Anthropology


Faculty List

University Professor Emeritus
R.B. Lee, MA, PhD, FRSC

Professors Emeriti 
J.P. Boddy, MA, PhD, FRSC
F.D. Burton, MA, PhD (UTSC) 
J.J. Chew, MA, PhD
G.G. Coupland, MA, PhD  
G.W. Crawford, MA, PhD, FRSC (UTM)
M. Danesi, MA, PhD, FRSC (V)
M.R. Kleindienst, MA, PhD (UTM)
M.J. Lambek, MA, PhD, FRSC (UTSC) 
H.V. Luong, MA, PhD
J. Mavalwala, MSc, PhD
S.K. Pfeiffer, MA, PhD 
S.B. Philpott, MA, PhD 
B.A. Sigmon, MS, PhD (UTM) 
G.A. Smith, MA, PhD (U) 

Associate Professors Emeriti 
H. Cunningham, MA, PhD (U) 
G.S. Gillison, BA, PhD (T) 
M.A. Latta, MA, PhD (UTSC) 
M.D. Levin, MA, PhD (N)
D.G. Smith, MA, PhD (UTM) 

Professors and Chairs of the Department 
T.M. Friesen, MA, PhD, Graduate Chair 
H. Wardlow, MA, PhD, MPH, Chair, St. George Campus 

University Professor 
T. Li, MA, PhD (U)

Professors
E.B. Banning, MA, PhD (U) 
J. Barker, MA, PhD 
D.R. Begun, MA, PhD 
M. Chazan, M Phil, PhD (V) 
G. Dewar, MA, PhD (UTSC) 
I. Kalmar, MA, PhD (W, V) 
S. Lehman, MA, PhD
B. McElhinny, MA, PhD 
A. Mittermaier, MA, PhD
V. Napolitano, MA, PhD  
E. Parra, BS, PhD (UTM) 
L.A. Sawchuk, MA, PhD (UTSC) 
M. Schillaci, MA, PhD (UTSC) 
D. Sellen, MA, PhD 
J. Sidnell, MA, PhD (UTM) 
M. Silcox, PhD (UTSC) 
J. Song, PhD
E. Swenson, MA, PhD
J. S. Taylor, MA, PhD

Associate Professors 
S. Bamford, MA, PhD (UTSC) 
F. Cody, MA, PhD (UTM, AI) 
G. Daswani, MSc, PhD (UTSC) 
N. Dave, MA, PhD  
T. Galloway, MA, PhD (UTM)
A. Hawkins, MA, PhD (UTM)
S. M. Hillewaert, MA, PhD (UTM)
K. Kilroy-Marac, PhD (UTSC)
C. Krupa, MA, PhD (UTSC)
H. Miller, MA, PhD (UTM)
L. Montgomery, PhD
A. Paz, PhD (UTSC) 
T.L. Rogers, MA, PhD (UTM)
D. Samson, MA, PhD (UTM)
T. Sanders, MA, PhD (UTM) 
S. Satsuka, MA, PhD
L. Schroeder, PhD (UTM)
J. Teichroeb, MA, PhD (UTSC) 
B. Viola, MSc, PhD 
L. Xie, MA, PhD (UTM)

Assistant Professors 
A. Allen, MTS, PhD (DTS) 
F. V. Bozcali, PhD (UTM) 
D. Butler, MA PhD (UTSC)
W. Butt, PhD (UTSC) 
M. Cameron, MSc, PhD 
B. Dahl, MA, PhD (UTSC) 
V. de Aguiar Furuie, MA, PhD (UTSC)
N. Elamin, PhD
D. Glass, MA, MPH
C. Hartblay, MA, PhD (UTSC) 
N. Ike, MA, PhD
L. Janz, MA, PhD (UTSC) 
S. Kassamali, MA, PhD 
M. Mant, MSc, PhD (UTM) 
K. Maxwell, MA, PhD 
L. Mortensen, MA, PhD (UTSC) 
N. Novroski, MSc, PhD (UTM) 
M. Ramsay, MA, PhD (UTM)
E. Sammons, PhD 
Z. Wool, MA, PhD (UTM)  
D. Young, MA, PhD (UTSC) 

Lecturers 
A. Chadha, PhD
M. Cummings, MA, PhD (UTSC) 
O. Ozcan, PhD 
A. K. Patton, MA, PhD 
S. Yeung, PhD

Introduction

Anthropology examines the complexity and diversity of human experience, past and present, through evolutionary, archaeological, social, cultural, and linguistic perspectives. As such, Anthropology is a truly interdisciplinary venture that spans the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. This broad mandate has led to the division of the discipline into three broad areas of research: Archaeology; Evolutionary Anthropology; and the study of Society, Culture and Language.

Archaeologists study the material remains of the human past. Archaeological methods range widely, from the study of artifacts to the analysis of plant and animal remains, and Archaeological research covers a vast expanse of time from the earliest stone tools to the complex record let by modern industrial society. Archaeologists also grapple with a range of theoretical issues including material culture, culture change, identity, and ritual. Many archaeologists today also work in collaboration with local communities and engage with the questions of archaeological ethics.

Evolutionary Anthropology is the study of the biological diversity of humans, the history of this diversity, and the biological relationships between humans and non-human primates. Major foci in Evolutionary Anthropology include Human Biology, the study of modern humans; Osteology, the study of the human skeleton; Paleoanthropology, the study of human evolution; and Primatology, the study of non-human primates. Evolutionary anthropologists integrate biological and social variables in their explanations of the effects of evolution on humans and other primates.

At the core of the study of Society, Culture and Language is the question of how we humans organize our lives together, and why we do so in such vastly different ways. The orientation is global and contemporary. We explore social relations: relations between kin and neighbours, between genders and generations, between ethnic groups and nations, between rich and poor, between people and the natural environment that sustains them, and between people and their gods. We also explore the production and communication of meanings through rituals, images, memories, symbols and linguistic codes. Topics include environment, power, ideology, identity, subjectivity, media, sexuality, ethics, affect, activism, health, cities, work and international development.

A training in anthropology prepares students to think clearly and critically; to engage with a wide range of perspectives, experiences, and world views; and to reach ethically sound decisions. Programs available within the Department of Anthropology provide excellent preparation for careers in business, or public service and the non-profit sector, especially in areas where international and human diversity issues are important. Courses in anthropology provide a unique grounding and can be fruitfully combined with courses in a wide variety of other disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Website: https://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/

Undergraduate Program Administrator/Student Counsellor: Anthropology Building, 19 Ursula Franklin Street, Room 258 (416-978-6414).

Anthropology Programs

Anthropology Specialist (Society, Culture, and Language) (Arts Program) - ASSPE2112

Enrolment Requirements:

This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.

Completed courses (with minimum grades)
The following course with the stated minimum grade is required:

Completion Requirements:

(10.0 credits, including at least 2.0 credits at the 400-level)

First and/or Second Year:
1. ANT204H1 and ANT207H1

Upper Years:
2. ANT370H1 and ANT380H1
3. 6.0 credits from Group C, or Subgroup C(i) or C(ii)
4. ANT475H1 and an additional 1.5 credits at the 400-level

Note: ANT courses are those offered with the following prefixes: ANT, ARH, INS, JAA, JAL, JAR and JGA.

Group C: Society, Culture, and Language

ANT204H1, ANT205H1, ANT207H1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT299Y1, ANT324H1, ANT342H1, ANT343H1, ANT344H1, ANT345H1, ANT346H1, ANT347H1, ANT348H1, ANT352H1, ANT354H1, ANT356H1, ANT357H1, ANT358H1, ANT362H1, ANT364H1, ANT366H1, ANT370H1, ANT374H1, ANT376H1, ANT378H1, ANT380H1, ANT382H1, ANT384H1, ANT385H1, ANT386H1, ANT390H1, ANT426H1, ANT435H1, ANT441H1, ANT442H1, ANT446H1, ANT450H1, ANT456H1, ANT457H1, ANT459H1, ANT460H1, ANT462H1, ANT463H1, ANT464H1, ANT465H1, ANT473H1, ANT474H1, ANT475H1, ANT480H1, ANT484H1, ANT485H1, ANT486H1, ANT488H1, ANT490Y1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, JAA377H1, JAH391Y0, JAH391H1, JAR301H1, JNH350H1, AFR250Y1, NMC356H1, MCS225Y1

Note: ANT390H1 may be placed in a different Course Group depending on the topic, which will vary from year to year.

Subgroup C (i): (Society, Culture and Language-Area)

ANT341H1, ANT455H1, ANT458H1, ANT472H1, ANT477H1, AFR298H1, CAR316H1, NMC241H1

Subgroup C (ii): (Society, Culture and Language – Linguistic)

ANT253H1, ANT329H1, ANT425H1, ANT483H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, JAL328H1, JAL355H1, JAL401H1, SLA380H1

Focus in Medical Anthropology (Specialist: Society, Culture and Language) - ASFOC2112B

This focus enables students in the Anthropology Specialist (Society, Culture, and Language) ASSPE2112, to identify courses pertaining to Medical Anthropology (Health) and receive formal acknowledgement for completing a suite of health-related anthropology courses.

Enrolment Requirements:

Enrolment in the Anthropology Specialist (Society, Culture, and Language) is required.

