Department of Anthropology
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology
Students on Summer 2021, Fall 2021, or Spring 2022 requirements ANTHBA
Requirements
The major requires at least 33 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
- Introductory Courses.
- Bioanthropology. One (1) course:
- ANTH-B 200 Bioanthropology
ANTH-B 200 Bioanthropology
- Credits
- 4
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the natural history of humans (Homo sapiens). Includes coverage of evolutionary theory and its relevance for understanding contemporary human biology, genetics and inheritance, description and analysis of human biological variation and adaptation, human-environment biocultural interactions, similarities and differences between humans and non-human primates, and the fossil record for primate and human evolution.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
- Social and Cultural Anthropology. One (1) course:
- ANTH-E 200 Social and Cultural Anthropology
ANTH-E 200 Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introduction to social-cultural anthropology\'s history, theories, and analytical approaches to cross-cultural analysis. Covers foundational concepts and ethnographic methods used to understand current issues such as race and racism, ethnicity and nationalism, class and inequality, gender, family and kinship, religion, and people\'s relationship to the environment.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SLcourseFall 2024CASE SLcourse
- Linguistic Anthropology. One (1) course:
- ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introduction to the field of linguistic anthropology, the social scientific study of language. Examines how languages reflect cultures, how language use reproduces culture(s), how linguistic categories relate to categories of thought, and how linguistic variation both reflects and shapes social categories such as gender, class, race, and ethnicity.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Archaeology. One (1) course:
- ANTH-P 200 Introduction to Archaeology
ANTH-P 200 Introduction to Archaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the goals, methods, and theories that archaeologists use to learn about the past. The pursuit and interpretation of archaeological evidence are explored by reviewing case studies from across the globe and diverse time periods. Topics include food and subsistence, culture change, social life, political economies, and archaeological ethics.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Bioanthropology. One (1) course:
- Advanced Courses. Choose an option:
- Option 1. One (1) course from three (3) of the four (4) subfields:
- Bioanthropology Subfield
- ANTH-B 301 Laboratory in Bioanthropology
- ANTH-B 310 Bioanthropology: A History of Ideas
- ANTH-B 312 Evolutionary Medicine
- ANTH-B 333 Chimpanzee Biology: Anatomy, Evolution, Ecology, and Physiology
- ANTH-B 340 Hormones and Human Behavior
- ANTH-B 343 Evolution of Human Ecological Footprint
- ANTH-B 368 The Evolution of Primate Social Behavior
- ANTH-B 370 Human Variation
- ANTH-B 400 Undergraduate Seminar
- ANTH-B 464 Human Paleontology
- ANTH-B 466 The Primates
- ANTH-B 470 Human Adaptation: Biological Approaches
- ANTH-B 472 Bioanthropology of Aboriginal America
- ANTH-B 480 Human Growth and Development
ANTH-B 301 Laboratory in Bioanthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-B 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Covers the methods and techniques of bioanthropology. Emphasis is on developing and testing evolutionary hypotheses using contemporary methods. Includes laboratory investigations of human skeletal biology including age and sex determinations and forensic identification; human paleontological and primate observations; variability in living populations including anthropometry, genetics, bloodtyping, demography; among others.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 310 Bioanthropology: A History of Ideas
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Covers emergence of modern bioanthropology as an academic discipline, emphasizing the careers of prominent scholars and theoretical contributions they made, as well as the influences of funding institutions and major departments on the direction of research. Examines relationships to other fields of study.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-B 312 Evolutionary Medicine
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-B 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Incorporates principles from evolutionary theory into our understanding of various infectious and chronic diseases common to human populations both past and present. Although proximate mechanisms involving physiology and behavior will be discussed, the focus will be to determine why such mechanisms have evolved in the first place.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 333 Chimpanzee Biology: Anatomy, Evolution, Ecology, and Physiology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: ANTH-B 111
- Description
- Surveys biological research on the chimpanzee. Examines chimpanzee taxonomy, habitat, digestive physiology, anatomy, embryology, evolutionary history, genetics, hormones, neuroanatomy and reproduction. Demonstrates how chimpanzee biology is part of a unified whole and how research on chimpanzees helps us better understand nature, including the place of humans in the natural world.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 340 Hormones and Human Behavior
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- At least junior standing; or consent of instructor
- Notes
- R: College-level introductory biology course or ANTH-B 200
- Description
- Reviews the roles of hormones in the evolution and expression of human and nonhuman animal behaviors. Emphasis placed on behaviors associated with aggression, stress, mating, and parenting. Particularly relevant for students interested in human health and the environment.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 343 Evolution of Human Ecological Footprint
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The current environmental crisis did not begin overnight and likely has roots deep in our evolutionary history. Although the scale of our effects on the biosphere has only recently shown exponential growth, it is worth examining how we got to this point today. This course explores a series of threshold moments in the history of our species that had great implications for the environment.
- Spring 2025CASE SLcourseFall 2024CASE SLcourse
ANTH-B 368 The Evolution of Primate Social Behavior
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Major patterns of social organization in the order Primates, with focus on several important primate species. Examination of Darwinian theories of behavioral evolution. Particular attention paid to the influence of food-getting and diet on social behavior.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 370 Human Variation
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-B 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Explores the variation within and between human populations in morphology (anatomy), physiology, genetics, and behavior with a focus on evolutionary processes acting on humans in the past, present and future to shape our body and genes.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 400 Undergraduate Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected topics in bioanthropology. Analysis of research. Development of skills in analysis and criticism. Topic varies.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-B 464 Human Paleontology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-B 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Covers the structure, classification, evolution, geologic range, and geographical distribution of human fossils.
ANTH-B 466 The Primates
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-A 107, ANTH-B 200, or ANTH-B 301; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Paleontology, functional morphology, behavior, and natural history of the infrahuman primates. Emphasis on behavioral and ecological correlates of morphology.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 470 Human Adaptation: Biological Approaches
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the concept of adaptation within the framework of bioanthropology, anthropology, and other disciplines. Focuses on individual and population responses to heat, cold, solar radiation, high altitude, and nutritional and disease stress.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
ANTH-B 472 Bioanthropology of Aboriginal America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Bioanthropological survey of past and present aboriginal inhabitants of North and South America: origins and antiquity, archaeological and ethnic relationships.
ANTH-B 480 Human Growth and Development
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-B 200 or ANTH-B 301
- Description
- Characteristics of human growth and development from birth to maturity, establishment of adult form and aging. Investigation of the causes of variation in growth and development across human populations, and methods for assessing growth and development.
