The list below summarizes Anthropology courses that undergraduates may take, and the specific requirements toward which they count within the Anthropology major and minor. While this list is not semester-specific, it can be referenced during course selection each term. The majority of courses that have been offered recently appear here, however this list is not comprehensive. If you need information about a course that is not found here, email the Undergraduate Coordinator to find out towards which major concentration(s) it may be counted.
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ARCHAEOLOGY
ANTH 0050 (ANTH 005) | Great Transformations |
ANTH 0103 (ANTH 121) | Origin and Culture of Cities |
ANTH 0105 (ANTH 139) | Ancient Civilizations of the World |
ANTH 0111 (ANTH 124) | Archaeology and the Bible |
ANTH 0184 (ANTH 184) | Food and Culture |
ANTH 0905 (ANTH 110) | Water in the Middle East Throughout History |
ANTH 1020 (ANTH 236) | Iraq: Ancient Cities and Empires |
ANTH 1090 (ANTH 109) | Anthropology of the Senses |
ANTH 1145 (ANTH 285) | Ancient Japanese Civilization |
ANTH 1219 (ANTH 219) | Archaeology in the City of Brotherly Love |
ANTH 1220 (ANTH 220) | Historical Archaeology Laboratory |
ANTH 1222 (ANTH 122) | Becoming Human |
ANTH 1254 (ANTH 254) | Archaeology of the Inca |
ANTH 1300 (ANTH 111) | Introduction To Mediterranean Archaeology |
ANTH 1303 (ANTH 127) | The Material Past in a Digital World |
ANTH 1410 (ANTH 141) | Public Policy, Museums, and the Ethics of Cultural Heritage |
ANTH 1480 (ANTH 148) | Food and Fire |
ANTH 1900 (ANTH 108) | Pastoral Nomadism in the Past and Present |
ANTH 1905 (ANTH 346) | GIS for the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences |
ANTH 1925 (ANTH 325) | Who Owns the Past? Archaeology and Politics in the Middle East |
ANTH 2100 (ANTH 210) | Death: Anthropological Perspectives |
ANTH 2145 | Reading Maya Culture: Decipherment and a New Window into the Ancient Americas |
ANTH 2150 (ANTH 215) | The Ancient Maya: Integrating Material, Text, and Image |
ANTH 2221 (ANTH 221) | Material World in Archaeological Science |
ANTH 2267 (ANTH 267) | Living World in Archaeological Science |
ANTH 2330 (ANTH 323) | Origins of Art / Origins of Writing |
ANTH 2580 (ANTH 258) | Visualizing the Past |
ANTH 2840 (ANTH 284) | World Heritage in Global Conflict |
ANTH 3015 | The Maya of Mesoamerica: The Development of Ancient Maya Culture within its Broader Regional Context |
ANTH 3101 (ANTH 311) | Disasters in the Ancient World |
ANTH 3215 (ANTH 415) | Archaeology of Animals |
ANTH 3219 (ANTH 419) | Mining Archaeology |
ANTH 3230 (ANTH 230) | Forensic Anthropology |
ANTH 3235 (ANTH 435) | The Past Preserved: Conservation in Archaeology |
ANTH 3240 (ANTH 440) | Plants and Society |
ANTH 3292 (ANTH 292) | Bioarchaeology of the Peoples of the Past |
ANTH 3304 (ANTH 319) | Pottery and Archaeology |
ANTH 3307 (ANTH 362) | Introduction to Digital Archaeology |
ANTH 3310 (ANTH 331) | Historical Ecology |
ANTH 3360 (ANTH 336) | The Peopling of the Americas |
ANTH 3395 (ANTH 395) | History of Archaeological Practice |
ANTH 3451 (ANTH 451) | Historical Archaeology |
ANTH 3454 (ANTH 454) | Quantitative Analysis of Anthropological Data |
ANTH 3480 (ANTH 348) | Colonialism and its Legacies |
ANTH 3820 (ANTH 382) | Writing, Society & Power: How Pre-Modern Scripts Shaped Societies and Political Action |
ANTH 5026 (ANTH 506) | Material and Methods in Mediterranean Archaeology |
ANTH 5110 (ANTH 511) | Ethics, Archaeology, and Cultural Heritage |
ANTH 5211 (ANTH 514) | Petrography of Cultural Materials |
ANTH 5215 (ANTH 415) | Archaeology of Animals |
ANTH 5219 (ANTH 419) | Mining Archaeology |
ANTH 5220 (ANTH 562) | Introduction to Digital Archaeology |
ANTH 5221 (ANTH 521) |
Material World in Archaeological Science |
ANTH 5230 (ANTH 533) | Archaeobotany Seminar |
ANTH 5235 (ANTH 435) | The Past Preserved: Conservation in Archaeology |
ANTH 5240 (ANTH 440) | Plants and Society |
ANTH 5252 (ANTH 552) | Archaeometallurgy Seminar |
ANTH 5292 (ANTH 592) | Bioarchaeology of the Peoples of the Past |
ANTH 5360 (ANTH 536) | The Peopling of the Americas |
ANTH 5395 (ANTH 595) | History of Archaeological Practice |
ANTH 5433 (ANTH 433) | Andean Archaeology |
ANTH 5451 (ANTH 451) | Historical Archaeology |
ANTH 5454 (ANTH 454) | Quantitative Analysis of Anthropological Data |
ANTH 5480 (ANTH 548) | Colonialism and its Legacies |
ANTH 5490 (ANTH 549) | Topics in Archaeological Method and Theory |
ANTH 5564 (ANTH 564) | Colonial Ecologies |
ANTH 5570 (ANTH 557) | Archaeology of Landscapes |
ANTH 5580 (ANTH 558) | Monument, Memory, and Place in South Asia |
ANTH 5720 (ANTH 572) | Geophysical Prospection for Archaeology |
ANTH 5805 (ANTH 585) | Ruins and Reconstruction |
ANTH 5840 (ANTH 584) | World Heritage in Global Conflict |
ANTH 5857 (ANTH 527) | Cultural Heritage and Conflict |
ANTH 5893 (ANTH 593) | Natural and Cultural Heritage in Global Perspective |
ANTH 5898 (ANTH 598) | Economics of Heritage |
BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH 0030 (ANTH 003) | Introduction To Human Evolution |
ANTH 1040 (ANTH 104) | Sex and Human Nature |
ANTH 1222 (ANTH 122) | Becoming Human |
ANTH 1430 (ANTH 143) | Explorations in Human Biology |
ANTH 2070 (ANTH 207) | Primate Behavior and Ecology |
ANTH 2130 (ANTH 213) | Local Biologies |
ANTH 2440 (ANTH 244) | Disease and Human Evolution |
ANTH 2460 (ANTH 246) | Molecular Anthropology |
ANTH 2490 (ANTH 249) | Evolutionary Medicine |
ANTH 2590 (ANTH 359) | Nutritional Anthropology |
ANTH 3052 | An Anthropological Approach to Bioethics |
ANTH 3230 (ANTH 230) | Forensic Anthropology |
ANTH 3244 (ANTH 404) | Introduction to the Human Skeleton |
ANTH 3292 (ANTH 292) | Bioarchaeology of the Peoples of the Past |
ANTH 3360 (ANTH 336) | The Peopling of the Americas |
ANTH 3407 (ANTH 407) | Human Evolution |
ANTH 3444 (ANTH 444) | Human Growth and Development |
ANTH 3447 (ANTH 447) | From Puberty to Parenting: The Evolutionary Context of Reproduction |
ANTH 3454 (ANTH 454) | Quantitative Analysis of Anthropological Data |
ANTH 3780 (ANTH 378) | The Biology of Inequality |
ANTH 5244 (ANTH 404) | Introduction to the Human Skeleton |
ANTH 5292 (ANTH 592) | Bioarchaeology of the Peoples of the Past |
ANTH 5360 (ANTH 536) | The Peopling of the Americas |
ANTH 5407 (ANTH 407) | Human Evolution |
ANTH 5444 (ANTH 444) | Human Growth and Development |
ANTH 5447 (ANTH 447) | From Puberty to Parenting: The Evolutionary Context of Reproduction |
ANTH 5454 (ANTH 454) | Quantitative Analysis of Anthropological Data |
