Undergraduate Courses

The Department of Anthropology offers a number of undergraduate courses that fulfill requirements in the liberal arts and sciences core curriculum and the writing-intensive (W) general education requirement.

Academic Year 2024-2025

3030. Peoples of the Pacific Islands

3.00 credits

Prerequisites: None.

Grading Basis: Graded

Survey of the indigenous societies and cultures of the Pacific Islands, from the first settlement to the postcolonial period. Topics include prehistoric canoe voyaging, modes of subsistence, political forms, ritual and religion, ceremonial exchange, gender ideologies, European colonization, and modern indigenous nationalism. Ethnographic examples will be drawn from Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. CA 4-INT.