Anthropology

Anthropology invites you to learn more about other ways of life, and its study gives you a framework for looking critically at your own. A look at life in a Pygmy band or a Pueblo village helps bring life in our cities into focus. Looking in depth at the challenges facing indigenous and Third World peoples can help you become a better world citizen. Cultural anthropology investigates the lore and logic of other cultures.

Anthropology means not only looking out at other cultures, but looking back at our origins and what it means to be human. What needs, urges and patterns have been built into us? How and why did we change from being scavengers to hunter-gatherers to farmers to “city-zens”? Can we create a global village or are we driving to a world-long strip mall interrupted by occasional theme parks and game reserves? Physical anthropologists and archaeologists join cultural anthropologists in answering these questions.

UCFV offers a minor in anthropology as well as a combined major in sociology/anthropology as part of its Bachelor of Arts program. Check the Sociology section for the requirements for the combined major in sociology/anthropology.

Students cannot combine an anthropology minor with the sociology/anthropology major.

This section specifies minor discipline requirements only. Please refer to the Bachelor of Arts section for information on additional Bachelor of Arts requirements.

Anthropology minor requirements

Lower-level requirement: nine credits

Nine lower-level credits, as follows:

• Anthropology 102
• any other lower-level Anthropology course
• any lower-level Anthropology or Sociology course or SCMS 255.

Upper-level requirements: 16 credits

• Sixteen credits in upper-level Anthropology courses or SCMS courses with an anthropology focus (see Course Descriptions section).

Faculty

Jean Ballard, BA, MA (Calgary), Department Head

Kevin Busswood, BA (Hons) (UBC)

Christine Elsey, BA, MA, PhD (SFU)

Douglas R. Hudson, BA (Hons) (UVic), MA (McMaster), PhD (Alberta)

Stephen Piper, BA (Sask), MA (Queen’s)

Colin Ridgewell, BSc (Hons) (Southampton), MA (SFU)

David Wyatt, BA (Washington), MA, PhD (Brown)

Luanne Yellowfly, BA (Calgary), MA (UBC)

Staff

Lesley Poh, Department Assistant

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