CAS AN at Boston University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate CAS AN coursework.

• CAS AN 102Human Biology, Behavior, and Evolutionopens 9 courses (9 directly)
• CAS AN 101Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropologyopens 1 course (1 directly)
• CAS AN 233The Evolutionary Biology of Human Variationopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate CAS AN work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 20 CAS AN and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 68 more CAS AN courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in CAS AN. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at CAS AN 519

  1. CAS AR 307Archaeological Science
  2. CAS AN 519Theory and Method in Environmental Archaeology

• 2 courses deep, ending at CAS AN 521

  1. CAS LX 250Introduction to Linguistics
  2. CAS AN 521Sociolinguistics

• 2 courses deep, ending at CAS AN 550

  1. CAS AN 102Human Biology, Behavior, and Evolution
  2. CAS AN 550Human Osteology

• 2 courses deep, ending at CAS AN 717

  1. CAS AN 101Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
  2. CAS AN 717Power and Society in the Middle East

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for CAS AN yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under CAS AN yet.

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Department events

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