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A student majoring in Anthropology must complete 33 credit hours of approved courses. In addition to maintaining an overall grade point average of at least 2.0 in the major, a student must earn a grade of "C" or above in each required course in the major. Students are strongly advised to complete ANTH 1210, ANTH 1260 and ANTH 1280 before enrolling in other required or elective anthropology courses.

Intensives: Students who enter ETSU as freshmen or with less than 50 transfer hours must take:
2 oral communication-intensive courses, of which 1 must be in the major
1 information technology-intensive course in the major
4 writing-intensive courses, at least 2 of which must be in the major and at least 2 must be at the 3000-4000 level.



REQUIRED CORE COURSES                                          TOTAL CREDITS: 18

ANTH 1240   Intro to Cultural Anthropology       
ANTH 1260   Intro to Archaeology
ANTH 1280   Intro to Physical Anthropology
SOCI 3350      Social Statistics (T)
*SOAA 4627   Ethnographic Fieldwork (W)
ANTH 4830   Anthropological Theory (O)


GUIDED ELECTIVES                                                     TOTAL CREDITS: 12
Students must choose 1 course from each of the 4 focus areas.

Archaeology
ANTH 4007   Archaeology of the Southeastern US (3 credit hourse) Writing-intensive
ANTH 4017   Historic Native American Cultures of the Southeast US (3 credit hours)
ANTH 4037   Old World Archaeology (3 credit hours)
ANTH 4400   Archaeological Field School (3-6 credit hours)

Biology and Culture
ANTH 3400   Human Osteology and Paleontology (3 credit hours)
ANTH 4240   Primatology (3 credit hours)

Culture Studies
ANTH 2150   American Folk Music (3 credit hours)
SOAA 3700    People and Cultures of Latin America (3 credit hours)
ANTH 4630   Native American Cultures in Contemporary Society (3 credit hours) writing-intensive
ANTH 4567   Scottish Ethnology (3 credit hours)
SOAA 4357    Mass Communication and Popular Culture (3 credit hours) writing-intensive
SOAA 3050    Appalachian Culture (3 credit hours)

Health and Culture
ANTH 3070    Medical Anthropology (3 credit hours) oral-intensive
ANTH 3080    Nutritional Anthropology (3 credit hours)
ANTH 3250    Environmental Anthropology (3 credit hours) oral-intensive
ANTH 3500    Appalachian Folk Medicine (3 credit hours)


GENERAL ELECTIVES                                                    TOTAL CREDITS: 3
Aside from 6 required core courses (18 credit hours) and 4 guided electives (12 credit hours), students may take 1 elective course (3 credit hours) from the list below or choose another course from one of the guided elective categories.

ANTH 2040   Folk Culture in the Modern World (3 credit hours)
ANTH 3260   Visual Anthropology (3 credit hours)
SOAA 3800    Religion, Society and Culture (3 credit hours)
ENGL 3100     Introduction to Linguistics (3 credit hours)
ANTH 3028   Honors Cultural Anthropology (3 credit hours)
ANTH 4070   Practicing Anthropology (3 credit hours)
ANTH 4900   Independent Studies
ANTH 4957   Special Topics Courses


*SOAA designates Sociology/Anthropology courses that students may take toward the Anthropology major.


The B.A. degree in the College of Arts and Sciences involves the following requirements (refer to catalogue for more information):

Foreign Language (6 credit hours)
1 course non-US history (3 credit hours)
MATH 1530, 1840 or 1910