Courses

• GRS AH 895: Seminar: Twentieth Century Art
  Topic vary. Topic for Spring 2012: TBD.
• GRS AH 901: Directed Studies
  
• GRS AH 902: Directed Studies
  
• GRS AL 901: Directed Study in Applied Linguistics
  Directed study in linguistics. Hours arranged.
• GRS AL 902: Directed Study in Applied Linguistics
  Directed study in linguistics. Hours arranged.
• GRS AN 703: Proseminar: Ethnography and the History of Social Theory in Anthropology
  Intensive introduction focusing on classic works of ethnography, social theory, and the history of the discipline from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. Required of first-year graduate students and open to students in related disciplines with the consent of the instructor.
• GRS AN 704: Proseminar: Contemporary Anthropological Theory
  Examination of major theoretical trends and debates in anthropological theory from the 1960s to present.
• GRS AN 705: Graduate Proseminar in Anthropology: the Biological and Historical Past
  Examination of major contributions and debates in biological anthropology focusing on humanity's place in the natural world. Topics include evolutionary theory, fossil and living primates, human evolution, historical demography, human life histories, and the relationship between biology and culture.
• GRS AN 707: Turkey & Middle East Perspective (Area)
  Social and cultural diversity of the modern Middle East with particular attention to Turkey. Focus on the interplay of traditions and socio-economic changes that have occurred during the 20th century and their implications for the future.
• GRS AN 708: Food, Culture, and Society
  Study of foodways, culinary social history, diet and food ecology with special attention to Asian societies and Boston's food culture. Examines the use of food and cuisine as a focus for identity, national development, and social change.
• GRS AN 716: Cul Anthro Eur
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS AN 717: Power and Society in the Middle East
  Peoples and cultures of the Middle East from Afghanistan to Morocco and from the Caucasus to Yemen. Focuses on social organization, family structure, the relationship between the sexes, and the development and maintenance of authority
• GRS AN 719: Muslim Cultures
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS AN 720: Muslim Women
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS AN 731: Human Origins
  Introduction to human paleontology and methods for reconstructing the ancestry, structure, diet and behavior of fossil primates and humans. Survey of primate and hominid fossils, priimate comparative anatomy, radioactive dating, modlecular and structural phylogenies, climactic analyses, and comparative behavioral ecology.
• GRS AN 733: Human Population Biology
  Meets with AN 333. Human popultion biology and ecological adaptations: Human demography, life history patterns, population genetics and physiological adaptability. Topics: Population dynamics of human societies, mortality and fertility schedules, evolution and genetics of human life history traits, physiological adaptability, and ecological correlates.
• GRS AN 735: The Ape Within: Chimpanzees and the Evolution of Human Behavior
  Introduction to primate social behavior, focusing on the apes. Examines how chimpanzee behavior can be used to understand human behavior. What is unique about humans, and how did we evolve? Topics include diet, social relationships, sexual behavior, aggression, culture, cognition.
• GRS AN 744: Modern Japanese Society: Family, School, and Workplace (Area)
  Meets with AN 344. Approaches contemporary japanese society through a focus on family, school and workplace. the readings and lectures treat these institutions historically and in terms of the contexts they provide for the individual.
• GRS AN 745: Moving Experiences: Cultures of Tourism and Travel
  The movement of people across national boundaries as a cultural, economic and political phenomenon. Examines voluntary border-crossing in its various cultural and historical meanings as well as in the representations of journals and contemporary accounts.
• GRS AN 751: Graduate Study in Language, Culture, and Society
  Introduction to basic concepts, problems, and methods used by anthropologists in the investigation of relationships among language, culture, and society. Topics include language and conceptual systems, language and role, language and social context, and language and thought.

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