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The Anthropology Program

Anthropologists research and teach in a variety of geographical locations and disciplinary subfields. Field and laboratory training in cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and biological anthropology are provided in a variety of courses, as well as through individual research. The department has programs in historical archaeology and sponsors summer field schools at various sites. The Center for Archaeological Research also provides research opportunities and student instruction.

Programs and Course Descriptions

Programs

• Anthropology (BA in Anthropology)
• Anthropology, Minor
• Native Studies, Minor

Courses

• ANTH 150 - First Year Seminar
• ANTH 200 - Contemporary Problems in Anthropological Perspective
• ANTH 201 - Introduction to Archaeology
• ANTH 202 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 203 - Introduction to Biological Anthropology
• ANTH 205 - Anthropology and Language
• ANTH 225 - Archaeological Field Methods
• ANTH 241 - Worlds of Music
• ANTH 250 - Introduction to Native Studies
• ANTH 300 - History of Anthropological Theories
• ANTH 301 - Methods in Archaeology
• ANTH 302 - Ethnographic Research
• ANTH 303 - Museums in the History of Anthropology
• ANTH 304 - The Anthropocene
• ANTH 305 - Comparative Colonial Studies
• ANTH 306 - Women, Gender and Culture
• ANTH 307 - Social Anthropology
• ANTH 308 - Sociocultural Linguistics
• ANTH 309 - Medicine and Culture
• ANTH 311 - Colonialism, Slavery, & Rebellion
• ANTH 312 - Comparative Colonial Archaeology
• ANTH 314 - Conservation Ethics
• ANTH 315 - Environmental Archaeology
• ANTH 316 - Movement: Theory and Practice
• ANTH 317 - Insurgent Geographies
• ANTH 318 - The Anthropology of Racialized Bodies & Places
• ANTH 322 - Archaeology of North America
• ANTH 323 - Indians of North America
• ANTH 324 - Native People of the American Southwest
• ANTH 325 - Native People of the Great Plains
• ANTH 326 - Indigenous Voices in Conservation
• ANTH 331 - Culture and Society in the Modern Middle East and North Africa
• ANTH 332 - Race, Gender & Popular Culture in Brazil
• ANTH 333 - Anthropology of Islam
• ANTH 334 - Etruscan Archaeology: Italy before the Romans
• ANTH 335 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa
• ANTH 337 - African Ritual and Religious Practice
• ANTH 338 - Native Cultures of South America
• ANTH 339 - Inside Irish Archaeology
• ANTH 342 - Peoples and Cultures of East Asia
• ANTH 343 - Deciphering Ancient Egypt
• ANTH 344 - Deciphering Ancient Egypt, Part 2
• ANTH 345 - Ancient Egyptian Inscriptions: Royal, Biographical, and Religious Texts
• ANTH 346 - Middle Egyptian Texts: Fiction and Poetry
• ANTH 347 - Japanese Society
• ANTH 348 - Japanese Values Through Literature and Film
• ANTH 349 - Contemporary Issues in Japanese Society
• ANTH 350 - Special Topics in Anthropology
• ANTH 351 - People, Cultures, and the Environment of Polynesia
• ANTH 352 - Environmental Anthropology
• ANTH 360 - Projects in Anthropology
• ANTH 362 - Knowledge, Learning and Cognition in “Non-Western” Societies
• ANTH 363 - Culture and Cuisine: The Anthropology of Food
• ANTH 364 - Artists and Cultures
• ANTH 366 - Information Technology and Global Culture
• ANTH 371 - The Idea of Race
• ANTH 372 - Music Cultures of the Middle East
• ANTH 373 - Anthropology of the State
• ANTH 374 - Marx and the Study of Crises and Change
• ANTH 415 - Linguistic Anthropology
• ANTH 421 - The Archive
• ANTH 422 - Social Entrepreneurship
• ANTH 425 - Advanced Archaeological Field Methods
• ANTH 427 - Native People of Eastern North America
• ANTH 428 - Methods in Archaeological Science
• ANTH 445 - Issues in Anthropology
• ANTH 451 - Archaeological Conservation (II)
• ANTH 453 - Introduction to Zooarchaeology
• ANTH 454 - Quantitative Research Methods in Anthropology
• ANTH 455 - Practicing Cultural Resource Management
• ANTH 456 - Human Skeletal Biology
• ANTH 457 - Archaeology of Colonial Williamsburg and Tidewater Virginia
• ANTH 458 - Caribbean Archaeology
• ANTH 459 - Tsenacomoco: Native Archaeology of the Chesapeake
• ANTH 460 - Independent Research
• ANTH 461 - Anthropological Reflections of the African Diaspora
• ANTH 465 - Practicum in Anthropology
• ANTH 470 - Senior Seminar in Anthropology
• ANTH 472 - Ethnographic History
• ANTH 484 - Collecting and Exhibiting Culture
• ANTH 486 - Cultural Politics of Art
• ANTH 492 - Biocultural Anthropology
• ANTH 495 - Honors
• ANTH 496 - Honors
• ANTH 498 - Internship

• CLCV 357 - The Use and Abuse of Classics: Ethnicity in Antiquity and Race in the Modern US

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