Anthropology

at Northern Kentucky University

Anthropology Minor

These requirements apply to students enrolling at NKU in the Fall 1996 or after.

The minor in Anthropology consists of 22 semester hours and requires the completion of the following:

  1. Six core courses (16 semester hours):
    ____ ANT 100 Cultural Anthropology
    ____ ANT 110 Introduction to Archaeology
    ____ ANT 202 Introduction to Physical Anthropology
    ____ ANT 202L Introduction to Physical Anthropology Laboratory
    ____ ANT 210 Introduction to Archaeological Method and Theory
    ____ ANT 275 Language and Culture
  1. One of the following topical courses (3 semester hours):
    ____ ANT 231 Modern American Indians
    ____ ANT 273 Race, Gender, and Culture
    ____ ANT 294 Topics: Studies in Anthropology (if appropriate as a topical course)
    ____ ANT 301 World Patterns of Race and Ethnicity
    ____ ANT 307 Museum Methods
    ____ ANT 308 Cultural Resource Management
    ____ ANT 310 African Arts
    ____ ANT 312 Social Organization
    ____ ANT 317 Ecological Anthropology
    ____ ANT 318 Prehistoric Ecology
    ____ ANT 320 Religion and Culture
    ____ ANT 325 Applied Anthropology
    ____ ANT 330 Women, Gender, and Culture
    ____ ANT 335 Advanced Archaeological Field Methods
    ____ ANT 336 Historical Archaeology
    ____ ANT 340 Ethnographic Methods
    ____ ANT 342 Quantitative Methods in Anthropology
    ____ ANT 345 Environmental Anthropology
    ____ ANT 350 North American Archaeology
    ____ ANT 352 Archaeology of Mesoamerica
    ____ ANT 355 Archaeological Laboratory Analysis
    ____ ANT 358 Art and Culture
    ____ ANT 363 Language and Thought
    ____ ANT 371 Psychological Anthropology
    ____ ANT 372 Peasant Societies
    ____ ANT 375 Anthropology of Aging
    ____ ANT 380 Origins of Civilization
    ____ ANT 392 Research Topics in Archaeology
    ____ ANT 394 Topics in Anthropology
    ____ ANT 401 Culture Theory
    ____ ANT 410 Archaeological Theory
  1. One additional course in archaeology or in an ethnographic area (3 or 4 semester hours):
    ____ ANT 201 World Cultures
    ____ ANT 215 Archaeological Field Methods
    ____ ANT 230 North American Indians
    ____ ANT 240 Peoples of Africa
    ____ ANT 245 Peoples of Latin America
    ____ ANT 270 Native Australia and Oceania
    ____ ANT 294 Topics: Studies in Anthropology (if appropriate as an ethnographic area course)
    ____ ANT 308 Cultural Resource Management
    ____ ANT 318 Prehistoric Ecology
    ____ ANT 335 Advanced Archaeological Field Methods
    ____ ANT 336 Historical Archaeology
    ____ ANT 350 North American Archaeology
    ____ ANT 352 Archaeology of Mesoamerica
    ____ ANT 355 Archaeological Laboratory Analysis
    ____ ANT 360 Indians of Mexico and Guatemala
    ____ ANT 370 Celtic Europe
    ____ ANT 380 Origins of Civilization
    ____ ANT 385 Peoples of East and Southeast Asia
    ____ ANT 392 Research Methods in Archaeology
    ____ ANT 410 Archaeological Theory

Note: Some courses are listed in more than one category, but a student may not use the same course to fulfill the requirement in more than one category. ANT 294 and ANT 394/399 may be taken more than once if the topic is different each time.