Anthropology program requirements
What the Anthropology Specialist, Majors and Minor require, as the 2026-2027 Arts & Science Calendar states it, and every course they name.
Anthropology Specialist (Society, Culture, and Language)
- Arts program
- 10.0 credits
- Limited enrolment
- ASSPE2112
Enrolment
This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol. The full enrolment requirements are on the Calendar's page for this program.
Completion requirements
(10.0 credits, including at least 2.0 credits at the 400-level)
First and/or Second Year:
1ANT204H1 and ANT207H1
Upper Years:
2ANT370H1 and ANT380H1
36.0 credits from Group C, or Subgroup C(i) or C(ii)
4ANT475H1 and an additional 1.5 credits at the 400-level
Note 1Note: ANT courses are those offered with the following prefixes: ANT, ARH, INS, JAA, JAL, and JGA.
Group C: Society, Culture, and Language
ANT204H1, ANT205H1, ANT207H1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT299Y1, ANT324H1, ANT342H1, ANT343H1, ANT344H1, ANT345H1, ANT346H1, ANT347H1, ANT348H1, ANT352H1, ANT354H1, ANT356H1, ANT357H1, ANT358H1, ANT359H1, ANT362H1, ANT364H1, ANT366H1, ANT370H1, ANT374H1, ANT376H1, ANT378H1, ANT380H1, ANT382H1, ANT384H1, ANT385H1, ANT386H1, ANT390H1, ANT426H1, ANT435H1, ANT441H1, ANT442H1, ANT446H1, ANT453H1, ANT456H1, ANT460H1, ANT461H1, ANT462H1, ANT463H1, ANT464H1, ANT465H1, ANT473H1, ANT475H1, ANT480H1, ANT484H1, ANT485H1, ANT486H1, ANT488H1, ANT490Y1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, JAA377H1, JAH391Y0, JAH391H1, JNH350H1, AFR250Y1, NMC356H1, MCS225Y1
Note 2Note: ANT390H1 may be placed in a different Course Group depending on the topic, which will vary from year to year.
Subgroup C (i): (Society, Culture and Language-Area)
ANT455H1, ANT458H1, ANT472H1, AFR298H1, CAR316H1, NMC241H1
Subgroup C (ii): (Society, Culture and Language - Linguistic)
ANT253H1, ANT329H1, ANT425H1, ANT443H1, ANT483H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, JAL328H1, JAL355H1, JAL401H1, SLA380H1
Courses these requirements name
- ANT204H1Social Cultural Anthropology and Global Issues
- ANT207H1Core Concepts in Social and Cultural Anthropology
- ANT370H1Introduction to Social Anthropological Theory
- ANT380H1Craft of Social/Cultural Anthropology
- ANT475H1Reading Ethnography
- ANT205H1Medical Anthropology: Sociocultural Perspectives on Illness, Medicine and Care
- ANT208H1Medical Anthropology: an Evolutionary Perspective on Human Health
- ANT210H1Anthropologists and Indigenous Peoples in North America
- ANT215H1Fight the Power!: A Global History of Resistance and Revolution
- ANT299Y1Research Opportunity Program
- ANT324H1Tourism & Globalization
- ANT342H1Anthropology of Race and Racism
- ANT343H1What is Gender? Anthropological Perspectives
- ANT344H1Political Anthropology
- ANT345H1Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives
- ANT346H1Anthropology of Food
- ANT347H1Metropolis: Global Cities
- ANT348H1Medical Anthropology: Health, Power and Politics
- ANT352H1Anthropology of Life and Death
- ANT354H1Right-Wing Nationalisms
- ANT356H1Anthropology of Religion
- ANT357H1Social Worlds of Medicine and Care
- ANT358H1Medical Anthropology and Social Justice
- ANT359H1Multispecies Ethnography
- ANT362H1Sports and Play
- ANT364H1Advocating Environmental and Climate Justice
- ANT366H1Anthropology of Activism and Social Justice
- ANT374H1Rethinking Development, or the Improvement of the World
- ANT376H1Anthropology of Animals
- ANT378H1Gift, Money, and Finance
- ANT382H1Special Topics in Biocultural Medical Anthropology
- ANT384H1Special Topics in Society, Culture and Language
- ANT385H1Special Topics in Sociocultural Medical Anthropology
- ANT386H1Global Catholicism: Anthropological Approaches
- ANT390H1Special Topics in Anthropology
- ANT426H1‘The West’ and Its Others
- ANT435H1Anthropology of Childhood and Childcare
- ANT441H1Love, Sex, and Marriage
- ANT442H1Social Studies of Autism
- ANT446H1Anthropology of Aging, Health, and Care
- ANT453H1Anthropology Through the Novel
- ANT456H1Queer Ethnography
- ANT460H1Global Perspectives on Women's Health
- ANT461H1Literary Anthropology
- ANT462H1Anthropology of Affect
- ANT463H1Anthropology of Racial Capitalism and Dispossession