- Social and Cultural Anthropology Subfield
- ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups
- ANTH-E 302
- ANTH-E 309 Problems in African Ethnography
- ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
- ANTH-E 318 Nature/Culture: Global Perspectives in Environmental Anthropology
- ANTH-E 319 Native American Religions
- ANTH-E 320 Indigenous Populations of North America
- ANTH-E 321 Peoples of Mexico
- ANTH-E 322 Peoples of Brazil
- ANTH-E 323 Indigenous Peoples of Indiana
- ANTH-E 327 Native Amazonians and the Environment
- ANTH-E 328 Ecological Anthropology
- ANTH-E 331
- ANTH-E 333 Peoples of the Andes
- ANTH-E 335 Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica
- ANTH-E 337 Food, Sex and Gender
- ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
- ANTH-E 340 Indigenous Populations of Mexico and Central America
- ANTH-E 344 On The Move Across Asia: Gender, Migration, Mobility
- ANTH-E 345 Changing China
- ANTH-E 346 Global Anarchy
- ANTH-E 347 The Anthropology of Contemporary Japan
- ANTH-E 349 Identity and Difference
- ANTH-E 358 Photography and Ethnography
- ANTH-E 366 Commodities and Culture
- ANTH-E 373 Plagues and People
- ANTH-E 380 Urban Anthropology
- ANTH-E 381 Ethnographic Analysis of Family, Work, and Power
- ANTH-E 382 Memory and Culture
- ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
- ANTH-E 385
- ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
- ANTH-E 387 The Ethnography of Europe
- ANTH-E 388 Ethnicity, Class, and the Model U.S. Citizen
- ANTH-E 393 World Fiction and Cultural Anthropology
- ANTH-E 397 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
- ANTH-E 398 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia
- ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar
- ANTH-E 404 Field Methods in Ethnography
- ANTH-E 407 Visual Anthropology: Filmmaking
- ANTH-E 408 Talk, Tales, and Television: Africa, Europe, the United States
- ANTH-E 412 Anthropology of Russia and Eastern Europe
- ANTH-E 413 Global Africa
- ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective
- ANTH-E 416 Anthropology of Tourism
- ANTH-E 417 African Women
- ANTH-E 418 Globalization and Consumer Culture
- ANTH-E 420 Economic Anthropology
- ANTH-E 421 Food and Culture
- ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
- ANTH-E 423 Life Histories
- ANTH-E 424 Sense of Place
- ANTH-E 426 Coffee Culture, Production, and Markets
- ANTH-E 428 Contemporary Latin American Social Movements
- ANTH-E 431 Ethnography as Cultural Critique
- ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
- ANTH-E 434 Food Communication and Performance
- ANTH-E 435 Fashion, Beauty, Power
- ANTH-E 436 The Politics of Marriage
- ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
- ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
- ANTH-E 442 Ethnographic Memoir
- ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas: Theories of Conservation
- ANTH-E 445 Seminar in Medical Anthropology
- ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
- ANTH-E 456 Anthropology of Race
- ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
- ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
- ANTH-E 464 Body, Power, and Performance
- ANTH-E 474 The Anthropology of Human Rights
- ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
- ANTH-E 490 Development and Anthropology
ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups
- Credits
- 1–3 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An ethnographic survey of a selected culture area or ethnic group.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
ANTH-E 309 Problems in African Ethnography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Concentrating on ethnographies of African cultures, this course seeks to create an understanding of specific social worlds through the interaction of cultural practices (economy, the arts, law, language, religion, politics) as they have been affected by colonialism, nationalism, modernity, and globalization.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the challenges that focusing on the mass media--including technologies, production processes, content, and reception--present for studying cultures. Explores the relationship between media and culture to understand people's experiences and conceptualization of time, space, communities, families, and identities.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 317 or CMCL-C 310.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 318 Nature/Culture: Global Perspectives in Environmental Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- When we think of nature, what images come to mind? How are ideas of nature influenced by culture, history, and politics? By the end of the semester, students will recognize how environments represent a collection, not only of plants and animals, but also of meanings and relationships.
ANTH-E 319 Native American Religions
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduces religions of the peoples indigenous to North America. Topics include traditional and contemporary rituals, mythology, folklore, and symbolism occurring throughout these indigenous cultures. Explores areas including art, architecture, cosmology, sustenance, trade, history, gender.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 320 Indigenous Populations of North America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ethnographic survey of culture areas from the Arctic to Panama plus cross-cultural analysis of interrelations of culture, geographical environment, and language families.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 321 Peoples of Mexico
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys indigenous and mestizo peoples within the context of the larger nation, as well as the effects of urbanization, emigration, and globalization in contemporary Mexico.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 322 Peoples of Brazil
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduces contemporary Brazil while examining Brazil\'s colonial history and legacies and the political, demographic, cultural, economic, and environmental transformation of the country. Examines implications of these processes for indigenous populations, and considers current societal changes as related to racial and socioeconomic inequalities.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 323 Indigenous Peoples of Indiana
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Provides an introduction to the history and culture of the two principal Native American Nations of Indiana, the Miami and the Potawatomi. Takes an ethnohistorical approach, investigating the past and present of these communities on the basis of anthropological research as well as historical documents.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 327 Native Amazonians and the Environment
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of how native peoples in the Amazon Basin have used the environment from prehistoric times to the present. Examination of archaeological evidence, current pressures from development processes, and indigenous knowledge as the key to balancing conservation and development.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 328 Ecological Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Survey of anthropological approaches to the study of human interaction with the environment: history of ideas, major theories, critiques, and contemporary approaches.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 333 Peoples of the Andes
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the cultures of prehistoric and current groups of the slopes and high reaches of the Andes, from Colombia to southern Chile. Considers historic and current contexts of socioeconomic, political, and environmental change that have shaped the cultures of their nations. The Quichua (Quechua), Aymara, and Mapuche cultures receive special attention.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 335 Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Historical ethnography of the major pre-Columbian civilizations, especially the Aztec, the Maya, and the Zapotec and Mixtec. Emphasis on the social life, cultural achievements, religion, worldview, and political systems to illustrate the diversity and richness of indigenous life before the Spanish conquest.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 337 Food, Sex and Gender
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Studies a range of people and places--from cave dwellers to reality TV, New Guinea to New York. Explores how food reflects and creates gender and promotes and expresses sexuality. Readings from many disciplines will foster wide ranging and lively discussion.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the relation between stigma and taboo, specifically how stigmatized groups and taboo practices are marked by moral judgement. We examine theory and particular cases to identify strategies to combat moralizing logics as related to race, class, gender, and the body broadly speaking.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 340 Indigenous Populations of Mexico and Central America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: ANTH-E 105, ANTH-E 200, ANTH-E 303, or sophomore standing
- Description
- Ethnographic survey of indigenous populations of Mexico and Central America, both historical and contemporary. Considers these populations in the context of wider political contexts and relationships.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 344 On The Move Across Asia: Gender, Migration, Mobility
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines how changing ideas about gender and family have influenced Asia's economic "miracles." We will study how gender and sexuality have organized mobility and migration across Asia, examining the effects of industrialization, global capitalism, and militarization. Topics include domestic and factory labor, sex work, and human trafficking debates.
