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Department of Sociology and Anthropology
(Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)

Anthropology (ANTH) Courses

ANTH 1001 [0.5 credit]
Introduction to Socio-Cultural Anthropology

What does it mean to be human? Anthropologists have approached this question by using the ethnographic method to understand the diverse ways people create shared worlds of meaning. In this course students will learn how culture shapes experience, and how ethnography describes this process.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for ANTH 1000 (no longer offered), HUMS 1005 (no longer offered).
Lectures/discussions three hours a week.

ANTH 1002 [0.5 credit]
Introduction to Issues in Anthropology

This course introduces students to anthropology through in-depth consideration of selected issues facing contemporary cultures and societies. Selected issue(s) will reflect the expertise of the instructor and could include current debates related to race, gender, development, politics, economics, religion, technology, health and the environment.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for ANTH 1000 (no longer offered).
Lectures/discussions three hours a week.

ANTH 1050 [0.5 credit]
Race, Racialization and Racism: Critical Reflections

This course explores historically grounded contemporary dynamics of race, racialization processes and racism. Learners will link their own experiences with key theoretical concepts such as settler colonialism, slavery, racial capitalism, the racial state, systemic racism, and global whiteness.
Prerequisite(s): Anthropology major or BGINS Globalization, Culture and Power Specialization.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 2001 [1.0 credit]
Foundations in Socio-Cultural Anthropology

Exploration of basic anthropological concepts and analytical strategies through case studies. Emphasis on socio-cultural diversity as documented by ethnographic research with attention to the role of culture in articulating gender, kinship, economic and political relations.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 1001 or ANTH 1002.
Lectures and discussions three hours a week.

ANTH 2020 [0.5 credit]
Race and Ethnicity

Introduction to some of the recent theoretical literature and research on the issues of race, racism and ethnicity. Concepts, controversies and definitions dealing with race and ethnicity from the Canadian context and internationally.
Also listed as SOCI 2020.
Lectures and workshop three hours a week.

ANTH 2040 [0.5 credit]
Anthropology and Gender

The study of gender in anthropology, including its theoretical, cross-cultural and ethnographic aspects. Emphasis on gender as a sociocultural process that is at once discursive and embodied, and that varies in distinct cultural, socio-historical, geopolitical, and economic contexts.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for ANTH 2408 (no longer offered).
Lectures and workshop three hours a week.

ANTH 2060 [0.5 credit]
Girlhood in Contemporary Contexts: Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives

Drawing on anthropological and sociological approaches, students will explore girls’ lives in diverse cultural, political, economic, and social contexts. Topics may include: movement and migration, education, media, imaging and humanitarianism, consumerism, agency and activism, health, and violence.
Also listed as SOCI 2060.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Two hour lecture plus one hour tutorial per week.

ANTH 2070 [0.5 credit]
Psychological Anthropology

Exploration of the relative and the universal in relations between the psychological self and the cultural environment. Topics may include anthropology of psychiatric institutions and practices, the cultural relativity of emotions, the self in everyday life and ritual.
Lecture/discussion groups three hours a week.

ANTH 2080 [0.5 credit]
Humans/Animals: the More-than-Human in Social Research

Examination of relationships between humans and animals in the sociological and broader social studies canon, including: multispecies ethnography, the role of the ‘more than human’ in Indigenous legal orders, posthumanist and STS theory, relationships between humans and animals and other non-human entities in the Anthropocene.
Also listed as SOCI 2080.
Lecture/discussion groups three hours per week.

ANTH 2180 [0.5 credit]
Foundations in Community Engagement

Study of theoretical debates and practical applications relating to community engagement with a focus on Canadian examples. Exploration of the contested and complex meanings of community engagement in and between diverse communities, public institutions, non-profit sector and private enterprise with an emphasis on social justice.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Also listed as SOCI 2180.
Prerequisite(s): Second year standing or permission of instructor.
Lecture, discussion and project work three hours a week.

ANTH 2500 [0.5 credit]
Culture and Symbols

The representation and construction of culture through symbols. Topics may include material culture, rituals, archetypes, myths and mythmaking.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for ANTH 3304 (no longer offered).
Lectures and workshop three hours a week.

