Courses

The Department of Anthropology offers courses broadly categorized as Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, and Cultural Anthropology.

Please consult the teaching schedule below for the most current listing of Anthropology courses by term. This list is subject to change and supersedes any other published listing.

Summer 2025 Teaching Schedule

ANTH 20 - Primate Evolution and Ecology (BIOL) - Fannin
ANTH 50.40 - Anthropology of Disaster (CULT) - Boke

Fall 2025 Teaching Schedule

ANTH 03(1) - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (CULT) - Novacich
ANTH 03(2) - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (CULT) - Novacich
ANTH 05 - Introduction to Archaeology (ARCH) - McLeester
ANTH 06 - Introduction to Biological Anthropology (BIOL) - Dominy
ANTH 09 - Language & Culture (CULT) - Billings
ANTH 11 / NAIS 11- Ancient Native Americans (ARCH) - McLeester
ANTH 13 / CLST 12.03 - Who Owns the Past? (ARCH) - Silvia
ANTH 17 - Anthropology of Health and Illness (CULT) - Pandhi
ANTH 18 - Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology (CULT) - Carpenter-Song
ANTH 31 / WGSS 36.01 - Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective (CULT) - Billings
ANTH 38 - Human Behavorial Ecology (BIOL) - Finkel
ANTH 50.58 - Anthropology of Rural Places and People (CULT) - Sosin
ANTH 66 - Human Biological Variation (BIOL) - Hernandez
ANTH 78 - Senior Seminar: Ethics in Biological Anthropology (BIOL) - Fleskes

Winter 2026 Teaching Schedule

ANTH 07 - FYS (CULT) - Boke
ANTH 08 - The Rise and Fall of Prehistoric Civilizations (ARCH) - Silvia
ANTH 12.01 / FILM 41.04 - Ethnographic Film (CULT) - Pena
ANTH 12.26 / GEOG 39.01 - Envronmental Justice (CULT) - Greenleaf
ANTH 14 - Death and Dying (CULT) - Kan
ANTH 20 - Primate Evolution and Ecology (BIOL) - Finkel
ANTH 27 - Economic Anthropology in a Changing World (CULT) - Greenleaf
ANTH 50.03 - Digital Archaeology (ARCH) - Casana
ANTH 50.53 - The Ancient Silk Road (ARCH) - Silvia
ANTH 50.57 - Cultural Diversity in the US (CULT) Novacich
ANTH 51 - Colonialism and Its Legacies (CULT, FSP) - Craig
ANTH 52 - Introduction to Maori Society (CULT, FSP) - Craig
ANTH 54 - Foreign Study in Anthropology (TBD, FSP) - TBD & Craig
ANTH 55 - Anthropology of Global Health (CULT) - Sosin
ANTH 77 - Origins of Inequality (ARCH) - Casana

Spring 2026 Teaching Schedule

ANTH 06 - Intro to Biological Anthropology (BIOL) - Fleskes
ANTH 15 Political Anthropology (CULT) - Slobe
ANTH 17 - Anthropology of Health and Illness (CULT) - Carpenter-Song
ANTH 18 - Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology (CULT) - Novacich
ANTH 44 / WGSS 53.07 - Language, Gender & Sexuality (CULT) - Billings
ANTH 48 - From Sacred to Salvation (CULT) - Kan
ANTH 50.05 - Environmental Archaeology (ARCH) - McLeester
ANTH 50.17 Rites of Passage (CULT) - Mishra / Craig
ANTH 50.41 / COCO 33 - Homelands and Diasporas (CULT) - Kan
ANTH 50.47 -Archaeological Field Methods (ARCH) - Casana / McLeester
ANTH 50.XX - Linguistic Anthropology Methods (CULT) - Billings
ANTH 50.XX - TBD (BIOL) - Finkel
ANTH 73 - Main Currents in Anthropology (CULT) - Greenleaf