Fall 2026 Undergrad Courses
ANT 111 M001 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Instructor: Amanda Hilton
Time/Location: M/W 12:15-3:10 Slocum 214
Course Description:
Economics, politics, religion, symbolism, rites of passage, developmental cycle, and expressive culture. Required for Anthropology majors.
ANT 112 M001 - Introduction to African American Studies
Instructor: Danielle Smith
Time/Location: M 12:45-2:05 HBC Hall KITT
Course Description:
Historical and sociopolitical materials. Approaches to studying the African American experience, antecedents from African past, and special problems. (Crosslisted with AAS 112. Contact the Department of African American Studies for more info)
ANT 121 M001 - Peoples and Cultures of the World
Instructor: Jok Jok
Time/Location: M/W 10:35-11:30 Maxwell AUD
Course Description:
Case studies of global cultural diversity. Exploration of daily life, rites of passage, marriage, family, work, politics, social life, religion, ritual, and art among foraging, agricultural, and industrial societies.
ANT 141 M001 - Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory
Instructor: Chris DeCorse
Time/Location: M/W 12:45-1:40 Life Sciences 001
Course Description:
Survey of the prehistoric past spanning the origins of humankind through the rise of complex societies. Class activities and field trips provide a hands on introduction to archaeological interpretation.
ANT 185 M001 - Global Encounters
Instructor: Lauren Woodard
Time/Location: M/W 11:40-12:35 Maxwell AUD
Course Description:
Predominant views of reality and values in the cultures of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Humanistic study of cultures and nature of cross-cultural understanding.
ANT 200 M001 - Disease and Healing in Archaeology (Selected Topics)
Instructor: Julia Jong Haines
Time/Location: Tu/Th 11:00-12:20 Sims 437
Course Description:
Exploration of disease, medicine, health, healing, and care through archaeological case studies. From ancient Greek healing temples and votive objects to sexual health and hygiene in 19th-century brothels, we consider different ways people conceptualize of disease and healing in the past.
ANT 300 M001 - Sports and Culture (Selected Topics)
Instructor: Azra Hromadžić
Time/Location: Tu/Th 12:30-1:50 Marshall Square Mall 206A
Course Description:
Using sport as a lens for understanding human societies and exploring how athletic practices shape and express identity, ritual, politics, and global dynamics. Examining sport as performance, resistance, and meaning, engaging themes such as nationalism, race, gender, colonialism, commodification, and activism.
ANT 311 M001 - Anthropological Theory
Instructor: Lauren Woodard
Time/Location: M/W 2:15-3:35 Maxwell 108
Course Description:
Anthropological theory focusing on debates about human nature, cultural and racial diversity, and the goals of anthropology as a discipline.
ANT 323 M001 - Peoples and Cultures of North America
Instructor: Heather Law Pezzarossi
Time/Location: Tu/Th 12:30-1:50 Shaffer 203
Course Description:
Racial, linguistic, and cultural areas of North America from the Rio Grande to the Arctic. Selected areas and tribes. Data from archaeology, historical records, and contemporary anthropological fieldwork.
ANT 324 M001 - Modern South Asian Cultures
Instructor: Mona Bhan
Time/Location: Tu/Th 9:30-10:50 Sims 429
Course Description:
Societies of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Social organization, economic and political structures, religions and world view, survey of languages, the arts. Transition and modernization, rural and urban problems.
ANT 342 M001 - Archaeology of American Life
Instructor: Theresa Singleton
Time/Location: Tu/Th 11:00-12:20 Hall of Languages 111
Course Description:
Examines archaeological studies of 19th-century life in the United States. Topics include: the archaeology of slavery, race, labor, social reform, public institutions (prisons, asylums, almshouses, etc.), health and sanitation, and industrialization.
ANT 346 M001 - Gender in the Past
Instructor: Theresa Singleton
Time/Location: Tu/Th 9:30-10:50 Lyman 115B
Course Description:
The study of gender and sexuality in archaeology from the late Stone Age to the 1800s.
