The General Anthropology track is the most flexible and open of all of the anthropology tracks.
This track allows students to fully embrace the four-field approach and choose from courses across the sub-fields. Its flexibility is especially accommodating for students pursuing multiple concentrations.
The Central-Classical Redevelopment Project of the 1960s created a high modernist educational campus that destroyed houses, churches, and streets known to the neighborhood’s Indigenous residents. Photo by Patricia E. Rubertone.A foundational course in sociocultural, linguistic anthropology, or medical anthropology:
Choose One:
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (ANTH0100)
Culture and Health (ANTH0300)
Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (ANTH0800)
A foundational course in archaeology or biological anthropology:
Choose One:
Human Evolution (ANTH0310)
Past Forward: Discovering Anthropological Archaeology (ANTH0500)
One of the following classes in anthropological methodology, to prepare students for further research:
Choose One:
An Introduction to GIS and Spatial Analysis for Anthropologists and Archaeologists (ANTH1201)
Material Culture Practicum (ANTH1621)
The Human Skeleton (ANTH1720)
Archaeology of College Hill (ANTH1725)
Ethnographic Research Methods (ANTH1940)
An additional five courses in anthropology of the student’s choosing. At least three of the electives will need to be at the 1000-level to meet the general requirements of the concentration.
Senior Seminar, (Re)Making Anthropology (ANTH1990), normally taken in senior year, is designed to provide students a firm understanding of what defines the discipline of anthropology, as grounded through a look at the discipline’s past, present, and future.
