Anthropology and History Double Major

Required Courses

Complete three of the following Introductory courses (4 courses/11-12 credits):

• ANTH 1020 - Introduction to Archaeology
• ANTH 1030 - Introduction to Biological Anthropology
• ANTH 1040 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 2800 - The Nature of Language

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  Complete the following course:

• ANTH 3970 - History and Theory of Anthropology

Methods Courses

Complete at least one of the following Methods courses (1 course/3 credits). Additional Methods courses may count toward ANTH electives.

• ANTH 3000 - Quantitative Methods in Anthropology
• ANTH 3190 - Field Practicum in Applied Archaeology
• ANTH 3210 - Lab Techniques in Archaeology
• ANTH 3215 - Mapping Archaeology
• ANTH 3350 - Forensic Anthropology
• ANTH 3360 - Methods in Biological Anthropology
• ANTH 3500 - Ethnographic Methods and Theory
• ANTH 3630 - Field Experience in Applied Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 3660 - Applied Community Studies
• ANTH 4340 - Primate Behavior and Ecology Methods
• ANTH 4450 - Ethnography of Sport

Anthropology Electives

Complete an additional 12-15 credit hours of Anthropology (ANTH) electives (depending on Senior Seminar choice) to meet total and upper-division hours for the major (4 courses/12 credits). At least 9 hours must be upper-division (3000+ level) coursework.

Senior Assessment

Complete the Anthropology Graduating Seniors Assessment via Canvas. Seniors will receive an email with more information.

Recommended Courses

Anthropology students interested in pursuing a career in Archaeology are urged to consider completing a minor in Geography and Environmental Studies, or at least taking the following courses:

• GES 1010 - Environmental Systems: Landforms and Soils
• GES 3030 - Introduction to GIS
• GES 3050 - Introduction to Cartography
• GES 3060 - Remote Sensing of the Environment
• GES 4310 - Principles of Geomorphology
• GES 4340 - Soils

Historical Survey Courses

Complete two courses from each of the following categories (4 courses/12 credits):

Histories of Europe and the U.S.

• HIST 1010 The Ancient World
    
• HIST 1020 Medieval World
    
• HIST 1025 Medieval Plague, Modern Pandemic  
• HIST 1030 The Age of Revolutionary Europe
    
• HIST 1040 Europe Since 1800: Struggles and Transformations
    
• HIST 1050 Mythologies of Europe  
• HIST 1510 U.S.: Birth of a Nation, 1607-1789
    
• HIST 1520 U.S.: Expansion and Division, 1789-1877
    
• HIST 1530 U.S.: Emergence of Modern America, 1865-1920
    
• HIST 1540 U.S.: Recent America, 1918-Present
    
• HIST 1550 African American History: From Africa to the Present Day
    
• HIST 1560 Environmental History of the U.S.  
• HIST 1563 American Legal History  
• HIST 1575 History of the American Southwest  

Global Histories and Histories of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East

• HIST 1120 Asian History: The Indian Subcontinent
    
• HIST 1130 Asian History: China
     
• HIST 1140 Asian History: Japan
    
• HIST 1150 Introduction to Modern Sub-Saharan Africa
    
• HIST 1300 Global Revolutions: A Comparative History  
• HIST 1340 Global Military History from the Ancient to Modern World  
• HIST 1370 World History Since 1945  
• HIST 1400 Latin America to 1810
    
• HIST 1410 Latin America Since 1810
    
• HIST 1600 Making of the Modern Middle East I
    
• HIST 1610 Making of the Modern Middle East II
    
• HIST 1900 Special Topics in History   

Upper-Division Global History Courses

Complete two courses from the following list (2 courses/6 credits):

• HIST 3010 Women in Classical Antiquity
     
• HIST 3120 The Panorama of World Civilizations to 1500
     
• HIST 3150 Mesopotamian History
    
• HIST 3160 History of Ancient Egypt
    
• HIST 3220 Genocide: The Case of the Nazis and Jews
    
• HIST 3400 Mass Violence and Political Oppression: Story, History, Imagery
        
• HIST 3520 History of Latinos in the U.S.
     
• HIST 3560 Modern Mexico
    
• HIST 3570 The City in Latin America  
• HIST 3580 Immigrant Histories
     
• HIST 3590 Latin American History Through Film
    
• HIST 3600 The Global Sixties  
• HIST 3680 Islam and the West: Contacts, Representations, and Approaches
      
• HIST 3720 From Slavery to Freedom: Slavery & the African-American Experience in Colonial & Antebellum America
    
• HIST 3890 History of Colonial India
    
• HIST 3920 History of the British Empire
    
• HIST 3950 Environmental History: The West and the World
     
• HIST 3980 The Vietnam War Through Film
    
• HIST 4030 The Ottoman Empire, 1400-1800
     
• HIST 4050 From the Harem to the War Zone
       
• HIST 4150 Astrolabes, Arms, & Azulejos (Tiles): Medieval Science, Technology, Material Culture (600-1500 C.E.)
    
• HIST 4160 A Crossroads of Civilizations: Medieval Spain and North Africa (600-1500 C.E.)
     
• HIST 4290 Europe and the World: 1492-1750   
• HIST 4330 Literature of Oppression in the Modern World
     
• HIST 4500 World War Two: A Global History
     
• HIST 4710 Asian American History
    
• HIST 4730 Early China
     
• HIST 4760 Shoguns, Samurai and Seppuku
    
• HIST 4770 Vietnam and the Global Sixties
      

History Electives

Complete 9-12 upper-division (3000+ level) credit hours (depending on Senior Seminar choice) of History electives (3 courses/9 credits).

Anthropology Senior Seminar

Complete the following course:

• ANTH 4980 - Senior Seminar in Anthropology

OR

History Senior Seminar

Complete the following course:  

• HIST 4990 - Senior Thesis Seminar: Approaches to the Study of History