- ANT464H1Black Ethnographies
- ANT465H1Ethnographic Practicum: Toronto Tours
- ANT473H1Ethnographic Practicum: The University
- ANT480H1Special Topics in Anthropological Research
- ANT484H1Special Topics in Social Cultural Anthropology
- ANT485H1Topics in Emerging Scholarship (Society, Culture and Language)
- ANT486H1Special Topics: Socio-Cultural Research Seminar
- ANT488H1Special Topics in Medical Anthropology
- ANT490Y1Field Course in Social and Cultural Anthropology
- ANT491Y1Internship in Anthropology
- ANT491H1Internship in Anthropology
- ANT497Y1Independent Research
- ANT498H1Independent Research
- ANT499H1Independent Research
- JAA377H1Black Radical Theory from the Global South: Anthropological Perspectives
- JAH391Y0Topics in Anthropology and History last in the 2022-2023 Calendar
- JAH391H1Topics in Anthropology and History last in the 2022-2023 Calendar
- JNH350H1AIDS : Challenges and Successes last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- AFR250Y1Africa in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
- NMC356H1Anthropology of Islam last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- MCS225Y1A History of the World in Objects and Signs
- ANT455H1Ethnographic Approaches to the Middle East and North Africa
- ANT458H1Indigenous Health Histories and Canadian Settler Colonialism
- ANT472H1Japan in Global Context: Anthropological Perspectives
- AFR298H1Popular Uprisings in Africa
- CAR316H1Caribbean Religions
- NMC241H1Anthropology of the Middle East
- ANT253H1Language & Society
- ANT329H1Language & Power Structure
- ANT425H1Language in Anthropological Thought
- ANT443H1Listen to the land; write like the water
- ANT483H1Special Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
- JAL328H1Writing Systems
- JAL355H1Language and Gender
- JAL401H1Field Linguistics
- SLA380H1Language, Politics, Identity last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
Anthropology Major (Evolutionary)
- Science program
- 6.5 credits
- Limited enrolment
- ASMAJ1510
Enrolment
This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol. The full enrolment requirements are on the Calendar's page for this program.
Completion requirements
(6.5 credits, including at least 2.0 credits at the 300+ level, 0.5 credit of which must be at the 400-level)
First Year and/or Second Year:
1BIO120H1
2ANT100Y1 or BIO220H1. If BIO220H1 is taken, students must take an additional 0.5 credit in ANT
3ANT203Y1
Upper Years:
42.0 credits from ANT208H1, ANT333Y1, ANT334H1, ANT334Y1, ANT335Y1, ANT336H1
51.5 additional credits from: Group B and/or ANT406H1, ANT415Y1, ARH312Y1
60.5 credit at the 400-level from Group B
Note 1Note: ANT courses are those offered with the following prefixes: ANT, ARH, INS, JAL, and JGA.
Group B: Evolutionary
ANT203Y1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT299Y1, ANT331H1, ANT333Y1, ANT334H1, ANT334Y1, ANT335Y1, ANT336H1, ANT337H1, ANT338H1, ANT339H1, ANT390H1, ANT419H1, ANT430H1, ANT431H1, ANT433H1, ANT434H1, ANT435H1, ANT436H1, ANT437H1, ANT438H1, ANT481H1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1
Note 2Note: ANT390H1 may not be available in Course Group B, depending on the topic, which will vary from year to year.
Courses these requirements name
- BIO120H1Adaptation and Biodiversity
- ANT100Y1Introduction to Anthropology
- BIO220H1From Genomes to Ecosystems in a Changing World
- ANT203Y1Human Biology and Evolution: From Fossils to Genes
- ANT208H1Medical Anthropology: an Evolutionary Perspective on Human Health
- ANT333Y1Living Primate Adaptations
- ANT334H1Human Skeletal Biology last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- ANT334Y1Human Skeletal Biology
- ANT335Y1Human Evolution
- ANT336H1Evolutionary Anthropology Theory
- ANT406H1Lithic Analysis
- ANT415Y1Laboratory in Faunal Archaeo-Osteology
- ARH312Y1Archaeological Laboratory
- ANT210H1Anthropologists and Indigenous Peoples in North America
- ANT299Y1Research Opportunity Program
- ANT331H1Hormones and Behaviour: Biocultural Anthropological Perspectives
- ANT337H1Human Movement
- ANT338H1Molecular Anthropology and Human Evolution
- ANT339H1Evolutionary Medicine and Health: What does Anthropology have to do with it?
