99 courses with the subject ANT, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Overview of the field of archaeology and its place within anthropology. Includes coverage of methods, theory, history of the field, ethical issues, and discussions of major transitions in world history. (CD, D, SWC)
Introduction to biological anthropology, including human biology, human variation, human genetics, human evolution, and primatology. (D)
SPA 363
Covers theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of language and culture, including: semiotics, the ethnography of communication, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics. Topics include: linguistic relativity, grammar and worldview, language use and social inequality, and language and gender. Also listed as LIN 115. (D, POR) Combined Bulletin 2026-2027 91
The social phenomenon of language: how it originated and developed, how it is learned and used, its relationship to other kinds of behavior; types of language (oral, written, signed) and language families; analysis of linguistic data; social issues of language use. Also listed as LIN 150. (CD, D)
Survey of museum history and theory. Covers object collections, curation, exhibit design, and cutlural issues in museums. Does not count toward the major or minor in anthropology.
Examines the historical, social, and ideological forces shaping the development of museums including the formation of anthropological collections and representation, and the intellectual and social challenges facing museums today. P - ANT 112 or 114, or prerequisite override required. (SWC)
Building knowledge relevant to contemporary society through understanding the interdependent nature of archaeological theory and method. Examination of contemporary archaeological topics through participation in the formulation and implementation of an archaeological research design.
An introduction to methods for determining the composition, age, manufacture, and use of different prehistoric and historic artifact types. Techniques for reconstruction of past natural environments from geological or ecofact samples. Exploration of data display tools including computer-based illustration, and archeological photography. P-ANT 112 or 114, or prerequisite override required.
Problem-based survey of the archaeological record of Europe. Complex interrelationships of material culture, economy, ideology, and social life from earliest peopling to the late Iron Age. Offered only in WFU Study Abroad programs.
Examines biological myths of race and race as a social construction; historical, economic, and political roots of inequalities; institutions and ideologies that buttress and challenge power relations; and implications of anthropological teaching and research for understanding social class and race discrimination in the U.S. Credit not allowed for both ANT 325 and AES 251/WGS 251, Cross-listed as AAS 325. (CD, POR)
Examines anthropological understandings of human rights, with emphasis on activism and rights-in-practice in Latin America. Explores how human rights are understood, mobilized, and reinterpreted in specific contexts. Investigates how anthropologists negotiate tensions between culture and rights, universalism and relativism, and advocacy and neutrality. (CD) e
Examines cultural constructions of gender and sexuality from a cross-cultural perspective and the relationship between gender and sexuality and anthropology through time. Emphasizes how varied forms of feminisms are constituted within diverse social, cultural, and economic systems. Also listed as WGS 329.
Uses an anthropological perspective to examine relationships among language structure, language use, persons, and social categories. Also listed as LIN 333.
Surveys of the peoples and cultures of the Indian subcontinent in the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The course reviews major topics of interest to anthropologists, including prehistory, history and politics, religion, social organization, caste, gender, development, and population. (CD)
Course examines the spatial dimensions of culture by focusing on inequalities in the built environment. Particular attention is paid to the cultural, gendered, economic, political, and regional contexts of housing policies and the impact policies have on children, families and communities. Course includes an optional Service-Learning community asset mapping assignment of a local Winston-Salem neighborhood. Only offered for 3 or 4 hours.
Explores how people envision and manipulate the supernatural in crosscultural perspective. Emphasizes dynamic aspects of religious beliefs and practices. P-ANT 114 or prerequisite override required. (CD)
Examines the relationship between culture and the economy. The variable nature and meaning of economic behavior will be examined in societies ranging from non-industrial to post-industrial. Discusses the impact of economic development programs, foreign aid and investment, technology transfer, and a variety of other economic aid programs. P-ANT 112 or 113 or 114, or prerequisite override required.
Examines what it means to be human—present and future—in the age of artificial intelligence and climate change. Topics include robots, microbes, pollution, data and biometrics, social media, outer space, and the end of the world. Introduces science and technology studies. (POR)
4 Environmental Anthropology 3-4 ANT 372 Environmental Archaeology 3
Critical review of the major anthropological theories of humans and society. The relevance and significance of these theories to contemporary anthropology are discussed. P-ANT 112 and 113 and 114, or prerequisite override required.
