ARCL 140 | Bones: The Origins of Humanity
Instructor: Dr. Heather Robertson
Summer 2025
Mondays and Wednesdays
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Description:
This course introduces evolutionary theory, genetic processes of evolutionary change, and various human and animal adaptive strategies. We will cover a variety of methods and techniques scientists use in human evolution studies such as genetic analysis, fossil classification, human osteology, and primate behavioural studies. Throughout this course, we will integrate the latest research and ethical considerations in studying what it means to be human, from our biology to our behaviour.
This course serves as a science credit for Arts students as well as an arts credit for Science students
ANTH 518A: Museum Methods
Instructor: Dr. Naomi Kawamura
Summer 2025
July 14 – July 19, 2025 | 9:30 am – 3:30 pm
Description:
Analytical approaches to the study of museums and collections. Methods of field collecting, collections research, laboratory procedures, visitor studies, social organization of museum and related cultural industries, exhibit and program evaluation techniques and the ethics of museum research and practice. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.
ANTH 435: The Japanese Tea Ceremony – Ethnography of Practice, Performance & Ritual
Instructor: Dr. Milllie Creighton
Summer 2025
Monday & Wednesday 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Description:
An exploration of Chanoyu, Japanese Tea Practice, as a culturally embedded ritual, performance, and aesthetic form, and as a way of understanding underlying elements of Japanese culture. This course has a studio component and a nominal fee may be charged.
ANTH 378: Anthropology of Media
Instructor: Dr. Amirpouyan Shiva
Summer 2025
Tuesdays & Thursdays 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Multi-Access
Description:
How do media shape our lives—and how do we, in turn, shape media?
In Anthropology of Media (ANTH 378), we explore the cultural dimensions of media production and consumption—from social media and film to street art and classical painting. Through ethnographic studies, we examine how media mediate power, attention, activism, and identity across different societies.
This multi-access course features lectures, interactive discussions, and hands-on projects. You’ll engage key theories and critically analyze contemporary media landscapes.
Join us to rethink what counts as “media,” question how technologies shape our realities, and sharpen analytical skills relevant across disciplines. Whether you’re interested in anthropology, media studies, or cultural critique, this course offers a fresh lens on the mediated world around you.
Analysis of contemporary mass media and of the anthropological use of media (photography, film, digital audio and video, etc.).
Multi-Access Course Delivery
This is a multi-access course. Learners can join in-person or online, for all or some class meetings.
ANTH 360: Introduction to Ecological Anthropology
Instructor: Dr. Tracey Heatherington
Summer 2025
Mondays & Wednesdays 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Hybrid
Description:
From climate justice and food sovereignty to Standing Rock and Extinction Rebellion, today’s anthropologists engage many important debates related to culture and environment. This course introduces how we understand human ecology and environmental issues “from the bottom up”, in the context of rooted histories and living cultures. Looking at case studies of resource extraction, climate change, biodiversity conservation, agricultural adaptation, ecotourism and attempts to “green” the economy, we will explore how ethnographic methods support indigenous and local perspectives around the world, as people perceive, challenge and reshape the global processes and structural inequalities that affect them and their home places.
Hybrid Course Delivery:
Our hybrid course delivery includes required class activities in person, as well as some activities online. To reduce the ecological footprint, we will be in person on Monday, and online on Wednesday. However, this course offering cannot be completed entirely by remote, and real-time participation is expected.
Sex, Love and Migration – Russian Translation (2024)
Sex, Love, and Migration
Postsocialism, Modernity. and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic
Alexia Bloch
Russian Translation published by Academic Studies Press (2024)