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The University of Maine 2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog
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AED 270 - Introduction to Visual Culture and Learning
An introduction to visual culture and its relationship to the development and maintenance of human knowledge and
experience. Students will explore and gain insight into diverse forms of visual culture, including those different from
and similar to their own cultural experiences; and will become aware of the relationship between visual culture and
the theory and practice of contemporary education as it takes place within the contexts of schools, museums and
other community-based settings. Developed primarily for Art Education, Museum Education and Community
Practice students.
Prerequisites: Art Education Majors with a minimum of sophomore standing and ART 100, ART 110, ART 120, ART
200, ARH 155, and ARH 156 - or permission of the instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
AED 371 - Methods and Materials in Art Education
Introduction to instructional methods and strategies in art education. Exploration, development and evaluation of
approaches to teaching, teaching and learning styles, educational materials, media and technologies. Art education
majors or art certification students only. Lec 3.
Prerequisites: EDB 202 and EDB 221; 21 credits in Studio Art; 12 credits in Art History; 15 credits of General
Education requirements.
Corequisites: AED 372 and AED 373.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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AED 372 - Foundations of Art Education
Includes historical, philosophical, political, psychological and sociological foundations of art education; theories of
child art; and critical examination of current research, trends and issues in art education. Art education majors or art
certification students only. Lec 3.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Corequisites: AED 371 and AED 373.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
AED 373 - Introduction to Curriculum
Introduction to art curricula strategies and development. Includes instructional planning, lesson writing and
organization, and practicum experience. Art education majors or art certification students only. Lec 2, Lab 1.
Corequisites: AED 371 and AED 372.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
AED 473 - Advanced Curriculum in Art Education
An examination of current theory, research and practice pertaining to curriculum development in art education.
Including an exploration of traditional and innovative approaches to curriculum development in art education,
problems and issues relevant to art curricula design and implementation, critical examination of existing curricula,
and practice in developing and evaluating art curricula. Art education majors, art certification students or by
instructor’s permission only. Lec 3.
Prerequisites: AED 371, AED 372 and AED 373 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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AED 474 - Topics in Art Education
Seminar in advanced research and practice in art education and related areas. Specific topic to be announced.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
AED 496 - Field Experience in Art Education
Students involved in pre-professional activities with art education in schools or community agencies may apply for
supervision and credit for the project.
Prerequisites: AED 371, AED 372, AED 373 and permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 1
AED 497 - Independent Study in Art Education
Advanced projects, readings, or seminars in art education. Topic and form of study to be determined by student in
consultation with faculty member.
Prerequisites: AED 371, AED 372, AED 373 or equivalents and permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 1
AED 498 - Directed Study in Art Education
Advanced projects, readings, or seminars in art education. Topic and form of study to be determined by student in
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consultation with faculty member.
Prerequisites: AED 371, AED 372, AED 373 or equivalents and permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: Ar
ANT 101 - Introduction to Anthropology: Human Origins and Prehistory
A survey course focusing on the evolution of humankind, the development of culture, and the beginnings of
civilization. Required for Anthropology majors.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural
Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
ANT 102 - Introduction to Anthropology: Diversity of Cultures
A survey course focusing on the nature of culture, similarities and differences among the world’s cultures,
relationships among cultures, and culture change. Required for Anthropology majors.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural
Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ANT 120 - Religions of the World
A survey of the distinctive features of the major world religions and the most studied Native American, African and
aboriginal Australian religions. Focuses on the fit between myth and ritual, the problems involved in trying to
understand both “from the believer’s point of view,” and what generalizations can be made about religion in general.
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General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural
Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
ANT 140 - Cities of the Ancient World
This course explores ancient urbanism in a global context. It includes theoretical approaches to the concept of ‘city’
and weekly explorations of urban landscapes among ancient civilizations of the world.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ANT 170 - Popular Archaeology
Many popular ideas about the past are at odds with what professional archaeologists think they know. Most of us
find the past inherently interesting, without embellishment. But we are commonly confronted by intriguing beliefs in
visits by ancient astronauts, the lost continent of Atlantis, etc. While some of these ideas may have merit, many do
not. Develops methods for evaluating critically the archaeological record, sorting out science from pseudoscience and
distinguishing that which is plausible from that which is unlikely.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3
ANT 207 - Introduction to World Archaeology
An overview of the human record as determined by archaeology using examples drawn from the global experience.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
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Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ANT 210 - Physical Anthropology
Introduces current topics in human biology and evolution including human origins and the fossil record, human
genetics and population variability, and human and non-human primate behavior.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Applications of Scientific Knowledge
Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
ANT 212 - The Anthropology of Food
Food is the most direct and meaningful connection people have with the environment, a connection that addresses
both biological and cultural needs. This course aims at exposing students to the different ways in which
anthropologists think about food across its sub-disciplines as a way to understand human origins, behavior, and
cultural diversity. Themes include food procurement strategies, influence on human evolution, religious traditions
and food, food as pertains to power dynamics, warfare, gender relations and identity, and the role of food in
environmental and sustainable development policy-making.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Population and the Environment and Cultural
Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
ANT 221 - Introduction to Folklore
A survey of the different genres of folklore, its forms, uses, functions and modes of transmission. Emphasis on belief,
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custom and legend.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and the Cultural
Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
ANT 225 - Climate Change, Societies and Cultures
Surveys the human dimensions of climate change from a cultural perspective: The interactions among societies,
cultures, and climate change. Reviews climate-change futures and their human implications around the world;
drivers of climate change; and technological, social, and cultural mitigation and adaptations strategies. Perspective
throughout is universalistic (all human societies, past and present) and holistic (all realms of thought and behavior,
though with particular emphasis on social, political, and cultural dimensions).
