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| ANTH 1001T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Artistic, Interpretive, and Philosophical Inquiry. | |
| ANTH 1002T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Cultures and Societies of the World. | |
| ANTH 1003T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Historical Perspectives. | |
| ANTH 1004T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Social and Economic Systems. | |
| ANTH 1005T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Chemical, Mathematical, and Physical Inquiry | |
| ANTH 1006T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Living Systems. | |
| ANTH 1007T | Non-UVA Transfer/Test Credit (1 - 4) |
| Transfer credit or test credit that is not equivalent to current UVA coursework. Contains content related to Science and Society | |
| ANTH 1010 | Introduction to Anthropology (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This is a broad introductory course covering race, language, and culture, both as intellectual concepts and as political realities. Topics include race and culture as explanations of human affairs, the relationship of language to thought, cultural diversity and cultural relativity, and cultural approaches to current crises. Course was offered Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, January 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, January 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Summer 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 1050 | Anthropology of Globalization (3) |
| Anthropology of Globalization Course was offered Summer 2020, Summer 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Summer 2016, Spring 2016, Summer 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2011 | |
| ANTH 1559 | New Course in Anthropology (3) |
| New course in the subject of anthropology. | |
| ANTH 2120 | The Concept of Culture (3) |
| Culture is the central concept that anthropologists use to understand the striking differences among human societies and how people organize the meaningful parts of their lives. In this course we explore this diversity, examine its basis in neuroplasticity and human development, and consider its implications for human nature, cognition, creativity, and identity. By learning about other cultures, we gain new understanding of ourselves. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Fall 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 | |
| ANTH 2160 | Culture and the Environment (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course explores anthropological understandings of culture and the environment, particularly with respect to the ecology of human perception, histories of colonialism and related inequalities, food production, consumerism, nature conservation, the Anthropocene concept, and pervasive environmental logics of globalizing capitalism. |
| ANTH 2190 | Desire and World Economics (3) |
| This course offers an insight into the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services practiced by peoples ignored or unknown to classic Western economics. Its principle focus will open upon the obvious differences between cultural concepts of the self and the very notion of its desire. Such arguments as those which theorize on the "rationality" of the market and the "naturalness" of competition will be debunked. | |
| ANTH 2250 | Nationalism, Racism, Multiculturalism (3) |
| Introductory course in which the concepts of culture, multiculturalism, race, racism, and nationalism are critically examined in terms of how they are used and structure social relations in American society and, by comparison, how they are defined in other cultures throughout the world. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Summer 2023, Summer 2021, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017 | |
| ANTH 2260 | Water Worlds: the Anthropology of Water (3) |
| This course examines the many ways that people have managed, shared and made claim to water¿the construction of water worlds. It also looks at waterscapes, dam projects, water in cities, and wastewater and sewage systems globally. Importantly, the course addresses conflicting notions of how to value water, including contemporary debates about the sale of water and water rights, and examines the notion that water will be the locus of future wars. Course was offered Fall 2023 | |
| ANTH 2270 | Race, Gender, and Medical Science (3) |
| Explores the social and cultural dimensions of biomedical practice and experience in the United States. Focuses on practitioner and patient, asking about the ways in which race, gender, and socio-economic status contour professional identity and socialization, how such factors influence the experience, and course of, illness, and how they have shaped the structures and institutions of biomedicine over time. | |
| ANTH 2280 | Medical Anthropology (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The course introduces medical anthropology, and contextualizes bodies, suffering, healing and health. It is organized thematically around a critical humanist approach, along with perspectives from political economy and social constructionism. The aim of the course is to provide a broad understanding of the relationship between culture, healing (including and especially the Western form of healing known as biomedicine), health and political power. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010 |
| ANTH 2285 | Anthropology of Development and Humanitarianism (3) |
| This course explores anthropological writings on development and humanitarianism to better understand the historical context and contemporary practice of these distinct modes of world saving. We will attend to critiques of development and humanitarianism, and will also consider writings by anthropologists who champion the humanitarian project Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2016 | |
| ANTH 2325 | Anthropology of God (3) |
| How does the study of society and culture create an intellectual space for any explanation and experience of the Divine? How does anthropology deal specifically with explaining (rather than the explaining away) knowledge and understanding about divinity? Is God an American? If God has a gender and race, what are they? These and many other pertinent questions will be engaged and tackled in this cross-cultural study of the divine. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Summer 2011 | |
| ANTH 2400 | Language and Culture (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Introduces the interrelationships of linguistic, cultural, and social phenomena with emphasis on the importance of these interrelationships in interpreting human behavior. No prior knowledge of linguistics is required. Course was offered Summer 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Summer 2015, Fall 2014, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 2405 | Your Heritage Language (3) |
