ANTH 321 - Archaeology of the Americas

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4
The origins, growth and interaction of the North American, Mesoamerican and South American societies, with particular emphasis on the large pre-contact civilizations, Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas. Archaeological, historical and ethnographic evidence.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division GE Area 4 requirements (Area D1-2 requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

identify, summarize and sequence the basic schools of anthropological thought in all four academic sub-fields of the discipline;
apply basic qualitative and quantitative sociocultural (ethnographic), archaeological, or osteological research methods and skills;
describe, compare and relate human cultures across different regions of the globe.

GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Learning Outcomes

analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.