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2016-2017 Graduate Studies Bulletin (Archived Copy)
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2016-2017 Graduate Studies Bulletin (Archived Copy) 
    
 
  May 03, 2024
 
2016-2017 Graduate Studies Bulletin (Archived Copy) [Archived Catalog]

Course Descriptions


 
  
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    ACCT 501 - Financial Accounting III

    Credits: 3

    Advanced topics in accounting theory and practice as it relates to preparation of financial statements.

    Prerequisites: ACCT 405 or consent of instructor

  
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    ACCT 502 - Advanced Cost/Managerial Accounting

    Credits: 3

    Advanced topics in the use of accounting information for managerial decisions.

    Prerequisites: ACCT 402

  
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    ACCT 503 - Tax II

    Credits: 3

    Advanced tax topics. Emphasis is on the taxation of partnerships and corporations.

    Prerequisites: ACCT 403 or consent of instructor

  
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    ACCT 504 - Legal Issues for Accountants and Managers

    Credits: 3

    The study of legal issues affecting accountants and managers.

    Prerequisites: ACCT 324 or permission of department

  
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    ACCT 505 - Governmental and Nonprofit Accounting

    Credits: 3

    Accounting principles and procedures for local, state, and federal governmental units and for private nonprofit organizations.

    Prerequisites: ACCT 405 or consent of instructor

  
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    ACCT 506 - International Financial Reporting

    Credits: 3

    Study of the principles and application of international financial reporting standards.

    Prerequisites: ACCT 405

    Note: Restricted to: Accounting Majors

  
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    ACCT 590 - Special Topics in Accounting

    Credits: 3

    Analysis of current topics, issues and practices in various areas of accounting. May be repeated as content varies by suffix and title.

  
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    ACCT 702 - Application of Advanced Databases to Accounting and Business

    Credits: 3

    The integration, configuration, and operation of accounting information within enterprise resource planning and other databases as applied to current business practices.

  
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    ACCT 728 - Financial Accounting

    Credits: 3

    Directs attention to accounting concepts, conventions, and assumptions for an understanding of the content and underlying principles of financial statements.

  
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    ACCT 729 - Managerial Accounting

    Credits: 3

    Directs attention to an understanding of the manner in which accounting aids management by providing information for decision-making and control of operations.

    Prerequisites: ACCT 728

  
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    ACCT 730 - International Accounting

    Credits: 3

    A study of the international dimensions of accounting, including such topics as the patterns of accounting development found in other nations, the promulgation of worldwide accounting standards, and the accounting problems associated with multinational corporate operations.

    Prerequisites: ACCT 728 and 729

  
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    ACCT 731 - Federal Taxes and Management Decisions

    Credits: 3

    Fundamentals of taxation with attention upon federal income tax provisions and the consequences of business decisions

    Prerequisites: ACCT 728 and 729

  
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    ACCT 732 - Auditing II

    Credits: 3

    Advanced topics in independent, internal, and governmental auditing

  
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    ACCT 733 - Accounting Regulation and Financial Reporting Issues

    Credits: 3

    Examination of the theoretical, Practical, economic, and political aspects of accounting regulation and financial reporting issues.

  
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    ACCT 734 - Accounting Research and Communication

    Credits: 3

    Research on accounting and auditing issues, and the oral and written communication of accounting and auditing processes and research results.

  
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    ACCT 735 - Cost/Managerial Accounting III

    Credits: 3

    A critical examination of contemporary cost accounting theory and practice.

  
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    ACCT 736 - Information Technology Assurance, Control, and Security

    Credits: 3

    Governance, control, and audit of information technology.

  
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    ACCT 737 - Accounting Information Systems from a Strategic Perspective

    Credits: 3

    Design and implementation of accounting information systems to achieve strategic objectives.

    Prerequisites: ACCT 435

  
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    ACCT 738 - Financial Statement Analysis

    Credits: 3

    Analysis of financial statements for profitability and risk assessment and for firm and segment valuation.

    Cross-listed Course: FINA 756

    Prerequisites: DMSB 717 or ACCT 729 or equivalent

  
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    ACCT 739 - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

    Credits: 3

    Business process integration within Enterprise Resource Planning systems including the use and management of the enterprise core modules within ERP software implemented companies.

