Major Preparation

Note that the AA-T program has different requirements

The Anthropology Program educates students to understand and value the cultural and social diversity on a global scale, both past and present. By studying cultural, physical and linguistic anthropology and archaeology, students gain valuable skills and knowledge to prepare them for transferring to a four-year university and for careers and success in the workplace. Through innovative learning experiences, the anthropology program connects students to the community, and heightens their awareness of today's critical human problems. Through these activities the program introduces more educated citizens into our community who seek to solve problems and improve our world.

Program Learning Outcomes:

• Students will be able to understand and apply cultural relativism; they will be able to convey an understanding of multiple cultural perspectives.
• Students will demonstrate a core knowledge base in anthropology appreciating and reflecting on human diversity in the past and present.
• Students will integrate their knowledge and understanding of anthropological concepts and methods to creatively and ethically solve real-world human problems at the local, regional, and global scales.
• Students will be able to articulate key concepts and events in the process of human evolution and demonstrate knowledge, skills and abilities toward that end.
• Students will be able to critically assess the important role that the past plays on the present, and conversely, the important role that the present has on the past from both local, regional, national and worldwide perspectives.

Career Opportunities:

Anthropology serves as a basic springboard for understanding and working within the global arena. Anthropology graduates find opportunities in colleges, universities and museums as teachers and researchers, in federal and state governments as community planners, social science and public health analysts, archaeologists and education officers. There are also employment possibilities with the United Nations, UNESCO and World Health organizations. International corporations with offices and plants overseas need anthropologists, as do consulting firms that deal with both private corporations and governments. With the basic anthropology courses, the student can transfer to most of the universities in the country. The student may want to add statistics and business principles to enhance employment possibilities.

Units required for Major: 36

Units required for Certificate of Proficiency: 14-20

Degree Requirements:

• English proficiency: ENGL 1A, 1AH, 1S & 1T, ESLL 26 or equivalent.
• Mathematics proficiency: MATH 17, 105, 108 or equivalent.
• A minimum of 90 units is required to include:
• Completion of one of the following general education patterns: Foothill General Education, CSU General Education Breadth Requirements or the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC)
• Core courses (12 units)
• Support courses (24 units)

NOTE: All courses pertaining to the major must be taken for a letter grade. In addition, a grade of "C" or better is required for all core and support courses used for the degree.

Core Courses (12 units)

ANTH 1 Introduction to Physical Anthropology (4 units)

or ANTH 1H Honors Introduction to Physical Anthropology (4 units)

ANTH 2A Cultural Anthropology (4 units)

or ANTH 2AH Honors Cultural Anthropology (4 units)

ANTH 8 Introduction to Archaeology (4 units)

Support Courses (24 units)

Select 12 units from the following:

ANTH 1L Physical Anthropology Laboratory (1 unit)

or ANTH 1HL Honors Physical Anthropology Laboratory (1 unit)

ANTH 2B Patterns of Culture (4 units)

ANTH 3 World Prehistory: The Rise & Fall of Early Civilizations (4 units)

ANTH 4 First Peoples of North America (4 units)

ANTH 5 Magic, Science & Religion (4 units)

ANTH 6 Peoples of Africa (4 units)

ANTH 12 Applied Anthropology (4 units)

ANTH 13 Introduction to Forensic Anthropology (4 units)

ANTH 13L Forensic Anthropology Laboratory (1 unit)

ANTH 14 Linguistic Anthropology (4 units)

ANTH 15 Medical Anthropology: Methods & Practice (4 units)

ANTH 16L Basic Archaeology Laboratory (1 unit)

or ANTH 17L Intermediate Archaeology Laboratory (2 units)

ANTH 20 Native Peoples of California (4 units)

ANTH 22 The Aztec, Maya, Inca & Their Predecessors (4 units)

GEOG 1 Physical Geography (5 units)

or GEOG 2 Human Geography (4 units)

PSYC 7 Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (5 units)

or SOC 7 Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (5 units)

PSYC 10 Research Methods & Designs (5 units)

or SOC 10 Research Methods & Designs (5 units)

And 12 units* from the following:

* Students may also use courses listed in the first section of support courses to fulfill the requirement for the second section of support courses.

ANTH 51 Archaeology Survey (2 units)

ANTH 52 Archaeological Field Methods (4 units)

ANTH 55 Applied Cultural Anthropology Field Methods (1 unit)

ANTH 56 Applied Physical Anthropology Field Methods (1 unit)

ANTH 57 Applied Archaeology Field Methods (1 unit)

ANTH 67A Cultures of the World: Ecuador (4 units)

ANTH 67B Cultures of the World: Belize (4 units)

ANTH 67C Cultures of the World: British Isles (4 units)

ANTH 67E Cultures of the World: Mediterranean (4 units)

ANTH 70R Independent Study in Anthropology (1 unit)

ANTH 71R Independent Study in Anthropology (2 units)

ANTH 72R Independent Study in Anthropology (3 units)

ANTH 73R Independent Study in Anthropology (4 units)

BIOL 1C Evolution, Systematics & Ecology (6 units)

BIOL 10 General Biology: Basic Principles (5 units)

HIST 4A History of Western Civilization to 800 CE (4 units)

HIST 8 History of Latin America (4 units)

HIST 9 History of Contemporary Europe (4 units)

or HIST 9H Honors History of Contemporary Europe (4 units)

HIST 18 Introduction to Middle Eastern Civilization (4 units)

HUMN 1 Cultures, Civilizations & Ideas: The Ancient World (4 units)

SOC 30 Social Psychology (4 units)

or PSYC 30 Social Psychology (4 units)

SOC 40 Aspects of Marriage & Family (4 units)

SOSC 20 Cross-Cultural Perspectives for a Multicultural Society (4 units)

WMN 5 Introduction to Women's Studies (4 units)