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The following is a listing of all courses of instruction offered by departments at LSU. This listing was up-to-date and as correct as possible at the time of publication of this catalog.

Since this catalog was prepared well in advance of its effective date, some courses may have been added, others may have been dropped, and/or changes in content may have been made.
 

Anthropology
  

  • ANTH 2014 Introduction to Forensic Anthropology (3)

    Exploration of medico-legal discipline of forensic anthropology with a focus on human skeletal anatomy.
  

  • ANTH 2015 Introduction to Archaeology (3)

    This is a General Education course. Archaeological goals, methods, techniques and interpretations; particular prehistoric cultural sequences or projects; relationship of archaeology with other social, life and earth sciences.
  

  • ANTH 2016 Field Methods in Archaeology (3-6)

    Prereq.: ANTH 2015  or equivalent. May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. of credit. Techniques of survey, mapping, excavation and recording; participation in one or more archaeological excavations.
  

  • ANTH 2050 World Archaeology (3)

    This is a General Education course. Survey of human culture history from the stone age to the present; spread of humanity around the globe; major cultural developments including hunting and gathering, origins of agriculture, discovery and spread of metalworking, rise of ancient civilizations, and development of the modern world.
  

  • ANTH 2051 Introduction to World Ethnography (3)

    This is a General Education course. Sex roles, economic pursuits, values, beliefs, families and other institutions of selected nonwestern peoples; implications for American culture.
  

  • ANTH 2423 Introduction to Folklore (3)

    This is a General Education course. See ENGL 2423 .
  

  • ANTH 3004 Archaeology and the Bible (3)

    See REL 3004 .
  

  • ANTH 3014 Bones, Bodies, and Disease: Introduction to Paleopathology (3)

    Introduction to the field of Paleopathology- the study of health and disease in ancient populations. Topics covered include the major diseases and syndromes identifiable in skeletal and mummified tissues, methods for identifying injury and disease in bones and teeth and their limitations, and the application of paleopathology data for understanding health in past populations. 
  

  • ANTH 3060 Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics (3)

    Also offered as LING 3060 . Cultural variation in language and its uses; problems of language classification and areal linguistics; practice in phonemic and morphemic analysis of nonwestern languages.
  

  • ANTH 3401 The Study of Folklore (3)

    Also offered as ENGL 3401 . History of the study of folklore; methods of collection, interpretation and analysis of folklore materials; myth, folktale, legend, folk song, ballads, folk humor, festival and folk speech; psychological, contextual and structural analysis of oral literature; specific reference to the heritage of Louisiana and the South.
  

  • ANTH 3997 Selected Topics in Anthropology (3)

    Prereq.: Permission of department. May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. of credit when topics vary.
      In-depth coverage of selected topics from anthropology.
  

  • ANTH 4002 South Asian Society, Polity and Culture (3)

    See INTL 4002 .
  

  • ANTH 4004 The North American Indians (3)

    Also offered as LING 4004 . Origin, distribution, language and culture of the aboriginal population.
  

  • ANTH 4008 Ancient Civilizations of Middle America (3)

    Ancient settlement, development of agriculture, rise and fall of ancient civilizations in Middle America including Olmec, Maya and Aztecs.
  

  • ANTH 4010 Human Osteology (3)

    Prereq.: ANTH 1001 , or BIOL 1002  or BIOL 1202 . Evolutionary biology and functional anatomy of the human skeleton.
  

  • ANTH 4014 Forensic Anthropology (3)

    Prereq.: permission of instructor. Fundamental concepts and application of techniques in forensic anthropology.
  

  • ANTH 4017 Louisiana Archaeology (3)

    Two overnight field trips. Archaeological data relative to the Indian cultures dating from the end of the Pleistocene period to the early historic era.
  

  • ANTH 4018 Historical Archaeology (3)

    Also offered as HIST 4151 . Broad range of archaeological goals, methods and interpretations unique to the study of the historic past; colonial and plantation archaeology in the southeastern U.S.
  
