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 (anth-ugrad@sas.upenn.edu) to find out towards which major concentration(s) it may be counted.
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ARCHAEOLOGY
ANTH001 | Archaeology: Window To the Human Past |
ANTH005 | Great Transformations |
ANTH006 | The Prehistoric World |
ANTH010 | Archaeology and Technology |
ANTH024 | Archaeology in Pop Culture |
ANTH045 | How Our Environment Has Shaped Us |
ANTH048 | Ancient Threads: Textiles in Anthropology and Archaeology |
ANTH055 | Cultural Heritage, Politics, and War in the Middle East |
ANTH103 | Empires: From Akkad To America |
ANTH108 | Pastoral Nomadism |
ANTH109 | Anthropology of the Senses |
ANTH110 | Water in the Middle East Throughout History |
ANTH111 | Introduction To Mediterranean Archaeology |
ANTH113 | Archaeology of East Asia |
ANTH121 | Origin and Culture of Cities |
ANTH122 | Becoming Human |
ANTH124 | Archaeology and the Bible |
ANTH127 | The Material Past in a Digital World |
ANTH128 | Peopling Prehistory: the Archaeology of Native North America |
ANTH133 | Native Peoples and the Environment |
ANTH139 | Ancient Civilizations of the World |
ANTH141 | Public Policy, Museums, and the Ethics of Cultural Heritage |
ANTH148 | Food and Fire |
ANTH151 | Archaeology of American History: the Colonial Period |
ANTH152 | Archaeology of American History: the National Period |
ANTH156 | Early Shinto: Archaeology, Mythology, and Rituals |
ANTH158 | The Neolithic Revolution |
ANTH170 | Japanese Archaeology in the Penn Museum |
ANTH177 | Colonial Pasts and Indigenous Futures: A History of Belize and Central America |
ANTH184 | Food and Culture |
ANTH200 | The Achaemenid Empire |
ANTH210 | Death: Anthropological Perspectives |
ANTH215 | The Ancient Maya: Integrating Material, Text, and Image |
ANTH219 | Archaeology Field Project |
ANTH220 | Archaeology Lab Field Project |
ANTH221 | The Material World in Archaeological Science |
ANTH230 | Forensic Anthropology |
ANTH235 | Archaeology of Syria |
ANTH236 | Iraq: Ancient Cities and Empires |
ANTH247 | Archaeology Lab Field Project (Summer) |
ANTH248 | Food and Feasting: Archaeology of the Table |
ANTH254 | Archaeology of the Inca |
ANTH258 | Visualizing the Past |
ANTH267 | Living World in Archaeological Science |
ANTH269 | Ritual, Memory, Performance |
ANTH271 | Ancient Mexico and Central America |
ANTH274 | Introduction to Roman Archaeology |
ANTH277 | Colonial Objects, Commodities, and Bodies: Archaeology of Latin America Since 1492 |
ANTH285 | Ancient Japanese Civilization |
ANTH288 | Myths, Fraud and Science in Archaeology |
ANTH292 | Bioarchaeology of the Peoples of the Past |
ANTH311 | Disasters in the Ancient World |
ANTH315 | Kinship and Connectivity |
ANTH319 | Pottery and Archaeology |
ANTH323 | Origins of Art / Origins of Writing |
ANTH324 | Domestic Life in Ancient Civilizations |
ANTH325 | Who Owns the Past? Archaeology and Politics in the Middle East |
ANTH331 | Historical Ecology |
ANTH336 | Peopling of the Americas |
ANTH346 | GIS for the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences |
ANTH348 | Colonialism and its Legacies |
ANTH350 | Archaeology of Civilizations in South America |
ANTH351 | Women Making History: The Penn Museum and the Centennial 2020 |
ANTH362 | Introduction to Digital Archaeology |
ANTH366 | Archaeology and Science |
ANTH367 | Etruscan Art and Archaeology |
