Semester 1fall
Building the department map…
Building the department map…
Department paths
Courses with no prerequisites inside the department that unlock the most downstream work.
The shortest canonical route from each entry point to a gateway course.
A suggested order for the 9 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.
Semester 1fall
Generated from University of Pennsylvania’s catalog, prerequisite, and concentration data. Spotted an error? Departments can adjust labels, ordering, and notes without a code change, so contact us.
Semester 2spring
Semester 3fall
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.
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 9 ANTH and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 611 more ANTH courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.
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.
Major Requirements2 required · verify with the official sheet
Block I: Introductory Courses; Block II; Select 1 course unit in Archaeology:; Attribute AAAR - Archaeology; Select 1 course unit in Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology:; Attribute AACL - Cultural and Linguistics; Block III; Select 1 course unit in Biological Anthropology:; Attribute AABI - Biological Anthropology; Select 2 course units in Anthropology; Attribute AAAR - Archaeology; Attribute AAC
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Block I: Introductory Courses; Block II: Fundamentals; Block III; Select 3 course units from approved list:; Attribute AAMA - Medical Anthropology; Select 2 course units in Anthropology; Attribute AAAR - Archaeology; Attribute AACL - Cultural and Linguistic; Attribute AABI - Biological Anthropology; Attribute AAEA - Environmental Anthropology; Attribute AAMA - Medical Anthropology; Attribute AAAR;
Major Requirementsall required
Block I: Introductory courses; Block II; Select 1 course unit in Biological Anthropology; Attribute AABI - Biological Anthropology; Select 1 course unit in Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology; Attribute AACL - Cultural and Linguistics; Block III; Select 3 course units in Archaeology:; Attribute AAAR - Archaeology; Select 2 course units in Anthropology; Attribute AAAR - Archaeology; Attribute AACL
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Block I: Introductory Courses; Block II; Select 1 course unit in Biological Anthropology:; Attribute AABI - Biological Anthropology; Select 1 course unit in Archaeology; Attribute AAAR - Archaeology; Block III; Select 3 course units in Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology:; Attribute AACL - Cultural and Linguistics; Select 2 course units in Anthropology; Attribute AACL - Cultural and Linguistics;
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Block I: Introductory courses; Block II; Select 3 Foundation courses:; Attribute AAPE - Political Ecology; Attribute AAST - Science, Technology, and Environment; Attribute AAMW - Material Worlds, Landscapes, Archaeology; Attribute AABE - Biology, Environment, Health; Block III; Select 2 courses from the approved list:; Attribute AAEA - Environmental Anthropology; Select 2 course units in Anthropol
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Block I: Introductory Courses; Block II; Select 1 Archaeology Courses:; Attribute AAAR - Archaeology; Select 1 Biological Anthropology Courses:; Attribute AABI - Biological Anthropology; Select 1 Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology:; Attribute AACL - Cultural and Linguistics; Select 4 course units in Anthropology:; Attribute AAAR - Archeology; Attribute AACL - Cultural and Linguistic; Attribute A
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Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.
The deepest prerequisite chains in ANTH. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.
2 courses deep, ending at ANTH 3930
2 courses deep, ending at ANTH 6530
2 courses deep, ending at ANTH 7040
2 courses deep, ending at ANTH 7070
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All ANTH courses in the Penn catalog
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No clubs or organizations on record under ANTH yet.
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Anthropology does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Penn campus feed.