Special Topic Courses

We offer upper-year undergraduate special topic courses on selected topics in the various subfields of anthropology. These courses all have a new focus each year. Click on a course title below to view the topic description.

ANT380H5S Special Topics in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (SCI) 
Winter 2021 topic: Introduction to Paleopathology (added Oct. 27)

ANT381H5F Special Topics in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology (SSc)
Fall 2020 topic: Visual Anthropology

ANT381H5S Special Topics in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology (SSc)
Winter 2021 topic: Queer Bodies: Gender, Disability and Illness

ANT430H5F Special Problems in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (SCI)
Fall 2020 topic: Stone Tools Today

ANT430H5S Special Problems in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (SCI)
Winter 2021 topic: Ancient Biomolecules

ANT431H5F Special Problems in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology (SSc)
Fall 2020 topic: Crisis and its continuities

ANT431H5S Special Problems in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology (SSc)
Winter 2021 topic: The refugee in a world without refuge (Note: this course offering has been cancelled and therefore will not be offered in the Winter 2021 term.)

ANT432H5F Advanced Seminar in Anthropology (SCI)
Fall 2020 topic: Sociality and Cooperation in Primates

ANT433H5S Advanced Seminar in Anthropology (SSc)
Winter 2021 topic: The Anthropology of Toxicity