Completion Requirements:

3.5 credits (total)

1. ANT205H1

2. 3.0 credits from: ANT208H1, ANT345H1, ANT348H1, ANT357H1, ANT358H1, ANT382H1, ANT385H1, ANT435H1, ANT442H1, ANT446H1, ANT458H1, ANT460H1, ANT474H1, ANT488H1, JAR301H1

Health related Anthropology Special Topics courses may be chosen when offered at the third or fourth year levels.

Anthropology Major (Society, Culture, and Language) (Arts Program) - ASMAJ2112

Enrolment Requirements:

This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.

Completed courses (with minimum grades)
The following courses with the stated minimum grades are required:

Completion Requirements:

(6.5 credits including at least 2.0 credits at the 300+ level and at least 1.0 credit at the 400-level)

First and/or Second Year:
1. ANT207H1
2. ANT204H1 or ANT205H1 or ANT210H1 or ANT253H1

Upper Years:
3. ANT370H1 or ANT425H1
4. 5.0 additional credits from Group C, or Subgroup C(i) or C(ii), including at least 1.0 credit at the 400-level. Students who want to focus more specifically on the role of language in culture and society should take ANT253H1, ANT425H1, and courses in Subgroup C (ii).

Note: ANT courses are those offered with the following prefixes: ANT, ARH, INS, JAA, JAL, JAR and JGA.

Group C: Society, Culture, and Language
 ANT204H1, ANT205H1, ANT207H1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT299Y1, ANT324H1, ANT342H1, ANT343H1, ANT344H1, ANT345H1, ANT346H1, ANT347H1, ANT348H1, ANT352H1, ANT354H1, ANT356H1, ANT357H1, ANT358H1, ANT362H1, ANT364H1, ANT366H1, ANT370H1, ANT374H1, ANT376H1, ANT378H1, ANT380H1, ANT382H1, ANT384H1, ANT385H1, ANT386H1, ANT390H1, ANT426H1, ANT435H1, ANT441H1, ANT442H1, ANT446H1, ANT450H1, ANT456H1, ANT457H1, ANT459H1, ANT460H1, ANT462H1, ANT463H1, ANT464H1, ANT465H1, ANT473H1, ANT474H1, ANT475H1, ANT480H1, ANT484H1, ANT485H1, ANT486H1, ANT488H1, ANT490Y1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, JAA377H1, JAH391Y0, JAH391H1, JAR301H1, JNH350H1, AFR250Y1, NMC356H1, MCS225Y1

Note: ANT390H1 may be placed in a different Course Group depending on the topic, which will vary from year to year.

Subgroup C (i): (Society, Culture and Language - Area)
 ANT341H1, ANT455H1, ANT458H1, ANT472H1, ANT477H1, AFR298H1, CAR316H1, NMC241H1

Subgroup C (ii): (Society, Culture and Language – Linguistic)
 ANT253H1, ANT329H1, ANT425H1, ANT483H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, JAL328H1, JAL355H1, JAL401H1, SLA380H1

Focus in Medical Anthropology (Major: Society, Culture and Language) - ASFOC2112A

This focus enables students in the Anthropology Major (Society, Culture and Language) ASMAJ2112 to identify courses pertaining to Medical Anthropology from a sociocultural perspective and receive formal acknowledgement for completing a suite of health-related anthropology courses.

Enrolment Requirements:

Enrolment in the Anthropology Major (Society, Culture, and Language) is required.

Completion Requirements:

2.5 credits (total)

1. ANT205H1

2. 2.0 credits from: ANT208H1, ANT345H1, ANT348H1, ANT357H1, ANT358H1, ANT382H1, ANT385H1, ANT435H1, ANT442H1, ANT446H1, ANT458H1, ANT460H1, ANT474H1, ANT488H1, JAR301H1

Health related Anthropology Special Topics courses may be chosen when offered at the third or fourth year levels.

Anthropology Major (General) (Arts Program) - ASMAJ1775

Enrolment Requirements:

This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.

Completed courses (with minimum grades)
The following courses with the stated minimum grades are required:

Completion Requirements:

(6.5 credits)

First and/or Second Year:

1. ANT100Y1
2. ANT207H1
3. 1.0 credit from ANT200Y1/​ ARH100Y1, ANT203Y1
4. 0.5 credit from ANT204H1, ANT205H1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT253H1

Upper Years:

5. 2.5 credits at the 300+ level from either Group A, B or C, or Subgroups C(i) or C(ii), including at least one 0.5 credit at the 400-level.
6. 1.0 additional credit from a Group other than that used to meet requirement #5

Note: ANT courses are those offered with the following prefixes: ANT, ARH, INS, JAL, JAA, JAR and JGA.

Group A: Archaeology
ANT200Y1/​ ARH100Y1, ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT299Y1, ANT311Y1, ANT315H1, ANT317H1, ANT318H1, ANT319Y1, ANT320H1, ANT325H1, ANT390H1, ANT406H1, ANT407H1, ANT408H1, ANT409H1, ANT410H1, ANT411H1, ANT412H1, ANT416H1, ANT419H1, ANT420H1, ANT437H1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, ARH205H1/​ ARH305H1, ARH306Y1, ARH309H1, ARH312Y1, ARH360H1, ARH361H1, ARH361Y1, ARH440H1, ARH482H1, ARH494H1, ARH495H1, MCS225Y1

Note: ANT390H1 may be placed in either Group A or B or C depending on the topic which will vary from year to year

Group B: Evolutionary
ANT203Y1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT299Y1, ANT330Y1, ANT333Y1, ANT334H1/​ ANT334Y1, ANT335Y1, ANT336H1, ANT337H1, ANT338H1, ANT390H1, ANT419H1, ANT430H1, ANT431H1, ANT434H1, ANT435H1, ANT436H1, ANT437H1, ANT438H1, ANT481H1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1

Note: ANT390H1 may be placed in either Group A or B or C depending on the topic which will vary from year to year.

Group C: Society, Culture, and Language
ANT204H1, ANT205H1, ANT207H1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT299Y1, ANT324H1, ANT342H1, ANT343H1, ANT344H1, ANT345H1, ANT346H1, ANT347H1, ANT348H1, ANT352H1, ANT354H1, ANT356H1, ANT357H1, ANT358H1, ANT362H1, ANT364H1, ANT366H1, ANT370H1, ANT374H1, ANT376H1, ANT378H1, ANT380H1, ANT382H1, ANT384H1, ANT385H1, ANT386H1, ANT390H1, ANT426H1, ANT435H1, ANT441H1, ANT442H1, ANT446H1, ANT450H1, ANT456H1, ANT457H1, ANT459H1, ANT460H1, ANT462H1, ANT463H1, ANT464H1, ANT465H1, ANT473H1, ANT474H1, ANT475H1, ANT480H1, ANT484H1, ANT485H1, ANT486H1, ANT488H1, ANT490Y1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, JAA377H1, JAH391Y0, JAH391H1, JAR301H1, JNH350H1, AFR250Y1, NMC356H1, MCS225Y1

Note: ANT390H1 may be placed in either Group A or B or C depending on the topic which will vary from year to year.

Subgroup C (i): (Society, Culture and Language - Area)
ANT341H1, ANT455H1, ANT458H1, ANT472H1, ANT477H1, AFR298H1, CAR316H1, NMC241H1

Subgroup C (ii): (Society, Culture and Language – Linguistic)
ANT253H1, ANT329H1, ANT425H1, ANT483H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, JAL328H1, JAL355H1, JAL401H1, SLA380H1

Focus in Medical Anthropology (Major: General) - ASFOC1775A

This focus enables students in the Anthropology Major (General) ASMAJ1775 to identify courses pertaining to Medical Anthropology across the discipline’s social science and science fields and receive formal acknowledgement for completing a suite of health-related anthropology courses.

Enrolment Requirements:

Enrolment in the Anthropology Major (General) is required.

Completion Requirements:

2.5 credits (total)

1. 0.5 credit from ANT205H1 or ANT208H1

2. 2.0 credit from: ANT345H1, ANT348H1, ANT357H1, ANT358H1, ANT382H1, ANT385H1, ANT435H1, ANT442H1, ANT446H1, ANT458H1, ANT460H1, ANT474H1, ANT488H1, JAR301H1.

Health related Anthropology Special Topics courses may be chosen when offered at the third or fourth year levels.

Anthropology Major (Evolutionary) (Science Program) - ASMAJ1510

Enrolment Requirements:

This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.

Completed courses (with minimum grades)
The following courses with the stated minimum grades are required:

Completion Requirements:

(6.5 credits, including at least 2.0 credits at the 300+ level, 0.5 credit of which must be at the 400-level)

First Year and/or Second Year:
1. BIO120H1
2. ANT100Y1 or BIO220H1. If BIO220H1 is taken, students must take an additional 0.5 credit in ANT
3. ANT203Y1

Upper Years:
4. 2.0 credits from ANT208H1, ANT333Y1, ANT334H1, ANT334Y1, ANT335Y1, ANT336H1
5. 1.5 additional credits from: Group B and/or ANT406H1, ANT415Y1, ARH312Y1
6. 0.5 credit at the 400-level from Group B

Note: ANT courses are those offered with the following prefixes: ANT, ARH, INS, JAL, JAR and JGA.

Group B: Evolutionary

ANT203Y1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT299Y1, ANT330Y1, ANT333Y1, ANT334H1, ANT334Y1, ANT335Y1, ANT336H1, ANT337H1, ANT338H1, ANT390H1, ANT419H1, ANT430H1, ANT431H1, ANT434H1, ANT435H1, ANT436H1, ANT437H1, ANT438H1, ANT481H1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1

Note: ANT390H1 may not be available in Course Group B, depending on the topic, which will vary from year to year.

