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Program Requirements
Thesis Courses (30 credits)
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ANTH 694 M.A. Thesis Tutorial 1 (6 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Individualized guided research for the Master's thesis.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 699 M.A. Thesis (24 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Writing of M.A. thesis.
Terms: Winter 2018, Fall 2017
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Required Courses (6 credits)
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ENVR 610 Foundations of Environmental Policy (3 credits)
Overview
Environment : Analysis of current environmental policies to reveal implicit and explicit assumptions regarding scientific methods, hypothesis testing, subject/object, causality, certainty, deities, health, development, North-South concerns for resources, commons, national sovereignty, equity. Discussion of implications of such assumptions for building future environmental policies.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: Hirose, Iwao; van der Ven, Hamish (Fall) Hickey, Gordon (Winter)
Restriction: Enrolment in the Graduate Environment Option or enrolment in the Neotropical Environment Option (NEO) or permission of the instructor.
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ENVR 650 Environmental Seminar 1 (1 credit)
Overview
Environment : Interdisciplinary environmental research seminars with the goals of appreciating both the breadth and interconnectedness of environmental research questions.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Sieber, Renee (Fall)
Restriction: Open to students registered in Environment Option.
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ENVR 651 Environmental Seminar 2 (1 credit)
Overview
Environment : Environmental seminars and workshops focused on critical thinking, critical review of articles, team work, effective public speaking, grantmanship.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Sieber, Renee (Winter)
Restriction: Open to students registered in the Environment Option.
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ENVR 652 Environmental Seminar 3 (1 credit)
Overview
Environment : Final research seminar.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Sieber, Renee (Winter)
Prerequisite: ENVR 650.
Restriction: Open to students registered in Environment Option.
Complementary Courses (12 credits)
3 credits from:
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ENVR 519 Global Environmental Politics (3 credits)
Overview
Environment : How the problem of environmental degradation is dealt with at the international level. The scope and nature of global environmental protection issues that cross boundaries, both physical and conceptual. Actors, structures and processes of international society. Consideration of global commons and transnational resources and of environmental externalities.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: ENVR 201 or ENVR 203 or permission of instructor
Restrictions: Open to students in the Environment Graduate Option (available to other students with permission of instructor). (Not open to students who have taken ENVR 580 -- section 001 -- in Winter 2002, Fall 2003, or Fall 2004
Note: This course has been offered three times as a Topics in Environment Course
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ENVR 544 Environmental Measurement and Modelling (3 credits)
Overview
Environment : Utility of geographic information systems, remote sensing and spatially-explicit modelling for environmental planning in conjunction with analytical frameworks used in the decision-making process (e.g., cost-benefit analysis, life-cycle analysis and multi-criteria decision making).
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ENVR 620 Environment and Health of Species (3 credits)
Overview
Environment : How major environmental problems affect the health of human and non-human species, and how environment and health interact at different spatial and temporal scales and with different components of the ecosystem. Immediate, chronic and evolutionary consequences on health. Uncertainty and causation.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Restriction: Open to students in the Environment Option (available to other students with permission of instructor).
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ENVR 622 Sustainable Landscapes (3 credits)
Overview
Environment : Tools and knowledge needed to evaluate landscapes for sustainable management. Processes that shape landscapes, consequences of alternate landscape patterns on ecological flows, implications of management choices on biodiversity and sustainability, and need for social innovations.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Restriction: Students registered in Environment Option, or permission of instructor.
Note: An understanding of ecological principles is required to take this course. Comparative case studies will be used.
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ENVR 630 Civilization and Environment (3 credits)
Overview
Environment : Considers ways to reduce the human impact on Earth's life support systems through variables such as population size, wealth, technology, and conduct. Critically describes ethical frameworks for judging personal and policy choices, including post-collapse scenarios.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Brown, Peter Gilbert (Fall)
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor
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ENVR 680 Topics in Environment 4 (3 credits)
Overview
Environment : Seminars and discussion of advanced, interdisciplinary aspects of current problems in environment led by staff and/or special guests.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Restriction: students taking the Neotropical Environment Option.
Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor
9 credits from:
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ANTH 513 The Poetry of Anthropology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : The seminar addresses the relationship between poetry and anthropology. Considering both the anthropological study of poetry and the poetic dimension of anthropology, the course examines questions of affect, image, language and media but also of narrative, history and politics. Bringing together several domains of anthropological research and theory, the seminar conceives anthropology as a terrain in which social science and poetry cannot be thought apart.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Manoukian, Setrag (Winter)
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ANTH 551 Advanced Topics: Archaeological Research (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Examination and discussion of topics of current theoretical or methodological interest in archaeology. Topics will be announced at the beginning of term.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Fall
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ANTH 555 Advanced Topics in Ethnology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Examination and discussion of topics of current theoretical or methodological interest in ethnology. Topics will be announced at the beginning of term.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Winter
Restriction: Honours students at the U3 level in the Anthropology Department or with permission of instructor
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ANTH 602 Theory 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : A survey of theories and methods employed in anthropology.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Norget, Kristin (Fall)
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ANTH 603 Theory 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : A survey of theories and methods employed in anthropology.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Kohn, Edward (Winter)
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ANTH 607D1 Proseminar in Archaeology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : A survey of professional skills in the field of achaeology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Students must register for both ANTH 607D1 and ANTH 607D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both ANTH 607D1 and ANTH 607D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ANTH 607D2 Proseminar in Archaeology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : See ANTH 607D1 for course description.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Prerequisite: ANTH 607D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both ANTH 607D1 and ANTH 607D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
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ANTH 609D1 Proseminar in Anthropology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : A survey of professional skills in the field of anthropology.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Norget, Kristin (Fall)
Students must register for both ANTH 609D1 and ANTH 609D2
No credit will be given for this course unless both ANTH 609D1 and ANTH 609D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
ANTH 609D1 and ANTH 609D2 together are equivalent to ANTH 609
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ANTH 609D2 Proseminar in Anthropology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : A survey of professional skills in the field of anthropology.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Norget, Kristin (Winter)
Prerequisite: ANTH 609D1
No credit will be given for this course unless both ANTH 609D1 and ANTH 609D2 are successfully completed in consecutive terms
ANTH 609D1 and ANTH 609D2 together are equivalent to ANTH 609
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ANTH 610 Social Organization (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Review of the anthropology of social organization.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 611 Research Design (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Research design in anthropology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 614 Economic Anthropology 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Review of economic anthropology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 615 Seminar in Medical Anthropology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Overview of the theories and methods of contemporary medical anthropology.
Terms: Fall 2017
Instructors: Hyde, Sandra (Fall)
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ANTH 616 Political Anthropology 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : The study of political systems and political processes.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 631 Symbolic Anthropology 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Review of symbolic anthropology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 634 Anthropology of Development 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Critical assessment of the institutions, discourses and processes of social change associated with notions of "development", with special emphasis on small communities in the "developing world", and unindustrialized parts of "developed" countries.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 635 Anthropology of Development 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Critical assessment of the institutions, discourses and processes of social change associated with notions of "development", with special emphasis on small communities in the "developing world", and unindustrialized parts of "developedd" countries.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 640 Psychological Anthropology 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Overview of the theories and methods of contemporary psychological anthropology.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: Collu, Samuele (Winter)
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ANTH 648 Structural Anthropology (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Review of structural anthropology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 660 Research Methods (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Preparation of the Master's research.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 670 Archaeological Theory 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Survey of theories and methods employed in the practive of contemporary archaeology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 671 Archaeological Theory 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Survey of theories and methods employed in the practive of contemporary archaeology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 673 Archaeological Field Methods (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : The collection, analysis, and interpretation of data recovered in archaeological field work.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 680 Tutorial Reading 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Readings on an approved topic under the supervision of a faculty member.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 681 Tutorial Reading 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Readings on an approved topic under the supervision of a faculty member.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 682 Tutorial Reading 3 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Readings on an approved topic under the supervision of a faculty member.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 684 Tutorial Reading 5 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Readings on an approved topic under the supervision of a faculty member.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 702 Advanced Anthropological Theory (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : A survey of advanced theories in anthropology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 760 Advanced Anthropological Methods (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : A survey of advanced methods employed in anthropological research.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 770 Advanced Archaeological Theory (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : A survey of advanced theories and methods employed in archaeology.
Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 780 Reading and Research 1 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Supervised readings and research supervised by a member of staff. Topics will be chosen to suit individual interests.
Terms: Fall 2017, Winter 2018
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
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ANTH 781 Reading and Research 2 (3 credits)
Overview
Anthropology : Supervised readings and research supervised by a member of staff. Topics will be chosen to suit individual interests.
Terms: Winter 2018
Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2017-2018 academic year.
or another 500-, 600-, or 700-level course recommended by the Advisory Committee and approved by the Environment Option Committee.
Faculty of Arts—2017-2018 (last updated Aug. 23, 2017) (disclaimer)