| This course explores the languages spoken with varying degrees of fluency within students' own families and home communities, either at present or in recent generations. The course prepares students to draw upon linguistic diversity as a positive resource in developing their own identities and interacting with others in our multicultural society. | |
| ANTH 2410 | Sociolinguistics (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Reviews key findings in the study of language variation. Explores the use of language to express identity and social difference. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2012 |
| ANTH 2415 | Language in Human Evolution (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Examines the evolution of our capacity for language along with the development of human ways of cooperating in engaged social interaction. Course integrates cognitive, cultural, social, and biological aspects of language in comparative perspective. How is the familiar shape of language today the result of evolutionary and developmental processes involving the form, function, meaning and use of signs and symbols in social ecologies? |
| ANTH 2440 | Language and Cinema (3) |
| Looks historically at speech and language in Hollywood movies, including the technological challenges and artistic theories and controversies attending the transition from silent to sound films. Focuses on the ways that gender, racial, ethnic, and national identities are constructed through the representation of speech, dialect, and accent. Introduces semiotics but requires no knowledge of linguistics, or film studies. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2015, Fall 2014 | |
| ANTH 2450 | Language & Environment (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | In this course, students rethink assumptions about what "language" and "environment" are. Both depend on living systems to be rendered meaningful, and together we will wrestle with how these two ideas can be brought into relation and the implications associated with different frames of understanding. There are many perspectives on the issues raised in this course, and you will receive a broad introduction to that diversity. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024 |
| ANTH 2470 | Reflections of Exile: Jewish Languages and their Communities (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Covers Jewish languages Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic, Ladino, and Hebrew from historical, linguistic, and literary perspectives. Explores the relations between communities and languages, the nature of diaspora, and the death and revival of languages. No prior knowledge of these languages is required. This course is cross-listed with MEST 2470. |
| ANTH 2500 | Cultures, Regions, and Civilizations (3) |
| Intensive studies of particular world regions, societies, cultures, and civilizations. Course was offered Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, January 2014, Fall 2013, Summer 2013, January 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011 | |
| ANTH 2541 | Topics in Linguistics (3) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with linguistics. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2017, Fall 2015 | |
| ANTH 2557 | Culture Through Film (3) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester covering the diversity of human cultural worlds and the field of anthropology as presented through film. A variety of ethnographic and commercial films will be viewed and discussed in conjunction with readings. Course was offered Summer 2021, Summer 2020, Summer 2019, January 2018, Summer 2017, January 2017, Summer 2016, Summer 2014, Fall 2011, Summer 2011 | |
| ANTH 2559 | New Course in Anthropology (1 - 4) |
| New course in the subject of anthropology. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2022, January 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, January 2015, Spring 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| ANTH 2560 | Hierarchy and Equality (3) |
| Provides an anthropological perspective on relations of inequality, subordination, and class in diverse societies, along with consideration of American ideas of egalitarianism, meritocracy, and individualism. Specific topics will be announced prior to each semester. | |
| ANTH 2575 | Migrants and Minorities (3) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with migration and migrants, and the experience of ethnic and racial minorities. Course was offered Fall 2013 | |
| ANTH 2589 | Topics in Archaeology (3) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with archaeology. Course was offered Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2011 | |
| ANTH 2590 | Social and Cultural Anthropology (3) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, January 2021, Summer 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, January 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, January 2011 | |
| ANTH 2620 | Sex, Gender, and Culture (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Examines the manner in which ideas about sexuality and gender are constructed differently cross-culturally and how these ideas give shape to other social phenomena, relationships, and practices. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2019, Summer 2018, Summer 2015, Summer 2014 |
| ANTH 2625 | Imagining Africa (3) |
| Africa is commonly imagined in the West as an unproblematically bounded and undifferentiated entity. This course engages and moves beyond western traditions of story telling about Africa to explore diverse systems of imagining Africa's multi-diasporic realities. Imagining Africa is never a matter of pure abstraction, but entangled in material struggles and collective memory, and taking place at diverse and interconnected scales and locales.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 | |
| ANTH 2800 | Introduction to Archaeology (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Topics include alternative theories of prehistoric culture change, dating methods, excavation and survey techniques, and the reconstruction of the economy, social organization, and religion of prehistoric societies. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, January 2020, Fall 2019, January 2019, Fall 2018, January 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, January 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, January 2016, Fall 2015, Summer 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Summer 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 2810 | Human Origins (3) |