- ANT390H1Special Topics in Anthropology
- ANT419H1Current Debates in Palaeolithic Archaeology last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- ANT430H1Primate Conservation Biology
- ANT431H1The Real Planet of the Apes
- ANT433H1Female Biology, Gender, and Sex: Biocultural Evolutionary Approaches
- ANT434H1Health, Diet & Disease in the Past
- ANT435H1Anthropology of Childhood and Childcare
- ANT436H1Primate Ecology & Social Behavior
- ANT437H1Introduction to Virtual Anthropology
- ANT438H1Topics in Emerging Scholarship (Evolutionary Anthropology)
- ANT481H1Special Topics in Evolutionary Anthropology
- ANT491Y1Internship in Anthropology
- ANT491H1Internship in Anthropology
- ANT497Y1Independent Research
- ANT498H1Independent Research
- ANT499H1Independent Research
Anthropology Major (General)
- Arts program
- 6.5 credits
- Limited enrolment
- ASMAJ1775
Enrolment
This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol. The full enrolment requirements are on the Calendar's page for this program.
Completion requirements
(6.5 credits)
First and/or Second Year:
1ANT100Y1
2ANT207H1
31.0 credit from ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1, ANT203Y1
40.5 credit from ANT204H1, ANT205H1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT253H1
Upper Years:
52.5 credits at the 300+ level from either Group A, B or C, or Subgroups C(i) or C(ii), including at least one 0.5 credit at the 400-level.
61.0 additional credit from a Group other than that used to meet requirement #5
Note 1Note: ANT courses are those offered with the following prefixes: ANT, ARH, INS, JAL, JAA, and JGA.
Group A: Archaeology ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1, ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT299Y1, ANT311Y1, ANT315H1, ANT317H1, ANT318H1, ANT320H1, ANT325H1, ANT390H1, ANT405H1, ANT406H1, ANT407H1, ANT408H1, ANT409H1, ANT411H1, ANT412H1, ANT416H1, ANT420H1, ANT437H1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, ARH205H1/ ARH305H1, ARH306Y1, ARH309H1, ARH360H1, ARH312Y1, ARH361H1, ARH361Y1, ARH440H1, ARH482H1, ARH494H1, ARH495H1, MCS225Y1
Note 2Note: ANT390H1 may be placed in either Group A or B or C depending on the topic which will vary from year to year
Group B: Evolutionary ANT203Y1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT299Y1, ANT331H1, ANT333Y1, ANT334H1/ ANT334Y1, ANT335Y1, ANT336H1, ANT337H1, ANT338H1, ANT339H1, ANT390H1, ANT419H1, ANT430H1, ANT431H1, ANT433H1, ANT434H1, ANT435H1, ANT436H1, ANT437H1, ANT438H1, ANT481H1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1
Note 3Note: ANT390H1 may be placed in either Group A or B or C depending on the topic which will vary from year to year.
Group C: Society, Culture, and Language ANT204H1, ANT205H1, ANT207H1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT299Y1, ANT324H1, ANT342H1, ANT343H1, ANT344H1, ANT345H1, ANT346H1, ANT347H1, ANT348H1, ANT352H1, ANT354H1, ANT356H1, ANT357H1, ANT358H1, ANT359H1, ANT362H1, ANT364H1, ANT366H1, ANT370H1, ANT374H1, ANT376H1, ANT378H1, ANT380H1, ANT382H1, ANT384H1, ANT385H1, ANT386H1, ANT390H1, ANT426H1, ANT435H1, ANT441H1, ANT442H1, ANT446H1, ANT453H1, ANT456H1, ANT460H1, ANT461H1, ANT462H1, ANT463H1, ANT464H1, ANT465H1, ANT473H1, ANT475H1, ANT480H1, ANT484H1, ANT485H1, ANT486H1, ANT488H1, ANT490Y1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, JAA377H1, JAH391Y0, JAH391H1, JNH350H1, AFR250Y1, NMC356H1, MCS225Y1
Note 4Note: ANT390H1 may be placed in either Group A or B or C depending on the topic which will vary from year to year.
