An introductory, hands-on, lab-focused course in human osteology. While methods-based, this course is a fundamentally anthropological one and as such emphasizes a biocultural and evolutionary perspective in the study of the human skeleton. Students learn all of the bones in the human body, their important landmarks, and their ossification processes. Students are also introduced to bioarchaeology, mortuary archaeology, and forensic anthropology.

An upper-division, hands-on, lab-based course meant to come after The Human Skeleton that introduces students to the field of paleopathology and the identification of disease and trauma in the skeleton. The course covers the process of differential diagnosis in skeletal remains, infectious disease, metabolic and endocrine disease, trauma, dental disease, and neoplastic disease. It also covers a number of important theoretical debates in the field and encourages students to think about the experience of disease in the past.

An upper-division seminar course that serves as an in-depth exploration of the ways in which humans have altered, decorated, and shaped their bodies through time. This course takes a biocultural as well as a material culture approach to the study of body arts. Topics covered include dress and fashion, jewelry and cosmetics, body modification practices, scarification and tattooing, body painting, dieting, and plastic surgery, among others.

This is an Introduction to Biological Anthropology course that focuses heavily on human evolution. It introduces students to evolutionary theory and its history, the genetic basis of evolution, primatology, paleoanthropology, and covers important and current issues in the field such as the peopling of the Americas, the ethics of genetic research and human remains research, and the biological race concept.

This upper-division seminar courses introduces students to the material culture and biological evidence for healing and medicinal practices in the archaeological past. It focuses heavily on Indigenous cultures and archaeological cultures outside of the greater Mediterranean world that are often excluded from broader discussions of the history of medicine and medical practice.