Courses

Graduate seminars are taught annually in all of the three subfield PhD programs. Each of the three subfield programs has required courses that are taught in two-year cycles. For details on required courses, see the relevant subfield program chapter in the graduate handbook.

Courses numbered 8000 or above are open to graduate students only; courses numbered from 5000 to 5999 are open to third and fourth-year undergraduate students as well as graduate students. If in doubt whether a 4000-level course qualifies for graduate credit, email the graduate program coordinator at dgsanth@umn.edu

Students are expected to pursue their studies for their first three years in the program on a full-time basis. The Graduate School defines full-time study as at least 6 credit hours per semester. Students in the PhD program are generally expected to complete their required coursework no later than the end of their third year in their degree program.

As students are required to take a minor or supporting program, you are encouraged to seek out seminars in allied and related disciplines and programs.

Regularly Taught Graduate Courses

Regularly taught graduate courses are listed below and organized by subfield. Please visit ClassInfo to read course descriptions.

8xxx-level Sociocultural Anthropology courses

  • ANTH 8001: Ethnography, Theory, and History (faculty) - required seminar
  • ANTH 8002: Ethnography: Contemporary Theory and Practice (faculty) - required seminar
  • ANTH 8203: Research Methods in Social and Cultural Anthropology (faculty) - required seminar
  • ANTH 8223: The Anthropology of Space and Place (Lipset)
  • ANTH 8810: Anthropology of Capitalism (Ho)
  • ANTH 8810: Crip Times: Critical Disability Studies Now (Durban)
  • ANTH 8810: Finance, Space, and Power (Ho)
  • ANTH 8810: Force of Law (Hakyemez)
  • ANTH 8810: Futures (Valentine)
  • ANTH 8810: Humans and Non-humans (McLean)
  • ANTH 8810: Language & Modernity (Valentine)
  • ANTH 8810: Making the Dead Matter (McLean)
  • ANTH 8810: Reading Contemporary Ethnography (Taussig)
  • ANTH 8810: Sovereignty and Witchcraft (Song)
  • ANTH 8810: Structure and Apparatus (Song)
  • ANTH 8810: Violence (Ghani)

5xxx-level Sociocultural Anthropology courses

  • ANTH 5980: Topics in Anthropology (faculty)

8xxx-level Archaeology Courses

  • ANTH 8004: Foundations of Anthropological Archaeology (Hayes) - required seminar
  • ANTH 8009: Prehistoric Pathways to World Civilizations (Wells) - required seminar
  • ANTH 8112: Reconstructing Hominin Behavior (Tappen)
  • ANTH 8230: Anthropological Research Design (Monnier) - required seminar
  • ANTH 8244: Interpreting Ancient Bone (Tappen)
  • ANTH 8510: Archaeology of the British Isles (Wells)
  • ANTH 8510: Decolonizing Archives (Hayes)

5xxx-level Archaeology Courses

  • ANTH 5008: Advanced Flintknapping (Tostevin)
  • ANTH 5027W: Archaeology of Prehistoric Europe (Wells)
  • ANTH 5028: Historical Archaeology (Hayes)
  • ANTH 5221: Anthropology of Material Culture (Tostevin)
  • ANTH 5269: Analysis of Stone Tool Technology (Tostevin)
  • ANTH 5401: The Human Fossil Record (Tappen, McNulty)
  • ANTH 5402: Zooarchaeology Laboratory (Tappen)
  • ANTH 5444: Archeological Ceramics (Hayes)
  • ANTH 5448: Applied Heritage Management (faculty)
  • ANTH 5601: Archaeology & Native Americans (Hayes)
  • ANTH 5980: Topics in Anthropology (faculty)

8xxx-level Biological Anthropology Courses

  • ANTH 8014: Molecular Anthropology (Nieves Colón) - required seminar
  • ANTH 8111: Evolutionary Morphology (McNulty) - required seminar
  • ANTH 8112: Reconstructing Hominin Behavior (Tappen) - required seminar
  • ANTH 8113: Primate Evolution (McNulty)
  • ANTH 8114: Behavioral Ecology of Primates (Brown)
  • ANTH 8230: Anthropological Research Design (Hayes, Monnier)
  • ANTH 8244: Interpreting Ancient Bone (Tappen)

5xxx-level Biological Anthropology Courses

  • ANTH 5002: Epidemics in Human Evolution (Nieves Colón)
  • ANTH 5009: Human Behavioral Biology (Brown)
  • ANTH 5401: The Human Fossil Record (Tappen, McNulty)
  • ANTH 5402: Zooarchaeology Laboratory (Tappen)
  • ANTH 5403: Quantitative Methods in Biological Anthropology (McNulty)
  • ANTH 5405: Human Skeletal Analysis (McNulty)
  • ANTH 5980: Topics in Anthropology (faculty)

Upcoming and Current Course Offerings

See ClassInfo for a list of 8000-level seminars and independent study options available for the current semester. Please note that courses with the designator ANTH 8810 are "topics" courses that vary by semester.