Anthropology Minor (General) (Arts Program) - ASMIN1775

Enrolment Requirements:

This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.

Completed courses (with minimum grades)
The following courses with the stated minimum grades are required:

Completion Requirements:

(4.0 credits including at least 1.0 credit at the 300-level)

First and/or Second Year:
1. ANT100Y1
2. 2.0 credits from ANT200Y1/​ ARH100Y1, ANT203Y1, ANT204H1, ANT205H1, ANT207H1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT253H1

Upper Years:
3. 1.0 credit at the 300+ level from either Group A, B, or C, or Subgroup C(i) or C(ii)

Note: ANT courses are those offered with the following prefixes: ANT, ARH, INS, JAA, JAL, JAR and JGA.

Group A: Archaeology
ANT200Y1/​ ARH100Y1, ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT299Y1, ANT311Y1, ANT315H1, ANT317H1, ANT318H1, ANT319Y1, ANT320H1, ANT325H1, ANT390H1, ANT406H1, ANT407H1, ANT408H1, ANT409H1, ANT410H1, ANT411H1, ANT412H1, ANT416H1, ANT419H1, ANT420H1, ANT437H1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, ARH205H1/​ ARH305H1, ARH306Y1, ARH309H1, ARH312Y1, ARH360H1, ARH361H1, ARH361Y1, ARH440H1, ARH482H1, ARH494H1, ARH495H1, MCS225Y1

Note: ANT390H1 may be placed in either Group A or B or C depending on the topic which will vary from year to year

Group B: Evolutionary
ANT203Y1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT299Y1, ANT330Y1, ANT333Y1, ANT334H1/​ ANT334Y1, ANT335Y1, ANT336H1, ANT337H1, ANT338H1, ANT390H1, ANT419H1, ANT430H1, ANT431H1, ANT434H1, ANT435H1, ANT436H1, ANT437H1, ANT438H1, ANT481H1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1

Note: ANT390H1 may be placed in either Group A or B or C depending on the topic which will vary from year to year.

Group C: Society, Culture, and Language
ANT204H1, ANT205H1, ANT207H1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT299Y1, ANT324H1, ANT342H1, ANT343H1, ANT344H1, ANT345H1, ANT346H1, ANT347H1, ANT348H1, ANT352H1, ANT354H1, ANT356H1, ANT357H1, ANT358H1, ANT362H1, ANT364H1, ANT366H1, ANT370H1, ANT374H1, ANT376H1, ANT378H1, ANT380H1, ANT382H1, ANT384H1, ANT385H1, ANT386H1, ANT390H1, ANT426H1, ANT435H1, ANT441H1, ANT442H1, ANT446H1, ANT450H1, ANT456H1, ANT457H1, ANT459H1, ANT460H1, ANT462H1, ANT463H1, ANT464H1, ANT465H1, ANT473H1, ANT474H1, ANT475H1, ANT480H1, ANT484H1, ANT485H1, ANT486H1, ANT488H1, ANT490Y1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, JAA377H1, JAH391Y0, JAH391H1, JAR301H1, JNH350H1, AFR250Y1, NMC356H1, MCS225Y1

Note: ANT390H1 may be placed in either Group A or B or C depending on the topic which will vary from year to year.

Subgroup C (i): (Society, Culture and Language - Area)
ANT341H1, ANT455H1, ANT458H1, ANT472H1, ANT477H1, AFR298H1, CAR316H1, NMC241H1

Subgroup C (ii): (Society, Culture and Language – Linguistic)
ANT253H1, ANT329H1, ANT425H1, ANT483H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, JAL328H1, JAL355H1, JAL401H1, SLA380H1

Note: Effective Fall 2021, courses associated with New College's African Studies and Caribbean Studies programs will have the new "AFR" and "CAR" designators respectively. In addition, courses associated with Victoria College's Material Culture and Semiotics program will have the new "MCS" designator.

Environmental Anthropology Minor (Arts Program) - ASMIN1291

Admission Requirements:

A program focused on understanding the diverse nature of interactions between humans and their environments, both in the past and in modern global society. Consult the Undergraduate Office, Department of Anthropology (416-978-6414).

Enrolment Requirements:

This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.

Completion Requirements:

(4.0 credits, including 1.0 credit at the 300+ level)

1. ANT100Y1/​( ENV221H1 and ENV222H1/​ GGR223H1)
2. ANT200Y1/​ ARH100Y1/​ ( ANT204H1 and ANT207H1/​0.5 credit 300-level Social Anthropology course from Anthropology Group C, or Subgroup C(i), C(ii))
3. 2.0 credits from: ANT315H1, ANT336H1, ANT346H1, ANT364H1, ANT366H1, ANT374H1, ANT376H1, ANT409H1, ANT410H1, ANT415Y1, ANT420H1, ANT430H1, ANT450H1, INS250H1, INS402H1

Note: ANT courses are those offered with the following prefixes: ANT, ARH, INS, JAA, JAL, JAH, JAR and JGA.

Group C: Society, Culture, and Language
ANT204H1, ANT205H1, ANT207H1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT299Y1, ANT322H1, ANT324H1, ANT342H1, ANT343H1, ANT344H1, ANT345H1, ANT346H1, ANT347H1, ANT348H1, ANT352H1, ANT356H1, ANT357H1, ANT358H1, ANT362H1, ANT364H1, ANT366H1, ANT370H1, ANT372H1, ANT374H1, ANT376H1, ANT378H1, ANT380H1, ANT382H1, ANT384H1, ANT385H1, ANT386H1, ANT390H1, ANT426H1, ANT435H1, ANT441H1, ANT450H1, ANT456H1, ANT457H1, ANT459H1, ANT460H1, ANT462H1, ANT463H1, ANT464H1, ANT465H1, ANT473H1, ANT474H1, ANT475H1, ANT480H1, ANT484H1, ANT485H1, ANT486H1, ANT488H1, ANT490Y1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, JAA377H1, JAH391Y0, JAH391H1, JAR301H1, JNH350H1, AFR250Y1, NMC356H1, MCS225Y1

Note: ANT390H1 may be placed in a different Course Group depending on the topic, which will vary from year to year.

Subgroup C (i): (Society, Culture and Language - Area)
ANT327H1, ANT340H1, ANT341H1, ANT455H1, ANT458H1, ANT472H1, ANT477H1, AFR298H1, CAR316H1, NMC241H1

Subgroup C (ii): (Society, Culture and Language – Linguistic)
ANT253H1, ANT329H1, ANT425H1, ANT483H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, JAL328H1, JAL355H1, JAL401H1, SLA380H1

Note: Effective Fall 2021, courses associated with New College's African Studies and Caribbean Studies programs will have the new "AFR" and "CAR" designators respectively. In addition, courses associated with Victoria College's Material Culture and Semiotics program will have the new "MCS" designator.

Medical Anthropology Minor (Arts Program) - ASMIN1778

Medical Anthropology is a subfield within Anthropology that draws on both socio-cultural and evolutionary anthropology to examine health inequalities, disease vulnerability, illness discourses and meanings, and therapeutic systems around the world. Training in medical anthropology is excellent preparation for graduate or professional education in public health, medicine, nursing, and other allied health careers.

Enrolment Requirements:

This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.

Completion Requirements:

(4.0 credits, including 1.0 or 1.5 credits at the 300+ level)

First Year:
1. ANT100Y1

Second Year:
2. ANT205H1 and ANT208H1
3. 0.5 credit from: ANT204H1, ANT207H1, ANT203Y1
(Students who want to focus on evolutionary/biological approaches to medical anthropology should take ANT203Y1).

Upper Years:
4. Up to 1.5 credits from the following courses, up to a total of 4.0 credits to complete the minor program. Students who complete ANT203Y1 need to take 1.0 credit, and students who take ANT204H1 or ANT207H1 need to take 1.5 credits, from the following: ANT334H1/​ ANT334Y1, ANT336H1, ANT337H1, ANT338H1, ANT345H1, ANT348H1, ANT357H1, ANT358H1, JAR301H1, ANT382H1, ANT385H1, ANT434H1, ANT435H1, ANT442H1, ANT446H1, ANT458H1, ANT460H1, ANT474H1, ANT488H1.

Health-related Anthropology Special Topics courses at the 300 or 400 level, and health-related Independent Research courses at the 400-level, will count towards program requirements


Anthropology Courses

ANT100Y1 - Introduction to Anthropology

Hours: 48L/12T

This course examines human life from various anthropological perspectives: Evolutionary Anthropology, the study of the evolution of humans and non-human primates; Archaeology, the study of the material evidence of human activities in the past; Linguistic Anthropology, the study of how language transmits and transforms culture; and Sociocultural Anthropology, the study of political, religious, economic, and cultural organization in human societies.

Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4), Society and its Institutions (3)

ARH100Y1 - Introduction to Archaeology

Previous Course Number: ANT200Y1

Hours: 48L/24T

Archaeology entails an active process of uncovering evidence for and learning about aspects of the human past. The goal of this course is to involve students in current archaeological practice, including its socio-political context, and the global structure of the human experience from human evolution through cities and empires. Students will critically engage with ideas both within and outside the discipline on working with descendant communities, stewardship, ethical practice, and the relevance of archaeology to contemporary issues from climate change to social inequality. This course can serve as an introduction for students planning to pursue an archaeology program or as an opportunity to engage with a fascinating topic that is relevant to disciplines ranging from science to humanities.

