FREQUENTLY TAUGHT COURSES - GRADUATE

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