Lower Division Courses numbered 1–99 are designed primarily for freshmen and sophomores but are open to all students for lower division credit. (Graduate students requesting to enroll in lower-division undergraduate courses will not receive unit credit nor will the course fulfill degree requirements.) Upper Division Courses courses numbered 100–199 are open to all students who have met the necessary prerequisites as indicated in the catalog course description. Preparation should generally include completion of one lower division course in the given subject or completion of two years of college work.
GRADUATE COURSES
Courses numbered 200–299 are open to graduate students. (Undergraduate students must obtain the signature of the instructor, School Dean, and the Dean of Graduate Studies. Graduate level units will count towards the required 120 units for graduation; however students are urged to meet with their academic advisor in order to determine if graduate course units may be used to fulfill a graduation requirement.)
CROSS-LISTED/CONJOINED COURSES
Cross-listed Courses are the same course offered under different course subjects at the same level (either undergraduate or graduate) that share the same meeting time, requirements, units, etc. Conjoined Courses are the same course but one is undergraduate and one is graduate.
COREQUISITE COURSE
A corequisite course is a course that must be taken at the same time as another course.
PREREQUISITES
Prerequisites for courses should be followed carefully; the responsibility for meeting these requirements rests on the student. If you can demonstrate that your preparation is equivalent to that specified by the prerequisites, the instructor may waive these requirements for you. The instructor also may request that a student who has not completed the prerequisites be dropped from the course. If the prerequisite for a course is not satisfied, students must obtain the approval of the instructor (or school designee) of the course they wish to take.
For all undergraduate courses a “C-” or better grade is required for a course to be used as a prerequisite for another course. If a course was taken for a “P/NP” grade then a “P” grade is required.
For all graduate courses a “B” or better grade is required for a course to be used as a prerequisite for another course. If a course was taken for a “S/U” grade then a “S” grade is required.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
No credit is allowed for completing a less advanced course after successful completion (C-or better) of a more advanced course in the foreign languages. This applies only to lower division foreign language courses, not upper division courses.
GRADING OPTIONS
Unless otherwise stated in the course description, each course is letter graded with a P/NP or S/U option (unless required for your major or graduate program). The policy regarding Grading Options, can be found in an alternate section of the catalog.
ANTH 001: Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
[4 units]
Introduction to human culture and cultural diversity, including the methods by which anthropology–via the study of social institutions, shared practices, and collective meanings–seeks to understand how people adapt to, make sense of, and transform their worlds.
ANTH 003: Introduction to Anthropological Archaeology
[4 units]
Survey of theory, field and analysis methods, and objectives of anthropological archaeology. Examines how intellectual perspectives guide the ways in which archaeologists undertake their work and the types of materials they collect and analyze to study issues such as technology, exchange, subsistence, settlement, social organization, and ideology.
Introduction to evolution and how natural selection has shaped modern human variation. Examination of non-human primate behavior and how analogous it might be to that of early humans. Discussion of culture, the fossil evidence, genetics, and inheritance.
Provides oversight and structure for a student’s internship in a field related to anthropology in community organizations, professional research projects, etc. connected to the study of anthropology. Students are required to write an original research paper or relevant product that demonstrates how the internship advanced their knowledge of anthropology.
Permission of instructor required. Pass/Fail only. Course may be repeated 2 times for credit.
ANTH 100: History of Anthropological Thought and Practice
[4 units]
Historical overview of key individuals and central ideas influencing the practice of anthropology and the production of anthropological knowledge. Topics may include the disciplining of anthropology into related subfields; social evolutionism, historical particularism, British structural-functionalism; French structuralism; cultural ecology; sociobiology; symbolic and interpretive anthropology; feminist and other critiques of anthropology.
ANTH 110: Migration, Diaspora and Transnational Belonging
[4 units]
Exploration of modern, global movements of people with a focus on the conditions, processes, and practices of contemporary national and transnational belonging. Topics include globalization, migration, immigration, Diaspora, the nation-state, national identities and cultural citizenship.
Introduces anthropological approaches to the phenomenon known as “globalization.” Explores the political, social, cultural and subjective processes that accompany neoliberal economic globalization by exploring weekly research themes and case studies carried out by anthropologists.
Political anthropology involves the study of formal political institutions as well as the manifestations of power in everyday life. Topics may include anthropological perspectives on: the state and other forms of political authority; social inequality; conflict; indigenous responses to colonialism and the nation-state; social movements; citizenship; governmentality; and globalization.
Examines the development of urban anthropology and major themes and research questions in the field of urban anthropology. Three core frames include the possibilities and limits of cities as global and local ethnographic sites; the past, present and future of cities; and issues of scale.
