Overview of major ideas and approaches to the study of cultures around the world. Surveys kinship, social organization, political economy, religious beliefs, language and other aspects of non-Western cultures.

Introduction to archeology and bioanthropology. Explore issues and debates in human biological evolution, prehistory and social change, as well as lab and field methods for understanding archaeological remains.

Examines fossil evidence for human evolution, the origins of human cognition, and human culture. Explores contemporary issues and debates in human biological and social evolution.

Individual study in anthropology on topic organized in advance by student and instructor.

Cross-cultural and transtemporal examination of complex societies and civilizations. Explores developmental schema for rise, articulation, spread, and decline of historic and contemporary civilizations.

Exploration of native North American cultures and selected aspects of Indian-white historical relations. Emphasizes cultural persistence as well as change.

Examines Latin American cultures and selected aspects of historical record.

Survey of 20th-century Melanesian, Polynesian, and Micronesian cultures. Case studies of interplay between cultural systems and island ecology.

Examines early human societies with emphasis on environmental, technological, and cultural aspects of hunting and gathering as a successful means of adaptation.

Examines cultures of the Island Asia culture region, focusing on native cultures of Indonesia, Borneo, and the Philippines.

Examines the peoples and cultures of ancient Mesoamerica, including Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, and Aztec societies. Major topics include the rise of civilization, the development of the Mesoamerican cultural tradition, the growth of cities, trade, exchange, writing systems, political organization, religion, conflict, and the archaeological study of this indigenous heritage.

Examines the anthropological literature on peoples and cultures of the Middle East, with particular attention to political and social change over the course of the 20th century.

Examination of South Asia, with emphasis on India. Includes general overview of prehistory and history; impact of colonialism; contemporary Indian culture, including the changing relations of caste and class, family organization, and the roles of women, religion, and ideology; and current trends in economic development and socioeconomic differences in different parts of the country.

Examines social organization, kinship, descent, and kinship terminologies in mainly non-Western cultures, emphasizing the meaning of specific cultural systems and cross-cultural similarities and differences.

Survey of societies of mainland Southeast Asia, with emphasis on successive waves of outside cultural influences and relations between contrasting ethnic groups in modern states. Focuses on Thailand and Malaysia.

Examines cultural and ecological contexts of political structures and competition for power in selected societies; and cross-cultural and comparative approaches to study of political conflict, leadership, values, and symbolism.

Examines religion as a cultural system. Topics include mythology, ritual, symbolism, and dogma. Emphasizes cross-cultural and predominantly non-Western material.

Explores how human beings across cultures have historically expressed social anxieties through references to the one particular manifestation of the undead: zombies, figures representing a state in which human beings are animate and affective in the world around them, but lack consciousness or free will.

Examines aspects of the cultural transmission process in specific local cultures selected from various world culture regions, with emphasis on transmission of cultures.

Examines the social, cultural, and political history of the Caribbean Sea islands and coastal Central and South American lowlands that collectively constitute the geographic and cultural region known as the Caribbean. Emphasizes the central role this region has historically played in creating a sense of global interconnectedness among diverse regions of the world.

Examines materials, theories, and methods of archaeology derived from and applied to historical sites, as they complement archival records.

Survey of the ethical and legal dimensions of conducting archaeological research. Examines historical and contemporary debates about the responsibilities archaeologists have to the communities they study. Explores appropriate methods of artifact preservation, excavation, and the interpretation of data.

Examines origin and nature of conflict in human society with an emphasis on the ancient past. Major topics include the possible role of violence in human evolution, cross-cultural studies of conflict in indigenous society, warfare in early states, and sacrifice as a ritual practice.

Intensive study of archaeological field techniques by directed group projects in site survey, site testing, recording techniques, and stratigraphy through discussions, demonstrations, and hands-on experience.

Examines cultures of a specific region such as Africa and the Middle East. Focuses primarily on non-Western cultures.

Introduction to causes and consequences of forced dislocation as a global issue. Covers formally recognized refugees, as well as people such as internally displaced persons and asylum seekers who are in refugee-like circumstances. Focuses on understanding the personal experiences of refugees and examining efforts on their behalf at national and international levels.