ANTH-E 345 Changing China
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the dramatic social and cultural changes in China from 1949 to the present. Focuses on how Maoist socialism, market reforms, and globalization have affected everyday life, family, gender and sexuality, and inequality in China.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 346 Global Anarchy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploring everything from Antifa in the streets of Trump's America and anarcho-feminist essays to DIY punk scenes and apocalyptic zombie scenarios, this course seeks to advance a basic understanding of anarchist ideals, practices, and imaginaries. Focused largely on cases in the Americas and Europe, the course explores the basic principles of anarchism, the theories behind it, and the everyday political dilemmas that arise in efforts to practice it. Course materials will be drawn from texts, music, comics, TV and film.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 347 The Anthropology of Contemporary Japan
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Frames in anthropological perspective the history, present, and future of Japanese society. Explores anthropological research on Japanese attitudes toward ethnic and national identity; gender and education; and the wide-ranging impact of Japan's economic decline on attitudes toward work, play, consumption, and travel overseas.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 349 Identity and Difference
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- How do groups of people become convinced that they are similar to some but different from others? When do forms of difference become the basis for exclusion or even violence? We explore how cultural differences are produced, maintained and transformed in relation to wider sociopolitical formations.
ANTH-E 358 Photography and Ethnography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Anthropologists have understood photographs as primary data, as documentation for colonial projects, as evidence of fieldwork, in museum exhibitions, and as works of art. Examines the political and ethical practice of photography with the aim of learning to think critically about photography in global and historical contexts.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
ANTH-E 366 Commodities and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers the complex connections between commodities, \"sustainable\" trade, and culture, especially for agricultural commodities. Drawing from work in anthropology and real-world case studies, asks: What makes something a commodity? What is the \"right\" way to farm, to trade, and to eat? Who decides, and why?
- Spring 2025CASE SLcourseFall 2024CASE SLcourse
ANTH-E 373 Plagues and People
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines pandemics as cultural phenomena. Provides a backdrop to the 2020-2022 pandemic by studying how anthropologists and historians have viewed pandemics in different places and times. Explores cultural understandings of social solidarity, family obligations, the common good, risk, responsibility, authority, and the enforcement of new social norms in this context.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 380 Urban Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-E 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Urban social organization in cross-cultural perspective. Theoretical perspectives on urbanism and urbanization. Problems include kinship and social networks, politico-economic factors, and cultural pluralism. Strategies of anthropological research in urban settings.
ANTH-E 381 Ethnographic Analysis of Family, Work, and Power
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-E 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- This course teaches ethnographic analysis as a set of intellectual and practical tools students can use to define and answer questions about the implications of economic and social changes in their own lives and the world at large. Students will learn to identify and debate the patterns of loyalty, authority, and conflict established by specific relations in families and workplaces whether these are described in readings or presented in actual situations.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 382 Memory and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Remembrance is analyzed as a cultural and social reality. Review of the theoretical literature on collective memory as it unfolds in written, narrative, visual, and audiovisual art; in architecture and monuments; in private and public ritual; in genealogy; and in the social experience of the body.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ethnographic study of how people learn to work in a range of real jobs around the world. Focuses on how people learn to do a job and get along with co-workers in different cultures. Shows how much a country's legal or economic policies can affect daily work lives.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Middle Eastern cultures are well known for their rich and diverse performance practices. Taking an ethnographic perspective, this course views performances as communicative events through which social relations are organized. It explores how performances both participate in local arrangements of power and constitute responses to colonialism, nationalism, and globalization.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 386 or CMCL-C 422.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 387 The Ethnography of Europe
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Europe is viewed as an idea, an identity, and an historical consciousness. Students explore the meaning of this idea in the contemporary development of social and cultural anthropology, and in such social areas as regionalism and nationalism, ethnic identity, gender and kinship, religion, the city versus the village, and political life.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 388 Ethnicity, Class, and the Model U.S. Citizen
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers how people's identities influence the ideals and practice of citizenship. Focuses in particular on identities based on ethnicity and class. Examines how ethnicity and class shape discourses of citizenship found in the media and in political and legal spheres.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 388 or CMCL-C 346.
ANTH-E 393 World Fiction and Cultural Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Uses literature and anthropology as a means of understanding culture. Ethnographic writing and world fiction--novels, short stories, poems, myths, folktales--are analyzed to reveal aspects of the social, cultural, and political lives of peoples around the world. Colonialism, war, socialism, and immigration are also discussed.
ANTH-E 397 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- General anthropological introduction to social institutions and cultural forms of the Arab countries of North Africa and the Near East, Israel, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan. Topics include ecology, development of Islam and Muslim empires, traditional adaptive strategies, consequences of colonialism, independence and rise of nation-states, impact of modernization, changing conceptions of kinship, ethnicity, and gender.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 397, CEUS-R 352, CEUS-U 397, or NELC-N 397.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 398 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- General anthropological introduction to societies and cultures of contemporary Muslim successor states of former Soviet Central Asia, Western China (Xinjiang), and Iran and Afghanistan. Topics include ecology, ethnohistory, traditional subsistence strategies, family, kinship, gender, sociopolitical organization, impact of colonial rule of tsarist and Soviet Russia and China, development of modern nation-states in Iran and Afghanistan, and dynamics of current conflicts and future prospects.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 398, CEUS-R 316, or CEUS-U 398.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Intensive examination of selected topics in anthropology. Emphasis on analytic investigation and critical discussion. Topics vary.
