Anthropology

Concentration Description

Students interested in the area of Anthropology have an array of courses that will allow them to become knowledgeable in theory, method and application. This preparation enables them to become successful candidates for either job positions in the area of social services and community organizations, serving organizations with culturally plural clients. Others can use their acquired skills in positions requiring research and analysis of cultural groups data; or, still others, can expect to be applicants and be accepted to prestigious graduate programs, as have some of our past students.

Additional competencies gained include the ability to conduct analysis of the cultural context of social policy, cultural content of educational programs, analysis of the effect of international programs on local communities, ethnographic evaluation of social projects. This concentration provides a hands on experience conducting research in the international environment through the international summer program in Mexico. In preparation for this experience, the concentration offers the learning of research methods in a virtual ethnographic environment.

Examples of job positions that students graduating with a concentration in Anthropology are the following: research positions at universities (i.e., Research Assistant, CSU Pomona; Data Analysis, AMBAG, UFW). Students graduating with a concentration in Anthropology have been very competitive when applying to graduate programs particularly to the UC system.

Anthropology Concentration students must fulfill the learning outcomes for these courses:

All of the following:
SBS 336; SBS 345; SBS 362; SBS 362L

At least two of the following:
SBS 314; SBS 370; SBS 371; SBS 384S; SBS 388; SBS 480; SBS 485

 For alternative courses or course equivalence approval students must obtain consent from the concentration advisor.