  

  • ANTH 4020 Method and Theory in Archaeology (3)

    Prereq.: ANTH 1001  or ANTH 1003  and ANTH 2015  or equivalent. Empirical method and theory in archaeological research emphasizing the logic of scientific argument; history of American archaeology, survey of modern archaeological interpretations, types of explanation, logic of archaeological classification and formation of research designs.
  

  • ANTH 4021 Advanced Field Methods in Archaeology (3-6)

    Prereq.: ANTH 2015  and ANTH 2016  or equivalent and at least one upper-division or graduate course in archaeology. May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. credit when topics vary. Advanced techniques of surveying, mapping, excavation, soil sampling and recording.
  

  • ANTH 4022 Ancient Civilizations of South America (3)

    Survey of South American prehistory and the development of human civilizations. Archaeological perspective used to explore the various ways of life and cultural achievements in the various regions of the continent from the Amazon lowlands to the Andean highlands and the Pacific desert coast.
  

  • ANTH 4023 Latin American Cultures (3)

    Spanish-American cultures in Latin America; their relationship to current societal changes.
  

  • ANTH 4024 Aerial Photo Interpretation and Image Processing (3)

    See GEOG 4020 .
  

  • ANTH 4025 Archaeology of Foodways (3)

    Exploration of foodways through the material remains preserved in the archaeological record. Examination of the variability of foodways in the past from early human consumption patterns to the emergence of food production and ancient civilizations.
  

  • ANTH 4028 Ancient Maya in the Media (3)

    Study of how ancient Maya are portrayed in the media including documentary and feature films, Internet, written texts, radio and television.
  

  • ANTH 4031 Comparative Religions (3)

    Also offered as REL 4031 . Religious systems in different levels of sociocultural evolution.
  

  • ANTH 4032 Religion, Gender and Society (3)

    See REL 4032 .
  

  • ANTH 4040 Biological Anthropology (3)

    Prereq.: ANTH 1001 , or BIOL 1002  or BIOL 1202 . Evolutionary theory, human variation, fossil record of human evolution and primate behavior.
  

  • ANTH 4042 Enterprise Geographic Information Systems (3)

    See GEOG 4042 .
  

  • ANTH 4050 Black Music in America (3)

    Cultural and historical survey of musical genres created and developed by black Americans.
  

  • ANTH 4051 Africa (3)

    People and cultures of Africa; emphasis on cultural transformation and contemporary societies. Topics include: kinship, gender, economics, religion, healing, politics, urbanism, post-colonialism, and transnationalism.
  

  • ANTH 4053 African-American Cultures (3)

    Cultures of African-Americans in the western hemisphere; their origins, development and present distinctiveness.
  

  • ANTH 4060 Language and Culture (3)

    Also offered as LING 4060 . Prereq.: ANTH 3060  or COMD 2050  or equivalent. Relationships between various aspects of language and culture.
  

  • ANTH 4070 Medicine, Bodies and Power (3)

    Examines bodily practice, social theory and cultural analysis of the body in health, illness and healing. Cross-cultural perspectives and ethnography are considered in relation to forms of social power.
  

  • ANTH 4074 Place and Culture (3)

    Also offered as GEOG 4074 . Consideration of place and culture as two core concepts in geography and anthropology.
  

  • ANTH 4082 Social and Cultural Anthropology (3)

    For graduate students with little or no anthropology background. Culture, society and language in primitive and complex settings.
  

  • ANTH 4083 Environmental Change of the Ice Age (3)

    See GEOG 4083 .
  

  • ANTH 4086 Human-Environment Interactions (3)

    See GEOG 4086 .
  
  

  • ANTH 4090 Ethnographic Methodology (3)

    Theories and techniques of ethnography; emphasis on utilization of informants.
  

  • ANTH 4200 Human Evolutionary Biology (3)

    Prereq.: ANTH 1001 , or BIOL 1002  or BIOL 1202 . Anatomy, physiology, and behavior of humans in functional, comparative, and evolutionary perspectives.
  