  
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    ACCT 741 - Special Topics in Accounting

    Credits: 3

    A study of selected accounting topics

  
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    ACCT 742 - Independent Study in Professional Accounting

    Credits: 1-6

    Individually arranged studies in specialized areas of professional accounting.

  
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    ACCT 743 - Accounting for Management Control

    Credits: 3

    Concepts and techniques of accounting and budgeting for management control in the modern organization. Topics include cost control, budgetary control, and performance and evaluation.

    Prerequisites: ACCT 729

  
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    ACCT 750 - Tax Research and Communication

    Credits: 3

    Techniques of tax research focusing on advanced tax topics, tax administration, and procedures before the Internal Revenue Service, including oral and written communication of research results.

  
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    ACCT 751 - Business Entity Tax Issues

    Credits: 3

    Basic concepts of taxation of C Corporations, S Corporations, partnerships, Gift and Estates, and tax administration procedures.

  
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    ACCT 752 - Advanced Business Entity Tax Issues

    Credits: 3

    Advanced concepts of taxation of Corporations and partnerships.

    Prerequisites: ACCT 751

  
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    ACCT 753 - Advanced Individual Tax Issues

    Credits: 3

    Estate and gift tax, Estate planning, trust taxation, executive compensation, stock options, retirement accounts, AMT, and other individual tax issues.

  
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    ACCT 754 - Multijurisdictional Tax Issues

    Credits: 3

    Global, State, and local taxation issues, including (but not limited to) transfer pricing, foreign tax credits, subpart F, tax treaties, different types of taxes, nexus, and corporate income tax.

  
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    ACCT 755 - Taxation of Corporate Reorganizations

    Credits: 3

    An examination of the tax aspects of corporate mergers and reorganizations.

    Prerequisites: ACCT 750

  
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    ACCT 756 - Advanced Estate and Income Planning

    Credits: 3

    Advanced estate planning techniques, including executive compensation.

  
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    ACCT 757 - Seminar in Special Tax Topics

    Credits: 3

    Addresses current tax problems and tax planning opportunities.

    Prerequisites: ACCT 750

  
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    ACCT 832 - Doctoral Seminar in Accounting Research

    Credits: 3

    Seminar for beginning doctoral students that provides an overview of research topic areas, methods, and designs currently used in accounting.

  
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    ACCT 833 - Doctoral Seminar in Financial Accounting

    Credits: 3

    Research methods and issues related to financial accounting topics.

  
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    ACCT 834 - Doctoral Seminar in Managerial Accounting

    Credits: 3

    Research methods and issues related to managerial accounting topics.

  
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    ACCT 835 - Doctoral Seminar in Auditing and Accounting Information Systems

    Credits: 3

    Research methods and issues related to auditing and accounting information systems topics.

  
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    ACCT 837 - Directed Doctoral Research Project in Accounting

    Credits: 3

    Formulation of concepts, synthesis of literature, development of a research design, and conduct of any appropriate empirical tests.

  
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    AFAM 515 - Race, Gender, and Graphic Novels

    Credits: 3

    Representations of race and gender in comics with a special emphasis on the experiences of African Americans.

    Cross-listed Course: WGST 515

  
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    AFAM 517 - An Anthropological View of Blacks in Film

    Credits: 3

    Cultural representations, constructions, production, and consumption of African-American identity in the popular culture medium of feature films



    Cross-listed Course: ANTH 517

  
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    AFAM 565 - African American Theatre

    Credits: 3

    The major movements, figures, plays, and critical strategies that have marked the development of African American theatre in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

    Cross-listed Course: ENGL 565, THEA 565

    Prerequisites: All Literature Courses 300 and above require ENGL 101, 102, and one course between ENGL 270-292.

  
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    AFAM 580 - Culture and Identity in the African Diaspora

    Credits: 3

    Students will explore the African Diaspora as a social, cultural, and historical formation with Africa at its center, focusing on U.S.-, Latin American-, and Caribbean African-descended communities.



    Cross-listed Course: ANTH 580

  
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    ANTH 513 - Anthropological Ethnobotany

    Credits: 3

    Survey of how each anthropological subfield studies the interrelationships between plants and peoples. Application of methods, including interviewing and data analysis.

