Program Structure and Offerings

A focus on the interrelationships between the environment, culture, and society of the Greater Southwest is a central part of this program's mission. For undergraduate students the program provides a new thematic cluster with 18 units and for graduate students a minor with 12 units. Undergraduate and graduate minors will consist of a combination of Southwest classes within Anthropology and specified offerings in affiliated departments, with flexibility to occasionally include offerings in nonaffiliated departments. Appropriate courses in addition to one core course will be identified by the student in consultation with a program advisor.

The core course, Southwest Land and Society (ANTH/ARL/LAS 418/518), surveys human societies in their natural and cultural landscapes from earliest times to the present. This introductory course is being team-taught by an archaeologist and an ethnologist from the program's core faculty. Status as a reviewed and recognized thematic cluster should facilitate petition approval for undergraduates who wish to use Southwest Land, Society and Culture as a thematic minor. In addition, every year an undergraduate Honor's seminar and/or a graduate seminar will be offered in selected Southwestern topics such as Water and Power in the Greater Southwest, The Columbian Exchange in the Greater Southwest, Prehistory of the Borderlands, and Ethnicity and Class in the Southwest. Course sequences will be sufficiently flexible to meet the individual needs of students with a variety of majors, while providing them with an integrated understanding of human society in the Southwestern United States and northwest Mexico from earliest times to the present.

Anth/AIS 205	Clovis to Coronado: Ancient Peoples of the Southwest
Anth/AIS 206	Native Peoples of the Southwest
Anth 304	Introduction to Archaeological Fieldwork
Anth 316	Political Economy of Language
Anth/AIS 413/513	Ethnology of the Southwest
Anth 414	Indians of the Southwest
Anth/ARL/LAS 418/518	Southwest Land and Society
Anth/AIS/LAS 423/523	Anthropology of Rural Mexico
Anth 447/547	Anasazi Archaeology
Anth/AIS 482/582	Hopi Language and Culture
Anth 442A,B/642A,B	Advanced Field Course in Archaeology
Anth 552	Archaeology of the Southwest
Recent Seminars	- Archaeology of the Borderlands - Community Reorganization and the American Southwest - Archaeology and American Indians - Cultural Resource Management - Household Archaeology

 

Online Maps from the Southwest Land, Culture, and Society Program