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Undergraduates please note: Instructor permission is granted only under exceptional circumstances, and not as a routine way of permitting students to register for courses without having fulfilled the necessary prerequisites.

    200 Level Courses (Introductory)

    Course No. Course Name Term Syllabus
    ANTH 201 Prehistoric Archaeology FALL
    ANTH 202 Socio-Cultural Anthropology FALL
    ANTH 203 Human Evolution WINTER
    ANTH 204 Anthropology of Meaning WINTER
    ANTH 206 Environment and Culture FALL
    ANTH 208 Evolutionary Anthropology WINTER
    ANTH 209 Anthropology of Religion WINTER
    ANTH 210 Archaeology of Early Cities WINTER
    ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development
    ANTH 222 Legal Anthropology WINTER
    ANTH 227 Introduction to the Anthropology of Medicine WINTER

    300 Level Courses (Intermediate)

    Undergraduate Prerequisite: One anthropology course (see individual course listings in the McGill Calendar for the prerequisites associated with each course, if specified) or permission of instructor.

    Course No. Course Name Term Syllabus
    ANTH 301 Nomadic Pastoralists
    ANTH 303 Ethnographies of Post-Socialism
    ANTH 304 Chinese Popular Culture Through
    Ethnography and Film
    ANTH 307 Andean Prehistory FALL
    ANTH 309 Prehistory of Northern Europe
    ANTH 311 Primate Behaviour and Ecology FALL
    ANTH 312 Zooarchaeology FALL
    ANTH 319 Inka Archaeology and Ethnohistory
    ANTH 320 Social Evolution in Stateless Societies FALL
    ANTH 322 Social Change in Modern Africa FALL
    ANTH 325 Anthropology of the Self FALL
    ANTH 326 Anthropology of Latin America
    ANTH 327 Peoples of South Asia
    ANTH 329 Modern Chinese Society and Change
    ANTH 330 Traditional Whaling Societies WINTER
    ANTH 335 Ancient Egyptian Civilization
    ANTH 338 Native Peoples of North America
    ANTH 339 Ecological Anthropology
    ANTH 340 Middle Eastern Society and Culture FALL
    ANTH 342 Gender, Inequality and the State
    ANTH 343 The Animal WINTER
    ANTH 344 Quantitative Approaches to Anthropology
    ANTH 345 Prehistory of Africa
    ANTH 347 Paleolithic Cultures Winter
    ANTH 360 Archaeology of Ancient China

    350+ Level Courses (Core and Reading)

    Undergraduate Prerequisite: One anthropology course (see individual course listings in the McGill Calendar for the prerequisites associated with each course, if specified) or permission of instructor.  Reading courses are supervised by a member of the staff.

    Course No. Course Name Term Syllabus
    ANTH 352 The History of Anthropological Theory FALL
    ANTH 355 Theories of Culture and Society WINTER
    ANTH 357 Archaeological Methods FALL
    ANTH 358 The Process of Anthropological Research FALL
    ANTH 359 The History of Archaeological Theory WINTER
    ANTH 380 Special Topics FALL
    ANTH 381 Special Topics WINTER
    ANTH 382 Special Topics - Near Eastern Archaeology FALL
    ANTH 399 Archaeology of Japan and Korea WINTER

    400 Level Courses (Advanced)

    Undergraduate Prerequisites: U2 anthropology students wishing to take advanced courses must see the course instructor.  If the instructor is on leave, permission from the student's department advisor is required. 
    U3 anthropology students registering for advanced courses must have completed at least two core courses (350 level) and one 300 level anthropology course (which may or may not be specified in the course listing).
    To enroll in any 480 or higher course, all available courses relevant to the chosen topic must be completed and the consent of the instructor, obtained.  These are reading courses supervised by a member of the staff.