Subgroup C (i): (Society, Culture and Language - Area) ANT455H1, ANT458H1, ANT472H1, AFR298H1, CAR316H1, NMC241H1
Subgroup C (ii): (Society, Culture and Language - Linguistic) ANT253H1, ANT329H1, ANT425H1, ANT443H1, ANT483H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, JAL328H1, JAL355H1, JAL401H1, SLA380H1
Courses these requirements name
- ANT100Y1Introduction to Anthropology
- ANT207H1Core Concepts in Social and Cultural Anthropology
- ANT200Y1Introduction to Archaeology
- ARH100Y1Introduction to Archaeology
- ANT203Y1Human Biology and Evolution: From Fossils to Genes
- ANT204H1Social Cultural Anthropology and Global Issues
- ANT205H1Medical Anthropology: Sociocultural Perspectives on Illness, Medicine and Care
- ANT208H1Medical Anthropology: an Evolutionary Perspective on Human Health
- ANT210H1Anthropologists and Indigenous Peoples in North America
- ANT215H1Fight the Power!: A Global History of Resistance and Revolution
- ANT253H1Language & Society
- ANT299Y1Research Opportunity Program
- ANT311Y1Archaeological Fieldwork
- ANT315H1Arctic Archaeology
- ANT317H1Archaeology of Eastern North America
- ANT318H1The Preindustrial City and Urban Social Theory
- ANT320H1Ancient Cultures of the Andes
- ANT325H1Indigenous Archaeologies
- ANT390H1Special Topics in Anthropology
- ANT405H1African Diaspora Archaeology
- ANT406H1Lithic Analysis
- ANT407H1Inka and Aztec States
- ANT408H1The History Lab: Applied Methods in Historical Archaeology
- ANT409H1Landscape Archaeology
- ANT411H1Advanced Archaeological Theory
- ANT412H1Historical Archaeology
- ANT416H1Archaeology of Ritual and Identity
- ANT420H1Archaeology of Inequality
- ANT437H1Introduction to Virtual Anthropology
- ANT491Y1Internship in Anthropology
- ANT491H1Internship in Anthropology
- ANT497Y1Independent Research
- ANT498H1Independent Research
- ANT499H1Independent Research
- ARH205H1Archaeological Inference
- ARH305H1Archaeological Interpretation last in the 2021-2022 Calendar
- ARH306Y1Archaeological Field Methods
- ARH309H1Archaeology, Ethics, and the Public
- ARH360H1Prehistory of the Near East
- ARH312Y1Archaeological Laboratory
- ARH361H1Field Archaeology
- ARH361Y1Field Archaeology
- ARH440H1Photogrammetry and 3D Analysis of Material Culture last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- ARH482H1Special Topics in Archaeology
- ARH494H1Topics in Emerging Scholarship (Archaeology)
- ARH495H1Archaeology Research Practicum
- MCS225Y1A History of the World in Objects and Signs
- ANT331H1Hormones and Behaviour: Biocultural Anthropological Perspectives
- ANT333Y1Living Primate Adaptations
- ANT334H1Human Skeletal Biology last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- ANT334Y1Human Skeletal Biology
- ANT335Y1Human Evolution
- ANT336H1Evolutionary Anthropology Theory
- ANT337H1Human Movement
- ANT338H1Molecular Anthropology and Human Evolution
- ANT339H1Evolutionary Medicine and Health: What does Anthropology have to do with it?
- ANT419H1Current Debates in Palaeolithic Archaeology last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- ANT430H1Primate Conservation Biology
- ANT431H1The Real Planet of the Apes
- ANT433H1Female Biology, Gender, and Sex: Biocultural Evolutionary Approaches
- ANT434H1Health, Diet & Disease in the Past
- ANT435H1Anthropology of Childhood and Childcare
- ANT436H1Primate Ecology & Social Behavior
- ANT438H1Topics in Emerging Scholarship (Evolutionary Anthropology)
- ANT481H1Special Topics in Evolutionary Anthropology
- ANT324H1Tourism & Globalization
- ANT342H1Anthropology of Race and Racism
- ANT343H1What is Gender? Anthropological Perspectives
- ANT344H1Political Anthropology
- ANT345H1Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives
- ANT346H1Anthropology of Food
- ANT347H1Metropolis: Global Cities
- ANT348H1Medical Anthropology: Health, Power and Politics
- ANT352H1Anthropology of Life and Death
- ANT354H1Right-Wing Nationalisms
- ANT356H1Anthropology of Religion
- ANT357H1Social Worlds of Medicine and Care
- ANT358H1Medical Anthropology and Social Justice
- ANT359H1Multispecies Ethnography
- ANT362H1Sports and Play
- ANT364H1Advocating Environmental and Climate Justice
- ANT366H1Anthropology of Activism and Social Justice
- ANT370H1Introduction to Social Anthropological Theory
