Courses without prerequisites
- ANTH 100 - Introduction to Anthropology
- ANTH 105 - Prehistoric Peoples and Places
- ANTH 106 - Technologies of Being Human
- ANTH 201 - Introduction to Archaeology
- ANTH 202 - Social and Cultural Anthropology
- ANTH 204 - Biological Anthropology
- ANTH 221 - Language and Society
- ANTH 222 - Anthropologies of the Body
- ANTH 241 - Food as Culture
- ANTH 251 - Doing Ethnography
- ANTH 272 - Issues in Contemporary Indigenous Communities in Canada
- ANTH 289 - Special Topics in Anthropology
- ANTH 290 - Visual Anthropology
- ANTH 311 - Anthropology of Religion
Advanced courses
- ANTH 305 - Paleopathology of Health and Disease
- ANTH 320 - Hunter Gatherer Archaeology
- ANTH 322 - The Archaeology of the Great Lakes Area
- ANTH 330 - Environmental Anthropology
- ANTH 347 - Medical Anthropology
- ANTH 350 - Anthropology of Gender
- ANTH 355 - Human Osteology
- ANTH 377 - Dental Anthropology
- ANTH 381 - Anthropology of South Asia
- ANTH 440 - Archaeological Analysis and Interpretation
- ANTH 447 - Global Health and Medical Anthropology
- ANTH 455 - Skeletal Biology and Forensics
- ANTH 465 - Borders, Boundaries, and Crossings
When will these courses be offered?
Please see the additional info tab at the bottom of this page for more information about how course offerings are structured for each semester.
Future course offerings by academic year
Check out our tentative schedules for future academic years.
Please note: Every effort will be made to adhere to this schedule but unforeseen circumstances may force us to change some course offerings. We will keep this list as up-to-date as possible. Most of these courses will be offered in the Fall and Winter terms, although we will attempt to offer courses in the Spring term when possible. Students who cannot find a desired ANTH course to take in a particular term are encouraged to consult the list we have assembled of non-ANTH courses chosen to be of benefit to students majoring in Anthropology.
2026/2027
- ANTH 100
- ANTH 201
- ANTH 202
- ANTH 204
- ANTH 221
- ANTH 241
- ANTH 305
- ANTH 311
- ANTH 330
- ANTH 355
- ANTH 377
- ANTH 415 or 440
At least three additional courses from the "as often as possible" list
2027/2028
- ANTH 100
- ANTH 201
- ANTH 202
- ANTH 204
- ANTH 222
- ANTH 309 or 322
- ANTH 320 or 321
- ANTH 347/447
- ANTH 355
- ANTH 365
- ANTH 382
- ANTH 455
At least three additional courses from the "as often as possible" list
Important course offerings information
Because Anthropology cannot offer every one of its upper-year undergraduate courses every year, in the Fall of 2024 Anthropology regularized its course offerings so that students would know up to two years in advance when specific ANTH courses will be offered. We therefore identified five undergraduate courses that we plan to offer at least once every year:
- ANTH 100
- ANTH 201
- ANTH 202
- ANTH 204
- ANTH 355
We have identified 13 additional courses that we plan to offer every second year, so that every student will have an opportunity in either their third or fourth year to take any of them:
- ANTH 221
- ANTH 222
- ANTH 241
- ANTH 305
- ANTH 309
- ANTH 322
- ANTH 311
- ANTH 330
- ANTH 347/447
- ANTH 365
- ANTH 377
- ANTH 382
- ANTH 415 or ANTH 440
- ANTH 455
We will offer the remaining ANTH courses in the calendar "as often as possible" but it is likely that several years may pass between offerings:
- ANTH 106
- ANTH 245
- ANTH 251
- ANTH 272
- ANTH 290
- ANTH 292
- ANTH 303
- ANTH 312
- ANTH 331
- ANTH 350
- ANTH 372
- ANTH 381
- ANTH 430
- ANTH 465
Undergraduate Academic Calendar
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