ANTH 5780 (ANTH 578) | The Biology of Inequality |
CULTURAL/LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH 0002 (ANTH 107) | The City in South Asia |
ANTH 0020 (ANTH 002) | Anthropology, Race, and the Making of the Modern World |
ANTH 0040 (ANTH 004) | The Modern World and Its Cultural Background |
ANTH 0058 (ANTH 058) | Doing Research: Qualitative Methods and Research |
ANTH 0058 (ANTH 201) | Doing Research: Qualitative Methods and Research Design |
ANTH 0063 (ANTH 063) | East and West: A Hitchiker's Guide To the Cultural History of the Modern World |
ANTH 0091 (ANTH 091) | Sustainable Development and Culture in Latin America |
ANTH 0102 (ANTH 190) | Introduction To Africa |
ANTH 0120 (ANTH 012) | Globalization and Its Historical Significance |
ANTH 0330 (ANTH 033) | Language, Society, and the Human Experience |
ANTH 0600 (ANTH 060) | Cultures of Science and Technology |
ANTH 0630 (ANTH 026) | Behind the Iron Curtain |
ANTH 0930 (ANTH 093) | Latinx Environmental Justice |
ANTH 1002 (ANTH 2002) | Introduction to Africa |
ANTH 1031 | Anthropology of Voice |
ANTH 1090 (ANTH 109) | Anthropology of the Senses |
ANTH 1120 (ANTH 112) | Sacred Stuff: Religious Bodies, Spaces, and Things |
ANTH 1140 (ANTH 114) | Migration and Borders |
ANTH 1160 (ANTH 116) | Caribbean Culture and Politics |
ANTH 1169 (ANTH 169) | Merchants, Saints, Slaves and Sojourners: the Worlds of the Indian Ocean |
ANTH 1230 (ANTH 123) | Communication and Culture |
ANTH 1238 (ANTH 238) | Introduction to Medical Anthropology |
ANTH 1310 (ANTH 131) | Small Business Anthropology |
ANTH 1340 (ANTH 134) | Making the Natural World: An Introduction To Political Ecology |
ANTH 1410 (ANTH 141) | Public Policy, Museums, and the Ethics of Cultural Heritage |
ANTH 1440 (ANTH 154) | Liquid Histories and Floating Archives |
ANTH 1490 (ANTH 149) | Introduction To Native American and Indigenous Studies |
ANTH 1500 (ANTH 022) | World Musics and Cultures |
ANTH 1530 (ANTH 153) | Gifts, Commodities, and the Market: Anthropology of the Economy |
ANTH 1533 (ANTH 053) | Music in Troubled Places |
ANTH 1560 (ANTH 056) | Seeing/Hearing Globally |
ANTH 1630 (ANTH 118) | Witchcraft and Possession |
ANTH 1688 (ANTH 160) | Sex and Socialism |
ANTH 1900 (ANTH 108) | Pastoral Nomadism in the Past and Present |
ANTH 1905 (ANTH 346) | GIS for the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences |
ANTH 2020 (ANTH 202) | Language, Migration, and Diaspora |
ANTH 2024 (ANTH 342) | Dress and Fashion in Afrca |
ANTH 2060 (ANTH 260) | Cultures of Science and Technology |
ANTH 2080 | Anthropology of Futurity |
ANTH 2110 (ANTH 211) | Religion and Ecology |
ANTH 2130 (ANTH 213) | Local Biologies |
ANTH 2145 | Reading Maya Culture: Decipherment and a New Window into the Ancient Americas |
ANTH 2150 (ANTH 215) | The Ancient Maya: Integrating Material, Text, and Image |
ANTH 2154 (ANTH 241) | Performing History |
ANTH 2230 (ANTH 223) | Storytelling in Africa |
ANTH 2307 (ANTH 037) | Contemporary Native Americans |
ANTH 2307 (ANTH 307) | Contemporary Native Americans |
ANTH 2308 (ANTH 308) | Ethnohistory of the Native Northeast |
ANTH 2317 (ANTH 317) | The Politics of Matter and the Matter of Politics |
ANTH 2329 (ANTH 329) | Psychoanalytic and Anthropological Perspectives On Childhood |
