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2026-2027 Academic Year

Fall 2026

ANTH 101 Intro to Cultural Anthropology
This course is a comprehensive introduction to how cultural anthropologists study culture and society in diverse contexts. We will use ethnographic case studies from across the world to examine the ways people experience and transform social relationships and culture in areas including families, gender, ethnicity, health, religion, exchange, science, and even what it means to be a person. We will examine how culture and society are embedded within, shape, and are shaped by forces of economics, politics, and environment. Offered every semester.

ARCH 120 Greek Art & Archaeology
Cross-listed with CLST 221-01.

ANTH 220 Ethnography
Ethnography is a unique form of research through which we learn about people’s experiences in the world and their own perspectives in their everyday lives. Ethnographic research is done in any context, from rural farms, to urban train systems, from medical tourism networks, to nuclear power plants. This course examines ethnographic scholarship with attention to the methods of research. Students learn about the methods ethnographers employ in their work, how they use them, and the kinds of results those methods yield. Examples draw from ethnographic work on diverse topics and in varied contexts throughout the world. Students develop brief projects using some of the methods that are examined. Prerequisite: 101

CLST 221 Greek Art & Archaeology
Cross-listed with ARCH 120-01.

ANTH 290 Archaeological Methods
Cross-listed with ARCH 290-01.

ARCH 290 Archaeological Methods
Cross-listed with ANTH 290-01.

ANTH 400 Senior Colloquium
Offered every fall semester, senior anthropology majors will meet to learn about professional career opportunities in anthropology as well as a write a research paper that incorporates primary sources in anthropological writing and/or original anthropological scholarship involving fieldwork or laboratory research.Prerequisite: Research in Anthropology course and at least one Anthropology subdiscipline course (cultural, biological, or archaeology).

Spring 2027

ANTH 245 Anthropologies of Power
We live in tumultuous political times that a comparative view can help clarify. Political anthropology builds comparative perspectives on power, politics, and collective life, explores their dimensions, and examines how people experience, understand, and challenge them. We consider political anthropology's development as a colonial-era field and subsequent critical interventions into how to understand political life and power from people in various fields and others who experienced diverse and complex relationships to knowledge production and struggles over collective life. We devote much of our semester to learning about situations today and people's experiences of and engagements with governance, political movements, belonging and exclusion, and dynamics of public life. We examine these matters through ethnographic studies and interpretive and philosophical writings from throughout the world and with counterpart examinations of experiences in our own communities in the United States. Students gain a rich understanding of diverse experiences and agencies related to power, politics, and collective life.

ANTH 345 Natura Urbana
Cross-listed with ARCH 345-02. What if, in the city, we devote attention not just to architecture, roads, and human production, distribution, consumption, and discard, but also to weeds and gardens, pets and pests, and transient, seasonal, and perennial life forms and relationships people have with them? What if we attend to the flora and fauna that share the city with decaying factories, new housing developments, transportation networks, and parks? We learn new things about belonging and exclusion, community-making, moral becoming, and justice as well as plant geography, animal behavior, and things often classed as nature or invader. We gain new perspectives on power and governance, nature and design, environment and infrastructure, crisis and normalcy, and life and death while finding urgent new questions about epistemology and the ontology of our more familiar knowledge artifacts. This course-part critical urban anthropology, part urban political ecology-examines complex, dynamic, and diverse relationalities among people, more-than-human companions, and cities. We connect ethnographic studies from throughout the world with experiential learning about natura urbana in our communities and nearby cities. We learn to theorize in conversation with other ethnographers and feminist, posthuman, and postcolonial thinkers, with sustainability as a persistent question.

ARCH 345 Adv Topics in Archaeology
Courses offered on an occasional basis exploring thematic, theoretically informed topics not otherwise given in-depth coverage within the Archaeology curriculum, such as food and foodways, archaeology and nationalism, urban archaeology. Pre-requisites: Dependent upon topic.

ARCH 345 Natura Urbana
Cross-listed with ANTH 345-01.