Penn Center for Native American Studies

Courses with Native American Content

There are approximately 40 courses taught at Penn with Native American content. The majority of these courses are offered the Departments of Anthropology and History. Because new courses are always being added and older ones dropped, please check with the registrar to see which courses are scheduled for a particular semester.

Anthropology
Anth 001:  Introduction to Archaeology (Olszewski)
Anth 052:  Native American Art and Archaeology (Preucel)
Anth 168:  Genetics and the Modern World (Schurr)
Anth 133:  Native Peoples and their Environment  (Erickson)
Anth 141:  Policy, Museums, and Cultural Heritage (Leventhal)
Anth 188:  Who Owns the Past?  Archaeology, Museums and Native Americans (Preucel)
Anth 211:  North American Archaeology (Preucel)
Anth 224:  Archaeology of the Neotropics (Erickson)
Anth 413:  Southwestern Archaeology (Preucel)
Anth 433:  Andean Archaeology (Erickson)
Anth 437:  Cultural Models and Health (Barg)
Anth 447:  Human Reproductive Ecology (Valeggia)
Anth 466:  Lowland South American Indians (Urban)
Anth 600:  Contemporary Archaeology in Theory (Preucel)
Anth 602:  Fundamentals of Physical Anthropology (Schurr)
Anth 622:  Physical Anthropology Field Methods (Valeggia)

Education
Educ 546:  Sociolinguistics in Education in the U.S. (Hornberger)
Educ 661:  Language Diversity and Education (Hornberger)
Educ 927:  Research Seminar in Language Planning and Policy in Education (Hornberger)

English
Engl 082:  Native/American Literature (Powell)
Engl 282:  Native American Literature: Cultural Diversity in the US  (Powell)
 
Folklore
Folk 360: Native American Folklore (Berman)

History
Hist 009:  Pocohontas to Mankiller (Wenger)
Hist 070:  Colonial Latin America (Hesson)
Hist 071:  Latin America 1791-Present (Chase)
Hist 172:  Native People of Eastern North America (Richter)
Hist 203:  Early American Cultural History (St. George)
Hist 204:  American Indian History in the 20th Century (Norcini)
Hist 441:  North American Colonial History (Richter)

Historic Preservation
Hspv 606: Historic Site Management (Mason)
Hspv 660: Theories of Historic Preservation (Matero)

Law
Law 723:  Federal Indian Law (Struve)

Linguistics
Ling 059:  Language in Native America (Buckley)