Exclusion: ANT200Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT192H1 - Murder and Other Deathly Crimes: Anthropological Perspectives

Hours: 24S

Anthropology has much to say about death. There is foundational literature on sacrifice, suicide, and the rites surrounding the end of life. Anthropology also has a lot to say about violence: war, conflict, revolution. But at the nexus of death and violence lies murder, a culturally and socially salient phenomenon that garners less scholarly attention. This seminar will explore what constitutes murder in different cultural and historical contexts, by reading across anthropology, cultural studies, and film studies. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ANT193H1 - Making, Using, and Interpreting Stone Tools

Hours: 6L/8P/10S

Stone tools are the earliest and longest-lasting record of human technology. This course explores interpreting stone tools from a multidisciplinary perspective. In making, using, and studying stone tools, students will learn how archaeologists form hypotheses and design experiments to understand humans and their technologies in the past. This course presents research that investigate changes in human ancestors’ cognition and livelihoods through the contributions of other disciplines in life and social sciences to the study of stone tools. The course introduces major stone tool discoveries and critically engages with current research through the development of new ideas for research projects. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ANT194H1 - Human-nonhuman relations through Manga & Anime

Hours: 24S

Anthropology has examined various ways human beings imagine and engage with non-human beings in their everyday lives in particular social and cultural contexts. By using manga and anime, specific popular cultural expressive modes developed in Japan, this course examines social and cultural aspects of human relationship with other beings, including but not restricted to animals, plants, microbes, technological objects and spirits from anthropological perspectives. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ANT195H1 - Speculative Fiction and Social Reality

Hours: 24S

How do the imagined worlds of speculative fiction reflect, and reflect upon, the real worlds of their authors and audiences? And on the other hand, how can works of speculative fiction have real-world impacts? Is speculative fiction different, in either of these respects, than other genres of narrative? This course explores a variety of works of speculative fiction from the perspective of an anthropological interest in ideas, imaginations, and narratives in relation to social life. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ANT197H1 - Representations of Intellectuals

Hours: 24S

This course is a First-Year Foundation Seminar and provides an opportunity for exploration of different topics and themes. The course explores ideas of intellectuals who carved transformative theories during war times or under repressive regimes in the twentieth century. Intellectuals featured in the course include Rosa Luxemburg, Frantz Fanon, Walter Benjamin, Lu Xin, Audre Lorde. Further, it would examine cultural representations of them, such as, graphic novels, fictions, essays, films and videos on them or relatable to their ideas. For example, it would assign reading of Red Rosa, a graphic novel of Luxemburg together with her own work Theory of Imperialism. Or it would juxtapose Lorde’s classic, Sister Outsider, with Octavia Butler’s science fiction, Parable of the Sower. First-Year Foundation Seminars are restricted to first-year students and do not normally contribute towards program completion. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT199H1 - Living on the Water in Toronto

Hours: 24S

What do the Great Lakes mean to people living here? Especially Indigenous people? When and how do people care about the Great Lakes? Poems, stories, social science offer perspectives on the water from anthropology and arts. Field trips including paddling on a river, hiking; talks with local activists and artists. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT200Y1 - Introduction to Archaeology

Hours: 48L/24T

How did art and technology develop in the course of human evolution?  What led to the development of agriculture and settled village life?  How did social inequality and urbanism emerge?  This course takes a global perspective to explore the archaeological evidence that sheds light on these questions and other aspects of prehistory and early history.  Students will engage with the challenges posed by new discoveries and also with recent developments in archaeological method and theory.  The goal of the course is to involve students with the current state of archaeological research and some of the major issues archaeologists work to address.

Recommended Preparation: ANT100Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT203Y1 - The Nature of Humans

Hours: 48L/24P

This course examines where humans fit in the fabric of the natural world. It explores the history of ideas about humans in nature, humans as primates, the story of human evolution and modern human physical and genetic diversity.

Recommended Preparation: ANT100Y1/ BIO120H1, BIO220H1
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)

ANT204H1 - Social Cultural Anthropology and Global Issues

Previous Course Number: ANT204Y1

Hours: 24L/12T

A course focused on recent anthropological scholarship that seeks to understand and explain the transformation of contemporary societies and cultures. Topics may include some of the following: new patterns of global inequality, war and neo-colonialism, health and globalization, social justice and indigeneity, religious fundamentalism, gender inequalities, biotechnologies and society etc.

Exclusion: ANT204Y1
Recommended Preparation: ANT100Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ARH205H1 - Archaeological Inference

Previous Course Number: ARH305H1

Hours: 24L/6P/6S

This course explores ways that archaeologists investigate research questions and interpret archaeological evidence. It introduces some of the main conceptual tools that archaeologists use to make inferences, including analogy, ethnoarchaeology, and experimental archaeology. It also uses practical exercises to help students understand the basic logic of some of the methods that archaeologists use in their research, such as dating methods and identification of spatial patterns. This prepares students for more advanced courses in archaeology.

Prerequisite: ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1
Exclusion: ARH305H1
Recommended Preparation: ANT100Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT205H1 - Medical Anthropology: Sociocultural Perspectives on Illness, Medicine and Care

Hours: 24L/11T

Introduction to medical anthropology with a focus on questions, methods, and insights from sociocultural anthropology. Explores the relationships among culture, society, and medicine with special attention to power, inequality, and globalization. Examples from many parts of the world, addressing biomedicine as well as other healing systems.

Recommended Preparation: ANT100Y1, ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT207H1 - Core Concepts in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Hours: 24L/12T

Society, culture, kinship, exchange, community, identity, politics, belief: these and other core concepts are explored in this course, which lays the foundation for advanced courses in social and cultural anthropology.

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT208H1 - Medical Anthropology: an Evolutionary Perspective on Human Health

Hours: 24L/10T

Introduction to applied evolutionary medical anthropology. It explores evidence for the evolution of human vulnerability to disease across the life cycle (conception to death) and implications for health of contemporary populations in behavioral ecological, cross-cultural, health and healing systems, historical trauma, intersectionality, and climate change, lenses.

Recommended Preparation: ANT100Y1/ BIO120H1
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)

ANT210H1 - Anthropologists and Indigenous Peoples in North America

Previous Course Number: ANT388H1

Hours: 24L/12T

This course provides a rigorous introduction to historical and contemporary relations between Indigenous peoples and anthropologists, spanning archaeology, biological/ evolutionary anthropology, and socio-cultural & linguistic fields. The course centers Indigenous experience, critique, and scholarship, and fosters students’ critical thinking skills as applied to the ethics and politics of anthropological research, past and present. The course is organised into three modules:

1. Introduction to Indigenous peoples’ critiques and concerns regarding anthropology

2. Understanding historical context of these issues

3. In-depth discussion of current issues, oriented to emergent and possible future transformations in anthropology’s relations with Indigenous peoples.

Exclusion: ANT388H1
Recommended Preparation: ANT100Y1/ ANT241H5/ INS201Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT215H1 - Fight the Power!: A Global History of Resistance and Revolution

Hours: 24L

This course examines the efforts of Indigenous communities in North America to subvert, resist, and persist in the face of hegemonic power. Over the course of the semester, students will develop a critical understanding of the inner workings of power and the impact of these structures on the contemporary world. In examining the power-resistance dynamic, this course takes a cross-cultural comparative approach that situates North American case studies in relation to examples of resistance from Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. In examining these case studies, students are asked to engage with a variety of primary sources including songs, speeches, literary texts, and material culture.

Prerequisite: 0.5 credit in BR=1/ 2/ 3
Recommended Preparation: ANT100Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT253H1 - Language & Society

Hours: 24L/12T

This course introduces linguistic analysis with a view towards its application to the study of the relation between culture and social structure. The interplay of pronunciation, grammar, semantics, and discourse with rituals, ideologies, and constructions of social meaning and worldview are discussed in tandem with the traditional branches of linguistic analysisphonology, morphology, grammar, syntax, and semantics. The objective of the course is to provide a broad framework for understanding the role of language in society.

Exclusion: JAL253H1
Recommended Preparation: ANT100Y1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ANT299Y1 - 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.

JAR301H1 - Plagues and Peoples: From Divine Intervention to Public Health

Hours: 24L/12T

Infectious diseases have afflicted human societies throughout the history of our species. How are diseases shaped by the societies in which they spread, and how do they change culture and politics in turn? This course introduces perspectives from medical anthropology and religious studies to analyze the intersection of cultural, religious and scientific narratives when people confront plagues. We focus on historical and contemporary examples, such as the Spanish flu and COVID-19, giving students the tools to understand how cultural institutions, religious worldviews, and public health epidemiology shape living and dying during a pandemic.

Prerequisite: At least 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ARH306Y1 - Archaeological Field Methods

Hours: 12L/61P

Intensive instruction in archaeological field methods and acquisition of field skills, including archaeological search and survey, site mapping, laying out excavation grids, use of theodolites, total station, and GPS, stratigraphic excavation, stratigraphy, field recording, screening sediment, Ontario license and reporting requirements. Normally this course would take place on campus in the summer. This course has a mandatory Lab Materials Fee of $25 to cover non-reusable materials. The fee will be included on the student’s ACORN invoice. The details and application form are posted on the following website: https://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/undergraduate/curriculum-course-information/field-schools-and-research-opportunities. The application form should be submitted at least one week prior to the beginning of classes.

