Program Description
The program in Anthropology administers one degree, a Bachelor of Arts. Students have the option of adding the concentration in Cultural Resource Management, which is designed to enhance the field training, laboratory analysis, heritage management laws, and applied skills necessary for employment in this rapidly growing field of professional applied anthropology and historic preservation.
The Anthropology program faculty stresses a close working relationship with students and strongly encourages students to take full advantage of the many opportunities the department provides for collaborative research with faculty, student internships, and other direct collaboration of professional skills.
Mission Statement
As a university with a diverse student population that serves underrepresented segments of your society, CSUB recognizes the need for a modern university to provide a global perspective on the human condition throughout time that is firmly grounded in the natural and social sciences. The central concern of Anthropological inquiry is to understand human biological and behavioral diversity, as well as the processes by which that diversity has evolved across time and space. The core of the anthropological perspective is an evidence-based holistic perspective on the human experience, both past and present. The mission of the B.A. program in Anthropology is to provide students with a basic open-minded understanding and appreciation for the diversity of human biological and behavioral adaptations to an array of adaptive niches marked by both social and ecological components. Students will be provided with the theoretical and methodological bases necessary for analysis of anthropological data. Upon completion, students will be prepared for entry into an Anthropology graduate program and/or a career that utilizes anthropological knowledge and scientific methodologies. To accomplish this mission, the program has set forth goals and objectives for student learning.
Requirements for the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Anthropology
The Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology brings a uniquely holistic approach to the study of the human condition, viewing people as both biological and cultural organisms in articulation with their environments across both time and space. Anthropology’s comparative, cross-cultural perspective and focus on non-Western and traditional cultures are directly relevant to students planning futures in the multicultural and multiethnic modern world. The program’s offerings reflect emphases on archaeology, biological anthropology and cultural anthropology. Depending on which of these subfields is of primary interest to the student, an appropriate minor is selected in consultation with the student’s faculty advisor. Undergraduates are encouraged to gain experience as teaching assistants as well as to seek opportunities to work as interns in the Southern San Joaquin Valley Information Center, and as interns in various community organizations. Career opportunities include applied anthropology within federal, state, and local government agencies, historic preservation, cultural resource management, museum programs, and forensic anthropology.
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| 2 |
| 9 |
| 6 |
| 6 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 |
| 3 |
| 6 |
| 3 |
| 3 |
| 6 |
| 3 |
| ANTH 1118 | Introduction to Archaeology | 3 |
| ANTH 1208 | Introduction to Biological Anthropology | 3 |
| ANTH 1318 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | 3 |
| MATH 1209 | Statistics in the Modern World | 3 |
| 6 |
| Research Methods in Anthropology | |
| Anthropological Writing | |
| Theory Anthropology | |
| 3 |
| Method & Theory in Archaeology | |
| Human Osteology | |
| Qualitative Research Methods | |
| 9 |
| Native Peoples of North America | |
| Peoples and Cultures of South Asia | |
| Anthropology Through Film | |
| People and the Environment | |
| Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East | |
| ANTH 4400 | Linguistic Anthropology | 3 |
| 3 |
| World Archaeology: An Introduction to Ancient Civilizations | |
| Amazing Archaeology | |
| Evolution and Scientific Creationism | |
| Introductory Field Archaeology | |
| Introduction to the Prehistory of the New World | |
| Selected Topics in Anthropology | |
| Directed Study in Teaching Anthropology | |
| 3 |
| Globalization and Cultural Change | |
| Anthropology of Religion | |
| Anthropology of Death | |
| Anthropology of Gender | |
| Selected Topics in Anthropology | |
| 3 |
| Mummies, Monuments and Gold! Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology | |
| Historical Archaeology | |
| Archaeology of California | |
| Prehistory of North America | |
| Selected Topics in Anthropology | |
| 3 |
| Primate Ecology | |
| Forensic Anthropology | |
| Bioarchaeology | |
| Human Evolution | |
| Selected Topics in Anthropology | |
| ANTH 4900 | Senior Seminar in Anthropology | 3 |
| or ANTH 4880 | Individual Study |
| Total Units | 120 |
Note: One (1) semester unit of credit normally represents one hour of in-class work and 2-3 hours of outside study per week.
