ASB 400 Cultural Factors in International Business. (3) S
Anthropological perspectives on international business relations; applied principles of cross-cultural communication and management; regional approaches to culture and business. Cross-listed as IBS 400. General Studies: G.

411 Kinship and Social Organization. (3) S
Meanings and uses of concepts referring to kinship, consanguinity, affinity, descent, alliance, and residence in the context of a survey of the varieties of social groups, marriage, rules, and kinship terminological systems. Prerequisite: 6 hours of anthropology or instructor approval.

412 History of Anthropology. (3) F
Historical treatment of the development of the culture concept and its expression in the chief theoretical trends in anthropology between 1860 and 1950. Prerequisite: ASB 102 or instructor approval. General Studies: L2/SB.

416 Economic Anthropology. (3) F
Economic behavior and the economy in preindustrial societies; description and classification of exchange systems; relations between production, exchange systems, and other societal subsystems. Prerequisite: ASB 102 or instructor approval. General Studies: L2/SB.

417 Political Anthropology. (3) A
Comparative examination of the forms and processes of political organization and activity in primitive, peasant, and complex societies. Prerequisite: ASB 102 or instructor approval.

462 Medical Anthropology: Culture and Health. (3) F '96
Role of culture in health, illness, and curing; health status, provider relations, and indigenous healing practices in United States ethnic groups. Lecture, discussion. General Studies: C.

463 Anthropology and International Business. (3) S '98
Anthropological perspectives on international business relations; applied principles of cross-cultural communication and management; regional approaches to culture and business.

471 Introduction to Museums. (3) F
History, philosophy, and current status of museums. Exploration of collecting, preservation, exhibition, education, and research activities in different types of museums. Prerequisites: ASB 102 and ASM 101 or instructor approval.

480 Introduction to Linguistics. (3) F
Descriptive and historical linguistics. Survey of theories of human language, emphasizing synchronic linguistics. General Studies: SB.

481 Language and Culture. (3) S
Application of linguistic theories and findings to nonlinguistic aspects of culture; language change; psycholinguistics. Prerequisite: ASB 102 or instructor approval. General Studies: SB.

483 Sociolinguistics and the Ethnography of Communication. (3) N
Relationships between linguistic and social categories; functional analysis of language use, maintenance, and diversity; interaction between verbal and nonverbal communication. Prerequisites: ASB 480 and ENG 213 (or FLA 400) or instructor approval. General Studies: SB.

529 Culture and Political Economy. (3) N
Origin and spread of Western capitalism and its impact on non-Western societies. Ethnographic and historical case studies are utilized. Prerequisite: graduate standing.

530 Ecological Anthropology. (3) A
Relations among the population dynamics, social organization, culture, and environment of human populations, with special emphasis on hunter-gatherers and extensive agriculturalists.

532 Graduate Field Anthropology. (2–8) S
Independent research on a specific anthropological problem to be selected by the student in consultation with the staff. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: ASM 338 or equivalent; instructor approval.

535 Public Archaeology. (4) N
Theoretical and practical applications of cultural resources legislation and policy. Legal and administrative requirements; conservation, development, and management of cultural resources; CRM research design formulation. Seminar, field work. Prerequisites: regular graduate student standing; 12 completed graduate hours in archaeology; instructor approval.

536 Ethnohistory of Mesoamerica. (3) N
Indigenous societies of southern Mexico and Guatemala at Spanish contact and their postconquest transformation. Emphasis is on the Aztec Empire. Prerequisite: graduate standing.

537 Topics in Mesoamerican Archaeology. (3) N
Changing organization of pre-Columbian civilizations in Mesoamerica is explored through interpretive issues, such as regional analysis, chiefdoms, urbanism, and exchange. Prerequisite: instructor approval.

540 Method and Theory of Sociocultural Anthropology and Archaeology I. (3) F
Basic issues concerning concepts of social and ethnic groups, cultural and sociological theory, and the nature of anthropological research. Prerequisite: instructor approval.

541 Method and Theory of Social and Cultural Anthropology. (3) S
Continuation of ASB 540. Prerequisite: ASB 540 or instructor approval.

542 Method and Theory of Archaeology II. (3) S
Models of human evolution, culture change, and interpretation of hunter-gatherer and tribal societies, ceramic, lithic, and faunal materials. Prerequisite: instructor approval.

543 Method and Theory of Archaeology III. (3) F
Covers concepts of social complexity along with economy, demography, and social dynamics, followed by archaeological research design. Prerequisite: instructor approval.

