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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Anthropology - Human Rights and Global Instabilities Concentration (BA)
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The field of anthropology studies the human condition in its full breadth-across time and place. The field is made up of multiple subfields (applied anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, sociocultural anthropology) and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Delaware has world renowned scholars in each of these areas. We integrate approaches from the sciences and humanities to explore cultural, historical, environmental, and biological perspectives on human diversity. Our department supports student experiential learning opportunities through laboratory, ethnographic, and archaeological research. The department’s learning objectives emphasize critical thinking, analytical, interpretative, and communication skills that prepare students to engage the complexities of the global world and pursue professional employment and graduate study.
Students who complete the B.A. in Anthropology will be able to:
- DISCOVER and GET EXCITED ABOUT, and USE critical thinking skills to ANALYZE, the cultural, biological, and historical diversity of humans.
- DESCRIBE major concepts, theories, and methods of the subfields of anthropology (applied anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, sociocultural anthropology).
- INTERPRET specific data and case studies, ASSESS and EVALUATE competing explanatory and theoretical frameworks, and GENERALIZE KNOWLEDGE to consider human commonalities and differences across time and place.
- COMMUNICATE core concepts of anthropology effectively in both written and oral formats.
- CONNECT and EVALUATE anthropological ideas and knowledge in the analysis of real-world problems.
- RECOGNIZE VALUE OF the ethical, professional, and social principles of anthropological research.
- IDENTIFY the value of human diversity, and SUSPEND JUDGMENT about differences in order to DEVELOP empathetic and ethical perspectives.
In addition, students who complete the BA in Anthropology - Human Rights and Global Insecurities Concentration will be able to:
- RECOGNIZE VALUE OF the approaches and contributions of the subfields (applied anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, sociocultural anthropology) to research on precarity, insecurity, conflict, and violence across local and global contexts.
- IDENTIFY and EVALUATE the social, historical, environmental, and biological variables and structural forces which produce and contribute to global and local insecurities.
- INTERPRET specific data and case studies to ASSESS how multiple variables and structural forces influence conditions of insecurity.
- DESCRIBE and EVALUATE institutions, policies, and legal frameworks in place to respond to acute and chronic situations of insecurity at local, national, and international levels, along with their real-world impacts.
- EXPLAIN and ANALYZE key theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of human rights and precarity across the subfields of anthropology, with particular attention to those applied through political and legal anthropology.
- DISCOVER and VALUE diverse ideas about rights, justice, power, and other fundamental political and legal forms found across societies.
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College Requirements:
College Breadth Requirements:
The College Breadth requirements are in addition to the University Breadth requirement. Up to three credits from each of the University Breadth Requirement categories may be used to simultaneously satisfy these College of Arts and Sciences Breadth Requirements. Minimum grade C- required for courses used to satisfy College Breadth.
*If the grade earned is sufficient, a course may be applied toward more than one requirement (e.g., breadth and major requirements), but the credits are counted only once toward the total credits for graduation. If all but one course in a group has been taken in one department or program, a course cross-listed with that program will not satisfy the distribution requirement.
Foreign Language:
- Completion of the intermediate-level course (107 or 202) in an ancient or modern language with minimum grades of D-.
- The number of credits (0-12) needed and initial placement will depend on the number of years of high school study of foreign language.
- Students with four or more years of high school work in a single foreign language, or who have gained proficiency in a foreign language by other means, may attempt to fulfill the requirement in that language by taking an exemption examination through the Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department.
Mathematics:
The math requirement must be completed by the time a student has earned 60 credits. Students who transfer into the College of Arts and Sciences with 45 credits or more must complete this requirement within two semesters.
Complete one of the following four options (minimum grade D-):
Option Two:
One of the following:
Option Four:
- Successful performance on a proficiency test in mathematics administered by the Department of Mathematical Sciences (0 credits awarded).
Second Writing Requirement:
A Second Writing Requirement approved by the College of Arts and Sciences. This course must be taken after completion of 60 credit hours, completed with a minimum grade of C-, and the section enrolled must be designated as satisfying the requirement in the academic term completed.
Major Requirements:
Minimum grade of C- required. The minimum number of ANTH credits required for the major is 33; the maximum number of ANTH credits allowed for the major is 45. Anthropology Tutorial:
One of the following: Capstone Requirement:
- choose a second tutorial from the above list, or
- a senior thesis (UNIV 402), or
- a human rights/global instabilities-related independent study (ANTH 466), or
- a human rights/global instabilities-related study abroad, or human rights/global instabilities-related internship (ANTH 464).
- all capstone requirements must be taken for 3 credits.
Concentration Requirements:
A minimum of 18 credits must be at or above the 200 level, of which 12 credits must be at or above the 300 level. Advanced Archaeology Electives:
One of the following: Advanced Cultural Anthropology Electives:
Four of the following: Advanced Biological Anthropology Electives:
One of the following: Electives:
After required courses are completed, sufficient elective credits must be taken to meet the minimum credit requirement for the degree.
Credits to Total a Minimum of 124
Last Revised for the 2024-2025 Academic Year
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