| Studies the physical and cultural evolution of humans from the initial appearance of hominids to the development of animal and plant domestication in different areas of the world. Topics include the development of biological capabilities such as bipedal walking and speech, the evolution of characteristics of human cultural systems such as economic organization and technology, and explanations for the development of domestication. Course was offered Spring 2021, Summer 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Summer 2010 | |
| ANTH 2820 | The Emergence of States and Cities (3) |
| Surveys patterns in the development of prehistoric civilizations in different areas of the world including the Inca of Peru, the Maya, the Aztec of Mexico, and the ancient Middle East. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 2830 | Ancient Cities of the Americas (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | When colonial empires invaded the Americas in the 16th century, Europeans marveled at the Indigenous cities distributed across the continent. This course examines the ancient cities of the Americas: their origins, their configurations, their operations, and their representations. It considers how archaeologists define urbanism among ancient societies, and why not every human settlement qualifies as a city. |
| ANTH 3010 | Theory and History of Anthropology (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Overview of the major theoretical positions which have structured anthropological thought over the past century. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 3020 | Using Anthropology (3) |
| The theoretical, methodological and ethical practice of an engaged anthropology is the subject of this course, We begin with a history of applied anthropology. We then examine case studies that demonstrate the unique practices of contemporary sociocultural, linguistic, archaeological and bioanthropological anthropology in the areas of policy and civic engagement. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 | |
| ANTH 3100 | Indigenous Landscapes (3) |
| This course engages with ways that historical process are inscribed in landscapes, which are the traditional territories of indigenous communities and have also been shaped by colonialism, extractive enterprise, and nature conservation. It challenges students to examine their assumptions to examine ways in which dominant values and stories are inscribed in landscapes and made to appear natural, and how indigenous people contest these processes. | |
| ANTH 3129 | Marriage, Mortality, Fertility (3) |
| Explores the ways that culturally formed systems of values and family organization affect population processes in a variety of cultures. Course was offered Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 3152 | Rainforests of Flesh / Peoples of Spirit (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Ethnographies of Amazonian Peoples and the new anthropological theories about their way of life. |
| ANTH 3170 | Anthropology of Media (3) |
| Explores the cultural life of media and the mediation of cultural life through photography, radio, television, advertising, the Internet, and other technologies. Course was offered Spring 2013 | |
| ANTH 3220 | Economic Anthropology (3) |
| Comparative analysis of different forms of production, circulation, and consumption in primitive and modern societies. Exploration of the applicability of modern economic theory developed for modern societies to primitive societies and to those societies being forced into the modern world system. | |
| ANTH 3240 | The Anthropology of Food (3) |
| This course approaches food from various social science perspectives, focusing on historically and culturally variable forms of food production, exchange, preparation and consumption as the means through which both individual and social bodies are constructed and reproduced. We examine food and the environment; food and colonialism; the globalization of food and food production; food and identities; and food and bodies. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Janiuary 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Summer 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Summer 2014, Fall 2013, Summer 2013, Spring 2012, Summer 2011 | |
| ANTH 3260 | Globalization and Development (3) |
| Explores how globalization and development affect the lives of people in different parts of the world. Topics include poverty, inequality, and the role of governments and international agencies. Course was offered Spring 2012, Fall 2010 | |
| ANTH 3275 | The Corporation: History, Culture, Capital (3) |
| What is a corporation? Contrary to wide belief, the corporation is a very ancient social form that arose in diverse world regions and is the heritage of many civilizations. In this course, we explore its history and relation to culture, economics, and law. How has financialization shaped today's major business corporations and theories of corporate social responsibility? How might we improve the corporations of the future? | |
| ANTH 3280 | Introduction to Native American Studies: (Mis)Representations (3) |
| An intro to the broad field of Native Studies, this class focuses on themes of representation and erasure. We read Indigenous scholars and draw from current events, pop culture, and historical narrative to explore complex relationships between historical and contemporary issues that Indigenous peoples face in the US. We examine the foundations of Native representations and their connections to critical issues in Native communities. | |
| ANTH 3290 | Biopolitics and the Contemporary Condition (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Biopolitical analysis has become one of the prominent critical approaches across the social sciences and humanities. This course will consider various biopolitical theories and the ways in which they help us understand diverse phenomena of our contemporary condition, which will be examined through various case studies. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018 |
| ANTH 3295 | Moral Experience (3) |
| This course introduces students to one of the key frameworks in anthropology's "ethical turn": moral experience. The investigation of moral experience explores questions of ethics from a phenomenological-hermeneutic perspective and attends closely to subjectivity, affect, and embodiment. We will explore moral experiences such as ethical self-cultivation, empathy, love, hope, breakdown, mood, and moral transformation. | |
| ANTH 3300 | Tournaments and Athletes (3) |
