Overview
The Department of Anthropology offers students the opportunity to study humankind from the broadest historical and geographical perspective. Courses in the department offer knowledge of social and cultural aspects of behavior as well as the physical nature of humans. Lower division courses are intended to give a general understanding of human evolution, prehistory, and the nature of human cultures while upper division courses elaborate particular themes.
Students seeking information on the Undergraduate Program may contact Frances Bright at f.bright@berkeley.edu. Students seeking information on the Graduate Program may contact Tabea Mastel at tmastel@berkeley.edu.
Undergraduate Program
Anthropology: BA, Minor
Graduate Programs
Anthropology: PhD, with specializations in archaeology, biological anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology
Folklore: MA (through the interdisciplinary Folklore Program)
Medical Anthropology: Joint PhD (in cooperation with UCSF)
Courses
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Anthropology
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
Advanced topics in biological anthropology, including both contemporary and ancestral human populations, such as biology of the life course, health and disease, violence and trauma, cognition and symbolic communication, and other anthropological topics viewed from the perspective of human biology.
Special Topics in Biological Anthropology: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2016
This course juxtaposes discourse analysis and approaches to health and biomedicine, querying how ideologies of language and communication provide implicit foundations for work on health, disease, medicine, and the body and how biopolitical discourses and practices inform constructions of discourse.
Discourse and of the Body: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Instructor: Briggs
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2018, Fall 2014
Comparative study of mental illness and socially generated disease: psychiatric treatment, practitioners, and institutions.
Topics in Medical Anthropology: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
Pre-Columbian Central America: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Fall 2020, Spring 2019
Historical archaeology seminar. Subject matter will vary from year to year.
Historical Archaeology Research: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing with some background in archaeology, or undergraduates who have taken 2, or consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2009
Various topics and issues in the methods of archaeological analysis and interpretation: style, ceramics, architectural analysis, lithic analysis, archaeozoology, etc.
Archaeological Method: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2022
Required for all first and second year graduate students in archaeology. Three hours of seminar discussion of major issues in the history and theory of archaeological research and practice (229A), and of the research strategies and design for various kinds of archaeological problems (229B). To be offered alternate semesters.
Archaeological Research Strategies: History of Theory in Anthropological Archaeology: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Archaeological Research Strategies: History of Theory in Anthropological Archaeology: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2023, Spring 2021
Required for all first and second year graduate students in archaeology. Three hours of seminar discussion of major issues in the history and theory of archaeological research and practice (229A), and of the research strategies and design for various kinds of archaeological problems (229B). To be offered alternate semesters.
Archaeological Research Strategies: Research Design: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Archaeological Research Strategies: Research Design: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2014, Fall 2010, Fall 2009
This seminar is intended to guide students in the definition of a field within archaeology, from initial conceptualization to writing of a field statement, dissertation chapter, or review article.
Writing the Field Statement in Archaeology: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Special Topics in Archaeology: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2011, Spring 2009
This advanced seminar course explores how we reconstruct past lifeways from archaeological skeletal remains. It deals with the skeletal biology of past populations, covering both the theoretical approaches and methods used in the analysis of skeletal and dental remains.
Advanced Topics in Bioarchaeology: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Instructor: Agarwal
Terms offered: Fall 2013, Spring 2011
This advanced seminar course will discuss influences on bone health and maintence from a unique biocultural and evolutionary perspective.
Advanced Topics in Bone Biology: Biocultural and Evolutionary Perspectives: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 127A or C103/Integrative Biology C142 and consent of instructor
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Instructor: Agarwal
Advanced Topics in Bone Biology: Biocultural and Evolutionary Perspectives: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2013, Spring 2012
Contemporary issues in museum studies from an anthropological perspective.
Special Topics in Museum Anthropology: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
Anthropological theory and practice--following the rest of the world--have been undergoing important restructuring in the past decade. The course is organized to reflect this fact. We will begin by looking at recent debates about the nature and purpose of anthropology. This will provide a starting point for reading a series of classic ethnographies in new ways as well as examining some dimensions of the current research agenda in cultural anthropology.
Fundamentals of Anthropological Theory: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Enrollment is strictly limited to and required of all anthropology and medical anthropology graduate students who have not been advanced to candidacy
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4-6 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Instructor: Required of all graduate students in social/cultural anthropology.
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Anthropological theory and practice--following the rest of the world--have been undergoing important restructuring in the past decade. The course is organized to reflect this fact. We will begin by looking at recent debates about the nature and purpose of anthropology. This will provide a starting point for reading a series of classic ethnographies in new ways as well as examining some dimensions of the current research agenda in cultural anthropology.
Fundamentals of Anthropological Theory: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Enrollment is strictly limited to and required of all anthropology and medical anthropology graduate s tudents who have not been advanced to candidacy
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4-6 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Instructor: Required of all graduate students in social/cultural anthropology.
