Undergraduate Program

Anthropology Courses by Subfield

Click here for the upcoming semester's course offerings for Anthropology. (Summer 2012 and Fall 2012)

Courses listed under 4350/51/52 or 4390/09 may count for any of the subfields, depending on the topic.

Subfield: General

  • 2321 The Dawn of Wisdom
  • 2331 The Formation of Institutions: Roots of Society
  • 3319 Human Ecology
  • 3322 Statistical Reasoning in Anthropology
  • 4191, 4291, 4391, 4192, 4292, 4392 Independent Study and Research
  • 5335 Theoretical Perspectives in Anthropology
  • 4390 Current Issues in Anthropology
  • 4399 Senior Seminar in Anthropology
  • 5334 History of Anthropology

Subfield I: Archaeology

  • 2302 People of the Earth: Humanity's First Five Million Years
  • 2321 The Dawn of Wisdom: Ancient Creation Stories from Four Civilizations
  • 2363 The Science of Our Past
  • 2380 Contemporary Archaeology: Controversies and Ethics
  • 3304 North American Archaeology
  • 3312 Meso-American Archaeology
  • 3313 South American Indians of the Past & Present
  • 3315 Origins of Civilization
  • 3318 Archaeology of the Southwest (Fall 2012 Flyer)
  • 3334 Fantastic Archaeology and Pseudoscience
  • 3356 Before Civilization
  • 3365 The Rise and Fall of Super Powers
  • 3374 Cultures and Environments of the Southwest
  • 3384 Paradise Lost (Fall 2012 Flyer)
  • 3388 Warfare and Violence (Flyer)
  • 3390 The Plundered Past
  • 3399 Ice Age Americans
  • 4300 World Archaeology
  • 4325 Zooarchaeology
  • 4333 Laboratory Methods in Archaeology
  • 4390 Current Issues in Anthropology
  • 5381 Field Methods in Archaeology
  • 5382 Field Methods in Archaeology
  • 5681, 5981 Field Methods in Archaeology

Subfield II: Cultural/Social Anthropology

  • 2301 Introductory Cultural Anthropology
  • 2345 Leadership and Race Relations
  • 3300 Race, Gender, and Culture in the African Diaspora
  • 3301 Health, Healing, and Ethics: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Sickness and Society (Summer I Flyer) (Summer II Flyer) (Fall 2012 Flyer)
  • 3303 Psychological Anthropology
  • 3305 The "Other" in America
  • 3310 Gender and Sex Roles: A Global Perspective
  • 3311 Mexico: From Conquest to Cancun
  • 3313 South American Indians: Past and Present
  • 3314 Peoples of Africa
  • 3316 Cultures of the Pacific Islands
  • 3317 Peoples of Southeast Asia
  • 3323 East Asia Culture Traditions
  • 3327 Economic and Political Change in Global Society
  • 3329 Contesting Development 
  • 3333 The Immigrants Experience
  • 3336 Gender & Globalization: Cultural and Ethical Issues
  • 3344 Cultural Approaches to Business
  • 3346 Culture and Diversity in American Life
  • 3348 Health as a Human Right
  • 3350 Good Eats & Forbidden Flesh
  • 3353 Indians of North America (Fall 2012 Flyer)
  • 3354 Latin America: Peoples, Places, and Power (Summer I Flyer)
  • 3355 Society and Culture in Contemporary Europe
  • 3358 Indians of the Southwest
  • 3359 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
  • 3366 Magic, Myth, and Religion Across Cultures
  • 3368 Urban Life: A Cross Cultural Perspective
  • 3376 Caribbean Transformations: From Columbus to Carnival
  • 3385 Sustainable Living
  • 3388 Warfare and Violence: The Anthropology & Ethics of Human Conflict
  • 4303 Political Economy of Health
  • 4304 Migration & Ethnicity
  • 4305 Applied Anthropology
  • 4306 Anthropology and Education
  • 4307 Seminar in International Health
  • 4343 Health and Medical Systems
  • 4344 Global Population Processes: Anthropological Perspectives
  • 4347 Seminar in Meso-American Ethnology
  • 4367 Comparative Peasant Society
  • 4384 Global Issues & Development: An Overview
  • 4390 Current Issues in Anthropology
  • 5336 Anthropology and Medicine (Fall 2012 Flyer)
  • 5344 Research Methods in Ethnology

Subfield III: Anthropological Linguistics

  • 3361 Language in Culture and Society
  • 4311 Applied Linguistics
  • 5359 Linguistics (General)

Subfield IV: Physical Anthropology

  • 2315 Human Evolution
  • 3302 Monkeys and Apes 
  • 3350 Good Eats & Forbidden Flesh
  • 3351 Forensic Anthropology
  • 3371 Nutritional Problems of Modern Populations
  • 4371 The Nature of the Aging Process
  • 4377 The Human Fossil Record

NOTE: Many ANTH courses meet the requirements for Perspectives 6. Many anthropology courses also fulfill the co-curricular requirements for Human Diversity.