74 courses in Waterloo’s course catalog for 2021–22 (Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022), from UW Open Data. ucalendar asks programs not to read that year’s calendar, so this stands in for it. Original: ucalendar.uwaterloo.ca/2122/COURSE/course-ANTH.html
Anthropology aims at understanding what it is to be human and to examine how humanity is manifested in the diversity of cultures and societies across time and space. This course gives the student an overview of the breadth of anthropology and orients them toward thinking anthropologically in our shared worlds.
LEC · Course ID 014704On ucalendarANTH 100 today
LEC · Course ID 015651On ucalendarANTH 100W today
How did people live prior to the invention of writing and how do we know? This course will survey findings from several important archaeological sites from different parts of the world and different periods in time, in order to show how those questions can be answered.
LEC · Course ID 015846On ucalendarANTH 105 today
From walking on two feet to inventing tools, writing, machines, and medicines: who we are today is shaped by our technological past. In this course we discover this history and ask what it means for our present and future.
LEC · Course ID 015847On ucalendarANTH 106 today
An introduction to the working assumptions, analytic approaches, and integrative and descriptive methods of archaeological anthropology.
LEC · Course ID 003396On ucalendarANTH 201 today
This course introduces students to the history and key concepts of social and cultural anthropology through the examination of classic works as well as contemporary ethnographic texts and films. Topics include anthropological approaches to understanding cultural identity and difference, social structure, kinship, politics, and exchange.
LEC · Course ID 003399On ucalendarANTH 202 today
This course surveys the lines of inquiry in biological anthropology including evolutionary theory, anthropological genetics, primatology, hominin fossil record, osteology and skeletal biology, and modern human biocultural adaptations. A laboratory component provides students an experiential approach to the material.
Antireq: ANTH 260
LEC · Course ID 014705On ucalendarANTH 204 today
This course introduces students to the study of language and culture. Topics covered include language socialization, narrative, the politics of multilingualism, and hate speech.
LEC · Course ID 015376On ucalendarANTH 221 today
Drawing upon diverse anthropological perspectives, this course takes a holistic biocultural approach to exploring what human bodies are, what they are used for, by whom, for what purposes, and how we come to know such things.
LEC · Course ID 015489On ucalendarANTH 222 today
LEC · Course ID 013931On ucalendarANTH 224W today
LEC · Course ID 014118On ucalendarANTH 232W today
An examination of Inuit and Eskimo cultures of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland from their prehistoric origins to the present. Administrative systems imposed upon the Inuit and Eskimo will be analyzed and compared, as will the contemporary problems these communities face.
Prereq: Level at least 2A
LEC · Course ID 003422On ucalendarANTH 233 today
LEC · Course ID 013853On ucalendarANTH 237W today
The course addresses the topic of food from an anthropological perspective. It examines how the acquisition of food has shaped human biology and forms of social organization. Topics examined include the relationship of food to colonialism, political economy, ritual, and taboo.
LEC · Course ID 015375On ucalendarANTH 241 today
LEC · Course ID 011654On ucalendarANTH 242W today
This course examines anthropological approaches to the study of education. Topics include classroom discourse, social reproduction, development, citizenship, power, and governmentality.
LEC · Course ID 015579On ucalendarANTH 245 today
An examination of First Nations and Métis cultures and cultural development from the perspective of local Indigenous communities. The course will feature lectures, discussions, and occasional guest speakers representative of the wider Indigenous community.
LEC · Course ID 003945On ucalendarANTH 272 today
Analysis of a special topic in anthropology, as announced by the department. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of two times.]
Prereq: Level at least 2A
LEC · Course ID 015580On ucalendarANTH 289 today
This course examines relations between culture and vision, the history of photography in anthropological research, and ethnographic film and its ethical implications. Topics include the roles of museums and representation, indigenous media, advocacy, and activism.
LEC · Course ID 003432On ucalendarANTH 290 today
This course will provide a general introduction to how human remains have been used to reconstruct perspectives on life and death in ancient societies. Topics will include sex, gender and sexuality, cannibalism, human sacrifice, body modification, disease, and beliefs about the supernatural, among others.
LEC · Course ID 015848On ucalendarANTH 292 today
Thinking anthropologically means bringing observations and empirical findings into a dialogue with theoretical approaches. This course explores how anthropologists have developed the methods they use, considers how they interpret their findings through such lenses as functionalism and structuralism, and examines how they formulate critiques of fieldwork.
Prereq: ANTH 202
LEC · Course ID 003433On ucalendarANTH 300 today
This course examines diverse forms of digital media and associated practices anthropologically and inquires into the social orders and cultural assumptions that sustain them or are themselves sustained by them. Topics include social media, virtual worlds, and hacker activism.
Prereq: ANTH 202
LEC · Course ID 013560On ucalendarANTH 303 today
This course introduces students to the identification and interpretation of skeletal evidence for disease, ancient and modern concepts of health and disease, and current clinical interpretations of skeletal pathologies. Topics include pathology in archaeological remains and the process of developing a differential diagnosis of skeletal lesions.