Introduction to the practices, spaces, artifacts and media through which social memory is formed, maintained and reproduced. Topics may include: how societies remember; how the past and its representation is bound up with national and other collective identities; commemoration; heritage; and the link between history, memory, and social justice.
Focusing on the contemporary struggles of Indigenous peoples for rights; self-determination; social, political, and environmental justice and/or increased nation-state participation. Examines how the mobilization of indigenous peoples is strengthened through regional, hemispheric and global solidarities; and how international law, media, and technology support indigenous actions for change.
Introduces anthropological approaches to citizenship. Explores how citizenship and belonging take place at scales beyond the juridico-legal definition of nationality. Examines the multiple ways of being a citizen and belonging to a place, particularly in the context of contemporary neoliberal economic globalization.
Provides knowledge about medical anthropology, how different cultures understand human physiology and health, definitions of sickness, types of medical systems and practitioners, how cultural practices affect health, issues in gender environmental health, and how medical anthropology influences health policy.
Prerequisite: ANTH 001 or ANTH 005. Normal Letter Grade only. Discussion included.
Provides knowledge of medical systems cross culturally including the three ancient literary systems (Chinese, Ayurvedic, Greco-Arabic), shamanism, folk medicine, and biomedicine. Readings focus on the beliefs and organization of each system, types of practitioners, types of sicknesses treated, and how anthropologists research and understand these phenomena.
ANTH 122: Anthropological Perspectives on Religion and Healing
[4 units]
Introduces students to religion from a cross cultural perspective, and provides them with analytical techniques to understand religious phenomena. Includes fundamental constituents such myth, symbol, and ritual; consideration of how religions differently define bodies and spirits; and religion as personal and political identity.
Covers anthropological perspectives on mental states, experience of emotions, and concepts of mental normality in a variety of cultural settings. Lectures and readings will focus especially on the relationship between individual and society, the role of emotions, and the definition of psychological phenomena cross culturally.
Examines gender and sexuality cross-culturally: cultural aspects of gender, sexuality, reproduction, and gender identity. Readings will explore definitions of male and female roles, sexual mores, issues in human reproduction, variations in definitions of sexual identity, and cultural, economic and religious aspects of gender, marriage, and family.
Examines the role that material objects play in human social relations, identity, and economy, including archaeological application of such knowledge to past societies. We explore the range of production and use of material objects, including theories of material culture, technology, style, meaning, memory, and agency.
Prerequisite: ANTH 003 or Junior/Senior standing. Discussion included.
ANTH 131: Space and Place: An Anthropological Perspective
[4 units]
Examines how space is theorized in anthropology, archaeology, and geography. Students learn multiple perspectives in thinking about spaces including how histories and identities are attached to places and landscapes, thus creating powerful or sacred symbols.
Prerequisite: ANTH 001 or ANTH 003 or Junior/Senior standing. Normal Letter Grade only.
Survey of the history of archaeological interpretation and the schools of thought from which they were derived. Students develop an appreciation of the close relationship between method, theory, and interpretation in archaeological practice.
Examines ethnographic and archaeological literature on small-scale hunter-gatherer-fisher and horticultural societies, and explores how these data contribute to study of subsistence and settlement strategies, technology, exchange, demography, and social relations in the past and present.
Critical examination of the legal, practical, and ethical aspects of cultural heritage management in the United States and abroad. Topics include cultural resource management in public and private contexts, participation of stakeholders, the application of anthropological knowledge, and public outreach.
Prerequisite: ANTH 003 or WH 001 or Junior/Senior standing. Cross-Listed with WH 140.
An integration of archaeological knowledge with narrative and analytical writing. Students develop research and writing skills while learning to use and disseminate knowledge gained by producing creative, culturally sensitive, and factually supported texts.
Prerequisite: ANTH 003 and (WRI 010 or equivalent exam). Normal Letter Grade only. Cross-Listed with WRI 141.
Examines theoretical perspectives, issues, and interpretations in archaeological study of the interaction between indigenous peoples, European colonists, and enslaved Africans. Topics include disease, power, resistance, colonial institutions, multi-ethnic communities, and gender relations in diverse native engagements with colonists and others from a variety of homelands.
Examines ritual, religion, and cosmology in the archaeological record and explores theories that inform research and contribute to archaeological inferences. Takes a broad comparative approach and holistic perspective for the investigation of their historical, environmental, and social contexts.
In-depth exploration of archaeological thought or data on one or more anthropological topics relevant to small-scale societies of North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and/or Asia. Topics vary and course may be repeated for credit if topics differ.
