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ANTH 3120: Pop Culture Global Perspective

3.00 Credits

Middle Tennessee State University

Prerequisite: ANTH 2010 or permission of instructor. Cross-culture exploration of pop culture as a body of widely shared and contested beliefs, practices, and material objects that present ordinary social life in spectacular and exaggerated form. Use of ethnography to understand pop culture as both a commercial phenomenon rooted in mass media as well as an expression of mass consumer resistance.

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ANTH 3130: Anthropology of Music

3.00 Credits

Middle Tennessee State University

Prerequisite: ANTH 2010 or permission of instructor. The study of music as it reflects and shapes culture and social behavior from around the world. How music serves as a window into ideas of globalization and the related issues of power, resistance, and identity formation. Particular attention paid to the role of media and music in cross-cultural settings.

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ANTH 3210: Archaeology

3.00 Credits

Middle Tennessee State University

Introduces methods used to study the nature and development of prehistoric societies. Approaches to survey, excavation, analysis, and interpretation explored through lectures, case studies, and problem assignments.

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ANTH 3240: Ancient Civilizations

3.00 Credits

Middle Tennessee State University

Prerequisite: 3 hours of anthropology. Comparative study of archaeological evidence on the origins, development, and collapse of the early civilizations of the world. The transformation of human societies from the first settled villages to urban states in Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, Central Asia, Mesoamerica, and Peru.

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ANTH 3310: Biological Anthropology

3.00 Credits

Middle Tennessee State University

The origin and development of human life, its primate roots, ecology, and diversity.

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ANTH 3350: Archaeology of Death

3.00 Credits

Middle Tennessee State University

Explores human diversity from the perspective of death and burial with emphasis on archaeological methods used to recover, describe, and interpret how past and present human societies disposed of the dead and coped with death through ritual.

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ANTH 3410: Linguistic Anthropology

3.00 Credits

Middle Tennessee State University

Language in its anthropological contexts with a focus on language as one element of culture, including how a language fits into the cultural system, how language is distinguished from other components of culture, how culture and language interrelate, and what techniques and methods can be used to infer nonlinguistic facts from linguistic materia

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ANTH 3509: Peoples & Cult-China & Japan

3.00 Credits

Middle Tennessee State University

Prerequisite: Junior standing; ANTH 2010 recommended. The diverse peoples and culture of China and Japan. Overview of East Asia as a region and contemporary issues and impacts resulting from globalization from an anthropological perspective.

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ANTH 3510: People&Culture Southeast Asia

3.00 Credits

Middle Tennessee State University

The diverse peoples and cultures of Asia and the Pacific Rim. History, sociocultural system, and contemporary issues and impacts resulting from globalization from an anthropological perspective.

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ANTH 3514: Peoples and Cultures of Africa

3.00 Credits

Middle Tennessee State University

(Same as AAS 3514.) The diverse peoples and cultures of Africa. History, sociocultural system, and contemporary issues and impacts resulting from globalization from an anthropological perspective.

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