Course Offering Fall 2025: This course analyzes and critiques the foundations of historical and contemporary forms of global capitalism. The curriculum focuses on the examination of the social, political, and economic consequences of the production and circulation of global commodities, the rise of consumer capitalism, and the idea of the society of perpetual growth, as […]
Course Offering Fall/Winter 2025-26: What can popular culture tell us about the world we live in? For anthropologists, it turns out that it can tell us quite a lot! This course takes an anthropological approach to how ideas of race, and processes of racialization, in particular, are expressed through various forms of popular culture, past […]
Course Offerings Fall 2025: What is culture and how does it vary over time? What shapes people’s ideas and experiences of belonging and identity? How are people propelled to imagine who they are and how they belong? In this course, students are introduced to contemporary concepts, theories, and debates in anthropology. Through ethnographic readings, films, […]
Course Offering Fall/Winter 2025-26: This course will explore how Anthropology approaches social, economic, political, and belief systems, and survey contemporary issues of selected peoples and cultures by considering several real-world cases. The aim of this course is to convey an understanding of how anthropology can help us understand the human condition, and thereby assist us […]