Prerequisite: ANTH 003 or Junior/Senior standing. Course may be repeated 3 times for credit.
Investigation of how human biological variation is studied and how the definition of such variation differs between the scientific community and the public. Topics include historical perspectives on race and eugenics, how scientific racism has shaped national policy, and how genetic diversity and the Human Genome Project have informed such issues.
Examination of how humans live in marginal environments, such as extremely hot, extremely cold, or high altitude areas. Evolutionary, genetic, ecological, demographic, and cultural explanations for human biological adaptability are explored. Students consider case studies from the high Andes, Siberia, equatorial South America, and the International Space Station.
Examination of the multiple cultural meanings of death and the dead person, including hospice, reactions to death, memorial gestures, rights to and constructions of the dead body in the U.S. legal system, cadavers in education and research, dead persons in mass disasters and human rights cases, archaeological examples, and repatriation issues.
Exploration of human population growth and decline, fertility and mortality, and population age and sex structure in the past without benefit of written records. Topics include the interplay of demography and hominid evolution, migration, environmental stress, the transition to agriculture, and the rise and fall of complex societies.
Prerequisite: ANTH 003 and ANTH 005. Open only to standing(s): Junior, Senior.
Explores the biological heritage of humans by providing students with a rigorous grounding in modern evolutionary theory and undertaking detailed study of the phylogeny, morphology, and paleoecology of the Hominini. In addition, this course uses the fossil record to reveal the truly unique features of Homo sapiens.
ANTH 162: Growth, Development, and Human Evolution
[4 units]
Applies modern life history theory to understand how evolution of growth patterns contributed to divergence in adult morphology among human ancestors, as revealed by the fossil record of hominin species. We also examine the uniquely human phenomenon of childhood, and the geographic diversity observed among modern human beings.
Explores current trends in biological anthropology. Course material will vary. Possible topics may include: isotopic analysis of human nutrition; genetic studies of human variation and adaptability; life history and population studies of health and disease; studies of the interaction of the environment, human behavior, and human biology; and ethics.
Prerequisite: ANTH 005. Course may be repeated 1 time for credit.
Training in how to conduct field based qualitative research including learning about ethics, training in human subjects protection, skills of participant-observation, interviewing, taking field notes, and the analysis and presentation of research results. Through discussion section activities, individual research projects are designed and operationalized and preliminary research conducted.
Prerequisite: ANTH 001. Open only to standing(s): Junior, Senior. Normal Letter Grade only. Discussion included.
Examines the critical use of historical documents, journals, and visual images; archives; and oral history to understand past cultures and culture change. Analysis of case studies and original archival research demonstrate how these sources complement data collected through ethnographic, archaeological, or biological methods.
Systematic consideration and practical application of analytical laboratory and data recording techniques used to study stone tools and manufacturing debris. Topics include procurement; production and reuse; style and function; the organization of technology with respect to settlement and gender; and craft specialization.
Prerequisite: ANTH 003. Open only to major(s) and minor(s): Anthropology. Laboratory included.
Introductory course in ceramic analyses that includes a laboratory component. Students will learn theory and methods as they are applied to ceramic artifacts and will conduct a hands-on research project using an in-house collection.
Prerequisite: ANTH 003. Open only to major(s): Anthropology. Normal Letter Grade only. Laboratory included.
Introduction to the goals and methods of archaeological surface survey, excavation, and various forms of field documentation. The integration of research issues and methods is addressed through both classroom and field activities.
Prerequisite: ANTH 003 or Junior/Senior standing in the Major.
Students develop a basic familiarity with human skeletal remains, including the identification of the bones of the skull, dentition, and axial and appendicular skeletons. Identification of side (i.e., left, right) and element of both intact and fragmentary remains are to be considered.
Prerequisite: ANTH 005. Open only to major(s) and minor(s): Anthropology. Laboratory included.
Study of human skeletal remains from archaeological contexts. Theoretical and thematic approaches in contemporary research. In-depth consideration of bioarchaeological methods used to explore pathology, occupation, geographic origins, etc. from human skeletal remains. Anthropometrics, disease, and trauma are considered, preparing students for anthropological study of both individual remains and skeletal populations.
Prerequisite: ANTH 005. Open only to major(s) and minor(s): Anthropology. Normal Letter Grade only. Laboratory included.
Exploration of a special topic or problem within or between fields in anthropology. Topics vary and course may be repeated for credit if topics differ.
Prerequisite: ANTH 001 or ANTH 003 or ANTH 005 or Junior/Senior standing. Course may be repeated 3 times for credit.
