Featured Fall 2022 Courses

Course Description: Human skeletal remains provide a window into the lived experiences of people in the past, but their interpretations are typically divided along theoretical and disciplinary lines. Human osteologists, for example, rely heavily on techniques for gathering and validating biological data on bodies and populations that supposedly transcend history,...

Course Description: The study of human skeletal remains is a crucial part of biological anthropology, and has applications in archaeology, anatomy, paleontology, and forensics. This course is an intensive, in-depth study of the human skeleton. The primary focus is on the identification of human skeletal remains and fragmentary skeletal elements...

Highlights Experience the biodiversity of Vietnam by exploring the floral and fauna of national parks, biosphere reserves, nature reserves, zoos, and animal rescue centers across the south of Vietnam. Visit historical sites including museums, palaces, and preserved seaports to better understand the complex history of Vietnam and her relations with...

Highlights Visit archaeological sites including the ancient mountaintop city of Monte Albán, the tombs of Mitla, the hilltop fortress at Yagul, and the Queen’s palace of Teposcolula. Experience an ongoing archaeological field project and get to see the excavations of a 1200-year old city and hear about the research from...

The earliest civilizations on earth were found in such diverse settings as Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley of Pakistan, China, Mexico and Central America, and Andean South America. These civilizations had huge cities’ powerful rulers, fascinating religious beliefs, and elaborate temples and palaces. In this course, we will study the...

What does it mean to think anthropologically? This course will provide an overview of the history and foundations of anthropological thought, with a special focus on the key method of anthropology: ethnography. Drawing on both classical and contemporary anthropological texts from a broad range of international settings, we will analyze...

While we humans tend to focus on ourselves, the goal of this course is to examine the natural history and behavior of your closest relatives, the nonhuman primates. Through lectures, streaming videos and web based materials, you will explore the diversity of primates from an evolutionary, biological and ecological perspective...

Kinship Matters: Relatedness and Identity in Archaeological and Sociocultural Anthropology Relationships between people-- and people and things-- are fundamental to human embodiment, identity, and political and social alignment, shaping experiences of inclusion and exclusion. How do archaeological and sociocultural anthropologists theorize and understand relationships? This course explores the social implications...