Program Overview

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Anthropology (ANTH)

Course Fees

Some courses may carry fees beyond the standard tuition costs to cover additional support or materials. Program-, subject- and course-specific fee information can be found on the Office of the Bursar website.

ANTH 507. Space, Place and Culture

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status, or consent of instructor.
• Description: This course is organized around the question of how culture is spatially distributed. How are specific spaces and places constructed, connected, and interpreted through cultural practices?

ANTH 508. History of Anthropology - CUE, WR

• Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
• Prerequisite(s): Anthropology majors or consent from instructor, and 18 hours of Anthropology credits.
• Description: The course provides an integrated introduction to a history of theory and practice in anthropology. Interleaving examples from cultural, archaeological, and biological anthropology, the course delves into understanding anthropological work as the production of knowledge.

ANTH 509. Archaeological Theory and Methods - WR

• Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior status, and 18 hours of Anthropology credits.
• Description: Archaeological theory and methods emphasizing basic practices and procedures in research skills and writing in archaeology.

ANTH 510. Methods in Biological Anthropology - WR

• Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
• Prerequisite(s): ANTH 202, and either ANTH 303 or ANTH 353 or Junior status.
• Description: Bio-anthro methods, general approaches to research, and data management skills. Covers anthropometric variation and analysis of molecular data.

ANTH 511. Ethnographic Methods - WR

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior status, and 18 hours of Anthropology credits.
• Description: Explores the range of qualitative research methods and techniques. Emphasis is on designing and developing a research project and conducting ethnographic fieldwork.

ANTH 512. Methods in Skeletal Forensics - WR

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Prerequisite(s): ANTH 202 or ANTH 204, and ANTH 327, and ANTH 410.
• Description: This course trains students in the methods for documenting and preparing a skeletal forensics analysis report.

ANTH 517. Anthropology of China

• Term Typically Offered: Fall Only
• Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.
• Description: It is widely acknowledged that China is a rising power in the global political economy. However, with the coexistence of tradition and modernity, the nature of Chinese culture and society remains heavily debated.

ANTH 522. Ecology, Politics and Culture

• Description: This course examines the relations between ecology, economic system, culture, ideology and power relations.

ANTH 526. Archaeology as Practice

• Prerequisite(s): ANTH 204.
• Description: This course focuses on the analytical techniques that archaeologists use to study the past.

ANTH 528. Animals and Humans

• Description: This course explores the complex and often contradictory ways that humans interact with animals.

ANTH 529. Zooarchaeology

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate student status.
• Description: The course will provide basic instruction in the identification of animal remains commonly recovered from archaeological sites.

ANTH 530. Human Impacts on Past Environments

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status, or consent of instructor.
• Description: This course is about the archaeological and paleoecological record of past human impacts on Earth.

ANTH 531. Anthropology of Water

• Description: Explores the political ecology of water from prehistory to present; integrates the archaeological and historical record with contemporary examples of water management.

ANTH 534. Food and Farm Movements in the Americas

• Description: An overview of social and political activism associated with agriculture and food.

ANTH 535. Nutritional Anthropology

• Description: This course provides students with a broad overview of topics in nutritional anthropology.

ANTH 536. The American South: History, Culture, Political Economy

• Description: An examination of the anthropological literature of the American South focusing on its history and the intersection of race, class and political economy through time and space.

ANTH 540. Health and Civilization

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status, or consent of instructor.
• Description: The central goal of this course is to understand how at multiple bio-cultural levels human populations (past and present) respond to their surroundings and social contexts.

ANTH 549. Modes of Consciousness

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Description: This course is devoted to examining how consciousness mediates between humans and the wider material world.

ANTH 555. Black Death: The Pandemic that Changed Human History

• Term Typically Offered: Fall Even Years
• Description: The Black Death of the fourteenth century is, perhaps, one of the most studied and discussed pandemics in human history.

ANTH 562. Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology

• Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
• Description: An examination of one or more specific areas of social-cultural anthropology.

ANTH 563. Special Topics in Biological Anthropology

• Description: An examination of one or more specific areas of biological anthropology.

ANTH 564. Special Topics in Archaeology

• Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
• Prerequisite(s): ANTH 202 and ANTH 204.
• Description: An examination of specific areas of archaeology.

ANTH 576. Quantitative Analysis in Anthropology

• Term Typically Offered: Fall Even Years
• Description: This course provides an introduction to the use of quantitative analysis methods in anthropological research.

ANTH 578. Lithic Technology

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status or consent of instructor.
• Fee: An additional $25.00 is charged for this course.
• Description: This course provides an introduction to the study of stone tool technology.

ANTH 579. Ceramic Analysis

• Description: Pottery is abundant in many archaeological sites, and the study of pottery has a long history in archaeology.

ANTH 581. Geoarchaeology

• Term Typically Offered: Spring Even Years
• Description: A firm grasp of geologic principles is essential for interpreting prehistoric archaeological sites.

