Anthropology Minor
To earn the Minor in Anthropology, students must complete a minimum of 15 semester hours of course work.
Anthropology provides training in strategies to learn about cultures, diversity among and within cultures, understanding issues in cultural context, and appropriate problem-solving, cooperation, and communication across cultures.
The core course may be taken at either the lower- or upper-division level, SOA 103 Introduction to Anthropology or SOA 302 Understanding Cultures (only one may count toward the minor).
At least 8 hours must be taken at University of Illinois Springfield; a maximum of two courses may be transferred for credit toward the minor.
Electives
- Select at least three elective courses in SOA, one of which must be chosen from the list below.
- At least one of the electives must be a 300- or 400-level course.
Requirements
| Core Courses | ||
| SOA 103 | Introduction to Anthropology (or) | 3-4 |
| or SOA 302 | Understanding Cultures | |
| Elective Courses | 11-12 | |
| Peoples of the Past | ||
| Women and Gender in Mexico and the US | ||
| Introduction To Archaeology | ||
| Latina Lives: Frida to Selena | ||
| ECCE: Working USA and the 99% | ||
| Music, Technology, and Culture | ||
| Human Evolution: Biological and Cultural | ||
| ECCE: Music and Social Justice | ||
| ECCE: Brazil in Movies | ||
| ECCE: Latina/o/x USA | ||
| ECCE: Chicago: Life in the Big City from Hot Dogs to Hip Hop | ||
| Jazz in American Culture | ||
| ECCE: Latin America & the Hispanic Caribbean | ||
| ECCE: Arts and Identity in Pacific Island Cultures | ||
| ECCE: Nature, History, and Human Action | ||
| ECCE: American Musics | ||
| ECCE: Teen Talk Classic: Stories of Culture and Adolescence | ||
| ECCE: Culture, Health, and Power | ||
| ECCE: Women of Color and Minority Women | ||
| ECCE: Women Across Cultures | ||
| European Prehistory | ||
| Topics in Sociology/Anthropology | ||
| North American Indians: Culture and Ecology | ||
| Total Hours | 15 | |