An instructor-supervised group project in an off-campus setting. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/research-excursions-program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Course Search
ANT398Y0 - Research Excursions
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT399Y1 - Research Opportunity Program
Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities/research-opportunities-program . Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
ANT406H1 - Lithic Analysis
Core reduction strategies, replication, experimental archaeology, use-wear, design approaches, ground stone, inferring behaviour from lithic artifacts.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT407H1 - Inka and Aztec States
This course provides a comparative study of the emergence, organization, and transformation of the two historically-documented states of the native Americas: the Inka and the Aztec. Students will have the opportunity to analyze ethnohistorical and archaeological data in order to critically evaluate models of the pre-industrial state while gauging the anthropological significance of either convergence or particularity in the historical development of centralized political formations.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT409H1 - Landscape Archaeology
Archaeological survey, spatial analysis of archaeological evidence over landscapes and territories, and ways archaeologists attempt to interpret landscapes, regional settlement systems, agricultural land use, regional exchange and communication, and past people's perceptions of or ideas about landscape.
Recommended Preparation: GGR270H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT410H1 - Hunter-Gatherers Past & Present
Examines the diversity of recent hunter-gatherer societies, as a source of analogues for understanding the archaeological record of past foraging peoples.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT411H1 - Advanced Archaeological Theory
ANT412H1 - Historical Archaeology
Introduces the problems, methods and some of the material culture of colonial and industrial archaeology with emphasis on Canada and colonial America. Covers the use of documentary evidence, maps, architecture, and a variety of artifact classes.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT415Y1 - Laboratory in Faunal Archaeo-Osteology
Examination and interpretation of faunal material from archaeological sites as evidence for culture. The application form is posted on the following website: https://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/undergraduate. The application form should be submitted by the deadline indicated on the website.
Distribution Requirements: Science, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4), The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT416H1 - Archaeology of Ritual and Identity
This course offers a comparative survey of archaeological approaches to ritual practice as it relates to identity politics, personhood, and the negotiation of power relations in past societies. An important goal of the seminar is to introduce students to social theories on the inherent materiality of ritual performance, whether orchestrated in everyday practice or in elaborate religious and political spectacles.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT419H1 - Current Debates in Palaeolithic Archaeology
ANT420H1 - Archaeology of Inequality
How social complexity is manifested in the archaeological record. Origins and evolution of prehistoric complex societies, from small-scale chiefdoms to large-scale states.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT425H1 - Language in Anthropological Thought
How ideas about language fit into the overall views of humankind as expressed by selected anthropologists, linguists, sociologists, and philosophers.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT426H1 - Western Views of the Non-West
The history and present of western concepts and images about the ‘Other’, in anthropological and other scholarship and in popular culture.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT430H1 - Primate Conservation Biology
The focus of this course is on the science of primate conservation biology in an anthropological context. Topics will include primate biodiversity and biogeography, human impacts, and conservation strategies/policies. The effects of cultural and political considerations on primate conservation will also be discussed.
Distribution Requirements: Science
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT431H1 - The Real Planet of the Apes
Through fossil labs and lectures, we look back over 30 to 5 million years ago when apes roamed from Spain to China and Germany to Southern Africa. The fossil record of these apes, our ancestors, reveals how we evolved our large brains, dexterous hands, extended growth period and incredible intelligence. We encounter many surprises along the way, such as apes living with pandas in Hungary, animals with a mix of monkey, ape and pig traits and apes the size of polar bears. Of the more than 100 species of fossil apes known, only one gave rise to us.
Recommended Preparation: ANT335Y1 or ANT330Y1
Distribution Requirements: Science
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT434H1 - Health, Diet & Disease in the Past
Advanced exploration of the life histories of past populations, through the application of palaeodietary analyses, palaeopathology and other appropriate research methods.
Distribution Requirements: Science
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT435H1 - Anthropology of Childhood and Childcare
A detailed review of the classic and recently emerging literature on the anthropology of children, childhood, and childcare. Focus is on theories for evolution of human parenting adaptations, challenges in research methodology and implications for contemporary research, practice and policy in the area of care and nutrition of infants and children.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science, Science
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT436H1 - Primate Ecology & Social Behavior
This course will provide an overview of the ecology and social behavior of extant nonhuman primates. Topics will include socioecology, conservation biology, biogeography, aggression and affiliation, community ecology, communication, and socio-sexual behavior. There will also be extensive discussions of methods used in collecting data on primates in the field.
Distribution Requirements: Science
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT437H1 - Introduction to Virtual Anthropology
Virtual anthropology is a set of new methods that allow us to digitize objects, analyze, reconstruct and share them digitally, and bring them back into the real world. After a theoretical introduction, students will use surface scanners, photogrammetric software and 3D printers to digitize and study archaeological and anthropological specimens.
