BA in Anthropology (Sociocultural Double Major) (39.5 hours*)

The 33-hour sociocultural major is designed to accommodate the varying interests of students from a range of other disciplines, but it is only available to students completing an additional major in another field. Its purpose is to allow students with other majors to add the perspectives that anthropology is uniquely qualified to provide.

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1. Complete all requirements of a primary major. Double counting courses between primary major and anthropology will not be allowed.
2. Complete the following:
   ANTHR 101 : Social/Cultural Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 101 : Social/Cultural Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W, Sp, Su
   DESCRIPTION:	Aspects of society and culture: kinship, beliefs, economy, and political order among peoples worldwide. Methods and perspectives used in social/cultural anthropology.
   NOTE:	Honors also.
   
   
   ANTHR 150 : Anthropology Career Preparation. (.5:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 150 : Anthropology Career Preparation. (.5:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F
   DESCRIPTION:	Overview of anthropology major and graduation requirements; preparing for senior thesis sequence; career opportunities; and graduate school application process.
   
   
   ANTHR 205 : Foundations of Anthropological Theory. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 205 : Foundations of Anthropological Theory. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	Anthr 101.
   DESCRIPTION:	Ideas from Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Steward studied for a secure foundation for understanding the antecedents of current theory.
   
   
   ANTHR 206 : Contemporary Theory. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 206 : Contemporary Theory. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	Anthr 205.
   DESCRIPTION:	Important current theoretical frameworks in anthropology.
   
   
   ANTHR 309 : Language in Culture and Society. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 309 : Language in Culture and Society. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W, Sp
   DESCRIPTION:	Sociocultural categories and processes as expressed through, and determined by, language. Semiotics: language as sign system. Ethnosemantics, syntactic analysis, translation problems, ethnography of speaking/communication.
   
   
   ANTHR 442 : Ethnographic Skills. (3:2:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 442 : Ethnographic Skills. (3:2:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W, Sp
   PREREQUISITE:	Anthr 205, 206.
   DESCRIPTION:	Methods, rationale, limitations, and ethical issues of participant observation, interviewing, quantitative measurement, and other procedures of ethnographic fieldwork. Local field project.
   
   
   ANTHR 495 : Ethnographic Field Project. (3-6:0:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 495 : Ethnographic Field Project. (3-6:0:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	Sp, Su
   PREREQUISITE:	Anthr 205, 206, 442.
   DESCRIPTION:	Conduct field work, maintain field notes, and write a paper incorporating both descriptive and analytic components.
   
   
   ANTHR 499R : Senior Thesis. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 499R : Senior Thesis. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F, W
   PREREQUISITE:	Anthr 205, 206, 422, 495 (for sociocultural); 205, 206, 215, 454R, 455R, 456R (for archaeology).
   DESCRIPTION:	Supervised analysis and write-up of data generated during field project.
   
   
3. Complete 6 hours from the following:
   ANTHR 317 : Native Peoples of North America. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 317 : Native Peoples of North America. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W even years
   DESCRIPTION:	Indian groups at the time of the European arrival; social organization, beliefs, values, economy, and adaptation to environment.
   
   
   ANTHR 320 : Anthropology of Europe. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 320 : Anthropology of Europe. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W even years.
   DESCRIPTION:	Europe's role in the anthropological imagination; ethnographies of contemporary European populations; themes: nationalism/postnationalism/transnationalism; postsocialism, postcolonialism, immigration; ethnic identity and cultural politics; the commodification of culture. Regional emphasis may vary.
   
   
   ANTHR 326 : Central American Society. (3:2:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 326 : Central American Society. (3:2:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F
   DESCRIPTION:	History, culture, society, and life among peoples of Mexico and Central America.
   
   
   ANTHR 330 : Peoples of Africa. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 330 : Peoples of Africa. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W odd years
   DESCRIPTION:	Political, economic, and social organization, family life, language, worldview, religion, ritual, artistic expression, ecological adaptation, and contemporary development issues among rural and urban sub-Saharan peoples.
   
   
   ANTHR 340 : Peoples of the Middle East. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 340 : Peoples of the Middle East. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F even years.
   DESCRIPTION:	Ecology, social organization, and beliefs of nomadic, rural, and urban groups between western Africa and Pakistan.
   
   
   ANTHR 343 : Chinese Culture and Society. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 343 : Chinese Culture and Society. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F; W odd years.
   DESCRIPTION:	Cultural and social institutions of traditional and modern China, including Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or other areas of Chinese impact.
   
