A community of scholars committed to teaching, learning, research and service toward a scientific understanding of human behavior and cultural diversity.
Learning Outcomes
Understand the interrelationship of the four subdisciplines of anthropology that support a holistic understanding of the human condition across cultures and through time.
Apply problem-solving anthropological investigative approaches to advance understanding of culture.
Develop the ability to critically examine and understand human behavior and cultural diversity in their own and other societies.
Anthropology major (64 credits)
ANTH 213 Language and Culture (4)
ANTH 214 Physical Anthropology (4)
ANTH 215 Archaeology (4)
ANTH 216 Cultural Anthropology (4)
ANTH 324 Anthropological Theory (4)
ANTH 325 Ethnographic Methods (4)
ANTH 410 Research Design (4)
ANTH 411 Fieldwork (4)
ANTH 412 Senior Project (4)
Choose one additional methods course: (4)
ANTH 326 Ethnographic Writing
ANTH 350 Research Methods in Archaeology
ANTH 352 Laboratory Methods in Archaeology
ANTH 360 Museum Studies
Choose one additional theory course: (4)
ANTH 311 Human Evolution
ANTH 480 History and Theory of Archaeology
Choose five topical or regional courses: (20)
ANTH 310 World Prehistory
ANTH 313 North American Prehistory
ANTH 314 Evolution of Human Societies
ANTH 315 South American Prehistory
ANTH 316 Circumpolar Peoples
ANTH 326 Ethnographic Writing
ANTH 330 Contemporary Chicano/a/Latino/a Culture
ANTH 332 Latin America
ANTH 340 Mothers and Daughters
ANTH 358 Tribal Art of the US and Canada
ANTH 370 Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
ANTH 375 Women Anthropologist
ANTH 380 Africa
ANTH 384 Modernization
ANTH 386 Anthropology of Islam
ANTH 388 Transnational Migration
ANTH 390 Pastoral Nomads
ANTH 392 Applied Anthropology
ANTH 394 Childhood in Cross-Cultural Perspective
ANTH 396 Environmental Anthropology
ANTH 461 Urban Anthropology
ANTH 475 Anthropological Approaches to Law
ANTH 476 Religion and Ritual
ANTH 482 Historical Archaeology
ANTH 494 Northwest Indian Cultures
ANTH 496 The Indian in American Culture
Anthropology minor (28 credits)
A 28-hour minor program may be planned with the help of an adviser.
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