Prerequisite: ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1/ ( NMC260H1, NMC262H1)/ NMC261Y0

ARH309H1 - Archaeology, Ethics, and the Public

Hours: 24L

An analysis of ethics in contemporary archaeology that covers reburial and repatriation, interpretation of the archaeological record in the context of historically oppressed groups, ethnic minorities, and non-western societies, the ethics of collecting and managing cultural property, relationships with the media, the debates surrounding looting, and other issues.

Prerequisite: ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT311Y0 - Archaeological Fieldwork

ANT311Y1 - Archaeological Fieldwork

Practical field training through six weeks of excavation on an archaeological site. Basic principles of artifact handling and classification. (Offered only in Summer Session) Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1

ARH312Y1 - Archaeological Laboratory

Hours: 28L/44P

Techniques for making archaeological data meaningful after excavation or survey. Archaeological measurements, compilation of data, database design, archaeological systematics, and sampling theory in the context of lithics, pottery, floral, faunal and other archaeological remains.

Prerequisite: ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1, ARH205H1/ ARH305H1, and one of EEB225H1/ GGR270H1*/ STA220H1/ STA221H1/ STA257H1/ STA261H1/ ANTC35H3** Note: *Geography pre- or co-requisites waived for Anthropology and Archaeology students; ** to be taken at the Scarborough Campus
Breadth Requirements: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)

ANT315H1 - Arctic Archaeology

Hours: 24L

Archaeology and ethnohistory of Arctic cultures. Emphasis is on variation in social organization, settlement pattern, economy, ideology, and interaction with the expanding European world-system.

Prerequisite: ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT317H1 - Archaeology of Eastern North America

Hours: 24L

This course examines the precontact and early contact period culture history of eastern North America, including Ontario, through archaeological evidence. Topics covered include the earliest peopling of the region at the end of the Ice Age, diversity of hunter-gatherer societies, introduction of agriculture, and the development of the dynamic First Nations societies who eventually met and interacted with Europeans.

Prerequisite: ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT318H1 - The Preindustrial City and Urban Social Theory

Hours: 24L

This course offers a comparative examination of the rise and organization of ancient cities through a detailed investigation of urban social theory. We will explore competing anthropological interpretations of urban process while probing the political, ideological, and economic structures of the worlds earliest cities. Students will have the opportunity to consider a broad range of subjects, including mechanisms of city genesis; urban-rural relations; the intersections of city and state; and historical variation in urban landscapes, ideologies, and political economies.

Prerequisite: ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT319Y1 - Archaeology of North America

Hours: 48L

This course examines human prehistory in North America, North of Mexico, from the time of earliest occupation to European contact. Special topics include Paleoindian and Archaic adaptations, the rise of complex hunter-gatherers, origins of farming and the evolution of complex chiefdoms.

Prerequisite: ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT320H1 - Ancient Cultures of the Andes

Hours: 24L

This class offers intensive study of the archaeology and culture history of the Andean region prior to the Spanish conquest. The complexity and distinctiveness of Andean social organization, political institutions, religious ideologies, and economic practices have long fascinated anthropologists. Ultimately, the course will explore Andean cultures over a 10,000 year period, highlighting key debates, current research projects, and innovative theoretical approaches shaping contemporary archeological scholarship in South America and beyond.

Prerequisite: ANT100Y1/ ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT324H1 - Tourism & Globalization

Hours: 24L

The course uses tourism as a lens to examine global connections. Particular focus will be on the politics of cultural encounters. Drawing examples from diverse ethnographic materials, the course explores how different visions of the world come into contact, negotiated and transformed, and how tourist encounters shape peoples everyday lives.

Prerequisite: ANT204H1 or ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT325H1 - Indigenous Archaeologies

Hours: 24S

This course introduces students to the field of Indigenous archaeology. Indigenous archaeology is a form of critical praxis that encompasses archaeological research conducted for, with, and by Indigenous peoples. Throughout the class we explore the colonial origins of archaeology, Indigenous activism and its impacts on the discipline of anthropology, ongoing efforts to decolonize and indigenize cultural heritage, and community-based research methods. Students will all also be introduced to new theoretical perspectives emerging out of the intersection of Anthropology and Indigenous Studies including survivance, refusal, futurity, and resurgence.

Prerequisite: 1 course from ANT200Y1/ ARH205H1/ ANT210H1/ ANT215H1/ INS201Y1/ INS200H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

JAL328H1 - Writing Systems

Hours: 36L

Introduction to writing systems; their historical development, their relationship to language, and their role in culture and society. (Given by the Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics) (Not offered every year)

Prerequisite: ANT100Y1/ LIN101H1/ LIN200H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ANT329H1 - Language & Power Structure

Hours: 24L/4T

The role of language and symbolism in the representation and manipulation of ideology and power structure. Case materials drawn from the study of verbal arts, gender, law, advertising, and politics with a focus on North America.

Prerequisite: ANT204H1 or ANT207H1 or ANT253H1 or MCS223H1 or 0.5 credit at the 200+ level in SOC or POL or LIN or Women's Studies
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ANT330Y1 - Paleoanthropology Field School

Hours: 24L/78P

This course provides background in the practical and theoretical aspects of fieldwork in Paleoanthropology. Students are trained in the treatment and analysis of fossil vertebrates, plant macro- and micro-fossils and sediments. Excursions to paleoanthropological localities of Homo erectus and Homo sapiens, and excavation at a hominoid site. (Joint undergraduate-graduate) Not eligible for CR/NCR option. Additional fees of up to $2500 for field trip costs will apply. The details and the application form are posted on the following website: https://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/undergraduate/curriculum-course-information/field-schools-and-research-opportunities. The application form should be submitted by the deadlines indicated on the website.

Prerequisite: ANT203Y1
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)

ANT333Y1 - Living Primate Adaptations

Hours: 48L/24P

A survey of living primates, this lab-oriented course describes and compares the diverse behavioural and anatomical adaptations that are characteristic to this order of mammals. The understanding of the biological diversity and evolutionary history of primates is important for further understanding of human adaptation and evolution.

Prerequisite: ANT203Y1
Exclusion: ANT333H1
Recommended Preparation: ANT334Y1; BIO120H1, BIO220H1
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)

ANT334Y1 - Human Skeletal Biology

Previous Course Number: ANT334H1

Hours: 48L/48P

Exploration of the development and maintenance of the human skeleton and dentition, with emphasis on application to archaeological, forensic and biomedical sciences.

Prerequisite: ANT203Y1
Exclusion: ANT334H1
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)

ANT335Y1 - Human Evolution

Hours: 24L/36P

This course takes the student on a survey of human evolution from our ape ancestors to modern humans. Students will learn to identify skulls, teeth and limb bones, explore hundreds of casts, and learn how researchers understand human origins and trends in the development of human anatomy and behavior.

Prerequisite: ANT203Y1
Exclusion: ANT332H5, ANT333H5, ANT434H5, ANTC17H3
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)

ANT336H1 - Evolutionary Anthropology Theory

Hours: 24L

This course will explore the foundational and leading concepts in evolutionary anthropology. Historically important readings and current concepts will be presented and discussed in the context of research, especially in areas of human population biology, ecology and the evolution of Homo sapiens. Topics will include behavioral ecology and life history theory, as well as a critique of the adaptationist program.

Prerequisite: ANT203Y1
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)

ANT337H1 - Human Movement

Hours: 24L/24P

This course will investigate human movement and physical activity patterns through the lens of evolutionary anthropology. The evolution of hominin physical behaviours, such as bipedalism and tool use, will be explored alongside the morphological traits associated with these behaviours. We will also examine social and cultural factors that may moderate physical activities among diverse human groups, including subsistence strategy variation and contemporary views on activity and exercise.

Prerequisite: ANT203Y1
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)

ANT338H1 - Molecular Anthropology and Human Evolution

Hours: 24L/12P

Molecular anthropology is an interdisciplinary field combining biology, genetics, evolution and anthropology. In this class, we will explore the use of DNA for the study of past migrations and admixture patterns, the evolution of pathogens, plant and animal domestication and especially the relationships between recent and archaic humans.

Prerequisite: ANT203Y1
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)

ANT341H1 - China in Transition

Hours: 24L

This course offers a general introduction to transformations in modern and contemporary China from an anthropological perspective. This course covers major aspects of Chinese culture, history, and society in a global context.

Prerequisite: ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT342H1 - Anthropology of Race and Racism

Hours: 24L

This course will examine the role of anthropology in the development, maintenance, as well as critique, of race as a concept and racism as a social, cultural, and structural reality. Topics include: the relationships among anthropology, race, and colonialism; the constructions of race as a social, cultural, and biological concept; ethnographic engagements with whiteness and white supremacy; and the future of anthropology as an anti-racist and anti-colonialist enterprise.

Prerequisite: ANT207H1
Recommended Preparation: ANT204H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT343H1 - Social Anthropology of Gender

Hours: 24L

Gender concerns the ways that groups define and experience what it is to be male, female, or a gender identity in-between or outside of that binary, and in all societies the boundaries of gender categories are both policed and resisted. In this course we examine how gender is made materially, discursively, and through intersections with other structures of inequality (e.g. race, sexuality, class, etc.).

Prerequisite: ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT344H1 - Political Anthropology

Hours: 24L

This course explores the conceptual and methodological tools anthropologists employ to study the ways social groups enact, resist, and transform social relations that involve the production and distribution of power. It studies how anthropologists theorize politics in relation to power, authority, coercion, and consent. Topics explored in this class include political cultures in state and statelessness societies, political affect and the politics of everyday life, hegemony and resistance, governmentality and bio-politics, violence and militarization, social movements and citizenship, and the difficulties of anthropological research in conflict zones.

