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These requirements were updated in Spring 2019. Students who declared prior to the changes can proceed according to their prior plan or in accord with these new requirements. All should find the new requirements more flexible and less cumbersome. Eleven courses (33 credits) taken within a program approved by a departmental undergraduate advisor are required for a major. These eleven courses may include courses taken before declaration of the major, and up to two from outside the Department of Anthropology. Courses taken outside the anthropology department, including courses transferred from other institutions or study-abroad programs, may count toward the area requirements for the major. These credits are subject to approval by a major advisor. The maximum number of credits is limited to six and a minimum of three is typically approved. In order to declare a major, a student must have completed one anthropology course. Grades lower than C- (in anthropology) will not count toward the major. No course for the major may be taken on a CR/NC basis. Normally at least 18 credits must be taken after declaration of the major. The major requires a distribution of courses in the following areas:
Each semester, the department publishes a list of the current courses that satisfy the above requirements on its website. Students frequently find that anthropology provides a cognate discipline which can be paired with other studies in the humanities and sciences. Many of these students choose to double-major in anthropology and another discipline. Up to six credits in another department major may be counted toward an anthropology major if they are consistent with a student’s overall program. Specific courses, therefore, may be counted toward both majors, but the student must receive approval from a departmental advisor in advance. Exceptions to any of these requirements are made only upon written petition to the Undergraduate Committee of the Department of Anthropology. No petitions are accepted after the completion of a student’s seventh semester. A number of informal activities are associated with the department. Among these is the Virginia Anthropology Society of the University of Virginia. Majors are encouraged to attend meetings of the group and to attend lectures and symposia sponsored by the department. B.A. in Anthropology with a Specialist Concentration Students who major in anthropology have the option to work toward one of four specialized concentrations within the major, which will appear on their University transcript. To complete a concentration, students must complete all other requirements for the major, and also fulfill the specific concentration requirements as listed below. A student may choose to specialize in only one concentration. Specific classes that can be counted toward each concentration can be found in the Appendix below, and on the Department website. Students should consult with concentration faculty when choosing courses, as these lists will be updated periodically, and not all classes will be offered in every semester. When selecting Concentration courses, students should keep in mind that a total maximum of only two courses (6 credits) from beyond Anthropology (courses with other than an ANTH prefix) can be counted toward the Anthropology major. To declare a concentration, students should meet with the faculty advisor for that concentration. Contact information can be found on the Department website, or from the Director of Undergraduate Programs in Anthropology. The three concentrations are as follows: B.A. in Anthropology with Concentration in Culture and Communication The Culture and Communication concentration in Anthropology offers students a program of study focused on communicative practices across a diversity of world cultures, modalities of embodied discourse, and the technologically mediated channels that increasingly connect people around the globe. Work in this area ranges from the micro-scale of everyday dialogue to the transnational scale of commerce, migrations, politics, and development. The program prepares students to bring critical thinking and holistic conceptual tools to an increasingly globalized workplace, where communicative practices vary across almost every conceivable dimension and where attention to relative cultural differences can mean the difference between communication and miscommunication, justice and injustice, and even life and death. Culture and Communication introduces students to theoretical approaches from linguistic anthropology, cognitive anthropology, and other anthropological subfields, and builds on interdisciplinary ties that include sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, conversation analysis, exchange theory, art, media, and mediated discourse analysis, preparing students to understand the impact of differing modes of expression, cultural styles, and interactional genres on the accomplishment of group tasks, the creation of human connections, and the building of a globally interconnected world. Requirements