ANTH 2510 [0.5 credit]
Theories of Human Nature

Critical, cross-cultural exploration of theories of human nature. Begins with a survey of western anthropological models of human consciousness and examines scientific, philosophical and religious perspectives with reference to ethnographic research on myth, religion and science produced by western and non-western cultures.
Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

ANTH 2550 [0.5 credit]
Religion and Society

Cross-cultural survey of religious institutions, focusing on theories and methodologies in the study of religion. Topics may include myth, totemism, cults, ritual, belief systems, altered states of consciousness, new religious and/or new age movements and the relationship of religion with other social institutions and processes.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Also listed as RELI 2736.
Lectures and workshop three hours a week.

ANTH 2610 [0.5 credit]
Studies in Indigenous Peoples of North America: Current Issues in Anthropological Research

Examination of a range of issues related to particular indigenous communities and regions of North America. Topics include political, socio-economic, and cultural transformations, Aboriginal title and rights, collaborative research, and other topics relevant to indigenous communities and indigenous - non-indigenous relations.
Precludes additional credit for ANTH 3610 (no longer offered).
Lecture/discussion groups three hours a week.

ANTH 2620 [0.5 credit]
Ethnography of sub-Saharan Africa

Examination of selected areas of contemporary sub-Saharan Africa through ethnographic research. Topics may include religion, political economy, international development, expressive cultures, colonialism/postcolonialism, witchcraft, health, the environment, gender, race, and family relations.
Precludes additional credit for ANTH 3620 (no longer offered).
Lecture and discussion groups three hours a week.

ANTH 2630 [0.5 credit]
Studies in Asian Societies: Current Issues in Anthropological Research

Examination of contemporary Asia through anthropological research. Topics may include cultural practices, religion, health issues, economics, politics, history, colonialism and social change. Emphasis will vary by sub-region from year to year, e.g., focusing on South, East or Southeast Asia.
Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

ANTH 2635 [0.5 credit]
Tradition and Modernity in the Pacific

Relationships between contemporary Pacific societies and the rest of the world. Topics may include colonialism and its aftermaths, cultural revival, mining, Christianity, alternative modernities, diasporas, and indigenous media.
Lecture/discussion groups three hours a week.

ANTH 2640 [0.5 credit]
Latin America and the Caribbean through Ethnography

Examination of selected areas of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean through current ethnographies. Topics may include: processes of state-formation, colonialism, political-economy, gender and sexuality, racism and racialization processes, health, urban and rural ethnography, social movements, migration and diaspora, and everyday life.
Precludes additional credit for ANTH 2650 and ANTH 2670.
Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

ANTH 2645 [0.5 credit]
The Postcolonial Middle East

How do people live in the Middle East? What political, historical and religious forces shape their everyday life? This class draws on essays, ethnographies, and movies to challenge the narratives of chronic violence, excessive religiosity, and prehistoric misogyny that haunt our understanding of this region.
Lecture and discussion three hours a week.

ANTH 2660 [0.5 credit]
Ethnography of North Africa

Introduction to societies and cultures of North Africa. Topics may include: colonialism and postcolonialism, nationalism and the relations between minority and majoritarian groups, intersections of state and religion, ritual practices, everyday life, gender, race, class, migration and diaspora, expressive cultures and the environment.
Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

ANTH 2680 [0.5 credit]
Anthropology of "Mainstream" North America

Examination of contemporary North American society. Topics may include social class, success myths, schooling, immigration, cities, the self, television, romance, youth sub cultures; how what is seen as “mainstream” is determined.
Lectures/discussion groups three hours a week

ANTH 2690 [0.5 credit]
Ethnography of a Selected Area

Ethnography of a selected area. Area to be announced.
Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

ANTH 2815 [0.5 credit]
Special Topics in Anthropology

Special topics in anthropology not ordinarily treated in the regular course program. The choice of topics varies from year to year. Students should check with the Department regarding the topic offered.
Lecture/discussion groups three hours a week.

ANTH 2825 [0.5 credit]
Special Topics in Anthropology

Special topics in anthropology not ordinarily treated in the regular course program. The choice of topics varies from year to year. Students should check with the Department regarding the topic offered.
Lectures/discussion groups three hours a week.