- Repeatability
- May be taken with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-E 404 Field Methods in Ethnography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Junior standing
- Description
- Introduction to the methods and techniques anthropologists use in ethnographic research. Preparation of a research proposal, interviewing, and the use of the life histories and case studies.
- Repeatability
- May be taken with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-E 407 Visual Anthropology: Filmmaking
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Junior standing or consent of instructor
- Description
- Experimental filmmaking concerning social behavior, institutions, and customs.
ANTH-E 408 Talk, Tales, and Television: Africa, Europe, the United States
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Colonialism, the slave trade, apartheid, African music, "Roots," Hollywood: these subjects link together Americans, Europeans, and Africans, and they are portrayed through talk, television, film, radio, and performance at specific sites. Using specific examples, we will examine these tools of communication critically to better understand the ideas and images that circulate back and forth across the Atlantic.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 412 Anthropology of Russia and Eastern Europe
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the contradictory effects of socialism's "fall" through a study of new ethnographies of postsocialist societies. Regional inquiries will be related to broader intellectual issues such as globalization, social suffering, commodification and cultural identity, ethnicity and nation building, armed conflict, and gender inequalities.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 413 Global Africa
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers recent ethnographies of the African continent that address contemporary debates over theorizing Africa, locating African productive and creative practices (in cities, in unregulated economic spaces, within households), understanding social relationships in and out of marriage, and religious thought and practices.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Cross-cultural exploration of communication systems, ranging from face-to-face interaction to mediated forms of communication, with an emphasis on their cultural foundations and social organization.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ANTH-E 415 and CMCL-C 415.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 416 Anthropology of Tourism
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the phenomenon of tourism from an anthropological perspective. Looks at tourism as linked to consumer culture, transnational movements of people and goods, post-colonial settings, global capitalism, and the politics of ethnic and national identities.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 417 African Women
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The remarkably active roles that African women play in their communities bring them respect, but also heavy responsibilities. This course follows the themes of autonomy and control of resources, considering both economic resources such as land, labor, income and cattle, and social resources such as education, religion, and political power.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 418 Globalization and Consumer Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines processes of globalization and economic and cultural integration, including the origin and spread of mass-consumer society. Topics include the theories of consumption, mass media and advertising, and the relationship between modernity and consumerism. Includes examples from societies around the world.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 420 Economic Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers the ways in which anthropology has addressed economic questions. Topics may include contemporary and classic debates in the field; gendered forms of (re)production and labor; environmental sustainability; social justice; nutrition and food politics; shifting notions of currency; cultures of consumption; and global trade and value.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 421 Food and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Discussion of the economy of food production, trade and consumption on a global basis. Gives a cross-cultural and historical perspective on the development of cooking and cuisine in relationship to individual, national, and ethnic identity. Relates cuisine to modernity, migration, and forms of cultural mixing and Creolization.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of contemporary Native American and global indigenous representation and communication, including oral performance and media. Explores the poetics and politics of media and performance in the context of indigenous histories, cultures, and experiences of colonization. Examines the use of performance forms as symbolic resources in literature, film, the Internet, music and television. Addresses intersections of gender, class and race in indigenous media worlds.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 422 or CMCL-C 430.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 423 Life Histories
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Life histories give ethnographies accessibility, emotional impact, deep contextualization, and a deceptively transparent opening for authentic voices. An exploration of the complex issues of power and knowledge underlying this method, including interviewing strategies, consent, confidentiality, editing and publishing choices, and considers its position within broader research agendas. We discuss classic examples, recent narrative collections and contemporary experimental texts.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 424 Sense of Place
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the relationship between human identities and places through the study of ethnographies, philosophies, personal essays, films, fiction, poetry, and electronic media. Develops ethnographic skills to describe how personal, public, institutional, and virtual spaces are influenced by history, gender, and social forces. Emphasizes analytical, interpretive, and representational skills to communicate the richness of human experience.
ANTH-E 426 Coffee Culture, Production, and Markets
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers diverse expressions of "coffee culture" in production, markets, and consumption patterns. Explores the history of coffee production and trade, coffee's impact on international relations, and its implications for environmental changes, social justice, and economic development. Also studies local meanings of coffee and its consumption.
ANTH-E 428 Contemporary Latin American Social Movements
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Compares and contrasts contemporary activist and grassroots movements throughout the Latin American region. Focuses on movements both within the region and within the Latin American diaspora in the United States, organized around the rubrics of ethnicity, gender, resources, and environment.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 431 Ethnography as Cultural Critique
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the ways ethnographic work can provide a critical lens through which to view our world. By juxtaposing familiar cultural practices and beliefs against those of other societies and cultures, students learn to critically assess aspects of their own society they may have previously taken for granted. Provides training in ethnographic methods and features a semester-long ethnographic project.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in ANTH-E 431 or CMCL-C 318.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the role of culture in how democracies are practiced. Ethnographic focus varies and includes cross-cultural comparisons of political speech, voting, and democratic representation in different cultures. Particular attention is paid to the dilemmas surrounding the exportation of democracy, especially to the Middle East, Africa, South Africa, the Pacific, and the Balkans.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 432 or CMCL-C 446.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
ANTH-E 434 Food Communication and Performance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Investigates food as a cultural and communicative device: how it functions in language, icons, ideologies, and power systems. Focuses on contemporary uses of and attitudes about food in daily use in lore, rituals, spectacles, festivals, and popular movements.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 434 and CMCL-C 433.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 435 Fashion, Beauty, Power
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores debates about dress, fashion, and anti-fashion in a global and historical context. Considers the relationship between ideas about the body and self-presentation and ideas about gender, family, race, religion and national consciousness in relation to dress.
ANTH-E 436 The Politics of Marriage
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- What is the state of marriage today? How do we understand marriage as a social, political, and economic institution? Examines marriage across cultures and time periods. Discusses topics such as arranged marriages, marriage and racial politics, marital citizenship, wedding industries, and battles over same-sex marriage.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Different political systems are founded and maintained by varying combinations of overt violence and more subtle workings of ideas and ideologies. Through cross-cultural case studies, the course examines how coercion, persuasion, consensus, and dissent operate in and through the politics and performances of everyday life.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 437 or CMCL-C 417.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the everyday issues surrounding public speech in new media: how people establish appropriate behavior in new media and respond to new possibilities for deceptive behavior; how ideas of what counts as 'public' and 'private' change as the result of changes in the way communication circulates; why scholars believe public speech and democracy are so intertwined.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 438 or CMCL-C 429.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 442 Ethnographic Memoir
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-E 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Explores the intersection of memoir and ethnography. Considers what the defining characteristics of a new genre, ethnographic memoir, would be and how it might differ from ethnography and memoir. Includes experiments in writing that combines observation and description with increasing understanding of the relationships between self and others.
ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas: Theories of Conservation
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Seminar course that explores major theories and approaches to conservation, from "fortress conservation" to community-based and participatory strategies. Considers the implications of protected areas for local human populations and cultural diversity. Evaluates outcomes and unintended consequences of protected areas, and controversies over the "best" way to protect natural resources.
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SLcourseFall 2024CASE SLcourse
ANTH-E 445 Seminar in Medical Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This advanced seminar in medical anthropology focuses on theoretical approaches to understanding the body and notions of health, illness, and disease across cultures. Concentrates on interpretive and critical (political economy) approaches to issues of health and includes critical study of Western biomedicine.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Uses an historical and ethnographic approach to study the films and related readings of Indian diasporic filmmakers from the 1980s to the present. Focuses on the films of two prolific feminist filmmakers, Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 456 Anthropology of Race
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores race from a cultural anthropological perspective and investigates the history of this idea within the discipline as well as its dissemination in international society. Examines the play between challenges to race as an intellectual paradigm and the resilient status of race-thinking in society at large.
ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Visual art, music, dance, drama, and oral literature, viewed as structural entities, as aspects of human behavior, and in terms of their anthropological context.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Techniques of dance research, bibliographic and archival sources, historical and comparative studies, function and structure of dance, distribution of dance styles, and symbolic aspects of dance performance. A variety of dance forms will be considered in their social and cultural contexts.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 464 Body, Power, and Performance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Looks at performance in relation to social power by focusing on the body. Examines the extent to which several interdisciplinary readings on performance theory--largely emerging as they have from Western intellectual traditions--speak to embodied/performative negotiations of social power outside "the West."
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-E 474 The Anthropology of Human Rights
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Investigates anthropology's theoretical and practical engagements with global social justice. Examines a number of texts central to the development of the notion of human rights, and explores several case studies oriented around a range of historical and contemporary human rights issues.
ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ethnography is the defining core of social and cultural anthropology; field research is at the heart of ethnography. The definition and purpose of ethnography, the role of ethnographer, voice, ethics, and modes of presentation, standards, craft, art, and evaluation are examined through specific cases and exemplary ethnographies.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 490 Development and Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-E 420; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Focuses on theories of development, ethical issues surrounding development, practical issues related to development including interactions with development agencies, and the ways development anthropology has been employed in specific projects around the world.
- Linguistic Anthropology Subfield
- ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
- ANTH-L 320 Native American Languages
- ANTH-L 330 Mesoamerican Languages: Structure, History, Social Context
- ANTH-L 340 Language and Globalization
- ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication
- ANTH-L 402 Language in/of Media
- ANTH-L 407 Language and Prehistory
- ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to performance as a communicative practice, focusing on performance as a special artistic mode of communication and performance and as a special class of display events in which the values and symbols of a culture are enacted before an audience.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 314 or CMCL-C 313.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
ANTH-L 320 Native American Languages
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introductory survey of the indigenous languages of the Americas. Topics covered include history of the study of Native American languages, genetic and typological classifications, structures of selected languages, the comparative (historical) study of selected language families, and the interplay between language and culture. Diversity of Native American languages is emphasized.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 330 Mesoamerican Languages: Structure, History, Social Context
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introductory survey of the indigenous languages of Mesoamerica. Covers the genetic and typological classification of these languages, and the social and historical contexts in which they have been and continue to be spoken. Students will have hands-on opportunities to work with native speakers of these languages.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 340 Language and Globalization
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores globalization through the lens of language. Topics include cultural and linguistic contact and translation, migration and assimilation, transnational media, multilingualism, language loss, the emergence and spread of new forms of English, and global discourses of democracy, diversity, and minority rights.
ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Current issues in linguistic anthropology, designed to acquaint the student with readings and points of view not covered in the introductory courses. Topics such as languages of the world, variation in language, problems in linguistic structure, and culture and communication. Topic varies.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-L 402 Language in/of Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines how language is represented in media and the language(s) of media as ways of understanding broader sociocultural processes. Explores ways scholars have approached language in/of media to date, while also seeking to open new areas of inquiry. Emphasizes research and analysis methods.
ANTH-L 407 Language and Prehistory
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the areas of linguistic research that are most relevant to the work of archaeologists and students of prehistory. Topics include mechanisms of linguistic change, the comparative method, genetic and areal relationships among languages, and applications of linguistic reconstruction to the study of ancient cultures and populations.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This seminar explores how language is used to accomplish economic, political, and sociocultural ends in Central Eurasia. Topics covered include multilingualism; regional ethnolinguistic categories; the relationship between language policy and nationalities policy; gendered language; code choice in interactions; the politics of translation; poetics; standardization; and language shift, endangerment, and revitalization.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 410 or CEUS-R 492.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Archaeology Subfield
- ANTH-P 301 Archaeological Methods and Analyses
- ANTH-P 302 Invention and Technology
- ANTH-P 305 Underwater Archeology
- ANTH-P 330 Historical Archaeology
- ANTH-P 332 Industrial Archaeology
- ANTH-P 350 Archaeology of Mexico
- ANTH-P 361 Archaeology of the Midwestern United States
- ANTH-P 363 North American Prehistory through Fiction
- ANTH-P 370 Archaeology of the Andes
- ANTH-P 375 Food in the Ancient World
- ANTH-P 380 Prehistoric Diet and Nutrition
- ANTH-P 385 Lithic Technological Organization
- ANTH-P 390 Geoarchaeology
- ANTH-P 399 Undergraduate Seminar
- ANTH-P 401 Cultural Resource Management
- ANTH-P 406 Laboratory Methods in Archaeology
- ANTH-P 407 Archaeological Curation
- ANTH-P 409 Archaeological Ethics
- ANTH-P 411 Archaeology of Magic, Witchcraft and Religion
- ANTH-P 425 Faunal Osteology
- ANTH-P 426 Problems in Zooarchaeology
- ANTH-P 430 Archaeology of Violence and Conflict
- ANTH-P 440 Archaeology of Space and Place
- ANTH-P 445 Pots and People
ANTH-P 301 Archaeological Methods and Analyses
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-P P200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Specific field or laboratory methods for collecting and analyzing archaeological materials and data within a framework of answering research questions about the past. Topics vary: dating, materials science, subsistence indicators, archaeological survey.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
ANTH-P 302 Invention and Technology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The evolution of technology is explored from prehistoric times onward. The origins of the major inventions of humankind are traced from their earliest beginnings in the Stone Age up to the Industrial Revolution.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for one of ANTH-E 410 or ANTH-P 302.