See List Below B.A. in Anthropology with Concentration in Indigenous Worlds Students in this concentration will be exposed to ethnographic studies and anthropological theories devoted to “the Indigenous.” For anthropologists, this term commonly refers to the knowledges and worldviews of the many peoples who are our disciplinary interlocutors around the globe. In American contexts, “indigenous” usually refers to First Peoples of the Western hemisphere, and includes Native American Studies. At the transnational scale, indigenous peoples’ movements are political realities, converging at sites like the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, and the World Conservation Congress. This concentration takes an unbounded approach, engaging with all of these perspectives and scales, and many others, without reducing “the Indigenous” to any of them. Students will be given the opportunity to engage with the vast array of possibilities for being human, studying for example both colonial-era encounters, and contemporary indigenous relationships to issues such as sustainable livelihoods, public health, and environmental care. This concentration offers unique opportunities for interdisciplinary learning across two areas of distinction at UVA: Indigenous arts and curation, and the environmental humanities. Requirements
BA in Anthropology with a Concentration in Medical Anthropology, Ethics, and Care Students in this concentration will study a diverse range of factors that impact the body, and the ways that people understand, experience, and respond to states of health and illness. Students will critically examine the complex ethical orientations that shape the manners in which people care for or abandon one another in various conditions of exposure, vulnerability, and well-being. Anthropological knowledge and practice offer a unique resource for questioning our own assumptions on these and other matters. Students in this concentration will use such knowledge to address some of the most difficult problems we face today, and in so doing, help create the world anew. Requirements:
Note: Majors seminar on appropriate topics can, in most cases, count towards the concentration electives. Further, with the exception of the Concentration in Culture and Communication requirement that students take the concentration elections in addition to their linguistics distribution requirement, students may use concentration courses towards the distribution requirements as needed. Independent Study in Anthropology For students who want to work on an individual research project, ANTH 4993 allows considerable flexibility. There is no formal limitation on the kind of project as long as a faculty member is willing to direct it, but the project should not duplicate what is already available in a regular course. Applicants should have their projects roughly defined when they apply to the faculty member. The normal requirements for ANTH 4993 are a reading list comparable in substance to those in regular courses and a term paper and oral examination at the end of the semester. Distinguished Majors Program in Anthropology Students with superior academic performance are encouraged to apply for the departmental Distinguished Majors Program (DMP) in which they write a thesis demonstrating independent study of high quality. The requirements for admission to the DMP are:
On admission, student registers with the primary faculty advisor for ANTH 4998 in the first semester of the Program, and for ANTH 4999 in the second semester for revising and finalizing the thesis in consultation with the two faculty readers. A DMP thesis involving field research on human subjects requires the University’s IRB Approval. This should be acquired before beginning the fieldwork, with the help of the primary faculty advisor. In the final semester of the Program, the student takes into account the criticisms and suggestions of the two advisors and other interested faculty members, and submits a finished thesis of approximately 10,000 words to the two advisors three weeks before the Grades Due date for the semester. For regular Spring Graduation, the thesis is to be submitted by April 15. The level of distinction awarded in a thesis is approved by both the faculty advisors. At the end of the spring semester each year, an oral Presentation of all DMP theses will be held in Brooks Hall Commons. Each Distinguished Major and his/her committee members will be present. Theses Presentations will be open to the public. Friends and faculty are invited. Any prospective and current DMP students wishing help in entering, setting up or conducting their Program should contact their major advisor. *********************************************************************** Courses at the 1000 and 2000 levels have no prerequisites and are open to all students. Courses at the 3000 and 4000 level are advanced undergraduate courses and often assume that students have already taken ANTH 1010 or other relevant 2000-level courses. These are general prerequisites and individual professors may consider other courses within or outside the department to be sufficient preparation. Courses at the 5000 level have third- or fourth-year status and prior course work in anthropology as a general prerequisite. These courses are designed primarily for majors and graduate students, but are open by permission to other qualified, sufficiently motivated undergraduates. General and Theoretical Anthropology
Principles of Sociocultural Analysis
Independent Study and Research
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Culture and Communication Concentration Course List A
ANTH 2365 Art and Anthropology
ANTH 2400 Language and Culture
ANTH 2410 Sociolinguistics
ANTH 2415 Language in Human Evolution
ANTH 2420 Language and Gender
ANTH 2430 Languages of the World
ANTH/MDST 2440 Language and Cinema
ANTH/MEST 2470 Reflections of Exile: Jewish Languages and their Communities