ANTH 2850 [0.5 credit]
Anthropology of Development

An exploration of the anthropology of international development. Topics may include racial capitalism and inequality, globalization, gender relations, global in/justice, policy-making processes, climate change, NGOs, and social movements.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

ANTH 2915 [0.5 credit]
Course-Related Tutorials in Anthropology

Consult the Department for information.


ANTH 2925 [0.5 credit]
Course-Related Tutorials in Anthropology

Consult the department for information.


ANTH 3005 [0.5 credit]
Ethnographic Research Methods

Broad overview of methods through lectures, discussion, and hands-on activities. Research design, ethics, participant-observation, interviewing and other methods, data analysis and ethnographic writing. Prepares students to apply methodological knowledge in careers and projects undertaken for the fourth-year honours research paper and/or ethnographic field course.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for ANTH 2003.
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 2001 [1.0].
Lectures three hours a week.

ANTH 3007 [0.5 credit]
History of Anthropological Theory

Analysis of the development of anthropological thought since the end of the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The development of various theoretical approaches within their historical, social, intellectual and biographical contexts. The implications of these issues may be explored through ethnographies.
Precludes additional credit for ANTH 2005 and ANTH 3100.
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 2001 [1.0].
Lectures three hours a week.

ANTH 3008 [0.5 credit]
Contemporary Theories in Anthropology

Contemporary trends in anthropological analyses. Discussion of anthropological theory in its contemporary, interdisciplinary context.
Precludes additional credit for ANTH 3006 (no longer offered), ANTH 3100.
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 2001.
Lecture/discussion groups three hours per week.

ANTH 3010 [0.5 credit]
Language, Culture, and Globalization

Theoretical and methodological contributions of anthropology to the study of communicative practices in a variety of social and cultural contexts. Language practices, ideologies, and globalization as they intersect with culture, power, race, ethnicity, indigeneity, gender, nationhood and political economy.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Lecture three hours per week.

ANTH 3020 [0.5 credit]
Studies in Race and Ethnicity

Race, racism and ethnicity in Canada and internationally. Critical perspectives on race and ethnicity as they intersect with other social relations. Racism, Eurocentrism, Orientalism, nationalism, colonialism, international migration, citizenship, and diasporic cultures.
Also listed as SOCI 3020.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Lectures three hours a week.

ANTH 3027 [0.5 credit]
Studies in Globalization and Human Rights

Examination of the various dimensions and meanings of globalization and its relationship with human rights. Main emphasis will be on the implications of the emerging global economy for economic, social, political and cultural rights.
Also listed as SOCI 3027, PSCI 3802.
Prerequisite(s): SOCI 1001 and SOCI 1002, or SOCI 1003 [1.0], or ANTH 1001, or ANTH 1002, and third-year standing.
Lectures three hours a week.

ANTH 3035 [0.5 credit]
Science, Culture and Society: Social Studies of Science

Principal theories and methods used by Science and Technology Studies scholars to examine the social construction of scientific knowledge. Topics may include the demarcation of science from non-science, the relationship between experts and laypersons, and the study of scientific controversies.
Also listed as SOCI 3035.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Lecture three hours a week.

ANTH 3040 [0.5 credit]
The Global Middle Class

The growing numbers of people who could be considered “middle class” are central to both “cultural” and “economic” globalization. This course examines what it means to be middle class theoretically, historically, and cross-culturally.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Lecture/discussion groups three hours a week.

ANTH 3045 [0.5 credit]
Children and Childhood in a Globalized World

A socio-historical and cross-cultural exploration of constructions, deconstructions, and the experience of childhood in Canada and internationally. Compulsory schooling, child labour, protection and regulation in law, the commodification and equalization of childhood, children's social movements, and the emergence of children's rights discourses.
Also listed as SOCI 3045.
Prerequisite(s): SOCI 1001 and SOCI 1002, or SOCI 1003 [1.0], or ANTH 1001, or ANTH 1002, and third-year standing.
Lecture three hours a week.

ANTH 3215 [0.5 credit]
Special Topics in Anthropology

Topics not ordinarily treated in the regular course program. The choice of topics varies from year to year. Check with the Department regarding the topic offered.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Lecture three hours a week.

