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Why anthropology?

Courses

Anthropology is the comparative study of human culture and society, the study of how individuals and communities are shaped by their traditions, values, and institutions.

ANTH

Courses

Anthropology coursework allows you to explore the social and cultural dimensions of critical problems impacting in our current world, including topics like globalization, migration, media, climate, and health.

Explore some of our newest and most exciting course offerings below. 

Spring 2025 ANTH Courses (full list)

Featured Courses

    Upper Division

    ANTH 272: Mindfulness and Culture

    ANTH 331: (DIS)ABILITY, EMBODIMENT, AND AN ETHICS OF CARE

    ANTH 365: Life History, (Auto)Biography, And the Question of the Subject​

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    Lower Division

    ANTH 201g Introduction to Social & Cultural Anthropology

    EALC 250: Nation, Culture, and Power in East Asia

    General Education Seminars taught by Anthropology faculty

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    Graduate

    ANTH 575: Seminar in Ethnographic Film: Visuality & Anthropology

    ANTH 599 Special Topics: The Politics of Development

    MDED 505: Intersubjectivity

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    General Education

    ANTH 327(10775): Media Ethnography, Living Archives

    ANTH 343/HIST 302: Heritage Archaeology

    ANTH 450 Field Research in Maya Archaeology

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    Experiential Learning

    ANTH 327(10775): Media Ethnography, Living Archives

    ANTH 343/HIST 302: Heritage Archaeology

    ANTH 220g Anthropology of the Environment

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    Learning Objectives

    Through coursework in Anthropology, students will:

    • Gain skill and insight necessary to successfully work and negotiate across cultural differences.
    • Learn to perform qualitative research into human social forms, building on anthropology’s strong tradition of participant-observation ethnographic research.
    • Learn the major concepts, questions and theoretical approaches in anthropology and the humanistic social sciences.
    • Learn to apply anthropological concepts and tools to the description and analysis of social life and human experience.
    • Acquire skills in critical thinking, expository writing, and other forms of communication with an emphasis on social analysis, empirical evidence, and intercultural understanding.

    The prefix for Anthropology is ANTH in the Course Catalogue…

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