This course examines anthropological approaches to social and cultural changes associated with globalization, particularly how global patterns of inequality profoundly impact people's lives.

This course focuses on the biocultural evolution of our species, Homo sapiens. It addresses the basic human desire for self-understanding. We explore what it means to be human through the use of genetics, non-human primates, and the fossil record. Each section of the course contributes to an overall understanding of human origins and the process of evolution.

This course introduces the anthropological study of living people, or cultural anthropology, with particular focus on how people understand, act in, and transform their worlds. Students will also consider how anthropology can help us think about our own society and what it means to be human in different times and places.

This course focuses on the biocultural evolution of our species, Homo sapiens. It addresses the basic human desire for self-understanding. We explore what it means to be human through the use of genetics, non-human primates, and the fossil record. Each section of the course contributes to an overall understanding of human origins and the process of evolution.

This course is an introduction to global human ecology and concentrates on how we as humans affect global ecosystems and how these changes can impact our behavior, health, economics, and politics.

This course examines human variation through a biocultural approach, with specific attention paid to historical and contemporary ideas of race.We explore genetics and how evolution by natural selection has favored important adaptations, how those specific adaptations have helped humans migrate and survive across the planet's habitats, and socio-cultural and scientific ideas about race that have resulted in inequalities.

This course examines sex utilizing a scientific and anthropological lens. Anthropology brings a unique perspective to the study of sex by examining it across cultures and through an evolutionary perspective. In this class, we will travel around the world and through deep time to examine how sex is shaped by biological, cultural, and political factors. Topics include sex, sexuality, sexual orientation, gender, evolution, reproductive biology, parenting, sex work, and sexually transmitted infections.

This course explores societies in the near and distant past, with an emphasis on examining cultures left out of standard US and world history textbooks.

This class investigates violence, suffering and justice through an ethnographic and cross-cultural perspective. It asks, how are overt forms of violence related to larger social structures which produce less visible forms of suffering? How are violence and suffering related to other socio-cultural phenomena such as race, gender, sexuality and identity?

This course explores a broad range of cultural expectations for gender diversity and the experiences of women in different cultures.

The course explores different types of and ideas about exchange, economies, and development in cross-cultural perspective and through ethnography.

This course will examine how language both reflects and helps constitute identity in social and linguistic interaction. Presenting a broad introduction, this course will address complex and often intersecting relationships between language and gender, race, class, place, age, and social practice, using case studies from around the world.

The course deals with how human cultural identities are represented through the construction of both moving and static visual images.

This course offers an anthropological overview of the major cultures and cultural regions of contemporary Latin America.

This course considers post-contact ethnography including key contemporary issues among indigenous North American peoples including Indian-white relations, assimilation, genocide, revitalization movements, sovereignty, environmentalism, urbanization, and native identity.

This course takes an interdisciplinary perspective, and includes discussion of African history, political economy, and contemporary forms of social life and culture. It also examines intellectual and historical trajectories informing how knowledge about Africa was and is produced.

This course offers an historical and contemporary exploration of various efforts undertaken by African Americans and their supporters to achieve racial parity, social justice and equality with other Americans, from the early presence of Africans in the Americas to the present period.

This course critically evaluates popular and scholarly characterizations and theories about Japan through investigation of ethnicity, gender roles, language, demographic change, and the impact and role of popular culture.

Using theoretical, ethnographic, and autobiographical literature from different world regions, we will explore three central questions: 1) How do people make the decision to move? 2) How do political policies structure the life chances of im/migrants in the "global north"? 3) How do im/migrants transform their own life situations and communities?

In this class, students become familiar with Mexico and its people as we explore Mexican history, contemporary Mexico, and Mexican migration to the United States. At each juncture, we consider how sociocultural developments shaped Mexican society in the context of the region and the world.

Focusing on the culturally diverse region of the Middle East, the course considers historical dynamics, diversity of religious orientations, gender and ethics relations, nation-building strategies, and expressive arts (architecture, film, literature and media), from the Middle East.

This course explores culture in contemporary Europe from an ethnographic perspective. Topics include recent developments in European nationalisms; the EU and Europeanization; (im)migration and integration; family and gender; production and branding; international tourism; and the politics of language in both 'old' and 'new' Europe.

This class examines social movements and activism from an ethnographic perspective. Case studies will examine movements across the globe. Topics to analyze include: what socio-cultural contexts shape, and are shaped by, social movements? How do social movements organize themselves, and what meanings or belief systems do they appeal to?

This course explores the museum as a dynamic site of cultural production and consumption. It examines the historical and contemporary relationships between museums, anthropology, and material culture, particularly the broader socio-cultural context of collecting from and representing cultures. Students will visit, discuss, and critique exhibitions in Chicago-based museums.

