Spring 2027 Undergrad Courses

Instructor: Amanda Hilton

Time/Location: Tu/Th 12:30-1:25 Heroy Auditorium (001)

Economics, politics, religion, symbolism, rites of passage, developmental cycle, and expressive culture. Required for Anthropology majors.

Instructor: TBD

Time/Location: M 2:15-3:35 Link 160

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)

Instructor: Robert Rubinstein

Time/Location: M/W 10:35-11:30 Watson Theater (036)

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.

Instructor: Guido Pezzarossi

Time/Location: M/W 11:40-12:35 HBC Gifford (107)

Biological anthropology subfields; anthropology’s relationship to history of science. Evolutionary theory; mechanisms of evolution; survey of the non-human primates; humans ancestral to modern Homo sapiens; and modern human variation. Required for Anthropology majors.

Instructor: Julia Jong Haines

Time/Location: M/W 12:45-1:40 Falk 104

Role of history and archaeology in our understanding of 17th-to 19th-century Europe, Africa, and America. Historical archaeology as a mechanism to critique perceptions of the past. Firsthand record of ethnic groups and cultural settings not recorded in writing. (Crosslisted with HST 145)

Instructor: Mona Bhan

Time/Location: Tu/Th 9:30-10:25 Marley 216

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.

Instructor: Christopher DeCorse

Time/Location: Tu 5:00-7:45 Eggers 060

Introduction to modern archaeology and the scientific study of the past. Utilizing fictional portrayals of archaeological interpretation in popular culture the course examines some of the major research questions of modern anthropology.

Instructor: Azra Hromadžić

Time/Location: Tu/Th 9:30-10:50 Maxwell 205a

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.

Instructor: Heather Law Pezzarossi

Time/Location: M/W 2:15-3:35 Tolley 110

Anthropological theory focusing on debates about human nature, cultural and racial diversity, and the goals of anthropology as a discipline. Required for Anthropology majors.

Instructor: Theresa Singleton

Time/Location: Tu/Th 11:00-12:20 Eggers 070

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.

Instructor: Robert Rubinstein

Time/Location: M/W 2:15-3:35 Hall of Languages 111

Describes past and present uses of anthropology in social policy. Examines the discipline’s role in addressing global issues such as economic development, environmental degradation, indigenous rights, refugees, and health care. Careers in nonacademic settings.

Instructor: Jok Madut Jok

Time/Location: Tu/Th 11:00-12:20 Marshall Square Mall 208a

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.

Instructor: Amanda Hilton

Time/Location: Tu/Th 2:00-3:20 Hall of Languages 107

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.

Instructor: TBD

Time/Location: Tu/Th 5:00-6:20 Huntington 100

An exploration of the theories, qualitative and quantitative methods, and the ideological, social, cultural, linguistic and structural factors involved in the study of language variation and change. (Crosslisted with LIN 373, contact the Linguistics department for more info)

Instructor: Shannon Novak

Time/Location: F 11:40-2:25 HBC 204

TBA

Instructor: Robert Rubinstein

Time/Location: Tu 5:00-6:30 ONLINE

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.

Instructor: Guido Pezzarossi

Time/Location: Tu/Th 2:00-3:20 Life Sciences 156

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.

Instructor: Azra Hromadžić

Time/Location: Tu/Th 12:30-1:50 Maxwell 205a

Introduction to Balkan histories, cultures, and societies. Topics include ethnic nationalism, the wars of Yugoslav dissolution, effects of international humanitarian interventions on everyday life, and politics of reconciliation and reconstruction.

Instructor: Kyrstin Mallon Andrews

Time/Location: M/W 3:45-5:05 Hall of Languages 105

Research methods and techniques in cultural anthropology. Participant observation, interviewing, establishing rapport, research design, recording and analyzing field data, etc.