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Anthropology B.A.Division 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 both humanistic 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. 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, primarily within cultural anthropology and applied anthropology.
Program Student Learning Outcomes:
1 - Increased Multicultural Competency
Awareness of one's own cultural filters, ability to think comparatively across sociocultural contexts, and to apply a culturally relative perspective regarding cultural diversity
2 - Applications of Anthropological Perspectives
Development of an anthropological sensibility that enables one to distill social meaning from everyday encounters with individuals, material objects, texts, and other social phenomena, ability to articulate anthropological insights into contemporary issues, and to apply them to the workplace and contemporary world
3 - Research Methods and Theories
Familiarity with anthropological literature and qualitative data; ability to develop an original research project, and to conduct ethnographic field work using appropriate methods; effective communication of anthropological data and/or fieldwork
4 - Ethical Principles
Understanding of ethical principles relative to the conduct of anthropological research and processes, and the application of research findings
5 - Understanding Human Variation
Achievement of a holistic knowledge of the discipline as a whole, and ability to articulate in a knowledgeable way the central ideas of cultural anthropology, understanding and appreciation of contemporary ethnic/cultural variation, and bio-cultural systems
Program Delivery
This program is available:
Admission Requirements
For information about University of Minnesota admission requirements, visit the
Office of Admissions
website.
General Requirements
All students are required to complete general University and college requirements. For more
information, see the general education requirements.
Program Requirements
Students are required to complete 2 semester(s) of
any second language.
with a grade of C-, or better, or S, or demonstrate proficiency in the language(s) as defined by the department
or college.
Students develop a coherent program of study in consultation with their major advisor generally no later than the spring semester of their sophomore year.
Up to four credits of D+ or D may be used to meet the major requirements if offset by a sufficient number of higher grades to meet the minimum requirement of a cumulative GPA of 2.00 in all courses in the major. Courses may not be taken S/N unless offered S/N only, with the exception of up to 2 credits of Anth 4xxx which may be taken S/N and counted toward the major requirements.
The GPA includes all, and only, University of Minnesota coursework. Grades of "F" are included in GPA calculation until they are replaced.
Required Courses
ANTH 1111W - Introductory Cultural Anthropology
[SS]
(4.0 cr)
ANTH 3001 - Theory in Cultural Anthropology
(4.0 cr)
ANTH 4902 - Senior Seminar
(4.0 cr)
ANTH 2151W - Professional Skills in Anthropology
[SS]
(2.0 cr)
or
IS 2302 - Professional Development in the Social Sciences
(2.0 cr)
Elective Courses
An additional 20 credits in anthropology and sociology courses, 12 of which must be in courses 3xxx or above. No more than 4 credits can be from IS 3796. Up to 12 credits can be from classes outside of anthropology or sociology, with approval of the anthropology faculty, if they have substantial anthropological content, or are in related fields.
Take exactly 20 credit(s) from the following:
Lower Division Electives
Take at most 8 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 2153 - Cultural Issues from an Anthropological Perspective
[SS]
(2.0 cr)
·
ANTH 2201 - Anthropology of the Body
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 2203W - Race, Racism, and Resistance
[HDIV]
(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 Electives
Take 12 or more credit(s) from the following:
·
ANTH 3204 - Culture, Food, and Agriculture
[ENVT]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3205 - The Rural/Urban Divide in US Culture
[E/CR]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3304 - Anthropology for Social Justice
[E/CR]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3305 - Transnationalism and Migration
[SS]
(4.0 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 3502 - Latinos in the Midwest
[SS]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3604 - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America
[IP]
(4.0 cr)
·
ANTH 3xxx
·
ANTH 4xxx
·
IS 3796 - Interdisciplinary Internship in the Helping Professions
(1.0-16.0 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 3141 - Sociology of Deviance
[E/CR]
(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 Fall |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Spring Even Year |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Spring |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Typically offered: | Every Fall |
Credits: | 2.0 [max 2.0] |
Typically offered: | Periodic Spring |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Fall Even Year |
Credits: | 4.0 [max 4.0] |
Grading Basis: | A-F only |
Typically offered: | Fall 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: | 2.0 [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: | 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: | 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 & Summer |
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: | 1.0 -16.0 [max 32.0] |
Grading Basis: | S-N only |
Typically offered: | Every Fall, Spring & Summer |
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: | Fall Even Year |
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 |