Explores the application of anthropological concepts and methods in the understanding of contemporary problems. (CD)
Taking a global case-study approach, this seminar explores the role language plays in contemporary identity formation and expression, from indigenous to transnational contexts. Addresses relationships among language and colonialism, postcolonialism, nationalism, cultural revitalization, standardization, social and economic inequality, boundary-formation, and processes of cultural inclusion and exclusion. Also listed as LIN 350. (CD)
This seminar explores the role of language in educational contexts; includes the study of bilingual and bicultural education, second language education, cross-cultural education, and communication in the classroom. Service-learning component. Also listed as EDU 353. (CD)
Trains students in basic skills of collectiong and analyzing linguistic data at the levels of phonetics-phonology, grammar, lexico-semantics, discourse, and sociocultural context. Students will learn about the research questions that drive linguistic fieldwork as well as the relevant methods, tools, and practical and ethical concerns. Also listed as LIN 354. P-ANT 150/LIN 150 or prerequisite override required.
(3 h) Explores contemporary topics on how language use creates, sustains, justifies, resists, and alters social and economic inequality; constitutes social action; embeds social orders in linguistic structures. Course is collaborative, hands-on, seminar-style. Also listed as LIN 356. (CD)
Ethnography and ethnohistory of the indigenous peoples and cultures of North America since European contact. Explores historic and contemporary cultures, social and political relationships with Euroamericans, and social justice issues. (CD)
A critical introduction to the interdisciplinary field of global health, focusing on contributions from medical anthropology. Compares a diversity of health experiences and evaluates interventions across the globe. Explores how biocultural, political, and economic forces shape patterns of illness and disease with special attention to improving the health of the world's most vulnerable citizens.
Examines human behavior in light of our shared evolutionary history with apes. Includes explorations of aggression, cooperation, family structures, hierarchy, risk-taking, and other biocultural phenomena influencing our daily lives.
Examines conceptions of health, illness, the roles of patient and healer, and the organization of health in diverse cultural contexts. Service learning optional. P-ANT 114, or prerequisite override required. (CD)
The paleontological evidence for early human evolution, with an emphasis on the first five million years of bio-cultural evolution.
Seminar focusing on current issues in human biological diversity. Special emphasis on the nature of human variation, and the relationship between human biological diversity and human behavioral diversity. Students learn what is known about how modern human biological variation is patterned, and investigate how this variation is intrepreted culturally.
Survey and analysis of human skeletal anatomy, emphasizing archeological, anthropological, and forensic applications and practice. Lab-4 hours.
Survey of human history from the earliest hominin social behaviors to the rise of cultural complexity and stratified societies in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Detailed examination of the cultural evolution of state societies within important contexts of past environmental, social, and political change. (CD)
Explores theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of ritual and religion, with a focus on archaeology and material culture.
Survey of scientific approaches for reconstructing and interpreting the interactions between past human populations and their environments. Integrates geoarchaeological, archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological, and geochronological methods with anthropological understandings of human construction and experience of environment. Problem-based field activities provide experience applying research techniques and anthropological theory.
Examines complex societies, cities, states, and empires that developed in the Americas before European contact, using archaeological and historical evidence. Explores Indigenous American strategies of governance and sociopolitical organization. (SWC)
The development of indigenous cultures in North America, from the earliest arrival of people to European contact as outlined by archeological research, with an emphasis on ecology and sociocultural processes. (CD)
Integrated training in archeological field methods and analytical techniques for researching human history. Students learn archeological survey, mapping, excavation, recording techniques, and artifact and ecofact recovery and analysis. P-ANT 112 or 113 or 114 or prerequisite override required. (D)
Integrated training in archeological field methods and analytical techniques for researching human history. Students learn archeological survey, mapping, excavation, recording techniques, and artifact and ecofact recovery and analysis. P-ANT 112 or 113 or 114 or prerequisite override required. (D)
The comparative study of culture and training in ethnographic and cultural analysis carried out in the field. P-ANT 112 or 113 or 114 or prerequisite override required. (CD, D)
The comparative study of culture and training in ethnographic and cultural analysis carried out in the field. P-ANT 112 or 113 or 114 or prerequisite override required. (CD, D)
Intensive investigation of current scientific research within the discipline. The course concentrates on problems of contemporary interest. May be repeated for credit.
Intensive investigation of current scientific research within the discipline. The course concentrates on problems of contemporary interest. May be repeated for credit.
Designed to familiarize students with ethnographic research methods and their application. Considers the epistemological, ethical, political, an psychological aspects of research. Field experience and data analysis. P- ANT 114 or prerequisite override required.
A review of contemporary problems in the fields of archeology, linguistics, and biological and cultural anthropology. Senior standing recommended. P-ANT 112, 113 and 114, or prerequisite override required. Combined Bulletin 2026-2027 93
An internship course designed to meet the needs and interests of selected students, to be carried out under the supervision of a departmental faculty member. May be repeated for credit. P-Prerequisite override required.