| A cross-cultural study of sport and competitive games. Prerequisite: ANTH 101 or instructor permission. Course was offered Summer 2025, Summer 2020, Summer 2019, Summer 2017, Summer 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Spring 2011 | |
| ANTH 3325 | Capitalism: Cultural Perspectives (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Examines capitalist relations around the world in a variety of cultural and historical settings. Readings cover field studies of work, industrialization, "informal" economies, advertising, securities trading, "consumer culture," corporations; anthropology of money and debt; global spread of capitalist markets; multiple capitalisms thesis; commodification; slavery and capital formation; capitalism and environmental sustainability. Course was offered Spring 2016 |
| ANTH 3332 | Anthropology of Disability (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Disabled people are considered the "world's largest minority," but does a shared disability experience exist? In this course we examine the diverse ways disability is understood in different social contexts. We use disability studies as a critical lens to examine issues of power and to ask key questions of anthropology, including; What does it mean to have an anthropology of embodied experience? An anthropology of the mind? |
| ANTH 3340 | Ecology and Society: An Introduction to the New Ecological Anthropology (3) |
| Forges a synthesis between culture theory and historical ecology to provide new insights on how human cultures fashion, and are fashioned by, their environment. Although cultures from all over the world are considered, special attention is given to the region defined by South and East Asia, and Australia. Prerequisite: At least one Anthropology course, and/or relevant exposure to courses in EVSC, BIOL, CHEM, or HIST or instructor permission Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 3344 | Anthropology and Anarchy (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Anarchy - organizing society through horizontal relations of free association - has a modern European history contemporary with Anthropology and has Indigenous histories in many places where people decided together to organize society against the state and hierarchy. Readings survey anthropology of non-state societies and engage questions of how non-European anarchies of Black and Indigenous authors and organizers critique anthropological methods. Course was offered Spring 2025 |
| ANTH 3360 | The Museum in Modern Culture (3) |
| Topics include the politics of cultural representation in history, anthropology, and fine arts museums; and the museum as a bureaucratic organization, as an educational institution, and as a nonprofit corporation. | |
| ANTH 3370 | Power and the Body (3) |
| Studying the cultural representations and interpretations of the body in society. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or permission of the instructor. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2012, Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 3390 | Pregnancy, Birthing and the Post-Partum (3) |
| There's no debate that human reproduction is a biological universal, but it's also an intensely cultural phenomenon with widely disparate, & often contested, specific cultural routines, symbolic systems, ideas & practices whether focused on mothers, fathers, infants or communities or who is recognized as a birthing expert. Course examines variations in physiological & cultural processes globally & explores both the individual experiences & and systemic patterns associated with the phases of reproduction from pregnancy through to post-partum. | |
| ANTH 3392 | African American Women and the Cultural Politics of Body Size (3) |
| This course will examine the cultural politics of body size norms drawing on a range of perspectives within anthropology and related fields and from the lived experiences of diverse African American women. | |
| ANTH 3430 | Pidgins, Creoles, and Contact (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The study of pidgins and creoles emerged as a subfield of linguistics in the latter half of the 20th century. Its ideas have been borrowed, notably by anthropologists, to analyze the increased diversity and fusion we confront in a globalizing world. Where did such ideas come from? What are their (un)intended consequences? This course will trace the epistemological development of Creole studies and consider its historical and contemporary impacts. |
| ANTH 3450 | Native American Languages (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Introduces the native languages of North America and the methods that linguists and anthropologists use to record and analyze them. Examines the use of grammars, texts and dictionaries of individual languages and affords insight into the diversity among the languages. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 3470 | Language and Culture in the Middle East (3) |
| Introduction to peoples, languages, cultures and histories of the Middle East. Focuses on Israel/Palestine as a microcosm of important social processes-such as colonialism, nationalism, religious fundamentalism, and modernization-that affect the region as a whole. This course is cross-listed with MEST 3470. Prerequisite: Previous course in anthropology, linguistics, Middle East Studies or permission of instructor. Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2009 | |
| ANTH 3480 | Language and Prehistory (3) |
| This course covers the basic principles of diachronic linguistics and discusses the uses of linguistic data in the reconstruction of prehistory. | |
| ANTH 3490 | Language and Thought (3) |
| Language and Thought Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 3541 | Topics in Linguistics (3) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with linguistics. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2012, Spring 2012 | |
| ANTH 3550 | Ethnography (3) |
| Close reading of several ethnographies, primarily concerned with non-Western cultures. | |
| ANTH 3559 | New Course in Anthropology (1 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | New course in the subject of Anthropology. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2013, Spring 2012, Summer 2010, Spring 2010, January 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 3589 | Topics in Archaeology (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with archaeology. Course was offered Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2011 |
| ANTH 3590 | Social and Cultural Anthropology (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011 |
| ANTH 3679 | Curating Culture: Collection, Preservation, and Display as Cultural Forms (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course teaches the importance of understanding cultural meanings when curating items, whether material or intangible, drawn from social worlds other than one's own. It provides a general introduction to collection, preservation, and display through study of a specific collection held by the instructor or by a local institution such as the Fralin Museum of Art. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2023 |
| ANTH 3680 | Australian Aboriginal Art and Culture (3) |
| This class studies the intersection of anthropology, art and material culture focusing on Australian Aboriginal art. We examine how Aboriginal art has moved from relative obscurity to global recognition over the past thirty years. Topics include the historical and cultural contexts of invention, production, marketing and appropriation of Aboriginal art. Students will conduct object-based research using the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010 or instructor permission. | |
| ANTH 3810 | Field Methods in Archaeology (3 - 6) |
| Provides a comprehensive training in archaeological field techniques through participation in research projects currently in progress under the direction of the archaeology faculty. The emphasis is on learning, in an actual field situation, how the collection of archaeological data is carried out in both survey and excavation. Students become familiar with field recording systems, excavation techniques, survey methods, sampling theory in archaeology, and artifact processing and analysis. (Field methods courses outside anthropology or offered at other universities may be substituted for ANTH 3810 with the prior approval of the student's advisor.) Supporting Courses. The following list includes additional courses which have been approved for the major program. Other courses can be added, depending on the student's area of concentration, with the approval of an advisor. | |
| ANTH 3840 | Archaeology of the Middle East (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course is an introduction to the prehistory/early history of the Middle East (Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Levant and southeast Anatolia) from 10,000 to 4,000 BP. |
| ANTH 3850 | Historical Archaeology (3) |
| Historical archaeology is the archaeological study of the continental and transoceanic human migrations that began in the fifteenth century, their effects on native peoples, and historical trajectories of the societies that they created. This course offers an introduction to the field. It emphasizes how theoretical models, analytical methods, and archaeological data can be combined to make and evaluate credible inferences about the past. | |
| ANTH 3875 | Pre-Columbian South America (3) |
| This course will review the history of South America from its earliest population to the Spanish Conquest. Emphasis will be placed on tracing the rise of civilization in the Andes. The Inka empire was only the last of a long sequence of states and empires. Comparison of the Inka state with earlier polities such as the Moche and Tiwanaku will reveal the unique and enduring traditions of Andean political organizations. Course was offered Spring 2025 | |
| ANTH 3880 | African Archaeology (3) |
| This course surveys transformations in the African past, from the Middle Stone Age emergence of modern humans, to the florescence of lifeways in the Late Stone Age, to the broad mosaic of small-, medium-, and large-scale Iron Age societies, to the archaeology of colonial encounters. We also consider how archaeological methods work to produce knowledge in combination with studies of genetics, climate and environment, and historical methods. | |
| ANTH 3885 | Archaeology of Europe (3) |
| A survey of European archaeology beginning with the Neanderthal debate, and including interpretations of Upper Paleolithic cave painting, the spread village farming from the Near East, the role of megalithic monuments, the interaction of Rome and the `Barbarians', the growth of urban centers, the Iron Age, and the Viking expansion. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 4420 | Theories of Language (3) |
| Survey of modern schools of linguistics, both American and European, discussing each approach in terms of historical and intellectual context, analytical goals, assumptions about the nature of language, and relation between theory and methodology. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015 | |
| ANTH 4559 | New Course in Anthropology (1 - 4) |
| New Course in the subject of Anthropology. | |
| ANTH 4590 | Social & Cultural Anthropology (3) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology. | |
| ANTH 4591 | Majors Seminar (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The majors seminars in anthropology offer majors and minors an opportunity to engage deeply with a topic of anthropological concern. Through these courses anthropology students gain experience in doing an independent research project on a topic they care about and produce a significant paper or other major work. Enrollment for majors and minors is preferred. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012 |
| ANTH 4840 | Quantitative Analysis in Anthropology I (3) |
| Examines the quantitative analytical techniques used in archaeology. Includes seriation, regression analysis, measures of diversity, and classification. | |
| ANTH 4993 | Independent Study in Anthropology (1 - 6) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Independent study conducted by the student under the supervision of an instructor of his or her choice. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 4998 | Distinguished Majors Thesis Research (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Independent research, under the supervision of the faculty DMP thesis readers, toward the DMP thesis. Prerequisite: Admission to the Distinguished Majors Program in Anthropology. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 4999 | Distinguished Majors Thesis Writing (3) |
| Writing of a thesis of approximately 50 pages, under the supervision of the faculty DMP thesis readers. Prerequisite: ANTH 4998. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| ANTH 5210 | Reconfiguring Kinship Studies (3) |
| Examines the ways in which the forms of kinship have been reconfigured in contemporary societies, and the ways in which traditional kinship studies have been reconfigured by their intersection with culture theory, feminist theory, gender studies, postmodern theory, gay and lesbian studies, and cultural studies of science and medicine. Prerequisite: ANTH 5200 or instructor permission. | |
| ANTH 5220 | Economic Anthropology (3) |
| Considers Western economic theories and their relevance to non-Western societies. Includes a comparative analysis of different forms of production, consumption, and circulation. | |