ANTH 2660 The Internet is Another Country
ANTH 3170 The Anthropology of Media
ANTH 3171 Culture and Cyberspace
ANTH 3175 Native American Art
ANTH 3440 Language and Emotion
ANTH 3450 Native American Languages
ANTH 3455 African Languages
ANTH/MEST 3470 Language and Culture in the Middle East
ANTH 3480 Language and Prehistory
ANTH 3490 Language and Thought
ANTH 3680 Australian Aboriginal Art and Culture
ANTH 5190 Science and Culture
ANTH 5425 Language Contact
ANTH 5470 Language and Identity
ANTH 5475 Multimodal Interaction
ANTH 5480 Literacy and Orality
ANTH 5485 Discourse Analysis
ANTH 5490 Speech Play and Verbal Art
ANTH 5495 Discourse Prosody
AMST 2460 Language in the US
ASL 3450 Comparative Linguistics: ASL and English
EDHS 4300 Psycholinguistics and Communication
LNGS 2220 History and Structure of Black English
LNGS 2240 Southern American English
MDST 3140 Mass Media and American Politics
MDST 3300 Global Media
MDST 3701 New Media Culture
MDST 4704 Political Economy of Communication
SPAN 4202 Hispanic Sociolinguistics
Culture and Communication Course List B
ANTH 2850 American Material Culture
ANTH 3070 Introduction to Musical Ethnography
ANTH 3272 The Anthropology of Dissent
ANTH 3340 Ecology and Society
ANTH 3370 Power and The Body
ANTH 4420 Theories of Language
ANTH 5220 Economic Anthropology
ANTH 5401 Linguistic Field Methods
ANTH 5410 Phonology
ANTH 5440 Morphology
ANTH 2541/3541/5541 Topics in Linguistics
ANTH 5549 Topics in Theoretical Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology
ASL 4750 Topics in Deaf Studies
CLASS Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics
DRAM 2070 Public Speaking
EDHS 4030 Speech and Hearing Science
ENAM 2850 Folklore in America
ENMD 5010 Introduction to Old English
FREN 3030 Phonetics: The Sounds of French
FREN 4020 History of the French Language in its Social and Cultural Context
FREN 4035 Tools and Techniques of Translation
LING 3400 Structure of English
LING 5409 Acoustic Phonetics
LNGS 3250 Introduction to Linguistic Theory and Analysis
LNGS 5000 Linguistic Principles in Language Pedagogy
PHIL 3630 Philosophy of Language
PSYC 3110 Psychology of Language
PSYC 4112 Psychology and Deaf People
PSYC 4115 Multiculturalism in the Deaf Community
PSYC 4120 Psychology of Reading
PSYC 5355 Neurobiology of Speech and Language
RUSS 5030 Advanced Russian Grammar: Phonology and Morphology
RUSS 5032 Advanced Russian Grammar: Syntax
SPAN 3000 Phonetics (Spanish Phonetics)
SPAN 4201 Hispanic Dialectology and Bilingualism
SPAN 4203 Structure of Spanish
SPAN 4210 History of the Spanish Language
WGS/ASL 2300 Women and Gender in the Deaf World
Indigenous Worlds Concentration Course List A
AMST 2233 Contemporary Native American Literature
AMST 3641 Native America
AMST 2231 Native Americans in Popular Culture
ANTH 1050 Anthropology of Globalization
ANTH 2120 The Culture Concept
ANTH 2250 Nationalism, Racism, and Multi-Culturalism
ANTH 2153 North American Indians
ANTH 2365 Art & Anthropology
ANTH 3152 Amazonian Peoples
ANTH 3450 Native American Languages
ANTH 3680 Anthropology of Australian Aboriginal Art
ANTH 5885 Archaeology of Colonialism
ANTH 9545 History, Modernity, Indigeneity
HIAF 3112 African Environmental History
HIST 3641 Native America
HIST 7021 Comparative Cultural Encounters in North America (1492-1800)
MDST 4301 Global Indigenous Media
Indigenous Worlds Concentration Course List B
AMST 2420 Cultural Landscapes in the United States
ANTH 3340 Ecology and Society
ANTH 3380 The Nature of Nature
ANTH 3385 The Archeology of Europe
ANTH 3880 Archaeology of Africa
ANTH 3480 Language and Prehistory
ANTH 3490 Language and Thought
ANTH 5470 Language and Identity
ANTH 5475 Multi-Modal Interaction
ANTH 5220 Economic Anthropology
ANTH 5425 Language Contact
ANTH 5528 Topics in Race Theory
ARTH 1505 Art and Money
ARTH 4591 University Museum Internships
GSGS 3112 Ecology and Globalization in the Age of European Expansion
HILA 2001 Colonial Latin America
HIST 2112 Maps in World History
HIST 3011 Colonial Period in North America
MDST 3407 Racial Borders and American Cinema
MDST 3650 Shooting the Western
RELG 2210 Religion, Ethics, and Global Environments
RELG 3360 Conquest and Religions in the Americas, (1400s-1830s)
Medical Anthropology Concentration Course List
ANTH 2340 Anthropology of Birth and Death
ANTH 2270 Race, Gender, And Medical Science
ANTH 2345 Anthropology of Reproduction: Fertility and The Future
ANTH 2340: Anthropology of Birth and Death
ANTH 2285 Saving the World? Development and Humanitarianism
ANTH 3290 Biopolitics
ANTH 3130 Disease, Epidemics and Society
ANTH 3129: Marriage, Mortality, Fertility
ANTH 3240 The Anthropology of Food
ANTH 3370 Power and The Body
ANTH 3440 Language and Emotion
ANTH 3600 Sex, Gender, And Culture
ANTH 3300 Tournaments and Athletes
ANTH 4991-001 Anthropology, Violence, And, Human Rights
ANTH 5190 Science and Culture
ANTH 5360 World Mental Health
ANTH 5528 Topics in Race Theory
ANTH 5240 Relational Ethics
BIOL 4660 How Do They Do It? Method and Logic in Biomedical Science
BIOL 3090 Our World of Infectious Disease
ENSP 3610 Narratives of Illness and Doctoring Marcia Childress
HIEU 3321 Scientific Revolution 1450-1700
HIST 2150 Global Environmental History
MDST 3306 Sexuality, Gender, Class and Race in the Teen Film
MDST 3409 LGBTQ Issues in the Media
MDST 4108 Media, Drugs, and Violence in Latin America
PHIL 1740 Issues of Life and Death
PHIL 3651 Genes, Nature and Justice
RELG 2650 Theological Bioethics
SOC 4740 Sociol Persp on Trauma, Atrocity, & Responsibility
WGS 2848 Reproductive Technology