  
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    ANTH 515 - Tradition and Transformations in Islamic Cultures

    Credits: 3

    Islam as a dynamic cultural tradition: emphasis on the tension between Islamization and the larger Islamic tradition.

    Cross-listed Course: RELG 515

  
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    ANTH 516 - Indonesian Culture Through Film

    Credits: 4

    Examination of Indonesian culture, history, social and economic change using scripted Indonesian fiction films and supplementary readings.

  
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    ANTH 517 - An Anthropological View of Blacks in Film

    Credits: 3

    Cultural representations, constructions, production, and consumption of African-American identity in the popular culture medium of feature films.

    Cross-listed Course: AFRO 517

  
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    ANTH 518 - Visual Cultures

    Credits: 3

    Survey of visual anthropology including theoretical frameworks of ways of seeing, ethnographic photography and filmmaking, contemporary technologies, and their effects on culture.

  
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    ANTH 520 - Field Problems in Ethnology

    Credits: 6

    A two-semester class and field session. Research design, field methods, interpretation of data, and the development of theory from the data.

  
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    ANTH 525 - Ethnoecology

    Credits: 3

    Seminar exploring human-plant-animal-natural interactions within an anthropological framework.

  
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    ANTH 533 - North American Archaeology

    Credits: 3

    Prehistoric and historic archaeology.

  
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    ANTH 534 - Prehistoric Archaeology of South America

    Credits: 3

    Prehistoric archaeology of the South American continent.

    Cross-listed Course: LASP 425

  
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    ANTH 535 - Conflict Archaeology

    Credits: 3

    Anthropological and archaeological theories and methods in the study of conflict, war, and warfare. Causes, effects, outcomes of sustained social acts of violence of groups, tribes, states, and nations. Evolutionary, biological, social origins of warfare. History, strategy, and tactics, battlefield archaeology.

  
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    ANTH 536 - Public Archaeology

    Credits: 3

    Philosophy and mechanics of modern archaeological Cultural Resource Management (CRM). CRM legislation, regulation, and process. Contemporary issues and problems in Public Archaeology including Native American reburial negotiations, conflict resolution, ethics, looting, business practices, standards, contexts and protection.

  
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    ANTH 541 - Field Problems in Archaeology

    Credits: 3

    Archaeological field methods and techniques such as excavation, flotation, sampling, surveying, photography, and remote sensing.

    Prerequisites: ANTH 320

  
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    ANTH 542 - Topics in Archaeological Field Problems

    Credits: 1-3

    Topics in archaeological field methods and techniques. Individual topics to be announced in master schedule by suffix and title.

    Prerequisites: ANTH 320 and permission of instructor

  
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    ANTH 545 - Historical Archaeology

    Credits: 3

    Archaeological theory and methods applied to data from the historical period.

    Prerequisites: ANTH 320 or consent of instructor

  
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    ANTH 546 - Forensic Archaeological Recovery (FAR)

    Credits: 3

    Introduction to Forensic Archaeological Recovery (FAR). Concepts, methods, and contemporary issues.

  
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    ANTH 550 - Archaeological Laboratory Methods

    Credits: 4

    Laboratory on basic prehistoric and historic artifact analysis, including analytical methods, laboratory equipment, and data interpretation. May be repeated.

    Prerequisites: ANTH 319 or 322

  
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    ANTH 551 - Medical Anthropology: Fieldwork

    Credits: 3

    Application of observation techniques, field notes, informant interviewing, and secondary data analysis to interpreting differential perceptions of health problem solving in the community and clinic.

  
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    ANTH 552 - Medical Anthropology

    Credits: 3

    Socio-cultural factors in health, illness, healing, and in medical systems. Cross-cultural and ethnographic evidence for public health research and program applications.

  
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    ANTH 553 - Anthropological Approaches to Narrative and Performance

    Credits: 3

    The ways people from various cultures reflect on, reinforce, and construct their social realities through narrating, which will be considered as both artistic expression and social action.

    Cross-listed Course: LING 545

  
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    ANTH 555 - Language and Gender

    Credits: 3

    Approaches to gender and language emphasizing the social grounding of both; how language reflects sociocultural values and is a tool for constructing different types of social organization.

    Cross-listed Course: LING 541, WGST 555

  
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    ANTH 556 - Language and Globalization

    Credits: 3

    Anthropological approach to issues of language and globalization. Linguistic consequences of globalization under consideration include communicative patterns, linguistic change, and language and political economy.

    Cross-listed Course: LING 556

  
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    ANTH 557 - Psychological Anthropology

    Credits: 3

    Psychological aspects of behavior from a cross-cultural perspective.

  
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    ANTH 561 - Human Osteology

    Credits: 4

    An intensive examination of the human skeleton and techniques for anthropological interpretation.

    Note: Lecture and laboratory.

  
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    ANTH 565 - Health and Disease in the Past

    Credits: 3

    Varieties and effects of disease patterns among past populations illustrating biological, environmental, and cultural interrelationships.

  
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    ANTH 567 - Human Identification in Forensic Anthropology

    Credits: 3

    Theories and methodologies necessary for the identification of human skeletal remains in a forensic setting.

  
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    ANTH 568 - Nutritional Anthropology

    Credits: 3

    Nutritional problems in developing nations. Measures of nutritional status. Social, economic, and environmental aspects of food consumption and nutrition. Biocultural responses to food deprivation and undernutrition.

  
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    ANTH 569 - Environment and Development

    Credits: 3

    Examination of development theory and environmental implications of social and economic change. Study of general theoretical perspectives will be balanced with case study materials.

    Cross-listed Course: GEOG 569

    Prerequisites: consent of instructor

  
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    ANTH 570 - Ethnographic Film

    Credits: 3

    Problems in conveying and interpreting ethnographic information on film or tape. Includes syntax, suitability of subject matter to the medium, irrelevant or distracting information, and observer bias.

  
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    ANTH 572 - Temporal Processes in Culture

    Credits: 3

    Clocks, cycles, and contingencies as they affect human societies now and have done so in the past. Theories and models from biology and the other natural sciences will be used to interpret the history of culture.

  
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    ANTH 575 - Economic Anthropology

    Credits: 3

    A cross-cultural study of the economic behavior of pre-literate and literate societies.

  
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    ANTH 576 - Archaeology of the African Diaspora

    Credits: 3

    Foodways, architecture, crafts, and narrative of African-American cultures.

  
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    ANTH 577 - Advanced Topics in the Anthropological Study of Social Organization

    Credits: 3

    Selected recent theoretical and methodological developments in the study of social organization.

  
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    ANTH 579 - Cultural Ecology

    Credits: 3

    An interdisciplinary approach to prehistoric, historic, and contemporary relationships between the development of socio-cultural configurations and ecosystems.

  
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    ANTH 580 - Culture and Identity in the African Diaspora

    Credits: 3

    Students will explore the African Diaspora as a social, cultural, and historical formation with Africa at its center, focusing on US, Latin American, and Caribbean African-descended communities.

    Cross-listed Course: AFRO 580

  
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    ANTH 581 - Globalization and Cultural Questions

    Credits: 3

    This course examines cultural understandings of and responses to globalization, examining topics such as its history and theories, migration, economic integration and inequality, identity, social movements, and the environment.

    Cross-listed Course: GEOG 581

  
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    ANTH 586 - Discourse, Gender and Politics of Emotion

    Credits: 3

    Anthropological approach to issues of discourse, gender and emotion. Issues under consideration include the social control, force, and forms of emotional discourse and the relationship between emotion and culture from gender-oriented perspectives.

    Cross-listed Course: LING 543

  
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    ANTH 591 - Selected Topics

    Credits: 1-3

    Topics of special interest. May be taken more than once as topics change.

  
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    ANTH 600 - Survey of Linguistics

    Credits: 3

    Survey of core areas of linguistics and extensions to closely related disciplines. Introduction to the linguistic component of human cognition. Formal description and analysis of the general properties of speech and language, the organization of language in the mind/brain, and cross-linguistic typology and universals.

    Cross-listed Course: ENGL 680, LING 600

  
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    ANTH 699 - Reading and Research

    Credits: 3-6

  
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    ANTH 701 - Physical Anthropology and Archaeology for Teachers

    Credits: 3

    Human origins, human evolution, human prehistory, and cultural existence from its less complex forms to early civilizations. An introduction to the concepts, methods, and data of physical, biological, and archaeological anthropology primarily for teachers

    Note: May be taken with, or independently of, ANTH 702.