544 Settlement Patterns. (3) N
Spatial arrangement of residences, activity sites, and communities over landscape. Emphasis on natural and cultural factors influencing settlement patterns. Prerequisite: instructor approval.

546 Pleistocene Prehistory. (3) F
Development of society and culture in the Old World during the Pleistocene epoch, emphasizing technological change through time and the relationship of people to their environment. Prerequisite: ASB 361 or equivalent.

547 Issues in Old World Domestication Economies. (3) S
Archaeological evidence for transitions in Old World subsistence economies from hunting and gathering to dependence on domesticated plants and animals. Prerequisite: ASB 362 or equivalent.

550 Economic Archaeology. (3) N
Prehistoric economies in hunter-gatherer, tribal, and complex societies. Subsistence strategies, craft production and specialization, and exchange covered. Prerequisite: instructor approval.

551 Prehistoric Diet. (3) N
Includes (1) a critical review of techniques for recovering dietary information and (2) theoretical models concerned with explaining diet and nutrition. Prerequisite: instructor approval.

555 Complex Societies. (3) S
Structural variations in hierarchically organized societies, along with origins, dynamics, and collapse, are examined. Seminar.

559 Archaeology and the Ideational Realm. (3) N
"Post-processual" and other views concerning relevance of mental phenomena for understanding sociocultural change. Various approaches to inferring prehistoric meanings.

563 Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations. (3) N
Evolution of prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies in the Old and New Worlds from the most ancient times through protohistoric chiefdoms. Prerequisite: instructor approval.

567 Southwestern Archaeology. (3) S
Broad coverage of Southwestern cultural developments focusing on current debates and rigorous use of archaeological data in making cultural inferences.

568 Intrasite Research Strategies. (3) F
Research issues within a single site context. Topics include quantitative spatial analysis, site definition, sampling, distributional analysis, and substantive interpretation.

571 Museum Principles. (3) F
History, philosophy, and current status of museums. Exploration of collecting, preservation, exhibition, education, and research activities in different types of museums. Prerequisites: ASB 102 and ASM 101 or instructor approval.

572 Museum Collection Management. (3) S
Principles and practices of acquisition, documentation, care, and use of museum collections; registration, cataloging, and preservation methods; legal and ethical issues. Prerequisite: ASB 571 or instructor approval.

573 Museum Administration. (3) S
Formal organization and management of museums; governance; personnel matters; fund raising and grantsmanship; legal and ethical issues. Prerequisite: ASB 571 or instructor approval.

574 Exhibition Planning and Design. (3) S
Exhibition philosophies and development; processes of planning, designing, staging, installing, evaluating, and disassembling temporary and long-term exhibits. Prerequisites: ASB 571 and 572 or instructor approval.

575 Computers and Museums. (3) F
Basics of museum computer application; hardware and software; fundamentals of database management; issues of research, collections management, and administration.

576 Museum Interpretation. (3) F
Processes of planning, implementing, documenting, and evaluating educational programs in museums for varied audienceschildren, adults, and special interest groups. Lecture, discussion. Prerequisite: ASB 571.

577 Principles of Conservation. (3) S
Preservation of museum objects: nature of materials, environmental controls, and causes of degradation; recognizing problems, damage, and solutions; proper care of objects. Prerequisites: ASB 571 and 572 or instructor approval.

582 Linguistic Theory: Syntax. (3) N
Contemporary theories of the grammatical structure of languages. Prerequisite: ASB 480 or FLA 400 or instructor approval.

585 Linguistic Theory: Phonological Systems. (3) F
Origins and development of contemporary phonological systems with particular attention to non-Western languages. Prerequisite: ASB 480 or FLA 400 or instructor approval.

591 Seminar. (3) N
Selected topics in archaeology, linguistics, and social-cultural anthropology.

(a)	Archaeological Ceramics
(b)	Archaeology of North America
(c)	Cultural Anthropology
(d)	Culture and Personality
(e)	Evolution and Culture. Cross-listed as ASM 591.
(f)	Historical Archaeology
(g)	Interdepartmental Seminar. Cross-listed as ASM 591.
(h)	Linguistics
(i)	Museum Studies
(j)	Problems in Southwestern Archaeology
(k)	Problems in Southwestern Ethnology
(l)	Anthropology

Omnibus Graduate Courses: See omnibus graduate courses that may be offered.

1996–98 Graduate Catalog Table of Contents

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