Anthropology Major

Four core courses:

• ANTH 102 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 301 - Seminar in Anthropological Theory

• This course must be taken prior to Senior year and is offered in the Spring of each year. Very few study abroad courses serve as an equivalent. If you plan to study abroad during the Spring semester of your Junior year, you must take this course in the Spring of your Sophomore year unless your study abroad program offers an approved equivalent.

• ANTH 302 - Research Methods for Understanding Health & Culture

• This course must be taken prior to senior year and is offered in the Fall of each year. Some study abroad programs may offer a course that would fulfill this requirement, though it is highly desirable that you take this course at Wheaton. Consult your advisor if you plan to be abroad during your Junior year in the Fall semester.

• ANTH 401 - Senior Seminar

Six additional Anthropology courses

• ANTH 199 - Independent Study
• ANTH 230 - Language and Culture
• ANTH 235 - Peoples and Cultures of Latin America
• ANTH 245 - Indigenous Movements of Latin America
• ANTH 246 - Imagining a Just World through Action
• ANTH 265 - Medical Anthropology
• ANTH 266 - Global Health: Power, Sex, and Gender
• ANTH 267 - Inequality and Health
• ANTH 298 - Global Motherhood
• ANTH 299 - Independent Study
• ANTH 311 - Violence Against Women
• ANTH 333 - Economic Anthropology
• ANTH 357 - Indigenous Religions
• ANTH 398 - Environmental Health & Justice
• ANTH 398 - Global Motherhood
• ANTH 399 - Independent Study
• ANTH 499 - Independent Research
• ANTH 500 - Individual Research

• The following courses may also be used as credit toward the Anthropology Major:

  • ARTH 230 Introduction to Museum Studies  
  • ARTH 334 Exhibiting Africa: Past & Present  
  • ARTH 335 Exhibition Design  
  • An approved course in a study abroad program

Notes

Majors who have taken a first-year experience (FYE) course with an Anthropology Department faculty member may petition to count the FYE as credit toward the major.

Students who plan to pursue graduate study should strongly consider taking at least one additional 300-level course beyond the required courses as well as achieving proficiency in a second language.

Anthropology and Anthropology & Public Health majors may also be able to take some 200-level courses at the 300-level.