  • ANTH 4440 Vernacular Architecture and Material Culture (3)

    Also offered as ARCH 4440 . Subject matter and instructor may vary; additional details available from department. World vernacular architecture, including indigenous and folk buildings; other forms of material culture.
  

  • ANTH 4450 African American Folklore (3)

    Also offered as AAAS 4450 . History, theories and methodologies used in the study of African American folklore in the United States.
  

  • ANTH 4470 Folklore of the African Diaspora (3)

    African, Caribbean and African-American cultures from the viewpoint of the diaspora.
  
  

  • ANTH 4909 Undergraduate Seminar in Anthropology (3)

    Prereq.: Permission of department. May be taken for a max. of 9 sem. hrs. when topics vary.
  
  

  • ANTH 4997 Special Topics in Anthropology (3)

    Prereq.: Permission of department. May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. when topics vary.
  

  • ANTH 4998 Independent Reading and Research in Anthropology (1-6)

    An honors course, ANTH 4999 , is also available. Prereq.: written consent of instructor. May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. Supervised reading or research selected by qualified advanced students.
  

  • ANTH 4999 Honors: Independent Reading and Research in Anthropology (1-6)

    Same as ANTH 4998 , with special honors emphasis for qualified students.
  

  • ANTH 7032 Comparative Studies in World Costume (3)

    See TAM 7032 .
  

  • ANTH 7060 Conversation and Discourse (3)

    Also offered as LING 7060 . Prereq.: completion of one course in linguistics. Analysis of language in use; conversation, narrative, culturally specific genres; emphasis on discourse structures in naturally occurring context.
  

  • ANTH 7070 Ritual: Theory, Context and Performance (3)

    Investigates influential theories and key debates, range of activities and contexts and performance of rituals.
  

  • ANTH 7074 Poetics of Place (3)

    Also offered as GEOG 7074 . Prereq.: ANTH 4074 /GEOG 4074  or permission of instructor. Combination of the observational method of social science with the literary insights of poetry and fiction; understanding of how places where humans live out their lives convey a variety of meanings beyond that of the strictly utilitarian.
  

  • ANTH 7081 Conceptual Issues in Human Evolution (3)

    Prereq.: permission of instructor. May be repeated for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. credit when topics vary. Consideration of the various conceptual issues on human evolution.
  

  • ANTH 7085 History of Anthropological Theory (3)

    Major theories in all branches of anthropology; emphasis on cultural and social anthropology.
  

  • ANTH 7108 Mesoamerican Archaeology Seminar (3)

    Prereq.: Permission of department. May be taken for a max. of 6 hrs. of credit when topics vary.
  

  • ANTH 7200 Human Fertility (3)

    Biological, behavioral and demographic aspects of human reproduction.
  

  • ANTH 7760 Readings in Creolization (3)

    A seminar on linguistic, literary, historical and anthropological creolization and creolized cultures.
  

  • ANTH 7766 Readings in the Caribbean and Louisiana (3)

    Seminar on the theoretical interpretation of Caribbean and Louisiana cultures.
  

  • ANTH 7901 Introduction to Graduate Study (1)

    Same as GEOG 7901 . Techniques and methods of the profession for incoming graduate students.
  

  • ANTH 7906 Nature of Culture (3)
  

  • ANTH 7909 Selected Topics in Anthropology (3)

    Also offered as LING 7909 . Prereq.: permission of instructor. May be taken for a max. of 9 hrs. of credit when topics vary.
  

  • ANTH 7936 Advanced Qualitative Research in Geography and Anthropology (3)

    Also offered as GEOG 7936 .
  
  

  • ANTH 7954 Anthropology of Complex Societies (3)

    Anthropological assumptions of theory and technique; problems generated by applying these assumptions to contemporary Africa, India, Latin America and Anglo-America.
  

  • ANTH 7962 Field Methods in Linguistics (3)

    Also offered as LING 7962 . Prereq.: at least one upper-division or graduate linguistics course. 2 hrs. lecture; 1 hr. individual consultation. Recording and analyzing a living non-European language and using a native-speaking informant.
  