ANTH 2332 (ANTH 332) | Medicine and the Language of Pain |
ANTH 2338 (ANTH 231) | Modalities of Black Freedom and Escape: Ships |
ANTH 2340 (ANTH 234) | Pharmaceuticals and Global Health |
ANTH 2540 (ANTH 253) | Violence, Tolerance, and Freedom |
ANTH 2550 (ANTH 255) | Modern Southeast Asia |
ANTH 2560 (ANTH 263) | Music and Performance of Africa |
ANTH 2570 (ANTH 256) | Caribbean Music and Diaspora |
ANTH 2590 (ANTH 359) | Nutritional Anthropology |
ANTH 2730 (ANTH 273) | Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives |
ANTH 2762 | Everyday Life in Africa |
ANTH 2790 (ANTH 279) | Theorizing the Role of Affect in Society and Culture |
ANTH 2940 (ANTH 294) | Global Cities: Urbanization in the Global South |
ANTH 2970 (ANTH 297) | Nature Culture Environmentalism |
ANTH 3015 | The Maya of Mesoamerica: The Development of Ancient Maya Culture within its Broader Regional Context |
ANTH 3022 (ANTH 322) | Bodies of Water: Conflicts and Collaborations Around Rivers, Wetlands, and Watersheds |
ANTH 3030 (ANTH 303) | Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology |
ANTH 3045 | Oil to Diamonds: The Political Economy of Natural Resources in Africa |
ANTH 3050 (ANTH 305) | Anthropology and Policy: History, Theory, Practice |
ANTH 3052 | An Anthropological Approach to Bioethics |
ANTH 3090 (ANTH 309) | Psychoanalysis and Anthropology |
ANTH 3137 | Environmental Inequalities |
ANTH 3180 (ANTH 318) | Anthropology and Praxis |
ANTH 3328 (ANTH 328) | Performing Culture |
ANTH 3340 (ANTH 334) | Feminist Ethnography |
ANTH 3368 (ANTH 268) | Anthropology of Museums |
ANTH 3376 (ANTH 276) | Ethnographic Approaches to Urban Athletics and Human Movement |
ANTH 3420 | Dispossession in the Americas: The Loss and Recovery of Indigenous Lands, Bodies, and Heritage |
ANTH 3429 (ANTH 429) | Anthropology of the Environment |
ANTH 3470 (ANTH 347) | Anthropology of Corporations |
ANTH 3480 (ANTH 348) | Colonialism and its Legacies |
ANTH 3520 (ANTH 242) | Music, Religion, Ritual in South and Southeast Asia |
ANTH 3540 (ANTH 354) | Art, Medicine, and Magic: Bodily Remedies |
ANTH 3595 | Ecologies of Belonging |
ANTH 3662 | Autoethnography in the Age of Online Profiles and Selfies |
ANTH 3690 | Language and Identity |
ANTH 3770 (ANTH 377) | Black Speculative Futures |
ANTH 3780 (ANTH 378) | The Biology of Inequality |
ANTH 3804 | Sighting Black Girlhood |
ANTH 3820 (ANTH 382) | Writing, Society & Power: How Pre-Modern Scripts Shaped Societies and Political Action |
ANTH 3910 (ANTH 391) | Multi-Modal Ethnography - Anthropology Beyond Text |
ANTH 3930 (ANTH 393) | Latinx Environmental Justice |
ANTH 3960 (ANTH 396) | Surrealism in the Americas |
ANTH 5036 | Space/Power/Species |
ANTH 5087 (ANTH 587) | Race, Nation, Empire |
ANTH 5137 | Environmental Inequalities |
ANTH 5160 (ANTH 516) | Public Interest Workshop |
ANTH 5320 (ANTH 532) | Anatomies of Injustice and Repair: Advanced Topics in Medical Anthropology |
ANTH 5390 (ANTH 539) | Advanced Readings in Environment and Society |
ANTH 5410 (ANTH 541) | Critical Engagements with Science(s) and Justice(s) |
ANTH 5429 (ANTH 429) | Anthropology of the Environment |
ANTH 5440 (ANTH 543) | Public Environmental Humanities |
ANTH 5460 (ANTH 546) | Global Citizenship |
ANTH 5470 (ANTH 547) | Anthropology and Education |
