Anthropology Degree Plan
Degree Options
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology
Minors
Anthropology
Admission to the Major Requirements
Students may be admitted as Anthropology majors upon declaring their intent to the department.
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Suggested Classes for First-year Students
- Anth 101: General Anthropology*
- Anth 130: Great Discoveries in Archaeology*
- Anth 201: Art and Society*
- Anth 203: Global Cultural Diversity*
- Anth 230: Archaeological Methods & Interpretation
- Suggested Classes for Transfer Students
- Anth 203: Global Cultural Diversity*
- Anth 230: Archaeological Methods & Interpretation
- Anth 260: Introduction to Biological Anthropology*
- Anth 268: Sex, Evolution & Human Nature*
Math Requirement
Any QUAN Course, most commonly:
- Math 105: Exploring Mathematics
- Math 212: Introduction to Statistical Methods (Preferred)
- Phil 201: Elementary Logic
Core Courses
- Anth 203: Global Cultural Diversity*
- Anth 230: Archaeological Methods & Interpretation
- Anth 260: Introduction to Biological Anthropology*
- Anth 390: History of Anthropological Thought*
- Anth 490: Integrative Themes in Anthropology*
*Anthropology offers courses that fulfill UCORE requirements.
For more information
anthro.wsu.edu
anthro@wsu.edu
509-335-3441
Student Club
The Anthropology Club offers a series of activities designed to bring faculty and students together in informal gatherings that facilitate and expand hands-on learning opportunities and foster greater anthropological understanding. The club is open to any currently enrolled, full-time undergraduate students.
Program Strengths
- The flexible degree program allows students to concentrate in cultural anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, or biological anthropology, while receiving a broad background in all four.
- Anthropology students can join WSU faculty working throughout the world for cultural, archaeological, and biological anthropological research.
- The department hosts a regular lecture series where faculty, advanced graduate students, and visiting experts share their work.
- Faculty are experts in archaeology and cultural, biological, medical, and evolutionary anthropology.
- The Anthropology Museum houses the largest repository of archaeological artifacts from the interior Northwest.
Areas of Faculty Research
- Life history theory, human behavioral ecology; immune function and pathogens (A. Blackwell)
- Psychological and medical anthropology, cognition and culture, contemporary social issues in Thailand, Southeast Asia (J. Cassaniti)
- Archaeology of Childhood and Boarding Schools Archaeology, Peopling of the Americas (M. .Cory)
- Archaeological and ethnographic communities in the American Southwest; megalithic southern Ethiopia (A. Duff)
- Southwest Archaeology, Architecture, Use of Space, Depositional Processes, Social Theory, Museum Interpretation, History of Archaeology (S. Fladd)
- Hunter-gatherers of Northwest Coast of North America, spatial analysis, zooarchaeology (C. Grier)
- Depression & other mental health issues in evolutionary perspective (E. Hagen)
- Anthropology of childhood, also infectious and parasitic diseases (B. Hewlett)
- Life history theory, child development, reproductive strategies; research in Central African Republic and SW Ethiopia (C. Meehan)
- Medical anthropology, social inequalities in health, food security, nutrition, and bio-cultural perspectives (C. Owens)
- Behavioral ecology, evolutionary and social psychology, behavioral economics, development anthropology, Latin America (A. Pisor)
- Medical anthropology concentrating in family health, ethnomedicine, and ethnobotany (M. Quinlan)
- Behavioral ecology, medical anthropology, cross-cultural analysis, research in East Africa (R. Quinlan)
- Environmental archaeology in New World societies, zooarchaeology, stable isotope analysis (E. Thornton)
- Indigenous Archaeology, Rock Art, Archaeological Ethics, Gender, Landscape (E. Van Alst)
- Social processes of film production, commodities in media industries, film costume, research in Hindi film Wilkinson)
Career Options
- Education/Outreach
- Archaeology/Cultural Resource Management (CRM)
- Historic Preservation
- Museum/Curation/Project Design
- Community Development
- Advocacy (human rights/social justice)
- Human/Social Services
- Design (products and/or services)
- International Development/Affairs
- Forensics
- Administration/Management
- Ethnography/Cultural Anthropology
- Evaluation/Assessment
- Health (international/public health)
- Environment and Natural Resources
- Tourism/Heritage
- Healthcare Management/Services/Delivery
- Management Consulting/Organizational Development/Training
- Social Impact Assessment
- Market Research
- Law/Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement
- Humanitarian Efforts