Anthropology, B.A.

This degree is approved for distance education by the WSCUC.

Lower Division:

Take all of the following courses:

ANTH 110 - Introduction to Physical Anthropology (3 units)
ANTH 120 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3 units)
ANTH 140 - Pyramids, Tombs and Treasure: Wonders of the Past (3 units)
ANTH 170 - Introduction to Linguistics (3 units)
or
LING 170 - Introduction to Linguistics (3 units)

Take an approved introductory statistics course.

Upper Division (total of 33 units):

Required Core Courses (18 units):

An additional 15 units will be selected from the courses listed below.

The major allows students to be generalists picking upper-division electives from differing subfields, or to specialize in one or more subfields depending on class availability. Courses are grouped by topic/subfield as a guide for students

Archaeology:

ANTH 405 - Principles of Archaeology (3 units)
ANTH 448 - Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America (3 units)
ANTH 449 - Prehistoric Cultures of North America (3 units)
ANTH 450 - Archaeological Field Research (1-10 units)
ANTH 473 - Archaeology of California (3 units)
ANTH 487 - Cultural Resource Management (3 units)

Biological Anthropology:

ANTH 315 - Human Variation (3 units)
ANTH 319 - Human Growth and Development (3 units)
ANTH 363 - Natural History of Primates (3 units)
ANTH 402 - Evolutionary Theory (3 units)
ANTH 434 - Primate Evolution (3 units)
ANTH 436 - Medical Anthropology (3 units)
ANTH 439 - Methods in Biological Anthropology (3 units)
ANTH 480A - Osteology I (3 units)

Cultural Anthropology:

ANTH 305 - Radical Social Analysis (3 units)
ANTH 307 - Modernization in Global Perspective (3 units)
ANTH 321 - North American Indians (3 units)
ANTH 322 - California Indians (3 units)
ANTH 329 - Cultural Diversity in California (3 units)
ANTH 448 - Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America (3 units)
ANTH 351 - Sex Roles and Culture (3 units)
ANTH 353 - Health and Healing (3 units)
ANTH 412 - Culture and Communication (3 units)
ANTH 414 - Anthropology of Religion (3 units)
ANTH 417 - Applied Anthropology (3 units)
ANTH 419 - Encounters and Identities (3 units)
ANTH 421 - Education Across Cultures (3 units)
ANTH 422 - The Anthropology of Gender (3 units)
ANTH 423 - Professional Development in Anthropology (3 units)
Professional development course for any of the four sub-fields in Anthropology
ANTH 431 - New Media Ethnography (3 units)
ANTH 432 - Peoples of Mexico and Central America (3 units)
ANTH 436 - Medical Anthropology (3 units)
ANTH 440 - Ethnographic Field School (3 units)
ANTH 441 - Ethnographic Film Production I (3 units)
ANTH 443 - The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (3 Units)
ANTH 444 - Transnational Migrants (3 units)
ANTH 454 - Culture and Aging (3 units)
ANTH 478 - Anthropology and Film (3 units)

Linguistic Anthropology:

ANTH 412 - Culture and Communication (3 units)
ANTH 413 - Language and Culture (3 units)
ANTH 418 - Methods in Linguistic Anthropology (3 units)
ANTH 421 - Education Across Cultures (3 units)
ANTH 475 - Language and Gender in Cross‑Cultural Perspective (3 units)

Note(s):

Students may apply a maximum of 2 Anthropology Capstone courses to the major. Students may apply Anthropology Human Diversity classes to the major.

Students may take a total of 6 units of ANTH 490 and, with approval of the undergraduate advisor and sponsoring faculty members, up to 6 units of ANTH 496 , ANTH 498 , or ANTH 499 .

Anthropology, B.A.

Lower Division:

Take all of the following courses:

Take an approved introductory statistics course.

Upper Division (total of 33 units):

Required Core Courses (18 units):

Take all of the following courses:

Take one of the following:

Take one of the following methods courses:

An additional 15 units will be selected from the courses listed below.

Archaeology:

Biological Anthropology:

Cultural Anthropology:

Linguistic Anthropology:

Note(s):