ANTH 5480 (ANTH 548) | Colonialism and its Legacies |
ANTH 5500 (ANTH 560) | Critical Ethnography |
ANTH 5510 (ANTH 551) | Experimental Ethnography |
ANTH 5540 (ANTH 554) | Truth, Politics, Ethics: An Anthropological Seminar |
ANTH 5550 (ANTH 550) | Movement, Mobility, Migration |
ANTH 5564 (ANTH 564) | Colonial Ecologies |
ANTH 5580 (ANTH 558) | Monument, Memory, and Place in South Asia |
ANTH 5595 | Ecologies of Belonging |
ANTH 5650 (ANTH 565) | Political Economy of Empire |
ANTH 5669 (ANTH 559) | Audio Ethnography |
ANTH 5700 | Oil to Diamonds: The Political Economy of Natural Resources in Africa |
ANTH 5740 (ANTH 574) | The Lives of Infrastructure: Politics and Technics in the Anthropocene |
ANTH 5770 (ANTH 577) | Everyday States: The Anthropology of Power and Politics |
ANTH 5780 (ANTH 578) | The Biology of Inequality |
ANTH 5809 (ANTH 589) | Museums, Colonialism, and the Question of Property |
ANTH 5830 (ANTH 586) | Ethnographic Filmmaking |
ANTH 5910 (ANTH 591) | Multi-Modal Ethnography - Anthropology Beyond Text |
ANTH 5940 (ANTH 594) | Indigenous Theory & Decolonizing Methodologies |
ANTH 5960 (ANTH 596) | Surrealism in the Americas |
ANTH 5970 (ANTH 597) | Contemporary Artists in Conversation: Reckoning and Repair |
ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH 0031 (ANTH 031) | The "Rights of Nature" in Times of Conflict and Transition |
ANTH 0091 (ANTH 091) | Sustainable Development and Culture in Latin America |
ANTH 0184 (ANTH 184) | Food and Culture |
ANTH 0905 (ANTH 110) | Water in the Middle East Throughout History |
ANTH 0930 (ANTH 093) | Latinx Environmental Justice |
ANTH 1340 (ANTH 134) | Making the Natural World: An Introduction To Political Ecology |
ANTH 1430 (ANTH 143) | Explorations in Human Biology |
ANTH 1610 (ANTH 161) | Humans and the Earth System: How it Works, How We Got Here, and How to Save Our Planet |
ANTH 1900 (ANTH 108) | Pastoral Nomadism in the Past and Present |
ANTH 1905 (ANTH 346) | GIS for the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences |
ANTH 2060 (ANTH 260) | Cultures of Science and Technology |
ANTH 2080 | Anthropology of Futurity |
ANTH 2267 (ANTH 267) | Living World in Archaeological Science |
ANTH 2317 (ANTH 317) | The Politics of Matter and the Matter of Politics |
ANTH 2338 (ANTH 231) | Modalities of Black Freedom and Escape: Ships |
ANTH 2440 (ANTH 244) | Disease and Human Evolution |
ANTH 2730 (ANTH 273) | Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives |
ANTH 2762 | Everyday Life in Africa |
ANTH 2940 (ANTH 294) | Global Cities: Urbanization in the Global South |
ANTH 2970 (ANTH 297) |
Nature Culture Environmentalism |
ANTH 3022 (ANTH 322) | Bodies of Water: Conflicts and Collaborations Around Rivers, Wetlands, and Watersheds |
ANTH 3045 | Oil to Diamonds: The Political Economy of Natural Resources in Africa |
ANTH 3110 (ANTH 310) | Transdisciplinary Environmental Humanities |
ANTH 3137 |
Environmental Inequalities |
ANTH 3215 (ANTH 415) |
Archaeology of Animals |
ANTH 3310 (ANTH 331) | Historical Ecology |
ANTH 3360 (ANTH 336) | The Peopling of the Americas |
ANTH 3420 | Dispossession in the Americas: The Loss and Recovery of Indigenous Lands, Bodies, and Heritage |
ANTH 3429 (ANTH 429) | Anthropology of the Environment |