  • ANTH 7999 Research in Anthropology (1-6)

    Also offered as LING 7999 . Prereq.: written consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. Total credit earned in ANTH 4998  and ANTH 7999 cannot exceed 9 sem. hrs. Individual supervision of advanced research and field work in anthropology.
  

  • ANTH 8000 Thesis Research (1-12 per sem.)

    “S”/”U”grading. Permission of instructor.
  

  • ANTH 9000 Dissertation Research (1-12 per sem.)

    Prereq.: permission of instructor. “S/U” grading.

Arabic
  

  • ARAB 1101 Beginning Arabic (4)

    [LCCN: CARB 1014, Elementary Arabic I] This is a General Education course. Native speakers of Arabic will not receive credit for this course. Supplementary work in language laboratory. Introduction to alphabet, vocabulary and grammar; elementary language study with oral, written and reading practice.
  

  • ARAB 1102 Beginning Arabic (4)

    [LCCN: CARB 1024, Elementary Arabic II] This is a General Education course. Prereq.: ARAB 1101  or equivalent. Native speakers of Arabic will not receive credit for this course. Supplementary work in language laboratory. Continuation of ARAB 1101 . Elementary language study with oral, written and reading practice.
  

  • ARAB 2001 Arabic Culture (3)

    Taught in English; knowledge of Arabic not required. Introduction to Arabic history and the varieties in Arabic Culture.
  

  • ARAB 2080 Arabic Conversation (3)

    Prereq.: ARAB 1102 . Intensive oral drills, supplemented with exercises in grammar and vocabulary.
  

  • ARAB 2101 Intermediate Arabic (3)

    This is a General Education course. Prereq.: ARAB 1102 . Native speakers of Arabic will not receive credit for this course. Continuation of the study of Arabic. Supplementary work in language laboratory. Development of writing, reading, and speaking skills.
  

  • ARAB 2102 Intermediate Arabic (3)

    This is a General Education course. Prereq.: ARAB 2101 . Native speakers of Arabic will not receive credit for this course. Continuation of the study of Arabic. Supplementary work in language laboratory. Development of writing, reading and speaking skills.
  

  • ARAB 3101 Advanced Arabic I (3)

    Prereq.: ARAB 2102  or equivalent. Introduces authentic classical and modern Arabic texts; continuing development of reading, writing, speaking and listening.
  

  • ARAB 3102 Advanced Arabic II (3)

    Prereq.: ARAB 3101  or equivalent. Introduces authentic classical and modern Arabic texts, especially poetry; continuing development of reading, writing, speaking and listening.
  

  • ARAB 3501 Special Topics in Middle Eastern Cinema (3)

    Also offered as SCRN 3501 . Can be repeated when topics vary by permission of instructor. Introduction to contemporary Middle East cinema covering the period from after the 1950s to the present in countries including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iran. 
  

  • ARAB 3801 Classical Arabic Literature (3)

    An examination of the development of Arabic literature from the sixth to the fourteenth century.
  

  • ARAB 3802 Contemporary Arabic Literature (3)

    This course examines the often turbulent relationship between indigenous Arabic forms of poetry and prose and European literature which defines the development of modern Arabic literature.
  

  • ARAB 4915 Independent Work (1-3)

    Prereq.: permission of department. May be taken for a max. of 6 hrs. of credit when topics vary. Readings in Arabic literature directed by a senior faculty member.

Architecture
  

  • ARCH 1001 Architectural Design I (6)

    Prereq.: permission of department. 12 hrs. studio. Emphasis on two-dimensional representation of three-dimensional forms; development of basic skills in architectural design drawing and modeling.
  

  • ARCH 1002 Architectural Design II (6)

    An honors course, ARCH 1102  is also available. Prereq.: ARCH 1001 . Credit will not be given for this course and ARCH 1102 . 12 hrs. studio. Emphasis on the organization of spaces, form and process, and development of skills in architectural design drawing and modeling.
  