| ANTH 5235 | Legal Anthropology (3) |
| This course is an introduction to legal anthropology for graduate students or advanced undergraduates. This course investigates law systems, legal argumentation, and people's interactions with these thoughts and forms. Rather than taking as given the hegemonic power that legal structures might hold over people's lives and thought, this course questions how people use, abuse, subvert, and leverage legal structures in which they find themselves. | |
| ANTH 5252 | Engaged Anthropology (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | In this seminar, we will examine how we can use our training in the social sciences and humanities to further the goals of a collaborating community, as well as to engage with different publics. The focus of this course will be on anthropology and its subdisciplines. Our discussions on how to engage with non-academic communities and publics will be applicable to a broad range of disciplines. |
| ANTH 5360 | World Mental Health (3) |
| This course will examine mental health issues from the perspectives of biomedicine and anthropology, emphasizing local traditions of illness and healing as well as evidence from epidemiology and neurobiology. Included topics will be psychosis, depression, PTSD, Culture Bound Syndromes, and suicide. We will also examine the role of pharmaceutical companies in the spread of western based mental health care and culturally sensitive treatment. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 5425 | Language Contact (3) |
| Considers how languages change as part of social systems and affected by historical processes. We will contrast language change through internal processes of drift and regular sound change with contact-induced language change involving multilingualism and code switching, language shift and lexical borrowing, the emergence of pidgin, creole, and intertwined languages, language endangerment, and computational tools for historical linguistics. | |
| ANTH 5435 | Language Documentation in Theory and Practice (3) |
| This course explores the theoretical, practical, and ethical foundations of language documentation and linguistic fieldwork, forms of research that can hardly be separated in this era of global language loss. Course was offered Spring 2025 | |
| ANTH 5470 | Language and Identity (3) |
| In anthropology, where identity has become a central concern, language is seen as an important site for the construction of, and negotiation over social identities. In linguistics, reference to categories of social identity helps to explain language structure and change. This seminar explores the overlap between these converging trends by focusing on the notion of discourse as a nexus of cultural and linguistic processes. | |
| ANTH 5475 | Multimodal Interaction (3) |
| Students build knowledge and practice of analysis of peoples' joint-engagement in embodied interactions. How does action weave together multiple sensory modalities into semiotic webs linking interactions with more durative institutions of social life? Course includes workshops on video recording, and the transcription and coding of verbal and non-verbal actions. Prior coursework in Linguistics, Anthropology or instructor permission recommended. | |
| ANTH 5480 | Literacy and Orality (3) |
| This course surveys ethnographic and linguistic literature on literacy, focusing on the social meanings of speaking vs. writing (and hearing vs. reading) as opposed communicative practices, looking especially at traditionally oral societies. | |
| ANTH 5485 | Discourse Analysis (3) |
| Discourse analysis looks at the patterns in language and language-use above the level of sentence grammar and seeks to apply the micro-level analysis of communicative interactions to understanding the macro-level processes of social and cultural reproduction. Topics include: symbolic interactionism, conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, discourse prosody, and digital analysis techniques. | |
| ANTH 5495 | Discourse Prosody (3) |
| Discourse prosody looks at intonation, rhythm, meter, and voice quality in everyday speech, developing descriptive and theoretical models for the systematic study of these linguistic phenomena. The course emphasizes instrumental analysis and focuses on how prosody: varies across dialects and languages; functions in spoken interaction; and affects structures of social life (identity, hierarchy, etc.). | |
| ANTH 5510 | Topics in Ethnography (3) |
| Seminars on topics announced prior to each semester. | |
| ANTH 5528 | Topics in Race Theory (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | This course examines theories and practices of race and otherness, in order to analyze and interpret constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions of race from the late 18th to the 21st centuries. The focus varies from year to year, and may include 'race, 'progress and the West,' 'gender, race and power,' and 'white supremacy.' The consistent theme is that race is neither a biological nor a cultural category, but a method and theory of social organization, an alibi for inequality, and a strategy for resistance. Cross listed as AAS 5528. Prerequisite: ANTH 1010, 3010, or other introductory or middle-level social science or humanities course |
| ANTH 5541 | Topics in Linguistics (3) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with linguistics. Course was offered Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 | |
| ANTH 5549 | Topics in Theoretical Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology (3) |
| Seminars in topics of specific interest to faculty and advanced students will be announced prior to each semester. Course was offered Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2013, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 | |
| ANTH 5559 | New Course in Anthropology (1 - 4) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | New course in the subject of anthropology. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2013, Fall 2010, Spring 2010 |
| ANTH 5589 | Selected Topics in Archaeology (1 - 6) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Seminars in topics announced prior to each semester. Course was offered Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Summer 2024, Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2015, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| ANTH 5590 | Topics in Social and Cultural Anthropology (3) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012 | |
| ANTH 5808 | Method and Theory in Archaeology (3) |
| Investigates current theory, models, and research methods in anthropological archaeology. | |
| ANTH 5870 | Archaeozoology (3) |
