COLLEGE OF LIBERAL AND FINE ARTS

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

The Department of Anthropology offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and minors in Anthropology and American Indian Studies. Honors may also be earned in Anthropology.

Department Honors

The Department of Anthropology awards Department Honors to certain of its outstanding students and provides the opportunity for advanced study under close faculty supervision. Selection of students for honors designation is based on the student's academic performance and recommendation by the faculty in the student's major discipline. To be eligible for the program, students must have a minimum overall grade point average of 3.0 at UTSA and a minimum grade point average of 3.5 in their major at UTSA. The minimum grade point averages must be maintained for students to receive the approval of the Department Honors Committee and the discipline faculty. Students applying for Department Honors are expected to enroll in the appropriate honors thesis courses during their final two semesters. The completed thesis must be approved by the supervising faculty sponsor and another departmental faculty member.

Students interested in this program should contact their faculty advisors for additional information.

Bachelor of Arts Degree in Anthropology

The minimum number of semester credit hours required for this degree, including Core Curriculum requirements, is 120. Thirty-nine of the total semester credit hours required for the degree must be at the upper-division level.

All candidates for this degree must fulfill the Core Curriculum requirements and the degree requirements, which are listed below.

Core Curriculum requirements: Students seeking the Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology must fulfill University Core Curriculum requirements in the same manner as other students. The courses listed in the table below satisfy both degree requirements and Core Curriculum requirements; however, if these courses are taken to satisfy both requirements, then students will need to take additional courses in order to meet the minimum number of semester credit hours required for this degree. For a complete listing of courses that satisfy the Core Curriculum requirements in this catalog.

Core Curriculum Requirements	Courses that Satisfy Core Curriculum and Degree Requirements
Rhetoric (6 semester credit hours)	All students must take the following six hours to meet this core requirement: WRC 1013 Freshman Composition I WRC 1023 Freshman Composition II
Domain I: Mathematics and Science	*Mathematics* (3 semester credit hours) Any three hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement. *Science* (6 semester credit hours) Three hours from Level One (including ANT 2033 Introduction to Physical Anthropology or ANT 2043 Introduction to Archaeology) and three hours from Level Two will satisfy this core requirement.
Domain II: Society and Culture	*United States History and Diversity* (6 semester credit hours) Any six hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement. *Political Studies* (6 semester credit hours) POL 1013 plus 3 additional hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement. *Social and Behavioral Sciences* (3 semester credit hours) ANT 1013 Introduction to Anthropology Economics (3 semester credit hours) Any three hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement.
Domain III: Literature and the Arts	*Literature* (3 semester credit hours) Any three hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement. *The Arts* (3 semester credit hours) Any three hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement.
Domain IV: World Society and Issues	(3 semester credit hours): Any three hours listed here will satisfy this core requirement. ANT 2053 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology ANT 2063 Language, Thought, and Culture

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Degree Requirements

A. 39 semester credit hours in the major, 27 of which must be at the upper-division level:

1. 12 semester credit hours of required courses:

ANT 2033 Introduction to Physical Anthropology
ANT 2043 Introduction to Archaeology
ANT 2053 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANT 2063 Language, Thought, and Culture

2. 9 upper-division semester credit hours chosen in consultation with the student's advisor:

3 semester credit hours in archaeology
3 semester credit hours in cultural anthropology
3 semester credit hours in physical anthropology

3. 18 additional upper-division semester credit hours of anthropology electives excluding ANT 4913 Independent Study, chosen in consultation with the student's advisor.

B. 9 semester credit hours of work from another discipline that supports the study of anthropology. The support area must form a cohesive program of study and must be chosen in consultation with the student's faculty advisor after completion of 12 semester credit hours of anthropology. Recommended areas for support work include, but are not limited to, foreign languages, statistics, computer science, earth sciences, environmental sciences, and social sciences. The student should file a statement of intent and the list of courses to be taken in the support area with the undergraduate advisor for Anthropology in the College of Liberal and Fine Arts Advising Center.

C. 30 semester credit hours of electives

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