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2019
Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Psychological Anthropology: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Psychological Anthropology: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2018, Fall 2017
Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Anthropology of Politics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Anthropology of Politics: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2003
Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Religion: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Religion: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2011, Fall 1999, Fall 1996
Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Anthropology of Ethics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Anthropology of Ethics: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Ethnographic Field Methods: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Ethnographic Field Methods: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Spring 2013
Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Classic Ethnography: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Classic Ethnography: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Fall 2020
Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Dissertation Writing: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Dissertation Writing: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021
Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Tourism: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Tourism: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Special Topics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Seminars in Social and Cultural Anthropology: Special Topics: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2025
What grounds authority? The notion of authority – whether it be epistemological, scientific, political, religious, or divine – is in some ways linked to questions of power: the power to author and to authorize. But on what basis do we give credit to this power, and how are we moved? In asking what moves us to give, this graduate seminar touches on a key humanistic concern. Why is it that power can be produced, but authority can only be given? Why does a question concerning authority slide so easily into the register of the mystical and the divine? What does authority’s enigmatic origins reveal? Considering the rise of authoritarianism across different political and societal contexts, it is timely to re-visit the problem of authority.
The Enigma of Authority: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Instructor: Funahashi
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2014, Fall 2013
This course provides a strong foundation for graduate work in STS, a multidisciplinary field with a signature capacity to rethink the relationship among science, technology, and political and social life. From climate change to population genomics, access to medicines and the impact of new media, the problems of our time are simultaneously scientific and social, technological and political, ethical and economic.
Topics in Science and Technology Studies: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Also listed as: ESPM C252/HISTORY C250/STS C200
Terms offered: Spring 2011, Summer 2006 10 Week Session, Spring 2006
This course examines a broad range of theories that elucidate the formal, structural, and contextual properties of narratives in relation to gestures, the body, and emotion; imagination and fantasy; memory and the senses; space and time. It focuses on narratives at work, on the move, in action as they emerge from the matrix of the everyday preeminently, storytelling in conversation--as key to folk genres--the folktale, the legend, the epic, the myth.
Theories of Narrative: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 10 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Also listed as: FOLKLOR C261
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This seminar explores the emergence of notions of tradition and modernity and their reproduction in Eurocentric epistemologies and political formations. It uses work by such authors as Anderson, Butler, Chakrabarty, Clifford, Derrida, Foucault, Latour, Mignolo, Pateman, and Poovey to critically reread foundational works published between the 17th century and the present--along with philosophical texts with which they are in dialogue--in terms of how they are imbricated within and help produce traditionalities and modernities.
Theories of Traditionality and Modernity: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Also listed as: FOLKLOR C262A
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This seminar explores the emergence of notions of tradition and modernity and their reproduction in Eurocentric epistemologies and political formations. It uses work by such authors as Anderson, Butler, Chakrabarty, Clifford, Derrida, Foucault, Latour, Mignolo, Pateman, and Poovey to critically reread foundational works published between the 17th century and the present--along with philosophical texts with which they are in dialogue--in terms of how they are imbricated within and help produce traditionalities and modernities.
Theories of Traditionality and Modernity: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Also listed as: FOLKLOR C262B
Terms offered: Fall 2010
Seminars in Linguistic Anthropology: Semantics: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Seminars in Linguistic Anthropology: Semantics: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2022, Fall 2017, Fall 2014
Intensive introduction to the study of language as a cultural system and speech as socially embedded communicative practice. This is the core course for students wishing to take further coursework in linguistic anthropology.
Seminars in Linguistic Anthropology: Fundamentals of Language in Context: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Seminars in Linguistic Anthropology: Fundamentals of Language in Context: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
This course will cover methods and approaches for students considering professionalizing in the field of STS, including a chance for students to workshop written work.
Science and Technology Studies Research Seminar: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Also listed as: ESPM C273/HISTORY C251/STS C250
Science and Technology Studies Research Seminar: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2012
Courses will vary from year to year. See Departmental Internal Catalogue for detailed descriptions of course offerings for each semester.
Seminars in Area Studies: Africa: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2013, Fall 2010
Courses will vary from year to year. See Departmental Internal Catalogue for detailed descriptions of course offerings for each semester.
Seminars in Area Studies: South Asia: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2012
Courses will vary from year to year. See Departmental Internal Catalogue for detailed descriptions of course offerings for each semester.
Seminars in Area Studies: China: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2008, Fall 1999, Spring 1998
Courses will vary from year to year. See Departmental Internal Catalogue for detailed descriptions of course offerings for each semester.
Seminars in Area Studies: Special Topics in Area Studies: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Seminars in Area Studies: Special Topics in Area Studies: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024
Required each term of all registered graduate students prior to their advancement to Ph.D. candidacy.
Survey of Anthropological Research: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 2 hours of colloquium per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
Required each term of all registered graduate students in Anthropology specializing in archaeology prior to their advancement to Ph.D. candidacy.
Professional Development in Anthropological Archaeology: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 8 weeks - 2 hours of colloquium per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Professional Development in Anthropological Archaeology: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2023, Spring 2021
Collaboration in ethnographic praxis on a local and global scale in folkloristics, sociocultural, linguistic, media, and medical anthropology, producing projects grounded in meaningful engagement with communities. Graduate students, working with lay mentors and faculty, will design and begin implementation of projects that break through infrastructures of theory, research, pedagogy, and practice that reproduce racial hierarchies and that erase anti-racist alternatives.
