The list below includes frequently taught courses offered by core faculty in the Departments of Anthropology at both Columbia and Barnard College. It does not include courses offered only rarely, or by term-limited postdoctoral fellows, adjuncts or associates. For all courses in any given semester please consult the full listing in the Course Directory or those listed under specific fields on the Department's webpages devoted to 'Research and Teaching Interests.'
- 4001 THE ANCIENT EMPIRES
- 4045 TEMPORALITIES: ARCHAEOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO TIME
- 4066 HYDROPOLITICS IN MADAGASCAR
- 4116 SYMPATHY, LIBERALISM, AND THE CONDUCT OF CARE
- 4118 SETTLER COLONIALISM IN NORTH AMERICA
- 4143 ACCUSATION
- 4145 ZORA
- 4172 WRITTEN CULTURE
- 4175 WRITING ARCHAEOLOGY
- 4282 ISLAMIC LAW
- 4345 NEANDERTHAL ALTERITIES
- 4378 STRANGE RESONANCES, CLOSE LISTENINGS
- 4390 BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES
- 4481 SCIENCE AND ART IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATION
- 4653 ART BEYOND AESTHETICS: DECOLONIZING APPROACHES TO REPRESENTATION
- 5000 SCALES, ROUTES, REGIONS
- 5114 RELIGION AND MEDIA
- 5115 POLITICAL HUMAN-ANIMAL
- 5127 NECROPOLITICS
- 5172 WRITTEN CULTURE
- 5201 PRINCIPLES/APP OF SOCIETY AND CULTURE
- 5282 ISLAMIC LAW
- 5480 CRITICAL NATIVE/INDIGENOUS
- 5527 MOBILITIES PAST AND PRESENT
- 6016 IDEOLOGIES/MYTHOLOGIES
- 6031 CONTESTING THE PAST
- 6038 PLACE, SPACE, NATURE
- 6049 ARTS OF MAGIC, ARTS OF POSSESSION
- 6051 VALUE, OBJECTS, AND MEANING
- 6069 TECHNOBODIES
- 6084 SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
- 6085 THING THEORY
- 6103 METHOD AND THEORY IN ARCHAEOLOGY
- 6135 WAR AND SOCIAL THEORY
- 6155 RIGHTING WRONGS
- 6157 THE IDEA OF A BLACK RADICAL TRADITION
- 6162 CONTEMPORARY ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY
- 6160 LAW, HISTORY, AND ANTHROPOLOGY
- 6245 PERSONHOOD
- 6248 DECOLONIZING METHODOLOGIES
- 6294 POLITICAL CONCEPTS: GEONTOPOWERS
- 6304 MODERNITY, MEDIA, THE
- 6305 ART, AESTHETICS AND THE POLITICAL
- 6345 POETICS AND POLITICS OF INFRASTRUCTURE
- 6352 MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY: HISTORY AND THEORY
- 6501 ANTHROPOLOGY UNDERGROUND
- 6601 QUESTIONS-ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY 1
- 6602 QUESTIONS-ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY 2
- 6629 THEATRICALITY AND THE POLITICAL
- 6643 ISLE OF INTELLECTUALS
- 6649 DARK ECOLOGY: ECOCRITICAL THOUGHT
- 6653 POROUS BODIES
- 6669 PAPERWORK, BIOMETRICS, AND
ADDITIONAL COURSES BY OUR FACULTY
A number of faculty in the Department of Anthropology are cross-appointed in other units. Their courses are sometimes listed under those units, but typically count towards the degree. Regularly taught such courses are listed below.
- AAAD 4080 TOPICS IN THE BLACK EXPERIENCE
- AAAD 4520 RACE AND THE ARTICULATION OF DIFFERENCE
- WMST 4235 INDIGENOUS FEMINISMS
- WMST 4317 GENDER, CULTURE AND RIGHTS
- WMST 6001 THEORETICAL PARADIGMS: REFRAMING GENDER VIOLENCE, GLOBALLY