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Bachelor of Arts

Anthropology Major Requirements

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

Required courses, Lower divisionUnits
ANTH 200LThe Origins of Humanity4
ANTH 201Introduction to Social Anthropology, or
ANTH 263Exploring Culture Through Film4

Required courses, Upper divisionUnits
ANTH 410abEthnographic Field Methods and Practicum4-4
ANTH 440History of Anthropological Theory4

Two courses to be selected from:Units
ANTH 345Politics, Social Organization, and Law4
ANTH 360Symbolic Anthropology4
ANTH 370Family and Kinship in Cross-Cultural Perspective4
ANTH 460Economic Anthropology4
One world area specialization course4
Electivestwo courses8
Total upper division units32

Major in Anthropology (Visual Anthropology) Requirements

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

Required courses, Lower divisionUnits
ANTH 200LThe Origins of Humanity4
ANTH 263Exploring Culture Through Film4

Required courses, Upper divisionUnits
ANTH 410abEthnographic Field Methods and Practicum4-4
ANTH 440History of Anthropological Theory4
ANTH 475Ethnographic Film Analysis4
ANTH 476Ethnographic Film Theory from an Historical Perspective4

One course to be selected from:Units
ANTH 470Multidisciplinary Seminar in Visual Anthropology4
ANTH 472Visual Techniques in Anthropology: Stills4

Two courses to be selected from:Units
Two 300- or 400-level anthropology courses not listed among the required courses8
Total upper division units32

Major in Anthropology (Urban Applied Anthropology) Requirements

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

Required courses, Lower divisionUnits
ANTH 200LThe Origins of Humanity4
ANTH 263Exploring Culture Through Film, or
ANTH 201Introduction to Social Anthropology4

Required courses, Upper divisionUnits
ANTH 355Urban Anthropology4
ANTH 371Cross-Cultural Research on Urban Gangs4
ANTH 410abEthnographic Field Methods and Practicum4-4
ANTH 440History of Anthropological Theory4

Two courses to be selected from:Units
ANTH 345Politics, Social Organization and Law4
ANTH 360Symbolic Anthropology4
ANTH 370Family and Kinship in Cross-Cultural Perspective4
ANTH 375Applied Anthropology4
ANTH 407Peasant Society4
ANTH 460Economic Anthropology4
One world area specialization course4
Total upper division units32

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 divisionunits
ANTH 202Introduction to Archaeology, or
CLAS 212LArchaeology: Interpreting the Past4
AHIS 201Digging into the Past: Material Culture and the Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean, or
LING 295The Ancient Near East: Culture, Archaeology, Texts 4
Total lower division units8

Required courses, upper divisionunits
Theory and Methods
(any two of the following three courses)8
AHIS 425Interdisciplinary Studies in Classical Art and Archaeology: Research and Methodology
REL 494Advanced Near Eastern and Mediterranean Archaeology
REL 495Theory and Field Methods in Archaeology

Interdisciplinary Perspectives
AHIS 321Greek Art and Archaeology, or
AHIS 322Roman Art and Archaeology, or
AHIS 384Early Chinese Art, or
AHIS 420Studies in Ancient Art4
ANTH 310Archaeology of the Americas, or
ANTH 311Old World Archaeology4
CLAS 323Aegean Archaeology4
REL 394Near Eastern and Mediterranean Archaeology4
ElectiveAny 300 or 400 level course offered by the Anthropology, Art History, Classics, Linguistics or Religion departments4

Capstone course
CLAS 465Archaeology and Society4
Total upper division units32

Minor in Cultural Anthropology

Required courses, Lower divisionUnits
ANTH 201Introduction to Social Anthropology, or
ANTH 263Exploring Culture Through Film4

Required course, Upper divisionUnits
ANTH 440History of Anthropological Theory4

Two courses to be selected from:Units
ANTH 345Politics, Social Organization, and Law4
ANTH 360Symbolic Anthropology4
ANTH 370Family and Kinship in Cross-Cultural Perspective4
ANTH 460Economic Anthropology4
One world area specialization course4

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 courseUnits
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.

This new minor is available beginning fall 2007.

Minor in Southeast Asia and its People

This minor allows students to supplement more narrowly defined departmental majors with a multidisciplinary focus on an area of great importance both to global developments and to cultural heritage issues in California and the United States. There is no language requirement and no required courses, but students must take one lower and four upper division courses dealing with Southeast Asian cultures and people of Southeast Asian heritage in the United States. The focus of this new minor is on transnational connections and the new area of global culture.

Lower Division Units
Choose one class (4 units)
ANTH 250 Race and Sexual Politics in Southeast Asia 4
ANTH 273 Shamans, Spirits and Ancestors: Non-Western Religious Traditions 4
AMST 220 The Making of Asian America 4
POSC 120 Comparative Politics 4
REL 131 Religions of Asia 4
REL 150 Religion and Immigration 4
HIST 265 Understanding Race and Sex Historically 4

UPPER DIVISION Units
Choose four classes (16 units), including at least one class from each list

Southeast Asia
ANTH 322 Anthropology of Bali 4
ANTH 373 Magic, Witchcraft, and Healing 4
GEOG 306 Asia and the Global Economy 4
COLT 379 Nationalism and Postcolonialism in Southeast Asian Cinema 4
IR 315 Ethnicity and Nationalism in World Politics 4
POSC 352 Politics of Southeast Asia 4
POSC 377 Asian Political Thought 4
REL 330 Religions of India 4
REL 334 Religion and Colonial Encounter 4

Southeast Asia and the United States
AMST 377 Legacies of Viet Nam 4
HIST 344 The Vietnam War, 1945-1975 4
IR 424 Citizenship and Migration in International Politics 4
POSC 328 Asian American Politics 4
REL 336 Re-viewing Religion in Asian America 4

Note: Courses have no prerequisites.