Major Concentration Anthropology (36 credits)

Program Requirements

The Major concentration is especially appropriate for students who aim to take courses across several sub-disciplinary or topical concentrations, and for whom specialization is premature. There are no prerequisites for admission to the Major Concentration Anthropology. Students are encouraged to take a course in quantitative methods (listed under the Honours program), but this course cannot count as part of this concentration.

Complementary Courses (36 credits)

200 Level

6 credits selected from 200-level courses in Anthropology (ANTH).

Core (350 Level)

6 credits, from the following Core courses (350 level):
(Note: These are restricted to students in any Anthropology program with U2 standing or above.)

• ANTH 352 History of Anthropological Theory (3 credits)

  Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  Anthropology : Exploration in the history of anthropological theory; schools, controversies, intellectual history, sociology of knowledge.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.

  • Fall

  • Prerequisites: one 200-level anthropology course and one other anthropology course at any level

  • Restriction: Honours, Joint Honours, Major and Minor students in Anthropology, U2 standing or above

• ANTH 355 Theories of Culture and Society (3 credits)

  Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  Anthropology : Contributions to contemporary anthropological theory; theoretical paradigms and debates; forms of anthropological explanation; the role of theory in the practice of anthropology; concepts of society, culture and structure; cultural evolution and relativity; interpretive anthropology, post-modernism.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.

  • Winter

  • Prerequisites: one 200-level anthropology course and one other anthropology course at any level

  • Restriction: Honours, Joint Honours, Major and Minor students in Anthropology, U2 standing or above

• ANTH 357 Archaeological Methods (3 credits)

  Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  Anthropology : The collection of materials in field investigations and their analysis to yield cultural information. The processes of inference and reconstruction in archaeological interpretation.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.

  • Fall

  • Prerequisites: ANTH 201 and one other course in archaeology

  • Restrictions: Honours, Joint Honours and Major students in Anthropology, U2 standing or above

• ANTH 358 The Process of Anthropological Research (3 credits)

  Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  Anthropology : The nature of anthropological research as evidenced in monographs and articles; processes of concept formation and interpretation of data; the problem of objectivity.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.

  • Fall

  • Prerequisites: one 200-level anthropology course and one other anthropology course at any level

  • Restrictions: Honours, Joint Honours, Major and Minor students in Anthropology, U2 standing or above

• ANTH 359 History of Archaeological Theory (3 credits)

  Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)

  Overview

  Anthropology : A systematic investigation of the theories that have guided the interpretation of prehistoric archaeological data since the Middle Ages; the relationship between these theories and theoretical developments in the other social sciences.

  Terms: This course is not scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year.

  Instructors: There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024-2025 academic year.

  • Winter

  • Prerequisites: ANTH 201 or ANTH 203 or ANTH 210.

  • Restriction(s): Students must be U2 or U3 standing.

400 Level

6 credits, two 400-level Anthropology (ANTH) courses.

Undergraduate Level

18 credits of additional undergraduate-level Anthropology courses of which no more than 6 credits may be at the 200 level.