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Anthropology Program Requirements

The major in anthropology was revised effective Fall 2007. The number of credits remains the same but the required courses are slightly different. Students who declare a major in the fall of 2007 or after will need to meet these requirements.

Current anthropology requirements, Fall 2007:

Required courses

  1. ANTH 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3 credits)
  2. ANTH 298: Ethnography (3 credits; co-requisite ANTH 299) – formerly ANTH 200
  3. ANTH 299: Theories of Culture (3 credits; co-requisite ANTH 298) – formerly ANTH 203
  4. ANTH 480: Senior Research (3 credits; fall semester)
  5. ANTH 481: Senior Seminar (3 credits; spring semester)

Electives

15 hours of electives in anthropology, which may include ANTH 491, 492:

  • Independent Study BUT NOT ANTH 499: Internship.
  • At least one of these elective courses must include a significant field-research (FR) component (see below).
  • Up to six credits from selected sociology and historic preservation courses can be taken to fulfill the major elective requirement. All upper-level sociology courses except for SOCG 491, 492, and 499 are eligible. Eligible historic preservation courses include HISP 207 and HISP 467.
  • A student may arrange to have her or his independent study count for the Writing Intensive requirement, the Field-research Intensive major requirement, or both, with the approval of the study supervisor.

Total: 30 hours, 10 courses.

Field-research courses

The anthropology major requires that each student complete at least one course designated FR. These are courses that have a significant assignment that requires the student to conduct ethnographic research for its completion.

The following courses have been designated “FR.”

  • ANTH 317: Gifts and Commodities
  • ANTH 322: Symbolic Anthropology
  • ANTH 341: Practices of Memory
  • ANTH344: Urban Theory and Ethnography
  • ANTH 371H: Anthropology of Food
  • ANTH 401: The Anthropology of Globalization
  • ANTH 491, 492: Independent Study (with instructor approval)
  • SOCG 365: Qualitative Research Methods

Note: students who declared anthropology as their major BEFORE Fall 2007 do not need to take ANTH 481: Senior Seminar. However, they must take 18 hours of electives in anthropology (including up to 6 hours of upper-level sociology if they wish), including one course designated “field-research intensive.