Inventory of Undergraduate Courses

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*Courses marked with an asterisk (*) are not counted toward the requirement of no fewer than 24 credits in advanced courses for majors in this department.

+Students may take no more than three credits of mini-courses in this department.

§Independent work means not less than three additional hours each week of conference, research, independent reading, and writing as assigned by the instructor. The student's grade is determined in part by successful completion of this independent work.

Beginning in the Spring 2010 semester, the college will be transitioning to a new course numbering system in preparation for the migration to the CUNYfirst platform. New course numbers are provided in the parenthesis after the "/" symbol.

• Language and Media (16.5 / ANTH 3320)
• Endangered Languages, Heritage Languages, and Cultural Consequences (18.5 / ANTH 3360)
• Language and Culture (19 / ANTH 3301)
• Anthropology of Language, Sex, and Gender (19.5 / ANTH 3310)
• Europe (63 / ANTH 3550)

Introductory & general courses
• Mini-Course in Selected Topics in Anthropology (*0.3 / ANTH 1008)
• On Being Human: An Introduction to Anthropology (*1 / ANTH 1001)
• Readings in Anthropological Studies (1.05 / ANTH 1005)
• Researching the Literature in Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology (1.06 / ANTH 1006)
• Introduction to Archaeology (2.2 / ANTH 2401)
• Archaeology Laboratory (2.21 / ANTH 2402)
• Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (2.3 / ANTH 2301)
• Introduction to Physical Anthropology (2.4 / ANTH 2201)
• Anthropology of Race (5 / ANTH 2215)
• Forensic Anthropology: A Digital Approach (5.5 / ANTH 2205)
• Anthropological Perspectives on Sexual Behavior (6 / ANTH 2210)
• Great Discoveries in Archaeology (7 / ANTH 2407)
• Archaeology in Biblical Lands (7.5 / ANTH 2408)
• Special Topics in Anthropology (10 / ANTH 3010)
• Special Topics in Peoples and Cultures of Selected Areas (11 / ANTH 3500)
• People, Nature, and Culture (13 / ANTH 3430)
• Case Studies in Anthropology (13.5 / ANTH 2010)
• Anthropology of Health and Disease (14 / ANTH 3150)
• Anthropology of Food (14.6 / ANTH 3140)
• Introduction to Ethnography (15.5 / ANTH 3120)
• Primate Behavior (16 / ANTH 3230)

Archaeology
• Approaches to Archaeological Theory (21 / ANTH 3410)
• World Prehistory (22 / ANTH 3412)
• Old World Archaeology (22.1 / ANTH 3415)
• Urban Archaeology (23 / ANTH 3420)
• Urban Archaeology (23.5 / ANTH 3450)

Physical anthropology
• Human Osteology (24.1 / ANTH 3240)
• Introduction to Zooarchaeology (24.2 / ANTH 3440)
• Human Paleontology (26.1 / ANTH 3250)
• Human Variation (26.2 / ANTH 3260)

Cultural anthropology
• Ethnographic Theory and Methods (30.5W / ANTH 4104)
• Women: Anthropological Perspectives (31 / ANTH 3170)
• Political Anthropology (34 / ANTH 3160)
• Health and Globalization (34.5 / ANTH 3155)
• Urban Anthropology (37 / ANTH 3130)
• The American Urban Experience: Anthropological Perspectives (37.5 / ANTH 3135)
• Anthropology of Visual and Performing Arts (41 / ANTH 3180)
• Anthropology of Religion (42 / ANTH 3185)

Peoples and cultures
• The Pacific (50 / ANTH 3540)
• North American Indians:Traditional and Contemporary (52 / ANTH 3510)
• The Middle East and North Africa (61 / ANTH 3530)
• Latin America (68 / ANTH 3520)

Theory and method
• Summer Archaeological Field School (Intensive Program) (70.1 / ANTH 3470)
• Intersession Archaeological Field School (70.15 / ANTH 3480)
• Archaeological Field School: Site Supervision (70.2 / ANTH 3475)
• Summer Ethnographic Field School (72.1 / ANTH 4110)

Seminars
• Seminar I (75.1 / ANTH 4630)
• Seminar II (75.2 / ANTH 4631)
• Seminar in Museum Techniques (76 / ANTH 4635)
• Seminar in Anthropological Theory (77 / ANTH 4601)
• Preprofessional Internships (78 / ANTH 4650)

Honors courses
• Independent Research I (83.1 / ANTH 5660)
• Independent Research II (83.2 / ANTH 5661)
• Colloquium in Psychological Anthropology (85.3 / ANTH 4665)
• Independent Study (88 / ANTH 5688)

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