Examines the varieties of cultural experience. Several cultures are studied in depth; with attention to local histories, global contexts, and shifting perspectives on the practice of ethnography.

Considers the dimensions and meanings of the immigrant experience in the United States, with a focus on the diversity of immigrants and refugees who have arrived during the past 30 years. Emphasis on the social context in which immigration occurs and on the bearing of institutional and cultural influences on patterns of adaptation, assimilation, and exclusion from the host society.

Inquiry into the biological dimensions of humans as culture- bearing animals. Topics include altruism, aggression, primate social organization, morphology, comparative ethnology, and microevolutionary genetic differentiation.

Examines biological dimensions of human variation and the beginnings of race as a concept. Discusses evolution of human biodiversity in culturally distinct human groups related to environment, physiology, genetics, nutrition, and disease. Explores use of scientific analyses of human biodiversity.

Examines relationships among environment, culture, and human behavior with an emphasis on cultural ecological explanations in mainly non-Western contexts. Designated a Green Leaf Course.

Survey of issues in the study of relationships between cultural and psychological variables. Major topics viewed cross-culturally include personality, mental illness, projective systems, cognition, and learning.

Use of ethnographic, archaeological, linguistic, and documentary data, in light of anthropological theory, to interpret the past and processes of change among indigenous peoples throughout the world.

Anthropological analyses of language behavior, origins, and change. Emphasizes the interplay of language, culture, anthropology, and linguistics.

Surveys the discipline of medical anthropology, focusing on traditional medical beliefs and the diverse responses to modern scientific medicine in developing countries and among cultural minorities in the United States.

Uses tools and resources of social and cultural anthropology to study life in cities, including urban poverty, migration, urban planning, and discrimination. Case studies draw from different urban environments around the world, including Washington, D.C., and New York City.

Examines the bases for gender differences and similarities across a variety of societies and cultures in Latin America. Examines interrelationships among constructions of gender, class, and ethnicity.

First of a two-course sequence that reviews the major theoretical traditions and schools of thought in anthropology.

Introduction to the anthropology of work, technology, and society, with emphasis on information technology. Covers general conceptual issues of information technology and also involves specific practical exercises with computers, their operating systems, the logic of automated production, databases, and web-based communication. Attention also directed to social and ethical issues raised by contemporary information technology.

Topic of contemporary interest in anthropology, focusing on social science topics of interest.

Field project or study abroad experience leading to the production of a written report

Topic of contemporary interest in anthropology, changing from semester to semester, and focusing on topics such as sex roles, anthropology and ethics, and primate social organization.

Examines selected topics with emphasis on the integration of different kinds of knowledge and the balancing of alternative ways of assessing meaning and relevance. Topics usually drawn from issues of global economic processes, civic rights and responsibilities, ethics, museums, public policy, the environment, and migration.

Research design in bioanthropology and archaeology. Topics include critique of case studies, framing problems, field strategies, measuring variables, sampling, analysis, and interpretation of results.

Explores theoretical and methodological issues in archaeology. Considers patterns and contexts of archaeological remains, analytic problems, and interpretation of material culture.

Considers public significance of archaeology and anthropological contributions to public concerns such as antiquities legislation and cultural resource management.

Explores demographic, stylistic, and religious aspects of historic cemeteries. Students learn to survey, record, and analyze gravestone data through field projects.

Explores diversity of prehistoric cultures in light of major cultural development: hunting-gathering, agriculture, pastoralism, and complex societies.

Studies archaeological research process through discussions of current archaeological methodologies and student participation in designing and critiquing research projects.

Lab or field project leading to a written report of the research.

Lab or field project leading to a written report of the research.

Focuses on anthropologists' contributions to major policy issues in development agencies in the United States and abroad. Covers techniques that lead to prevention or management of social and cultural conflict.

Explores some of the most useful nonquantitative research techniques in social sciences and offers practice in their application.

Examines how gender, sexuality, race, and class come together as analytically distinct, yet practically intertwined, systems of meaning and practice. Examples highlight questions of political economy and history while focusing on specific ethnographic or historical readings.

Second of a two-course sequence that reviews major theoretical traditions and schools of thought in anthropology.

