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Course Listings 2017-2018 175 AJS143 3 Credits 3 Periods Intelligence Analysis and Security Management Basic overview of modern intelligence gathering and analysis pertinent to homeland security and other threats facing government and private sectors. Historical timeline to present time of United States (US) intelligence gathering techniques and agencies. Different agencies tasked with intelligence gathering, and their assigned roles in the government process. Composition of intelligence units as well as the relationship between different agencies and their specialties. Ways in which intelligence is shared to brief policy makers and threats to national security are identified in a timely manner. Techniques and management, as well as the political process and oversight of the intelligence community. Successes and failures of intelligence agencies in modern United States history. Prerequisites: None. AJS195 3 Credits 3 Periods International and Domestic Terrorism An overview of the history, structure, goals, and activities of domestic and international terrorist groups. Explores theories explaining terrorism and reviews methods used to combat it. Prerequisites: None. ANTHROPOLOGY (ASB/ASM) ASB102 3 Credits 3 Periods Culture in a Globalizing World Principles of cultural and social anthropology with illustrative materials from a variety of cultures. The nature of culture; social, political and economic systems; religion, esthetics and language. Prerequisites: None. ASB222 3 Credits 3 Periods Buried Cities and Lost Tribes: Old World Introduction to archaeology through discoveries and the researchers who made them. Emphasis on methods of archaeological fieldwork and what these discoveries reveal about humanity, including the nature of archaeological inquiry, the development of human social groups, the changing role of religion in evolving societies, the origins of agriculture, the origins of settled lifeways, the rise of cities and complex societies, political strife across different cultures and the forces which tend to fragment societies. Examples drawn from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Pacific Islands, and Australia. Prerequisites: None. ASB223 3 Credits 3 Periods Buried Cities and Lost Tribes: New World Introduction to archaeology through discoveries and the researchers who made them. Emphasis on methods of archaeological fieldwork and what these discoveries reveal about humanity including the nature of archaeological inquiry, the development of human social groups, the changing role of religion in evolving societies, the origins of agriculture, the origins of settled lifeways, the rise of cities and complex societies, political strife across different cultures and the forces which tend to fragment societies. Examples drawn from North America, Central America, and South America. Prerequisites: None. ASB245 3 Credits 3 Periods Indians of the Southwest Comparative study of the cultures, including the histories and present status, of Indians of the Southwest. Prerequisites: None. ASM104 4 Credits 5 Periods Bones, Stones, and Human Evolution Study of human evolution and variation; including fossil hominids and their tools, primate anatomy and behavior, human genetics, and the environment and human biology. Prerequisites: None.