Anthropology at University of Illinois Chicago

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 101World Cultures: Introduction to Social Anthropologyopens 10 courses (9.5 directly)
• ANTH 102Introduction to Archaeologyopens 9 courses (8.5 directly)
• ANTH 105Human Evolutionopens 5 courses (5 directly)
• ANTH 500Social and Cultural Theory I.opens 5 courses (5 directly)
• ANTH 237The Human Skeletonopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• ANTH 502Theory and Method in Archaeologyopens 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 62 ANTH and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 40 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.

• 2 courses deep, ending at ANTH 200

  1. ANTH 101World Cultures: Introduction to Social Anthropology
  2. ANTH 200Anthropological Theory

• 2 courses deep, ending at ANTH 201

  1. GLAS 100Introduction to Global Asian Studies
  2. ANTH 201Asian Markets, Corporations, and Social Justice

• 2 courses deep, ending at ANTH 208

  1. ENGL 161Academic Writing II: Writing for Inquiry and Research
  2. ANTH 208Virtual Lives: Science, Technology, and Culture

• 2 courses deep, ending at ANTH 220

  1. ANTH 102Introduction to Archaeology
  2. ANTH 220Method and Theory in Archaeology

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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