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MINOR IN ANTHROPOLOGY

This curriculum is designed to acquaint students with the five fields of anthropology-archeology, cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, physical anthropology, and applied anthropology. Each course is designed to provide an understanding of the holistic, comparative and cross-cultural nature of all anthropological theory and method.

The general objectives of this curriculum are to provide the student with:
1 A sense of the wide range and variability of human cultures;
2 An understanding of culture as a holistic and integrated system;
3 An understanding of the origins and evolutionary development of humans and their cultures;
4 An appreciation of how anthropological insights and methodologies can be used to address contem- porary human problems;
5 A respect for other ways of life and an understanding of ethnocentrism
6 A deeper understanding of the student's own culture as seen in contrast to other cultures.

MINOR CURRICULUM -ANTHROPOLOGY			18 SCH
Required:
ANTH	2346	Introduction to Anthropology
ANTH	2302	Introduction to Archeology
ANTH	3306	Cultural Change, Crisis, and Development
ANTH	3351	Cultural Anthropology
Six hours chosen from:
ANTH	3302	Indians of North America
ANTH	3304	Language, Culture and Oral Tradition
ANTH	4301	Special Topics in Anthropology
GEOG	1303	General World Geography
GEOG	3352	Latin American Historical Geography

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