2023-2024 Undergraduate Bulletin

Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts

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.

Learning Outcomes. Students will:

  • Have a broad-based familiarity with the theories, positions, methodologies and topic areas that occupy the discipline of Anthropology.
  • Develop a sense of the major historical trends in Anthropology from its origins to the present, including the discipline’s distinctive concern with humankind in all its aspects, the culture concept, cultural relativism, and ethnocentrism among other foundational ideas, the historical role of anthropology in relation to the colonized world, and the application of anthropological knowledge to the solution of human problems in global, cross-cultural settings.
  • Understand and appreciate diversity in all its dynamic complexity, exploring the subject both at the level of the individual and of whole societies.
  • Present a considered written interpretation of a passage from a primary source anthropological text, laying out the main conclusion(s) and the argument(s) that the text advances, evaluating their significance in relation to other arguments and positions within anthropology, and presenting a critical analysis of the text.
  • Carry out a research project (fieldwork-based or library-based) that includes formulating and justifying a research question, collecting and analyzing data, and articulating conclusions.
  • Work in fields that require a nuanced perception of cultural difference; the ability to analyze, contextualize and interpret culture/cultural behaviors and beliefs; and the ability to integrate multiple threads of inquiry into a comprehensive whole.

Credits.

Anthropology Major 36
General Education 42
Electives 42
Total Credits Required for B.A. Degree 120


Coordinator.
Professor Shonna Trinch, Department of Anthropology (212.237.8262, strinch@jjay.cuny.edu)

Advising information. Anthropology Advising Resources Page (including Sample Four Year Advising Plan)

Additional information. Students who enrolled for the first time at the College or changed to this major in September 2018 or thereafter must complete the major in the form presented here.  Students who enrolled prior to that date may choose the form shown here or the earlier version of the major.  A copy of the earlier version may be obtained in the 2017-18 Undergraduate Bulletin

Foundational Course

ANT 101Introduction to Anthropology

3

Advisors recommendation: ANT 101 satisfies the Flexible Core: World Cultures and Global Issues area of the Gen Ed Program.

Total Credit Hours: 3

Part One. Topical Core

Required
ANT 332Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Anthropological Perspective

3

Choose Three
ANT 208Urban Anthropology

3

ANT 210/PSY 210Sex and Culture

3

ANT 220Language and Culture

3

ANT 315Systems of Law, Justice and Injustice Across Cultures

3

Total Credit Hours: 12

Part Two. Methods and Theory Core

Required

ANT 305Theory in Anthropology

3

ANT 325Ethnographic Research Methods in Anthropology

3

ANT 327Writing for a Multi-Cultural World: Ethnographic Writing

3

ANT 405Senior Seminar in Anthropology

3

Total Credit Hours: 12

Part Three. Anthropology Electives

Choose three

ANT 212Applied Anthropology

3

ANT 224/PSY 224/SOC 224Death, Dying and Society: A Life Crises Management Issue

3

ANT 228/ENG 228Introduction to Language

3

ANT 229Global Asian Popular Culture

3

ANT 230Culture and Crime

3

ANT 310/PSY 310/SOC 310Culture and Personality

3

ANT 317Anthropology of Development

3

ANT 319Anthropology of Global Health

3

ANT 324Anthropology of Work

3

ANT 328/ENG 328Forensic Linguistics: Language as Evidence in the Courts

3

ANT 330American Cultural Pluralism, Justice and the Law

3

ANT 339Asian American Identity and Struggles for Justice

3

ANT 347Structural Violence & Social Suffering

3

ANT 380Selected Topics in Anthropology

3

SSC 220Writing in the Social Sciences: Learning Powerful Authorship

3

STA 250Principles and Methods of Statistics

3

Total Credit Hours: 9

Total Credit Hours: 36