- ANT374H1Rethinking Development, or the Improvement of the World
- ANT376H1Anthropology of Animals
- ANT378H1Gift, Money, and Finance
- ANT380H1Craft of Social/Cultural Anthropology
- ANT382H1Special Topics in Biocultural Medical Anthropology
- ANT384H1Special Topics in Society, Culture and Language
- ANT385H1Special Topics in Sociocultural Medical Anthropology
- ANT386H1Global Catholicism: Anthropological Approaches
- ANT426H1‘The West’ and Its Others
- ANT441H1Love, Sex, and Marriage
- ANT442H1Social Studies of Autism
- ANT446H1Anthropology of Aging, Health, and Care
- ANT453H1Anthropology Through the Novel
- ANT456H1Queer Ethnography
- ANT460H1Global Perspectives on Women's Health
- ANT461H1Literary Anthropology
- ANT462H1Anthropology of Affect
- ANT463H1Anthropology of Racial Capitalism and Dispossession
- ANT464H1Black Ethnographies
- ANT465H1Ethnographic Practicum: Toronto Tours
- ANT473H1Ethnographic Practicum: The University
- ANT475H1Reading Ethnography
- ANT480H1Special Topics in Anthropological Research
- ANT484H1Special Topics in Social Cultural Anthropology
- ANT485H1Topics in Emerging Scholarship (Society, Culture and Language)
- ANT486H1Special Topics: Socio-Cultural Research Seminar
- ANT488H1Special Topics in Medical Anthropology
- ANT490Y1Field Course in Social and Cultural Anthropology
- JAA377H1Black Radical Theory from the Global South: Anthropological Perspectives
- JAH391Y0Topics in Anthropology and History last in the 2022-2023 Calendar
- JAH391H1Topics in Anthropology and History last in the 2022-2023 Calendar
- JNH350H1AIDS : Challenges and Successes last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- AFR250Y1Africa in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
- NMC356H1Anthropology of Islam last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- ANT455H1Ethnographic Approaches to the Middle East and North Africa
- ANT458H1Indigenous Health Histories and Canadian Settler Colonialism
- ANT472H1Japan in Global Context: Anthropological Perspectives
- AFR298H1Popular Uprisings in Africa
- CAR316H1Caribbean Religions
- NMC241H1Anthropology of the Middle East
- ANT329H1Language & Power Structure
- ANT425H1Language in Anthropological Thought
- ANT443H1Listen to the land; write like the water
- ANT483H1Special Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
- JAL328H1Writing Systems
- JAL355H1Language and Gender
- JAL401H1Field Linguistics
- SLA380H1Language, Politics, Identity last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
Anthropology Major (Society, Culture, and Language)
- Arts program
- 6.5 credits
- Limited enrolment
- ASMAJ2112
Enrolment
This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol. The full enrolment requirements are on the Calendar's page for this program.
Completion requirements
(6.5 credits including at least 2.0 credits at the 300+ level and at least 1.0 credit at the 400-level)
First and/or Second Year:
1ANT207H1
2ANT204H1 or ANT205H1 or ANT210H1 or ANT253H1
Upper Years:
3ANT370H1 or ANT425H1
45.0 additional credits from Group C, or Subgroup C(i) or C(ii), including at least 1.0 credit at the 400-level. Students who want to focus more specifically on the role of language in culture and society should take ANT253H1, ANT425H1, and courses in Subgroup C (ii).
Note 1Note: ANT courses are those offered with the following prefixes: ANT, ARH, INS, JAA, JAL, and JGA.
Group C: Society, Culture, and Language ANT204H1, ANT205H1, ANT207H1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT299Y1, ANT324H1, ANT342H1, ANT343H1, ANT344H1, ANT345H1, ANT346H1, ANT347H1, ANT348H1, ANT352H1, ANT354H1, ANT356H1, ANT357H1, ANT358H1, ANT359H1, ANT362H1, ANT364H1, ANT366H1, ANT370H1, ANT374H1, ANT376H1, ANT378H1, ANT380H1, ANT382H1, ANT384H1, ANT385H1, ANT386H1, ANT390H1, ANT426H1, ANT435H1, ANT441H1, ANT442H1, ANT446H1, ANT453H1, ANT456H1, ANT460H1, ANT461H1, ANT462H1, ANT463H1, ANT464H1, ANT465H1, ANT473H1, ANT475H1, ANT480H1, ANT484H1, ANT485H1, ANT486H1, ANT488H1, ANT490Y1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, JAA377H1, JAH391Y0, JAH391H1, JNH350H1, AFR250Y1, NMC356H1, MCS225Y1
Note 2Note: ANT390H1 may be placed in a different Course Group depending on the topic, which will vary from year to year.
