Undergraduate Program in Anthropology

QUICK LIST Spring 2023 Courses

Preliminary Syllabi will be added as received - if spring 2023 syllabus is not yet included below - click "Courses" in menu on right for a recent syllabus. All courses will use Canvas for their learning platform.

Prerequisite overrides spring 23 – If you cannot register for an upper level course because you have not met the prerequisite, in many cases you can get a prerequisite override. If you would like to request this, send an email to the professor with your name, RUID, and number/name of the course, with a CC to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. If approved, you will be registered directly into the course. Be sure you do not have a conflicting course on your registration. If you have a conflicting “place-holder” course, mention this in your request message – the place-holder can be eliminated at the same time the new course is added.

01:070:101 Culture and Social Life, 3 credits

Zeynep Gursel - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Lectures Tuesday 2-3:20 pm, RAB-001
Recitations - times and rooms vary

01:070:102 Introduction to Human Evolution, 4 credits

Robert Scott - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Lectures Monday and Wednesday 2-3:20 pm, RAB-001
Labs - BIO-302, times vary

01:070:105 Introduction to Archaeology, 4 credits

Dan Cabanes - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Lectures Tuesday and Friday 12:10-1:30 pm, RAB-001
Labs - BIO-206, times vary

01:070:108 Language, Culture, and Society, 3 credits

Becky Schulthies - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Lectures Monday 2-3:20 pm, LOR-020
Recitations - times and rooms vary

01:070:153:MA Anthropology of Art, 1.5 credits

Pilar Rau -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Thursday 5:40-8:40 pm, BIO-302
Second 7 weeks of semester

01:070:162:MA and MB Great Excavations in the Garden State, 1.5 credits

Keri Sansevere - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
MA is Thursday 12:10-3:10 pm, BIO-315, 2nd 7 weeks
MB is Monday 12:10-3:10 pm, BIO-302, 2nd 7 weeks

01:070:163:MA Islands and Lost Continents, 1.5 credits

Hylke de Jong - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Monday 2-5:00 pm, BIO-315, 2nd 7 weeks
pdf 163 dejong Sp 2023 prelim (94 KB) syllabus

01:070:164 M1 and MA Archaeology Murder Mysteries, 1.5 credits

Carmel Schrire - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
M1 is Tuesday 2-5:00 pm, BIO-206, 1st 7 weeks
MA is Tuesday 2-5:00 pm, BIO-206, 2nd 7 weeks

01:070:201 Evolution and Human Behavior, 3 credits

Fred Foster - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Monday and Wednesday 3:50-5:10 pm, LOR-022

01:070:203 Climate Change, Disaster, and Reconstruction, 3 credits

David Hughes - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Monday and Wednesday 3:50-5:10 pm, BIO-206
document 203 Hughes sp 23 (77 KB) - Syllabus

01:070:220 Politics of Food and Sex, 3 credits

Tuesday 10:20-1:20 pm, RAB-110B

01:070:224 Capitalism and Debt, 3 credits

Bridget Purcell - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Monday 12:10-3:10 pm, BIO-206

01:070:226 The Archaeology of What We Eat, 3 credits

Hylke de Jong - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tuesday and Thursday 2-3:20 pm, HCK-115

pdf 226 flyer Arch of What We Eat (114 KB)

01:070:238 Anthro of Europe, 3 credits

Kate Riley - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Monday 2-5:00 pm, BIO-205

01:070:240 Intro to Molecular Evolutionary Anthropology, 3 credits

Fred Foster - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Monday and Thursday 12:10-1:30 pm, BIO-205

01:070:248 Anthropology of China, 3 credits

Louisa Schein - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tuesday 2-5:00 pm, BIO-205

01:070:283 French Gastronomy and Global Food Culture, 3 credits (cross listed)

Ana Pairet Vinas
Tuesday and Friday 12:10-1:30 pm, SC-201 

01:070:291 Special Topic in Anthropology, 1.5 credits

Fred Foster - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tuesday 10:20-1:20 pm, BIO-206, second seven weeks

01:070:297 Current Issues in Evolutionary Anthropology, 3 credits, cross-list

Subtitle: Introduction to Microbiomes
Gloria Dominguez - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Monday and Thursday 10:20-11:40 am, Hck-122

01:070:304 Political Anthropology, 3 credits

Jacob Silver - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tuesday 2-5:00 pm, SC-121

01:070:312 Language and Social Diversity, 3 credits

Kate Riley - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Wednesday 3:50-6:50 pm, RAB-209A

01:070:327 Life in the Early Holocene, 3 credits

Hylke de Jong - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tuesday and Friday 10:20-11:40 am, RAB-207
pdf 327 dejong Sp 2023 prelim (101 KB) syllabus

01:070:328 Evolution and Cooperation, 3 credits

Lee Cronk - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Monday and Thursday 10:20-11:40 am, HCK-112
  pdf Syllabus (81 KB)

01:070:342 Urban Ecologies, 3 credits

Bridget Purcell - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Monday 3:50-6:50 pm, HCK-112

01:070:348 Primate Behavioral Ecology, 3 credits

Erin Vogel - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Monday and Thursday 10:20-11:40 am, BIO-206

01:070:356 Human Variation, 3 credits

Susan Cachel - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Monday and Wednesday 3:50-5:10 pm, BIO-302
  document Syllabus (51 KB)

01:070:358 and 359 Human Osteology (3 credits) and Lab (3 credits) - must take both together

Brenda Frazier - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tuesday and Friday 10:20-11:40, then 12:10-1:30, BIO-201A

01:070:377 Evolution and Religion, 3 credits

Lee Cronk - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Thursday 12:10-3:10 pm, BIO-302
pdf Syllabus (81 KB)

01:070:394 Geological Context in Paleoanthropology, 3 credits

Craig Feibel - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tuesday and Thursday 5:40-7:00 pm, BIO-206
document 394 Feibel Sp 23 (1) (42 KB) - Syllabus

01:070:406 Rights and Wrongs of Indigenous Peoples, 3 credits 

Pilar Rau - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Thursday 2-5:00 pm, RAB-003

01:070:407 Documenting Latino Lives, 3 credits - must be taken with 070:408

Ulla Berg - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tuesday 2-5:00 pm, LSH-A256

01:070:408 Video Production Lab for Latino Lives, 1 credit

Ulla Berg - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Thursday 2-3:20 pm, DL-G007

01:070:417 Writing Ethnography, 3 credits

David Hughes - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tuesday 10:20-1:20 pm
document 417 Hughes sp 23 (47 KB) - Syllabus

01:070:491 Capstone Colloquium in Evolutionary Medicine
Friday 10:20-11:40 am

Courses involving independent work:

01:070:386 Internship in Anthropology
see https://anthro.rutgers.edu/academics/undergraduate/internships-extracurricular

01:070:495, 496 and 499 Independent Study in Anthropology
see https://anthro.rutgers.edu/academics/undergraduate/forms

01:070:498 Honors in Anthropology
This is done in two semesters, starting with 01:070:497 in the fall
For more information see https://anthro.rutgers.edu/academics/undergraduate/honors