   
   ANTHR 345 : American Culture. (3:2:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 345 : American Culture. (3:2:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F odd years.
   DESCRIPTION:	Unity and diversity in U.S. life. Social/cultural change processes illustrated and analyzed. Anthropological study of complex cultures. Seminar-type course involves substantial reading, writing, discussion.
   
   
   ANTHR 346 : Anthropology of Mormonism. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 346 : Anthropology of Mormonism. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   DESCRIPTION:

   Intensive analysis of Mormon society and culture using a range of anthropological perspectives.
   
   
   ANTHR 390R : Special Topics in Regional Anthropology. (.5-3:ARR:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 390R : Special Topics in Regional Anthropology. (.5-3:ARR:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	On dem.
   DESCRIPTION:	Subjects related to a particular area or people.
   NOTE:	Offered when unique opportunities or needs arise.
   
   
   ANTHR 439 : Psychological Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 439 : Psychological Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   DESCRIPTION:

   The relationship between culture and mind. Examines whether the concept of the person varies cross-culturally, how emotions may differ in different societies, the psychological implications of cultural approaches to childrearing.
   
   
   ANTHR 443 : Quantitative Ethnographic Methods. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 443 : Quantitative Ethnographic Methods. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W
   DESCRIPTION:	Using quantitative tools to analyze qualitative data.
   
   
4. Complete 6 hours from the following:
   ANTHR 402 : Quantitative Methods for Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 402 : Quantitative Methods for Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F
   DESCRIPTION:	Quantitative methods in archaeology and sociocultural anthropology, including methods of organizing, exploring, and presenting data, probability, and statistical inference.
   
   
   ANTHR 430 : Moral and Ritual Institutions. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 430 : Moral and Ritual Institutions. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F
   DESCRIPTION:	Anthropological approaches to religion; its content and relation to other social institutions in societies ranging from gatherers to industrialists.
   
   
   ANTHR 431 : The Family, Marriage, and Kinship. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 431 : The Family, Marriage, and Kinship. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W; F odd years.
   DESCRIPTION:	Nature of kinship; parent-child, sibling, grandparental relationships. Genealogical basis of society: family, lineage, clan, kindred organization. Marital status; in-law relations; joking and avoidance behavior; divorce.
   
   
   ANTHR 432 : Economic and Political Institutions. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 432 : Economic and Political Institutions. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W
   DESCRIPTION:	Connections between wealth and power: political and legal systems in state and nonstate societies; expansion of capitalism and technology into remote global regions.
   
   
   ANTHR 434 : Medical Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 434 : Medical Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F odd years; W even years.
   RECOMMENDED:	Anthr 247.
   DESCRIPTION:	Interactions between culture and health in comparative perspective, emphasizing social, historical, and ecological determinants.
   
   
   ANTHR 436 : Symbolic Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 436 : Symbolic Anthropology. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W odd years.
   DESCRIPTION:	Social use and understanding of semiotics, signs, symbols, and other meaningful forms as critically constitutive of culture.
   
   
   ANTHR 437 : Man, Women, and the Culture of Gender. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 437 : Man, Women, and the Culture of Gender. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   RECOMMENDED:	Anthr 247.
   DESCRIPTION:	Gender roles across culture relative to health, ethnicity, economic development, kinship, war, etc.
   
   
   ANTHR 441 : Anthropology of Development. (3:3:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 441 : Anthropology of Development. (3:3:3)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   DESCRIPTION:

   Theory, practice, and research methods regarding the anthropological study and resolution of poverty, disease, malnutrition, displacement, and inadequate educational opportunities.
   
   
   ANTHR 450 : Anthropology of Education. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 450 : Anthropology of Education. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	W odd years
   PREREQUISITE:	Anthr 101, 205, 206.
   DESCRIPTION:	Anthropological theories of and qualitative research in child rearing, enculturation, cognition, informal education, schools, literacy, multicultural and multilingual education, and cultural transmission and acquisition.
   
   
   ANTHR 490R : Special Topics in Theory and System. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 490R : Special Topics in Theory and System. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	On dem.
   DESCRIPTION:	Subjects related to anthropological theory or the operation of social systems.
   NOTE:	Offered when unique opportunities or needs arise.
   
   
   ANTHR 511 : Museums and Cultures. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   ANTHR 511 : Museums and Cultures. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
   
   OFFERED:	F even years
   DESCRIPTION:	Museums in society. Cultural foundations of museum content and sociology of museum use. Analyzing museum studies literature with on-site visits to area museums.
   
   
5. Complete an additional 3 hours from sections 3 or 4 above.

*Hours include courses that may fulfill university core requirements.

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