Curriculum
The minor consists of three required courses (an introduction, which surveys the four fields of anthropology before focusing specifically on the concept of culture, and two classes on methodology that emphasize fieldwork and participant observation) and two electives chosen from the list below.
Required Courses (12 credits)
- ANTH - 200 Cultural Anthropology
- COMS - 204 Communication and Culture
- COMS - 366 The Ethnography of Communication OR
- HIST - 269 Oral History OR
- SOC - 395 Fieldwork in Sociology
Electives (8 credits)
- ANTH - 210 Cultures through Film
- ANTH - 215 Women's Lives across Cultures
- ANTH - 220 Urban Agriculture
- ANTH - 225 The Museum, Society and Culture
- ANTH - 230 Anthropology and Global Health
- ANTH - 240 Sport, Culture and Society
- ANTH - 305 Anthropology of Music
- ANTH - 335 Anthropology of Food
- ANTH - 340/DANC 340 Tradition and Change: Balinese Dance and Culture
- ANTH - 350 Urban Anthropology
- COMS - 314 Intercultural Communication
- COMS - 364 Communication for Justice and Social Change
- COMS - 365 Geographies of Communication
- COMS - 366 Ethnography of Communication
- HIST - 150 Modern African History
- HIST - 310 Ancient Near East
- HIST - 311 The World of Classical Mediterranean
- HIST - 330 The Archaeology and History of Britain from Prehistory to AD 1000
- HIST - 340 History of South Africa
- HIST - 342 Environmental History of Africa
- HIST - 379 Latinos in the U.S. Media
- MS - 303 Race, Ethnicity, and Media
- MS - 312 The Popular Arts
- MUS - 210 Music of the Americas
- MUS - 211 Asian Musical Cultures
- MUS - 305 Anthropology of Music
- PSYC - 307 Cross-Cultural Psychology
- THRS - 270 African Theologies/Cosmologies
- THRS - 280 Migrant and Diaspora Religions
- THRS - 360 sacred Spaces
- THRS - 361 Religion and the Environment
- THRS - 363 Religion in Latin America
- THRS - Religion and Globalization
- THRS - 366 Religion and Spirituality in Asia
- THRS - 370 Zen Buddhism
- THRS - 371 Hinduism
- THRS - 376 Jews, Judaisms, and Jewish Identities
- THRS - 378 The Jewish Mystical Imagination
- THRS - 379 Buddhist Paths in Asia and North America
- SOC - 326 Sociology of Popular Culture
- SOC - 361 Brazilan Culture and Society
- SPAN - 285 Language and Culture in Latin America
- SPAN - 385 Language and Culture in Latin America (Spanish)
