UCLA Anthropology Courses

You are looking at Fall 2025. That term is over, so these are last term's numbers rather than seats you can take. dibs holds 1,964 sections for Fall 2025, read about 1 month ago. Separately, it has finished 527 of the 3,592 courses on its current checking list for this term. Future-term coverage is incomplete, so a course with nothing here may simply not have been reached yet. Back to Fall 2026

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117 courses

Grades awarded Fall 2021 to Fall 2025, every instructor,

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Lower division 9

Lower division courses in Anthropology
Course	Title	Predicted GPA	Fall 2025
1	Human Evolution GE	3.05 2,131 grades	not checked
2	Archaeology: Introduction GE	3.71 2,676 grades	not checked
3	Culture and Society GE	3.62 2,439 grades	not checked
4	Culture and Communication GE	3.79 2,902 grades	not checked
19	Denying to the Grave		not checked
M67W	Making and Studying Modern Middle East GE	3.28 115 grades	not checked
88S	Ecology of Love: Transdisciplinary Exploration of Love acrosss Scales		not checked
98T	Governing from Below in Latin America	3.87 33 grades	not checked
99	Student Research Program		not checked

Upper division 79

Upper division courses in Anthropology
Course	Title	Predicted GPA	Fall 2025
100	History of Anthropology	3.68 108 grades	not checked
110	Principles of Archaeology	3.73 360 grades	not checked
CM110Q	Introduction to Archaeological Sciences	3.73 108 grades	not checked
111	Theory in Anthropological Archaeology	3.30 188 grades	not checked
112S	Politics of Past	3.72 39 grades	not checked
113P	Archaeology of North America	3.90 141 grades	not checked
113Q	California Archaeology	3.23 55 grades	not checked
114P	Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica	3.25 50 grades	not checked
116P	Archaeology of South Asia	3.22 74 grades	not checked
116Q	Selected Topics in Archaeology of China	3.67 174 grades	not checked
116S	Selected Topics in Archaeology of Southeast Asia	3.73 158 grades	not checked
116XP	Collaborative and Community-Engaged Archaeology	3.97 148 grades	not checked
C117	Selected Laboratory Topics in Archaeology: Experimental Archaeology	3.68 67 grades	not checked
118Q	Conquest and Colonialism	3.87 519 grades	not checked
118R	Religion and Urbanism	3.46 40 grades	not checked
119	Selected Topics in Archaeology: Caribbean Archaeology	3.67 544 grades	not checked
120	Survey of Biological Anthropology	3.83 46 grades	not checked
124P	Human Behavioral Ecology	2.95 196 grades	not checked
124Q	Evolutionary Psychology	3.67 873 grades	not checked
M124R	Evolution of Language	3.61 60 grades	not checked
124S	Evolution of Human Sexual Behavior	2.93 373 grades	not checked
124T	Evolution of Personality	3.65 42 grades	not checked
126N	Genes, Disease, and Culture	3.79 253 grades	not checked
M126N	Genes, Disease, and Culture	3.66 502 grades	not checked
126P	Paleopathology	3.31 275 grades	not checked
126Q	Evolution of Genus Homo	3.32 108 grades	not checked
128P	Primate Behavior Nonhuman to Human	3.03 761 grades	1 section
M128T	Amazon in Anthropocene	3.83 38 grades	not checked
129	Selected Topics in Biological Anthropology	3.54 1,096 grades	not checked
130	Study of Culture	3.81 509 grades	10 sections
132	Anthropology of Environment	3.61 16 grades ·	not checked
133	Anthropology of Food	3.59 670 grades	not checked
134	Anthropology of Migration	3.38 29 grades	not checked
135	Visual Anthropology: Documentary Photography	3.67 168 grades	not checked
135R	Multimedia Ethnography	3.89 69 grades	not checked
135S	Sex, Race, and Difference in Transnational Film GE	3.80 494 grades	not checked
136A	Introduction to Psychological Anthropology: Historical Development	3.61 51 grades	not checked
136B	Introduction to Psychological Anthropology: Current Topics and Research	3.82 540 grades	not checked
136M	Medical Anthropology	3.89 183 grades	not checked
137P	Anthropology of Deviance and Abnormality	3.86 115 grades	not checked
138P	Field Methods in Cultural Anthropology	3.71 391 grades	not checked
139	Selected Topics in Cultural Anthropology: Anthropology of Extreme Human Experience	3.81 719 grades	not checked
140	Study of Social Systems	3.76 516 grades	not checked
141	Careers in Anthropology	3.84 384 grades	1 section
142Q	Ethnic and Religious Minorities	no grade history	not checked
143	Economic Anthropology	3.69 53 grades	not checked
C144M	Multispecies Anthropology	3.51 9 grades ·	not checked
M144P	Constructing Race	3.30 178 grades	not checked
145P	Marriage, Family, and Kinship	no grade history	not checked
M145P	Marriage, Family, and Kinship	3.19 134 grades	not checked
145S	Culture, Gender, Sexuality	3.75 55 grades	not checked
146	Urban Anthropology	3.72 76 grades	not checked
146S	Disability Anthropology	no grade history	not checked
M148	Past People and Their Lessons for Our Own Future	3.83 16 grades ·	not checked
149	Selected Topics in Social Anthropology: Marriage, Family, and Kinship in Chinese Culture	3.80 526 grades	not checked
M150	Language in Culture	3.65 396 grades	not checked
151	Ethnography of Everyday Speech	3.73 80 grades	not checked
M152P	Language Development and Socialization	3.34 84 grades	not checked
153	Language and Identity	3.52 42 grades	not checked
154Q	Gender and Language in Society	3.41 136 grades	not checked
155	Native American Languages and Their Speakers	3.52 69 grades	not checked
M155	Native American Languages and Their Speakers	no grade history	not checked
M156	Language Endangerment and Linguistic Revitalization	3.63 85 grades	not checked
159	Selected Topics in Linguistic Anthropology: Language across Generations, from Socialization to Slang	3.64 230 grades	1 section
161	Latin American Communities	3.53 27 grades	not checked
163P	Ideology and Social Change in Contemporary China	3.31 102 grades	not checked
163Q	Societies of Central Asia	3.22 106 grades	not checked
M166Q	Culture Area of Maghrib (North Africa)	3.79 144 grades	not checked
169	Selected Topics in Regional Cultures	3.72 691 grades	not checked
189	Advanced Honors Seminars: Seminar 1	no grade history	not checked
191	Variable Topics Research Seminars: Anthropology	3.74 123 grades	not checked
191HA	Beginning Seminar	3.81 34 grades	not checked
191HB	Field Methods	3.89 34 grades	not checked
191HC	Data Analysis	3.82 47 grades	1 section
191HD	Writing for Anthropology	3.84 35 grades	not checked
191HE	Writing for Publication and Conference Presentations	3.85 35 grades	not checked
194	Research Group Seminars: Anthropology		not checked
195CE	Community and Corporate Internships in Anthropology	3.90 59 grades	not checked
197	Individual Studies in Anthropology	3.98 198 grades	not checked

