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Course Listing for ANTHROPOLOGY - Fall 2026 (ALL: 09/08/2026 - 12/23/2026)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
Required		 Dist Qtr
1591 ANTH-101-01 Intro to Cultural Anthropology 1.00 LEC Conroe, Andrew TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA GLB5  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: 12 seats reserved for first-years, 10 for sophomores, 4 for juniors, 3 for seniors.
  Anthropology as a field asks what it means to be human: how do we know what is universal to human existence? What is natural and what is cultural? How can the strange become familiar and the familiar strange? This course introduces the theory and method of cultural anthropology as applied to case studies from different geographic and ethnographic areas. Topics to be considered include family and kinship, inequality and hierarchy, race and ethnicity, ritual and symbol systems, gender and sexuality, reciprocity and exchange, globalization and social change.
2940 ANTH-101-02 Intro to Cultural Anthropology 1.00 LEC Conroe, Andrew TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA GLB5  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: 12 seats reserved for first-years, 10 for sophomores, 4 for juniors, 3 for seniors.
  Anthropology as a field asks what it means to be human: how do we know what is universal to human existence? What is natural and what is cultural? How can the strange become familiar and the familiar strange? This course introduces the theory and method of cultural anthropology as applied to case studies from different geographic and ethnographic areas. Topics to be considered include family and kinship, inequality and hierarchy, race and ethnicity, ritual and symbol systems, gender and sexuality, reciprocity and exchange, globalization and social change.
3261 ANTH-101-03 Intro to Cultural Anthropology 1.00 LEC DiVietro, Susan T: 6:30PM-9:00PM TBA GLB5  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: 10 seats reserved for for first year students, 5 for sophomores.
  Anthropology as a field asks what it means to be human: how do we know what is universal to human existence? What is natural and what is cultural? How can the strange become familiar and the familiar strange? This course introduces the theory and method of cultural anthropology as applied to case studies from different geographic and ethnographic areas. Topics to be considered include family and kinship, inequality and hierarchy, race and ethnicity, ritual and symbol systems, gender and sexuality, reciprocity and exchange, globalization and social change.
3262 ANTH-212-01 The Global War on Drugs 1.00 SEM Eisenberg-Guyot, Nadja TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA GLB5  
  Enrollment limited to 35 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: 5 seats reserved for first year students, 5 seats for sophomores, 10 seats for ANTH majors.
  Moral panics over illicit drug use are a central feature of contemporary life, from salacious accounts of "marijuana-induced psychosis" to legends that drug dealers spike candy with LSD to "hook" kids. In response to drugs' alleged threat, the United States has been at the forefront of waging the "War on Drugs" since the early 20th Century. But what are the origins of this forever war? And who benefits, and who is harmed, in its name? In this class, we will explore the racist, classist, ableist, and sexist underpinnings of global drug control and draw on ethnography to consider its effects on people who use drugs. The final unit of the course will explore possibilities beyond "reforming" the War on Drugs.
2845 ANTH-215-01 Medical Anthropology 1.00 LEC Eisenberg-Guyot, Nadja TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA GLB5  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with MNOR
  Prerequisite: C- or better in Anthropology 101 or other Anthropology course or permission of instructor.
  NOTE: 5 seats reserved for first year students, 5 for sophomores.
  This introductory course is designed to expose students to contemporary approaches in medical anthropology. Taking an intersectional perspective, we will focus on how illness, health, and healing are embedded in broader social, political, and economic structures and interrogate how medical systems reproduce inequalities of race, class, gender, and ability. Key questions for this course include: What is medical anthropology and how do anthropologists study medicine? How does society structure access to health for some and make others sick? How do cultural, scientific, and technological processes shape our relationships to our bodies, capacities, and self-understandings as sick, dis/abled, healthy, healing, or cured?
3164 ANTH-222-01 Voodoo 1.00 LEC Landry, Timothy TR: 6:30PM-7:45PM TBA GLB2  
  Enrollment limited to 24 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: RELG-222-01
  This course focuses on those religious traditions known collectively as "Voodoo." Students will examine powerful displays of spirit possession, rituals in which the ancestors raise from their graves to dance, and secretive ceremonies of devotion, healing, and resistance. Students will explore how Voodoo is practiced and in what ways racial tropes have contributed to the dehumanization of its devotees. With a focus on Benin (West Africa) and Haiti (Caribbean) we will juxtapose Western imaginations and fantasies of Voodoo to the real-lived experiences of practitioners. By examining historical and ethnographic accounts, students will learn how, despite racial stereotyping and anti-Africa sentiments around the globe, Voodoo has become one of the world's more important religions on the global stage today.
2846 ANTH-227-01 Intro to Political Ecology 1.00 LEC Hussain, Shafqat TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course covers social science approaches to issues concerning ecology, the environment, and nature. It looks at how social identities and cultural meaning are symbolically tied to the physical environment. Ecology and the environment are affected by larger political, social, and economic forces, so we will also broaden the analysis to include wider spatial and temporal scales. The course will also examine how sociology and geography relate to political ecology. Regional foci will include South and Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
3263 ANTH-263-01 Anthropology of Humor 1.00 LEC Conroe, Andrew TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course examines humor, satire, and parody across a broad range of cultural and historical settings. Our approach is historical and ethnographic, and rests on the idea that there exist various and diverse traditions of humor, each deeply embedded in its own social and political context. We will be exploring the ways in which specific cultural, historical, and social contexts shape how humor is created, interpreted, and responded to. At the same time, we will look at how humor can travel outside of its intended context in surprising and often-contentious ways, being revived or reinterpreted in places spatially or temporally quite distant from its context of creation.
2847 ANTH-271-01 Anthropology of Museums 1.00 LEC Guzman, Amanda TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 29 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with CLIC Cross-listing: AMST-271-01
  NOTE: 6 seats reserved for first year students, 6 for sophomores.
  From children's movie backdrops to contemporary news headlines, museums continue to capture our public attention as cultural spaces of fantastical object storytelling and contested object ownership. What might the future of the (re)making of museum spaces tell us about the future of our relationships to social institutions and how we remember the past? We will shift between lenses of research and practice to consider issues of community engagement, digitization, and climate resiliency. We will materially trace and analyze the complex, often difficult historical legacies of these cultural institutions from a global case-study perspective. We will explore the diverse ways in which museums are being called on today to re-imagine the work that they do and the stories that they tell.
1393 ANTH-302-01 History of Anth Thought 1.00 LEC Nadel-Klein, Jane W: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course explores the anthropological tradition as it has changed from the late 19th century until the present. Students will read works of the major figures in the development of the discipline, such as Bronislaw Malinowski, Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and Claude Levi-Strauss. They will learn not only what these anthropologists had to say about reality, but why they said it when they did. In this sense, the course turns an anthropological eye on anthropology itself. Note: Students who are not anthropology majors may request permission to enroll.
2850 ANTH-310-01 Anth of Development 1.00 SEM Hussain, Shafqat TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This seminar will explore international economic and social development from an anthropological perspective. We will critically examine concepts of development, underdevelopment, and progress. We will compare how multilateral lenders and small nongovernmental organizations employ development rhetoric and methods. We will examine specific case studies of development projects in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, asking what has been attained, and what is attainable.
1630 ANTH-399-01 Independent Study 0.50 - 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the instructor and chair are required for enrollment.
1596 ANTH-466-01 Teaching Assistantship 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. Guidelines are available in the College Bulletin. (0.5 - 1 course credit)
2281 ANTH-490-01 Research Assistantship 0.50 - 1.00 IND Staff, Trinity TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to undertake substantial research work with a faculty member. Students need to complete a special registration form, available online, and have it signed by the supervising instructor.
2356 ANTH-497-01 Senior Thesis 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y WEB  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor and director are required for enrollment in this single-semester thesis. (1 course credit to be completed in one semester.)
2357 ANTH-498-01 Senior Thesis Part 1 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y WEB  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is the first part of a two semester, two credit thesis. Submission of the special registration form and the approval of the thesis adviser and the director are required for enrollment. The registration form is required for each semester of this year-long thesis.
3345 EDUC-316-01 Educ&Soc Change Across Globe 1.00 SEM Speciale, Teresa TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA GLB5  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with ANTH, GLBLSTDS, INTS
  Prerequisite: C- or better in a prior Educational Studies or International Studies Course.
  Through a comparative framework, this course examines the relationship between education and social change in various regions of the world. How do governments use schooling to produce certain kinds of citizens, and how do grassroots movements use education to resist these agendas? What role does education play in promoting democracy versus social and economic inequality? Students will conduct independent research on education in a country of their choice to contribute to the comparative framework.
3175 EDUC-320-01 Anthropology & Education 1.00 SEM Wong, Jia-Hui Stefanie MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA SOIP  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with ANTH
  Prerequisite: C- or better in Educational Studies 200 or Anthropology 101 or permission of instructor.
  The anthropology of education has a rich history of investigating the links between culture, learning, and schooling. Anthropologists studying education have sought to illuminate learning and educational achievement as social processes and cultural products that cannot be understood apart from the socio-cultural contexts in which they occur. In this upper-level seminar, we will explore selected works in the anthropology of education, both classic and contemporary, in order to understand the unique contributions anthropology makes to the study of education, and in particular, the experience of minority groups in education. We will explore topics such as race, gender, and language in education and how they have been addressed by anthropologists. Students will have an opportunity to read critically a variety of detailed ethnographic and qualitative studies focusing on formal schooling and informal education in the United States and in other countries. Reviewing these studies, we will explore the central questions: What is a cultural analysis of schooling? What unique insights does ethnography (anthropology's signature method) offer into key educational problems? And finally, how can a cultural analysis of schooling inform efforts to create a more socially just educational system?
3348 MUSC-220-01 Music and Human Rights 1.00 LEC Galm, Eric MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA ARIP  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with ANTH, HRST
  This course highlights the role of music in relation to human rights throughout the world. Material to be covered includes theoretical approaches towards the study of human rights and how music can serve as an important indicator of diverse social relationships in various contexts. It will also compare and contrast historical and cultural aspects of musical movements that were strongly connected to human rights in countries and regions such as Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States, South Korea, and South Africa.