Anthropology Minor

Anthropology concerns itself with the entire range of human activities and achievements: past, present and future. In this era of rapid globalization, it has become increasingly important to understand the world, how humans adapt to and transform their natural and social environments, and how we relate to one another. An understanding of the institutional, cultural and social causes of global problems and solutions can be meaningfully explored through the lens of anthropology. The anthropology program at Seton Hall provides students with the tools to analyze and understand the complex, increasingly pluralistic and rapidly changing world in which we find ourselves in the twenty-first century. Human rights and social justice, environmental challenges, power relations between countries and cultures and a heightened awareness of inequality in terms of race ethnicity, gender, sexuality, access to the world’s resources as well as solutions to these inequalities, are all issues about which anthropology concerns itself.

A major or minor in anthropology provides students with uniquely holistic foundation in the liberal arts, the social sciences, the biological sciences and the humanities. Students receive a well-rounded education with many opportunities for specialization in a number of different areas drawn from anthropology’s holistic approach to the study of human beings and their relationship to the non-human world of living beings and the environment. Many of our graduates find work in the public sector at governmental institutions, cultural institutions and social service organizations which address a number of pressing issues in these economically and politically troubled times. The private sector is also a rich source of employment for anthropology majors. Most international corporations hire students trained in ethnographic research to work in their product development and marketing departments as well as in their public relations and outreach departments. With a major or minor in anthropology our graduates have also gone on to study anthropology at the graduate level, diplomatic relations, business, law and law enforcement, medicine, and education. In an increasingly pluralistic world, employers find it both essential and attractive that their prospective employees be capable of navigating their way through the diversity of the world’s cultural, social and political realities with skill and ease.

Lambda Alpha, National Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology

Students who have completed at least 12 credits in anthropology with an average of 3.0 are encouraged to apply for membership in Lambda Alpha Delta (LAD), the Seton Hall University chapter of the National Collegiate Honors Society for Anthropology. The chapter seeks to promote excellence and increased awareness of anthropology as a humanistic social science. The LAD holds joint biannual induction ceremonies with the sociology honor society.

The anthropology minor enhances a number of major programs by offering a unique cross-cultural perspective that enables students to apply their skills in their personal as well as their professional lives in an increasingly globalized world. In recent years, students with a minor in anthropology pursued degrees in art history, biology, business, communication, criminal justice, diplomacy and international relations, education, environmental studies, history, political science, and social and behavioral sciences. Students are required to take at least six courses in the discipline, three of which are upper-division electives. In the independent study or its equivalent (normally in the senior year), students write a research paper, integrating anthropological perspectives with their major field of study. Students completing a minor in anthropology must earn 18 credits that include: 

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Three Required Anthropology Courses
ANTH 1201	Introduction to Physical Anthropology	3
or ANTH 1211	Introduction to World Archaeology
ANTH 1202	Introduction to Cultural Anthropology	3
ANTH 1210	Culture and Communication: Introduction to Linquistic Anthropology	3
or ANTH 2912	Qualitative Research Methods
Subtotal		9
Electives
Select three Anthropology courses *		9
Subtotal		9
Total Hours		18

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Courses taken to fulfill the 9-credit elective requirement must be 1000-5000 level ANTH-designated courses. Required courses listed above but not taken to fulfill the 9-credit course requirement may be used to satisfy the 9-credit elective requirement.