Degree Requirements
Minimum Credit Requirement: 128 credits
Minimum Residency Requirement: 32 credits must be taken at UNH
Minimum GPA: 2.0 required for conferral*
Core Curriculum Required: Discovery & Writing Program Requirements
Foreign Language Requirement: Yes
All Major, Option and Elective Requirements as indicated.
*Major GPA requirements as indicated.
Major Requirements
Majors must complete a minimum of 40 credits in anthropology with grades of C or better and in accordance with the below requirements. The required minimum overall GPA in major coursework is 2.0.
Course List Code | Title | Credits |
ANTH 411 | Global Perspectives on the Human Condition: An Introduction to Anthropology | 4 |
or ANTH 412 | Broken Pots and Buried Cities: Introduction to World Archaeology |
or ANTH 415 | The Human Story: Evolution, Fossils and DNA |
ANTH 500 | Peoples and Cultures of the World | 4 |
or ANTH 501 | World Archaeological Cultures |
ANTH 511 | Core Concepts in Anthropology | 4 |
ANTH 513 | Ethnographic Methods | 4 |
or ANTH 514 | Method and Theory in Archaeology |
ANTH 611 | History of Anthropological Theory | 4 |
| 4 |
| 12 |
ANTH 750 | Islam and Gender: Gendered Lives of Muslims | 4 |
or ANTH 785 | The Anthropology of Dreams and Dreaming |
or ANTH 797 | Advanced Topics |
Total Credits | 40 |
(Note: While 8 credits, ANTH #699 Senior Thesis and ANTH 699H Honors Senior Thesis count only as one ANTH 600-level course requirement.)
The Discovery Program capstone requirement may be fulfilled by completing one 700-level course (seminar format).
Other courses, internships, or experiences may be substituted with the permission of the student's adviser and anthropology department chair.
Anthropology majors may use one major-required course to satisfy one Discovery category requirement. Candidates for a degree must satisfy all of the University Discovery Program requirements in addition to satisfying the requirements of each individual major program. Bachelor of arts candidates must also satisfy the foreign language proficiency requirement. American Sign Language may not be applied toward the foreign language requirement.
Honors-in-major and senior thesis options are available.
Students declaring the major in anthropology are expected to make steady progress toward fulfillment of major requirements. Typically, this means taking at least one anthropology course per semester until all of the requirements have been met. A student who has fulfilled most of the major requirements may request an exception to this policy from their advisor.