Course Descriptions

ANT101H5 Introduction to Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (SCI)

Anthropology is the global and holistic study of human biology and behaviour, and includes four subfields: biological anthropology, archaeology, sociocultural anthropology and linguistics. The material covered is directed to answering the question: What makes us human? This course is a survey of biological anthropology and archaeology. [24L, 12T]
Exclusion: ANT100Y5
 

ANT102H5 Introduction to Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology (SSc)

Anthropology is the global and holistic study of human biology and behaviour, and includes four subfields: biological anthropology, archaeology, sociocultural anthropology and linguistics. The material covered is directed to answering the question: What makes us human? This course is a survey of sociocultural and linguistic anthropology. [24L]
Exclusion: ANT100Y5

ANT199H5 First Year Seminar in Anthropology (SSc)

This course is designed to offer ambitious students a rigorous introduction to the field of socicultural anthropology - the study of people as social and cultural beings, and how people order their lives and give meaning to their experiences. It is a reading, writing, and discussion-intensive seminar in which students explore core topics in the study of humanity-power, identity, self, culture, and society-by focusing on issues which may include but are not limited to war, human rights, development, immigration, and religion. [24S]
Prerequisite: ANT102H5

Note: This course is restricted to first year students only.  Students permitted to enrol must achieve a grade of 80% or higher in ANT102H5.

This is a seminar course and will have an enrollment cap of 25.  Interested students must apply directly to the department.

ANT200H5 Prehistoric Archaeology (SCI)

Archaeological theory, method and technique. Principles of scientific research will be applied to archaeological information. The course will cover the following topics: how archaeology applies the scientific method; how archaeological projects are planned and organized; how archaeological data are recovered through survey, excavation and other means; how archaeological data are organized and analyzed to produce information about the human past; the major theoretical paradigms that archaeologists use to interpret the human past. [24L, 12P]

ANT201H5 World Prehistory (SCI)

Survey of human cultural development over 2.5 million years. The course will cover the following topics: the nature and origins of material culture; the nature and development of hunter-gather-fisher economies; the nature and development of resource production; and the nature of development of complex societies. [24L, 12P]
 

ANT203Y5 Biological Anthropology (SCI)

A survey of the field of biological anthropology. Topics will include human evolution and palaeontology, skeletal biology, human genetics and variation, human growth, primatology and human adaptation. [48L, 24P]
Prerequisite: ANT101H5/ BIO152H5

ANT204H5 Sociocultural Anthropology (SSc)

A general introductory course emphasizing social and political organization, economics, and the development of theory. Specific cases of social dynamics are drawn from both traditional and contemporary societies. [24L, 12T]

Exclusion: ANT204Y5
Prerequisite: ANT102H5/ 100Y5

ANT205H5 Introduction to Forensic Anthropology (SCI)

Introduction to the field of forensic anthropology. Outlines the areas in which forensic anthropologists may contribute to a death investigation and introduces basic concepts relating to the recovery and analysis of human remains. [24L, 12P]
Prerequisite: ANT101H5/ BIO152H5

ANT206H5 Culture and Communication (SSc)

Introduction to linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics. This includes: the issue of meaning in language, the use of language in context, the role of language in the organization of human activity, language and identity, the sequential organization of talk-in-interaction. [24L, 12T]
Exclusion: ANT206Y5
Prerequisite: ANT102H5/100Y5

ANT207H5 Being Human: Classic Thought on Self and Society (SSc)

The question of what it means to be human has been at the core of anthropology for over two centuries, and it remains as pressing now as it ever was. This course introduces students to some classic attempts at addressing this question with specific reference to the nature of personhood and social life.  By engaging with the writings of Marx, Weber, Freud, and DeBeauvoir among other great thinkers of the modern age, students will develop deeper knowledge of the major theories guiding anthropological research.  We will pay close attention to how arguments are constructed in these texts and focus on the methodologies that these pioneers of social thought developed in their inquiries.  The course covers enduring topics ranging from the production of social inequality, what it means to be an individual, how collective life is shaped by economic markets, and the role of religion in shaping human experience, to develop an understanding of central issues facing the world today. [24L, 12T]
Exclusion: ANT204Y5
Prerequisite: ANT102H5