Prerequisite: ANT204H1 or ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT345H1 - Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives

Hours: 24L

This course examines medical anthropology's contributions to, and critiques of, global health policies and programs. Topics covered include: colonialism and health, the political ecology of disease, indigenous constructions of illness and healing, medical pluralism, the politics of primary health care, population policies, reproductive health, and AIDS.

Prerequisite: ANT205H1 or ANT207H1 or permission of the instructor
Recommended Preparation: ANT348H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT346H1 - Anthropology of Food

Hours: 24L

Social anthropological perspective on the nature and meaning of food production, culinary cultures, industrial food, food as metaphor, and famine and hunger.

Prerequisite: ANT204H1 or ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT347H1 - Metropolis: Global Cities

Hours: 24L

The role of culture, cultural diversity, space and performance in urban institutions and settings. The cultural context and consequence of urbanization.

Prerequisite: ANT207H1
Exclusion: ANT347Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT348H1 - Medical Anthropology: Health, Power and Politics

Hours: 24L/5T

This course deepens students’ understandings of health and illness as social, cultural, political and historical phenomena. Drawing on theories and approaches from social-cultural anthropology, students will develop skills in critical analysis of experiences and meanings of healing and illness in particular contexts, with a focus on anthropological critique of dominant health policies, discourses, technologies and practices.

Prerequisite: ANT204H1 or ANT205H1 or ANT207H1 or permission of the instructor. (Note: ANT208H1 is not accepted preparation for this course.)
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT352H1 - Anthropology of Life and Death

Hours: 24L

What might it mean to think of death as inside of life, as opposed to at the end of it? This class examines Anthropological approaches to understanding life and death in our contemporary moment, one marked by widespread illness, war, policing, suicide, accident, and further loss. How do we go on living surrounded by death every day? Why are certain deaths valued above others? We will examine a range of related themes including funerary rituals, grief and mourning, violence and killing, illness and ageing, and ghosts and the afterlife.

Prerequisite: ANT204H1/ ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT354H1 - Right-Wing Nationalisms

Hours: 24L

Anthropological and other approaches to right-wing nationalism, populism, illiberalism, and “democratic backsliding,” in specific parts of the world and across continents. Economic and geopolitical sources of right-wing nationalist ideas and their patterns of transmission. International cooperation among right-wing nationalists. White supremacism. Conspiracy theories. Connections between extreme and mainstream forms of illiberal nationalism.

Prerequisite: 0.5 credit of any 200-level course in ANT, GGR, HIS, POL, or SOC
Recommended Preparation: ANT204H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

JAL355H1 - Language and Gender

Hours: 24L

An introduction to some of the principal questions of feminist theory, as viewed from sociolinguistics. Topics include: socialization into gendered discourse patterns, cultural and ethnic differences in gendered interactions; the role of language and gender in legal, medical and labour settings; multilingualism, migration, imperialism and nationalism; sexuality, desire and queer linguistics, language, gender and globalization.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit at the 200-level in LIN/ANT/JAL/SOC/WGS
Recommended Preparation: ANT204H1/ ANT253H1/ SOC200H1/ SOC214H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT356H1 - Anthropology of Religion

Hours: 24L

This course introduces selective anthropological and ethnographic rendering of religion and theology; matter, magic and the miraculous; religion and media. It also engages with some political understandings of religious affects; the religious in movement; mystics and relics; religious practices and their entanglements in colonial histories.

Prerequisite: ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ANT357H1 - Social Worlds of Medicine and Care

Hours: 24L

Presents anthropological perspectives on provision of healthcare as a complex social and cultural phenomenon. Examines hierarchies and division of labour among health care providers, and how social groups come to occupy particular positions. Considers how knowledge and skills are gained through formal training and/or lived experience, how they are recognized and valued, and may become sources of identity. Examines local variations within biomedicine as practiced in different settings around the world.

Prerequisite: ANT205H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT358H1 - Medical Anthropology and Social Justice

Hours: 24L

It is widely acknowledged that sharp disparities in disease burden and access to medical care characterize global patterns in health. These disparities affect the life chances of much of the worlds population, based on class position, gender, and geographical region.

Prerequisite: ANT204H1 or ANT205H1 or ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ARH360H1 - Prehistory of the Near East

Hours: 24L

From earliest times through the rise of complex hunter-gatherers, and the food producing revolution to politically complex societies in Southwest Asia.

Prerequisite: ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1/ ( NMC260H1, NMC262H1)
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ARH361H1 - Field Archaeology

Opportunity for students participating in non-degree credit archaeological digs to submit reports, field notes and term papers for degree credit. Not eligible for CR/NCR option. Instructions on how to obtain an application form are posted on the following website: https://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/undergraduate. The application form should be submitted at least one week prior to the beginning of classes.

Prerequisite: Permission of Undergraduate Co-ordinator and Supervisor

ANT362H1 - Sports and Play

Hours: 24L

We tend to think of sports as unserious. This course shows that much serious cultural work is conducted through sports, but also that sports are indeed not always serious. This anthropology of sports engages with sports as both work and play, considering issues like gender, bodies, competition, and pleasure.

Prerequisite: ANT204H1 or ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ANT364H1 - Advocating Environmental and Climate Justice

Hours: 24L

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.

Prerequisite: ANT204H1/ ANT207H1/ ANT215H1. Students who do not meet the prerequisite are encouraged to contact the Department.
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience

ANT366H1 - Anthropology of Activism and Social Justice

Hours: 24L

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.

Prerequisite: ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT370H1 - Introduction to Social Anthropological Theory

Hours: 24P

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.

Prerequisite: ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT374H1 - Rethinking Development, or the Improvement of the World

Hours: 36L

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.

Prerequisite: ANT207H1 or permission of the instructor
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT376H1 - Anthropology of Animals

Hours: 24L

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.

Prerequisite: ANT204H1 or ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

JAA377H1 - Black Radical Theory from the Global South: Anthropological Perspectives

Hours: 24L

This course will survey the works of Black theorists and anthropologists from the Global South, who are shaping current debates within and beyond the discipline of Anthropology, concerning colonialism and decolonization, Marxism, indigeneity, political economy, Black radical thought, queer theory and decolonial feminism. Students will look at how these works challenge the “Northern Academy’s monoliteracy” (Musila), politics of knowledge production and construction of the Global South as primarily a site of fieldwork and research extraction. Authors will include Sylvia Tamale, Wangui Kimari, Sabelo Ndlovu-Matsheni, Ochy Curiel, Keguro Macharia, Beatriz Nascimento, Michel-Rolph Trouillot and Abdelghaffar Ahmed.

Prerequisite: ANT204H1/ ANT207H1/ ANT215H1/ AFR150Y1/ AFR290H1/ AFR298H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT378H1 - Gift, Money, and Finance

Hours: 24L

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.

Prerequisite: ANT204H1 or ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT380H1 - Craft of Social/Cultural Anthropology

Hours: 36S

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.

Prerequisite: ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT382H1 - Special Topics in Biocultural Medical Anthropology

Hours: 24L

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.

Prerequisite: ANT208H1
Recommended Preparation: ANT203Y1/ ANT205H1
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)

ANT384H1 - Special Topics in Society, Culture and Language

Hours: 24L

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".

Prerequisite: ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT385H1 - Special Topics in Sociocultural Medical Anthropology

Hours: 24L

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.

Prerequisite: ANT205H1 or ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT386H1 - Global Catholicism: Anthropological Approaches

Hours: 24L

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.

Prerequisite: ANT204H1 or ANT207H1 or RLG212H1 or RLG203H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ANT390H1 - Special Topics in Anthropology

Hours: 24L

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

Prerequisite: 9.0 credits. Further prerequisites vary from year to year, consult the department.

ANT395Y0 - Special Topics in Anthropology

Hours: 48S

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

Recommended Preparation: ANT100Y1/ ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1/ ANT203Y1/ ANT204H1/ ANT207H1

ANT396Y0 - Special Topics in Anthropology

Hours: 48S

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

Recommended Preparation: ANT100Y1/ ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1/ ANT203Y1/ ANT204H1/ ANT207H1

ANT398H0 - Research Excursions

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.

ANT398Y0 - Research Excursions

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.

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.

JAL401H1 - Field Linguistics

Hours: 48P

Field Linguistics provides practice in language analysis based on elicited data from a native speaker of an indigenous or foreign language, emphasizing procedures and techniques. (Given by the Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics)

Prerequisite: Completion of LIN322H1 and LIN331H1 or permission of the instructor
Exclusion: LIND46H3
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ANT406H1 - Lithic Analysis

Hours: 24L/12P

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

Prerequisite: ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1, ARH205H1/ ARH305H1, ARH312Y1
Breadth Requirements: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)

ANT407H1 - Inka and Aztec States

Hours: 24L

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.

Prerequisite: ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1, ARH205H1/ ARH305H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT408H1 - The History Lab: Applied Methods in Historical Archaeology

Hours: 24L

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.

Prerequisite: ARH100Y1/ ANT200Y1
Recommended Preparation: ARH312Y1/ ANT412H1, GGR272H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ANT409H1 - Landscape Archaeology

Hours: 24L/12P

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.