Prerequisites: ANT 101 or ANT 102 or Permission
Credits: 3
ANT 245 - Sex and Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
An exploration into the commonality and diversity of sex and gender roles in cross-cultural perspective and an
examination of cultural and bio-social explanations for why such diversity exists. Foci include contemporary
approaches to sex and gender, changing views about men’s and women’s roles in human evolution, the conditions
under which gender roles vary in contemporary societies and the issues surrounding gender equality, power and
politics.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
and Ethics Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Odd Years
Credits: 3
ANT 249 - Religion and Violence
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Explores the anthropology of contemporary political violence. The ethnographic study of terrorism, guerilla warfare,
state terror and human rights will be complemented by examination of the ethical and methodological concerns that
arise in this special area of investigation.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Ethics, Social Contexts and Institutions and
Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Prerequisites: ANT 120.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
ANT 250 - Conservation Anthropology: The Socio-Cultural Dimension of
Environmental Issues
Conservation is fundamentally a socio-cultural problem. Examines the different types of human/nature
relationships that emerge across various cultural, environmental, socio-economic, and political contexts. Through a
comparative approach this course is designed to illustrate how culture is an important variable when creating viable
conservation strategies. Themes covered in class include protected areas, indigenous and traditional knowledge,
resource management, market-based conservation, environmental economics, and political ecology. Case studies:
United States, Africa, Australia, Latin America, and Papua New Guinea.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Population and the Environment and Cultural
Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
ANT 256 - Ethnic Conflict
An exploration of ethnic conflict and revival today including a survey of anthropological theories of ethnicity,
focusing on ethnic revival in the modern world. European and other ethnic groups of the industrialized West provide
the major cases to be considered.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural
Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
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Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
ANT 260 - Forensic Anthropology
Provides an introduction to the application of the theory and methods of physical anthropology to medicolegal
investigations and problems. The field consists of four basic topics: 1) human skeletal anatomy, 2) developing a
biological profile, 3) the science of decomposition, and 4) forensic anthropology in the court system.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Applications of Scientific Knowledge
Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
ANT 261 - Islamic Fundamentalism
A survey of the distinctive ideological and social features of Islamic fundamentalist movements.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural
Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements
Prerequisites: ANT 102 or ANT 120
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Summer
Credits: 3
ANT 270 - Environmental Justice Movements in the United States
Examines how poor and racialized communities have responded to the incidence, causes, and effects of
environmental racism and injustice. Special attention will be given to how critiques offered by these communities
challenge the knowledge and procedural forms of justice embedded in environmental policy and democracy in the
United States. Case studies will be drawn from readings on African-American, European-Americans, Chicano and
Latino Americance, and Native Americans.
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General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural
Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
ANT 280 - Northwest Coast Prehistory
This course explores the prehistory of the Pacific Northwest and its place in North American prehistory. Important
themes include the earliest settlement of the Pacific Northwest and its role in the peopling of the Americas, the
development of unique complex hunter-gatherer groups in the Northwest, ethical issues in Northwest Coast research
history, and current debates and research in Pacific Northwest archaeology.
Prerequisites: ANT 101.
Credits: 3
ANT 290 - Special Topics in Anthropology
Intermediate treatment of specialized problems in anthropology with emphasis on analysis in frontier areas of
anthropological research. Topics vary. May be repeated for credit.
Credits: 3
ANT 300 - Basic Theory in Cultural Anthropology
A seminar in which the most important theories shaping modern cultural and social anthropology will be presented
through the analysis of key monographs. Emphasis placed on developing critical thinking and library research skills.
Required of all Anthropology majors.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Context and Institutions, Cultural Diversity
and International Perspectives and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: Permission, and ANT 102 and ANT major standing.
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