Minor in Anthropology

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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.

Curriculum & Requirements

What You'll Learn

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

The anthropology minor lets students get a taste of our field - exploring peoples and cultures of the world, both now and in the past.

The minor starts with one 200-level class in either Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistic Anthropology, or Cultural Anthropology. Then students take two more upper-division classes of their choice. This flexibility allows students to complete the minor while doing general education or just explore what's out there.

Anthropology students pursue careers and graduate education in fields such as cultural resource management (archaeology and history), public health, and community outreach. They work in education, with community organizations and global non-profits, the state and federal government, and cultural resource management firms.

Electives15
Select 5 credits of lower-division and 10 credits of upper-division Anthropology courses in consultation with department advisor.
Total Credits15

Sample Courses

ANTR 201. GLOBAL CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS. 5 Credits.

Satisfies: a BACR for social sciences.
Examines the flow of people, goods, images, ideas, and knowledge that cross borders of all kinds with greater rapidity and consistency in our increasingly interconnected world. Students deepen their understanding of and expand their exposure to cultural beliefs, traditions, practices, and values from communities throughout the world. The course considers the role that culture plays in some of the major social, political, economic, and religious tensions and conflicts.

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ANTR 266. GENDER, HEALTH AND MARGINALIZATION. 5 Credits.

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.

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ANTR 310. IDENTITY, ETHNICITY AND NATIONALISM. 5 Credits.

Pre-requisites: ENGL 201.
Satisfies: a university graduation requirement–global studies.
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.

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ANTR 313. IMMIGRANT AMERICA. 5 Credits.

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 are discussed. Theories of migration, transnationalism, and integration are examined, along with immigration policy in the U.S.

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