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  • ANTH 3340: Peoples and Cultures of Mexico

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores the people and cultures of Mexico. Discusses borders and immigration, indigenous cultures, rural/peasant societies, urban societies, and historical/political issues specific to Mexico. Emphasizes awareness of cultural relativity and global connectivity among the diverse peoples of Mexico.
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  • ANTH 3350: Andean Prehistory

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ANTH 1010G and (ENGL 2010 with a minimum grade of C+) and (ANTH 1030G or instructor approval) and University Advanced Standing. Offers an updated synthesis of the development, key achievements, material, organizational and ideological features of pre-Hispanic cultures of the Andean region of western South America. Spans around 12,000 years of pre-Hispanic cultural developments, from the earliest hunters-gatherers to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Focuses on the modern nation of Peru with an emphasis on the Paijan, Cupisnique, Chav+n, Paracas, Nasca, Gallinazo Moche, Recuay, Tiwanaku, Wari, Cajamarca, Sic+n, Chim+, and Inka.
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  • ANTH 3360: Contemporary Issues in American Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Examines key aspects of contemporary American culture. Discusses American values and popular culture, ethnicity, gender, childhood, food, reproduction, technology, crime, and globalization. Highlights aspects of American culture that may not be explored in other Behavioral Science curricula.
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  • ANTH 3365: Gender and Sexuality

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Examines theories on the biological and cultural construction of sex and gender. Covers how different communities organize their lives around gender distinctions and sexual practices. Utilizes anthropological theories to analyze cultural practices and concepts pertaining to the following: differences between men and women, perceived sexual deviance and accepted sexual practices, non-binary people and third genders. Explores the way contradictory gender norms coexist and compete within the same culture.
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  • ANTH 3370: History and Ethnography of Andean Societies

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores the social and cultural processes that characterize the societies that descend from the Inca Empire--Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru--as they have developed since the Spanish invasion. Discusses contemporary political, economic, and social problems in these countries in the context of global society.
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  • ANTH 3400: Myth Magic and Religion

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores the many aspects of religion, including its history, diversity, and how it relates to social science studies. Examines terms such as myth, magic, religion, ritual and shamanism, among others. Covers how these terms are used to discuss religious and spiritual practices around the world.
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  • ANTH 3420: Andean Religion

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores religion prior to the Spanish conquest in the countries that were part of the Inca Empire--Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru. Surveys the nature of Catholicism that was recreated after colonial conquest. Discusses the contemporary religious issues of Andean societies, such as secularity, and how Andean religious categories differ from categories that guide academic research on religion.
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  • ANTH 3450: Shamanism and Indigenous Religion

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores the religious systems of indigenous peoples, particularly those which have been called shamanic. Focuses on the classical study of shamanism and the literature on indigenous shamanism. Locates the study of shamanism within a social context that includes social relational and political economic contexts of the groups within which shamanism is found. Poses questions of how shamanism is different from the expanding world religions and compares and contrasts shamanism with non-shamanic indigenous religions. Analyzes at the current marketing of shamanism in New Age contexts.
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  • ANTH 3460: Anthropology of Mormonism

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing.. Explores how an anthropological approach can enable a more in-depth comprehension of Mormonism as a religious tradition and cultural phenomena.
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  • ANTH 3480: Global Christianity

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing. Explores the key issues that have arisen in the literature that explores Christianity from an anthropological perspective. Examines the development of Christianity from its historical origins to its current status as a "world religion." Discusses how Christianity becomes relevant to different cultural contexts in the modern world. Analyzes Pentecostal, Evangelical Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, and Catholic forms of Christianity.
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