University of North Texas 
New Course Offered in Spring 2022 for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Are you an upper-level undergraduate or graduate student interested in urban life,
culture, and the built environment? The Department of Anthropology is offering a new
class in Spring 2022 - Urban Beings - taught by Jamie Johnson, Ph.D., senior lecturer. No prerequisites are required - all majors and disciplines
are welcome!
Please email Dr. Johnson with your questions, Jamie.Johnson@unt.edu.
ANTH 4701.049 / ANTH 5700.019
Urban Beings
Mon.-Wed., 3:30 - 4:50 p.m. | Gateway Center, #142
Course Synopsis: Cities are enduring markers of the Anthropocene, evidencing innovation, adaptation and contestation across time and space. Students in the Urban Beings course will earn how anthropologists study the human experience in cross-cultural, urban contexts. Balancing materialist and ideological explanations with holistic, comparative approaches, ethnographic case studies describe stunning diversity and surprising similarity among urban dwellings and dwellers. In their own short-term study, students will employ inventive qualitative field-methods well-suited to research in urban environments.