Examines recent important works, issues, and controversies in anthropology.

Supervised project in applying anthropology in relevant settings including public and historical archaeology, developmental anthropology, museums, non-profit organizations, advocacy, communications, or consulting organizations.

Considers evolution as a biological as well as cultural concept. Parallels and contrasts among conceptual approaches allow a critique of the potential of evolution as a unifying biosocial theory.

Individual research on a topic to be organized in advance by student and instructor.

Topic of contemporary interest in anthropology, focusing on social science topics of interest.

Field project or study abroad experience leading to the production of a written report

Topic of contemporary interest in anthropology, changing from semester to semester, and focusing on topics such as sex roles, anthropology and ethics, and primate social organization.

Examines some of the major theorists of 19th- and early 20th-century cultural theory. Marx, Freud, Durkheim, and Weber are surveyed as foundational thinkers for reading the works of such 20th-century theorists as Boas, Malinowski, Benedict, and Sapir.

Examines contemporary theorists of anthropology, covering ongoing debates over epistemology and the multiple strands that inform anthropological theory and practice.

Examines the relevance of cultural processes to policymaking and the culture of policymaking organizations. Topics include development, welfare policy, environmental and energy policy, regulation and risk; health care and immigration policy; and the war on drugs.

Detailed survey of the genetic, morphological, and behavioral origins of hominids. Discusses current interpretations and debates.

Examines U.S. cultures and explores concept of an American culture. Course readings and discussions explore underpinnings of the American experience, document broad historical shifts, and detail the experience of diverse groups of Americans, thus forming the basis for a critical, analytical, and comparative discussion of American life and life in America.

Covers major theoretical trends and ethnographic works in environmental anthropology, focusing on the frameworks developed and used by environmental anthropologists, including cultural ecology, ecological anthropology, environmentalism, political ecology, new ecology, and science and technology studies. Explores how environmental anthropologists have contributed to broader debates about modernity, globalization, power, kinship, science and technology, and human-environmental relations.

Explores the changing relations between culture, indigenous groups, representation and knowledge by examining how meaning is created and conveyed in museums and exhibits.

Detailed examination and re-evaluation of the basic concepts of kinship and social organization in light of contemporary anthropological concerns. Several classical and contemporary texts develop key issues of social organization. Review of traditional concepts of classical anthropology introduces discussion of the nature of the broad epistemological shift that occurred in the last quarter of the 20th century.

The emerging field of ethnopsychology, in Catherine Lutz's words, is "concerned with the way in which people conceptualize, monitor, and discuss their own and other's mental and/or behavioral processes." Course examines roots of the ethnopsychological enterprise, reviews several recent approaches to the description and analysis of folk psychological material, and investigates the relationship between folk psychology and other aspects of social life.

Domains of religion and politics are conjoined by questions of power: its deployment, distribution, and forms of resistance it engenders. Course investigates connections among religious thought, ritual practice, and political action by drawing on a variety of theoretical orientations in the social sciences including structuralism, semiotics, psychoanalysis, and performance theory.

Examines classic and contemporary works in urban theory, in light of broader scholarly discussions of modernity and globalization. Uses a case-study approach to analyze topics such as: public and private space, citizenship and governance, architecture and design, housing, transportation, formal and informal settlements, and the contest over space and environmental resources in cities around the world.

Human societies have always engaged in complex political relations and economic exchanges. The cultural meanings people create are shaped by, and in turn shape, systems of power. Political economy is the attempt to understand the relationship between politics and economics, at the juncture of local meanings and global histories. Course reviews major works and models of political economy, especially as they relate to social and cultural analysis.

Examines theoretical approaches in archaeology, paleoanthropology, and biological anthropology.

Examines research strategies and methods in archaeology, paleoanthropology, and biological anthropology.

Explores major refugee flows since the mid-20th century, emphasizing mechanisms for providing assistance, asylum, and resettlement.

International migration in the contemporary world, focusing on the full range of economic, political, and social reasons for migration and the effects of different national policies on that process.

In-depth study of peoples and cultures of a specific world region (Latin America, East Asia, the Pacific, or United States). Content may include cultures defined by diaspora, migration, and other global forces and processes.