ANTH-P 305 Underwater Archeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An overview of the field of Underwater Archaeology and the study of underwater cultural heritage. Topics include theoretical background, ethics, methodologies used to analyze submerged archaeological material, conservation, and case studies from the field.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 330 Historical Archaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines archaeology in North America beginning with the long and complex history of Native American/European interactions. Considers North American social systems, interaction with and exploitation of the environment, technologies, and material culture. Theories and methods used by historical archaeologists will also be emphasized.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 332 Industrial Archaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-P 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Explores the material character and social context of industrial heritage in North America including resource extraction, manufacturing, and transportation. Studies the record that industry leaves on the landscape including quarries, factories, office buildings, mills, railroads, and worker housing. Analysis of documents, images, material remains, archaeological sites, and ethnographic sources.
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 350 Archaeology of Mexico
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys the archaeology of Mexico. Traces cultural developments of indigenous peoples from the Olmec to the present day. Examines issues, controversies, and current debates in Mexican archaeology and Mexican heritage politics. Topics include the earliest villages, initial complexity, writing, craft production, urbanization, gender ideologies, religion, warfare, colonialism, and national identity.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 361 Archaeology of the Midwestern United States
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of cultures and societies in the midwestern United States from the earliest human occupations until initial European contact. Material culture, sustainability, ecology, and religion are viewed through remains recovered across the Midwest, with hands-on exposure to artifacts and data.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 363 North American Prehistory through Fiction
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Students consider fictionalized accounts of life in prehistoric North America, written by anthropologists, Native Americans, and novelists, as a means to think critically and creatively about the past. They explore the role and place of narrative and imagination in constructions of the past and consider how authors utilize available data.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 370 Archaeology of the Andes
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Covers cultural change in Andean South America, including early hunters and gatherers, agriculture, the growth of regional civilizations, technological and artistic achievement, and the rise and dissolution of the Inca Empire.
ANTH-P 375 Food in the Ancient World
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the theoretical and methodological tools that archaeologists use to study food and foodways in ancient societies from a global anthropological perspective. Reveals how studying food and ancient foodways helps anthropologists gain insight into the economic, historic, and political realities of past peoples.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 380 Prehistoric Diet and Nutrition
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- How the long-term history of human diet has influenced our genetic, physiological, cultural, and socioeconomic development. Evolutionary and ecological perspectives on modern human diet and nutrition, including survey of modern human and nonhuman primate diets and the record of prehistoric human diet and methods of dietary reconstruction.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
ANTH-P 385 Lithic Technological Organization
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course offers intensive coverage of lithic artifact analysis. Lectures, discussions, and laboratory provide students with hands-on experience with analytical techniques and training in how to place the techniques into the broader field of anthropological interpretation.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
ANTH-P 390 Geoarchaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An exploration of the dynamic process of archaeological site formation, including stratigraphy. Focus on geoarchaeological approaches to archaeological materials, site context, and environment, and how these approaches help us understand prehistoric lifeways.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
ANTH-P 399 Undergraduate Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Intensive examination of selected topics in archaeology. Development of skills in analysis and criticism. Topics vary.
- Repeatability
- May be taken with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
ANTH-P 401 Cultural Resource Management
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- At least junior standing
- Description
- Examines position of the anthropologist in the decision-making process for preservation and conservation of archaeological sites, structures, artifacts, and knowledge. Considers legal procedures, anthropological values, and methods applicable to land use changes that threaten cultural resources.
ANTH-P 406 Laboratory Methods in Archaeology
- Credits
- 1–6 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of instructor
- Description
- Specialized training in laboratory procedures and analysis of archaeological materials. Major categories of material culture include lithics, ceramics, faunal and floral remains. Emphasis is on processing, sorting, identifying, and analyzing material recovered from known sites or held in museums.
ANTH-P 407 Archaeological Curation
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-P 200; and junior or senior standing
- Description
- An examination of the history, methods, legislation, ethics and technology of archaeological curation. Instruction includes hands-on training in the curation and conservation of material culture and associated documents, images, and digital records. Provides training in evaluating the research and educational potential of archaeological materials and their meaning for people today.
ANTH-P 409 Archaeological Ethics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the professional responsibilities of archaeologists by examining timely issues, such as the differences and, sometimes, conflicts between international law and professional ethics, and between archaeologists and others (e.g., Native Americans, antiquities collectors) who affect and are affected by archaeological work. Some background in archaeology is helpful.
ANTH-P 411 Archaeology of Magic, Witchcraft and Religion
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores diverse practices related to magic, witchcraft, and religion to situate and evaluate how these practices and beliefs intersected with social and political elements over time. Examines different perspectives and inquires if magic and witchcraft are separable from religion and everyday practices. Provides broad exposure to anthropological and archaeological perspectives.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 425 Faunal Osteology
- Credits
- 5
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Lecture and laboratory introduction to the preparation, collection, identification, and interpretation of faunal specimens from archaeological sites. Also includes an introduction to forensic identifications and to zooarchaeological literature.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
ANTH-P 426 Problems in Zooarchaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Students learn how to choose appropriate research designs for the interpretation of animal remains from archaeological sites, through readings, discussions, and laboratory analyses. Coursework will focus on literature review, field identification, lab methodology, quantification, preparing collections, curation, and report preparation.
ANTH-P 430 Archaeology of Violence and Conflict
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- In this course we will examine how we identify violence and warfare in the past. Second, we will explore how violence has affected societies around the world and through time. We review multidisciplinary literature on violence and ask how and why violent acts and institutions of violence develop and persist.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 440 Archaeology of Space and Place
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Broad review of interdisciplinary literature to evaluate how human experience has been informed and affected by spatial sensibilities. Takes a diachronic and global look at how space impacts politics, society, religion, memory, and identity, with an emphasis on developing critical thinking skills.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-P 445 Pots and People
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Uses pottery as a means of understanding past societies: how people make, use, and think about pottery. Participants make their own pots from wild clays; cook a meal in traditional ceramic pots; and consider how experimentation, ethnohistorical data, and anthropological theory work together to produce insights into past lifeways.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Bioanthropology Subfield
- Option 2.