ANT208H5 The Cool Culture Soul Machine: The Anthropology of Everyday Life (SSc)

This course will introduce students to culture and social theory via the lens of popular culture.  Commodities, advertising, and new technologies will be considered in light of their cultural content. The course may consider the marketing of identities, gender, sexualities, bodies, ethnicity, religion, and ideology, as well as resistance. [24L]
 

ANT209H5 War, trade and aid: The anthropology of global intervention (SSc)

This course explores how anthropology approaches the study of various interventions into human life and society.  These forms of intervention-nation building, human rights, and development-differ in the scale and scope of their projects and in what they hope to accomplish.  They also have much in common.  Each is explicitly concerned with improving the conditions under which people live, and yet each has also been criticized for making things worse rather than better.  This course will explore why this might be the case by focusing on examples taken from around the world. [24L]

 

ANT210H5 Fantasies, Hoaxes and Misrepresentations of the Ancient World (SCI)

The anatomy of significant hoaxes, outrageous claims, and archaeology in popular culture are examined. Why are these claims so popular? How do we critically evaluate potential hoaxes and fictional accounts of the past? What role has racism played in these views? This course provides the tools for evaluation of these claims as well as for the lifetime enjoyment of what is truly exciting about archaeology. [24L]
 

ANT211H5 Sex, Evolution and Behaviour (SSc)

This course provides an introduction to the evolutionary significance of mating behaviours and sexual reproduction in modern humans. Students will explore human sexual behaviour with an emphasis on the evolutionary explanations for our mating strategies in relation to other primates. Through lectures, films and readings students will examine such topics as sexual selection, anatomy, sexual development, social organization, and mating patterns.[24L]

Exclusion: ANT331H5

 

ANT241Y5 Aboriginal Peoples of North America (SSc)

Overview of the prehistory, ethnohistory, and ethnology of aboriginal cultures, exploring kinship, social organization, political structure, trade relations, economics, technology, art and religion. [48L]

ANT299Y5 Research Opportunity Program (SSc,SCI)

This courses provides a richly rewarding opportunity for students in their second year to work in the research project of a professor in return for 299Y course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, learn research methods and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See Research Opportunity Program (299Y, 399Y and 499Y) for more details.

ANT306H5 Forensic Anthropology Field School (SCI)

Introduction to the field of forensic anthropological field techniques and scene interpretation. A 2-week field school will be held on the U of T Mississauga campus (Monday to Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., two weeks in August). Weekly 2-hour classes will be held during the fall term. In these classes, students will examine casts, maps, photos and other evidence collected in the field, for the purposes of scene reconstruction and presentation in court. [104P]
Prerequisite: ANT205H5
 

ANT308H5 Case Studies in Archaeological Botany and Zoology (SCI)

This course examines human interaction with the environment from the perspective of case studies in zooarchaeology and palaeoethnobotany. Topics include prominent theoretical perspectives, domestication, subsistence organization including hunting and gathering as well as agriculture and its intensification. [24L]
Prerequisite: ANT200Y5

ANT309H5 Southeast Asian Archaeology (SCI)

Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, and South China) hosts some of the greatest ethnic and linguistic diversity in the world. This course charts the early beginnings of human activity in the region to the origins of plant and animal domestication and the subsequent impact of early metallurgy across mainland Southeast Asia. Using both ethnographic and archeological materials, we explore the range of human adaptations to the maritime, river valley and highland zones in ancient Southeast Asia. The course also considers the dynamic interaction among communities and the introduction of Buddhism and Hinduism in the rise of urbanism at Funan, Dvarvati, Chenla, and Champa. [24L]
Prerequisite: ANT200Y5

ANT310H5 Complex Societies (SSc)

