This course is designed for students eager to participate in, and reflect on, on-going advocacy on climate and environmental justice. Students will be placed, either as individuals, in partners, or in teams, with a government, non-profit or community advocacy group to collaboratively address a specific problem or need of the organization. In classroom discussions, and in assignments students will have an opportunity to reflect critically on their experiences, explore social and ethical issues, and integrate placements with course readings in ways that mobilize or perhaps challenge academic knowledge. Assignments will integrate practice in a range of forms of expression (for instance personal story, policy brief, podcast, interview, news release, or blog) to support the development of the range of expressive skills needed to support working for change. 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.

Explores how anthropologists have traditionally studied social movements and how new social movements have challenged anthropologists to rethink some of their ethnographic methods and approaches. Some specific movements covered include those related to indigenous rights, environmentalism, refugees, gay and lesbian issues, biotechnology, new religions, and globalization.

An in-depth critical review of foundational ideas in the development of the practice of Anthropology. Topics may include questioning fieldwork, origins and legacies of functionalism, cultural materialism, politics of culture, power and political economy, globalization and post modernism, gender and post-structuralism.

Development, or deliberate intervention to improve the lives of people deemed to be lacking, or left behind, has shaped the modern world for at least a century. Drawing on historical and ethnographic studies, this course examines the trajectory of development as a concept and practice, and traces its effects.

The relationship between humans and other animals is one of the most hotly debated topics of our times. Through key classic and contemporary writings, this course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of animal studies, and explores how anthropologists and other theorists have critically engaged in debates about animal and human distinctions.

This course introduces dialogue between anthropological literature and other disciplinary studies in regards to the economy and culture of gift and money transaction as a key aspect of human society. Studying the history of gift and money economy from agricultural societies and diverse developments of finance market culture in recent era through various perspectives (e.g., ethnographic, sociological, politico-economic, and historical views), this course aims to train students developing a critical understanding of capitalism.

This course introduces students to the skills they need to conduct ethnographic research, in particular, participant observation, in-depth interview, as well as writing fieldnotes and research proposals. The emphasis is on interactive, workshop-style small group learning.

This course combines lecture and discussion, and focuses on a topic in medical anthropology from a biocultural perspective. Topics change from year to year. See Anthropology website for more details.

This lecture-format course focuses on a relatively broad topic in socio-cultural and/or linguistic anthropology. Topics change from year to year. For the 2015-16 academic year, the title of this course is "Nature, Culture, Human".

This course combines lecture and discussion, and focuses on a topic in medical anthropology from a sociocultural perspective. Topics change from year to year. See Anthropology website for more details.

This is a course on material religion and mediation, kingdom and kinship, gender symbolisms and devotions, ecologies of selves and the histories of senses that infuse Catholicism. It challenges us to think about the importance of Catholicism as a global phenomenon expressed through socio-political and cultural practices of the everyday life.

This lecture-format course focuses on a relatively broad topic anthropology. Topics change from year to year. See Anthropology website for more details.

Studies in anthropology taken abroad. Areas of concentration vary depending on the instructor and year offered.

Studies in anthropology taken abroad. Areas of concentration vary depending on the instructor and year offered.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Between the early 1500s and the late 1800s, more than 12 million Africans were trafficked to the Americas through the Atlantic slave trade. This act reoriented the modern world—demographically, economically, politically, and culturally, setting in motion legacies of racial ideologies that continue into the present. Beginning with the slave trade in West Africa, this course traces the construction of Blackness and the archaeological remains connected to Black life in North America, the Caribbean, and South America. Looking at historical and present-day case studies, students will learn how race continues to shape our contemporary worldview—using slave narratives, first-hand accounts, archaeological evidence, and secondary sources to investigate the central themes of African Diaspora archaeology. This course goes from macro to micro to illuminate the legacy of slavery on a more localized scale. Students will also learn how to conduct independent research on specific sites of African diasporic heritage in Ontario and engage in a digital storytelling mapping project using Geographic Information System.

Core reduction strategies, replication, experimental archaeology, use-wear, design approaches, ground stone, inferring behaviour from lithic artifacts.

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.

Artefacts have the potential to reveal a diverse range of information about everyday life in the past, including the inner workings of social institutions, class-based dynamics, and expressions of ethnic and gendered identities. Along with archival documents and oral histories, these materials are the interpretive building blocks that Historical Archaeologists use to answer larger research questions around micro and macro-level negotiations of power, the impact of industrialization on modernity, and the dynamic relationships between individuals and society. Over the semester, students in this course will gain experience in identifying, classifying, and analyzing artefacts from Ontario that date to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In addition to learning these applied skills, students will hone their inference skills by using artefacts and archives to develop research-based interpretations of daily life in the Toronto-area which will be presented publicly through a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Storymap.

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.

Examines the diversity of recent hunter-gatherer societies, as a source of analogues for understanding the archaeological record of past foraging peoples.

Seminar in the critical examination of major schools of archaeological thought.

What cultural, social, political, and ecological processes contribute to continuity or change in past social forms and material culture? How do we recognize and study the past dynamics of ethnicity, class, gender, colonialism, and racialization in archaeological remains? Historical archaeology, as the study of the recent past, explores material culture's role in making visible those erased in the archival record. Using material, documentary, and oral evidence, this course focuses on core debates that have shaped and continue to influence Historical archaeology’s trajectory. We will also learn about the history of the subdiscipline, from its birth to the present day. Taking a broad approach, the first half of this course examines how power is negotiated through the historical and archaeological records by looking at theoretical and methodological approaches in case studies from North America, the Caribbean, and South America. The second half of this course will take a more localized approach where students visit historical sites around Toronto and finishes with a final project using artifactual remains currently in the possession of the City of Toronto.

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.

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.

Current research in Palaeolithic Archaeology reflecting emerging issues.

How social complexity is manifested in the archaeological record. Origins and evolution of prehistoric complex societies, from small-scale chiefdoms to large-scale states.