Catalogue 2006-07

• USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
• Anthropology
  • Bachelor of Arts
  • Master of Arts in Anthropology
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology
  • Courses of Instruction

Bachelor of Arts

Anthropology Major Requirements

In addition to the general education requirements, the following courses are required.

Required courses, Lower division		Units
ANTH 200L	The Origins of Humanity	4
ANTH 201	Introduction to Social Anthropology, or
ANTH 263	Exploring Culture Through Film	4

Required courses, Upper division		Units
ANTH 410ab	Ethnographic Field Methods and Practicum	4-4
ANTH 440	History of Anthropological Theory	4

Two courses to be selected from:		Units
ANTH 345	Politics, Social Organization, and Law	4
ANTH 360	Symbolic Anthropology	4
ANTH 370	Family and Kinship in Cross-Cultural Perspective	4
ANTH 460	Economic Anthropology	4
	One world area specialization course	4
Electives	two courses	8
Total upper division units		32

Major in Anthropology (Visual Anthropology) Requirements

In addition to the general education requirements, the following courses are required.

Required courses, Lower division		Units
ANTH 200L	The Origins of Humanity	4
ANTH 263	Exploring Culture Through Film	4

Required courses, Upper division		Units
ANTH 410ab	Ethnographic Field Methods and Practicum	4-4
ANTH 440	History of Anthropological Theory	4
ANTH 475	Ethnographic Film Analysis	4
ANTH 476	Ethnographic Film Theory from an Historical Perspective	4

One course to be selected from:		Units
ANTH 470	Multidisciplinary Seminar in Visual Anthropology	4
ANTH 472	Visual Techniques in Anthropology: Stills	4

Two courses to be selected from:		Units
	Two 300- or 400-level anthropology courses not listed among the required courses	8
Total upper division units		32

Major in Anthropology (Urban Applied Anthropology) Requirements

In addition to the general education requirements, the following courses are required.

Required courses, Lower division		Units
ANTH 200L	The Origins of Humanity	4
ANTH 263	Exploring Culture Through Film, or
ANTH 201	Introduction to Social Anthropology	4

Required courses, Upper division		Units
ANTH 355	Urban Anthropology	4
ANTH 371	Cross-Cultural Research on Urban Gangs	4
ANTH 410ab	Ethnographic Field Methods and Practicum	4-4
ANTH 440	History of Anthropological Theory	4

Two courses to be selected from:		Units
ANTH 345	Politics, Social Organization and Law	4
ANTH 360	Symbolic Anthropology	4
ANTH 370	Family and Kinship in Cross-Cultural Perspective	4
ANTH 375	Applied Anthropology	4
ANTH 407	Peasant Society	4
ANTH 460	Economic Anthropology	4
One world area specialization course		4
Total upper division units		32

Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Archaeology

Students are given broad-based exposure to a range of methods by which archaeological data are retrieved and analyzed and theoretical paradigms and intellectual foci by and from which archaeologists interpret the past’s material culture.

In addition to the general education requirements, the following courses are required:

Required courses, lower division		units
ANTH 202	Introduction to Archaeology, or
CLAS 212L	Archaeology: Interpreting the Past	4
AHIS 201	Digging into the Past: Material Culture and the Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean, or
LING 295	The Ancient Near East: Culture, Archaeology, Texts	4
Total lower division units		8

Required courses, upper division		units
Theory and Methods
(any two of the following three courses)		8
AHIS 425	Interdisciplinary Studies in Classical Art and Archaeology: Research and Methodology
REL 494	Advanced Near Eastern and Mediterranean Archaeology
REL 495	Theory and Field Methods in Archaeology
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
AHIS 321	Greek Art and Archaeology, or
AHIS 322	Roman Art and Archaeology, or
AHIS 384	Early Chinese Art, or
AHIS 420	Studies in Ancient Art	4
ANTH 310	Archaeology of the Americas, or
ANTH 311	Old World Archaeology	4
CLAS 323	Aegean Archaeology	4
REL 394	Near Eastern and Mediterranean Archaeology	4
Elective	Any 300 or 400 level course offered by the Anthropology, Art History, Classics, Linguistics or Religion departments	4
Capstone course
CLAS 465	Archaeology and Society	4
Total upper division units		32

Minor in Cultural Anthropology

Required courses, Lower division		Units
ANTH 201	Introduction to Social Anthropology, or
ANTH 263	Exploring Culture Through Film	4

Required courses, Upper division		Units
ANTH 440	History of Anthropological Theory	4

Two courses to be selected from:		Units
ANTH 345	Politics, Social Organization, and Law	4
ANTH 360	Symbolic Anthropology	4
ANTH 370	Family and Kinship in Cross-Cultural Perspective	4
ANTH 460	Economic Anthropology	4
One world area specialization course		4

Minor in Medical Anthropology

Medical anthropology examines the body, illness and healing from a cultural perspective, including comparative studies of folk healing systems, curing rituals and Western biomedical practices.

Required course		Units
ANTH 101	Body, Mind and Healing	4

One course (4 units) to be selected from:		Units
ANTH 105	Culture, Medicine and Politics	4
ANTH 125	Social Issues in Human Sexuality and Reproduction	4
ANTH 200L	The Origins of Humanity	4
ANTH 201	Introduction to Social Anthropology	4
ANTH 273	Shamans, Spirits and Ancestors: Non-Western Religious Traditions	4

Upper division courses: four of the following (16 units):		Units
ANTH 305	Childhood, Birth and Reproduction	4
ANTH 360	Symbolic Anthropology	4
ANTH 373	Magic, Witchcraft and Healing	4
ANTH 375	Applied Anthropology	4
ANTH 380	Sex and Gender in Anthropological Perspective	4
ANTH 405	Evolutionary Medicine	4
ANTH 440	History of Anthropological Theory	4
OT 375	The Narrative Structure of Social Action: Narrative, Healing and Occupation	4
SWMS 336	Health, Gender and Ethnicity	4
SWMS 420	Woman, Nature, Culture: The Behavioral Ecology of Women	4

Interdisciplinary Law and Society Minor

See the Department of Political Science.

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