This comparative analysis of ancient state-level societies is focused on understanding the processes involved in the functioning of states, examining how various politicial, social, economic, and religious orientations affected state information, cohesion, maintenance and dissolution. [36L]
Prerequisite: ANT200Y5

ANT312H5 Archaeological Analysis (SCI)

This course will introduce the process of archaeological research, from project design through report write-up. The student will create a project proposal and budget, choose methods of survey and excavation, describe and organize data for analysis, and summarize findings in a project report. [12L, 24P]
Prerequisite: ANT200Y5
Limited Enrolment

ANT313H5 China, Korea and Japan in Prehistory (SCI)

The exploration of the remarkable prehistories of China, the Koreas and Japan challenge western thought on agricultural origins, complex hunter-gatherers, urbanization and the development of centralized authority. This course evaluates current thinking about these issues in the three regions and examines the impact of local archaeological practice on the construction of narratives about the past. [24L]
Prerequisite: ANT200Y5

ANT314H5 Archaeological Theory (SCI)

An evaluation of explanatory processes in prehistory and a comparison of archaeological theories with general scientific theories. [24L]
Exclusion: ANT411H5
Prerequisite: ANT200Y5

ANT316H5 South Asian Archaeology (SSc)

Survey of the archaeology of prehistoric and historic South Asia, using a comparative framework to show how social and cultural developments in this region are similar to and different from developments in other world regions. [24L]
Prerequisite: ANT200Y5

ANT317H5 Archaeology of Eastern North America (SCI)

Chronology and analysis of the prehistoric culture areas and stages of Eastern North America in a scientific context. [24L]
Prerequisite: ANT200Y5

ANT318H5 Archaeological Fieldwork (SCI)

Practical experience on an archaeological site during the last two weeks of August, followed by weekly laboratory sessions September to December. [104P]
Prerequisite: ANT200Y5
Limited Enrolment

ANT320H5 Archaeological Approaches to Technology (SCI)

This course focuses on insight into social and cultural processes provided by the study of ancient and historical technology. It emphasizes the importance for archaeological studies of archaeological, textual, experimental and ethnographic data. Organization and control of production, style of technology, and the value of objects will be examined. Throughout, social and cultural as well as economic and functional reasons for the development and adoption of new technologies will be discussed.
Prerequisite: ANT200Y5
Recommended Preparation: (ANT204H5, 207H5)/ 204Y5

ANT322H5 Anthropology of Youth: Cool Capitalism and its Rebels (SSc)

This course will present various perspectives on the nature and dynamics of youth culture. The course will examine one or more of the following: capitalism and youth cultures, ethnomusicology, and discourses of "youth." Topics may include North American subcultures (such as punk and hip-hop) and/or ethnographies of youth from other parts of the world. The course may also use frameworks from cultural studies and semiotics. [24L]
Exclusion: ANT322H1
Prerequisite: ANT(204H5, 207H5)/ 204Y5

ANT327H5 Agricultural Origins: The Second Revolution (SCI)

A second revolution in human existence began when people developed agriculture long after the origin of modern humans and Upper Palaeolithic culture. This course critically evaluates the shift to agriculture in the context of current ecological and archaeological perspectives. The concept of "agriculture" is evaluated by considering plant and animal domestication as well as resource management in a broad range of contexts. [24L]
Prerequisite: ANT200Y5

ANT331H5 The Biology of Human Sexuality (SCI)

An exploration of the biology of human sexual differences. Emphasizes the developmental, anatomical and evolutionary dimensions of human sexuality. [24L]
Exclusion: ANT330H5, 331Y5
Prerequisite: ANT203Y5

ANT332H5 Human Origins (SCI)

Examination and critical assessment of the fossil record leading to Homo habilis. Primate systematics and evolutionary theory as it applies to understanding human evolutionary history is considered as is the behaviour our early ancestors as revealed by the Palaeolithic archaeological record. [24L, 12P]
Exclusion: ANT332Y5
Prerequisite: ANT203Y5

