2009-2010 Course Catalog

Required for the anthropology major

  1. Anthropology 110: Cultural Anthropology
    Anthropology 120: World Prehistory
    Anthropology 140: Biological Anthropology
  2. Anthropology 200: History of Anthropological Ideas
    Anthropology 207: Quantitative Analysis in Anthropology
    Anthropology 210: Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology or
    Biology 280: Experimental Design and Analysis
    3. Students are expected to complete these courses during their sophomore year and no later than the end of their junior year.
  3. Anthropology 501: Research Questions and Anthropology 601: Research Design
  4. Four six-unit elective courses in anthropology, including at least one upper-division seminar (courses numbered in the 500s). (Anthropology majors are urged to take several of these seminars in their junior and senior years.)

Required for the anthropology major: biological anthropology track

  1. Anthropology 110: Cultural Anthropology
    Anthropology 120: World Prehistory
    Anthropology 140: Biological Anthropology
    Biology 110: Integrative Biology: Principles
    Biology 140: Integrative Biology: Heterotrophs
  2. Anthropology 200: History of Anthropological Ideas
    Anthropology 207: Quantitative Analysis in Anthropology or Biology 280: Experimental Design and Analysis
  3. Anthropology 501: Research Questions and Anthropology 601: Research Design
  4. Three six-unit elective courses in anthropology, including at least one of Anthropology 540: Topics in Biological Anthropology or Anthropology 580: Topics in Neuroscience.
  5. Three six-unit courses in biology, chemistry, geology, mathematics, or physics, at least two of which must be biology courses numbered 200 or above and at least one of which must be a laboratory course.

Required for the anthropology minor

  1. Two of the following courses:
    Anthropology 110: Cultural Anthropology
    Anthropology 120: World Prehistory
    Anthropology 140: Biological Anthropology
  2. Three six-unit electives in anthropology, selected from courses numbered 200 and above, except Anthropology 501 or 601
  3. One six-unit upper-division seminar (courses numbered in the 500s)
  4. C average in the minor

Senior Experience in Anthropology
The Department of Anthropology's Senior Experience is a two sequence course which marks the culmination of a four-year series of core courses designed to develop the student's abilities to reason and practice as an anthropologist. Students begin their study of anthropology with a three-course introductory sequence; move on in their sophomore year to a three-course theory and methods sequence; continue in their junior year with Anthropology 501, which introduces them to the process of developing research questions; and in their senior year take Anthropology 601, which provides students the opportunity to reflect upon and synthesize what they have learned in the anthropology program by designing a focused research project. These projects are presented to the anthropology faculty and student majors during a formal symposium at the end of the Winter term.