Anthropology Major: Degree Requirements

42 Required credit hours

Courses in anthropology (ANSO) are designed to help students develop a multicultural understanding of the human experience and the analytical skills necessary for critically evaluating the diversity of human belief systems.

A minimum of 42 credit hours must be selected from within anthropology/sociology. At least 15 credit hours must be in 3000-4000 level courses.

Learning Goals for the Anthropology program:

Upon completion of the program, students should:

• Understand the interrelationship of the subfields of anthropology (cultural, biological, linguistic and archaeological) as well as an understanding of the ways applied anthropology functions in each.
• Be able to evaluate the assumptions, purposes and methods of anthropological fieldwork and research.
• Grasp the centrality of culture in the human experience and be able to apply this understanding to a range of social problems such as class and stratification, ethnicity and nationalism and the unequal access to social resources that emerge from these systems.
• Be able to distinguish individual, social and cultural frames of analysis through the use of social and anthropological theory.
• Have developed a multicultural and cross-cultural perspective of our world, including an awareness of the factors contributing to diversity and inequality within and among nations.

Students are required to take the following courses:

One course from the following:

Two courses from the following:

Within required and elective courses, a minimum of 15 credit hours within the major must be in 3000-4000 level courses.

Special Requirements

No more than 6 credit hours obtained in practica, independent learning experiences, reading courses, and assessment of prior learning may be applied toward the 42 credit hours required for the major.

Current Webster students should petition for admission to the department on completion of no more than 45 credit hours of academic work. Transfer students are urged to petition for admission to the department at the time of acceptance to the University. Transfer students must complete a minimum of 24 approved credit hours of academic work at Webster within the major. These courses may be included as part of the residency requirement.

Courses completed with a grade below a C– do not count toward fulfilling the specific course requirements of the major.

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