This course introduces the subfield of linguistic anthropology through a survey of topics, including linguistic relativity, linguistic patterning and structure, nonverbal communication, indexicality, and linguistic diversity and inequality.

Introduction to the ethical principles and scientific methods used to investigate the archaeological record, including issues of stewardship, community collaboration, research design, fieldwork strategies, materials analysis, and archaeological interpretation.

This course explores the cultures and peoples of Mesoamerica (Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador) in long-term perspective, with emphasis on Indigenous survivance and heritage. Cultures examined include the Mayas, Olmecs, Teotihuacanos, Zapotecs, and Mexicas (Aztecs).

This course surveys archaeological evidence in North America with focus on regional patterns of indigenous adaptation and explanations for prehistoric culture change.

Historical archaeology merges the study of documentary records with material remains to understand the overlaps, gaps, and contradictions in narratives about the human experience. This course is an introduction to the methods of historical archaeology, including issues of perspective, coloniality, and silencing that shape our understanding of history.

Students will critically reflect on gender in cross-cultural and long-term perspective. From an anthropological perspective, they will also deconstruct their own cultural biases and assumptions. With a deep and critical understanding of contemporary norms, students will apply evidence-based reasoning to examine the construction of gender in the past.

This course focuses on human-animal interactions in the past and covers how humans have shaped the geographic ranges and behaviors of animals today. Questions on whether humans caused prehistoric animal extinctions and how animal domestication occurred will be explored using evidence from archaeological and paleontological records around the world.

Students will examine the foundations of archaeological knowledge claims to distinguish science from pseudoscience. Students will also examine ways of knowing that go beyond Western science (i.e., Indigenous epistemologies). In the end, students will understand why academic archaeologists do or do not accept claims about ancient aliens or mythical moundbuilders. 2) Differentiate science from pseudoscience in popular media. 3) Construct an evidence-based argument about an archaeological controversy.

This course examines how society and health are intertwined using medical anthropology and global health. Medical anthropology is the study of how health and illness are shaped, experienced, and understood cross-culturally, while global health is dedicated to improving the health of populations worldwide. Students will apply their knowledge to develop a research proposal.

The complex interaction between humans and pathogens is explored throughout time, with particular emphasis on the role and impact of human biology, human culture, and changing environments.

This interdisciplinary course explores the evolution of the human diet utilizing a biocultural perspective. The complex interplay between our diet, biology, and culture is examined through energy acquisition, primate and hominin nutrition, the Agricultural Revolution and Industrialization on human health, food sustainability, and nutritional inequality through socioeconomic and gender lenses.

This course empowers students to translate their undergraduate anthropology education into a professional portfolio that communicates their knowledge, skills, and experiences to graduate schools and future employers.

This course considers the interplay between indigenous peoples and environmental resources utilizing current perspectives from evolutionary and community ecology, conservation biology, anthropology, political ecology and economics.

In this course, we review major works of anthropological theory that have influenced anthropology over the course of the past two centuries. We attend to dynamic conversations that occur within the discipline, the geopolitical diversity (and lack thereof) of anthropological theorists, and we consider how these factors have shaped the trajectory of anthropological research over time.

This course examines the complex relationships between violence and culture using the ethnographic method as practiced by anthropologists and other social scientists.

This course examines the concept of universal human rights, and the social movement that has developed to promote human rights, from an anthropological perspective.

This course examines how culture shapes how the human body is understood, categorized and used, and it also examines how bodily experiences shape culture and society. Drawing on cultural anthropology, it analyzes diverse cross-cultural examples, possibly ranging from body decoration among Amazonian indigenous people, to plastic surgery, childbirth, or sports.

This course is focused on defining characteristics of city life across a variety of societies It particularly considers urban complexity in the context of the globalization of cities.

This course offers a hands-on introduction to the application of anthropological principles and methods to non-academic, "real world" problems. Course sessions will be dedicated to situating applied anthropology within the broader discipline, learning methods, and practicing applied cultural techniques. Students will also develop and carry out an applied cultural anthropology project.

The course considers religion as a form and part of culture. The innovative as well as conservative features of religion in culture change are addressed. Religion's role as both a belief-system and ritual practice are underscored.

This course is designed to offer an introduction to qualitative methods in anthropology. Students will learn methodologies such as participant observation, interviewing, and document analysis, and we will also address ethical issues in field research. Students will design and carry out an ethnographic research project. Instructor permission required.

This course explores the phenomenon of tourism from an anthropological perspective, addressing the social, cultural, economic, and environmental impact of tourism on host communities and nations.

