Degree Requirements
Anthropology majors can design a course of study in various topical, area, and theoretical orientations. In order to moderate, students must complete the following three courses with a 3.0 grade point average:
- Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- Two 200-level courses in anthropology
- (One of these must be in anthropology; one may be cross-listed.)
- A Methods Course
- Doing Ethnography (only offered in the Spring semester) OR
- Archaeological Methods (if the student intends to complete a senior project in archaeology)
- Contemporary Cultural Theory (only offered in the Fall semester)
- Two Additional Anthropology courses
- (one of these must be an anthropology seminar, 300-level or above)
- Senior Project includes the following:
- One non-credit Senior Colloquium (for students who begin Senior Project in the Fall) AND
- Two 4-credit courses: Senior Project I & Senior Project II
Moderation Requirements
All moderated anthropology students submit a proposal for the Senior Project at the end of their junior year. A Senior Project may be ethnographic (based on fieldwork), historical (using archival or secondary sources), comparative/theoretical (exploring a theory or phenomenon across two or more contexts), or archaeological (involving excavations). Students intending to pursue postgraduate study or ethnographic research in a non-English-speaking area are encouraged to study a foreign language to at least the 200 level.
Affiliated Programs
Anthropology encourages and maintains crucial ties to other disciplines across campus. Many anthropology students complement their interests with courses that explore similar theoretical and topical themes in historical studies, religion, literature, political sciences, sociology, environmental studies, and history and philosophy of science, and the Human Rights Program. Anthropology students also enhance their study of identity formations with courses in gender and sexuality studies, Jewish studies, and the comparative and critical studies of race. Courses in African and African diaspora studies, Asian studies, and Latin American and Iberian studies provide students with increased historical and cultural depth in a particular area of the world.