Current Undergraduate Courses
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 semesters course offerings.
Please visit the Undergraduate Course Catalog for more information on all of our course offerings.
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- Anthropology 1312 | Cultural Anthropology
Field | Cultural Anthropology
Term | Summer 1 and Fall, 2022In this course students examine the nature of cultural variation of populations in the present and recent past. Its subjects include social, political, economic, and ideological aspects of human cultures.
- Anthropology 2301/2101 | Biological Anthropology
Field | Biological Anthropology
Term | Summer 1 and Fall, 2022This lecture and accompanying laboratory course examine fundamental aspects of the biological nature of humans. Course content is divided into topics devoted to explaining the scientific method, evolutionary theory, genetics, speciation, variation and adaptation, nonhuman primates, and human evolution.
- Anthropology 2302/2102 | Introduction to Archaeology
Field | Archaeology
Term | Summer 2 and Fall, 2022This lecture and accompanying laboratory course examine the basic principles of archaeology. It includes a study of the kinds of sites; classification of stone artifacts; methods of archaeological survey and excavation; methods of dating by geological, faunal, and radiometric means; and the theoretical approach to archaeology.
- Anthropology 3101 | Writing Anthropology
Field | Cultural Anthropology
Term | Fall 2022This course offers tutelage in professional scholarly writing, word processing software, library research, scientific and ethnographic writing styles, and effective use of anthropological literature. Because it provides core skills presupposed by advanced anthropology courses, students should enroll in it alongside their first writing-intensive anthropology electives.
- Anthropology 3201 | Professionalization in Anthropology
Field | Cultural Anthropology
Term | Fall 2022This course surveys the breadth of careers open to people holding anthropology degrees. Issues discussed include professional ethics, specialized skill sets, the transferable skills of liberal arts degrees, broad trends in the labor market, and steps toward pursuing relevant careers.
- Anthropology 3301 | Principles of Cultural Anthropology
Field | Cultural Anthropology
Term | Fall 2022This course is an ethnographically-based analysis of major theoretical positions and debates in contemporary anthropology.
- Anthropology 3302 | Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Field | Cultural Anthropology
Term | Summer 1 and Fall 2022This course provides an introduction to the study of linguistic anthropology. We will focus on the origin of language and its evolution and diversity, the interactions between language, culture and society, and modes of communication. This course will enhance a student’s awareness of the complex interrelationships between language and other aspects of culture.
- Anthropology 3305 | Magic, Ritual and Religion
Field | Archaeology
Term | Summer 2, 2022An examination of magic and religion in cultures of the world with an emphasis on recent works dealing with mysticism and the occult.
- Anthropology 3306 | World Prehistory
Field | Biological Anthropology
Term | Fall 2022This course presents a survey of the prehistoric human record throughout the world. It focuses upon the achievements of early and modern humans, world colonization events, and the development of complex societies.
- Anthropology 3307 | History of Evolutionary Thought
Field | Biological Anthropology
Term | Fall 2022This course discusses the impact of evolutionary discourse within the context of its history. Students will develop a thorough understanding of evolution and its importance to anthropology, as well as to other scientific disciplines.
- Anthropology 3313 | Aztec: Native Americans and Empire
Field | Archaeology
Term | Fall 2022This course presents an understanding of Aztec culture through archaeology, the interpretation of art, religion, and architecture, and the formation of a highly specialized and stratified society with an imperial administration. The course will emphasize an intellectual and religious outlook in intimate contact with the earth, sky, and the seasons.
- Anthropology 3318 | Texas Archaeology
Field | Archaeology
Term | Fall 2022This course will present our current understanding of Texas archaeology. The environmental and social contexts of prehistoric, protohistoric, and historic records of Native American and Spanish occupations in Texas are discussed.
Prerequisites: ANTH 2415 with a grade of "D" or better.
- Anthropology 3319 | Human Growth and Developmen
Field | Biological Anthropology
Term | Fall 2022In this course students focus on the life history of humans from birth to death, and consider how humans grow and change both biologically and psychologically over the course of their lives. Topics include life stages, sex differences, nutrition, environment, growth disorders, and the evolution of human growth.
- Anthropology 3322 | Peoples and Cultures of Africa
Field | Cultural Anthropology
Term | Fall 2022This course is a general introduction to the contemporary peoples and cultures of Africa. Students will examine the social structure, economy, political systems, and religions of African cultures in the context of the radical economic and social transformations affecting the area.
- Anthropology 3324 | Mexican American Culture
Field | Cultural Anthropology
Term | Fall 2022An examination of the history and culture of Mexican Americans with an emphasis on the analytical concepts of culture, race, class, and gender. Lectures, films, and selected readings (including chapters from anthropological and literary books and journals) will be used to portray the diversity of Mexican American experiences in this country. Topics include religion, politics, economy, identity politics, popular culture, sexuality, marriage and the family.
- Anthropology 3340 | Human and Primate Origins
Field | Biological Anthropology
Term | Fall 2022An examination of the long and diverse record of human and nonhuman biological adaptations as viewed from the fossil record. It examines the functional and ecological challenges that may have been responsible for the path of human development.
- Anthropology 3342 | Primate Behavior
Field | Biological Anthropology
Term | Fall 2022In this course, students will learn about the behavior, ecology and conservation of nonhuman primates (lemurs, lorises, monkeys, and apes).
- Anthropology 3345 | Archaeology of Mexico
Field | Archaeology
Term | Fall 2022This course examines the development of culture from early hunters and gatherers through the appearance of agriculture to the rise of civilization. The focus of the course is on the emergence of complex society among groups such as the Olmec, Aztec, and Maya.
- Anthropology 3356 | Archaeology of Andean Civilizations
Field | Archaeology
Term | Fall 2022This course examines the cultures of the Andes Region of South America with an emphasis on pre-Columbian and contemporary peoples of the area.
- Anthropology 3358 | Human Evolutionary Anatomy
Field | Biological Anthropology
Term | Fall 2022This course is designed to give students an anatomical background to the study of human evolution with a focus on the comparative anatomy of apes, living humans, and fossil hominins.
- Anthropology 3380 | Forensic Anthropology
Field | Biological Anthropology
Term | Summer 2 and Fall 2022Forensic Anthropology is the recovery and analysis of human skeletal remains for modern legal inquiry. This course is an overview of the field of Forensic Anthropology illustrated with real forensic cases.
- Anthropology 4320 | Rise of Civilization
Field | Cultural Anthropology
Term | Summer 2, 2022This course consists of a definition of civilization and its components, its geographic setting, and the roles of religion, art, and the institution of the “Divine King” in the development of dynamic state societies in Egypt, Sumeria, the Indus Valley, and China in the Old World and that of the Olmec in Mexico and Chavin in Peru.
- Anthropology 4361 | Field Methods in Cultural Anthropology
Field | Cultural Anthropology
Term | Fall 2022This course teaches students how to conduct field research in cultural anthropology. Topics include research ethics, problem formulation, participant observation, interviewing, and other techniques for data collection and analysis. Students will conduct their own field research project under the instructor’s supervision.
- Anthropology 4382 | Methods in Skeletal Biology
Field | Biological Anthropology
Term | Fall 2022This course is for students who wish to advance their osteological skills. Students will learn how to identify isolated and fragmentary skeletal remains to estimate age, sex, ancestry, stature, and health of an individual in past and present contexts.