ANT 357 M001 - Health, Healing, and Culture
Instructor: Robert Rubinstein
Time/Location: M/W 12:45-2:05 Maxwell 110
Course Description:
Cross-cultural perspective on illness, health, medicine, and the body; medical pluralism; biomedicalization; illness and moral reasoning; local and global political economies of health and healing; globalization and medicine. Applied medical anthropology.
ANT 358 U700 - Peace, War, and Security
Instructor: Fethi Keles
Time/Location: Th 8:00-9:30 ONLINE (10/19/2026-12/10/2026)
Course Description:
Anthropology of peace, war, and security examining the biological basis for war, archaeology of early warfare, effects of colonial expansion among indigenous peoples and postcolonial society, contemporary peacekeeping, and humanitarian intervention.
ANT 373 M001 - Magic and Religion
Instructor: Amanda Hilton
Time/Location: Tu/Th 11:00-12:20 Life Sciences 105
Course Description:
Crosscultural study of magical and religious behavior, ritual, and belief systems in simple and complex societies. Specialists and their craft: shamans, priests. Curing, possession, witchcraft. Millennial and counterculture movements. Religious ideologies and innovations.
ANT 374 M001 - Topics in Sociolinguistics
Instructor: TBA
Time/Location: Tu/Th 5:00-6:20 Smith 330
Course Description:
Functions of language in society. Geographical, socioeconomic, and male-female differentiation. Functions of various types of speech events. Requirements include a research project. (Crosslisted with LIN 374. Contact the Linguistics Department for more info)
ANT 400 M001 - Artificial Intelligence (Selected Topics)
Instructor: Mona Bhan
Time/Location: Tu/Th 2:00-3:20 Whitman 011
Course Description:
Adopts an anthropological approach to the emerging sociotechnological phenomenon of artificial intelligence weaponry. It explores how AI weapons systems are reconfiguring geopolitical alliances, modes of border and community surveillance, and conceptions of humanity, human rights, and accountability.
ANT 400 M002 - Cyberpunk Anthropology (Selected Topics)
Instructor: Guido Pezzarossi
Time/Location: M/W 2:15-3:35 Hall Lang 201
Course Description:
TBD
ANT 424 M001 - Negotiation: Theory and Practice
Instructor: Robert Rubinstein
Time/Location: F 5:15-8:15/Sa 9:00-5:00 Hall Lang 214 (9/18/2026-10/10/2026)
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 434 M001 - Anthropology of Death
Instructor: Shannon Novak
Time/Location: M/W 12:45-2:05 Maxwell 205A
Course Description:
Death in anthropological perspective. Survey of the many ways death has entered into the work of archaeologists, biological anthropologists, ethnographers, and social theorists.
ANT 436 M001 - Bioarchaeology
Instructor: Shannon Novak
Time/Location: Tu/Th 12:30-1:50 Hall Lang 205
Course Description:
Surveys the analysis of human skeletal remains in archaeological and medico-legal settings. Methods and techniques of analysis and interpretation will be emphasized. Case studies will be used to illustrate application to variable social and historical contexts.
ANT 438 M001 - Beyond Biological Need to Eat
Instructor: Guido Pezzarossi
Time/Location: Tu/Th 11:00-12:20 Lyman 115B
Course Description:
What does it mean for something to be “good to eat?” Survey of anthropological and archaeological perspectives on how culture, politics, and power inform what and how we eat.
ANT 444 M001 - Laboratory Analysis in Archaeology
Instructor: Julia Jong Haines
Time/Location: Tu 2:00-4:45 Lyman 411A
Course Description:
Introduction to archaeological materials analysis, artifact classification systems, processing of data, materials analyses (ceramic, lithic, etc.). Conservation and curation of collections.
ANT 461 M001 - Museums and Native Americans
Instructor: Heather Law Pezzarossi
Time/Location: Tu/Th 9:30-10:50 Marley 306
Course Description:
The contested relationships among Native North Americans and museums from earliest contact until the present. Topics include: “salvage” ethnography, collecting practices, exhibition, and recent shifts in power.