Anthropology Program
Anthropology opens students to the many ways in which people in different places and different times have gone about the task of being human. Anthropologists explore human nature and human society through the comparative study of such things as family, marriage, religious and spiritual practices, livelihoods, creativity, settlement of legal disputes, human-environment interactions, social power and inequality both locally and globally, and much more. Anthropology at Laurier is a unique program in Canada. It specializes in researching and teaching the ethnography of the contemporary world. Our mission is to equip students with the tools for understanding and intervening in an increasingly global and interconnected world. More than the comparative study of specific cultures, contemporary anthropology deals with the study of the global flows of goods, persons, and ideas. Our research and teaching emphasize how, through the techniques of ethnographic fieldwork, we can connect the complexity of everyday life to large-scale patterns and processes. Anthropology links theoretical analysis and forms of representation through the hands-on practical experience of participant observation, emphasizing how the unique phenomenon of ethnographic fieldwork can encompass qualitative and quantitative methods of research and analysis.
Combined Honours BA and Minor:
- Andre Czegledy, PhD
- Morgan Holmes, PhD, Professor
- Sara Matthews, Program Coordinator
- Natasha Pravaz, PhD
- Tanya Richardson, PhD
- Honours BA Anthropology in Combination with another Honours BA Program
- Intercultural Understanding Option
- Anthropology Minor
- Intercultural Understanding Specialization
Course # | Title | Credits |
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AN100 | Cultures Today | 0.5 |
AN110 | Money Makes the World Go Around | 0.5 |
AN120 | The Greatest Party in the World | 0.5 |
AN200 | Theories of Culture | 0.5 |
AN201 | Indigenous Peoples of Canada: Ethnohistorical Perspectives | 0.5 |
AN202 | Foundations of Anthropological Thought | 0.5 |
AN210 | Intercultural Competencies | 0.5 |
AN211 | Indigenous Religions | 0.5 |
AN224 | Anthropology of the Lifecourse | 0.5 |
AN229 | Indigenous Peoples of Canada: Contemporary Issues | 0.5 |
AN232 | Special Topics | 0.5 |
AN237 | Cross-cultural Studies of Change | 0.5 |
AN239 | Climate Change & Culture in the Anthropocene | 0.5 |
AN241 | City Life and Urban Space | 0.5 |
AN242 | Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism | 0.5 |
AN243 | Law, Culture and Society | 0.5 |
AN300 | Ethnographic Methods | 0.5 |
AN307 | Special Topics in Anthropology | 0.5 |
AN312 | Language, Culture and Society | 0.5 |
AN314 | Animals and People | 0.5 |
AN316 | Art, Anthropology and Material Culture | 0.5 |
AN322 | Religion, Ritual and Magic | 0.5 |
AN324 | Symbolic Systems and Ideologies | 0.5 |
AN326 | Culture as Performance | 0.5 |
AN327 | Directed Studies in Anthropology | 0.5 |
AN328 | Anthropology and Visual Culture | 0.5 |
AN333 | Human Rights I: Canadian Responsibility | 0.5 |
AN334 | Folklore, Myth and Oral Narrative | 0.5 |
AN336 | Culture, Power and Politics | 0.5 |
AN340 | Contemporary Issues in India | 0.5 |
AN341 | Kinship, Marriage and Gender | 0.5 |
AN342 | Africa at the Crossroads | 0.5 |
AN343 | Culture and Society in Latin America | 0.5 |
AN344 | Writing Cultures | 0.5 |
AN345 | Life after Socialism | 0.5 |
AN346 | Transnationalism and Cosmopolitanism | 0.5 |
AN347 | Science, Technology and Culture | 0.5 |
AN348 | Space, Place and Culture | 0.5 |
AN349 | Natures, Cultures, Environments | 0.5 |
AN350 | Violence and Terrorism | 0.5 |
AN355 | Indigenous Peoples in Global Context | 0.5 |
AN356 | Applied Anthropology | 0.5 |
AN365 | Cultures of Business and Work | 0.5 |
AN450 | Current Topics in Anthropology | 0.5 |
AN452 | Doing Fieldwork | 0.5 |
AN455 | Directed Studies | 0.5 |
AN458 | Special Topics in Anthropology | 0.5 |
AN461 | The Anthropology of the Body | 0.5 |
AN467 | Culture, Ethics and Morality | 0.5 |
AN491 | Major Research Paper | 0.5 |