Spring 2026 Grad Courses
ANT 600 M001 - Queering Archaeology (Selected Topics)
Instructor: Julia Jong Haines
Time/Location: M/W 3:45-5:05, HBC 323A
Course Description:
TBA
ANT 600 M003 - Anthropology and Environment (Selected Topics)
Instructor: Mona Bhan
Time/Location: Tu/Th 9:30-10:50, Maxwell 108
Course Description:
TBA
ANT 624 M001 - Negotiation: Theory and Practice
Instructor: Robert Rubinstein
Time/Location: Tu 5:00-6:30, ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS
Course Description:
Negotiation skills for resolving differences effectively and achieving mutually satisfying outcomes. Position based versus interest based negotiation. Advanced techniques of communication such as chunking, reframing, anchoring, metaphor and rapport to obtain negotiation outcomes of excellence.
ANT 629 M001 - Transformation of Easter Europe
Instructor: Lauren Woodard
Time/Location: Tu/Th 11:00-12:20, School of Management 304
Course Description:
Change and continuity after the demise of communism as experienced by ordinary citizens. Transformations in agriculture, industry, social, and political institutions; the rise of ethnic nationalism; and ethnic conflict.
ANT 631 M001 - Method and Theory in Biological Anthropology
Instructor: Shannon Novak
Time/Location: Tu 2:00-4:45, Maxwell 205A
Course Description:
Mechanisms of human adaptation to environmental stress; emphasizing human variation. Cultural and biological modes of adaptation. Paradigmatic and methodological issues, with special emphasis on biocultural and contemporary approaches.
ANT 639 M001 - Climate Change and Human Origins
Instructor: Chris DeCorse & Chistopher Scholz
Time/Location: M 3:45-6:30, Heroy 333C
Course Description:
This course considers the influence of long term climate changes on hominid evolution and human adaptation, as well as how abrupt climate events and transitions may have impacted the distribution of human populations, the development of agriculture, human conflict and societal change.
ANT 642 M001 - Methods in Archaeology
Instructor: Theresa Singleton
Time/Location: Tu/Th 2:00-3:20, Life Sciences 156
Course Description:
Formulation and conduct of archaeological research with a focus on field and laboratory methods used to obtain and analyze data. Survey techniques, excavation strategies, archaeological classification, and data base management.
ANT 663 M001 - Global Health
Instructor: Robert Rubinstein
Time/Location: M 5:15-8:00, Falk 100
Course Description:
Global health in anthropological perspective. Examines how culture affects people's experience and response to morbidity and mortality. Considers topics like gender and health, reproductive health, infectious disease, health and inequality and health and war.
ANT 671 M001 - Dimensions of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism
Instructor: Maria Emma Ticio Quesada
Time/Location: Tu/Th 2:00-3:20, Eggers 111
Course Description:
Foundations, theory, and practice of bilingual/bicultural education. Critical concepts of linguistic, sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic issues and methods as applied to bilingualism/multiculturalism. (Crosslisted with LIN 671. Contact the Department of Linguistics for more info)
ANT 681 M001 - Ethnographic Techniques
Instructor: Jok Madut Jok
Time/Location: M/W 3:45-5:05, Hall of Languages 105
Course Description:
Research methods and techniques in cultural anthropology. Participant observation, interviewing, establishing rapport, research design, recording and analyzing field data, etc.
ANT 711 M001 - Current Anthropological Theory
Instructor: Azra Hromadžić
Time/Location: F 9:30-12:15, Maxwell Hall 205A
Course Description:
Theoretical issues of the past two decades. Includes feminism and anthropology. Reflexive and interpretive ethnography. Sociobiology versus culturology. Marxist anthropology.
ANT 741 M001 - Archaeological Theroy
Instructor: Guido Pezzarossi
Time/Location: W 2:15-5:00, Maxwell Hall 205A
Course Description:
In-depth examination of contemporary theory in archaeology and application to archaeological research. While focusing on processual approach, the course will examine critical, post-processual, structural, and symbolic archaeology.