ANTH395 | History of Archaeological Practice |
ANTH415 | Archaeology of Animals |
ANTH419 | Mining Archaeology |
ANTH431 | The Archaeology of Ancient Economies |
ANTH433 | Andean Archaeology |
ANTH435 | The Past Preserved: Conservation in Archaeology |
ANTH440 | Plants and Society |
ANTH451 | Historical Archaeology |
ANTH454 | Quantitative Analysis of Anthropological Data |
ANTH511 | Ethics, Archaeology, and Cultural Heritage |
ANTH512 | Experimental Lithic Technology |
ANTH514 | Petrography of Cultural Materials |
ANTH527 | Cultural Heritage and Conflict |
ANTH533 | Archaeobotany Seminar |
ANTH548 | Colonialism and its Legacies |
ANTH549 | Topics in Archaeological Method and Theory |
ANTH552 | Archaeometallurgy Seminar |
ANTH556 | Becoming a Professional Archaeologist |
ANTH557 | Archaeology of Landscapes |
ANTH558 | Monument, Memory, and Place in South Asia |
ANTH564 | Colonial Ecologies |
ANTH565 | Political Economy of Empire |
ANTH572 | Geophysical Prospection for Archaeology |
ANTH580 | Domestication |
ANTH593 | Natural and Cultural Heritage in Global Perspective |
ANTH595 | History of Archaeological Practice |
ANTH598 | Economics of Heritage |
BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH003 | Introduction To Human Evolution |
ANTH006 | The Prehistoric World |
ANTH104 | Sex and Human Nature |
ANTH105 | Human Adaptation |
ANTH106 | Anthropological Genetics |
ANTH122 | Becoming Human |
ANTH140 | Histories of Race and Science in Philadelphia |
ANTH143 | Explorations in Human Biology |
ANTH158 | The Neolithic Revolution |
ANTH180 | From Ayahuasca to Zoloft: Anthropological Approaches to Drugs and Drug Use |
ANTH207 | Primate Behavior and Ecology |
ANTH210 | Death: Anthropological Perspectives |
ANTH230 | Forensic Anthropology |
ANTH244 | Disease and Human Evolution |
ANTH246 | Molecular Anthropology |
ANTH249 | Evolutionary Medicine |
ANTH292 | Bioarchaeology of the Peoples of the Past |
ANTH336 | Peopling of the Americas |
ANTH359 | Nutritional Anthropology |
ANTH404 | Introduction to the Human Skeleton |
ANTH404 | Introduction to the Human Skeleton |
ANTH407 | Human Evolution |
ANTH421 | Anthropology in and of Environmental Health |
ANTH444 | Human Growth and Development |
ANTH447 | Human Reproductive Ecology |
ANTH454 | Quantitative Analysis of Anthropological Data |
ANTH458 | Introduction to Paleopathology |
ANTH478 | Topics in Paleopathology |
ANTH507 | Primate Behavior and Ecology |
CULTURAL/LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH002 | Introduction To Cultural Anthropology |
ANTH004 | The Modern World and Its Cultural Background |
ANTH012 | Globalization and Its Historical Significance |
ANTH022 | World Musics and Cultures |
ANTH026 | Behind the Iron Curtain |
ANTH031 | The "Rights of Nature" in Times of Conflict and Transition |
ANTH037 | Contemporary Native Americans |
ANTH053 | Music in Troubled Places |
ANTH054 | Religion and Resistance in South Asia |
ANTH056 | Seeing/Hearing Africa |
ANTH058 | Doing Research: Qualitative Methods and Research |
ANTH060 | Cultures of Science and Technology |
ANTH063 | East and West: A Hitchiker's Guide To the Cultural History of the Modern World |
ANTH082 | Native American Literature |
ANTH086 | Desire and Demand |
ANTH091 | Sustainable Development and Culture in Latin America |
ANTH100 | Topics In Anthropology and the Modern World |
ANTH107 | The City in South Asia |
