ANTHROPOLOGY PROGRAM

Division of Social Studies

Website:   http://anthropology.bard.edu

Updated December 4, 2020

 

 

Advising Faculty

 

1.     Yuka Suzuki (director)

2.     Michθle D. Dominy (leave of absence 2020-2021)

3.     Jeffrey Jurgens

4.     Naoko Kumada

5.     Laura Kunreuther (leave of absence 2020-2021)

6.     Gregory Duff Morton (on sabbatical spring 2021)

7.     John Ryle

8.     Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins

 

Archaeologist in Residence - Christopher R. Lindner

 

 

Program requirements

 

Moderation Requirements:

 

1.     ANTH 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

2.     200-level ANTH course

3.     200-level ANTH course

 

All moderating students need to maintain a 3.0 or above in all Anthropology classes.

 

Graduation Requirements:

 

4.     Doing Ethnography - methods course (students who plan to study abroad in the spring of their junior year should take this course in the spring of their sophomore year).

5.     ANTH 350 Contemporary Cultural Theory

6.     300-level ANTH course (in addition to 350)

7.     ANTH elective (200 or 300 level)

8.     Senior Project I

9.     Senior Project II

 

 At least one of the ANTH courses must involve field research as a central component.  We also strongly recommend students take a foreign language.  Often students combine anthropology with one of the area studies programs or concentrations, such as Human Rights, Gender and Sexuality Studies, or Environmental and Urban Studies.

 

 

Sample program of study

 

First Year

Sophomore Year

Junior Year

Senior Year

 

• ANTH 101

• FYSEM I (fall)

• FYSEM II (spring)

 

• ANTH 200-level course

• ANTH 200-level course

 

Moderation (spring)

 

• ANTH 350

• ANTH 300-level course

• Doing Ethnography course

 

• Sr. Project I (fall)

• Sr. Project II (spring)

• ANTH elective