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Minor in Anthropology

University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science 155 courses

About This Program

Bachelor of Arts (BA) The Anthropology major is designed to serve two purposes: to provide a general education in anthropology for students who are pursuing a liberal arts education and to provide preparation for graduate work for students who wish to become professional anthropologists. For both groups of students, anthropology provides communication skills, analytic approaches to human lifeways, and understanding of diversity. Students should select a combination of courses to form a unified plan of study that meets their intellectual interests and fulfills the requirements below. Declaring the Major Before you are eligible to declare the major, you must have completed or be in the progress of completing two of the three prerequisite courses and enrolled in the third, with a grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 or higher in all courses intended for the major. For more details regarding the prerequisites, please see the Major Requirements tab on this page. To declare the major, you will need to complete these three steps: Reach out to the Anthropology Academic Undergraduate Advisor in 215 Kroeber Hall, during office hours or by email at: anthropology@berkeley.edu and address it to the Undergrad Advisor. Bring or attach to your email, photocopies of transcripts, (unofficial will suffice), showing courses satisfying the major prerequisites that you took anywhere other than Berkeley along with the grades you earned. To prepare, review the description of the program, and the...

Degree Requirements

Upper Division: Requirements

Complete at least 5 of the following.

Code Course Title Credits
ANTHRO 101 Genetic Anthropology 4
ANTHRO 102L Physical Anthropology Laboratory 1-3
ANTHRO 105 Primate Evolution 4
ANTHRO 106 Primate Behavior 4
ANTHRO 107 Evolution of the Human Brain 4
ANTHRO 108 Cross-cultural Mental Health: Biocultural Perspectives 4
ANTHRO 109 Psychoneuroendocrinology: Stress, Disease, and Health Inequalities 4
ANTHRO 11AC Humor in America: Cross-Cultural Perspectives 3
ANTHRO 110 Theory and Method in Physical Anthropology 4
ANTHRO 111 Evolution of Human Behavior 4
ANTHRO 112 Special Topics in Biological Anthropology 4
ANTHRO 113 The Palaeopathological Perspective 4
ANTHRO 114 History of Anthropological Thought 4
ANTHRO 115 Introduction to Medical Anthropology 4
ANTHRO 116 Environmental Effects on Human Health and Disease 4
ANTHRO 117 The Anthropology of Aging and the Life Course 4
ANTHRO 119 Special Topics in Medical Anthropology 4
ANTHRO 121 Historical Archaeology 0
ANTHRO 121A American Material Culture 4
ANTHRO 121AC American Material Culture 4
ANTHRO 121B Historical Archaeology: Theoretical Approaches in American Historical Archaeology 4
ANTHRO 121C Historical Archaeology: Historical Artifact Identification and Analysis 4
ANTHRO 122 Archaeology of the Americas 0
ANTHRO 122A Archaeology of the Americas: Archaeology of North America 4
ANTHRO 122B Culture Contact in North America 4
ANTHRO 122C Archaeology of the Americas: Archaeology of Central America 4
ANTHRO 122D World of Ancient Maya 4
ANTHRO 122E Archaeology of the Americas: Andean Archaeology: People of the Andes 4
ANTHRO 122F Archaeology of the Americas: California Archaeology 4
ANTHRO 122G Archaeology of the American Southwest 4
ANTHRO 122H African American Archaeology 4
ANTHRO 123 Old World Cultures 0
ANTHRO 123A Old World Prehistory 4
ANTHRO 123B Old World Cultures: Archaeology of Africa 4
ANTHRO 123C Archaeology of Europe 4
ANTHRO 123D Old World Cultures: Archaeology of East Asia 4
ANTHRO 123E Mediterranean Archaeology 4
ANTHRO 124 Pacific Cultures 0
ANTHRO 124A Pacific Cultures: Archaeology of the South Pacific 4
ANTHRO 124B Hawaiian Ethnohistory 4
ANTHRO 125 Asian Archaeology 0
ANTHRO 126M Geoarchaeology 4
ANTHRO 127 Bioarchaeology 0
ANTHRO 127A Bioarchaeology: Introduction to Skeletal Biology and Bioarchaeology 4
ANTHRO 127B Bioarchaeology: Reconstruction of Life in Bioarchaeology 4
ANTHRO 127C Bioarchaeology Research: Data Collection and Analysis 5
ANTHRO 128 Special Topics in Archaeology 4
ANTHRO 128A Special Topics in Archaeology/Area 4
ANTHRO 129 Topical Areas in Archaeology 4
ANTHRO 129A Topical Areas in Archaeology: Prehistoric Art 4
ANTHRO 129B African Diaspora Archaeology 4
ANTHRO 129C Topical Areas in Archaeology: Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherers 4