This course examines human rights in Latin America from a multidisciplinary perspective. It asks: what are human rights? Why have human rights abuses occurred and how have Latin Americans responded?

The course examines the discipline of paleoanthropology, including the techniques and methods, evolutionary framework, and detailed analysis of skeletal and archaeological material that form our current understanding of human evolution. Students will develop critical thinking skills in how to interpret the human fossil and archaeological records.

This course examines primate behavior and ecology from a comparative and evolutionary perspective. Students will be introduced to the diversity across taxonomic groups within the Order Primates. Through class discussion and observation, students will explore key issues in primate studies. Students will develop and apply skills in primate observation.

This course focuses on developing a deep understanding of the human skeleton and ways in which biological anthropologists and forensic anthropologists use this knowledge to explore human biological diversity. Through hands-on exercises and class discussion, students will build analytical skills that are foundational to many techniques used by professionals and will appreciate the complex ethical considerations inherent to the fields of biological and forensic anthropology.

This course examines teeth with an anthropological perspective. By using evolution by natural selection as our theoretical framework, students will learn dental anatomy, morphology, and variation. The course then focuses on embryology, dental development and eruption, and the biocultural ways humans use their teeth.

The two best known Roman towns - Pompeii and Herculaneum - whose remains were preserved by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE - will serve as a microcosm for understanding Roman society.

This course presents a critical approach to understanding language and linguistic innovation in popular culture, including entertainment and news media, digital communication, and political discourse.

This course addresses how and why languages and speakers are associated with racialized stereotypes, and how linguistic discrimination operates in U.S. culture today. In-depth case studies examine language and race in education, mass media, material culture, and everyday interaction. Critical perspectives on sociolinguistic norms and relationships between language, Whiteness, and power are also included. Critical thinking and writing are emphasized.

This course focuses on the main explorations and achievements in the recovery of monuments of the ancient Greco-Roman world, particularly in Rome and Italy, and on the methodologies involved with the recoveries.

This course examines the socio-cultural process that produced complex societies in the past, particularly the contrasting trajectories of Old World and New World civilizations. Emphasis is on the material manifestations of status differences, power relations, and ideological control.

This course offers direct experience with anthropological research methods and analysis using material culture and archival holdings from the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection. Grounded in object-based studies and using examples from the collection, this course will examine collecting contexts, formal and technical analyses, operational sequences, cultural contexts, and interpretation.

This interdisciplinary course tracks how scientists from multiple disciplines have come together to understand and combat epidemics, such as Ebola, HIV, Zika, SARS, MERS, and COVID-19. From the molecular pathways underlying disease to the cultural contexts shaping public health responses, students will understand epidemics and pandemics from a biological and social perspective.

Individualized opportunity to learn about and engage in the main laboratory methods used in bioanthropological research

This course introduces advanced students to the exploration of the history of human disease through the analysis of human skeletal remains.

Specific theoretical, methodological, and research problems in archaeology with focus on current research in the discipline. Topics include but are not restricted to: environmental archaeology; ethnoarchaeology and experimental archaeology; the study of prehistoric craft specialization, trade, demography, and urbanism.

The course is a vehicle for topics of particular interest to the instructor or an issue of contemporary relevance. It may be a trial run for a course later added to the official list.

This course considers specific topics pertinent to the discipline of physical or biological anthropology.

This course number will only be used when ANTH 362 is tagged with the Bioethics Minor Capstone course.

This course focuses on a current research question or area within linguistic anthropology.

Practicum in analysis techniques for common archaeological materials, such as lithics, ceramics, faunal and floral remains, and historic debris. Topics include transformation processes; classification techniques; data recording and analysis standardization; curation; and computerized strategies of data management and analysis.

This course is a laboratory analysis of archaeological stone tools through experimentation and ethno-archaeology.

Enrollment Requirements: Student's must receive instructor permission prior to enrolling and must complete (with signatures) the Course Contract Form. This course is designed to enhance student engagement by facilitating internship experiences within the department or in museums, service-oriented organizations, businesses, and non-profit organizations. Experiential learning is combined with rigorous academic work. This course may serve, if appropriate, as a capstone experience.

This course is designed to enhance student engagement by facilitating internship experiences in forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology, working in collaboration with community partner organizations. Experiential learning is combined with rigorous academic work. This course may serve, if appropriate, as a capstone experience. Instructor permission required.

Individualized readings in varied topics within anthropology.

Individualized program of independent study of anthropological problems and/or issues.

Application of anthropological concepts and methods to a specific field situation under the supervision of a faculty member.