Anthropology, A.B.

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Major Requirements

Required Courses:

ATH 112 - Cultural Anthropology 1 course unit
ATH 155 - Archaeology & Prehistory 1 course unit
ATH 205 - Anthropological Theory 1 course unit
ATH 313 - Anthropological Ethnography 1 course unit or
ATH 317 - Field Archaeology 1 course unit or
ATH 318 - The Archaeology of Objects 1 course unit

Electives:

(5 or more of the following courses, at least 2 must be at the 300 level or above; at least 1 elective must be in archaeology and 1 in cultural anthropology)

ATH 211 - Human Evolution 1 course unit
ATH 230 - Inca, Aztec, & Maya 1 course unit
ATH 240 - Witchcraft, Magic, & Sorcery 1 course unit
ATH 260 - Vodou in Haiti & the Diaspora 1 course unit
ATH 262 - Historical Ecology 1 course unit
ATH 265 - Plantations, Possessions & Power: Ethnohistory & Anthropology in the Caribbean 1 course unit
ATH 291 - Medicine & Culture 1 course unit
ATH 313 - Anthropological Ethnography 1 course unit
ATH 315 - Archaeology of Food 1 course unit
ATH 317 - Field Archaeology 1 course unit
ATH 318 - The Archaeology of Objects 1 course unit
ATH 320 - Anthropology of Childhood & Adolescence 1 course unit
ATH 341 - Health & Healing in Latin America 1 course unit
ATH 345 - Culture, Mental Health, & Psychiatry 1 course unit
ATH 350 - Fieldwork Under Fire: The Ethnography of Violence & Mayhem 1 course unit
ATH 450 - CUE: Advanced Seminar in Anthropology 1 course unit

Anthropology Culminating Undergraduate Experience (CUE)

Majors will fulfill the College’s requirement for a Culminating Undergraduate Experience (CUE) in Anthropology in one of two ways:

with an approved credit-bearing experience (e.g., enrollment in ATH 450 - CUE: Advanced Seminar in Anthropology or Independent Study/Research) or
with the successful completion of a project based upon research, originating in a credit-bearing course that has been pre-arranged with a designated project advisor and the student’s academic advisor