Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology

As the study of humankind, students are training in a variety of different disciplines which translate to careers in cultural resource management and archaeology, business, advertising, death investigations, law enforcement, secondary education, and human resource management among many others.  Students excel in law school, MBA, and public health programs.  (http://www.americananthro.org/AdvanceYourCareer/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1783). Others can use the bachelor's degree as a first step in acquiring an advanced degree in archaeology, forensic anthropology, biological anthropology, or cultural anthropology to aid in careers in research, museums, or higher education.

Internships and fieldwork opportunities are available to all Anthropology majors. Internships may be either paid or unpaid. Anthropology majors may have the opportunity to apply their knowledge during an internship at the Mahoning County Coroner's Office or through fieldwork locally, in Guatemala, in the Bahamas, and elsewhere.

Please contact the Program Coordinator, Dr. Matt O'Mansky, for more information.  (330) 941-1688, meomansky@ysu.edu

To earn the BA degree the student must satisfy all the degree requirements in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and take 40 semester hours of courses from the Anthropology curriculum. Required courses are:

Students are responsible for satisfying all prerequisites and maintaining a “C” or better in all major and minor requirements and cannot take courses on a "CR/NC" basis.

Students wishing to minor in anthropology must complete 18 s.h. in an approved designated minor. Students are responsible for satisfying all prerequisites and maintaining "C" or better in all minor requirements and cannot take courses on a "CR/NC" basis.
 
Minors in anthropology offered from the department are as follows:

•  General Anthropology
•  Archaeology
•  Biological Anthropology
•  Cultural Anthropology
•  Forensic Anthropology

See Minors for course requirements.

*Please see your advisor in order to ensure that you are on track to graduate.

*For General Education electives, be sure that you take two courses from each knowledge domain, including a science lab: 

http://cms.ysu.edu/general-education/general-education-courses-knowledge-domain

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Placement test in English, math, and foreign languages required before registration for classes.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The department's learning outcomes for anthropology majors are as follows:

• Students can demonstrate comprehension of the fundamental principles and concepts of the four field holistic approach to anthropology.
• Students can evaluate anthropological theories and guiding ethics.
• Students can evaluate the scientific process and research methods. Students can evaluate the importance of past or present cultures, cultural variation, and cultural change in the global context.
• Students can analyze evolutionary biology using mechanism of evolutionary change.