Anthropology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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 390Individual Studyopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• ANTH 440Human Paleontologyopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• ANTH 443Primate Form and Behavioropens 2 courses (2 directly)
• ANTH 495Honors Senior Thesis IIopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• ANTH 243Sociality of the Great Apesopens 1 course (1 directly)
• ANTH 347Human 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 56 ANTH and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 101 more ANTH 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 ANTH. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 4 courses deep, ending at ANTH 494

  1. ANTH 495Honors Senior Thesis II
  2. ANTH 390Individual Study
  3. ANTH 494Honors Senior Thesis I

• 3 courses deep, ending at ANTH 408

  1. ANTH 240Biological Anthropology
  2. ANTH 440Human Paleontology
  3. ANTH 408Human Evolutionary Anatomy

• 3 courses deep, ending at ANTH 438

  1. ANTH 102Human Origins and Culture
  2. ANTH 243Sociality of the Great Apes
  3. ANTH 438Primate Life History Evolution

• 3 courses deep, ending at ANTH 447

  1. ANTH 102Human Origins and Culture
  2. ANTH 347Human Osteology
  3. ANTH 447Advanced Skeletal Biology

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

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