Anthropology - B.A. Program Requirements

• Anthropology semester-by-semester Roadmap

Type Legend: DD Diversity–Domestic; DG Diversity–Global; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences; KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts: KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive

Please read the sections in the University Catalog on Kent Core, diversity and writing-intensive requirements.

I.	DESTINATION KENT STATE: FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE (1 credit)
Type	Course		Title	Credits
	US	10097	Destination Kent State: First Year Experience	1
II.	MAJOR PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (33 credits)*  Courses count in major GPA
Type	Course		Title	Credits
DG KSS	ANTH	18210	Introduction to Cultural Anthropology	3
DG KSS		18420	Introduction to Archaeology	3
KBS		18630 38630	Human Evolution (3)** or Principles of Biological Anthropology (3)	3
		3/4xxxx	Anthropology Elective	12
	Choose from the following:			3
WIC	ANTH	38480	Archaeological Analysis (3)***
		48225	Archaeology of Death (3)
		48425	Ancient Mesoamerica (3)
		48440	Archaeology of Ancient Ohio (3)
		48450	States and Empires (3)
	Choose from the following:			3
	ANTH	38240	Culture and Personality (3)
		48250	Culture and Curing (3)
		48260	Culture Conflict (3)
		48270	Native Peoples of North America (3)
		48630	Pacific Island Cultures (3)
	Choose from the following:			3
	ANTH	38680	Primate Societies (3)
		48810	Human Paleontology (3)
		48820	Human Musculo-Skeletal System (3)
WIC		48830	Human Behavioral Ecology and Evolution (3)***
		48835	Primate Ecology and Conservation (3)
		48840	Natural Selection in Perspective (3)
	Choose from the following:			3
	ANTH	48212	Kinship and Social Organization (3)
WIC		48214	Politics of Culture (3)**
III.	ADDITIONAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (87 credits)
Type	Title			Credits
	Foreign Language****			14-20
	Kent Core Additional (must be from two categories)			6
	Kent Core Basic Sciences (must include one laboratory)*			6-7
	Kent Core Composition			6-8
	Kent Core Humanities and Fine Arts (minimum one course from each)			9
	Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning			3-5
	College General Requirement (must be from Kent Core Basic Sciences)*****			3
	College General Requirement (must be from Kent Core Social Sciences)******			3
	General Electives (minimum 21 upper division credit hours) Credits required depends on meeting minimum 121 credit hours and minimum 42 upper-division credit hours			37
MINIMUM TOTAL				121

* All courses taken from the list of major program requirements are used in the calculation of the major GPA.

** ANTH 18630 Human Evolution fulfills Kent Core Basic Science

***A minimum C grade must be earned in either ANTH 38480, ANTH 48214 or ANTH 48830 in order to fulfill the writing-intensive requirement.

**** Fulfills College General Requirement

*****One additional course taken from the Kent Core Basic Science courses in the following Arts and Sciences disciplines: Anthropology (ANTH), Biological Sciences (BSCI), Chemistry (CHEM), Geography (GEOG), Geology (GEOL) or Physics (PHY). Students may take the courses listed in the "introductory" sequences with the restrictions noted above in the Kent Core Basic Science section. The course may not be from the student's major.

******One additional course taken from the Kent Core Social Sciences courses in the following Arts and Sciences disciplines: Anthropology (ANTH), Applied Conflict Management (CACM), Geography (GEOG), Criminology and Justice Studies (JUS), Political Science (POL), Psychology (PSYC) or Sociology (SOC). The course may not be from the student's major.

To fulfill the diversity requirement: students must take a domestic diversity course that is a not an ANTH course.