ANT333H5 Human Origins II (SCI)

Examination of the human fossil and archaeological record from Homo habilis to beginning of argiculture. The development of modern human behaviour will also be examined through an exploration of the Lower, Middle, and Upper Palaeolithic periods around the world. [24L, 12P]
Exclusion: ANT332Y5
Prerequisite: ANT332H5

ANT334H5 Human Osteology (SCI)

Includes normal anatomy of the human skeleton, metrical and morphological variation, age and sex determination, and techniques of recovering, perserving and recording human remains. [12L, 24P]
Exclusion: ANT334Y5
Prerequisite: ANT203Y5
Limited Enrolment

ANT335H5 Anthropology of Gender (SSc)

Survey of the function of gender roles from evolutionary and cultural perspectives. Cross-cultural variation in human sexual behaviour and gender will be examined. [24L]
Exclusion: ANT331Y5, 343Y1
Prerequisite: ANT(204H5, 207H5)/ 204Y5
Recommended Preparation: ANT203Y5

ANT336H5 Molecular Anthropology (SCI)

Survey of molecular anthropology, a subdiscipline of anthropology that attempts to understand human evolution and the variation observed in our species using molecular information. [24L, 12P]
Prerequisite: ANT203Y5
Limited Enrolment

ANT338H5 Laboratory Methods in Biological Anthropology (SCI)

Recommended for those who may specialize in biological anthropology. Students will be introduced to the process of conducting research, including selected laboratory procedures and how they are used to generate and/or analyze data. [12L, 24P]
Prerequisite: ANT203Y5
 

ANT339Y5 Human Adaptation through Biological and Cultural Means (SCI)

How the body adapts to differing physical environments and how behaviour has expanded the range of human adaptation, in sensing, perceiving and interpreting the environment, through cultural means. [48L]
Prerequisite: ANT203Y5
Recommended Preparation: BIO152H5, 153H5

ANT340H5 Osteological Theory (SCI)

Survey of palaeodemography, palaeopathology, palaeonutrition, and techniques of recovering, perserving and recording human remains. [36L]
Exclusion: ANT334Y5
Prerequisite: ANT334H5

ANT350H5 Globalization and the Changing World of Work (SSc)

The course uses ethnographic material to examine ways in which global forces have changed the nature of work in different sites since World War Two -- North America, Europe, and the countries of the South are selectively included. [24L]
Prerequisite: ANT(204H5, 207H5)/ 204Y5

ANT351H5 Money, Markets, Gifts: Topics in Economic Anthropology (SSc)

Sociocultural anthropology has, since its inception, questioned the assumption that "the economy" ought to be understood as a domain distinguishable from other fields of human interaction, such as religion and kinship, or from power, politics, affect, and morality. This class offers a set of introductory readings that range from the analysis of non-Western forms of exchange and value to the study of capitalism; from stock-markets to the anti-globalization movement. [24L]
Prerequisite: ANT(204H5, 207H5)/ 204Y5

ANT352H5 Protest, Power and Authority: Topics in Political Anthropology (SSc)

This course explores ethnographically the social and cultural practices through which the exercise of power is legitimized, authorized, and contested, examining such topics as nation-building, non-governmental activism, human rights, and the global "war on terror." [24L]
Prerequisite: ANT(204H5, 207H5)/ 204Y5/ POL113H5/ POL200Y5

ANT357H5 Nature, People and Power: Topics in Environmental Anthropology (SSc)

This course examines anthropological approaches to the environment and environmentalism. Through key readings on indigenous peoples and conversation, traditional ecological knowledge, community-based natural resource management, ecotourism and the human dimensions of climate change, the course explores the complex social, cultural and political encounters that produce 'the environment' as a resource in need of management. [24L]

Exclusion: ANT457H5
Prerequisite: ANT204H5/ 204Y5 or P.I.

