Anthropology
Cross-listing
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Anthropology Department Criteria for Cross-Listing Courses
Faculty, programs, or departments interested in cross-listing a course with Anthropology should submit a course syllabus (or minimally, a course description) with responses to the criteria required for an Anthropology course. To be considered, please briefly describe how the course meets each criterion:
- centers humans (or, in the occasional case, other primates), whether as producers of language, material culture, meaning, social structures, in multi-species relations, or as biocultural animals.
- situates human activity comparatively, across known cultures, biological variations, varied ecosystems, or through time. This applies even when zeroing in on a specific region or aspect.
- makes meaningful connections with the body of knowledge and theory of one or more of the following subfields:
- Archaeological: i.e. past human lifeways, material culture, spatial analysis;
- Biological: i.e. human & primate evolution, adaptation, variation;
- Cultural: i.e. relativism, holism, folklore, social structures;
- Linguistic: i.e. language and culture, discourse, sociolinguistics.
Requests for new and renewing cross-listings should be submitted each year no later than Block 4; include the syllabus from the most recent version of the course as applicable.
Departmental approval is the final criterion necessary to implement the cross-listing.
Regardless of the level at which courses are taught in sponsoring departments or programs, Anthropology does not cross-list above the 200-level.
Rev. January 2026
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Last updated: 02/05/2026