Note: we do our best to keep this information up-to-date and accurate,
but it is ultimately the student's responsibility to consult
with his or her advisor(s) to ensure compliance with all requirements.
You are also encouraged to consult the on-line
catalog for the year 2004-2005 for official information on our major and minor.
You may wish to view catalogs from other years as well, as you may choose
between the requirements in effect the year that you entered
U. Maine or those operative at the time of graduation.
The Anthropology Department offers following undergraduate degrees:
A minimum of 37 credits of anthropology or geography is required. In some
cases, double majors may be able to apply six credits of collateral courses
to the major. Majors must pass the following courses with at least a "C
-" grade:
ANT 300, 317, the Capstone courses, and 9 other credits must be taken at UMaine.
Because ANT 300 and ANT 317 are prerequisite to some advanced level courses,
students should take them as early in their program as possible. Note: senior
majors normally may not take ANT 300 and ANT 317. Students writing an honors
thesis do not have to take the capstone course, ANT 492.
Advanced study in anthropology normally requires use of quantitative methods
and foreign language competency, and some theoretical sophistication. Consequently,
students planning to do graduate work in anthropology should take a course
in Statistics such as ANT
462 Numerical Methods in Anthropology, and achieve
foreign language competency at the intermediate level. A knowledge of statistics
and one or more foreign languages in required in most Ph.D. programs in Anthropology.
Those interested in graduate work in archaeology should take some 500 level
courses in Anthropology.
Students will fulfill the departmental Writing Intensive requirement through papers done in ANT
300 (Basic Theory in Cultural Anthropology). Transfer students who have
not taken ANT 300 (Basic Theory in Cultural Anthropology) will have to
submit a paper to fulfill the Writing Intensive requirement. Students who
have problems
with their written work in the ANT 300 course will be required to take
remedial work in written English.
The anthropology major emphasizes a broadly based undergraduate curriculum.
In consultation with his or her advisor, the student should select courses
to sample effectively the sub-disciplines of anthropology, and avoid over-specialization
at the B.A. level. A few interdisciplinary course concentrations or minors
are appropriate for the anthropology major. These include Canadian
Studies, Franco-American
Studies, Geography, Latin
American Studies, Linguistics,
and Religious
Studies.