LEC · Course ID 014127On ucalendarANTH 305 today
LEC · Course ID 003438On ucalendarANTH 307W today
This course examines past Indigenous lifeways in North America north of Mexico from the time of earliest settlement to contact with Europeans. It provides a broad survey of space-time systematics as well as conceptual, methodological, and ethical issues relevant to study of the North American archaeological record. [Note: Formerly ANTH 203]
LEC · Course ID 003401On ucalendarANTH 309 today
This course examines how religion has been studied as an object of anthropological inquiry. Topics may include ritual, magic, witchcraft, symbolism, cosmology, the relation between beliefs and practices, as well as the mutual influences of religion, politics, nationalism, and socioeconomic change.
LEC · Course ID 003440On ucalendarANTH 311 today
Detailed consideration of prehistoric cultural developments from earliest toolmaking to the transition to agriculture. An examination of the human mode of adaptation and the increasing complexity of cultural systems among prehistoric hunters and gatherers. Areas and periods of emphasis will vary from year to year.
LEC · Course ID 003445On ucalendarANTH 320 today
Cultural development from the agricultural revolution to the rise of literacy. Special attention to the development of agriculture as a means of subsistence and to the rise of early civilization. Areas and periods of emphasis will vary from year to year.
LEC · Course ID 003446On ucalendarANTH 321 today
An in-depth study of the archaeological evidence for prehistoric cultures in the Great Lakes area from their arrival ca. 11,000 years ago to the coming of Europeans. Cultural ecology and cultural evolution will be stressed.
LEC · Course ID 003448On ucalendarANTH 322 today
LEC · Course ID 011776On ucalendarANTH 322W today
LEC · Course ID 012600On ucalendarANTH 324W today
LEC · Course ID 012350On ucalendarANTH 326W today
This course examines the relationships between environments and human societies, focusing on the nature/culture divide and social and economic organization. Topics may include politics and practice, the influence of globalization, and regional perspectives.
Prereq: ANTH 202
LEC · Course ID 003452On ucalendarANTH 330 today
LEC · Course ID 012599On ucalendarANTH 334W today
A detailed examination of the prehistoric development of human adaptations to the Inuit-Eskimo region of Arctic North America, eastern Siberia, and Greenland. Topics covered will include the ecology of the Arctic and the culture history of the peoples who first colonized the region as revealed by archaeological research.
LEC · Course ID 009883On ucalendarANTH 335 today
LEC · Course ID 013151On ucalendarANTH 336W today
LEC · Course ID 012314On ucalendarANTH 341W today
LEC · Course ID 013427On ucalendarANTH 344W today
This course provides selected students with an opportunity to work (up to a maximum of eight hours per week over one term) as apprentices with a specific instructor on a research project in which the instructor is currently engaged. [Note: This is a non-paid position and may not be combined with sponsored research positions. Previous or external research experiences will not meet the criteria for this course. This course will be graded on a CR/NCR basis.]
Prereq: Level at least 3A Honours Anthropology
PRJ · Course ID 003460On ucalendarANTH 345 today
LEC · Course ID 014788On ucalendarANTH 346W today
This course teaches students the fundamentals of anthropological approaches to illness, health, medicine, and bioethics. It covers the history of medical anthropology as well as major movements, debates, and current topics. Topics include cross-cultural healing systems, social suffering, and concerns raised by new biomedical technologies and within global health.
Prereq: ANTH 202
LEC · Course ID 011871On ucalendarANTH 347 today
LEC · Course ID 015382On ucalendarANTH 347W today
This course examines the nature of tourism as cross-cultural contact and critiques the phenomena of mass travel and globalized tourism. The various perspectives of anthropologists and tourists in understanding culture will be explored.
LEC · Course ID 013324On ucalendarANTH 348 today
This course examines anthropological perspectives on variations in gender roles and systems through the comparison of ethnographies. Topics include the relationship of gender to social organization, sexuality, economic and political processes, belief systems, and social movements.
Prereq: ANTH 202
LEC · Course ID 003461On ucalendarANTH 350 today
Taught at Wilfrid Laurier University. Refer to WLU Undergraduate Calendar for course description.
LEC · Course ID 016112On ucalendarANTH 350W today
A laboratory course in the anatomy and function of the human skeleton with an emphasis on recovering and identifying skeletal remains from archaeological and forensic contexts.
SEM · Course ID 009886On ucalendarANTH 355 today
Taught at Wilfrid Laurier University. Refer to WLU calendar for details.
LEC · Course ID 003481On ucalendarANTH 356W today
This course reviews the evolutionary history of humans. It includes an examination of the hominin fossil record, evidence from genetic analyses, and behavioural inferences that have been drawn from nonhuman primate models. Emphasis is placed on the process of knowledge production and interpretation, and the representation of human evolution in the public realm.
LEC · Course ID 003466On ucalendarANTH 365 today
Introduction to Osteology
LEC · Course ID 016041On ucalendarANTH 370W today
This course features a combination of academic content and field experience. [Note: Additional fees required. This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of two times.]
FLD · Course ID 012624On ucalendarANTH 371 today
Data gathering techniques are studied and applied in field work on archaeological sites. [Note: Additional fees required. Enrolment is limited.]
LEC · Course ID 014707On ucalendarANTH 372 today
This course introduces students to the analysis of human teeth, which is of central importance to paleopathology, paleoanthropology, forensic science, and contemporary human biomonitoring research. Students will also gain hands-on experience with laboratory techniques as they explore how to address anthropological questions with their data.
Prereq: ANTH 204
LEC · Course ID 015712On ucalendarANTH 377 today
An introduction to culture and society in South Asia, focusing on caste, kinship, gender, religion, material culture, regional and national identity, ethnic conflict, globalization, and life in the diaspora.
Prereq: ANTH 202
LEC · Course ID 014706On ucalendarANTH 381 today
This course explores cultural and social change in contemporary China, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, and global migration. Topics include politics, identity, medicine and disease, urbanization, food security, post-colonialism, and transnationalism.
Prereq: ANTH 202
LEC · Course ID 014709On ucalendarANTH 382 today
Analysis of a special topic in anthropology, as announced by the department. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of two times.]
Prereq: Level at least 3A
LEC · Course ID 015581On ucalendarANTH 389 today
Student-initiated independent research on a selected topic. A high standard of written work is required. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of two times.]
Prereq: Level at least 3A Honours Anthropology
RDG · Course ID 003473On ucalendarANTH 391 today
This course features a combination of academic study and first-hand field study of cultures and visits to or work experience at museums and archaeological sites. [Note: Field trip fee may be required. This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of two times.]
Prereq: at least 1.0 unit in ANTH
LEC · Course ID 012749On ucalendarANTH 395 today
LEC · Course ID 015316On ucalendarANTH 400W today
This course examines the ways in which past peoples experienced, transformed, remembered, represented, and controlled landscapes. Readings and discussions emphasize both contemporary theoretical approaches and case studies from various settings in an effort to illuminate the social, political, economic, and ideological dimensions of landscape.
SEM · Course ID 015097On ucalendarANTH 415 today
An examination of science as being constituted by practices which are inevitably social and cultural, as well as of scientific expertise in contemporary issues of new technology, biomedicine, and environmental conflict.
Prereq: Level at least 4A
LEC · Course ID 014710On ucalendarANTH 430 today
A study of contemporary archaeological method and theory with emphasis on the process of deriving inferences concerning past peoples and societies from different kinds of archaeological materials and data. Students will be required to carry out an analysis of an actual archaeological assemblage. Specific topics will vary from year to year.
SEM · Course ID 009885On ucalendarANTH 440 today
This course is an exploration of global health in anthropological perspective. It includes case studies as well as theoretical and critical readings on global health topics.
Prereq: Level at least 3A
SEM · Course ID 014711On ucalendarANTH 447 today
LEC · Course ID 012610On ucalendarANTH 450W today
This laboratory course focuses on the evaluation of human skeletal remains in archaeological and forensic contexts. Topics include determination of basic biological categories, e.g., age, sex, race, evaluation of paleopathological conditions, and aspects of forensic anthropology.
LEC · Course ID 011982On ucalendarANTH 455 today
LEC · Course ID 003480On ucalendarANTH 455W today
LEC · Course ID 014131On ucalendarANTH 458W today
LEC · Course ID 012638On ucalendarANTH 461W today
LEC · Course ID 013924On ucalendarANTH 463W today
This seminar covers anthropological perspectives on the relationship between state borders and socio-cultural boundaries (across race, gender, class, language, and religion). Readings include ethnographies about contested borders, border dwellers, and border crossers.
SEM · Course ID 015374On ucalendarANTH 465 today
LEC · Course ID 014216On ucalendarANTH 465W today
Analysis of a special topic in anthropology, as announced by the department. [Note: This is a repeatable course, subject to different content; it may be completed a total of two times. Formerly ANTH 400.]
Prereq: Level at least 4A
SEM · Course ID 003475On ucalendarANTH 489 today
This course explores themes of current anthropological research as they intersect across the major subfields of the discipline. Topics may vary. [Note: The department chair is the course co-ordinator. This course cannot be substituted for other 400-level plan requirements. Course will be graded on a CR/NCR basis.]
Prereq: Level at least 4A; Anthropology majors only
LEC · Course ID 014712On ucalendarANTH 498 today
Directed reading and research in a selected area of anthropology inquiry.
Prereq: Anthropology majors only; 80% cumulative ANTH average
PRJ · Course ID 003489On ucalendarANTH 499A today
Directed reading and research in a selected area of anthropology inquiry.
Prereq: Anthropology majors only; 80% cumulative ANTH average
PRJ · Course ID 003490On ucalendarANTH 499B today