Anthropology Course Lists
Course Lists
Anthropological Theory Courses
Note: Each course may only be used to satisfy a single major requirement. Courses cannot be double-counted for requirements within the anthropology major. Students may not substitute coursework from another program or institution for core requirements.
ANTH 100 | History and Theory of Biological Anthropology | 5 |
ANTH 150 | Communicating Anthropology | 5 |
ANTH 152 | Survey of Cultural Anthropological Theory | 5 |
ANTH 170 | History of Archaeological Theory | 5 |
Sociocultural Anthropology Courses
Note: Each course may only be used to satisfy a single major requirement. Courses cannot be double-counted for requirements within the anthropology major. Students may not substitute coursework from another program or institution for core requirements. Not all of these courses are offered each year.
Regional Specialization Courses
Note: Each course may only be used to satisfy a single major requirement. Courses cannot be double-counted for requirements within the anthropology major. Students may not substitute coursework from another program or institution for core requirements. Not all of these courses are offered each year.
Archaeology Courses
Note: Each course may only be used to satisfy a single major requirement. Courses cannot be double-counted for requirements within the anthropology major. Students may not substitute coursework from another program or institution for core requirements. Not all of these courses are offered each year.
or 6 credits of Practicum in Archaeology (ANTH 188A/ANTH 188B/ ANTH 188C)
Biological/Medical/Environmental Anthropology Courses
Note: Each course may only be used to satisfy a single major requirement. Courses cannot be double-counted for requirements within the anthropology major. Students may not substitute coursework from another program or institution for core requirements. Not all of these courses are offered each year.
Biological Anthropology
Note: Not all of these courses are offered each year.
Medical Anthropology
Note: Not all of these courses are offered each year.
ANTH 134 | Medical Anthropology: An Introduction | 5 |
ANTH 136 | The Biology of Everyday Life | 5 |
ANTH 140 | The Body in Rain: Environmental and Medical Intersections | 5 |
Environmental Anthropology
Note: Not all of these courses are offered each year.
ANTH 140 | The Body in Rain: Environmental and Medical Intersections | 5 |
ANTH 146 | Anthropology and the Environment | 5 |
ANTH 147 | Anthropology and the Anthropocene | 5 |
ANTH 177 | Environmental Archaeology | 5 |
Anthropology At-Large Courses
Note: Not all of these courses are offered each year.
Anthropology At-Large courses may be used as electives for completing upper-division course requirements. These courses do not count as anthropological theory, sociocultural anthropology, regional specialization, or biological anthropology and archaeology courses.
Laboratory Methods Courses
Note: Not all of these courses are offered each year.
These courses are designed for students interested in pursuing graduate research or careers that require specialized training in laboratory methods.
Biological Anthropology Laboratory Methods
Note: Not all of these courses are offered each year.
The biological anthropology laboratory methods courses may be used to satisfy upper-division electives. These courses do not count toward the anthropological theory, sociocultural anthropology, regional specialization, or biological/medical/environmental anthropology core requirements.
ANTH 102A | Human Skeletal Biology | 5 |
ANTH 103 | Forensic Anthropology | 5 |
ANTH 103I | Forensic Anthropology | 4 |
ANTH 107A | Methods and Research in Biological Anthropology: Genetics | 5 |
ANTH 107B | Methods and Research in Biological Anthropology: Stable Isotopes | 5 |
ANTH 107C | Methods and Research in Biological Anthropology: Chimpanzee Behavior and Culture | 5 |
ANTH 107D | Methods and Research in Biological Anthropology–Computational Population Genetics | 5 |
Archaeology Laboratory Methods
Note: Not all of these courses are offered each year.
Archaeology laboratory methods courses may be used to satisfy the archaeology core requirement or upper-division electives.
Senior Seminars
Note: Not all of these courses are offered each year.
ANTH 194A | Anthropology of Dead Persons | 5 |
ANTH 194B | Chimpanzees: Biology, Behavior, and Evolution | 5 |
ANTH 194C | Feminist Anthropology | 5 |
ANTH 194F | Memory | 5 |
ANTH 194H | Paleoanthropology | 5 |
ANTH 194I | Consumption and Consumerism | 5 |
ANTH 194K | Reading Ethnographies | 5 |
ANTH 194L | Archaeology of the African Diaspora | 5 |
ANTH 194M | Medical Anthropology | 5 |
ANTH 194N | Comparison of Cultures | 5 |
ANTH 194O | Masculinities | 5 |
ANTH 194S | Hearing Culture: The Anthropology of Sound | 5 |
ANTH 194T | Poverty and Inequality | 5 |
ANTH 194U | Environmental Anthropology: Nature, Culture, Politics | 5 |
ANTH 194V | Who Owns the Past? Ethical and Political Dimensions of Contemporary Archaeology | 5 |
ANTH 194X | Women in Politics: A Third World Perspective | 5 |
ANTH 194Z | Emerging Worlds | 5 |
ANTH 196D | Food and Medicine | 5 |
ANTH 196F | The Anthropology of Things: Gift, Sign, Commodity, Tool | 5 |
ANTH 196G | Queer Worlds: Sexuality, Intimacy and Power in Contemporary Ethnography | 5 |
ANTH 196H | Global History and the Longue Duree | 5 |
ANTH 196J | Imagining America | 5 |
ANTH 196K | Settler Colonialism | 5 |
ANTH 196L | Archaeology of the American Southwest | 5 |
ANTH 196M | Modernity and its Others | 5 |
ANTH 196N | The Body, Narrative, and Creative Practice | 5 |
ANTH 196O | Gender and Politics | 5 |
ANTH 196P | Disability and Difference | 5 |
ANTH 196Q | Property | 5 |
ANTH 196R | Design Anthropology | 5 |
ANTH 196T | Archaeology of Technology | 5 |
ANTH 194Y | Archaeologies of Space and Landscape | 5 |
ANTH 196U | Historical Anthropology | 5 |
ANTH 196V | Radical Craft | 5 |
ANTH 196W | Anthropology of Weather and Exposure | 5 |