Graduate 29

Graduate courses in Anthropology
Course	Title	Predicted GPA	Fall 2025
200	Anthropology Graduate Proseminar	3.94 61 grades	1 section
M201A	Graduate Core Seminar: Archaeology	no grade history	not checked
202A	Core Seminar: Biological Anthropology Colloquium	3.80 11 grades ·	not checked
203A	Core Seminar: Sociocultural Anthropology--Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Anthropology	3.90 45 grades	not checked
203B	Core Seminar: Sociocultural Anthropology--Sociocultural Systems and Ethnography, Anthropology at Mid-Century	3.80 21 grades	not checked
203C	Core Seminar: Sociocultural Anthropology--Scientific and Interpretive Frameworks in Contemporary Anthropology	3.89 37 grades	not checked
204A	Core Seminar: Linguistic Anthropology	3.85 28 grades	not checked
204B	Core Seminar: Linguistic Anthropology	3.79 10 grades ·	not checked
M216	Topics in Asian Archaeology: Seminar 1	no grade history	not checked
CM217	Selected Laboratory Topics in Archaeology: Experimental Archaeology	no grade history	not checked
219	Selected Topics in Anthropological/Archaeological Theory: Contemporary African Thought	3.88 27 grades	not checked
221	Behavior, Evolution, and Culture		1 section
223	Experimental Biological Anthropology		not checked
234	Mind, Medicine, and Culture		not checked
239	Selected Topics in Field Ethnography: Seminar 1	3.81 13 grades ·	not checked
239Q	Ethnographic Methods in Sociocultural Anthropology	3.81 13 grades ·	not checked
M239R	Latinx Photoethnography	3.81 13 grades ·	not checked
241	Culture, Power, Social Change		1 section
249	Selected Topics in Social Anthropology	no grade history	not checked
253	Language Ideologies: Political Economy of Language Beliefs and Practices	3.86 21 grades	not checked
254	Discourse Laboratory		not checked
M255	Native American Languages and Discourses of Indigeneity	no grade history	not checked
283	Proposal Writing Seminar	3.88 38 grades	not checked
299	Selected Topics in Anthropology: Feminist Cultural Analysis	no grade history	not checked
495	Teaching Anthropology		1 section
596	Individual Studies for Graduate Students	3.77 8 grades ·	not checked
597	Preparation for PhD Qualifying Examination	no grade history	not checked
598	Research for and Preparation of MA Capstone Report or Thesis	no grade history	53 sections
599	Research for PhD Dissertation	no grade history	54 sections