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Feb 01, 2025
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USC Catalogue 2024-2025
Anthropology (BA)
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Anthropology brings a holistic and comparative perspective to the study of human life and culture. By providing students with tools for better understanding human diversity and complexity, anthropology prepares students for careers in global health and medicine, museums, law, government, environmental management, entrepreneurship and international business education, and the arts. The Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology has three tracks: sociocultural anthropology, medical anthropology and biological anthropology. Department majors are required to take ten courses (40 units) in Anthropology.
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Sociocultural Anthropology Track Requirements
Sociocultural Anthropology is the comparative study of human culture and society, the study of how individuals and communities are shaped by their traditions, values and institutions. Department majors are required to take ten courses (40 units) in Anthropology. Preparation for the major, lower-division (4 units)
One lower-division course focusing on a subfield of Anthropology (4 units)
The following courses fulfill this requirement:
Required Courses, Upper-Division (12 units)
Five additional Anthropology courses are required (20 units)
Five additional Anthropology courses are required. Of these, at least one should represent an area of world ethnography, involving the study of a region, cultural or religious group, or diasporic or settled community. Courses offered in other programs may be applied toward this requirement, with departmental approval. The following Anthropology courses are considered to represent an area of world ethnography:
The following courses are cross-listed with Anthropology and are also recommended as topical:
The following Anthropology courses are recommended as topical:
- ANTH 255 Culture, Performance and Personal Narrative Units: 4
- ANTH 305 Childhood, Birth and Reproduction Units: 4
- ANTH 321 Space, Place, Perception and Power Units: 4
- ANTH 332g Anthropology and Narrative Medicine Units: 4
- ANTH 333gm Forms of Folklore Units: 4
- ANTH 338g Food in Culture and Society Units: 4
- ANTH 340 Anthropology In and Of the Museum Units: 4
- ANTH 344g Social Memory Units: 4
- ANTH 345 Politics, Social Organization and Law Units: 4
- ANTH 355 Urban Anthropology Units: 4
- ANTH 357g Cultures of Genocide, Cultures of Care Units: 4
- ANTH 360 Symbolic Anthropology Units: 4
- ANTH 365 Life History in Anthropological Perspective Units: 4
- ANTH 370 Sex, Love, and Marriage: An Introduction to Kinship Units: 4
- ANTH 371gm Cross-Cultural Research on Urban Gangs Units: 4
- ANTH 372 Interpretation of Myth and Narrative Units: 4
- ANTH 373 Magic, Witchcraft and Healing Units: 4
- ANTH 375 Anthropology for Consulting and Design Units: 4
- ANTH 380 Sex and Gender in Anthropological Perspective Units: 4
- ANTH 393 Directed Internship Units: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- ANTH 414 Refugees: Migration, Race and the Law Units: 4
- ANTH 415 Global Issues Seminar Units: 4
- ANTH 445 African American Anthropology Units: 4
- ANTH 449 Feminist Science and Technology Studies Units: 4
- ANTH 460 Economic Anthropology Units: 4
- ANTH 470 Multimodal Methods in Visual Anthropology Units: 4
- ANTH 472 Photo-ethnography Units: 4
- ANTH 474 Posthuman Anthropology Units: 4
- ANTH 476 Ethnographic Film Theory from an Historical Perspective Units: 4
Medical Anthropology Track Requirements
Two lower-division courses are required, from the following list:
Required Courses, Upper-Division (12 units)
Five additional Anthropology courses are required (20 units)
Five additional Anthropology courses are required, which should include at least three courses from the following list, one of which may be lower-division: - ANTH 105g Culture, Medicine and Politics Units: 4
- ANTH 305 Childhood, Birth and Reproduction Units: 4
- ANTH 332g Anthropology and Narrative Medicine Units: 4
- ANTH 338g Food in Culture and Society Units: 4
- ANTH 360 Symbolic Anthropology Units: 4
- ANTH 365 Life History in Anthropological Perspective Units: 4
- ANTH 370 Sex, Love, and Marriage: An Introduction to Kinship Units: 4
- ANTH 373 Magic, Witchcraft and Healing Units: 4
- ANTH 380 Sex and Gender in Anthropological Perspective Units: 4
- ANTH 393 Directed Internship Units: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- ANTH 445 African American Anthropology Units: 4
- HBIO 300 Evolution, Ecology, and Culture Units: 4
- HBIO 405 Evolutionary Medicine Units: 4
- HBIO 406 Theory and Method in Human Evolutionary Biology Units: 4
- SWMS 336 Health, Gender and Ethnicity Units: 4
Biological Anthropology Track Requirements
Preparation for the major (4 units)
One lower-division course focusing on a subfield of Anthropology (4 units)
Required Courses, Upper-Division (12 units)
Five additional upper-division Anthropology courses (20 units)
Five additional upper-division Anthropology courses are required, which should include at least three from the following: - ANTH 305 Childhood, Birth and Reproduction Units: 4
- ANTH 338g Food in Culture and Society Units: 4
- ANTH 370 Sex, Love, and Marriage: An Introduction to Kinship Units: 4
- ANTH 380 Sex and Gender in Anthropological Perspective Units: 4
- ANTH 393 Directed Internship Units: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- HBIO 300 Evolution, Ecology, and Culture Units: 4
- HBIO 306 Biology of the Non-Human Primates Units: 4
- HBIO 308 Origins and Evolution of Human Behavior Units: 4
- HBIO 405 Evolutionary Medicine Units: 4
- HBIO 406 Theory and Method in Human Evolutionary Biology Units: 4
- SWMS 336 Health, Gender and Ethnicity Units: 4
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