| Laboratory training in techniques and methods used in analyzing animal bones recovered from archaeological sites. Include field collection, data analysis, and the use of zooarchaeological materials in reconstructing economic and social systems. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2015, Fall 2010 | |
| ANTH 5875 | Spatial Analysis and GIS in Archaeology (3) |
| This course explores theories and techniques underlying spatial analysis and use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in archaeological research. Topics covered in this hands-on course include construction and manipulation of spatial data, basic spatial statistics and landscape studies. Students are expected to work on their own research projects, involving the construction, analysis and modeling of environmental and social variables. Course was offered Spring 2025 | |
| ANTH 5885 | Archaeology of Colonial Expansions (3) |
| Exploration of the archaeology of frontiers, expansions and colonization, focusing on European expansion into Africa and the Americas while using other archaeologically-known examples (e.g., Roman, Bantu) as comparative studies. Prerequisite: For undergraduates, ANTH 4591 senior seminar or instructor permission. Course was offered Fall 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2014, Spring 2011 | |
| ANTH 5891 | Archaeology of Frontiers and Boundary Interaction (3) |
| The focus of this class is the nature of sociopolitical interaction across boundaries and imperial frontier regions, using multidisciplinary research and different scales of analysis. Among other disciplines, this includes archaeology, ethnohistory and history. Some of the case studies comprise the ancient frontiers of imperial formations in the ancient World, the pre-Columbian Americas, and those in the US and beyond. | |
| ANTH 5993 | Independent Studies in Anthropology (3) |
| Independent study conducted by the student under the supervision of an instructor of his or her choice. | |
| ANTH 7010 | History of Anthropological Theory (3) |
| Introduces major historical figures, approaches, and debates in anthropology (sociocultural, linguistic, archaeological), with a focus on understanding the discipline's diverse intellectual history, and its complex involvement with dominant social and intellectual currents in western society. | |
| ANTH 7020 | Contemporary Anthropological Theory (3) |
| Explores the major recent theoretical approaches in current anthropology, with attention to their histories and to their political contexts and implications. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 7040 | Ethnographic Research Design and Methods (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Seminar on ethnographic methods and research design in the qualitative tradition. Surveys the literature on ethnographic methods and explores relations among theory, research design, and appropriate methodologies. Students participate in methodological exercises and design a summer pilot research project. Prerequisite: Second year graduate in anthropology or instructor permission. |
| ANTH 7050 | Ethnographic Writing and Representation (3) |
| Seminar on the craft of ethnographic writing and the ethical, political, and practical challenges of describing studied people in scholarly books and articles. What can student researchers do during fieldwork to help them write better dissertations more easily? How should they analyze and present field data? Prerequisite: ANTH 7040 or instructor permission. Suitable for pre- and post-field graduate students. | |
| ANTH 7060 | Dissertation Research Proposal Workshop (3) |
| A workshop for graduates preparing dissertation proposals and writing grant applications. Each student prepares several drafts of a proposal, revising it at each stage in response to the criticisms of classmates and the instructor. | |
| ANTH 7100 | Indigenous Landscapes (3) |
| This course engages with ways that historical process are inscribed in landscapes, which are the traditional territories of indigenous communities and have also been shaped by colonialism, extractive enterprise, and nature conservation. It challenges students to examine their assumptions to examine ways in which dominant values and stories are inscribed in landscapes and made to appear natural and how indigenous peoples contest these processes. Prerequisite: Graduate status or instructor permission. | |
| ANTH 7290 | Nationalism and the Politics of Culture (3) |
| Analyzes the ways in which a spirit of national or ethic solidarity is mobilized and utilized. Course was offered Fall 2024 | |
| ANTH 7330 | Anthropology of Disability (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Disabled people are considered the ¿world¿s largest minority,¿ but does a shared disability experience exist? In this course we examine the diverse ways disability is understood in different social contexts. We use disability studies as a critical lens to examine issues of power and to ask key questions of anthropology, including; What does it mean to have an anthropology of embodied experience? An anthropology of the mind? |
| ANTH 7344 | Anthropology and Anarchy (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Anarchy - organizing society through horizontal relations of free association - has a modern European history contemporary with Anthropology and has Indigenous histories in many places where people decided together to organize society against the state and hierarchy. Readings survey anthropology of non-state societies and engages questions of how non-European anarchies of Black and Indigenous authors and organizers critique anthropological methods. Course was offered Spring 2025 |
| ANTH 7370 | Power and the Body (3) |
| Study of the cultural representations and interpretations of the body in society. Course was offered Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2012, Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 7400 | Linguistic Anthropology (3) |
| An advanced introduction to the study of language from an anthropological point of view. No prior coursework in linguistics is expected, but the course is aimed at graduate students who will use what they learn in their own anthropologically-oriented research. Topics include an introduction to such basic concepts in linguistic anthropology as language in world-view, the nature of symbolic meaning, language and nationalism, universals and particulars in language, language in history and prehistory, the ethnography of speaking, the nature of everyday conversation, and the study of poetic language. The course is required for all Anthropology graduate students. It also counts toward the Theory requirement for the M.A. in Linguistics. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 | |
