THE CERTIFICATE IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Course Requirements for the Certificate: 24-25 units
The following courses, or their approved transfer equivalents, are required of all candidates for this certificate.
5 courses required:
| ANTH | 483 | Field Methods in Ethnography | 3.0 | FA |
Prerequisites: ANTH 303 or permission of instructor.
| ANTH | 485 | Formal Methods for Anthro | 3.0 | SP |
| ANTH | 489 | Internship1.0 | 5.0 | FS |
Prerequisites: Faculty permission.
| ANTH | 495 | Proseminar in Applied Anthro | 3.0 | S1 |
Prerequisites: ANTH 303 or permission of instructor.
| HCSV | 579 | Grant Wrtg/Other Fundraising | 3.0 | FS |
Select a track in consultation with the certificate coordinator to complete certificate requirements.
Track 1: International Development: 9 units
1 course required:
| ANTH | 437 | Anthro/Development Issues | 3.0 | S2 |
2 courses selected from:
| ECON | 375 | Developing Countries | 3.0 | FS |
Prerequisites: ECON 103.
| ECON | 470 | International Economics | 3.0 | FS |
Prerequisites: ECON 301.
| GEOG | 301 | Global Economic Geography | 3.0 | SP NW |
| GEOG | 320 | Intro Community & Rural Plng | 3.0 | FA |
| POLS | 341 | International Relations | 3.0 | FS * |
| POLS | 441 | Intl Pols: Theory & Concepts | 3.0 | FA WP |
Prerequisites: POLS 341, ENGL 130 (or its equivalent) with a grade of C- or higher.
| POLS | 446A | Intl Relations: Middle East | 3.0 | F1 |
| POLS | 446B | Intl Relations: Africa | 3.0 | SP |
| POLS | 446C | Inter-American Relations | 3.0 | SP |
| POLS | 446D | Intl Relations: Pacific Basin | 3.0 | SP |
| POLS | 446E | Contemp Rus Foreign Policy | 3.0 | FA |
| POLS | 446F | Intl Relations: Western Europe | 3.0 | FA |
| POLS | 446G | Canadian Foreign Policy | 3.0 | Inq |
| SOCI | 441 | Sociology of World Affairs | 3.0 | FS WP |
Prerequisites: ENGL 130 (or its equivalent) with a grade of C- or higher, SOCI 300, SOCI 310, senior standing.
Track 2: Medical Anthropology: 9 units
1 course required:
| ANTH | 435 | Medical Anthropology | 3.0 | Inq |
2 courses selected from:
| BIOL | 307 | Microbes and Disease | 3.0 | SP |
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 or BIOL 108. Not open for credit to students majoring in microbiology or who have taken, or are taking, BIOL 211.
| ECON | 352 | Medical Economics | 3.0 | FS * |
| HCSV | 320 | Chronic/Communicable Diseases | 3.0 | FS |
Prerequisites: BIOL 104 is strongly recommended.
| HCSV | 328 | Multicultural Health | 3.0 | FS Eth |
| HCSV | 362 | Environmental Health | 3.0 | FS |
Prerequisites: HCSV 320, MATH 105.
| PSYC | 323 | Health Psychology | 3.0 | FS |
Track 3: Environment and Development: 10 units
2 courses required:
| ANTH | 437 | Anthro/Development Issues | 3.0 | S2 |
| BIOL | 400 | Fundamentals of Ecology | 4.0 | FS |
Prerequisites: BIOL 152 or faculty permission. Some taxonomic background is recommended.
1 course selected from:
| ECON | 365 | Environmental Economics | 3.0 | FS |
Prerequisites: GEOG 101 or introductory biology course or equivalent.
| GEOS | 536 | Applied Ecology | 3.0 | SP |
Prerequisites: BIOL 400.
| PHIL | 329 | Environmental Ethics | 3.0 | FS * |
| RELS | 347 | Cross-Cultural Environ Ethics | 3.0 | FS * |
| SOCI | 420 | Environmental Sociology | 3.0 | FA |
| SOCI | 470 | Population and Human Ecology | 3.0 | SP |
Prerequisites: SOCI 370 is recommended.
Track 4: Anthropology of Education: 9 units
1 course required:
| ANTH | 451 | Ethnolinguistics | 3.0 | SP |
Prerequisites: ANTH 304 or permission of instructor.
2 courses selected from:
| EDTE | 302 | Access & Equity in Education | 3.0 | FS |
| ENGL | 371 | Principles of Language | 3.0 | FS |
| ENGL | 470 | Second Language Acquisition | 3.0 | FS |
Prerequisites: ENGL 371.
| PSYC | 353 | Learning in the Young Child | 3.0 | FS |
| PSYC | 362 | Psychology of Learning | 3.0 | FS |
Three semesters of a foreign language are recommended for Track 4.
A 2.5 GPA is required for all courses taken for the certificate.