The Anthropology Department offers numerous courses each semester that cover a broad range of topical areas within the three fields of Anthropology: Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, and Cultural Anthropology. Please visit this site often as the contents are updated for each semester's course offerings.
Please visit the Graduate Course Catalog for more information on our graduate program, and the concentration specific pages for all of our Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, and Cultural Anthropology courses.
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Anthropology 5304 | Sociolinguistics
Field | Cultural Anthropology
Term | Summer 2 & Fall 2026The focus of this course is on the complex interrelationships between language and other aspects of culture. Methods of sociolinguistics, theories of sociolinguistics, and current issues regarding the nature of language variation and change will be emphasized.
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Anthropology 5305 | Anthropological Statistics
Field | General Anthropology (Core)
Term | Fall 2026In this course students will learn how to statistically analyze anthropological data. Students will gain a firm understanding of basic quantitative statistics, will be able to evaluate quantitative methods presented in anthropological research papers, and will be prepared for classes in more advanced statistical methods.
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Anthropology 5308 | Cultural Resource Management and Archaeology
Field | Archaeology
Term | Fall 2026In this course students will examine various topics relevant to cultural resource management including state and federal laws, survey, testing, mitigation, and developing final reports.
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Anthropology 5311 | Seminar in Cultural Anthropology
Field | Cultural Anthropology
Term | Fall 2026In this course, students will learn the historical foundations of cultural anthropology, its key theories and methods, and examples of its contemporary practice. Topics will include evolutionism, functionalism, structuralism, ethnoscience, neo-Marxism, postmodernism, and modernity.
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Anthropology 5313 | Seminar in Archaeology
Field | Archaeology
Term | Fall 2026In this course, students will learn the historical foundations of archaeology, its key theories and methods, and examples of its contemporary practice in New World and Old World archaeology.
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Anthropology 5333 | Research Design in Biological Anthropology
Field | Biological Anthropology
Term | Fall 2026This course provides students with an introduction to the principles and processes by which research projects in biological anthropology are devised and executed. It focuses on the issues of finding a topic to research, defining its scope and limitations, developing a research bibliography, and elaborating a research design.
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Anthropology 5357 | Historical Archaeology
Field | Archaeology
Term | Fall 2026This course is an advanced survey of historical archaeology methods and theories that will intensively examine current trends in historical archaeology. Students will also be exposed to the material culture from historic period archaeological sites in Texas and North America.
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Anthropology 5373J | Dental Anthropology and Oral Biology
Field | Biological Anthropology
Term | Fall 2026The biological development of the cranio-facial structures will be presented with emphasis on hard tissue anatomy and diseases. Dental traits will be discussed in relation to human evolutionary concepts. Forensic methods that support identification of human remains are emphasized. This course is appropriate for anthropology students and pre-professional dentistry.
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Anthropology 5376 | Advanced Methods in Skeletal Biology, Part II
Field | Biological Anthropology
Term | Fall 2026This course focuses on technical case report writing and evidentiary best practices in forensic anthropological analysis of human skeletal remains. In addition to biological profile estimation techniques, research methods and theoretical foundations used for trauma analysis and taphonomic interpretation will be reviewed.
Prerequisite: ANTH 5375 with a grade of "C" or better.
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Anthropology 5382 | Archaeology of the Earliest Americans
Field | Archaeology
Term | Fall 2026This course focuses on the scientific story of the first Americans: where they came from, when they arrived, and how they met the challenges of moving across the vast, unknown landscapes of North America. Topics include exploring the hemisphere's oldest sites and how people coped with changing global climates.