Prerequisite: ARH205H1/ ARH305H1
Recommended Preparation: GGR270H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT410H1 - Hunter-Gatherers Past & Present

Hours: 24S

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

Prerequisite: ARH205H1/ ARH305H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT411H1 - Advanced Archaeological Theory

Hours: 24S

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

Prerequisite: ARH205H1/ ARH305H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ANT412H1 - Historical Archaeology

Hours: 16L/8P

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.

Prerequisite: ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1/ HIS374H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT415Y1 - Laboratory in Faunal Archaeo-Osteology

Hours: 48P/48S

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.

Prerequisite: ARH312Y1
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4), The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)

ANT416H1 - Archaeology of Ritual and Identity

Hours: 24L

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.

Prerequisite: ARH205H1/ ARH305H1, and one of ANT100Y1/ ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1/ ANT356H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ANT419H1 - Current Debates in Palaeolithic Archaeology

Hours: 24S

Current research in Palaeolithic Archaeology reflecting emerging issues.

Prerequisite: ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1/ ANT203Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT420H1 - Archaeology of Inequality

Hours: 24L

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

Prerequisite: ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1, ARH205H1/ ARH305H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT425H1 - Language in Anthropological Thought

Hours: 24L

How ideas about language fit into the overall views of humankind as expressed by selected anthropologists, linguists, sociologists, and philosophers.

Prerequisite: ANT204H1 or ANT207H1 or ANT253H1 and a 0.5 credit 300+ level course from Group C: Society, Culture, and Language
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ANT426H1 - Western Views of the Non-West

Hours: 24S

The history and present of western concepts and images about the ‘Other’, in anthropological and other scholarship and in popular culture.

Prerequisite: 0.5 credit at the 300-level from Anthropology Group C: Society, Culture, and Language, or Near and Middle Eastern Civilization or Jewish Studies or Diaspora and Transnational Studies or History
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ANT430H1 - Primate Conservation Biology

Hours: 24L

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.

Prerequisite: ANT203Y1
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)

ANT431H1 - The Real Planet of the Apes

Hours: 12L/12P

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.

Prerequisite: ANT203Y1
Recommended Preparation: ANT335Y1 or ANT330Y1
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)

ANT434H1 - Health, Diet & Disease in the Past

Hours: 24L/12P

Advanced exploration of the life histories of past populations, through the application of palaeodietary analyses, palaeopathology and other appropriate research methods.

Prerequisite: ANT334H1
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)

ANT435H1 - Anthropology of Childhood and Childcare

Hours: 24L

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.

Prerequisite: ANT203Y1 or ANT208H1
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)

ANT436H1 - Primate Ecology & Social Behavior

Hours: 24L

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.

Prerequisite: ANT203Y1
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)

ANT437H1 - Introduction to Virtual Anthropology

Hours: 18L/24P

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.

Prerequisite: ANT334H1 or ARH312Y1
Breadth Requirements: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)

ANT438H1 - Topics in Emerging Scholarship (Evolutionary Anthropology)

Hours: 24S

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.

Prerequisite: ANT203Y1 and a 0.5 credit 300+ level course from Group B: Evolutionary
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)

ARH440H1 - Photogrammetry and 3D Analysis of Material Culture

Hours: 12L/12P/12S

With the increasing availability of powerful computers and software, 3D modeling and recording has become commonplace in archaeology, architectural history, museum studies, and other areas of cultural heritage research. In this course, students will learn about a powerful new method for 3D recording known as photogrammetry. After a series of tutorials, they will gain firsthand experience creating their own models of various subjects, such as historical architecture and public art in Toronto, and museum objects on campus. They will also learn how to analyze and present 3D content, while thinking critically about the impact of how digital tools are currently being employed by and shaping the agendas of researchers in archaeology, art history, and related fields.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit in ANT/ ARH/ FAH courses at the 300+ level
Exclusion: ARH482H1 (Special Topics in Archaeology: 3D Modeling and Archaeological Analysis), offered in Fall 2019 and Fall 2021
Recommended Preparation: Previous experience with photography or imaging software will be helpful but is not required
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ANT441H1 - Love, Sex, and Marriage

Hours: 24S

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.

Prerequisite: ANT207H1 and ANT343H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT442H1 - Social Studies of Autism

Hours: 24L

Autism is simultaneously celebrated by autists as a core identity and pathologized in public and clinical discourses as a disease to be cured. This course spans anthropology of autism and critical autism studies, examining autism as both lived experience and rubric for a complex set of biosocial and cultural phenomena. Engaging with academic and popular texts and multi-media sources, we explore how knowledge of autism is socially produced in historical, political and cultural contexts; autobiographies and ethnographies of autistic lives; histories of autistic organising; and autism and intersectionality, attending particularly to race and gender.

Prerequisite: ANT345H1/ ANT348H1/ ANT357H1/ ANT358H1/ ANT382H1/ ANT385H1/ JAR301H1
Exclusion: ANT486H1 (Topic: Social Studies in Autism) offered in Summer 2023 and Winter 2024
Recommended Preparation: ANT348H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT446H1 - Anthropology of Aging, Health, and Care

Hours: 36S

Introduces anthropological perspectives on the life course and aging, with particular attention to health challenges and care needs, the social and cultural arrangements around these, and the impacts of population aging, global migration, technological change and other broad scale transformations. Emphasizes questions, concepts, and insights from sociocultural medical anthropology. Readings present ethnographic research based in many different parts of the world. Course assignments include an ethnographic interview and analysis; students will be provided guidance on all stages of designing and carrying out this project.

Prerequisite: ANT203Y1/ ANT204H1/ ANT205H1/ ANT207H1/ ANT208H1/ ANT210H1
Recommended Preparation: ANT205H1/ ANT208H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT450H1 - Multispecies Cities

Hours: 24S

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.

Prerequisite: ANT204H1 or ANT207H1 and a 300-level course or above in Society, Culture and Language
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT455H1 - Anthropology of the Middle East

Hours: 24L

What can Anthropology, as both an academic discipline and a way of knowing, bring to our understanding of the Middle East, a region deeply entangled in global geopolitics? What kinds of questions have social and cultural anthropologists asked when faced with the diversity of a region that stretches from North Africa to West Asia? This course explores the cultural, historical, and political complexity of the region from an ethnographic perspective, while also attending critically to the way “The Middle East” has been constructed in the first place. Rather than attempting an overview of the entire region, it focuses on themes that have compelled anthropological research in the area in recent decades, including but not limited to war, migration, labour, “terrorism”, gender, racialization, and religion. We will draw from key academic texts in conversation with other genres of knowledge production including film, journalism, and literature. No previous familiarity with the region is required.

Prerequisite: ANT207H1
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
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ANT456H1 - Queer Ethnography

Hours: 24L

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.

Prerequisite: ANT207H1 and any 300-level course in Society, Culture and Language
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT457H1 - Anthropology of Material Culture

Hours: 24L

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.

Prerequisite: ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1/ ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

ANT458H1 - Indigenous Health Histories and Canadian Settler Colonialism

Hours: 24S

We focus on the relationship between the health and well-being of Indigenous people/s and Canadian settler colonialism, drawing on scholarship from medical anthropology, history, Indigenous studies and settler colonial studies. The course is centrally concerned with how Indigenous social and political actors have engaged with health, illness, social suffering and healing throughout the 20th century, and informed by anthropological and historical understandings of healthcare systems as permeated by dynamic relations of power.

Prerequisite: Any 300 or 400 level course in Society, Culture and Language or INS350H1 or INS355H1 or JFP450H1 or permission of the instructor
Recommended Preparation: ANT345H1 or ANT348H1 or ANT358H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT459H1 - Multispecies Ethnography

Hours: 24S

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.

Prerequisite: ANT376H1 or three 300-level anthropology courses in any subfield or permission of instructor
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ANT460H1 - Global Perspectives on Women's Health

Hours: 24S

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.

Prerequisite: ANT343H1/ ANT345H1/ ANT348H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT462H1 - Anthropology of Affect

Hours: 24S

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.

Prerequisite: ANT207H1 and any 300-level course in Society, Culture and Language
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ANT463H1 - Anthropology of Racial Capitalism and Dispossession

Hours: 24S

This course considers racial capitalism from an anthropological perspective through ethnographies and films which examine the role race, colonialism and white supremacy play in shaping and enabling contemporary forms of capitalist accumulation by dispossession in everyday life. Considering dispossession broadly, we will explore not only processes that dispossess people of property and land, but also of rights, modes of belonging, health, citizenship and life. We will also look at the ways people are organizing to reclaim what they have been dispossessed of or denied, from anti-eviction movements and abolitionist organizing to struggles for reproductive rights, food sovereignty and climate justice.

Prerequisite: ANT204H1/ ANT207H1
Recommended Preparation: ANT342H1/ ANT366H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT464H1 - Black Ethnographies

Hours: 24S

Black populations in the African Diaspora defy simple characterizations. In this course, we will examine the experiences of Black people through an ethnographic exploration of their lives. The close analysis of ethnographic monographs and articles will illuminate the ways in which race, gender, ethnicity, class, sexuality, ability, nationality, and other factors, shape the everyday for Black people in different cultural contexts. An additional focus will be a consideration of the experiences of Black anthropologists as ethnographers and scholars who are broadening anthropological discourses.

