Course Descriptions

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Anthropology Discipline Courses

Course ID Title Latest Offering
ANTH 100 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 110 Introduction to Archaeology (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 120 Introductory Social and Cultural Anthropology (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 300 Foundations of Anthropology: History (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 301 Foundations of Archaeology (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 302 Foundations of Human Variation (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 307 Culture and Identity in World Politics (4) Spring 2008
ANTH 310 Family, Kin, and Community (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 315 Regional Ethnography (3) Effective Spring 1980
ANTH 315 Variable topics:
  ANTH 315 Peoples and Cultures of Central America (3) Fall 2009
  ANTH 315 Peoples and Cultures of Eastern Asia (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 316 Contemporary Culture of Greece (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 318 Islam: Interpretation and Practice (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 319 Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa (3) Spring 2009
ANTH 320 Racism: Cross-Cultural Analysis (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 321 Endangered Cultures (3) Summer 2009
ANTH 325 Class: Cross-Cultural Analysis (3) Spring 2009
ANTH 327 Anthropology and Film (3) Spring 2009
ANTH 333 Primate Behavior (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 343 Women and Work (3) Spring 2008
ANTH 352 Peoples and Cultures of California (3) Spring 2008
ANTH 356 Archaeology of California (3) Spring 2007
ANTH 415 Culture and Sex in East Asia (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 420 Indigenous Media and Social Change (4) Fall 2009
ANTH 471 The Ancient Maya (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 481 Archaeology of the Far East (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 490 Ancestors or Data?: Culture, Conflict and NAGPRA (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 497 Writing for Museums, Galleries, and Other Cultural Institutions (3) Spring 2005
ANTH 500 Language and Cultural Systems of North American Indians (3) Fall 2008
ANTH 501 Latin America: The National Period (3) Spring 2009
ANTH 515 The Two Koreas (3) Spring 2009
ANTH 525 Diversity in the Workplace (3) Fall 2007
ANTH 530 Human Osteology Practicum (4) Fall 2009
ANTH 531 Fossil Humans Practicum (4) Spring 2009
ANTH 535 Paleopathology (3) Fall 2008
ANTH 542 Seminar in Ethnomusicology (3) Spring 2009
ANTH 545 Bioarchaeology (3) Spring 2009
ANTH 551 Anthropology of the Body (3) Fall 2007
ANTH 552 Anthropology of Social Memory (3) Fall 2006
ANTH 555 Urban Anthropology (3) Fall 2008
ANTH 557 Ethnography of the Inner City (4) Spring 2009
ANTH 558 California Collaborative and Applied Research (4) Fall 2007
ANTH 569 Cross-Cultural Aspects of Sex and Gender (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 570 Anthropology of Religion (3) Fall 2007
ANTH 581 Anthropology and Folklore (3) Summer 2008
ANTH 585 Multinational Corporations and World Cultures (3) Fall 2007
ANTH 588 Anthropology and Human Rights (4) Spring 2009
ANTH 590 Anthropology of Women (3) Spring 2009
ANTH 591 Applied Anthropology Media Workshop (4) Spring 2009
ANTH 592 Archaeological Methods (4) Fall 2009
ANTH 593 Archaeological Excavation and Data Analysis (6) Spring 2008
ANTH 594 Field Methods in Archaeological Technology (6) Effective Summer 2007
ANTH 595 Visual Anthropology I (6) Fall 2008
ANTH 596 Visual Anthropology II (6) Fall 2009
ANTH 630 Medical Anthropology (3) Spring 2009
ANTH 651 Ethnographic Field Methods (6) Fall 2009
ANTH 652 Anthropological Statistics (4) Spring 2009
ANTH 657 Ethnology of Dance (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 685 Projects in Teaching Anthropology (1) Fall 2009
ANTH 685 Projects in Teaching Anthropology (2) Fall 2009
ANTH 685 Projects in Teaching Anthropology (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 690 Senior Thesis (4) Fall 2009
ANTH 699 Special Study (1-3) Effective Spring 2006
ANTH 699 Variable topics:
  ANTH 699 Special Study (1) Fall 2009
  ANTH 699 Special Study (2) Fall 2009
  ANTH 699 Special Study (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 701 Sexual Cultures, Sexual Identities (3) Fall 2008
ANTH 710 Proseminar in Anthropological Theory and Method (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 720 Topics in Graduate Anthropology (3) Effective Spring 1984
ANTH 730 Human Osteology Practicum (4) Fall 2009
ANTH 731 Fossil Humans Practicum (4) Spring 2008
ANTH 735 Paleopathology (3) Fall 2008
ANTH 740 Seminar in Archaeological Problems (3) Spring 2009
ANTH 760 Seminar in Biological Anthropology (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 770 Seminar in Problems in Cultural Anthropology (3) Spring 2009
ANTH 771 Domination and Resistance (3) Effective Spring 2008
ANTH 785 Teaching Anthropology (1-3) Effective Spring 2008
ANTH 785 Variable topics:
  ANTH 785 Teaching Anthropology (1) Fall 2009
  ANTH 785 Teaching Anthropology (2) Fall 2009
  ANTH 785 Teaching Anthropology (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 788 Anthropology and Human Rights (4) Spring 2009
ANTH 894 Creative Work Project (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 897 Directed Thesis Advising and Support (3) Spring 2009
ANTH 898 Master's Thesis (3) Fall 2009
ANTH 899 Special Study (1-3) Effective Spring 2006
ANTH 899 Variable topics:
  ANTH 899 Special Study (1) Fall 2009
  ANTH 899 Special Study (2) Fall 2009
  ANTH 899 Special Study (3) Fall 2009
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