This class will take you on a grand tour of the solar system, from Mercury and the moons of Saturn, to asteroids and comets. How did such a diversity of worlds come to be? Like space detectives, we will follow the clues and try to unravel the secrets of the solar system’s formation and evolution.

Explore how food, nutrition, taste and culture intersect as we examine the interdisciplinary field of the anthropology of food.

This course will explain how living organisms are related through the Tree of Life. With hands-on activities, hall and museum collection visits, and laboratory dissections students will learn how scientists organize biodiversity into classification systems using morphological and molecular data.   

Learn the ways that the genetic makeup of a population can change over time, and how new species are formed.

In this course, we will explore how anthropologists study cultural differences in health, gender, economics, religion, and communication to better understand humankind.

In this course, you will learn the basics of the field of astrobiology, a systematic way of categorizing and searching for life in the cosmos.