Distribution Requirements: Science
Breadth Requirements: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT438H1 - Topics in Emerging Scholarship (Evolutionary Anthropology)
Taught by an advanced PhD student or postdoctoral fellow, and based on his or her doctoral research and area of expertise, this course presents a unique opportunity to explore intensively a particular Evolutionary Anthropology topic in-depth. Topics vary from year to year.
Distribution Requirements: Science
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT441H1 - Love, Sex, and Marriage
Beginning with anthropology's early work on kinship, and ending with recent analyses of sex work and the globalization of ideologies of romantic love and companionate marriage, this course will investigate how emotional and sexual relationships are produced, used, conceptualized, and experienced both within particular societies and transnationally.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT450H1 - Multispecies Cities
As of 2007, for the first time in human history, more than half the world’s peoples lived in cities. It is estimated that by 2030 over 60% will be urban-dwellers. This demographic shift suggests that for many (if not most) people, their primary encounter with “nature” will be urban based. This course explores the idea of “urban-nature” by 1) focusing on the ways in which various theorists have challenged traditional ways of viewing both “the city” and “nature” and 2) encouraging students to develop their own critical perspectives through ethnographic engagements with the city of Toronto.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT455H1 - Ethnographic Approaches to the Middle East and North Africa
This course explores the literature and concerns of anthropologists conducting ethnographic research in the greater Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It is designed for students with a background in social and cultural anthropology who wish to become familiar with the social and religious complexity of the MENA region, and the anthropological questions it has compelled. Islam has long been the area's principal social and historical force and thus provides the backdrop for much, but not all, of the ethnography considered in the course. Moreover, Muslim majority MENA countries exhibit considerable social and sectarian diversity. Readings and lectures attend to differences as well as resemblances, while considering issues such as gender roles, kinship, marriage, local level practices, medicine, secularism, 'public Islam,' nationalism, and the persistent problem of orientalism.
Exclusion: ANTC89H3; ANT484H1 (Topics: Ethnography of the Middle East and North Africa) taken in Winter 2014; ANT384H1 (Topics: Peoples of the Middle East and North Africa) taken in Winter 2017, Winter 2018.
Recommended Preparation: NMC241H1, RLG204H1, NMC283Y1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT456H1 - Queer Ethnography
This course explores, first, how and where forms of desire and sexual practice have become sites of anthropological inquiry and exemplars of particular cultural logics. Tracing, then, the transnational turn in the anthropology of sexuality, the course engages important debates about culture, locality, and globalization. By focusing on the transnational movement of desires, practices, and pleasures through activisms, mass media, and tourism, the course asks how sex is global and how globalization is thoroughly sexed. Course material will stress, but not be limited to, forms of same-sex or otherwise queer sexualities.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT457H1 - Anthropology of Material Culture
The course addresses the cultural and social significance of material culture in specific cultural settings, and the role that artifacts have played in the history of anthropological thought from early typological displays to the most recent developments of material culture studies.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT458H1 - Settler-Colonialism and Indigenous Health in Canada
This course draws on anthropological and historical literatures to explore the relationship between the health of Indigenous people and Canadian settler-colonialism. In conceptualising this relationship, we focus on critical analysis of the role of biomedical health-care systems in settler-colonial governmentality, and how history is understood in discourses on Indigenous health.
Recommended Preparation: ANT345H1 or ANT348H1 or ANT358H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT459H1 - Multispecies Ethnography
This course introduces perspectives which extend anthropological inquiry beyond the solely human realm. Building on an acknowledgement of the fundamental interconnectedness of humans and other life forms, it explores the agencies of other-than-humans, including nonhuman animals, land and seascapes, plants, bacteria, “contaminants,” and others. The course involves field-site visits and fieldwork projects in Toronto (GTA region) and engages with ethnographic methodologies best suited to investigations of inter-species, inter-life form relationships.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT460H1 - Global Perspectives on Women's Health
This fourth-year seminar examines how female gender shapes health and illness. Using case studies of sexual health, fertility and its management, substance use/abuse, mental health, and occupational/labor health risks, the course investigates the material, political, and socio-cultural factors that can put women at risk for a range of illness conditions.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ANT462H1 - Anthropology of Affect
This course examines how anthropologists have studied the way that people hope, imagine, love, and despise. Ethnography of the intimate realms of affect raises important questions about knowledge production and methodology as well as offering insight into how people come to act upon the world and what the human consequences of such action are. The course will also examine how the intimate is socially produced and harnessed in the service of politics and culture. Topics will include grief and its lack; dreams and activism; love and social change; memory and imperialism; sexuality and care; and violence and hope.
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
Mode of Delivery: In Class