Provides oversight and structure for a student’s internship in a field related to anthropology in community organizations, professional research projects, etc. connected to the study of anthropology. Students are required to write an original research paper or relevant product that demonstrates how the internship advanced their knowledge of anthropology.
Open only to standing(s): Junior, Senior. Permission of instructor required. Pass/Fail only. Course may be repeated 2 times for credit.
Develops cognitive skill of drawing by teaching the ability to see accurately. Material covered is not limited to skills required for becoming an artist. Anyone interested in sharpening one’s perceptions and creative abilities finds this course useful.
The study and performance of Jazz vocal repertoire with continued instruction in correct singing techniques, posture and breathing, diction, and anatomy of the singing instrument. In addition to vocal instruction, the course will include written assignments requiring research and analysis of the music, composers, style, and music fundamentals.
The study and performance of Musical Theater/Broadway repertoire. Instruction in correct singing techniques, posture and breathing, diction, correct use of the chest and “theater” voice. Special attention to character development and stage movement. Includes written assignments requiring research and analysis of music, composers, style, and music fundamentals.
Teaches the skill of painting in watercolor to develop the complex process of color vision to enhance one’s perceptive powers. The use of this skill is not limited to those planning to be artists. This is a studio class that will include drawing and painting from nature.
Teaches intermediate level techniques in acrylic, watercolor or oil painting, concentrating on enhancing the technique necessary to develop mastery of individual expression.
Development of cognitive skill of seeing in three dimensions. Material covered is not limited to skills required for becoming an artist. Anyone interested in sharpening his or her perceptions and creative capabilities finds this course useful.
Introduces students to the traditional additive and subtractive sculptural methods along with contemporary sculptural processes. Students are taught to explore conventional media, such as clay, soft stone, wood, wax, plaster and paper pulp as well as unconventional materials. Emphasis is placed on successful union of technique and personal expression.
The mechanics of musical structure and the proper language with which to describe it. Students will learn to hear and analyze music in terms of rhythm and meter, timbre, dynamics, form, texture, and pitch, with a special focus on melody and functional harmony.
Normal Letter Grade only. Laboratory included. Cross-Listed with GASP 002.
ARTS 007: ArtScore: Introduction to Global Arts Studies Program
[4 units]
Survey of arts around the globe, with an integrated and comparative approach to studying the history and ideas of arts from antiquity to the twentieth century. This is the foundation course for all students pursuing an arts major.
Prerequisite: WRI 001 or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only. Discussion included.
Develops cognitive skill of physical and vocal performance by teaching the ability to act on stage. Material covered is not limited to skills required for becoming an artist. Anyone interested in sharpening one’s abilities to perform finds this course useful.
An introductory course that aims to help students acquire technical and critical photographic skills. It focuses on developing students’ capacity to produce well-structured photographs utilizing in-camera controls such as aperture and shutter speed. Digital SLR Camera or equivalent digital camera with manual controls required.
Introduces students to substantive characteristics of the arts, with emphasis on cultural and social significance. The aim is to give each student the tools to develop one’s own understanding of what art is, what makes individual works of art important and how to experience art as a source of enrichment in one’s life. Two methods of inquiry will be utilized: historical and theoretical. Essential characteristics of the practice of art will also be examined. Course work includes research, writing and art event attendance.
Introduces students to substantive characteristics of the art of music, with emphasis on cultural and social significance. Each student learns to develop his/her own understanding of what the art of music entails, what makes individual works of music art significant and how music enriches human experience.
Introduces students to substantive characteristics of architecture, with emphasis on cultural and social significance. Each student learns to develop his/her own understanding of what is architecture and why individual works of architecture become significant. Emphasizes the interrelatedness of architecture and socio-economic history.
Introduces students to substantive characteristics of visual arts, with an emphasis on developing students’ own critical skills in studying our contemporary and historical visual culture. Topics include artworks from the Renaissance to Neoclassicism to Pop, as well as issues in television, video, fashion, magazine, pop culture, computer art.
Introduction to the art music of western culture, including music from Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century eras, featuring study of selected masterworks in relation to the periods which they represent. Emphasis is placed upon developing awareness of musical style and structure through lectures and directed listening.
Studies the roles music can play in relation to social structures and institutions, individual and group relations, and identity formation as it relates to race, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, nationality, and religion. Special attention will be paid to issues of genre and style.
Normal Letter Grade only. Cross-Listed with GASP 017.
Introduces the histories, contexts, and structures of love songs from around the world. Explores the roles of songs in social and biological reproduction, communication with divinities, nation building, and the cultural politics of music and identity.
Normal Letter Grade only. Discussion included. Cross-Listed with GASP 019.