ANTH108 | Pastoral Nomadism |
ANTH109 | Anthropology of the Senses |
ANTH112 | Sacred Stuff: Religious Bodies, Spaces, and Things |
ANTH114 | Migration and Borders |
ANTH116 | Caribbean Culture and Politics |
ANTH118 | Witchcraft and Possession |
ANTH123 | Communication and Culture |
ANTH131 | Small Business Anthropology |
ANTH134 | Making the Natural World: An Introduction To Political Ecology |
ANTH138 | Political Economy of Contemporary China |
ANTH140 | Histories of Race and Science in Philadelphia |
ANTH141 | Public Policy, Museums, and the Ethics of Cultural Heritage |
ANTH144 | Economy and Culture in Contemporary China |
ANTH149 | Introduction To Native American and Indigenous Studies |
ANTH153 | Gifts, Commodities, and the Market: Anthropology of the Economy |
ANTH154 | Liquid Histories and Floating Archives |
ANTH155 | Globalization: Causes and Effects |
ANTH157 | Anthropology and the World's Fairs |
ANTH160 | Mythology and the Movies |
ANTH165 | Anthropology of Masculinity and the State |
ANTH167 | Understanding Globalization |
ANTH169 | Merchants, Saints, Slaves and Sojourners: the Worlds of the Indian Ocean |
ANTH177 | Colonial Pasts and Indigenous Futures: A History of Belize and Central America |
ANTH189 | Islam and the West |
ANTH190 | Introduction To Africa |
ANTH201 | Doing Research: Qualitative Methods and Research Design |
ANTH202 | Language, Migration, and Diaspora |
ANTH204 | Theoretical Foundations |
ANTH205 | American Folklore |
ANTH211 | Religion & Ecology |
ANTH213 | Local Biologies |
ANTH215 | The Ancient Maya: Integrating Material, Text, and Image |
ANTH218 | Globalizing East Asia |
ANTH223 | Storytelling in Africa |
ANTH227 | Media in Africa |
ANTH228 | Chinese Culture and Society |
ANTH231 | Modalities of Black Freedom and Escape: Ships |
ANTH234 | Pharmaceuticals and Global Health |
ANTH238 | Introduction to Medical Anthropology |
ANTH241 | Performing History |
ANTH242 | Music of South and Southeast Asia |
ANTH252 | Food Habits in Philadelphia Communities |
ANTH253 | Violence, Tolerance, and Freedom |
ANTH255 | Modern Southeast Asia |
ANTH256 | Caribbean Music and Diaspora |
ANTH260 | Cultures of Science and Technology |
ANTH263 | Music and Performance of Africa |
ANTH266 | Youth and Democracy in Africa |
ANTH268 | Anthropology of Museums |
ANTH270 | The Development of Anthropological Theory |
ANTH273 | Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives |
ANTH276 | An Ethnographic Approach to Urban Athletics and Human Movement |
ANTH282 | A History of Films By and About Native Americans |
ANTH294 | Cities of the Future: Urbanization in the Global South |
ANTH297 | Nature Culture Environmentalism: Urban Water |
ANTH303 | Research Methods in Social Anthropology |
ANTH305 | Anthropology and Policy |
ANTH306 | Law, Cultural Meaning, and Power |
ANTH307 | Contemporary Native Americans |
ANTH308 | Ethnohistory of the Native Northeast |
ANTH309 | Psychoanalysis and Anthropology |
ANTH312 | Violence and the Re-Making of Kinship |
ANTH315 | Kinship and Connectivity |
ANTH316 | Anthropology of Global Labor |
ANTH317 | Politics of Matter |
ANTH318 | Anthropology and Praxis |
ANTH320 | Urban Ethnography: Documenting the City of Brotherly Love |
ANTH322 | Bodies of Water: Conflicts and Collaborations Around Rivers, Wetlands, and Watersheds |
ANTH328 | Performing Culture |
ANTH329 | Psychoanalytic and Anthropological Perspectives On Childhood |