Subgroup C (i): (Society, Culture and Language - Area) ANT455H1, ANT458H1, ANT472H1, AFR298H1, CAR316H1, NMC241H1
Subgroup C (ii): (Society, Culture and Language - Linguistic) ANT253H1, ANT329H1, ANT425H1, ANT443H1, ANT483H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, JAL328H1, JAL355H1, JAL401H1, SLA380H1
Courses these requirements name
- ANT207H1Core Concepts in Social and Cultural Anthropology
- ANT204H1Social Cultural Anthropology and Global Issues
- ANT205H1Medical Anthropology: Sociocultural Perspectives on Illness, Medicine and Care
- ANT210H1Anthropologists and Indigenous Peoples in North America
- ANT253H1Language & Society
- ANT370H1Introduction to Social Anthropological Theory
- ANT425H1Language in Anthropological Thought
- ANT208H1Medical Anthropology: an Evolutionary Perspective on Human Health
- ANT215H1Fight the Power!: A Global History of Resistance and Revolution
- ANT299Y1Research Opportunity Program
- ANT324H1Tourism & Globalization
- ANT342H1Anthropology of Race and Racism
- ANT343H1What is Gender? Anthropological Perspectives
- ANT344H1Political Anthropology
- ANT345H1Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives
- ANT346H1Anthropology of Food
- ANT347H1Metropolis: Global Cities
- ANT348H1Medical Anthropology: Health, Power and Politics
- ANT352H1Anthropology of Life and Death
- ANT354H1Right-Wing Nationalisms
- ANT356H1Anthropology of Religion
- ANT357H1Social Worlds of Medicine and Care
- ANT358H1Medical Anthropology and Social Justice
- ANT359H1Multispecies Ethnography
- ANT362H1Sports and Play
- ANT364H1Advocating Environmental and Climate Justice
- ANT366H1Anthropology of Activism and Social Justice
- ANT374H1Rethinking Development, or the Improvement of the World
- ANT376H1Anthropology of Animals
- ANT378H1Gift, Money, and Finance
- ANT380H1Craft of Social/Cultural Anthropology
- ANT382H1Special Topics in Biocultural Medical Anthropology
- ANT384H1Special Topics in Society, Culture and Language
- ANT385H1Special Topics in Sociocultural Medical Anthropology
- ANT386H1Global Catholicism: Anthropological Approaches
- ANT390H1Special Topics in Anthropology
- ANT426H1‘The West’ and Its Others
- ANT435H1Anthropology of Childhood and Childcare
- ANT441H1Love, Sex, and Marriage
- ANT442H1Social Studies of Autism
- ANT446H1Anthropology of Aging, Health, and Care
- ANT453H1Anthropology Through the Novel
- ANT456H1Queer Ethnography
- ANT460H1Global Perspectives on Women's Health
- ANT461H1Literary Anthropology
- ANT462H1Anthropology of Affect
- ANT463H1Anthropology of Racial Capitalism and Dispossession
- ANT464H1Black Ethnographies
- ANT465H1Ethnographic Practicum: Toronto Tours
- ANT473H1Ethnographic Practicum: The University
- ANT475H1Reading Ethnography
- ANT480H1Special Topics in Anthropological Research
- ANT484H1Special Topics in Social Cultural Anthropology
- ANT485H1Topics in Emerging Scholarship (Society, Culture and Language)
- ANT486H1Special Topics: Socio-Cultural Research Seminar
- ANT488H1Special Topics in Medical Anthropology
- ANT490Y1Field Course in Social and Cultural Anthropology
- ANT491Y1Internship in Anthropology
- ANT491H1Internship in Anthropology
- ANT497Y1Independent Research
- ANT498H1Independent Research
- ANT499H1Independent Research
- JAA377H1Black Radical Theory from the Global South: Anthropological Perspectives
- JAH391Y0Topics in Anthropology and History last in the 2022-2023 Calendar
- JAH391H1Topics in Anthropology and History last in the 2022-2023 Calendar
- JNH350H1AIDS : Challenges and Successes last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- AFR250Y1Africa in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
- NMC356H1Anthropology of Islam last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- MCS225Y1A History of the World in Objects and Signs
- ANT455H1Ethnographic Approaches to the Middle East and North Africa
- ANT458H1Indigenous Health Histories and Canadian Settler Colonialism
- ANT472H1Japan in Global Context: Anthropological Perspectives
- AFR298H1Popular Uprisings in Africa
- CAR316H1Caribbean Religions
- NMC241H1Anthropology of the Middle East
- ANT329H1Language & Power Structure
- ANT443H1Listen to the land; write like the water
- ANT483H1Special Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
- JAL328H1Writing Systems
- JAL355H1Language and Gender
- JAL401H1Field Linguistics
- SLA380H1Language, Politics, Identity last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
Anthropology Minor (General)
- Arts program
- 4.0 credits
- Limited enrolment
- ASMIN1775
Enrolment
This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol. The full enrolment requirements are on the Calendar's page for this program.
Completion requirements
(4.0 credits including at least 1.0 credit at the 300-level)
First and/or Second Year:
1ANT100Y1
22.0 credits from ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1, ANT203Y1, ANT204H1, ANT205H1, ANT207H1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT253H1
Upper Years:
31.0 credit at the 300+ level from either Group A, B, or C, or Subgroup C(i) or C(ii)
Note 1Note: ANT courses are those offered with the following prefixes: ANT, ARH, INS, JAA, JAL, and JGA.