  
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    ANTH 702 - Social and Linguistic Anthropology for Teachers

    Credits: 3

    Selected contemporary cultures, including their languages. An introduction to the concepts, methods, and data of sociocultural anthropology and anthropological linguistics, primarily for teachers.

    Note: May be taken with, or independently of, ANTH 701.

  
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    ANTH 703 - Anthropological Inquiry

    Credits: 3

    A discussion of the general topics of anthropological inquiry, theories, and methods.

  
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    ANTH 704 - Anthropological Connections

    Credits: 3

    Faculty representing subdisciplines of anthropology will explore with students the connections between subfields, theoretical and regional perspectives, and analyses of the past and present.

    Prerequisites: ANTH 703 and permission of instructor

  
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    ANTH 711 - Professionalism and Ethics

    Credits: 3

    Presentation of critical skills to acheive career goals in a variety of anthropological applications, develop portfolios, prepare competitive job applications, and produce effective grant proposals. Ethical issues in anthropological research, publishing and teaching.

  
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    ANTH 712 - Thesis Skills Seminar

    Credits: 1-3

    Skills needed for writing a master’s thesis in anthropology, including literature review, current theory, research design, data analysis, and written presentation

    Note: Pass-Fail Grading

  
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    ANTH 714 - Teaching Practicum in Anthropology

    Credits: 1

    Uses the context of leading discussions in ANTH 101 and 102 to introduce and explore issues relating to pedagogy.

  
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    ANTH 718 - Seminar in European Archaeology

    Credits: 3

    Consideration and critique of current research in European archaeology.

  
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    ANTH 719 - Field Problems in Ethnology

    Credits: 3

    Advanced graduate seminar on methods of ethnology, including research design, field methods, and interpretation of data, and the development of theory from data. Includes class and field sessions.

    Prerequisites: permission of instructor

  
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    ANTH 720 - Development of Anthropological Archaeology

    Credits: 3

    Anthropological archaeology: history, theory, contemporary issues, and relationship to other disciplines.

  
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    ANTH 721 - Community Anthropology for Professionals

    Credits: 3

    Those skills of social/cultural anthropology and anthropological linguistics which can aid practitioners in health, law, education, and other professional fields to function in community settings. Emphasis on cultural and sub-cultural differences in South Carolina, the Southeast, and the United States.

  
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    ANTH 722 - Summer Field School in Archaeology

    Credits: 6

    Experience in supervising archaeological research, making field decisions, and directing the collection, processing, and interpretation of archaeological data in the field.

    Prerequisites: permission of graduate director

  
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    ANTH 723 - Summer Field School in Ethnography

    Credits: 3-6

    Experience in designing and carrying out ethnographic research including project design, data collection, analysis, and description.

    Prerequisites: permission of graduate director

  
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    ANTH 724 - Visual Anthropology Research

    Credits: 3

    Exploring the range of anthropological research utilizing visual records (still photographs and video/film) including theoretical underpinnings and hands-on practice: how and why to use visual records in research.

  
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    ANTH 730 - Cultural Theory through Ethnography

    Credits: 3

    Theories of culture presented through ethnographies from different parts of the world. Issues in writing, reading, and interpreting ethnographic information.

  
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    ANTH 733 - Seminar in North American Prehistory

    Credits: 3

    Consideration and critique of current research in North American archaeology.

  
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    ANTH 740 - Current Issues in Archaeology

    Credits: 3

    Review of theoretical trends in American archaeology.

  
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    ANTH 741 - Ethnology for Archaeologists

    Credits: 3

    Ethnographic data important to archaeological thinking; archaeological models resting on ethnographic data. Emphasis on variation of ethnographic data.

  
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    ANTH 742 - Public Archaeology

    Credits: 3

    The legal, philosophical, and ethical foundations of archaeology in the United States. Considerations on relating archaeology to the non-professional.

  
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    ANTH 743 - Research Practicum in Archaeology

    Credits: 1

    Observation and participation in the on going management of archaeological resources.

  
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    ANTH 744 - Research Practicum in Conservation Archaeology

    Credits: 1

    Observation and participation in the on going management of archaeological resources.

 

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