Introduction to two-dimensional design fundamentals as they apply to all aspects of the visual arts with emphasis on application in drawing, painting, film, digital art, and photography. Design is essential to all visual arts; it is where the thought process begins. Assignments include hands-on projects, research and writing.
ARTS 021: Fundamentals of Three Dimensional Design
[4 units]
Introduction to concepts and methods designers use to order form in space in visually exciting ways. Students acquire understanding of fundamental design theory, building processes and the ability to communicate through the use of design elements that can be utilized in diverse fields. Assignments include hands-on projects, reading, and writing.
Introduces students to making music with digital audio workstations, synthesizers, samplers, and other software tools. Students create compositions exploring approaches from popular genres such as hip hop and electronic dance music as well as noise, ambient, experimental, and avant-garde.
Normal Letter Grade only. Cross-Listed with GASP 022.
Introduction to conventional and unconventional techniques in two dimensional and three dimensional arts. Variety of techniques are covered such as screen printing, block printing, acrylic transfer, encaustic, casting, jewelry design, carving and construction, mixed media photography, illustration, and fiber art. Course work includes hands-on projects, research and writing.
For beginners and those who learned to sing and/or play instrument without training in music fundamentals, including principals and procedures of rhythm and pitch, notation, scales (major, minor), key signatures, intervals, chord structures, and symbols as well as some harmonic analysis of chords and simple part writing is included.
Introduction to music technology through standard computer-based project workstation, audio interface, MIDI keyboard and computer software. Instruction includes recording and processing of digital audio, MIDI technology to encode and sequence computer-generated musical content, computer-assisted music notation programs, software-based editing, mixing, mastering techniques in producing notation, recordings of student’s original music.
Designed to give students the tools to listen and analyze music, the language to discuss it, and the means to understand how it generates meaning in cultural context.
Normal Letter Grade only. Cross-Listed with GASP 028.
Examines the dance floor as a microcosm of society, an arena in which gender and sexual identities and relations can be taught, performed, intensified, and challenged via sound and motion. Each student will engage in an ethnographic research project on a music and dance tradition of his or her choosing.
Normal Letter Grade only. Cross-Listed with GASP 029.
Introduces students to current concerns in critical popular music studies, including issues of identity (e.g., race, gender) and representation. Students will learn a variety of theories used in critical analyses of popular music. They will also learn various methodological approaches used to research popular music.
Normal Letter Grade only. Cross-Listed with GASP 031.
Introduces students to commercial Hindi cinema (“Bollywood”). Among other things, addresses India’s nation building project, depictions of urban spaces, gender roles, the Indian diaspora, and the cultural politics of Hindi films and songs. Close attention will be paid to cinematic and musical production techniques.
Normal Letter Grade only. Discussion included. Cross-Listed with GASP 033.
Examines the history of cinema from its inception to the contemporary period. Deals with cinema’s relationship to new media and digital technology. Students will acquire general knowledge of film language that developed in multiple historical and cultural contexts.
Normal Letter Grade only. Cross-Listed with GASP 035.
Study and performance of vocal repertoire known as “art song” for students with some prior singing experience. Students will select repertoire appropriate to their own vocal ability and continue development in character study, stage movement and performance delivery to be put in practice in performance.
Survey of global art and architecture from pre-history to contemporary times with an emphasis on the socio-cultural influence of the arts. Attention paid to developing skills of formal and contextual analysis. Aims to establish a foundation in the study of art history.
Prerequisite: WRI 001 or WRI 010 or equivalent exam. Normal Letter Grade only. Cross-Listed with GASP 040.
ARTS 042A: Introduction to Photographic Techniques and Practices
[4 units]
Course strengthens understanding of photographic techniques and principles by providing in depth study of technical aspects such as proper exposure of film or digital photos, effective usage of shutter speeds and apertures, concept and application of depth of field, creating perception of motion, camera perspective, composition and analysis of imagery.
Addresses music of the Pacific and the regions that border it, including the Pacific Islands, Eastern and Southeast Asia, and the Western Americas. Focus will be placed on Asian and Pacific Islander musics, their interactions and histories.
Addresses music of the Caribbean and the regions that border it, including its islands as well as Eastern Mexico, the southeastern United States, eastern Central America, and the northern countries of South America.
ARTS 053: History of European Art and Architecture
[4 units]
Examines the cultures and history of Europe from the Bronze Age through contemporary art. Addresses wide range of art production including architecture, sculpture, and painting. Explores works in their social context, addressing issues of patronage, class, gender, material culture, world exploration, and religious development and conflict, among other topics.