| ANTH 7420 | Theories of Language (3) |
| Survey of modern schools of linguistics, both American and European, discussing each approach in terms of historical and intellectual context, analytical goals, assumptions about the nature of language, and relation between theory and methodology. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015 | |
| ANTH 7430 | Pidgins, Creoles, and Contact (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | The study of pidgins and creoles emerged as a subfield of linguistics in the latter half of the 20th century. Its ideas have been borrowed, notably by anthropologists, to analyze the increasing diversity and mixedness we confront in a globalizing world. But where did such ideas come from, and what are their (un)intended consequences? In this course, we trace the epistemological development of Creole studies and consider its historical and contemporary impacts. |
| ANTH 7440 | Language and Emotion (3) |
| This course explores emotion from the perspectives of cultural anthropology and sociolinguistics. Topics include: emotion in the natural vs. social sciences; cross-cultural conceptions of emotion; historical change in emotion discourses; emotion as a theory of the self; the grammatical encoding of emotion in language; (mis-) communication of emotion; and emotion in the construction of racialized and gendered identities. | |
| ANTH 7450 | Native American Languages (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Surveys the classification and typological characteristics of Native American languages and the history of their study, with intensive work on one language by each student. Some linguistics background is helpful. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2011, Fall 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 7470 | Language and Culture in the Middle East (3) |
| Language and Culture in the Middle East Course was offered Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2009 | |
| ANTH 7480 | Language and Prehistory (3) |
| This course covers the basic principles of diachronic linguistics (the study of how languages change over time) and the uses of linguistic data in the reconstruction of prehistory. Considered is the use of linguistic evidence in tracing prehistoric population movements in demonstrating contact among prehistoric groups and in the reconstruction of daily life. To the extent that the literature permits, examples and case studies will be drawn from the Mayan language area of Central America, and will include discussion of the pre-Columbian Mayan writing system and its ongoing decipherment. Fulfills the comparative-historical requirement for Linguistics graduate students. | |
| ANTH 7541 | Topics in Sociolinguistics (3) |
| Analyzes particular aspects of the social use of language. Topics vary from year to year. Course was offered Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2009 | |
| ANTH 7559 | New Course in Anthropology (1 - 4) |
| New course in the subject of anthropology. | |
| ANTH 7589 | Topics in Archaeology (3) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with archaeology. | |
| ANTH 7590 | Topics in Social and Cultural Anthropology (3) |
| Topics to be announced prior to each semester, dealing with social and cultural anthropology. Course was offered Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Fall 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Spring 2011 | |
| ANTH 7840 | Quantitative Analysis in Anthropology I (3) |
| This course examines the quantitative analytical techniques used in anthropology and archaeology. Topics include seriation, regression analysis, measures of diversity, and classification. | |
| ANTH 8559 | New Course in Anthropology (1 - 4) |
| New course in the subject of anthropology. Course was offered Spring 2022 | |
| ANTH 8998 | Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research (1 - 12) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | For master's research, taken before a thesis director has been selected. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 8999 | Non-Topical Research (1 - 12) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | For master's thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 9010 | Directed Readings (1 - 12) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Directed Readings Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 9020 | Directed Readings (1 - 12) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Directed Readings Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 9050 | Research Practicum (1) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Research Practicum Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010 |
| ANTH 9998 | Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research (1 - 12) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| ANTH 9999 | Non-Topical Research (1 - 12) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director. Course was offered Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Summer 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Summer 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Summer 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Summer 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Summer 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2012, Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009 |
| Swahili | |
| SWAH 1010 | Introductory Swahili I (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Prerequisite: limited or no previous knowledge of Swahili. Course was offered Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Summer 2015, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010 |
| SWAH 1020 | Introductory Swahili II (3) |
| Prerequisite: SWAH 1010. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Summer 2015, Summer 2014, Summer 2013, Summer 2012, Summer 2011, Summer 2010 | |
| SWAH 1559 | New Course in Swahili (1 - 4) |
| New course in the subject of Swahili. | |
| SWAH 2010 | Intermediate Swahili I (3) |
| Offered Fall 2025 | Develops skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing, and awareness of the cultural diversity of the Swahili-speaking areas of East Africa. Readings drawn from a range of literary and journalistic materials. Prerequisite: SWAH 1020 |
| SWAH 2020 | Intermediate Swahili II (3) |
| Further develops skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing, and awareness of the cultural diversity of the Swahili-speaking areas of East Africa. Readings drawn from a range of literary and journalistic materials. Course was offered Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2010 | |
| SWAH 2559 | New Course in Swahili (1 - 4) |
| New course in the subject of Swahili. | |