Course Offerings
Anthropology Course Offerings 2018/19
AN100: Cultures Today
AN200: Theories of Culture
AN210: Intercultural Competencies
AN211/RE211: Indigenous Religions
A study of indigenous practices and worldviews. Examples are selected from North, Central or South America. The course considers current writings, controversies and basic methodological problems in studying the traditions of people indigenous to the Americas.
AN224: Anthropology of the Lifecourse
An introduction to cross-cultural perspectives on human development and aging, beginning with conception and proceeding through infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, elderhood and death.
AN232f: Factory Life
Special topics course.
AN243: Law, Culture and Society
This course provides an introduction to the anthropology of law and its comparative and cultural dimensions. It examines the changing dynamics of law and the practical applications of anthropological insights in the resolution of cultural and legal rights issues in contemporary societies.
AN300: Ethnographic Methods
AN307u: Animals and People
Special topics course.
AN336: Culture, Power and Politics
This course introduces students to the major contemporary approaches to the study of politics and power in anthropology. Topics to be addressed include the state, civil society, citizenship, ethnicity, race and nationalism, sovereignty and violence.
AN344: Writing Cultures
An exploration of issues arising from writing about the experience and interpretation of ethnographic fieldwork. Aspects of representation such as writing and using fieldnotes, style, structure, techniques of persuasion, fictionalization and reflexivity will be examined. Students will also learn about historical experiments with surrealism, poetry and fiction.
AN347: Science, Technology and Culture
This course introduces anthropological approaches to technology and science. It questions strictly technical perspectives by raising issues of power, association, legitimacy and design. A central focus is the 'cyborg', a real and imagined meeting-place between the body and technology that has implications for biomedicine, biocommerce, and computers in the present and the future.
AN355/GS355: Indigenous Peoples in Global Context
A selective introduction to the nations, cultures, and histories of Indigenous peoples today. Students learn about the ongoing struggles of Indigenous peoples and the contemporary relevance of Indigeneity in a globalizing world, engaging with important concepts, including settler colonialism, extractive capitalism, territorialisation, and environmentalism. The course also discusses the ways in which Indigenous communities respond, resist, and adapt to the forces around them.
AN400: Doing Fieldwork
AN456: Applied Anthropology
This course examines how cultural anthropologists apply their theories, methods and insights to the solution of practical problems. The historical development of applied anthropology, the ethical dilemmas of applied fieldwork and the research methods used in such fieldwork will be examined. Such areas of concentration as community development, advocacy anthropology, policy research and social impact assessment are investigated.
Anthropology-Approved Courses
As part of their anthropology degree, students can take up to 1.0 credit worth of Anthropology-approved courses in other programs in the Faculty of Arts. See the LORIS dynamic schedule for current course offerings.
Community Engagement
- CMEG300: Introduction to Community Engagement
- CMEG301: Social Inclusion, Local Democracy and Community Enterprise
- CMEG305*: Semester in Community Engagement
Communication Studies
- CS202: Nonverbal Communication
- CS212: Language, Communication and Culture
English
- EN220: Reading Culture: Strategies and Approaches
- ES295: Ecotourism and the Environment
Global Studies
- GS201: Theories in Global Studies
- GS220: Being Human: Cultural Analysis in a Global Age
- GS221: Globalization and Cultures: The Cosmopolitan Village?
- GS355: Indigenous Peoples in Global Context
- GS361: Disasters and Development
History
- HI389/MU310: Music, Sound and Environment
Mediterranean Studies
- MI201: Mediterranean Culture and Civilization I
- MI202: Mediterranean Culture and Civilization II
Religion and Culture
- RE211: Indigenous Religions
- RE285: Religion and Culture of the African Diaspora
- RE308: Conducting Fieldwork
- RE333: Food and Religion
Languages and Literatures
- SP220: Topics in Spanish Culture
Sociology
- SY332: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
- SY338: Women and Development
Women and Gender Studies
- WS212: Food and Feminism