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Anthropology MinorDivision of Social Sciences - Adm
Division of Social Sciences
The anthropology curriculum provides a comparative understanding of the range of human cultures throughout the world in humanistic, scientific, and social scientific terms. Anthropology provides the skills and knowledge needed to navigate a diverse world and solve the complex problems that face today's communities.
Objectives:
Anthropology courses provide an understanding of human beings and human society with respect to both biology and culture. Students are exposed to a broad historical and comparative framework within which to view the variety of human cultures. Coursework deals with concepts techniques, and substantive knowledge of the branches of the field: anthropology, cultural anthropology, archaeology, and applied anthropology.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
Minor Requirements
Up to four credits of D+ or D may be used to meet the minor requirements if offset by a sufficient number of higher grades to meet the minimum cumulative GPA of 2.00 in all courses included in the minor. Courses may not be taken S/N unless offered S/N only.
The GPA includes all, and only, University of Minnesota course work. Grades of "F" are included in GPA calculation until they are replaced.
Elective Courses
An additional 8 credits in anthropology and sociology courses, 4 of which must be in courses 2xxx or above. No more than 4 credits can be from IS 3796.
Lower Division Elective Courses
Take at most 4 credit(s) from the following:
·
ANTH 1813 - Culture on TV: An Introduction to Anthropology
[IC]
(2.0 cr)
·
ANTH 1xxx
·
ANTH 2121 - Topics in Cultural Anthropology
[SS]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 2202 - Men and Masculinities
[SS]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 2204 - Anthropology of Education: Learning and Schooling in Ethnographic Perspective
[SS]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 2206 - Sex, Marriage, and Family
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 2501 - Medical Anthropology-An Overview
[SS]
(2.0 cr)
·
ANTH 2xxx
·
SOC 1101 - Introductory Sociology
[SS]
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 1xxx
·
SOC 2xxx
Upper Division Elective Courses
Take 4 or more credit(s) from the following:
·
ANTH 3204 - Culture, Food, and Agriculture
[ENVT]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3251 - Health and Human Ecology
[ENVT]
(2.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3402 - Representations from the Field: American Indian Ethnography and Ethnohistory
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3455 - North American Archaeology
[SS]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3461 - Archaeology of Eurasia and Africa
[SS]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3502 - Latinos in the Midwest
[SS]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3603 - Latin American Archaeology
[SS]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3604 - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
[IP]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3701 - Forensic Anthropology
[SCI-L]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3704 - Anthropological Genetics
[SCI]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3705 - The Archaeology of Death and Burial
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3751 - Primatology
[SCI]
(2.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3761 - Human Fossil Record
[SCI]
(2.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3xxx
·
ANTH 4501 - Archaeological Fieldschool
[SS]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 4xxx
·
IS 3796 - Interdisciplinary Internship in the Helping Professions
(1.0-16.0 cr)
·
SOC 3103 - Research Methodology in Sociology
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 3112 - Sociology of the Environment and Social Development
[ENVT]
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 3121 - Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 3122 - Sociology of Childhoods
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 3123 - Sociology of Aging
[HDIV]
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 3131 - World Population
[ENVT]
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 3141 - Sociology of Deviance
[E/CR]
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 3252 - Women in Muslim Society
[IP]
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 3403 - Sociological Theory
(4.0 cr)
·
SOC 3xxx
·
SOC 4xxx
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Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 5.0 [max 5.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Spring Even Year |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Typically offered: | Spring Odd Year |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Prerequisites: | new college student in their first semester of enrollment at UMM |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Anth 3251/Anth 3206 |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Hist 3402/Anth 3402 |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Fall Odd Year |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Periodic Fall & Spring |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Typically offered: | Periodic Spring |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Typically offered: | Periodic Spring |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 8.0] |
Typically offered: | Periodic Summer |
Credits: | 1.0 -16.0 [max 32.0] |
Grading Basis: | S-N only |
Typically offered: | Every Fall, Spring & Summer |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Prerequisites: | 1101 |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Fall Odd Year |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Spring Odd Year |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Fall Even Year |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Periodic Spring |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Course Equivalencies: | Soc 3401/Soc 3402/Soc 3403 |
Prerequisites: | 1101; 4 addtl cr in Soc recommended |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |