SlugAtlasUC Santa Cruz

ANTH 194IConsumption and Consumerism

5 creditsUndergraduateStudent Option

Investigates cultural analysis of consumer society, commodities, and consumer practices. Students develop their own research projects. Themes include: critiques of consumer society; symbolic analysis of goods, consumption as resistance, anthropologies of marketing, culture jamming; consumption and (post) colonialism.

Prerequisites

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 1, ANTH 2, and ANTH 3; satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirement. Enrollment is restricted to senior anthropology majors.

Find a section and add it to your scheduleLive seat counts, time-conflict checks and the walk from your previous class.

When it runs

Spring 2026Open Spring 2026

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Seminar
Tue 1:30pm–4:30pm
Soc Sci 2 141M. D. AndersonOpen 15/20

Who teaches it

InstructorRatingDifficultyWould take againReviews
Mark Anderson3.9 / 52.7 / 560%23

From RateMyProfessors, which is student-submitted and not a survey. Small review counts move a long way on one bad quarter.

SlugAtlas is a student project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by UC Santa Cruz. Course data is a snapshot of the public class search; myUCSC is authoritative for enrolment.