Spring 2025

Survey of the impact of public institutions, private interests and cultural practices on health and the delivery of health care.

Foundations of the human species. Examination of scientific evidence from Darwinian theory, primate behavior, fossils, and the behavior of modern people. Laboratory. Duplicates credit in former ANTH 200Lg.

Archaeology as the means of investigating our shared human past, from the origins of humanity to the foundations of current civilization.

The effects of globalization on social life in diverse communities, approaching related issues from an ethnographic perspective. Gateway course for the Global Studies Major.

Introduces students to anthropological inquiry into human relationships with the environment and provides foundational training in qualitative research methods to investigate environmental issues.

Southeast Asia is studied as a meeting place of different races and cultural traditions, with emphasis on the precolonial heritage of sexual equality and postcolonial reinterpretations of men's and women's worlds.

Explore personal narratives: Stories people tell about their own lives and experiences as objects of artistic expression and sites for formation of individual and social identity.

Concepts of social anthropology, using filmic representations of societies throughout the world. Gateway course for the Anthropology major.

Behavior and ecology of living nonhuman primates, with an emphasis on field studies of apes and monkeys. Topics include aggression, communication, reproduction and cognition.

Pre-Columbian culture from early hunters to the Spanish conquest in major geographical areas of Mexico, Central America, Peru or the United States.

Explores Latinx food in Los Angeles through an anthropological lens. Students experience, document and analyze local food knowledge and traditions through active field study.

Explores the meaning, organization and materiality of water from a variety of cultural, national, economic and scientific perspectives. Includes opportunities for independent research.

A seminar forum on Maya culture from the earliest form to thepresent; problems of origins, classic florescence, systemscollapse, conquests, persistance, and transformation today.

Indigenous peoples of North America: major cultural themes, contemporary issues, language revitalization, native sovereignty, environmental issues, decolonization.

Methods for field research in international settings include ethnography, archival work, surveying and documentation; preparation for overseas research and senior thesis. Recommended preparation: ANTH-205.

Course explores collections and archives through ethnographic methods, cultural history and media production.

Introduction to folklore as a discipline, including folklore research methods and theory. Core course for the minor in Folklore and Popular Culture.

An introduction to the field of heritage studies as it is practiced today, examining archaeological, ethnohistorical and ethnographic theory and methodologies, mixed-methods approaches and research.

The comparative analysis of genocide in different cultures and historical moments as well as different cultural responses to it, including human rights and humanitarianism.

Comparative examination of family and kinship in tribal, peasant, and complex societies, emphasizing non-Western cultures, societal and normative consequences of forms and functions in family.

Youth gang dynamics and their effects on institutions. Comparative analysis of Asian, African, and Mexican American gangs.

Analysis of the practices of witches and witch doctors, priests, diviners and traditional healers in Western and non-Western societies, relating their practices to religion and medicine.

Real-world work experience in an internship position, while also learning to apply anthropological theory and research methods to complete a related research project. Enrollment requires permission from department.

Introduction to key environmental and political challenges facing the contemporary Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Evolutionary, cultural, and environmental factors in the emergence and existence of diseases; a Darwinian examination of illness in the human species.

Historical and theoretical approaches to major issues in the field of human evolutionary biology. Capstone course in which students will undertake an original independent research project.

Social analysis of qualitative and ethnographic research data, advanced ethnographic writing and representation. Capstone course for Anthropology Major.

An examination of anthropological research on race and African American culture, from the 18th century to the present.

The interaction of archaeology and contemporary societies through political and moral claims; archaeologists' role as stewards and interpreters of ancient cultures and their remains. Capstone course for the Archaeology major.

Projects in practicing anthropology across multiple media, making ethnographic research and anthropological knowledge collaborative, public and scalable in new ways.

Provides senior Global Studies majors with the practical and theoretical skills needed to complete the required Senior Capstone project in Global Studies.

Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.

Individually guided research and readings culminating in the production of an honors thesis. prerequisite: 3.0 gpa; 201g plus 8 units of upper division ANTH courses.

Explores the emergence and transformation of modern anthropology as an empirically based, but theoretically informed, practice of knowledge production about human sociality and culture.

Women and immigration, employment, and household and family relations in the context of the global economy; women's social and political movements in diverse cultural contexts.

Major approaches to ethnographic fieldwork are explored in classic cases.

Writing proposals is an essential skill for anthropologists in academia and beyond. Provides familiarity with research grant proposals.

Research leading to the master's degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded C/NC.

Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum number of units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.