Group A: Archaeology ANT200Y1/ ARH100Y1, ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT299Y1, ANT311Y1, ANT315H1, ANT317H1, ANT318H1, ANT320H1, ANT325H1, ANT390H1, ANT405H1, ANT406H1, ANT407H1, ANT408H1, ANT409H1, ANT411H1, ANT412H1, ANT416H1, ANT420H1, ANT437H1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, ARH205H1/ ARH305H1, ARH306Y1, ARH309H1, ARH360H1, ARH312Y1, ARH361H1, ARH361Y1, ARH440H1, ARH482H1, ARH494H1, ARH495H1, MCS225Y1
Note 2Note: ANT390H1 may be placed in either Group A or B or C depending on the topic which will vary from year to year
Group B: Evolutionary ANT203Y1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT299Y1, ANT331H1, ANT333Y1, ANT334H1/ ANT334Y1, ANT335Y1, ANT336H1, ANT337H1, ANT338H1, ANT339H1, ANT390H1, ANT419H1, ANT430H1, ANT431H1, ANT433H1, ANT434H1, ANT435H1, ANT436H1, ANT437H1, ANT438H1, ANT481H1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1
Note 3Note: ANT390H1 may be placed in either Group A or B or C depending on the topic which will vary from year to year.
Group C: Society, Culture, and Language ANT204H1, ANT205H1, ANT207H1, ANT208H1, ANT210H1, ANT215H1, ANT299Y1, ANT324H1, ANT342H1, ANT343H1, ANT344H1, ANT345H1, ANT346H1, ANT347H1, ANT348H1, ANT352H1, ANT354H1, ANT356H1, ANT357H1, ANT358H1, ANT359H1, ANT362H1, ANT364H1, ANT366H1, ANT370H1, ANT374H1, ANT376H1, ANT378H1, ANT380H1, ANT382H1, ANT384H1, ANT385H1, ANT386H1, ANT390H1, ANT426H1, ANT435H1, ANT441H1, ANT442H1, ANT446H1, ANT453H1, ANT456H1, ANT460H1, ANT461H1, ANT462H1, ANT463H1, ANT464H1, ANT465H1, ANT473H1, ANT475H1, ANT480H1, ANT484H1, ANT485H1, ANT486H1, ANT488H1, ANT490Y1, ANT491Y1, ANT491H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, JAA377H1, JAH391Y0, JAH391H1, JNH350H1, AFR250Y1, NMC356H1, MCS225Y1
Note 4Note: ANT390H1 may be placed in either Group A or B or C depending on the topic which will vary from year to year.
Subgroup C (i): (Society, Culture and Language - Area) ANT455H1, ANT458H1, ANT472H1, AFR298H1, CAR316H1, NMC241H1
Subgroup C (ii): (Society, Culture and Language - Linguistic) ANT253H1, ANT329H1, ANT425H1, ANT443H1, ANT483H1, ANT497Y1, ANT498H1, ANT499H1, JAL328H1, JAL355H1, JAL401H1, SLA380H1
Courses these requirements name
- ANT100Y1Introduction to Anthropology
- ANT200Y1Introduction to Archaeology
- ARH100Y1Introduction to Archaeology
- ANT203Y1Human Biology and Evolution: From Fossils to Genes
- ANT204H1Social Cultural Anthropology and Global Issues
- ANT205H1Medical Anthropology: Sociocultural Perspectives on Illness, Medicine and Care
- ANT207H1Core Concepts in Social and Cultural Anthropology
- ANT208H1Medical Anthropology: an Evolutionary Perspective on Human Health
- ANT210H1Anthropologists and Indigenous Peoples in North America
- ANT215H1Fight the Power!: A Global History of Resistance and Revolution
- ANT253H1Language & Society
- ANT299Y1Research Opportunity Program
- ANT311Y1Archaeological Fieldwork
- ANT315H1Arctic Archaeology
- ANT317H1Archaeology of Eastern North America
- ANT318H1The Preindustrial City and Urban Social Theory
- ANT320H1Ancient Cultures of the Andes
- ANT325H1Indigenous Archaeologies
- ANT390H1Special Topics in Anthropology
- ANT405H1African Diaspora Archaeology
- ANT406H1Lithic Analysis
- ANT407H1Inka and Aztec States
- ANT408H1The History Lab: Applied Methods in Historical Archaeology
- ANT409H1Landscape Archaeology
- ANT411H1Advanced Archaeological Theory
- ANT412H1Historical Archaeology
- ANT416H1Archaeology of Ritual and Identity
- ANT420H1Archaeology of Inequality
- ANT437H1Introduction to Virtual Anthropology
- ANT491Y1Internship in Anthropology
- ANT491H1Internship in Anthropology
- ANT497Y1Independent Research
- ANT498H1Independent Research
- ANT499H1Independent Research
- ARH205H1Archaeological Inference
- ARH305H1Archaeological Interpretation last in the 2021-2022 Calendar
- ARH306Y1Archaeological Field Methods
- ARH309H1Archaeology, Ethics, and the Public
- ARH360H1Prehistory of the Near East
- ARH312Y1Archaeological Laboratory
- ARH361H1Field Archaeology
- ARH361Y1Field Archaeology
- ARH440H1Photogrammetry and 3D Analysis of Material Culture last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- ARH482H1Special Topics in Archaeology
- ARH494H1Topics in Emerging Scholarship (Archaeology)
- ARH495H1Archaeology Research Practicum
- MCS225Y1A History of the World in Objects and Signs
- ANT331H1Hormones and Behaviour: Biocultural Anthropological Perspectives
- ANT333Y1Living Primate Adaptations
- ANT334H1Human Skeletal Biology last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- ANT334Y1Human Skeletal Biology
- ANT335Y1Human Evolution
- ANT336H1Evolutionary Anthropology Theory
- ANT337H1Human Movement
- ANT338H1Molecular Anthropology and Human Evolution
- ANT339H1Evolutionary Medicine and Health: What does Anthropology have to do with it?