Experiments in Collaboration and Reciprocal Transformation: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Experiments in Collaboration and Reciprocal Transformation: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Collaboration in ethnographic praxis on a local and global scale in folkloristics, sociocultural, linguistic, media, and medical anthropology, producing projects grounded in meaningful engagement with communities. Graduate students, working with lay mentors and faculty, will design and begin implementation of projects that break through infrastructures of theory, research, pedagogy, and practice that reproduce racial hierarchies and that erase anti-racist alternatives.
Experiments in Collaboration and Reciprocal Transformation: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Also listed as: FOLKLOR C292
Experiments in Collaboration and Reciprocal Transformation: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Practice in original field research under staff supervision. One unit of credit for every four hours of work in the field.
Supervised Research: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-12 hours of fieldwork per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017
Analysis and write-up of field materials.
Supervised Research: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2020
Individual conferences intended to provide directed reading in subject matter not covered by available seminar offerings.
Directed Reading: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-8 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2024, Summer 2022 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2021 First 6 Week Session
Individual conferences to provide supervision in the preparation of an original research paper or dissertation.
Directed Research: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-8 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2018
Group consultation with instructor. Supervised training with instructor on teaching undergraduates.
Professional Training: Teaching: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit up to a total of 12 units.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-18 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
Training in both the logistics and the pedagogical issues of undergraduate teaching.
Graduate Pedagogy Seminar: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Instructor: Agrawal
Formerly known as: Anthropology 300
Terms offered: Fall 2018, Spring 2018, Fall 2017
In preparation for Ph.D. examinations. Individual study in consultation with adviser. Intended to provide an opportunity for qualified students to prepare themselves for the various examinations required of candidates for the Ph.D. May not be used for unit or residence requirements for the degree.
Individual Study for Doctoral Students: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-8 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Anthropology/Graduate examination preparation
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Folklore
Terms offered: Spring 2011, Summer 2006 10 Week Session, Spring 2006
This course examines a broad range of theories that elucidate the formal, structural, and contextual properties of narratives in relation to gestures, the body, and emotion; imagination and fantasy; memory and the senses; space and time. It focuses on narratives at work, on the move, in action as they emerge from the matrix of the everyday preeminently, storytelling in conversation--as key to folk genres--the folktale, the legend, the epic, the myth.
Theories of Narrative: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 10 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Folklore/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Also listed as: ANTHRO C261
Terms offered: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This seminar explores the emergence of notions of tradition and modernity and their reproduction in Eurocentric epistemologies and political formations. It uses work by such authors as Anderson, Butler, Chakrabarty, Clifford, Derrida, Foucault, Latour, Mignolo, Pateman, and Poovey to critically reread foundational works published between the 17th century and the present--along with philosophical texts with which they are in dialogue--in terms of how they are imbricated within and help produce traditionalities and modernities.
Theories of Traditionality and Modernity: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Folklore/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Also listed as: ANTHRO C262A
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This seminar explores the emergence of notions of tradition and modernity and their reproduction in Eurocentric epistemologies and political formations. It uses work by such authors as Anderson, Butler, Chakrabarty, Clifford, Derrida, Foucault, Latour, Mignolo, Pateman, and Poovey to critically reread foundational works published between the 17th century and the present--along with philosophical texts with which they are in dialogue--in terms of how they are imbricated within and help produce traditionalities and modernities.
Theories of Traditionality and Modernity: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Folklore/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Also listed as: ANTHRO C262B
Terms offered: Not yet offered
Studies in vernacular art and expression. Topics will vary from semester to semester.
Vernacular Art: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring:
8 weeks - 3-3 hours of seminar per week
15 weeks - 3-3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Folklore/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Also listed as: HISTART C288
Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Collaboration in ethnographic praxis on a local and global scale in folkloristics, sociocultural, linguistic, media, and medical anthropology, producing projects grounded in meaningful engagement with communities. Graduate students, working with lay mentors and faculty, will design and begin implementation of projects that break through infrastructures of theory, research, pedagogy, and practice that reproduce racial hierarchies and that erase anti-racist alternatives.
Experiments in Collaboration and Reciprocal Transformation: Read More [+]
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Folklore/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Also listed as: ANTHRO C292
Experiments in Collaboration and Reciprocal Transformation: Read Less [-]
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Readings in Folklore: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Folklore/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Directed Research: Read More [+]
Rules & Requirements
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.
Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-6 hours of independent study per week
Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5-15 hours of independent study per week
8 weeks - 5.5-11 hours of independent study per week
Additional Details
Subject/Course Level: Folklore/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Contact Information
Department of Anthropology
232 Anthropology and Art Practice Building
Phone: 510-642-3392
Fax: 510-643-8557
Undergraduate Student Affairs Officer
Frances Bright
215 Anthropology & Art Practice Building
Phone: 510-642-3616
Graduate Student Affairs Officer
Tabea Mastel
213 Anthropology & Art Practice Building
Phone: 510-642-3406