    Course No. Course Name Term Syllabus
    ANTH 401 Comparative Anthropology
    ANTH 402 Topics in Ethnography 1 WINTER
    ANTH 403 Current Issues in Archaeology
    ANTH 407 Anthropology of the Body WINTER
    ANTH 408 Sensory Ethnography FALL
    ANTH 411 Primate Studies and Conservation WINTER
    ANTH 412 Topics: Anthropological Theory (NEW course) FALL
    ANTH 413 Gender in Archaeology FALL
    ANTH 416 Environment and Development in Africa WINTER
    ANTH 419 The Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherers FALL
    ANTH 422 Contemporary Latin American Culture
    and Society
    WINTER
    ANTH 423 Mind/Brain and Psychopathology FALL - CANCELLED
    ANTH 426 Immigration and Culture FALL
    ANTH 436 North American Native Peoples
    ANTH 437 Historical Archaeology FALL
    ANTH 438 Topics in Medical Anthropology:
    Anthropology of Trauma
    FALL - CANCELLED
    ANTH 440 Cognitive Anthropology FALL
    ANTH 443 Medical Anthropology Theory
    ANTH 458 Archaeology of the Silk Roads WINTER
    ANTH 460 Archaeological Field Studies
    ANTH 461 Research Techniques
    ANTH 480 Paleolithics of Western Euroasia WINTER
    ANTH 481 Special Topic 6 WINTER
    ANTH 482 Special Topic 7 WINTER
    ANTH 490 Honours Thesis I FALL
    ANTH 491 Honours Thesis II WINTER
    ANTH 492 Honours Thesis FALL & WINTER
    ANTH 492D1 D1 Honours Thesis FALL
    ANTH 492D2 D2 Honours Thesis WINTER
    ANTH 492N2 N2 Honours Thesis FALL
    ANTH 492N1 N1 Honours Thesis WINTER
    ANTH 499 Internship: Anthropology FALL & WINTER

    500 Level Courses (Advanced)

    Undergraduate Prerequisites: U2 anthropology students wishing to take advanced courses must see the course instructor.  If the instructor is on leave, permission from the student's department advisor is required. 
    U3 anthropology students registering for advanced courses must have completed at least two core courses (350 level) and one 300 level Anthropology course (which may or may not be specified in the course listing).

    Course No. Course Name Term Syllabus
    ANTH 500 Chinese Diversity and Diaspora
    ANTH 501 Anthropology Beyond the Human FALL
    ANTH 502 Social Life of Death
    ANTH 503 Production of the Past (description) FALL
    ANTH 511 Computational Approaches to Prehistory
    ANTH 540 Topics in Anthropological Theory (NEW course) FALL
    ANTH 551 Advanced Topics: Archaeological Research FALL
    ANTH 555 Advanced Topics in Ethnology: Gender in Islam WINTER
    ANTH 575 Concepts of Race WINTER

    600 Level Courses (Graduate)

    Note for Undergraduates: Honours Thesis courses are not open to Joint Honours students.  Students in Joint Honours should take 400 level "Special Topics" courses (3 credits each) for the thesis in consecutive terms, one in Anthropology and the other in the joint department.

    Course No. Course Name Term Syllabus
    ANTH 601 Semiotics, Life and Anthropology
    ANTH 602 Theory 1 FALL
    ANTH 603 Theory 2 WINTER
    ANTH 607 Archaeology Proseminar FALL & WINTER
    ANTH 609 Anthropology Proseminar FALL & WINTER
    ANTH 615 Seminar in Medical Anthropology FALL
    ANTH 616 Political Anthropology I WINTER
    ANTH 631 Space, Place and Social Change in
    the Era of Globalization
    FALL
    ANTH 640 Psychological Anthropology I WINTER
    ANTH 648 Local Knowledge, Aboriginality and
    Territorial Identities
    FALL
    ANTH 652 Anthropology and Gender FALL
    ANTH 660 Research Methods WINTER
    ANTH 671 Archaeological Theory 2 WINTER

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    • Course summaries, prerequisites, credit information and registration numbers for any of the above can be found in the McGill Course Listings (click on the calendar for the current year; then click on the link for either "Undergraduate Programs, Courses and University Regulations" or "Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Programs, Courses and University Regulations"; then click on the "All Courses" tab at the top of the page and use the search function to find the course you want). 
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