ANTH332 | Medicine and the Language of Pain |
ANTH333 | Global Trans* |
ANTH334 | Feminist Ethnography |
ANTH335 | Global Food Security For Ten Billion |
ANTH337 | Applying Anthropology Methods in Policy and Practice |
ANTH340 | Native American Art |
ANTH342 | Dress and Fashion in Afrca |
ANTH344 | Documentary Experiments in Urban Research |
ANTH346 | GIS for the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences |
ANTH347 | Anthropology of Corporations |
ANTH348 | Colonialism and its Legacies |
ANTH351 | Women Making History: The Penn Museum and the Centennial 2020 |
ANTH354 | Art, Medicine, and Magic: Bodily Remedies |
ANTH355 | Mapping For Social Justice |
ANTH359 | Nutritional Anthropology |
ANTH361 | Global Food Security |
ANTH368 | Kinesthetic Anthropology |
ANTH372 | Worlding the Digital: How Technologies Travel |
ANTH377 | Black Speculative Futures |
ANTH386 | Culture, Consumption, and Production in the Global Marketplace |
ANTH391 | Multi-Modal Ethnography - Anthropology Beyond Text |
ANTH394 | NGOs and Humanitarianism |
ANTH402 | Applied Research Skills in Global Community Health |
ANTH403 | Field Experience in Global Community Health |
ANTH409 | Topics in Native American Literature |
ANTH420 | Nations, Nationalism, and Politics |
ANTH426 | Anthropology and Public Health |
ANTH429 | Anthropology of the Environment |
ANTH438 | The Anthropology of Risk Perception in Health |
ANTH441 | Cross Cultural Approaches to Health and Illness |
ANTH461 | Global Food Security |
ANTH483 | Interfaith Action |
ANTH516 | Public Interest Workshop |
ANTH518 | Anthropology and Praxis |
ANTH528 | Performing Culture: Native American Arts |
ANTH532 | Theory in Medical Anthropology |
ANTH534 | Politics of Sexuality |
ANTH537 | The Anthropology of Bits and Bytes: Digital Media in Global Perspective |
ANTH539 | Advanced Readings in Environment and Society |
ANTH541 | Critical Engagements with Science(s) and Justice(s) |
ANTH543 | Public Environmental Humanities |
ANTH545 | The Anthropology of Nostalgia and Memory |
ANTH546 | Global Citizenship |
ANTH547 | Anthropology and Education |
ANTH548 | Colonialism and its Legacies |
ANTH550 | Movement, Mobility, and Migration |
ANTH551 | Experimental Ethnography |
ANTH554 | Truth, Politics, Ethics: An Anthropological Seminar |
ANTH558 | Monument, Memory, and Place in South Asia |
ANTH559 | Audio Ethnography |
ANTH560 | Critical Ethnography |
ANTH564 | Colonial Ecologies |
ANTH565 | Political Economy of Empire |
ANTH574 | The Lives of Infrastructure: Politics and Technics in the Anthropocene |
ANTH576 | Anthromedialities: Experimental Theory and Practice |
ANTH577 | Everyday States: The Anthropology of Power and Politics |
ANTH581 | Digital Humanities and the Environment |
ANTH585 | History of Anthropology |
ANTH586 | Desire and Demand |
ANTH586 | Ethnographic Filmmaking |
ANTH587 | Race, Nation, Empire |
ANTH589 | Museums, Colonialism, and the Question of Property |
ANTH591 | Multi-Modal Ethnography - Anthropology Beyond Text |
ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH031 | The "Rights of Nature" in Times of Conflict and Transition |
ANTH045 | How Our Environment Has Shaped Us |
ANTH091 | Sustainable Development and Culture in Latin America |
ANTH108 | Pastoral Nomadism |
ANTH110 | Water in the Middle East Throughout History |
ANTH134 | Making the Natural World: An Introduction To Political Ecology |