ANTH 3595 | Ecologies of Belonging |
ANTH 3930 (ANTH 393) | Latinx Environmental Justice |
ANTH 5036 | Space/Power/Species |
ANTH 5137 | Environmental Inequalities |
ANTH 5215 (ANTH 415) | Archaeology of Animals |
ANTH 5390 (ANTH 539) | Advanced Readings in Environment and Society |
ANTH 5429 (ANTH 429) | Anthropology of the Environment |
ANTH 5440 (ANTH 543) | Public Environmental Humanities |
ANTH 5595 | Ecologies of Belonging |
ANTH 5700 | Oil to Diamonds: The Political Economy of Natural Resources in Africa |
MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND GLOBAL HEALTH
ANTH 0102 (ANTH 190) | Introduction To Africa |
ANTH 0120 (ANTH 012) | Globalization and Its Historical Significance |
ANTH 1238 (ANTH 238) | Introduction to Medical Anthropology |
ANTH 1430 (ANTH 143) | Explorations in Human Biology |
ANTH 1670 (ANTH 159) | Population and Public Health in Eastern Europe |
ANTH 1800 (ANTH 180) | From Ayahuasca to Zoloft: Anthropological Approaches to Drugs and Drug Use |
ANTH 2002 | Introduction to African Studies |
ANTH 2060 (ANTH 260) | Cultures of Science and Technology |
ANTH 2080 | Anthropology of Futurity |
ANTH 2100 (ANTH 210) | Death: Anthropological Perspectives |
ANTH 2329 (ANTH 329) | Psychoanalytic and Anthropological Perspectives On Childhood |
ANTH 2332 (ANTH 332) | Medicine and the Language of Pain |
ANTH 2340 (ANTH 234) | Pharmaceuticals and Global Health |
ANTH 2440 (ANTH 244) | Disease and Human Evolution |
ANTH 2590 (ANTH 359) | Nutritional Anthropology |
ANTH 2730 (ANTH 273) | Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives |
ANTH 3052 | An Anthropological Approach to Bioethics |
ANTH 3090 (ANTH 309) | Psychoanalysis and Anthropology |
ANTH 3180 (ANTH 318) | Anthropology and Praxis |
ANTH 3340 (ANTH 334) | Feminist Ethnography |
ANTH 3444 (ANTH 444) | Human Growth and Development |
ANTH 3540 (ANTH 354) | Art, Medicine, and Magic: Bodily Remedies |
ANTH 3780 (ANTH 378) | The Biology of Inequality |
ANTH 5320 (ANTH 532) | Anatomies of Injustice and Repair: Advanced Topics in Medical Anthropology |
ANTH 5444 (ANTH 444) | Human Growth and Development |
ANTH 5780 (ANTH 578) | The Biology of Inequality |
Additionally, the following courses are pre-approved to count toward the Medical Anthropology major concentration non-ANTH electives ONLY (i.e., they do not count toward the Anthropology minor or other Anthropology major concentrations.)
BIOE 4010 (BIOE 401) | Introduction to Bioethics |
BIOL 2210 (BIOL 221) | Molecular Biology and Genetics |
BIOL 4077 (BIOL 477) | The Science and Art of Biotechnology |
BIOL 5220 (BIOL 422) | Human Evolutionary Genomics |
GSWS 0002 (GSWS 002) | Gender and Society |
HCMG 2040 (HCMG 204) | Comparative Health Care Systems |
HSOC 0490 (HSOC 145) | Comparative Medicine |
HSOC 1222 (HSOC 275) | Medical Sociology |
HSOC 1330 (HSOC 102) | Bioethics |
HSOC 2312 (HSOC 335) | Healthy Schools |
HSOC 2537 (HSOC 216) | Gender and Health |
HSOC 3327 (HSOC 334) | Birth Culture and Medical Technology |
HSOC 3524 | Medical Mestizaje: Health and Development in Contemporary Latin America |
HSOC 4303 (HSOC 430) | Disease and Society |
STSC 1880 (STSC 168) | Environment and Society |
URBS 0010 (URBS 010) | Homelessness and Urban Inequality |
Last updated by Ruth Styles on 4/4/22.