- Subfields. One (1) course from two (2) of the four (4) subfields (see lists above).
- Capstone. One (1) course:
- ANTH-A 410 Anthropology Capstone Seminar
ANTH-A 410 Anthropology Capstone Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Senior standing; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Selected topics in anthropology approached using concepts from all four subfields of the discipline. Asks students to examine the goals of anthropology and apply what they have learned in previous coursework to current research and contemporary issues.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Option 1. One (1) course from three (3) of the four (4) subfields:
- Methods Component. One (1) course:
- ANTH-A 306 Anthropological Statistics
- ANTH-A 405 Museum Methods
- ANTH-B 301 Laboratory in Bioanthropology
- ANTH-E 302
- ANTH-E 423 Life Histories
- ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
- ANTH-P 301 Archaeological Methods and Analyses
- ANTH-P 380 Prehistoric Diet and Nutrition
- ANTH-P 385 Lithic Technological Organization
- ANTH-P 390 Geoarchaeology
- ANTH-P 401 Cultural Resource Management
- ANTH-P 406 Laboratory Methods in Archaeology
- ANTH-P 407 Archaeological Curation
- ANTH-P 425 Faunal Osteology
- ANTH-P 426 Problems in Zooarchaeology
- ANTH-X 476 Museum Practicum
- ANTH-X 477 Fieldwork in Anthropology
- ANTH-X 478 Practicum in Anthropology
- ANTH-X 479 Fieldwork in Bioanthropology
- ANTH-X 480 Fieldwork in Archaeology
ANTH-A 306 Anthropological Statistics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Fundamentals of univariate and bivariate statistics, construction and interpretation of graphs, and computer-assisted data analysis. Both statistical methodology and theory will be emphasized as well as computer literacy. Students will examine the primary literature in all branches of anthropology to familiarize themselves with the role of statistics in anthropological research.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 306, CJUS-K 300, ECON-E 370, ECON-S 370, MATH-K 300, MATH-K 310, POLS-Y 395, PSY-K 300, PSY-K 310, SOC-S 371, SPEA-K 300, SPH-Q 381, STAT-K 310, STAT-S 300, STAT-S 301, or STAT-S 303.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
ANTH-A 405 Museum Methods
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-A 403; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Methods and techniques of museum design, administration, accessioning, conservation and restoration, acquisition of specimens, curatorial work, exhibition, and education.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 405 or FOLK-F 406.
ANTH-B 301 Laboratory in Bioanthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-B 200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Covers the methods and techniques of bioanthropology. Emphasis is on developing and testing evolutionary hypotheses using contemporary methods. Includes laboratory investigations of human skeletal biology including age and sex determinations and forensic identification; human paleontological and primate observations; variability in living populations including anthropometry, genetics, bloodtyping, demography; among others.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
ANTH-E 423 Life Histories
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Life histories give ethnographies accessibility, emotional impact, deep contextualization, and a deceptively transparent opening for authentic voices. An exploration of the complex issues of power and knowledge underlying this method, including interviewing strategies, consent, confidentiality, editing and publishing choices, and considers its position within broader research agendas. We discuss classic examples, recent narrative collections and contemporary experimental texts.
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ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Ethnography is the defining core of social and cultural anthropology; field research is at the heart of ethnography. The definition and purpose of ethnography, the role of ethnographer, voice, ethics, and modes of presentation, standards, craft, art, and evaluation are examined through specific cases and exemplary ethnographies.
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ANTH-P 301 Archaeological Methods and Analyses
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-P P200; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Specific field or laboratory methods for collecting and analyzing archaeological materials and data within a framework of answering research questions about the past. Topics vary: dating, materials science, subsistence indicators, archaeological survey.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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ANTH-P 380 Prehistoric Diet and Nutrition
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- How the long-term history of human diet has influenced our genetic, physiological, cultural, and socioeconomic development. Evolutionary and ecological perspectives on modern human diet and nutrition, including survey of modern human and nonhuman primate diets and the record of prehistoric human diet and methods of dietary reconstruction.
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ANTH-P 385 Lithic Technological Organization
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course offers intensive coverage of lithic artifact analysis. Lectures, discussions, and laboratory provide students with hands-on experience with analytical techniques and training in how to place the techniques into the broader field of anthropological interpretation.
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ANTH-P 390 Geoarchaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An exploration of the dynamic process of archaeological site formation, including stratigraphy. Focus on geoarchaeological approaches to archaeological materials, site context, and environment, and how these approaches help us understand prehistoric lifeways.
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ANTH-P 401 Cultural Resource Management
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- At least junior standing
- Description
- Examines position of the anthropologist in the decision-making process for preservation and conservation of archaeological sites, structures, artifacts, and knowledge. Considers legal procedures, anthropological values, and methods applicable to land use changes that threaten cultural resources.
ANTH-P 406 Laboratory Methods in Archaeology
- Credits
- 1–6 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of instructor
- Description
- Specialized training in laboratory procedures and analysis of archaeological materials. Major categories of material culture include lithics, ceramics, faunal and floral remains. Emphasis is on processing, sorting, identifying, and analyzing material recovered from known sites or held in museums.
ANTH-P 407 Archaeological Curation
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-P 200; and junior or senior standing
- Description
- An examination of the history, methods, legislation, ethics and technology of archaeological curation. Instruction includes hands-on training in the curation and conservation of material culture and associated documents, images, and digital records. Provides training in evaluating the research and educational potential of archaeological materials and their meaning for people today.
ANTH-P 425 Faunal Osteology
- Credits
- 5
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Lecture and laboratory introduction to the preparation, collection, identification, and interpretation of faunal specimens from archaeological sites. Also includes an introduction to forensic identifications and to zooarchaeological literature.
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ANTH-P 426 Problems in Zooarchaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Students learn how to choose appropriate research designs for the interpretation of animal remains from archaeological sites, through readings, discussions, and laboratory analyses. Coursework will focus on literature review, field identification, lab methodology, quantification, preparing collections, curation, and report preparation.
ANTH-X 476 Museum Practicum
- Credits
- 1–8 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- ANTH-A 403, ANTH-A 405, or consent of instructor
- Description
- Independent work of student's choice in one aspect of the field of museum work. Relevant readings required.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credit hours in ANTH-X 476.
