Anthropology

The Anthropology Major—The major requires 10 courses with a minimum grade of C-, including:

• Four core courses.

• Two ethnographic courses. Examples include:

• ANTH 244. Borderlands of East and Southeast Asia

• ANTH 252. Identities in Britain and Ireland

• ANTH 282. Women and Social Change in China

• ANTH 362. Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean.

• Four electives in anthropology or in cognate subjects. Examples include:

• ANTH 207. Anthropological Perspectives on Women and Gender

• ANTH 215. Medical Anthropology

• ANTH 227. Introduction to Political Ecology

• ANTH 238. Economic Anthropology

• ANTH 245. Anthropology and Global Health

• ANTH 308. Anthropology of Place

ANTH 201. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

• ANTH 301. Ethnographic Methods and Writing

• ANTH 302. History of Anthropological Thought

• ANTH 401 . Seminar in Contemporary Issues.

The Writing Intensive Part II requirement is fulfilled by one of the following courses: ANTH 215, 244, 301, 302, 308, or 401.

Honors — Students who wish to qualify for honors in a nthropology must write a one or two-credit senior thesis. Honors will be awarded to those whose thesis is granted an A- or better and who have a minimum grade average of B+ for the courses comprising their major.