The major in Anthropology provides students with a strong foundation in Cultural Anthropology and the perspectives and expertise it offers: knowledge of regions, peoples, cultures, international/global issues; skills to research, analyze, communicate, work and use information in global, cross-cultural settings; and the values of respect and concern for other cultures and peoples. The major also provides students experience in applying that knowledge to social problems that affect their own communities.
Part One. Required Courses
| ANT 101 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | 3 |
| ANT 208 | Urban Anthropology | 3 |
| ANT 212 | Applied Anthropology | 3 |
| ANT 220 | Language and Culture | 3 |
| ANT 305 | Theory in Anthropology | 3 |
| ANT 332 | Class, Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Anthropological Perspective | 3 |
| ANT 405 | Senior Seminar in Anthropology | 3 |
Total Credit Hours: 21
Part Two. Research Methods
Required
| STA 250 | Principles and Methods of Statistics | 3 |
| ANT 325 | Ethnographic Research Methods in Anthropology | 3 |
Total Credit Hours: 6
Part three. Major Electives
Select one of the following two concentrations, A) Global Cultural Forms and Social Inequalities or B) Anthropology of Law, Power, and Politics.
Concentration A: Global Cultural Forms and Social Inequalities (“Social Inequality”)
This concentration provides students the opportunity to deeply explore various dimensions of social inequality now manifest on a global scale and across shifting cultural landscapes. Globalization-a process that began centuries ago-has reached new, unprecedented heights in the 21st century bringing with it new ideas, new symbols, new institutions, new social problems, new forms of inequality, as well as new forms of response and resistance. Courses in this concentration provide insight and information on key patterns and processes of social stratification, difference and disparity and global responses to disparity. They examine the structural and institutional forces implicated in inequality, global, national and local policies and practices, gendered aspects of inequality and resistance, and shifting cultural beliefs, rituals, and practices.
Select three courses
Concentration B: Anthropology of Law, Power and Politics (“Law”)
This concentration is in keeping with John Jay College’s traditional area of focus on legal systems and the law. These areas are situated in broader contexts of power and politics, viewed from an anthropological, cross-cultural perspective.
This concentration is for students with a particular interest in legal systems and how these are constructed, structured, experienced, and rooted historically and culturally. Courses in this concentration provide insight and information on cross-cultural legal systems, the intersections of law, power and culture, the role of language in the construction and experience of legal systems, and structural and institutional forces implicated in social inequality.
Select three courses
Total Credit Hours: 9