ANTH 3225 [0.5 credit]
Special Topics in Anthropology

Topics not ordinarily treated in the regular course program. The choice of topics varies from year to year. Check with the Department regarding the topic offered.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Lecture three hours a week.

ANTH 3310 [0.5 credit]
Studies in Medical Anthropology

Cross-cultural study of the body, illness, healing, health and well-being. Sociocultural factors in the causation, diagnosis, management and meaning of illness. Biocultural and political-economic dimensions of ill health. Ritual and symbolic healing. Ethical concerns and public health applications of anthropology.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Lecture three hours a week.

ANTH 3355 [0.5 credit]
Anthropology and the Environment

Environmental concerns affect everyone, unevenly. How does anthropology illuminate the cultural, social, political and ecological differentiation resulting from and constituting environmental processes? The range of responses considered may address issues of resource access and exploitation, as well as transnational transformations in the concept of nature.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Lectures three hours a week.

ANTH 3360 [0.5 credit]
Jokes, Humor, Laughter

Anthropological inquiries into the phenomenon of humor. Psychoanalytic, semiotic and phenomenological perspectives are applied to ethnographic materials from a variety of cultural contexts.
Lecture/discussion groups three hours per week.

ANTH 3510 [0.5 credit]
Ritual

Cross-cultural study of ritual, religious and secular, its role in various social processes and relation to other activities. Exploration of variability of ritual and the range of theories that have been developed to account for what ritual does, including intellectualist,functionalist and performative.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

ANTH 3550 [0.5 credit]
Visual Anthropology

An introductory exploration of the relationship between anthropology and visual practices. Focus on both the analysis of visual elements and the use of visual media such as film, photography, drawing, and digital media in anthropological practice.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Lecture and discussion three hours a week.

ANTH 3570 [0.5 credit]
Studies in Art, Culture and Society

Thematic investigation of genres, forms and styles of art, culture and society. Topics may include current debates on social structure and artistic creativity; ideology, cultural memory and politics, patronage and art; cross-cultural representations, taste, social mobility and art; modernism and the avant-garde.
Also listed as SOCI 3570.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Lecture three hours a week.

ANTH 3580 [0.5 credit]
Anthropology of Material Culture and Museums

How diverse societies are materialized in a wide range of cultural materials from clothing, housing and memorials to more ephemeral materializations such as food, gardens, dance, ritual props and music-making. Emphasis on museum practices and the cultural politics of display.
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Lectures and discussion three hours a week.

ANTH 3600 [0.5 credit]
Studies in Anthropology and Indigenous Peoples

Problems in the interpretation and analysis of various forms of encounters between indigenous peoples and colonizing powers will be examined. Topics may include patterns and practices of contact, cultural syncretism, conquest, domination, relations of ruling, cultural hegemony, resistance and non-compliance.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Precludes additional credit for ANTH 3109 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): second-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Lecture three hours a week.

ANTH 3915 [0.5 credit]
Course-Related Tutorials in Anthropology

Consult the Department for information.


ANTH 3925 [0.5 credit]
Course-Related Tutorials in Anthropology

Consult the Department for information.


ANTH 3950 [0.5 credit]
Practicum Placement

This course provides students with the opportunity to apply academic skills and knowledge while working within an organization in the community. Placements are organized with support from a co-ordinator.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Also listed as SOCI 3950.
Precludes additional credit for ANTH 4000 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing with a GPA of 9.00 or higher and permission of the course instructor. [Or by permission of the course instructor for students who do not meet the GPA requirement.].
Placement six to eight hours a week.

ANTH 3999 [0.0 credit]
Co-operative Work Term

Includes: Experiential Learning Activity


ANTH 4005 [0.5 credit]
Health and Globalization

An anthropological examination of the health impacts of global processes, relationships, and movements. May include topics such as economic development and disease, migration and health, medical tourism, transnational reproduction, and the global circulation of bodies, organs, medical technologies, drugs, and pathogens.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4006 [0.5 credit]
Decolonizing Methodologies in the 21st Century: Practicing Engaged Anthropology

Examination of the breadth of critical literature on ‘decolonizing methodologies’ within and adjacent to anthropology in the 20th and 21st centuries. The course will equip students with an in-depth understanding of critiques of the discipline’s methods and ethics while practicing an engaged anthropology.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Seminar three hours per week.