ANTHRO 129D Human Palaeoecology: How Humans Changed the Earth 4
ANTHRO 129E Topical Areas in Archaeology: Household Archeology 4
ANTHRO 130 History and Theory of Archaeology 4
ANTHRO 132 Analysis of Archaeological Materials 0
ANTHRO 132A Analysis of Archaeological Materials: Ceramics 4
ANTHRO 133 Field Course in Archaeological Methods 4
ANTHRO 134 Analysis of the Archaeological Record 4
ANTHRO 134A Field Course in Archaeological Methods 6
ANTHRO 135 Paleoethnobotany: Archaeological Methods and Laboratory Techniques 4
ANTHRO 136 Public Anthropology 0
ANTHRO 136A Museum Exhibit Curation and Design 4
ANTHRO 136B Introduction to Museum Methods 4
ANTHRO 136D Multimedia Authoring Part 2 4
ANTHRO 136E Digital Documentation and Representation of Cultural Heritage 4
ANTHRO 136F Cultural Heritage in the Popular Media 4
ANTHRO 136G Cultural Policy: Cultural Heritage and Cultural Diplomacy 4
ANTHRO 137 Energy, Culture and Social Organization 4
ANTHRO 138A History and Theory of Ethnographic Film 4
ANTHRO 138B Field Production of Ethnographic Film 5
ANTHRO 139 Controlling Processes 4
ANTHRO 140 The Anthropology of Food 4
ANTHRO 141 Comparative Society 4
ANTHRO 143 Advanced Survey of Social and Cultural Anthropology 4
ANTHRO 144 Social and Cultural Change 4
ANTHRO 145 Urban Anthropology 4
ANTHRO 146 Cities of the Global South 4
ANTHRO 147A Anthropology of Gender 4
ANTHRO 147C Globalization and Gender in the Asia Pacific 4
ANTHRO 148 Anthropology of the Environment 4
ANTHRO 149 Psychological Anthropology 4
ANTHRO 150 Utopia: Art and Power in Modern Times 4
ANTHRO 151 Disability and Culture 4
ANTHRO 152 Art and Culture 4
ANTHRO 153 Education and Culture 4
ANTHRO 153AC Education and Culture 4
ANTHRO 154 Social Inequality 4
ANTHRO 155 Modernity 4
ANTHRO 156 Anthropology of the Contemporary 4
ANTHRO 156B Culture and Power 4
ANTHRO 156C Anthropology of Modernity: Science 4
ANTHRO 157 Anthropology of Law 4
ANTHRO 158 Religion and Anthropology 4
ANTHRO 159 Indigenous Perspectives in Anthropology 4
ANTHRO 160 Forms of Folklore 4
ANTHRO 160AC Forms of Folklore 4
ANTHRO 161 Narrative Folklore 4
ANTHRO 162 Topics in Folklore 4
ANTHRO 162AC Topics in Folklore 4
ANTHRO 163 American Folklore 4
ANTHRO 163AC American Folklore 4
ANTHRO 164 Introduction to Ethnobiology 4
ANTHRO 165B LANG, CULT, SOCIETY 5
ANTHRO 166 Language, Culture, and Society 4
ANTHRO 168 Anthropology of Science, Technology and Data 4
ANTHRO 169 Ethnographic Research Methods 5
ANTHRO 169A Data Analysis and Computational Methods 4
ANTHRO 169B Research Theory and Methods in Socio-Cultural Anthropology 5
ANTHRO 169C Research Theory and Methods in Linguistic Anthropology 4
ANTHRO 17 Seminar in Social and Cultural Anthropology 3
ANTHRO 170 China 4
ANTHRO 171 Japan 4
ANTHRO 172 Society and Culture in the United States 4
ANTHRO 172AC Special Topics in American Cultures 4
ANTHRO 173 North American Indians 4
ANTHRO 174 Indians of California 4
ANTHRO 174AC California Historical Anthropology 4
ANTHRO 175 Native Peoples of South America 4
ANTHRO 176 Contemporary Latin America 4
ANTHRO 177 Mexico and Central America 4
ANTHRO 179 Ethnography of the Maya 4
ANTHRO 180 European Society 4
ANTHRO 181 Themes in the Anthropology of the Middle East and Islam 4
ANTHRO 182 Circumpolar Peoples 4
ANTHRO 183 Topics in the Anthropological Study of Africa 4
ANTHRO 184 South Asia 4
ANTHRO 186 Power and Politics in Southeast Asia 4
ANTHRO 187 Peoples and Cultures of the Himalayas 4
ANTHRO 188 Topics in Area Studies 4
ANTHRO 189 Special Topics in Social/Cultural Anthropology 4
ANTHRO 189A Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology/Area 4
ANTHRO 189M Special Topics in Cultural Anthropology/Method 4
ANTHRO 190A Quantitative Methods In Anthropology I 5
ANTHRO 190B Quantitative Methods in Anthropology II 5
ANTHRO 191L Ethnog of Elites 5
ANTHRO 196 Undergraduate Seminar 4
ANTHRO 197 Fieldwork 1-12
ANTHRO 198 Directed Group Study 1-4
ANTHRO 199 Supervised Independent Study 1-4
ANTHRO C119A Inequality and the Body: Health, Medicine, Society and Environment 4
ANTHRO C125A Archaeology of East Asia 4
ANTHRO C125B Archaeology and Japanese Identities 4
ANTHRO C129F The Archaeology of Health and Disease 4
ANTHRO C131 Geoarchaeological Science 4
ANTHRO C147B Sexuality, Culture, and Colonialism 4
ANTHRO C160 Forms of Folklore 4
ANTHRO C184 South Asia 4
ANTHRO C186 Southeast Asia 4
ANTHRO C193 Introduction to Social Science Computing 4

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