Courses by Concentration

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

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Cultural/Linguistic Anthropology

Environmental Anthropology

Medical Anthropology and Global Health

 

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

 

Additionally, consider these courses if you are interested in the Environmental Anthropology concentration. See the Undergraduate Chair for more information. 

 

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.