An internship course designed to meet the needs and interests of selected students, to be carried out under the supervision of a departmental faculty member. May be repeated for credit. P-Prerequisite override required.
Undergraduate research mentored by faculty and involving intensive investigation of an anthropological problem. P-Prerequisite override required.
Research, analysis, and writing of an Honors Thesis required for graduation with departmental honors to be carried out under the supervision of a departmental faculty member. Senior standing required. P-Prerequisite override required.
A reading or research course designed to meet the needs and interests of selected students, to be carried out under the supervision of a departmental faculty member. May be repeated for credit. P-Prerequisite override required.
A reading or research course designed to meet the needs and interests of selected students, to be carried out under the supervision of a departmental faculty member. May be repeated for credit. P-Prerequisite override required.
Market. (3 h) Field-based seminar compares the barriers to market participation experienced by independent entrepreneurs cross-culturally. Free trade policies are contrasted with fair trade practices to determine why so many independent producers have trouble succeeding in a globalizing world.
Examines the historical, social, and ideological forces shaping the development of museums. Emphasizes the history of anthropology, the formation of anthropological collections, representation, and the intellectual and social challenges facing museums today.
The principles of collections management including artifact registration, cataloging, storage, and handling; conservation issues and practices; disaster planning and preparedness; and ethical issues are covered through lectures, readings, workshops, and hands-on use of the Museum's collections.
Examination of a contemporary archaeological topic through participation in the formulation and implementation of an archaeological research design. Building knowledge relevant to contemporary society through understanding the interdependent nature of archaeological theory and method.
Introduction to methods for determining the composition, age, manufacture, and use of different prehistoric and historic artifact types. Techniques for reconstruction of past natural environments from geological or ecofact samples. Exploration of data display tools including computer-based illustrations, GIS, and archeological photography.
Problem-based survey of the archaeological record of Europe. Complex interrelationships of material culture, economy, ideology, and social life from earliest peopling to the late Iron Age. Offered only in WFU Study Abroad programs. Combined Bulletin 2026-2027 431
Examines biological myths of race and race as a social construction; historical, economic, and political roots of inequalities; institutions and ideologies that buttress and challenge power relations; and implications of anthropological teaching and research for understanding social class and race discrimination in the U.S.
Examines anthropological understandings of human rights, with emphasis on activism and rights-in-practice in Latin America. Explores how human rights are understood, mobilized, and reinterpreted in specific contexts. Investigates how anthropologists negotiate tensions between culture and rights, universalism and relativism, and advocacy and neutrality.
Examines cultural constructions of gender and sexuality from a cross-cultural perspective and the relationship between feminism and cultural rights activism through time. Emphasizes how varied forms of feminisms are constituted within diverse social, cultural, and economic systems. Students consider how feminists are negotiating positions at the intersection of cultural and human rights.
Focuses on the differences between sex, a biological category, and gender, its cultural counterpart. An anthropological perspective is used to understand both the human life cycle and the status of contemporary women and men worldwide. In section one, topics covered include evolution and biological development, sexuality and reproduction, parenting and life cycle changes. The second section includes a cross-cultural comparison examining roles, responsibilities and expectations, and how these interact with related issues of class and race in diverse locations, including Africa, South Dakota, China, India and the Amazon.
Uses an anthropological perspective to examine relationships among language structure, language use, persons, and social categories.
Survey of the peoples and cultures of the Indian subcontinent in the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Reviews major topics of interest to anthropologists, including prehistory, history and politics, religion, social organization, caste, gender, development and population.
Examines the spatial dimensions of culture by focusing on housing disparities in the U.S. Particular attention is paid to the cultural, gendered, economic, political, and regional contexts of housing policies and the impact policies have on children, families and communities. Course includes an optional Service-Learning community asset mapping assignment of a local Winston-Salem neighborhood.
Explores how people envision and manipulate the supernatural in cross-cultural perspective. Emphasizes functional apsects of religious beliefs and practices.
Examines the relationship between culture and the economy and its implications for applied anthropology. The variable nature and meaning of economic behavior will be examined in societies ranging from non-industural to post-industrial. Discusses the impact of economic development programs, foreign aid and investment, technology transfer, and a variety of other economic aid programs.
Exploration of humanity's 'place' in the cosmo, focusing on different worldviews of nature and culture. Case studies from anthropology, archeology, and environmental science examine conceptions of technology, resources, environment, and ownership in the context of environmental change, 'natural' disasters, and resource scarcity.
Study and evaluation of the major anthropological theories of humans and society. The relevance and significance of these theories to modern anthropology are discussed.
