This program is being discontinued pending SACSCOC approval and is not accepting applications for admission. The University is still authorized to offer the program and issue the associated credential for students who are currently enrolled in the program.

Anthropology as the original discipline of culture studies and the pioneer of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion through cross-cultural study and understanding makes an excellent minor to add to other majors in the social sciences, humanities, and health sciences. The Anthropology curriculum offers courses focused on living societies, public health, human evolution, forensic science, and prehistoric peoples from around the globe.

Program Requirements

• Minimum of 15 credit hours with the ATY prefix.

Recommended Courses

General Anthropology courses include:

• ATY 113 Engaging Culture
• ATY 311 Reading Culture and Society
• ATY 363 History of Anthropological Theory

Ethnology and/or Ethnography courses focused on the study of living populations and cultural diversity that are especially useful for majors in Economics, Geography, International  Studies, and Social Studies include:

• ATY 113 Engaging Culture 
• ATY 230 Cultures of Native North America
• ATY 315 World Ethnographies
• ATY 333 Latin American Societies and Cultures
• ATY 426 Food and Culture in a Global Context
• ATY 450 Environmental Anthropology
• ATY 465 Medical Anthropology

Archaeology and Historical Archaeology courses focused on the societies of the past that are especially useful for majors in Classical Studies, History or Social Studies include:

• ATY 158 Adventures in Time-Travel through Archaeology  
• ATY 208 Lost Tribes and Sunken Lands 
• ATY 334 Latin American Art and Archaeology
• ATY 341 Paleolithic Archaeology
• ATY 370 Historical Archaeology of the Modern World
• ATY 440 Colliding Worlds: Forming America
• ATY 462 Archaeology of the Southeastern United States

Physical and/or Biological Anthropology courses focused on evolution, human biological diversity, health, biology, chemistry, nutrition or forensics include:

• ATY 153 The Human Species 
• ATY 231 Race and Human Diversity
• ATY 357 Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
• ATY 359 Forensic Anthropology
• ATY 426 Food and Culture in a Global Context
• ATY 453 Human Osteology
• ATY 455
• ATY 459 Anthropology of Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
• ATY 465 Medical Anthropology