ANT358H5 Doing Anthropology: Field Methods in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology (SSc)

Recommended for those who may specialize in Anthropology. Oriented around student projects; covers multiple aspects of field and research methodology (problem design, interviewing, record-keeping, etc.). [24L]
Prerequisite: ANT(204H5, 207H5)/ 204Y5

ANT360H5 Anthropology of Religion (SSc)

This course considers anthropological approaches to western and non-western religions and religious phenomena. [24L]
Exclusion: ANT209Y5, JAR360H5
Prerequisite: ANT(204H5, 207H5)/ 204Y5

ANT361H5 Anthropology of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSc)

This course considers anthropological approaches to contemporary issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. [24L]
Exclusion: ANT212Y5
Prerequisite: (ANT204H5, 207H5)/ 204Y5

ANT362H5 Language in Culture and Society (SSc)

Main currents in anthropological thinking about language and social interaction. It aims to introduce students to representative writings and ways for working. Lectures will work through main figures and schools with emphasis on explaining technical concepts and analytic paradigms. [24L]
Prerequisite: ANT(204H5, 207H5)/ 204Y5, ANT206H5

ANT363H5 Magic and Science (SSc)

What's the difference between magic and science? Is there one? This course explores anthropological approaches to magic and science and related topics, raising basic questions about the nature of knowledge: what can we know about the world, and how can we know it? Through close readings of key anthropological texts, we consider what-if anything-differentiates magic and science, belief and truth, subjectivity and objectively, irrationality and rationality. [24L]
 

ANT364H5 Fieldwork in Language, Culture, and Society (SSc)

This course will give students hands-on experience in methods of recording, transcribing, coding, and analyzing ethnographic data in linguistic anthropology. Students will synthesize weekly reading materials focused on these methods with actual, collaborative, in-class practice on a designated topic in the anthropology of everyday social interaction. Through this synthesis students will come to discern the relationship between everyday instances of communication between people and what the patterns of speech in this interaction may say about larger society. Students will be expected to develop their own analyses of the data collected under the guidance on the instructor and formulate a final project. [12L, 12P]
Prerequisite: ANT204H5/ 206H5/ JAL353H5

ANT365H5 Semiotic Anthropology (SSc)

This course serves as a reading intensive seminar-style introduction to the concerns of symbolic or semiotic anthropology. Readings in cultural theory and ethnography will be used to engage with questions regarding the construction of meaning in relation to ethnic identity, social structure, gender, political economy, personhood, and religion. Drawing on classic texts on ritual and myth, students will be encouraged to apply the lens of symbolic analysis to interpret contemporary social formations. [24L]
Prerequisite: ANT(204H5, 207H5)/ 206H5

ANT368H5 World Religions and Ecology (SSc)

A study of the reponses of selected world religious traditions to the emergence of global ecological concerns. Key concepts and tenets of the traditions and their relevance for examination of the environment crisis. [24L]
Exclusion: RLG311H5
Prerequisite: ANT(204H5, 207H5)/ 204Y5/ RLG101H5

ANT369H5 Religious Violence and Nonviolence (SSc)

Religious violence and nonviolence as they emerge in the tension between strict adherence to tradition and individual actions of charismatic figures. The place of violence and nonviolence in selected faith traditions. [24L]
Exclusion: RLG317H5
Prerequisite: (ANT204Y5, 207H5)/ ANT204Y5/ RLG101H5

ANT370H5 Environment, Culture and Film (SSc)

Our Present environment challenge constitutes of the most pressing areas of contemporary social, cultural, ethnical and ecological concern. Acid rain, poisoned air, forest clear-cutting, ozone depletion, global climate change, toxic waste sites-the list goes on-all weigh heavily on our personal and intellectual lives. This course attempts to introduce students to both the scope and seriousness of present ecological concerns, as well as some core principles and concepts in the field of the intersection of environment and culture, through the lens of feature films. Themes such as the precautionary principle, urban/rural dualism, ecofeminism, deep ecology, and the overwhelming burden placed on poor populations by environmental destruction are but a few of the areas which will be examined through the use of feature films, both classic and contemporary. We will do this in part by toughing on some of the major writers and classic essays in the field.  Class lectures will be supplemented by audiovisuals, guest lectures and class discussions. [36L]
 

