Department of Anthropology

Teaching Opportunities

Graduate students have a number of different opportunities to teach at Brandeis:

• Teaching Fellowships (for doctoral students) and Course Assistantships (for MA students)
• Designing and teaching four-credit University Writing Seminars
• Designing and teaching two-credit Experiential Learning Practicums
• Teaching regular undergraduate anthropology courses during the summer session (advanced doctoral students)
• Designing and teaching courses in the Myra Kraft Transitional Year Program, a select-cohort curriculum to expand college access for students facing socioeconomic hardship

Past courses taught by graduate students include:

• Archaeology in Politics, Film and Public Culture
• Catastrophes Across Cultures: The Anthropology of Disasters
• Children, Parenting and Education in Cross Cultural Perspective
• Cultural Politics of Heritage
• Media and Violence: An Anthropological Approach
• Multispecies Anthropology