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Type Legend: DD Diversity–Domestic; DG Diversity–Global; ELR Experiential Learning; 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, writing-intensive and the experiential learning 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 (57 credits)1  Courses count in major GPA 
Type Course Title Credits
DG
KSS		 ANTH 18210 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 3
DG
KAD		   18420 Introduction to Archaeology 3
WIC   38480 Archaeological Analysis 2 3
    38490 Quantitative Anthropology 3
KBS   18630
38630		 Human Evolution (3) 3
or Principles of Biological Anthropology (3)		 3
    3/4xxxx Anthropology Elective 15
KBS CHEM 10060 General Chemistry I 4
KAD   10061 General Chemistry II 4
KBS   10062 General Chemistry I Laboratory 1
KBS   10063 General Chemistry II Laboratory 1
KMC MATH 11022 Trigonometry 3
KMC   12002 Analytic Geometry and Calculus I 5
  Choose from the following: 3
  ANTH 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 38680 Primate Societies (3)  
    48820 Human Musculo-Skeletal System (3)  
WIC   48830 Human Behavioral Ecology and Evolution (3) 2  
    48840 Natural Selection in Perspective (3)  
  Choose from the following: 3
  ANTH 48212 Kinship and Social Organization (3)  
WIC   48214 Politics of Culture (3) 2  
III. ADDITIONAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (45-50 credits)  
Type Course Title Credits
  Foreign Language 4 8-10
  Kent Core Composition 6
  Kent Core Humanities and Fine Arts (minimum one course from each) 9
  Kent Core Social Sciences (must not be ANTH) 0-3
  General Electives (6 credit hours must be upper division if the Archaeology concentration is chosen)
Credits required depends on meeting minimum 120 credit hours and minimum 42 upper-division credit hours		 19-23
IV. CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS (16-18 credits) 
  Archaeology (16-17)
  Biological Anthropology (17-18)
MINIMUM TOTAL  120

 

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

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

3 ANTH 18630 Human Evolution fulfills Kent Core Basic Sciences

4 Fulfills College General Requirement

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

 

Archaeology Concentration

For semester-by-semester sequencing for this program, view the 2014-2015 Roadmap.

I. CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS (16-18 credits)* Courses count in major GPA
Type Course Title Credits
KSS  GEOG 10160 Introduction to Geography 3
    29160 Mapping Our World 3
KAD GEOL 11040 How the Earth Works (3) 3
KBS   11041 How the Earth Works Laboratory (1) 1
  Choose from the following: 3-4
  GEOG 49070 Geographic Information Science (4)  
    49080 Advanced Geographic Information Science (3)  
    49230 Remote Sensing (3)  
  Choose from the following: 3-4
  GEOL 21061 Glacial Geology (3)  
    23063 Earth Materials I (4)  
    32066 Geomorphology (4)  
MINIMUM SUBTOTAL 
 16-18

 

 

Biological Anthropology Concentration

For semester-by-semester sequencing for this program, view the 2014-2015 Roadmap.

I.CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS (17-18 credits)* Courses count in major GPA
Type Course Title Credits
KBS BSCI 10120 Biological Foundations 4
    30140 Cell Biology 4
    30156 Elements of Genetics 3
    40163 Evolution 3
  Choose from the following: 3-4
  BSCI 30360 General Ecology (4)  
    30519 Vertebrate Embryology and Developmental Anatomy (4)  
    40275 Systematic Botany (4)  
    40430 Animal Physiology (3)  
MINIMUM SUBTOTAL 
 17-18