Anthropology Concentration, Global Studies, Bachelor of Arts - GSAN

Major Requirements (27–29 hours)

Required
ANTH 253Survey I: Culture and Language3
ECON 251Principles of Macroeconomics3
HIST 104 World History II3
POSC 206International Politics3
or POSC 207 Comparative Politics
GLST 495Senior Seminar in Global Studies3
Students who complete the GLST Comprehensive Exam must also take the following course or another methods course approved by the Department Chair:
GLST 364Global Research and Discovery3
Concentration
Select the following Concentration:9-11
Anthropology Concentration
Total Credits27-29

Anthropology Concentration

Select three of the following:9-11
ANTH 254
Survey II: Human Prehistory
ANTH 320
Anthropology of Race and Racism
ANTH 346
Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
ANTH 356
Being Indigenous in the 21st Century: Contemporary Indigenous Studies
ANTH 376
Water, Culture & Sustainability
ANTH 390
Special Topics (Archaeology)
ANTH 497
Independent Study
ANTH 499
Anthropological Internship
BIO 202
The Global Challenge of Infectious Diseases
BIO 312
Evolution 1
BIO 313
Economic Botany 1
BIO 316
Conservation Biology 1
BIO 323
Ecology 1
GWS 333
Transnational Feminisms
HIST 314
Southeast Asia and the World
HIST 320
Global History of Decolonization
POSC 319
The Global Politics of International Development
Upper-level course taken by permission through an approved study abroad program
Total Credits9-11
1

Courses carry prerequisites not met through Global Studies requirements.

Advanced Writing Proficiency

Each student who completes this requirement in Global Studies will submit her written senior comprehensive project for evaluation.

Senior Comprehensive

A student who elects to complete her Senior Comprehensive requirement in Global Studies will carry out a research project grounded in a topic related to her area of concentration. She will develop and present a proposal during Senior Seminar in the fall of her senior year. The proposal will include a hypothesis or research question, the design of the study and methodologies to be used, significance of the question, and a bibliography. In the spring semester of senior year, Global Studies majors will make oral and written presentations of their projects to a committee comprised of faculty teaching within the concentration areas and/or the Global Studies core disciplines.

Student Learning Outcomes

  • Students can articulate the core ideas in anthropology—of evolution, culture, structure, function, and relativism—in analyzing the intersection of cultural systems and global processes.
  • Students can explain biological and cross-cultural approaches to global patterns of human behavior, social organization, and cultural ecology.
  • Students can articulate the value of anthropological methods as applied to global research questions.