ANT397H5 Independent Study (SSc,SCI)

Supervised reading in selected anthropological topics.
Prerequisite: Permission of Faculty Advisor

ANT398Y5 Independent Reading (SSc,SCI)

Supervised reading in selected anthropological topics.
Prerequisite: Permission of Faculty Advisor

ANT399Y5 Research Opportunity Program (SSc,SCI)

This course provides senior undergraduate students who have developed some knowledge of a discipline and its research methods an opportunity to work in the research project of a professor in return for course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, develop their research skills and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Partcipating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early March.

For details see Research Opportunity Program (299Y, 399Y and 499Y)
Prerequisite: P.I.

ANT401H5 Vocal and Visual Communication (SSc)

Major approaches to the study of visual communication are studied. Bodies of visual materials, both documentary and commercial, are analyzed in terms of social and cultural contexts. Student projects may involve the use of still, movie, video filming and archival sources. [12L, 24P]
Prerequisite: ANT102H5, 204Y5/ANT206H5

ANT407H5 Statistics and Archaeological Analyses to Quantitative Methods in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (SCI)

The fragmentary nature of data recovered from prehistoric sites sets presents many challenges for investigators. Is there meaningful pattern to be found? How do we transform a description of the data set into an interpretation about the society we are studying? This course provides students with an introduction to general statistical principles used by social scientists and the different methods suitable for archaeological exploration. Students will learn how to apply statistical procedures using Minitab software to case studies. Each class will include a lab component. [24L, 12P]

Exclusion: BIO360H5, BIO361H5, ECO220Y5, ECO227Y5, PSY201H5, PSY202H5, SOC300Y5, (SOC350H5, SOC351H5), STA218H5, STA220H5, STA221H5, STA257H5, STA258H5, STA261H5
Prerequisite: ANT (200H5, 201H5)/200Y5, ANT312H5

 

ANT414H5 People and Plants in Prehistory (SCI)

The examination of plant remains from archaeological sites addresses many issues, some of which include environmental interaction, plant domestication, and early plant use. Students will learn plant remains identification and interpretation skills through a combination of laboratory and seminar sessions. [12L, 24P]
Prerequisite: ANT200Y5, 312H5/318H5 or P.I.
Limited Enrolment

ANT415H5 Faunal Archaeo-Osteology (SCI)

Examination and interpretation of faunal material from archaeological sites, to obtain cultural information regarding the site occupants. [36P]
Exclusion: ANT415Y5
Prerequisite: ANT200Y5, 306H5/308H5/312H5/318H5.
Recommended Preparation: ANT312H5/334Y5
Limited Enrolment

ANT416H5 Advanced Archaeological Analysis (SCI)

This course will involve students in applied laboratory methods in archaeology. Each student will engage in an individual research project on an archaeological data set. Techniques will include basic description, measurement, quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis. The primary focus will be ceramic and lithic analysis. [12L 24P]
Prerequisite: ANT312H5
Limited Enrolment

ANT418H5 Advanced Archaeological Fieldwork (SCI)

Fieldwork and analysis of artifacts. [104P]
Prerequisite: ANT318H5
Limited Enrolment

ANT430H5 Special Problems in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (SCI)

Supervised independent research in Biological Anthropology or Archaeology for students requiring science credit.
Prerequisite: P.I

ANT430Y5 Special Problems in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (SCI)

Supervised independent research in Biological Anthropology or Archaeology for students requiring science credit.
Prerequisite: P.I.

ANT431Y5 Special Problems in Sociocultural or Linguistic Anthropology (SSc)

Supervised independent research in Sociocultural or Linguistic Anthropology.
Prerequisite: P.I.

