School of Liberal Arts: Anthropology
2008-2009 Academic Year
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must be taken in each of the four major subdivisions of anthropology:
social/cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and physical anthropology.
Other anthropology courses used to satisfy the 30-credit requirement should be
chosen in response to the student's specific interests. Up to six credits toward the
anthropology major may be given for courses offered by other departments of the
university, provided that such courses are directly relevant to anthropology and to
the student's specific course of study. Requests for approval of courses offered by
other departments (for example, art history, biology, economics, geology, history,
mathematics, philosophy, psychology, sociology) should be addressed to the
adviser of majors. This flexibility permits many of the students majoring in
anthropology to have double majors in their disciplines and to integrate their
study of anthropology with various preprofessional (e.g., premedical) curricula.
Students majoring in anthropology may elect to graduate with either the B.A. or
B.S. degree. Those who choose to receive the B.S. degree must have credit for
two mathematics courses: a) one calculus course, MATH 121 or equivalent; and
b) one statistics course MATH 123, or a higher level class in statistics.
Students planning graduate work in anthropology should take coursework in
statistics either outside the major or within it (Anthropology 601).
The subject matter of anthropology is such that most of the curriculum is not an
explicitly graded sequence. Few anthropology courses at Tulane have specific
prerequisites (exceptions, mostly linguistic courses, are noted in the catalog), and
anthropology majors are expected to choose their courses from among all those
with numbers less than 700. The 600-level courses are specifically designed for
undergraduate as well as graduate students, and all junior and senior majors
should choose freely from among these offerings.
The anthropology department administers the Kenneth J. Opat Fund in
Anthropology, reserved for the support of undergraduate research in
anthropology. Students majoring in anthropology are encouraged to seek further
information from the adviser of majors about the use of this research fund.
ANTH 101 Human Origins (3)
Staff. Biological evolution of the human species and the archaeology of early
man. Relationship of man to other primates, living and extinct. Cultural
achievements of early man and their relationship to biological evolution and the
natural environment. The fossil and archaeological record of Pliocene and
Pleistocene man.
ANTH 102 Cultural Anthropology (3)
Staff. The observed range of variation of ways of life around the world. The
cross-cultural investigation of becoming and being human. Comparative treatment
of social organization, subsistence activities, values, and religion.