Explores the application of contemporary anthropological ideas, theories, and methods to find solutions to practical problems as defined by various organizations and institutions including business, government, nongovernmental organizations, and various institutions.

Explores relations between ethnography and literature. Most anthropological knowledge is transmitted in written form through texts known as "ethnographies." Ethnographic techniques can be used in novels, travel literature, biography, and autobiography. Course explores these uses, alongside anthropological ethnographies, to arrive at a better understanding of ethnography: what constitutes it and how it is defined and practiced.

Reviews and examines major research methods commonly employed in cultural anthropological field study, with emphasis on ethnographic research design and the use of standard ethnographic techniques. Includes practice in designing ethnographic research project and using ethnographic methods and techniques in a field setting.

Explores different approaches to understanding the interaction of nationalism, transnationalism, and states given the apparently simultaneous dissolution of demographic, economic and cultural borders, and modernist social science paradigms.

Surveys key ideas of the Frankfurt School and its legacies today, including the critique of ideology; aesthetic theory; instrumental rationality; and analyses of the state, culture, and society. Writings by members of the Frankfurt School draw on many philosophical and methodological strands: radical humanism, Marxist analysis, cultural criticism, psychoanalysis, and political sociology.

Regional survey of specific culture area in archaeology to be chosen by student and instructor.

Covers techniques of data collection, analysis, and management in archaeology and biological anthropology.

Considers anthropological approaches to the study of history, the ways in which people construct their histories, and social historians' effort to incorporate anthropological and ethnographic orientations into their accounts. Attention to tensions between culture and power in the constitution of historiography and to methodological challenges of interpreting qualitative and quantitative data.

Directed readings and research on a specific topic in archaeology to be chosen by student and instructor.

Directed readings and research on a specific topic in biological anthropology chosen by student and instructor.

Directed reading and research on a specific topic, agreed on by student and faculty member, resulting in a written project.

Survey of research on the relationship between language and culture, and the many ways the study of language has enhanced understanding of the nature of culture. Course material drawn from anthropology's four traditional subdisciplines (cultural, linguistic, prehistoric archaeology, and physical), as well as neighboring fields such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, literary theory, and ethnology.

Explores the wide variety of cultural interpretations of health, illness, and curing. Examines a number of different curing systems, both traditional and modern, and compares them with cosmopolitan biomedicine. Several book-length case studies cover a wide variety of cultural groups, health topics, and theoretical orientations.

All internships must be approved by faculty advisor to ensure suitability to the student's course of study. Introduction to applied anthropology through approved work and study at a museum, institute, agency, or other approved site.

Explores current issues and debates in sociocultural anthropology.

Contemporary research developments and the ways in which various scientific disciplines and theoretical approaches are integrated in the study of biocultural evolution, adaptation, and diversity.

Explores power and social conflict through the lens of cultural analysis. Special attention to the role of cultural differences in the structuring of conflict and the deployment of cultural theory in formulating a practice of conflict resolution.

"Genre" refers to kind, sort, or type. Course surveys the various modes of representation anthropologists use in elaborating participant-observation field work, as well as how these styles refer to and construct ethnographic "others." Explores a set of central philosophical and methodological issues in social-cultural anthropology such as framing, perspective, authority, reflexivity, and politics of style.

Utilizes interdisciplinary material within an overall anthropological perspective on body meanings and practices. Readings highlight questions of political economy and history, focusing on specific ethnographic or historical contexts, to develop an understanding of how gender, sexuality, race, and class become analytically distinct yet intertwined systems of meaning and practice.

Capstone research project conducted under the supervision of a faculty project director and project evaluation committee. Project should be a substantial contribution to anthropological knowledge and is in lieu of a thesis.

Public forum for the presentation and discussion of contemporary anthropological research.

Work on research proposal that forms basis for master's thesis or project.

Master's thesis research and writing under direction of thesis committee.

In-depth study of peoples and cultures of a specific world region (Latin America, East Asia, the Pacific, or United States). Content may include cultures defined by diaspora, migration, and other global forces and processes.

Explores current issues and debates in sociocultural anthropology.