Anthropology at University of Colorado Boulder

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 ANTH coursework.

• ANTH 2100Introduction to Cultural Anthropologyopens 13 courses (13 directly)
• ANTH 2010Introduction to Biological Anthropology 1opens 10 courses (8.3 directly)
• ANTH 2200The Archaeology of Human Historyopens 8 courses (8 directly)
• ANTH 2020Human Biological Variation and Adaptationopens 4 courses (2.3 directly)
• ANTH 4130Advanced Osteologyopens 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 ANTH 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 39 ANTH and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 153 more ANTH courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on ANTH, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

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

The longest ladders

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

• 2 courses deep, ending at ANTH 3000

  1. ANTH 2010Introduction to Biological Anthropology 1
  2. ANTH 3000Primate Behavior

• 2 courses deep, ending at ANTH 3180

  1. ANTH 2100Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
  2. ANTH 3180Gender, Culture, and Sexuality

• 2 courses deep, ending at ANTH 4210

  1. ANTH 2200The Archaeology of Human History
  2. ANTH 4210Southwestern Archaeology

• 2 courses deep, ending at ANTH 5135

  1. ANTH 4130Advanced Osteology
  2. ANTH 5135Skeletons in the Closet: Curation and Care of Human Remains

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ANTH yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ANTH yet.

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Department events

Anthropology does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the CU Boulder campus feed.