ANTH-X 477 Fieldwork in Anthropology
- Credits
- 1–8 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of instructor
- Description
- Fieldwork in anthropology carried out by the student in consultation with faculty members.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credit hours in ANTH-X 477.
ANTH-X 478 Practicum in Anthropology
- Credits
- 1–8 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of chairperson
- Description
- Supervised work of an anthropological nature arranged through an outside agency or institution, such as an internship, apprenticeship, or volunteer work at a governmental office, zoo, or archaeological site. One credit hour per 45 hours or one full-time week of activity.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credit hours in ANTH-A 496 and ANTH-X 478.
ANTH-X 479 Fieldwork in Bioanthropology
- Credits
- 1–8 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of instructor
- Description
- Fieldwork involving the collection and analysis of biological or biosocial data on prehistoric and contemporary human populations. The materials or data may be paleontological, archaeological, physiological, or ecological in nature. 1 credit hour per full week of fieldwork.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-B 405 or ANTH-X 479.
ANTH-X 480 Fieldwork in Archaeology
- Credits
- 1–8 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Archaeological work directed toward field techniques: excavation and preservation of materials, surveying, photography, and cataloging. 1 credit hour per full week of fieldwork.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-P 405 or ANTH-X 480.
- Electives. Additional credit hours as needed to complete requirements selected from:
- Additional courses from the Bioanthropology Subfield list
- Additional courses from the Social and Cultural Anthropology Subfield list
- Additional courses from the Linguistic Anthropology Subfield list
- Additional courses from the Archaeology Subfield list
- One of the following:
- Any ANTH-A 200–299
- Any ANTH-B 200–299
- Any ANTH-E 200–299
- Any ANTH-L 200–299
- Any ANTH-P 200–299 except ANTH-P 250
- ANTH-X 490 Individual Readings in Anthropology
ANTH-X 490 Individual Readings in Anthropology
- Credits
- 1–4 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of instructor
- Description
- None
- Repeatability
- May be repeated 3 times for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Major GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
- Major GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the major—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Major Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the major.
- Major Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed at the 300–499 level.
- Major Residency. At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
- College Breadth. At least 58 credit hours must be completed in courses from College of Arts and Sciences disciplines outside of the major area.
Major Area Courses
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Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:
- Any course at the 100–499 level with the
ANTH
subject area prefix—as well as any other subject areas that are deemed functionally equivalent - Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken—as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent—except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
- Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception
- Any course at the 100–499 level with the
Exclusions
The following courses cannot be applied toward major requirements or the College Breadth requirement:
- ANTH-A 105 Human Origins and Prehistory
- ANTH-A 107 Becoming Human: Evolving Genes, Bodies, Behaviors, Ideas
- ANTH-A 303 Evolution and Prehistory
- ANTH-A 310 The Human Species: Evolution and Archaeology
- ANTH-E 105 Culture and Society
- ANTH-E 303 Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
- ANTH-P 250 Introductory World Archaeology
ANTH-A 105 Human Origins and Prehistory
- Description
- Introduction to the comparative study of contemporary human cultures and social processes that influence behavior.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
ANTH-A 107 Becoming Human: Evolving Genes, Bodies, Behaviors, Ideas
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduces the interdisciplinary science of human evolution using evidence from genetics, comparative anatomy and behavior of living primates, fossils, and archaeology. Shows how understanding the evolutionary past is relevant to current and future human conditions.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-A 103, ANTH-A 105, ANTH-A 107, or ANTH-A 303.
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ANTH-A 303 Evolution and Prehistory
- Description
- Introductory course for more advanced students. Man's place in nature, emergence of man and contemporary races, development of culture from Paleolithic onward, problems arising from interaction of biological and cultural phenomena.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
ANTH-A 310 The Human Species: Evolution and Archaeology
- Description
- Advanced introduction to scientific theories and methods used to explain and understand biological evolution and cultural innovations of Homo sapiens. Past environments, primates, genetics, fossils, artifacts and archaeological sites will be discussed.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
ANTH-E 105 Culture and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the ethnographic and comparative study of contemporary and historical human society and culture. ANTH-E 105 does not count toward major. May be taken simultaneously with ANTH-A 105.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of the following: ANTH-A 104, ANTH-A 304, ANTH-E 105, or ANTH-E 303.
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ANTH-E 303 Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: Junior standing. Introductory course for more advanced students. Not open to students who have taken ANTH-E 105. Not sequential with ANTH-A 303. ANTH-E 303 does not count toward major
- Description
- Approaches to the study of contemporary cultures: structure, process, and change. Topics include kinship, economy, politics, religion, and worldview.
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ANTH-P 250 Introductory World Archaeology
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to archaeological discovery in the Americas, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Near East. Reviews the last 10,000 years of human culture and history, looking for what varies and what does not. For non-majors and students who have an interest in archaeology and a desire to learn about ancient cultures.
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This program of study cannot be combined with the following:
- Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Linguistics (ANTHLNGBA)
- Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Anthropology (LINGANTBA)
- Certificate in Global Human Diversity (GLHMDVACRT)
- Certificate in the Ethnography of Communication (ETHCOMACRT)
- Minor in Anthropology (ANTHMIN)
- Minor in Archaeology (ARCHMIN)
- Minor in Medical Anthropology (MEDANTHMIN)
- Minor in the Anthropology of Food (FOODMIN)
- [Name unavailable] (ETHCOMMMIN)
Exceptions to and substitutions for major requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Bachelor of Arts degree requires at least 120 credit hours, to include the following:
- College of Arts and Sciences Credit Hours. At least 100 credit hours must come from College of Arts and Sciences disciplines.
- Upper Division Courses. At least 42 credit hours (of the 120) must be at the 300–499 level.
- College Residency. Following completion of the 60th credit hour toward degree, at least 36 credit hours of College of Arts and Sciences coursework must be completed through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
- College GPA. A College grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.000 is required.
- CASE Requirements. The following College of Arts and Sciences Education (CASE) requirements must be completed:
- CASE Foundations
- CASE Breadth of Inquiry
- CASE Culture Studies
- CASE Critical Approaches: 1 course
- CASE Foreign Language: Proficiency in a single foreign language through the second semester of the second year of college-level coursework
- CASE Intensive Writing: 1 course
- CASE Public Oral Communication: 1 course
- Major. Completion of the major as outlined in the Major Requirements section above.
Most students must also successfully complete the Indiana University Bloomington General Education program.