ANTH 4007 [0.5 credit]
Advanced Studies in Anthropological Theory and Methods

The course examines debates in theory and methodology currently facing the discipline through a survey of leading-edge issues and approaches.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4020 [0.5 credit]
Advanced Studies in Race and Ethnicity

An advanced seminar that explores selected topics in race and ethnicity in an international context. Specific topics will vary according to instructors' research interests.
Also listed as SOCI 4020.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4036 [0.5 credit]
Special Topics in Science and Technology Studies

The course is concerned with broadening students’ understanding of Science and Technology Studies (STS) by focusing on a relevant topic. Topics may vary from year to year. Students should check with the Department regarding the topic offered.
Precludes additional credit for SOCI 4401 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4050 [0.5 credit]
Ethical Issues in Health and Healthcare

A study of the diverse ethical frameworks that inform and interrogate health, healthcare, and biomedicine. Potential topics include: history of bioethics; critical bioethics; ethics of care; health inequities; indigenous healthcare; human enhancement; novel genetic technologies; ageing; vaccine politics.
Also listed as SOCI 4050.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4100 [0.5 credit]
Ethnographic Field Course

In this class, we explore a significant issue in our communities, learning how ethnographic methods can add new perspectives to our own experience and help us appreciate the experience of others. Students learn-through-doing their own small ethnographic projects, peer-to-peer feedback, and reflective discussion.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): fourth year standing or permission of the instructor.
Seminar three hours per week.

ANTH 4109 [0.5 credit]
Ethnography of Gender

Ethnographic focus on topics may include: global political-economy, colonialism and post-colonialism, racialization and racism, work and labour, expressive and music cultures, as well as social movements as they intersect with gender and sexualities. Topics and approaches may vary from year to year.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of instructor.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as ANTH 5109, for which additional credit is precluded.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4171 [0.5 credit]
Community Engagement Capstone

Students in the capstone will reflect on their engagement experiences and advance their critical understanding of community through a series of in-class activities and readings. Students will produce a public-facing artifact (e.g., blog, podcast, video) related to their experiences, potentially in collaboration with community partners.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Also listed as SOCI 4171.
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 2180 and fourth year standing or permission of instructor.
Lecture, discussion and project work three hours per week.

ANTH 4200 [0.5 credit]
War, Security and Citizenship

Critical theoretical and multidisciplinary examination of violent conflict, security and citizenship. How wars produce a variety of abject and new subjects, create and reproduce citizenship hierarchies, and expand and contract citizenship entitlements.
Also listed as SOCI 4200.
Prerequisite(s): fourth year standing.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4205 [0.5 credit]
Language, Place and the North

An investigation of language, places, spaces, and environment, focussing on Indigenous peoples and the Arctic and subarctic regions of Canada. Topics include critical understandings of language use, northern environments, Indigenous homelands, and the role of Indigenous languages in defining and transforming cultural and geographic space.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as ANTH 5205, for which additional credit is precluded.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4215 [0.5 credit]
Special Topics in Anthropology

Topics not ordinarily treated in the regular course program. The choice of topic varies from year to year. Check with the department regarding the topic offered.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4225 [0.5 credit]
Special Topics in Anthropology

Topics not ordinarily treated in the regular course program. The choice of topic varies from year to year. Check with the department regarding the topic offered.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4355 [0.5 credit]
Anthropology of Natural Resources

Anthropology of natural resources. Topics may include economies, ecologies, cultural and social dynamics of fishing, forestry, lands, mining, oil, wildlife, at varying analytical scales, including a critical examination of the term “natural resource” itself.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): third- year standing or permission of the instructor.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as ANTH 5355, for which additional credit is precluded.
Seminars and discussions three hours a week.

