Anthropology Minor

FACULTY:
Michael Miyawaki, Chair
Christa Craven
Heather Fitz Gibbon
Pamela Frese
Ricardo Higelin Ponce de León
Setsuko Matsuzawa
Olivia Navarro-Farr
Anne Nurse
Zareen Thomas

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology offers a diverse curriculum exploring the institutions and processes that maintain and change human societies. Our program places special emphasis on the development of students’ ability to analyze contemporary social and cultural issues, and their problem-solving and research skills. Students choose a major in either Sociology or Anthropology, but all majors are introduced to the concepts, methods and theories appropriate to research in both disciplines.

Anthropology

Anthropology explores the variety of human groups and cultures that have developed across the globe and throughout time. Anthropologists rigorously deploy varied field-based research methods - grounded in a particular subfield - in an effort to account for, investigate, and contextualize the tremendous variability in the human experience. The hope is that by seeing the self in the mirror of alternative cultural and historical possibilities, students of anthropology can come to a better understanding of their/our own assumptions, values, and patterns of behavior. Students in anthropology receive excellent training for continuing graduate study in social sciences, humanities, or biological fields, and Anthropology majors are sought after by NGOs, medicine, law, business, technology, museums, education, and government.

Minor in Anthropology

Consists of six credits:

ANTH 11000 - Introduction to Anthropology
SOAN 32000 - Discovery of Social Thought
Two half-credit methods courses
Three elective Anthropology courses (two must be in Anthropology, see special notes below).

Special Notes

One elective can be from Archaeology or Muesum Studies.
Anthropology minors who elect to participate in the 3-2 program in Social Work at Case Western Reserve University (see Pre-Professional and Dual Degree Programs) must complete all requirements in the minor.
Only grades of C- or better are accepted for the major or minor.
Students may not major in Anthropology and minor in Sociology (nor vice versa), nor are they allowed to double major in the two disciplines. Additionally, Anthropology majors may not double major with Archaeology.