ANT431H5 Special Problems in Sociocultural or Linguistic Anthropology (SSc)

Supervised independent research in Sociocultural or Linguistic Anthropology.
Prerequisite: P.I.

ANT432H5 Special Seminar in Anthropology (SSc,SCI)

A research oriented seminar with topics that may vary from year to year depending on special interests of staff and students.
Prerequisite: P.I.

ANT434H5 Palaeopathology (SCI)

The study of diseases and maladies of ancient populations. The course will survey the range of pathology on human skeletons, (trauma, infection, syphilis, tuberculosis, leprosy, anemia, metabolic disturbances, arthritis and tumors).
[12L, 24P]
Prerequisite: ANT334Y5/ (334H5, 340H5), ANT338H5
Limited Enrolment

ANT438H5 The Development of Thought in Biological Anthropology (SCI)

This course will present a world-wide perspective of biological anthropological research and how it developed in different countries. To be discussed will be variation in approaches, subjects studied, philosophical attitudes, and the emergence of common themes in the study of physical anthropology. [24L]
Prerequisite: ANT203Y5 and two other courses in Biological Anthropology

ANT439Y5 Advanced Forensic Anthropology (SCI)

The identification of the remains of victims of homicide, mass disasters and political atrocities. Special methods are used in the recovery and identification of human skeletal remains for presentation in courts of law. [24L, 48P]
Prerequisite: ANT205H5
Corequisite: ANT306H5, 334Y5/ (334H5, 340H5)
Limited Enrolment

ANT441H5 Advanced Bioarchaeology (SCI)

This course will combine theory learned in ANT340H5, Osteological Theory, with bioarchaeological methods to teach students how to conduct and interpret an osteobiography of human skeletal remains. Lectures and labs will cover techniques of sex determination, age estimation, stature calculation, evaluating health and nutrition, assessing markers of occupational stress, osteometrics, biological distance studies, and paleodemography. [36L]
Prerequisite: ANT334H5, 340H5
Recommended Preparation: ANT434H5

ANT459H5 The Ethnography of Speaking (SSc)

The seminar, Ethnography of Speaking, examines the social use of language, and focuses on the interrelationships between verbal form, social function, and cultural meaning in varying modalities of spoken communicative interaction.[24L]
Prerequisite: ANT206Y5/(206H5)
Recommended Preparation: ANT460H5

ANT460H5 Theory in Sociocultural Anthropology (SSc)

Survey of major theoretical perspectives developed in social and cultural anthropology. The main ideas and underlying assumptions of each perspective will be critiqued and evaluated for their contributions to the field. [24L]
Prerequisite: ANT(204H5, 207H5)/ 204Y5

ANT461H5 Emergent Topics in Socio-Cultural & Linguistic Anthropology (SSc)

This course offers 4th year anthropology students the opportunity to explore recent topics in socio-cultural anthropology. As the course will be taught on a rotating basis by different faculty, its contents will change and might range from the exploration of ethics, affect, and hope as recent objects of anthropological inquiry, to the investigation of place-making, spatiality, temporality, and the publics to the analysis of neoliberalism, secularism, and the anthropology of the state and citizenship. [24L]
Prerequisite: ANT204Y5

ANT462H5 Living and Dying: Topics in Medical Anthropology & Global Health (SSc)

This course is concerned with contemporary medical knowledge practices, with particular emphasis on Western medicine and Public Health. Through a set of key readings in sociocultural medical anthropology, students will explore topics such as the art and science of medicine, end of life rites and rituals, expertise, and the politics and perils of intervention. This is an advanced, writing -intensive seminar that will particularly appeal to sociocultural anthropology students, and those interested in pursuing a career in the health professions. [24L]

Prerequisite: ANT204H5

 

ANT498H5 Advanced Independent Study (SSc,SCI)

For students whose original research is leading towards a publishable report.
Prerequisite: P.I.

ANT499Y5 Advanced Independent Research (SSc,SCI)

For students whose original research is leading towards a publishable report.
Prerequisite: P.I.