Program Overview

The Anthropology and Sociology (ANSO) major and the anthropology minor offer a multidimensional perspective on self, culture, society. The courses in both major and minor examine culture and society with a focus on language, meaning, difference, and power. Students are invited to cultivate reflexive, interpretive, and empathetic forms of cultural analysis.

ANSO majors benefit from the related yet distinct emphases of anthropology and sociology to better understand a globalized, multicultural, and often quite fraught world. The program prepares students for a variety of vocations in the global society as well as for graduate study in anthropology, sociology, and for various interdisciplinary areas like women’s and gender and ethnic studies. It also is a good preparation for law school and other professional education and training.

The anthropology minor requires completion of 18 hours of coursework in anthropology, including one entry-level course and an additional 15 hours of anthropology courses. Students may petition for up to 6 of the 18 hours be allowed from related disciplines or concentrations subject to advisor and department approval. Such courses must contain a cross-cultural, global, and comparative perspective; examine a geographic area, culture, or subject in a way similar to cultural anthropology; or focus on a method, theory, or substantive problem of historical importance relevant to cultural anthropology.

A maximum of 9 hours of transfer credit may be applied toward the anthropology minor.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
ANTH 002	INTRO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY	3
Choose Five Additional Courses in Anthropology		15
Total Hours		18