Anthropology Minor

Complete Two Required Courses

• ANT 105 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• SOC 312 - Qualitative Research

Complete at least One Regionally-Based Culture Area Course

• ANT 316 - People & Cultures of Russia & East Europe
• FRN 333 - French Culture and Civilization I
• ITA 251 - Italy: Language and Identity
• REL 318 - Archaeology and Religion in Ancient Greece
• SOC 216 - Native Americans in the 21st Century
• SPA 345 - Seminar in Spanish: Afro-Hispanic Culture of the Caribbean
• SPA 346 - Seminar in Spanish: Maya, Aztec, and Inca Traditions

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• Note: Some of the classes taught under the ANT 350 - Topics in Anthropology  may also fulfill this requirement. Contact the Program Director for more information. 

Complete at least One Ethnographic Topical Course

• ANT 200 - Foundations of Archeology
• ANT 230 - Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective OR

• ANT 110 - Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective (First-Year Seminar)  

• ANT 233 - Language and Culture
• ANT 304 - Museum Studies
• ANT 329 - Anthropology of Violence
• ANT 334 - Anthropology of the Holocaust
• SOC 202 - Sociology of Globalization
• SOC 220 - Political Sociology
• SOC 234 - Racial and Ethnic Diversity
• SOC 237 - Sociology of Gender
• SOC 405 - Seminar on Public Sociologies
• SOC 421 - Seminar: Oppression

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• Note: Some of the classes taught under the ANT 350 - Topics in Anthropology  may also fulfill this requirement. Contact the Program Director for more information. 

Complete Two Additional Courses

Take an additional course from either of the two lists above, or from the following list of courses taught in a variety of departments that are informed by anthropological theory and/or ethnographic or archaeological research.

• ANT 350 - Topics in Anthropology (if not counting above)
• ANT 497 - Anthropology Senior Thesis
• ECO 219 - History of World Economic Development
• HIS 209 - Native American History
• HIS 244 - Colonial Latin America
• HIS 257 - Modern Latin America
• HIS 270 - Modern China
• HIS 277 - History of Brazil
• HIS 278 - History of the Islamic World I
• HIS 279 - Modern Japan
• HIS 283 - East Asian History I
• HIS 284 - East Asian History II
• HIS 290 - History of the Islamic World II
• HIS 374 - Bound Feet and Dragon Ladies: Women & Power in East Asia
• REL 275 - Hard Rockin’ Jews: Judaism and Pop Culture in Israel
• REL 312 - Archaeology and the Bible

Note for Sociology Majors

Please note that Anthropology Minors who are Sociology Majors must take five classes in addition to the 10 that count towards their sociology major, and must take at least two of their electives for the Anthropology Minor from outside the Sociology Department.