哥伦比亚大学

Anthropology examines how cultures provide frames for the ways people think, act and make sense of their society. Now, with the quickening movement of culture, ideas and people we seek to examine the forms of life that emerge from this movement and the interactions and conflicts that result. Barnard Anthropology provides students new ways to perceive and analyze the world, to understand difference and to think on a global scale while still focused on the lived experiences of everyday life.

Requirements for the Archaeology Track

Archaeology at Barnard is explicitly viewed as a sub discipline of anthropology, and students opting to enroll in the track are expected to take a suite of core courses designed to acquaint them with both the body of social theory shared by all anthropologists as well as the special methods, empirical databases, and intellectual frameworks of archaeology. All students are strongly encouraged to take additional courses in sociocultural or linguistic anthropology beyond those required for the major.

Eleven courses are required for the major:

(1) ANTH UN 1002 (Interpretation of Cultures)

Provides a general introduction to the intellectual history and theoretical commitments of anthropology as a discipline

(2) ANTH UN 1007 (The Origins of Human Society)

Surveys six million years of the human past from the emergence of bimetallism to the Neolithic Revolution drawing upon the intellectual frameworks of biological anthropology, archaeology, and critical theory

(3) Either ANTH UN 1008 (The Rise of Civilization) or EEEB UN 1010x (The Human Species: Its Place in Nature)

Students interested in archaeology are advised to take ANTH UN 1008. Students interested in bio archaeology or biological anthropology are advised to take EEEB UN 1010x. The former extends the survey of world prehistory initiated in ANTH UN 1007 to include the rise of archaic states and the expansion and collapse of empires. The latter provides a deeper exploration of the biological history of hominine species.

(4) ACLG UN2028y (Pasts, Presents & Futures: A Critical Introduction to 21st Century Archaeology)

ACLG UN2028y provides an introduction both to the craft of archaeology and to the intellectual history of archaeological interpretation.

(5) Either ANTH UN 3040x (Anthropological Theory I) or ANTH UN 3041 (Anthropological Theory II)

ANTH 3040 and ANTH 3041 provide students with a strong background in anthropology's intellectual history, the former focusing on anthropological theory from the 1870s-1970s and the latter focusing on theory since 1970. Both courses are required for regular anthropology majors, but students in the archaeology track are only required to enroll in one of the two.

(6, 7) both ANTH BC 3871x and BC 3872y, Senior Thesis Seminar

The Senior Seminar is composed of two courses taken in sequence by all anthropology majors at Barnard during their senior year. The seminar provides a formal setting in which students is supported in the research and writing of a thesis, the culminating scholarly project within the anthropology major. Students in the archaeology and biological anthropology track are required to write a senior thesis that may or may not be based upon original field or laboratory research.