Textbook: Anthropology: The Human Challenge, by William A. Haviland, H. Prins, D. Walrath, B. McBride. 11th edition
| Date | Topic | Textbook Chapters |
| Aug. 23-27 | Nature of Anthropology | Chapter 1 |
| Methods of Studying the Past | Chapter 2 | |
| Aug. 30-Sept. 3 | Biology and Evolution | Chapter 3 |
| Sept. 6-10 | The Modern Primates | Chapter 4 |
| Sept. 13-17 | Fossil Primates | Chapter 5 |
| Sept. 20-24 | Earliest Hominids and Culture | Chapter 6 |
| Sept. 27-Oct. 1 | Homo habilis and Cultural Origins | Chapter 7 |
| Homo erectus | Chapter 8 | |
| Oct. 4-8 | Archaic Homo sapiens | Chapter 9 |
| Homo sapiens | Chapter 10 | |
| Oct. 11-15 | FIRST EXAM | |
| Neolithic Revolution | Chapter 11 | |
| Cities and Civilization | Chapter 12 | |
| Oct. 18-22 | Modern Human Diversity | Chapter 13 |
| Nature of Culture | Chapter 14 | |
| Language and Communication | Chapter 15 | |
| Oct. 25-29 | Growing Up Human | Chapter 16 |
| Patterns of Subsistence | Chapter 17 | |
| Nov. 1-5 | Economic Systems | Chapter 18 |
| Sex and Marriage | Chapter 19 | |
| Nov. 8-12 | SECOND EXAM | |
| Family and Household | Chapter 20 | |
| Kinship and Descent | Chapter 21 | |
| Nov. 15-19 | Grouping | Chapter 22 |
| Political Organization | Chapter 23 | |
| Nov. 22-26 | The Supernatural | Chapter 24 |
| The Arts | Chapter 25 | |
| Nov.29- Dec. 3 | Culture Change | Chapter 26 |
| Anthropology and the Future | Chapter 27 | |
| Finals Week | THIRD EXAM | |