ANTHR at Cornell University

A suggested order for the 20 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

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 ANTHR coursework.

• ANTHR 1101FWS: The Human Condition: Culture, Society, and Poweropens 1 course (1 directly)
• ANTHR 1300Human Evolution: Genes, Behavior, and the Fossil Recordopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ANTHR 1400The Comparison of Culturesopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ANTHR 2468Medicine, Culture, and Societyopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ANTHR 3000Introduction to Anthropological Theoryopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ANTHR 3235Bioarchaeologyopens 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 ANTHR 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 ANTHR and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 442 more ANTHR 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 ANTHR, 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 ANTHR. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at ANTHR 2482

  1. ANTHR 1400The Comparison of Cultures
  2. ANTHR 2482Anthropology of Climate Change

• 2 courses deep, ending at ANTHR 3390

  1. ANTHR 1300Human Evolution: Genes, Behavior, and the Fossil Record
  2. ANTHR 3390Primate Behavior and Ecology with Emphasis on African Apes

• 2 courses deep, ending at ANTHR 3430

  1. ANTHR 2468Medicine, Culture, and Society
  2. ANTHR 3430Heat Waves and Global Health: Environmental Justice and Social Autopsy in London and Beyond

• 2 courses deep, ending at ANTHR 3474

  1. ANTHR 1101FWS: The Human Condition: Culture, Society, and Power
  2. ANTHR 3474Infrastructure

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on ANTHR sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Adam Arcadi
• Andrew Willford
• Caitlin Barrett
• CAMILLE LOUIS
• Catherine Appert
• David Holmberg
• Jake Silver
• John Henderson
• Jolene Rickard
• Jonathan Boyarin
• Jordan Miller
• Kurt Jordan
• Lori Khatchadourian
• Lucinda Ramberg
• Magnus Fiskesjo
• Natasha Raheja
• Nerissa Russell
• Noah Tamarkin
• Paul Nadasdy
• Saida Hodzic
• Shaoling Ma
• Sofia Villenas
• Stacey Langwick
• Viranjini Munasinghe

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ANTHR yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

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