ANTH143 | Explorations in Human Biology |
ANTH184 | Food and Culture |
ANTH231 | Modalities of Black Freedom and Escape: Ships |
ANTH244 | Disease and Human Evolution |
ANTH260 | Cultures of Science and Technology |
ANTH267 | Living World in Archaeological Science |
ANTH273 | Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives |
ANTH294 | Global Cities: Urbanization in the Global South |
ANTH317 | Politics of Matter |
ANTH322 | Bodies of Water: Conflicts and Collaborations Around Rivers, Wetlands, and Watersheds |
ANTH331 | Historical Ecology |
ANTH336 | Peopling of the Americas |
ANTH346 | GIS for the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences |
ANTH361 | Global Food Security |
ANTH415 | Archaeology of Animals |
ANTH421 | Anthropology in and of Environmental Health |
ANTH539 | Advanced Readings in Environment and Society |
ANTH543 | Public Environmental Humanities |
ANTH580 | Domestication |
MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND GLOBAL HEALTH
ANTH012 | Globalization and Its Historical Significance |
ANTH060 | Cultures of Science and Technology |
ANTH086 | Desire and Demand |
ANTH140 | Histories of Race and Science in Philadelphia |
ANTH143 | Explorations in Human Biology |
ANTH159 | Population and Public Health in Eastern Europe |
ANTH180 | From Ayahuasca to Zoloft: Anthropological Approaches to Drugs and Drug Use |
ANTH190 | Introduction To Africa |
ANTH210 | Death: Anthropological Perspectives |
ANTH213 | Local Biologies |
ANTH234 | Pharmaceuticals and Global Health |
ANTH238 | Introduction to Medical Anthropology |
ANTH244 | Disease and Human Evolution |
ANTH252 | Food Habits in Philadelphia Communities |
ANTH260 | Cultures of Science and Technology |
ANTH273 | Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives |
ANTH309 | Psychoanalysis and Anthropology |
ANTH318 | Anthropology and Praxis |
ANTH329 | Psychoanalytic and Anthropological Perspectives On Childhood |
ANTH332 | Medicine and the Language of Pain |
ANTH334 | Feminist Ethnography |
ANTH337 | Applying Anthropology Methods in Policy and Practice |
ANTH354 | Art, Medicine, and Magic: Bodily Remedies |
ANTH359 | Nutritional Anthropology |
ANTH386 | Culture, Consumption, and Production in the Global Marketplace |
ANTH402 | Applied Research Skills in Global Community Health |
ANTH403 | Field Experience in Global Community Health |
ANTH421 | Anthropology in and of Environmental Health |
ANTH426 | Anthropology and Public Health |
ANTH438 | The Anthropology of Risk Perception in Health |
ANTH441 | Cross Cultural Approaches to Health and Illness |
ANTH444 | Human Growth and Development |
ANTH532 | Theory in Medical Anthropology |
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.)
HSOC102 | Bioethics |
HSOC145 | Comparative Medicine |
HSOC216 | Gender and Health |
HSOC275 | Medical Sociology |
HSOC332 | Contemporary Issues in Human Sexuality |
HSOC334 | Birth Culture and Medical Technology |
HSOC335 | Healthy Schools |
HSOC430 | Disease and Society |
URBS010 | Homelessness and Urban Inequality |
BIOL221 | Molecular Biology and Genetics |
BIOL422 | Genomics of Human Disease and Evolution |
BIOL477 | The Science and Art of Biotechnology |
HCMG204 | Comparative Health Care Systems |
BIOE401 | Introduction to Bioethics |
RELS267 | Food and Religion |
STSC168 | Environment and Society |
GSWS002 | Gender and Society |
Last updated by Ruth Styles on 10/12/2020.