Explores the application of anthropological concepts and methods in the understanding of contemporary problems stemming from cultural diversity, including competing social and economic development models and ideologies of terror. Emphasis on conflict and change in developing areas but also considers the urban experience.
Seminar focusing on the causes and nature of warfare and violent group interaction across cultures and through time. Compares case studies from around the globe and of varying sociopolitical organization, past and present. Includes explorations of primate behavior, forms of warfare, and competing theoretical explanations for its existence and for particular occurrences.
Taking a global case-study approach, this seminar explores the role language plays in contemporary identity formation and expression, from indigenous to transnational contexts. Addresses relationships among language and colonialism, postcolonialism, nationalism, cultural revitalization, standardization, social and economic inequality, boundary-formation, and processes of cultural inclusion and exclusion.
This seminar explores the role of language in educational contexts; includes the study of bilingual and bicultural education, second language education, cross-cultural education, and communication in the classroom. Service-learning component.
Trains students in basic skills of collecting and analyzing linguistic data at the levels of phonetics-phonology, grammar, lexico-semantics, discourse, and sociocultural context. Students will learn about the research questions that drive linguistic fieldwork as well as the relevant methods, tools, and practical and ethical concerns.
Covers theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of language and culture, including: semiotics, structuralism, ethnoscience, the ethnography of communication, and sociolinguitics. Topics include: liguistic relativity; grammar and worldview; lexicon and thought; language use and social inequality; language and gender; and other areas.
Ethnology and prehistory of the indigenous peoples and cultures of North America since European contact. Explores historic and modern cultures, social and political relationships with Euro Americans, and social justice.
A critical introduction to the interdisciplinary field of global health, focusing on contributions from medical anthropology. Compares a diversity of health experiences and evaluates interventions across the globe. Explores how biocultural, political, and economic forces shape patterns of illness and disease with special attention to improving the health of the world's most vulnerable citizens.
The application of Darwinian principles to the study of human nature and culture. Considers the existence, origin, and manifestation of human behavioral universals and the theoretical and practical implications of individual study.
The impact of Western medical practices and theory on non-Western cultures and anthropological contributions to the solution of world health problems.
Examines the evolution and adaptations of the order primates. Considers the different ways that ecology and evolution shape social behavior. A special emphasis on the lifeways of monkeys and apes.
Examines the anatomy, evolution, and paleobiology of members of the order Primates. Emphasizes the fossil evidence for primate evolution. Major topics include: primate origins, prosimian and anthropoid adaptations, patterns in primate evolution, and the place of humans within the order Primates.
The paleontological evidence for early human evolution, with an emph sis on the first five million years of bio-cultural evolution.
Seminar focusing on current issues in human biological diversity. Special emphasis on the nature of human variation, and the relationship between human biological diversity and human behavioral diversity. Students learn what is known about how modern human biological variation is patterned, and investigate how this variation is interpreted culturally.
Survey of human skeletal anatomy and analysis, emphasizing archeological and anthropological applications.
Survey of Old World prehistory, with particular attention to geological and climatological events affecting culture change.
The development of indigenous cultures in North America from the earliest arrival of people to European contact as outlined by archaeological research, with an emphasis on ecology and sociocultural processes.
(3 h) Exploration of factors that shaped the lives of people in the Southwest, with attention to Native American and Hispanic experience. From kivas to casinos, coyotes, to cartels, links archeological and prehispanic history to contemporary lifeways in the canyons, deserts, and cities of the U.S./ North Mexico.
Study of the laws, regulations, policies, programs, and political processes used to conserve prehistoric and historic cultural resources.
Basic statistics. Emphasizing application in anthropological research.
Integrated training in archaeological field methods and analytical techniques for researching human prehistory. Students learn archeological survey, mapping, excavation, recording techniques and artifact and ecofact recovery and analysis.
Integrated training in archaeological field methods and analytical techniques for researching human prehistory. Students learn archeological survey, mapping, excavation, recording techniques and artifact and ecofact recovery and analysis.
Comparative study of culture and training in ethnographic and cultural analysis carried out in the field.
Comparative study of culture and training in ethnographic and cultural analysis carried out in the field.
Intensive investigation of current scientific research within the discipline concentrating on problems of contemporary interest.
Intensive investigation of current scientific research within the discipline concentrating on problems of contemporary interest.
Designed to familiarize students with ethnographic research methods and their application. Considers the epistemological, ethical, political, and psychological aspects of research. Laboratory experience and data analysis.
Intensive examination of an individually designed body of information pertaining to religion and/or culture, carried out under supervision of appropriate faculty member.
Research and reading course, including field component, designed to meet the needs of individual students and resulting in a professional- quality paper and/or presentation. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 hours. P-POI.
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