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.'
- 1002 THE INTERPRETATION OF CULTURE
- 1007 THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN SOCIETY
- 1008 THE RISE OF CIVILIZATION
- 1009 AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
- 2004 AN INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL AND CULTURAL THEORY
- 2005 THE ETHNOGRAPHIC IMAGINATION
- 2007 INDIAN AND NIGERIAN FILM CULTURES
- 2019 DOCUMENTARY/ETHNOGRAPHY/FILM: EXPLORATION AND EXPERIMENTATION
- 2017 MAFIAS AND OTHER DANGEROUS AFFILIATIONS
- 2026 ON PRECARITY
- 2427 THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
- 2028 THINK LIKE AN ARCHAEOLOGIST
- 2888 HOW CHINA BECAME CHINESE
- 3007 ARCHAEOLOGY BEFORE THE BIBLE
- 3102 AFRICAN URBANISM
- 3151 LIVING WITH ANIMALS: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
- 3223 GENDER ARCHAEOLOGY
- 3234 INDIGENOUS PLACE-THOUGHT
- 3465 WOMEN AND GENDER POLITICS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD
- 3661 SOUTH ASIA
- 3663 THE ANCIENT TABLE: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF COOKING
- 3723 AMERICAN MATERIAL CULTURE
- 3725 THE POLITICS OF RECOGNITION
- 3728 ETHNOGRAPHIES OF BLACK LIFE
- 3803 LANGUAGE MATTERS
- 3811 TOXIC
- 3821 NATIVE AMERICA
- 3823 ARCHAEOLOGY ENGAGED: THE PASTS IN THE PUBLIC EYE
- 3828 THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF WAR
- 3829 ABSENT BODIES
- 3861 ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE ANTHROPOCENE
- 3878 NEOLIBERAL URBANISM AND THE POLITICS OF EXCLUSION
- 3879 THE MEDICAL IMAGINARY
- 3880 LISTENING: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF SOUND
- 3888 ECOCRITICISM FOR THE END TIMES
- 3921 ANTI-COLONIALISM
- 3933 ARABIA IMAGINED
- 3939 THE ANIME EFFECT: MEDIA AND TECHNOCULTURE IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
- 3947 TEXT, MAGIC, PERFORMANCE
- 3957 ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE EVERYDAY
- 3976 THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF SCIENCE
- 3989 AN INTRODUCTION TO URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY
- 3993 WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY
- 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
- 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
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
- CSER 3345 CITY, ENVIRONMENT, VULNERABILITY
- CSER 3942 RACE AND RACISMS
- WMST 4235 INDIGENOUS FEMINISMS
- WMST 4317 GENDER, CULTURE AND RIGHTS