  • ARCH 1102 Honors: Architectural Design II (6)

    Same as ARCH 1002 , with special emphasis for qualified Honor students. Prereq.: ARCH 1001 . Credit will not be given for this course and ARCH 1002 . 12 hrs. studio.
  

  • ARCH 2001 Architectural Design III (6)

    An honors course, ARCH 2101  is also available. Prereq.: ARCH 1002  or ARCH 1102 ; Coreq.: ARCH 2003 . Credit will not be given for this course and ARCH 2101 . 12 hrs. studio. Emphasis on abstract and theoretical organizational concepts; space, form, function and resolution of materials and structural systems.
  

  • ARCH 2002 Architectural Design IV (6)

    An honors course, ARCH 2102  is also available. Prereq.: ARCH 2001  or ARCH 2101 ; Coreq.: ARCH 2006 . Credit will not be given for this course and ARCH 2102 . Required field trip. Students are responsible for paying travel expenses associated with the course. 12 hrs. studio. Emphasis on process, materials theory, site inventory and analysis and impact of regionalism.
  

  • ARCH 2003 Architectural Techniques (3)

    Prereq.: ARCH 1002 ; Coreq.: ARCH 2001 . Exploration of drawing, modeling and digital applications to the design process; specific techniques will vary based on projects assigned in ARCH 2001 .
  

  • ARCH 2006 Architectural Topics (3)

    Prereq.: ARCH 2003 ; Coreq.: ARCH 2002 . Use of case studies to contrast the meanings of buildings designed in urban or rural environments.
  

  • ARCH 2007 History of Architecture I (3)

    This is a General Education course. The development of architectural and spatial forms as they relate to changing perceptions of self, society and the natural world. From prehistory to the 13th century.
  

  • ARCH 2008 History of Architecture II (3)

    This is a General Education course. The development of architectural and spatial forms as they relate to changing perceptions of self, society and the natural world from the Italian Renaissance through modern times.
  

  • ARCH 2101 Honors: Architectural Design III (6)

    Same as ARCH 2001 , with special emphasis for qualified Honor students. Prereq.: ARCH 1002  or ARCH 1102 ; Coreq.: ARCH 2003 ; Credit will not be given for this course and ARCH 2001 . 12 hrs. studio.
  

  • ARCH 2102 Honors: Architectural Design IV (6)

    Same as ARCH 2002 , with special emphasis for qualified Honors students. Prereq.: ARCH 2001  or ARCH 2101 ; Coreq.: ARCH 2006 . Credit will not be given for this course and ARCH 2002 . Required field trip. Students are responsible for paying travel expenses associated with the course. 12 hrs. studio.
  

  • ARCH 2401 Appreciation of Architecture (3)

    This is a General Education course. Architectural concepts and principles; architectural vocabulary, style, symbolic form characteristics, spatial character and refinements.
  

  • ARCH 3000 Supervised Independent Study and Research (1-6)

    Prereq.: permission of department. May be taken for a max. of 12 sem. hrs. of credit. Investigation of areas of interest not covered in other departmental courses.
  

  • ARCH 3001 Architectural Design V (6)

    An honors course, ARCH 3101 , is also available. Prereq.: approval for advancement to upper division in architecture. Required field trip. Students are responsible for paying travel expenses associated with the course. Credit will not be given for this course and ARCH 3101 . 12 hrs. studio. Emphasis on programming, site analysis and planning, functional planning and resolution of structural and architectural systems.
  

  • ARCH 3002 Architectural Design VI (6)

    An honors course, ARCH 3102  is also available. Prereq.: ARCH 3001  or ARCH 3101 , ARCH 3007 . Credit will not be given for this course and ARCH 3102 . 12 hrs. studio. Emphasis on planning buildings while incorporating studies in the technologies of materials, structure, environmental controls, lighting and acoustics.
  

  • ARCH 3003 Architectural Structures I (3)

    Prereq.: approval for advancement to upper division in architecture. Building structural mechanics, statics, strength of materials and theories of structures.
  

  • ARCH 3004 Architectural Structures II (3)

    Prereq.: ARCH 3003 . Design and application of timber and steel structures in architecture.
 

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