- ANT419H1Current Debates in Palaeolithic Archaeology last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- ANT430H1Primate Conservation Biology
- ANT431H1The Real Planet of the Apes
- ANT433H1Female Biology, Gender, and Sex: Biocultural Evolutionary Approaches
- ANT434H1Health, Diet & Disease in the Past
- ANT435H1Anthropology of Childhood and Childcare
- ANT436H1Primate Ecology & Social Behavior
- ANT438H1Topics in Emerging Scholarship (Evolutionary Anthropology)
- ANT481H1Special Topics in Evolutionary Anthropology
- ANT324H1Tourism & Globalization
- ANT342H1Anthropology of Race and Racism
- ANT343H1What is Gender? Anthropological Perspectives
- ANT344H1Political Anthropology
- ANT345H1Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives
- ANT346H1Anthropology of Food
- ANT347H1Metropolis: Global Cities
- ANT348H1Medical Anthropology: Health, Power and Politics
- ANT352H1Anthropology of Life and Death
- ANT354H1Right-Wing Nationalisms
- ANT356H1Anthropology of Religion
- ANT357H1Social Worlds of Medicine and Care
- ANT358H1Medical Anthropology and Social Justice
- ANT359H1Multispecies Ethnography
- ANT362H1Sports and Play
- ANT364H1Advocating Environmental and Climate Justice
- ANT366H1Anthropology of Activism and Social Justice
- ANT370H1Introduction to Social Anthropological Theory
- ANT374H1Rethinking Development, or the Improvement of the World
- ANT376H1Anthropology of Animals
- ANT378H1Gift, Money, and Finance
- ANT380H1Craft of Social/Cultural Anthropology
- ANT382H1Special Topics in Biocultural Medical Anthropology
- ANT384H1Special Topics in Society, Culture and Language
- ANT385H1Special Topics in Sociocultural Medical Anthropology
- ANT386H1Global Catholicism: Anthropological Approaches
- ANT426H1‘The West’ and Its Others
- ANT441H1Love, Sex, and Marriage
- ANT442H1Social Studies of Autism
- ANT446H1Anthropology of Aging, Health, and Care
- ANT453H1Anthropology Through the Novel
- ANT456H1Queer Ethnography
- ANT460H1Global Perspectives on Women's Health
- ANT461H1Literary Anthropology
- ANT462H1Anthropology of Affect
- ANT463H1Anthropology of Racial Capitalism and Dispossession
- ANT464H1Black Ethnographies
- ANT465H1Ethnographic Practicum: Toronto Tours
- ANT473H1Ethnographic Practicum: The University
- ANT475H1Reading Ethnography
- ANT480H1Special Topics in Anthropological Research
- ANT484H1Special Topics in Social Cultural Anthropology
- ANT485H1Topics in Emerging Scholarship (Society, Culture and Language)
- ANT486H1Special Topics: Socio-Cultural Research Seminar
- ANT488H1Special Topics in Medical Anthropology
- ANT490Y1Field Course in Social and Cultural Anthropology
- JAA377H1Black Radical Theory from the Global South: Anthropological Perspectives
- JAH391Y0Topics in Anthropology and History last in the 2022-2023 Calendar
- JAH391H1Topics in Anthropology and History last in the 2022-2023 Calendar
- JNH350H1AIDS : Challenges and Successes last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- AFR250Y1Africa in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
- NMC356H1Anthropology of Islam last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
- ANT455H1Ethnographic Approaches to the Middle East and North Africa
- ANT458H1Indigenous Health Histories and Canadian Settler Colonialism
- ANT472H1Japan in Global Context: Anthropological Perspectives
- AFR298H1Popular Uprisings in Africa
- CAR316H1Caribbean Religions
- NMC241H1Anthropology of the Middle East
- ANT329H1Language & Power Structure
- ANT425H1Language in Anthropological Thought
- ANT443H1Listen to the land; write like the water
- ANT483H1Special Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
- JAL328H1Writing Systems
- JAL355H1Language and Gender
- JAL401H1Field Linguistics
- SLA380H1Language, Politics, Identity last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
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