Cultural Anthropology

Minor
18 Credit Hours

This program is offered by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences/Global Languages, Cultures and Societies Department and is only available at the St. Louis main campus.

For information on the general requirements for a minor, see Minor under the Academic Policies and Information section of this catalog.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the history and theory of cultural anthropology, characterize various types of ethnographic work and describe the ways applied anthropology can be used to solve human problems.
• Evaluate and critique the assumptions, purposes, methods and ethics of anthropological fieldwork and research.
• Illustrate the centrality of culture in the human experience and apply this understanding to a range of social problems such as class, caste and stratification, race, ethnicity and nationalism, and the unequal access to social resources that emerge from these systems.
• Distinguish individual, social and cultural frames of analysis through the use of social and anthropological theory.
• Demonstrate through the verbal and written forms a multicultural and cross-cultural perspective of our world, and distinguish the factors contributing to diversity and inequality within and among nations.
• Understand our human past and the history of human civilization through archaeological concepts, theories and methods.

Special Requirements

In addition to the general University requirements for a minor:

• Students who transfer in ANSO 1060 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology must take an additional 3 credit hour ANSO elective at Webster University.

Required Courses

• ANSO 1060 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3 hours)
• ANSO 2200 Peoples and Cultures (3 hours)
• ANSO Electives (12 hours, of which 6 hours are at 3000-level or above)