For more information contact Dr. M. D. Pohl . Students will learn procedures for structural analysis of content and of discourse-level linguistic phenomena. Methodologies include morphemic analysis and glossing, and models of analysis derived from the ethnography of speaking, relating to participants, settings, genres, and other features surrounding the narrative itself, as well as to features within the narrative. For more information contact Dr. J. K. Josserand . This course investigates the development of civilization in ancient Mesoameria.
Evidence is drawn from archaeology, art, architecture, and ethnography.
Attention is paid to approaches in reconstructing prehistoric lifeways, social organization, religion, trade, and agriculture. For more information contact Dr. M. D. Pohl . Aspects of prehistoric society include subsistence systems, trade, social and political organizations, ideology, calendrics and astronomy, language and writing, artifacts, architecture, sculpture and painting. Format is seminar in presentation, research reports, and discussion. For more information contact Dr. M. D. Pohl .