Upcoming Courses in Anthropology
Anthropology Advising Documents 2024-2025
Anthropology Advising Information
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Anthropology Honours Thesis Application [PDF]
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The following courses are not offered every year. Now is your chance to take them!
If you would like to take the course but do not have the prerequisite, please contact the instructor to check if you have a prerequisite equivalent.
Fall 2024
ANTH-3100/4100 History of Anthropology
Instructor: E. Thrift
Course Dates: September 3–December 20, 2024
This course examines the development and influence of select schools of anthropological thought and practice from the nineteenth century to the present. Emphasis is given to the approach and contribution of individual scholars, and to the impact of institutions and historically significant events and trends in shaping disciplinary ideas.
ANTH-3125/4125 Ethnographic Methods
Instructor: TBD
Course Dates: September 3–December 20, 2024
This course offers students an opportunity to learn and apply ethnographic research and field techniques. Areas of instruction include participant observation, surveys, and interviews, the recording of data in field notes and by such means as video, photography and mapping, and ethical considerations in contemporary research settings.
ANTH-3207 Zooarchaeology
Instructor: T. Greenfield
Course Dates: September 3–December 20, 2024
This course offers students an opportunity to learn and apply ethnographic research and field techniques. Areas of instruction include participant observation, surveys, and interviews, the recording of data in field notes and by such means as video, photography and mapping, and ethical considerations in contemporary research settings.
Winter 2025
ANTH-3162 Indigenous Social Enterprise
Instructor: J. Pelletier
Course Dates: January 6–April 4, 2025
Students study theories and practices related to social enterprise models in Canada, the UK, the US and elsewhere. The course has a particular interest in the relationship between social enterprises, related policies, and indigenous sovereignty or self-determination. Students are familiarized with the range of Indigenous social enterprises in Canada and internationally, and trained in policy and project analysis. Students put social enterprise theory into practice by creating a proposal for a hypothetical social enterprise project focused in an identified need, gap, or interest in an Indigenous community or organization.
ANTH-4307 Advanced Human Osteology
Instructor: Y. Chinique de Armas
Course Dates: January 6–April 4, 2025
This course covers analysis and interpretation of human osteological material. Topics include skeletal indicators of demographic, pathological, and nutritional factors, and approaches to the analysis of these types of data. An understanding of basic skeletal identification is assumed.
Contact s.tulloch@uwinnipeg.ca for advanced special topics courses in each of the four sub-fields: Archaeology, Linguistics, Sociocultural Anthropology and Bioanthropology