Department of AnthropologyThe 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 |
| ANTH209 | Indigenous Communities and Community Museums: Directions for the Future |
| ANTH210 | Death: Anthropological Perspectives |
| ANTH215 | The Ancient Maya: Integrating Material, Text, and Image |
| ANTH219 | Archaeology in the City of Brotherly Love |
| 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 |
| ANTH284 | World Heritage and Global Conflict |
| 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 | The 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 |
| ANTH382 | Writing, Society & Power: How Pre-Modern Scripts Shaped Societies and Political Action |
| 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 |
| ANTH506 | Material and Methods in Mediterranean Archaeology |
| ANTH511 | Ethics, Archaeology, and Cultural Heritage |
| ANTH512 | Experimental Lithic Technology |
| ANTH514 | Petrography of Cultural Materials |
| ANTH527 | Cultural Heritage and Conflict |
| ANTH533 | Archaeobotany Seminar |
| ANTH536 | The Peopling of the Americas |
| 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 |
| ANTH584 | World Heritage and Global Conflict |
| ANTH585 | Ruins and Reconstruction |
| 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 | The Peopling of the Americas |
| ANTH359 | Nutritional Anthropology |
| ANTH378 | The Biology of Inequality |
| 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 |
| ANTH536 | The Peopling of the Americas |
| ANTH578 | The Biology of Inequality |
CULTURAL/LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
| ANTH002 | Anthropology, Race, and the Making of the Modern World |
| 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 |
| ANTH033 | Language, Society, and the Human Experience |
| 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 |
| ANTH171 | The Social Life of Climate Change |
| 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 |
| ANTH209 | Indigenous Communities and Community Museums: Directions for the Future |
| 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 |
| ANTH279 | Affect in Culture |
| 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 |
| ANTH378 | The Biology of Inequality |
| ANTH382 | Writing, Society & Power: How Pre-Modern Scripts Shaped Societies and Political Action |
| ANTH386 | Culture, Consumption, and Production in the Global Marketplace |
| ANTH388 | "Getting Caught": A Collaboration On and Off Stage Between Theater and Anthropology |
| ANTH391 | Multi-Modal Ethnography - Anthropology Beyond Text |
| ANTH394 | NGOs and Humanitarianism |
| ANTH396 | Surrealism in the Americas |
| ANTH397 | Contemporary Artists in Conversation: Reckoning and Repair |
| 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 | Medico-Political 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 |
| ANTH578 | The Biology of Inequality |
| ANTH581 | Digital Humanities and the Environment |
| ANTH585 | History of Anthropology |
| ANTH586 | Desire and Demand |
| ANTH586 | Ethnographic Filmmaking |
| ANTH587 | Race, Nation, Empire |
| ANTH588 | "Getting Caught": A Collaboration On and Off Stage Between Theater and Anthropology |
| ANTH589 | Museums, Colonialism, and the Question of Property |
| ANTH591 | Multi-Modal Ethnography - Anthropology Beyond Text |
| ANTH594 | Indigenous Theory & Decolonizing Methodologies |
| ANTH596 | Surrealism in the Americas |
| ANTH597 | Contemporary Artists in Conversation: Reckoning and Repair |
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 |
| ANTH161 | Humans and the Earth System: How it Works, How We Got Here, and How to Save Our Planet |
| ANTH171 | The Social Life of Climate Change |
| 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 |
| ANTH310 | Transdisciplinary Environmental Humanities |
| 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 |
| ANTH378 | The Biology of Inequality |
| 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 | Medico-Political Anthropology |
| ANTH578 | 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.)
| 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 6/30/21.