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Featured Courses

Featured courses in the Department of Anthropology

ANT 127: Urban Anthropology

This course is an introduction to modern and contemporary cities, urban cultures and politics from an anthropological perspective.

ANT 154A- The Evolution of Primate Behavior

This course focuses on understanding why primates are so variable in how they live, from moving around alone or in pairs to living in large cohesive groups. We take a socioecological approach, which means we will investigate the ecological determinants of primate social organizations from a comparative perspective. This course also focuses on primate phylogeny, as in order to understand primate socioecology, we must also know who are the primates. Those students interested in animal behavior, animal ecology, or primates in particular will find this class appealing.