ANTH 4403 [0.5 credit]
Symbolic and Semiotic Anthropology

This course looks at the role of signs and symbols in social life, including the properties of signs, the workings of symbolic systems, the construction of social reality, and role all these play in actors’ practice.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as ANTH 5403, for which additional credit is precluded.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4500 [0.5 credit]
Advanced Studies in Culture and Symbols

Contemporary debates in theory and methods regarding analysis of the symbolic processes.
Precludes additional credit for ANTH 4705 (no longer offered).
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4550 [0.5 credit]
Special Topics in Visual Anthropology

Anthropological approaches to the study of visual cultures, visuality, and the role of visual media in ethnography. Topics may include film, photography, illustration, comics and graphic novels, animation, visual performance, multimodal approaches, digital modes and other visual media that challenge the primacy of textual representations.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as ANTH 5005, for which additional credit is precluded.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4560 [0.5 credit]
Economic Anthropology

Anthropology’s holistic, comparative and critical contribution to the study of livelihood. How practices and understandings of production, circulation, consumption, and property vary cross-culturally. Relevant theoretical debates including those among formalist (neo-classical), substantivist, Marxist, and interpretive approaches over the applicability of capitalist thinking.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as ANTH 5560, for which additional credit is precluded.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4570 [0.5 credit]
Political Anthropology

Can anthropology help us understand politics? Can ethnographic encounters help us approach political theory and political action differently? This seminar will focus on concepts (power, authority, equality) and practices (resistance, subjection, solidarity) through which anthropologists invite us to rethink the way we live together.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as ANTH 5570, for which additional credit is precluded.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4590 [1.0 credit]
Capstone Seminar in Globalization, Culture, and Power

This course is dedicated to developing individual student research projects. Through seminar discussions, these student projects will benefit from an introduction to research design and methodologies, analysis and interpretation, as well as issues surrounding ethics, representation, and knowledge production.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing in the BGINS Globalization, Culture and Power program with a minimum 9.0 GPA or permission of the instructor.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4610 [0.5 credit]
Anthropology of Indigeneity

For the purposes of this course, Indigenous cultures are cultures that have transformed through the struggles of colonized peoples to resist and redirect projects of settler nationhood. This course looks at those transformations and that resistance in a selection of social, political and economic contexts.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as ANTH 5208, for which additional credit is precluded.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4620 [0.5 credit]
Special Topics in Ethnography of Contemporary Africa

Research-based seminar that explores the debates related to ethnographic research in (a) selected region(s) of Africa. Topics may include social movements, expressive cultures, religious practices, conflict, identity politics, political economy, colonialism and postcolonialism, migration and diaspora, health, race, gender, and climate change.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as ANTH 5209, for which additional credit is precluded.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4730 [0.5 credit]
Colonialism and Post-Colonialism

Comparative ethnographic and historical approaches to colonialism including topics such as the formation of colonial regimes, colonial governmentality, servile labour systems, missionization, anti-colonial resistance, cultural hybridization and post-colonial memory. Exploration of debates over the relation between colonialism and the production of social scientific knowledge.
Also listed as SOCI 4730.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4750 [0.5 credit]
Advanced Studies in Globalization and Citizenship

Selected topics on the confluence of processes of globalization, development and citizenship. Examination of debates about the meaning and impact of globalization on patterns of inequality and citizenship both internationally and within Canada, and about strategies for progressive development.
Also listed as SOCI 4750.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4780 [0.5 credit]
Anthropology of Personhood

Exploration of anthropological approaches to personhood and diversity in constructions of the self in various socio-cultural and historical contexts.
Prerequisite(s): third-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4809 [0.5 credit]
Special Topics in the Anthropology of Development

Topic varies from year to year. Students should check with the Department regarding the topic offered.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing or permission of the instructor.
Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as ANTH 5809, for which additional credit is precluded.
Seminar three hours a week.

ANTH 4900 [1.0 credit]
Honours Research Paper in Anthropology

This course offers Honours students the opportunity to write an original research paper in their final year of study. Supported by the HRP supervisor, students develop their projects through seminar discussion addressing issues of research design, ethics, methodology, anthropological analysis, interpretation, and representation.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year Honours standing.


ANTH 4915 [0.5 credit]
Tutorial in Anthropology

Consult the Department for information.


ANTH 4925 [0.5 credit]
Tutorial in Anthropology

Consult the Department for information.


Note: Not all courses listed are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for the current session and to determine the term of offering, consult the class schedule at central.carleton.ca.

Summer session: some of the courses listed in this Calendar are offered during the summer. Hours and scheduling for summer session courses will differ significantly from those reported in the fall/winter Calendar. To determine the scheduling and hours for summer session classes, consult the class schedule at central.carleton.ca