ANTH 582. Kentucky Archaeology

• Description: This course introduces students to the archaeology of Kentucky with a focus on the precontact record.

ANTH 583. Who Owns the Past?

• Prerequisite(s): Instructor approval required.
• Description: This course explores the complexity of how the past and cultural heritage are used in political, professional, and everyday contexts.

ANTH 584. Anthropology of Death

• Description: Students will learn how anthropologists (cultural anthropologists, biological anthropologists, and archaeologists) employ theory, methods, and data to understand past and present societies through their treatment of the dead.

ANTH 607. Emergence of Human Culture

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status.
• Description: Traces of the origins and development of human culture; focus on technology, social organization, language, food acquisition and sharing, religion and art in both Old and New World.

ANTH 608. Social and Cultural Theory

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status.
• Description: Examination of how social and cultural theorists construct accounts of human existence that compliment and diverge from one another.

ANTH 609. Research Design: Archaeology

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status.
• Description: Basic practices and procedures in research skills and writing in archaeology; focus on preparing grant proposals; publications and oral presentations.

ANTH 610. Research Design: Biological Anthropology

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status and consent of instructor.
• Description: Review of methods, models, and theory from seminal papers and new research in anthropological genetics.

ANTH 611. Research Design: Socio-Cultural Anthropology

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status.
• Description: Course focuses on developing a substantive research project in cultural anthropology; students will integrate a literature review, theoretical and methodological approaches, and data collection strategies to produce a research proposal.

ANTH 612. Seminar: Contemporary Issues in Anthropology

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status.
• Description: Team taught course focused on the intertwined contributions of archaeology, biological and cultural anthropology to understandings of theory and method in anthropology.

ANTH 622. Anthropology of Violence

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status.
• Description: Seminar on anthropological approaches to the study of violence and human suffering, including political, structural, domestic, and criminal violence.

ANTH 624. Black Cultural Traditions

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status.
• Description: Intensive and interdisciplinary approach to production of African-based traditions in the Diaspora; explores sociocultural implications of African-based literacy and arts.

ANTH 625. Globalization, Transnationalism, and Anthropology

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status.
• Description: Focus on globalization at the local level; how it bears on identities and how subjects construct identities in transnational spaces.

ANTH 626. Food Justice

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status.
• Description: This course explores the political, economic, cultural dimensions of hunger, food security, and food justice globally and locally.

ANTH 627. Political Economy and Culture

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status.
• Description: Examines how anthropologists have used concepts and methods derived from political economy to understand markets, production, power, and cultural practices.

ANTH 640. Linguistic Anthropology

• Prerequisite(s): LING 325 or LING 327 or graduate standing.
• Description: This course provides an introduction to the field of linguistic anthropology.

ANTH 650. Health and Disease: A Bio-Cultural Approach

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate student.
• Description: Focus on the adaptations that made us human and may not fit as well at the present; how human biology and evolution were and are shaped by lifestyles, health, and disease.

ANTH 651. Seminar in Biological Anthropology

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status.
• Description: Discusses current issues and debates in biological anthropology; discuss selected papers that have made a fundamental contribution to understanding human evolution.

ANTH 653. Human Molecular Evolutionary Genetics

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status and consent of instructor.
• Description: Introduction to population genetics theory and a review of the peopling of the world as conceptualized using both molecular and anthropometric data.

ANTH 661. Special Topics in Anthropology

• Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
• Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor, or department chair.
• Description: Outlines vary as to area of expertise of instructors; objectives aim at the maximum of staff utilization and meeting program needs within the University which call for studies in anthropology as that discipline interrelates with other special knowledge.

ANTH 662. Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology

• Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
• Description: An examination of one or more specific areas of social-cultural anthropology.

ANTH 663. Special Topics in Biological Anthropology

• Description: An examination of one or more specific areas of biological anthropology.

ANTH 664. Special Topics in Archaeology

• Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
• Description: An examination of one or more specific areas of archaeology.

ANTH 670. Independent Study (Reading)

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status.
• Description: Intensive reading course under the supervision of a faculty member.

ANTH 671. Independent Study (Research)

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status.
• Description: Intensive research course under the supervision of a faculty member.

ANTH 672. Thesis

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status.
• Description: Reading, research, and writing of thesis under the supervision of a faculty member.

ANTH 673. Internship

• Prerequisite(s): Graduate status.
• Description: Internship in a social service, governmental, or NGO under the supervision of a faculty member. A substantial paper related to the internship is required.

ANTH 682. Kentucky Archaeology

• Description: This course introduces students to the archaeology of Kentucky with a focus on the precontact record.

ANTH 683. Who Owns the Past?

• Prerequisite(s): Instructor approval required.
• Description: This course explores the complexity of how the past and cultural heritage are used in political, professional, and everyday contexts.