Professor Christopher Lindner works with a student in Bard's Archaeology Field School. Photo by Claire Debost
About the Program
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.)
Following moderation, the graduation requirements include four additional courses plus the Senior Project.
- 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