Prerequisite: ANT342H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT465H1 - Ethnographic Practicum: Toronto Tours

Hours: 24P

This course provides students with a partnered field experience by conducting ethnographic research on visitor tours in partner organizations in Toronto with faculty’s supervision. The project will be developed in collaboration with the partner organizations to offer students partnership-based experiential learning opportunities. Students will produce detailed ethnographic descriptions of tourist experiences, analyze how media representations and tourism infrastructure shape diverse visitor experiences, explore how existing infrastructure can be potentially repurposed for a decolonial or inclusive tour, and develop skills to communicate their findings to the broader audience.

Prerequisite: ANT380H1. Students who do not meet the prerequisite are encouraged to contact the Department.
Recommended Preparation: ANT324H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience

ANT472H1 - Japan in Global Context: Anthropological Perspectives

Hours: 24L

This course examines how what we know as Japan and its culture has been constructed through global interactions. Topics include gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, social and family life, work and leisure, and Japanese identity amid changing global power relations.

Prerequisite: ANT204H1/ ANT207H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT473H1 - Ethnographic Practicum: The University

Hours: 36S

Students carry out original ethnographic research projects on some aspect of life in the University of Toronto: its students, staff and faculty; its hierarchies and habits; and the everyday practices in classrooms, labs, dining halls, offices, clubs, and residence corridors. Class time is used for collective brainstorming, feedback and analysis.

Prerequisite: ANT380H1 or permission of the instructor
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT474H1 - Ethnographies of HIV/AIDS: Risk, Vulnerability, and Care

Hours: 24S

This course examines HIV/AIDS globally and ethnographically focusing on how gendered political economies create HIV vulnerability; the experiences of sexual minorities; how religious institutions shape practices of social care and exclusion; and anthropological critiques of HIV awareness campaigns and counseling as sites of governmentality.

Prerequisite: ANT348H1 or ANT345H1 or ANT358H1 or ANT343H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT475H1 - Reading Ethnography

Hours: 24P

Students read several full-length ethnographies, both classical and contemporary, and debate what makes for sound ethnographic research and writing, as well as what ethnography is and "should" be as a genre of writing and representation.

Prerequisite: ANT207H1 and ANT370H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT477H1 - Transnational Korea in and outside the Peninsula

Hours: 24S

This course addresses reading ethnography as a tool to understand compressed and complex modernity such as Korean societies, both in and outside of the Korean peninsula. In particular, this course aims to develop students’ critical thinking on class, ethnicity, gender, family, and migration in Korea and diasporic societies of Koreans in Canada, China, Japan, and US.

Prerequisite: ANT207H1 and 0.5 credit at the 300+ level from BR=1/2/3 courses
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT480H1 - Special Topics in Anthropological Research

Hours: 24S

Unique opportunity to explore a particular anthropological topic in-depth. Topics vary from year to year.

Prerequisite: Any 200-level Anthropology course and 1.0 credit at the 300+ level

ANT480Y1 - Special Topics in Anthropological Research

Hours: 48S

Unique opportunity to explore a particular anthropological topic in-depth. Topics vary from year to year.

Prerequisite: Any 200-level Anthropology course and 1.0 credit at the 300+ level

ANT481H1 - Special Topics in Evolutionary Anthropology

Hours: 24S

Unique opportunity to explore in-depth a particular topic in Evolutionary Anthropology. Topics vary from year to year.

Prerequisite: ANT203Y1 and a 0.5 credit 300+ level course from Group B: Evolutionary
Breadth Requirements: Living Things and Their Environment (4)

ARH482H1 - Special Topics in Archaeology

Hours: 24S

Unique opportunity to explore a particular archaeological topic in-depth. Topics vary from year to year.

Prerequisite: ARH205H1/ ARH305H1

ANT483H1 - Special Topics in Linguistic Anthropology

Hours: 24S

This course will focus on an advanced topic in Linguistic Anthropology. Topic will vary from year- to-year.

Prerequisite: ANT253H1 and 1.0 credit at the 300-level from Group C: Society, Culture and Language
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

ANT484H1 - Special Topics in Social Cultural Anthropology

Hours: 24S

Unique opportunity to explore a particular Social Cultural Anthropology topic in-depth. Topics vary from year to year.

Prerequisite: ANT207H1 and 1.0 credit at the 300-level from Group C: Society, Culture and Language
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT485H1 - Topics in Emerging Scholarship (Society, Culture and Language)

Hours: 24S

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 Socio-cultural or Linguistic Anthropology topic in-depth. Topics vary from year to year.

Prerequisite: ANT207H1 and 1.0 credit at the 300+ level from Group C: Society, Culture and Language
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT486H1 - Special Topics: Socio-Cultural Research Seminar

Hours: 24S

Unique opportunity to explore a particular Social Cultural Anthropology topic in-depth. Topics vary from year to year.

Prerequisite: ANT207H1 and 1.0 credit at the 300+ level from Group C: Society, Culture and Language
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT488H1 - Special Topics in Medical Anthropology

Hours: 24S

This discussion-based seminar course focuses on a topic in medical anthropology. Topics change from year to year. See Anthropology website for more details.

Prerequisite: ANT205H1, ANT208H1, and 1.0 credit in ANT/ARH/JAL/JAR courses at the 300-level
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT490Y1 - Field Course in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Hours: 24L/52P

An instructor-supervised experiential study project in social and cultural anthropology. Course takes place in an off-campus setting. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: ANT204H1 or ANT207H1, and 1.0 credit from Group C: Society, Culture, and Language
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT491H1 - Internship in Anthropology

Hours: 24P

This course is an opportunity to apply acquired knowledge in anthropology or archeology in a work placement environment. Opportunities may include local community organizations, international development organizations, museum or heritage projects, or media production projects. Only internships that require knowledge and skills in anthropology and/or archeology will be considered. Student must fulfill responsibilities of the internship as well as complete a final research paper. If qualified, the student’s internship supervisor will mark the final paper for the course; if not, an appropriate academic supervisor will be assigned from within the Dept. of Anthropology. Restricted to students in a Specialist or Major program in Anthropology. Not eligible for CR/NCR option. Instructions on how to obtain an application form are posted on the following website: https://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/undergraduate. The application form should be submitted at least one week prior to the beginning of classes.

Prerequisite: 14.0 credits, 3.0 credits in Anthropology
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ANT491Y1 - Internship in Anthropology

Hours: 48P

This course is an opportunity to apply acquired knowledge in anthropology or archeology in a work placement environment. Opportunities may include local community organizations, international development organizations, museum or heritage projects, or media production projects. Only internships that require knowledge and skills in anthropology and/or archeology will be considered. Student must fulfill responsibilities of the internship as well as complete a final research paper. If qualified, the student’s internship supervisor will mark the final paper for the course; if not, an appropriate academic supervisor will be assigned from within the Dept. of Anthropology. Restricted to students in a Specialist or Major program in Anthropology. Not eligible for CR/NCR option. Instructions on how to obtain an application form are posted on the following website: https://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/undergraduate. The application form should be submitted at least one week prior to the beginning of classes.

Prerequisite: 14.0 credits, 3.0 credits in Anthropology
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ARH494H1 - Topics in Emerging Scholarship (Archaeology)

Hours: 24S

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 Archaeology topic in-depth. Topics vary from year to year.

Prerequisite: ARH205H1/ ARH305H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

ARH495H1 - Archaeology Research Practicum

Laboratory or practical research on an archaeological project that emphasizes methods and research design in archaeology. Students must obtain the consent of a Supervisor before enrolling. Students are required to give an oral presentation of research results to an open meeting of the Archaeology Centre at the conclusion of the course. Application must be made to the Anthropology Department. Not eligible for CR/NCR option. Instructions on how to obtain an application form are posted on the following website: https://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/undergraduate. The application form should be submitted at least one week prior to the beginning of classes.

Prerequisite: A minimum of 14.0 credits, permission of Supervisor and Undergraduate Coordinator.
Exclusion: ANT497Y1
Recommended Preparation: ARH205H1/ ARH305H1, ARH312Y1

ANT497Y1 - Independent Research

Supervised independent research on a topic agreed on by the student and supervisor before enrolment in the course. Open in exceptional circumstances to advanced students with a strong background in Anthropology. Course Supervisor must be a member of the Anthropology faculty. A maximum of one year of Independent Research courses is allowed per program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option. Instructions on how to obtain an application form are posted on the following website: https://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/undergraduate. The application form should be submitted at least one week prior to the beginning of classes.

Prerequisite: A minimum of 10.0 credits, permission of Supervisor and Undergraduate Coordinator.

ANT498H1 - Independent Research

Supervised independent research on a topic agreed on by the student and supervisor before enrolment in the course. Open in exceptional circumstances to advanced students with a strong background in Anthropology. Course Supervisor must be a member of the Anthropology faculty. A maximum of one year of Independent Research courses is allowed per program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option. Instructions on how to obtain an application form are posted on the following website: https://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/undergraduate. The application form should be submitted at least one week prior to the beginning of classes.

Prerequisite: A minimum of 10.0 credits, permission of Supervisor and Undergraduate Coordinator.

ANT499H1 - Independent Research

Supervised independent research on a topic agreed on by the student and supervisor before enrolment in the course. Open in exceptional circumstances to advanced students with a strong background in Anthropology. Course Supervisor must be a member of the Anthropology faculty. A maximum of one year of Independent Research courses is allowed per program. Not eligible for CR/NCR option. Instructions on how to obtain an application form are posted on the following website: https://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/undergraduate. The application form should be submitted at least one week prior to the beginning of classes.

Prerequisite: A minimum of 10.0 credits, permission of Supervisor and Undergraduate Coordinator.

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