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2025-2026 General Catalog [Effective Fall 2025] 
    
2025-2026 General Catalog [Effective Fall 2025]

Anthropology (Minor)

Location(s): Main Campus


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Program Information

  • All courses must be passed with a “C-” (1.7) or better to be counted in the minor.
  • Students must maintain an overall GPA of at least 2.0 in the minor.
  • No more than nine (9) credits of lower-division anthropology courses may be counted toward the credit requirement of the minor.
  • Students may apply up to six (6) credits of ANTH 4960 - Archaeology Field Methods  toward the Anthropology minor.

Anthropology Minor Curriculum (18 Credits)


Required Courses (9 Credits)


Elective Courses (9 Credits)


  • 9 credits of upper-division ANTH courses

Total Credits, Minor: 18


Program Learning Outcomes


  • Students will understand, describe, and critically assess anthropological/archaeological theories, principles, and concepts.
  • Students will understand, describe, and critically assess the role of culture and social structures in shaping individual lives.
  • Students will understand, describe, and critically assess inequalities based on race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexualities, immigration status, etc.
  • Students will understand, describe, and critically assess methods used in anthropological and/or archaeological research.
  • Students will apply anthropological/archaeological concepts and methods.
  • Students will design ethical anthropological/archaeological research.
  • Students will analyze personal experiences (inclusive of educational experiences) using the anthropological/archaeological imagination.

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