With a minor in anthropology, you’ll have the opportunity to broaden your exposure to people and cultures all around the world—both now and in the past. You’ll study cultural beliefs, traditions, practices and values from diverse communities.
The following information comes from the official EWU catalog, which outlines all degree requirements and serves as the guide to earning a degree. Courses are designed to provide a well-rounded and versatile degree, covering a wide range of subject areas.
Anthropology Minor
| Required Course | ||
| ANTR 201 | GLOBAL CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS | 5 |
| Electives | 10 | |
| Select upper-division anthropology courses in consultation with department advisor. | ||
| Total Credits | 15 | |
Satisfies: a BACR for social sciences.
This course examines the flow of people, goods, images, ideas and knowledge that across borders of all kinds with greater rapidity and consistency in our increasingly interconnected world. Students will deepen their understanding of and expand their exposure to cultural beliefs, traditions, practices and values from communities throughout the world. The course will consider the role that culture plays in some of the major social, political, economic and religious tensions and conflicts.
Cross-listed: DSST 266, GWSS 266.
Pre-requisites: ENGL 201 or equivalent.
Satisfies: a BACR for social sciences.
This interdisciplinary course explores personal, social, and political concerns regarding gender and health, including public health practice, epidemiological research, health policy, and access to health services. It includes discussion of health and reproductive justice activism.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–global studies.
This course explores cross-cultural questions of human social organization and its impacts on human self-understanding. It engages the study of self-identity, ethnic and other social identities, ethno-nationalism throughout the world to better understand how individuals and communities establish collective cohesion, create notions of group solidarity and organize politically. Finally, the course explores the consequences of building community on identity and its impact on human difference.
Pre-requisites: sophomore standing.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–diversity.
International migration is reshaping politics, economics, and sociocultural landscapes in the United States. This course examines the newest immigrants in the U.S.—those arriving after 1965—and their U.S. born children. The prevailing trend and pattern of incorporation and multiculturalism will be discussed. Theories of migration, transnationalism, and integration will be examined, along with immigration policy in the U.S.