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A new set of undergraduate courses is being introduced in the Department of Anthropology for the fall of 2025. This set of courses is characterized by its multifaceted, passionate, and rigorous exploration of social, technological, and political change, in addition to the profoundly fascinating question of what it means to be human today.
- ANT 288 Refugees: Seeking Protection Amid Crisis and Disaster with new faculty member Professor of Anthropology, Arzoo Osanloo
- ANT 370 Human Rights and Post-Conflict Justice with Richard Ashby Wilson, a new faculty member in the Department of Anthropology
- ANT 375 Economic Anthropology with Julia Elyachar, Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Institute for International and Regional Studies
- ANT 409/ HUM 404 Colonialism on Display: Museums, Archives, and Memory in Palestine with Belknap Visiting Associate Professor in the Humanities Council and Department of Anthropology, Rana Barakat
In addition to these new courses, the Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce the return of courses that address crucial topics:
- ANT 211 Surveillance, Technoscience, and Society with Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Richard Stockton Bicentennial Preceptor, Beth Semel
- ANT 219/ ENV 219 Catastrophes across Cultures: The Anthropology of Disasterwith Assistant Professor and Richard Stockton Bicentennial Preceptor, Ryo Morimoto
- ANT 403/ AAS 403/ GHP 403 Race and Medicine with Ritter Professor of Anthropology, Carolyn Rouse
Our courses have a pulse on the present, providing students with an in-depth understanding of some of today's most pressing issues from a people-centered and comparative perspective. Anthropology's extensive array of subjects is further enriched by a selection of cross-listed courses offered this fall in collaboration with the School of Public and International Affairs, East Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, Latino Studies, African American Studies, the Keller Center and the Humanities Council.
Consider taking some of these thought-provoking and popular courses:
- ANT 201 Introduction to Anthropology
- ANT 232/ GSS 232/ HUM 323/ SAS 232 Love: Anthropological Explorations
- ANT 261/ HUM 262 Differences: The Anthropology of Disability
- ANT 264/ HUM 264 Violence
- ANT 302/ ENT 302 Ethnography for Research and Design
- ANT 311/ LAS 335 Food, Culture & Society
- ANT 321/ GHP 321 Anthropology of Mental Health
- ANT 337/ GSS 279 Queer Becomings
- ANT 339/ GSS 323 Behavioral Biology of Women
- ANT 437/ AAS 437 Gaming Blackness: The Anthropology of Video Games and Race
As an Anthropology major, you will have the opportunity to learn from an outstanding faculty in these dynamic core courses, which are designed to foster individual and collective flourishing and to support creative, independent work: