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.

The Anthropology Major provides training in cultural awareness, understanding, and tolerance, human biological development and variation, as well as social and behavioral science of the past and present. The program presents a holistic view of humans interacting in society and with their environments to explore cultural and biological change through time. The impact of social, political, economic, health and environmental factors on modern, multi-ethnic populations across the globe, including the United States, is emphasized. Through courses in anthropological archaeology, biological anthropology, and cultural anthropology the Anthropology Major enriches a foundational liberal arts education and prepares students to pursue professional careers in our diverse, multi-cultural world, or graduate or professional studies.

Building Knowledge, Obtaining Life-Long Skills

The Anthropology Major is designed to create globally aware, life-long learners with critical thinking and communication skills necessary to be successful in an ever-shifting marketplace of ideas, technology, and employment. Coursework in Anthropology offers students high-impact, hands-on research opportunities, problem-solving, written and oral communication, social agility, and cultural competence. Anthropology faculty bring their research, which is based in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the US, into the classroom and offer courses in primatology, human evolution, race and biological diversity, forensics, historic and prehistoric archaeology, community responses to crisis and disaster, public health, medical anthropology, environmental anthropology, economics, politics, gender, and social inequality. The program welcomes all second majors or minors seeking to enrich their program of study. 

Overall Requirements

• 120 credit hours, to include at least 36 credits at or above the 300 course level.
• All anthropology majors must complete a minimum of 37 credits in anthropology with an overall GPA in the major of at least a 2.0, including the courses as listed below.
• Although not a requirement beyond the 37 credit minimum, majors may choose to take additional courses in any of the subdisciplines: Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, or Biological Anthropology. Students may select appropriate courses in consultation with a faculty member in one of the subdisciplines. 

Degree Program Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
University Requirements
General Education Requirements (MAC)
College of Arts and Sciences Additional Requirements (CIC)

Major Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
Core Courses		16
ATY 113	Engaging Culture
ATY 153 & 153L	The Human Species and The Human Species: Laboratory
ATY 158	Adventures in Time-Travel through Archaeology
ATY 363	History of Anthropological Theory
ATY 495	Contemporary Issues in Anthropology
Methods		3
Select one of the following:
ATY 360	Methods in Archaeology
ATY 361	Methods in Biological Anthropology
ATY 362	Methods in Cultural Anthropology
Data Interpretation		3
Select one of the following:
ATY 321	Qualitative Data & Anthropological Knowledge
ATY 369	Statistics for Anthropology
Seminars		6
Select two of the following:
ATY 350	Human Origins and Evolution
ATY 420	Economic Anthropology
ATY 423	Applying Archaeology in the Real World
ATY 424	Applying Anthropology in the Real World
ATY 426	Food and Culture in a Global Context
ATY 440	Colliding Worlds: Forming America
ATY 444	Archaeology of Power/Politics
ATY 449	Gender Archaeology
ATY 450	Environmental Anthropology
ATY 457	Primate Behavior
ATY 459	Anthropology of Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
ATY 462	Archaeology of the Southeastern United States
ATY 465	Medical Anthropology
ATY 469	Anthropology of Infectious Disease
Electives		9
Select three additional ATY courses. *

*

Only one of these courses can be at the 200 level. Only one of the following courses can be applied to this requirement: ATY 497, ATY 498, or ATY 499.

Optional Concentration

The optional concentration as detailed following the major requirements may be added, but is not required.

• Anthropology Licensure in Social Studies High School Teaching

Electives

Electives sufficient to complete the 120 credit hours required for the degree.

Anthropology Licensure in Social Studies High School Teaching

Teacher Licensure Requirements

Students majoring in anthropology may seek Standard Professional I teacher licensure in comprehensive social studies with an endorsement in anthropology. Completion of licensure requirements will allow majors to teach Social Studies as well as anthropology in secondary school. Many of the requirements for licensure satisfy liberal education requirements in the college as well as for the major and the Social Studies requirements. Majors who wish to pursue the Standard Professional I License in social studies should consult with the departmental Social Studies committee representative.

The courses listed below satisfy competencies for the Standard Professional I License in Secondary Social Studies.

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
Additional Requirements for Teacher Licensure		45
ECO 201	Principles of Microeconomics
or ECO 202	Principles of Macroeconomics
HIS 308	Navigating World History
HIS 316	Interpreting American History
HIS 430	Historical Methods for Social Studies Teachers
HIS 440	Principles and Practices for Teaching History
Choose one additional 300-level history course
The following courses must be taken in a specified sequence, terminating in student teaching in the spring semester of the senior year. See the online Secondary Education Handbook for more information.
TED 435	Literacy in the Content Area
ERM 405	Measurement and Assessment in Teaching
TED 444	Educational Psychology for the Secondary Grades
TED 445	Human Diversity, Teaching, and Learning
TED 453	Teaching Practices and Curriculum in Social Studies
TED 465	Student Teaching: Secondary School
TED 466	Student Teaching Seminar

 Disciplinary Honors in Anthropology

Requirements

• A minimum of 15 credit hours as defined below.
• UNC Greensboro cumulative GPA of 3.30 or better or, for transfer students, cumulative GPA of 3.30 or better from all prior institutions.

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
Required		6-9
ATY 493	Honors Work **
HSS 490	Senior Honors Project 1
6 credits of Honors course work in the major *		6
3 credits of other Honors course work in the major or another area		3

*

ATY 495 cannot be used as an Honors course.

**

ATY 493 should be taken before HSS 490.

¹

Working with a faculty mentor, a senior honors project HSS 490 needs to consist of a 10,000 – 15,000 word thesis (or higher depending on the topic and size of the dataset) or a publishable paper (excluding title page and bibliography).

Recognition

Receive a Certificate of Disciplinary Honors in Anthropology; have that accomplishment, along with the title of the Senior Honors Project, noted on the official transcript; and be recognized at a banquet held at the end of the spring semester.

Honors Advisor

Contact Charles Egeland at cpegeland@uncg.edu for further information and guidance about Honors in Anthropology. To apply: http://honorscollege.uncg.edu/forms/disc-application.pdf