ANTHRO 204BCore Seminar: Linguistic Anthropology
Anthropology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Survey of recent full-length ethnographic works in linguistic anthropology to engage with methods, practices, topics, and central theoretical frameworks being used across subfield. Consideration of texts’ relationship to works in other subfields, related disciplines, and prior approaches to understanding interplay between language, context, and culture. Consideration also of ethnographic writing as genre, and critical engagement with ways that authors present data, marshal theory, and present arguments within book format. This provides means of characterizing very different generic expectations for dissertation writing within anthropology, allowing for additional professionalization component.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 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.
ANTHRO 204B
- ANTHRO 295Phenomenological Anthropology
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.