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 with a Concentration in Cultural Resource Management
The concentration in Cultural Resource Management (CRM) is designed to enhance the field training, laboratory analysis skills, knowledge of heritage management laws, and other skills necessary for employment in this rapidly growing field of professional applied anthropology and historic preservation. Employment in the field of CRM is available through various federal and state government agencies, such as the Bureau of Land Management, California Department of Parks and Recreation, USDA Forest Service, and the National Park Service. Other positions are frequently available with privately owned environmental firms whose services are frequently required by federal and state agencies who must meet the requirements of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). By offering an extensive curriculum with heavy focus on methodology, fieldwork, and applied skills (e.g., stone tool analysis, human osteology, vertebrate faunal analysis), and requiring students to complete a professional internship (ANTH 4860) at the Southern San Joaquin Valley Archaeological Information Center or at the Laboratory of Archaeological Sciences (LAS) (both of which are on the campus), we shall better empower our students to be highly competitive in today’s CRM job market. This concentration facilitates job-placement during and after completion of the Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology and enhances the possibility of acceptance into M.A. and Ph.D. programs in the professional and applied fields of the discipline.
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| 2 |
| 9 |
| 6 |
| 6 |
| 2 | 0 |
| 1 | 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 | |
| ANTH 2100 | Introductory Field Archaeology | 3 |
| ANTH 3130 | Introduction to Laboratory Methods in Archaeology | 3 |
| ANTH 3210 | Human Osteology | 3 |
| 6 |
| Native Peoples of North America | |
| Native Peoples of California | |
| American Indian History | |
| ANTH 4100 | Cultural Resource Management | 3 |
| ANTH 4130 | Introduction to Lithic Technology | 3 |
| ANTH 4140 | Archaeological Faunal Analysis | 3 |
| ANTH 4150 | Adv Lab Methods in Archaeology | 3 |
| HIST 4420 | Japan's Empire, 1895-1945 | 3 |
| GEOL 3040 | Sedimentology and Stratigraphy | 4 |
| 3 | 3 |
| GIS for Natural Sciences | |
| American Indian History | |
| Gender in East Asia | |
| Nationalism in Modern Pacific Asia | |
| People, Ethics & Other Animals | |
| Introduction to Operations Management | |
| The Principles and Practices of Supervision | |
| ANTH 3100 | Method & Theory in Archaeology | 3 |
| ANTH 4860 | Internship in Anthropology | 3 |
| Total Units | 120 |
