 course preview. Instructor: Rebecca Crosthwait.

This course is available only for 4 hours when taken through Independent Study.

Tuition and FeesUndergraduate resident students pay: $ 1,135.60 USD
Undergraduate nonresident students pay: $ 1,135.60 USD
Graduate resident students pay: $ 1,342.00 USD
Graduate nonresident students pay: $ 1,342.00 USD

Materials (included in Tuition and Fees):

• Anthropological Fieldwork in Polynesia, Continuing Education, Univ. of Kansas, 1991. (videotape)
• Hanson. Rapan Lifeways: Society and History on a Polynesian Island, Waveland Press, 1983. Reprinted by Independent Study. (book)

Textbooks and e-readings (separate purchase):

• Spradley and McCurdy, eds. Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology, 12th ed., Allyn and Bacon, 2006.
• Hoebel. The Cheyennes: Indians of the Great Plains, 2nd ed., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978.
• Lewis. Soul Rebels: The Rastafari, Waveland Press, 1993.

Online course. A more intensive treatment of the content of ANTH 104. Not open to students who have taken ANTH 104 or ANTH 105. Thirteen written assignments; book review; midcourse and final examinations. View the ANTH 304 course preview. Instructor: Anne Justice.

This course is available only for 4 hours when taken through Independent Study.

Tuition and FeesUndergraduate resident students pay: $ 1,175.60 USD
Undergraduate nonresident students pay: $ 2,600.00 USD
Graduate resident students pay: $ 1,382.00 USD
Graduate nonresident students pay: $ 2,885.00 USD

Textbooks (separate purchase):

• Jurmain et al. Introduction to Physical Anthropology, 10th ed., Thomson/Wadsorth.

An introduction to the nature of culture, language, society, and personality. Included in this survey are some of the major principles, concerns, and themes of cultural anthropology. The variety of ways in which people structure their social, economic, political, and personal lives. Emphasized are the implications of overpopulation, procreative strategies, progress and growth of cultural complexity, developments in the Third World, and cultural dynamics in Western, as well as non-Western societies. Not open to students who have taken ANTH 108 or ANTH 109. Required online readings. Required e-mail assignment submission. Nine written assignments; research project; midcourse and final examinations. View the ANTH 308 course preview. Instructor: Rebecca Crosthwait.

This course is available only for 4 hours when taken through Independent Study.

Tuition and FeesUndergraduate resident students pay: $ 1,135.60 USD
Undergraduate nonresident students pay: $ 1,135.60 USD
Graduate resident students pay: $ 1,342.00 USD
Graduate nonresident students pay: $ 1,342.00 USD

Materials (included in Tuition and Fees):

• Anthropological Fieldwork in Polynesia, Continuing Education, Univ. of Kansas, 1991. (videotape)
• Hanson. Rapan Lifeways: Society and History on a Polynesian Island, Waveland Press, 1983. Reprinted by Independent Study. (book)

Textbooks and e-readings (separate purchase):

• Spradley and McCurdy, eds. Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology, 12th ed., Allyn and Bacon, 2006.
• Hoebel. The Cheyennes: Indians of the Great Plains, 2nd ed., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978.
• Lewis. Soul Rebels: The Rastafari, Waveland Press, 1993.