ANTHRO 200Anthropology Graduate Proseminar
Anthropology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Exposes incoming graduate students to contemporary view of anthropology by using work of UCLA faculty members to identify cross-cutting themes that bridge four fields of discipline and represent state of art of field. Historical overview of field and tracing of formation of discipline. Faculty guest speakers engage in discussion on aspects of their work that intersect with one or more of topical threads of course, followed by responses by instructor and one or more student discussants. Discussion of speaker’s work, instructor and student responses, and weekly readings selected from visiting faculty member’s work and positioning speaker’s work in broader history of field.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.