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I want to declare an ANTH minor, what do I do first?

If you wish to add an anthropology minor to your degree plan, go ahead and email sscluster@unt.edu with your ID# and CLASS academic advisors will be able to facilitate that request.
 
If you have any questions about the degree requirements for the minor, contact Professor Nelson, the Faculty Advisor for the Department of Anthropology.
 

Anthropology Minor

Updated for Catalog 2024
The Anthropology Minor requires completion of 18 hours:

    • ANTH 1010 or 2300
    • 6 hours from ANTH 3***/4*** level courses
    • 9 hours from any level of ANTH courses

I want to declare one of the undergraduate academic certificates listed below, what do I do first?

In order to declare a degree plan for an undergraduate academic certificate, go ahead and email sscluster@unt.edu with your ID# and CLASS academic advisors will be able to facilitate that request.
 
It is also a good idea to schedule an advising appointment with Professor Nelson, the Faculty Advisor for the Department of Anthropology, so that she can help you establish a plan for completion.
 
Once you have completed 60 credit hours AND all certificate requirements, then submit a certificate application through your my.unt.edu portal in order for that certificate to be conferred and mailed out to you. You can earn and receive your certificate prior to graduating from UNT.
 

Applied Anthropology Certificate

You can receive a certificate in applied anthropology. The certificate requires a total of 12 hours.

Required courses, 6 hours.

    • ANTH 2300 - Culture and Society
    • ANTH 4000 - Applied Anthropology

Plus 6 hours of electives chosen from the following courses.

    • ANTH 4060 - Community Engagement through Action Research
    • ANTH 4110 - Design Anthropology
    • ANTH 4200 - Health, Healing and Culture: Medical Anthropology
    • ANTH 4220 - Anthropology in Public Health
    • ANTH 4230 - Psychological Anthropology
    • ANTH 4400 - Environmental Anthropology
    • ANTH 4450 - Advocacy, Power, and Politics: The Anthropology of Policy (Contact Professor Nelson for Approval)
    • ANTH 4601 - Anthropology of Education
    • ANTH 4720 - Human Rights Anthropology
    • ANTH 4920 - Internship in Anthropology

Social Justice Studies Certificate

The social justice studies certificate in anthropology teaches students to examine how inequitable power relations influence and shape various aspects of human life in the United States and around the globe, and to think critically about power dynamics in their own lives. The selected courses will highlight the social construction of categories such as gender, race, class, sexuality, ability, immigration status and more, and will consider how those categories intersect to differently position people in relation to systems of power and each other. Courses for this certificate will provide students with relevant skills including oral and written communication, critical thinking, teamwork, multicultural and diversity competencies, and conflict management. These abilities will prepare students to become engaged community members, locally and globally. Further, it will provide students with the knowledge and experience to approach careers in a variety of public, private and community-based domains. One course must come from anthropology and one course from outside anthropology. Students must take a combined total of 15 credit hours from lists A and B whereas:

  • at least 6 credit hours must come from list A
  • at least 9 credit hours must be from ANTH courses
  • 3 credit hours must be from a non-ANTH course

List A

  • ANTH 4550 - Race, Ethnicity and Identity
  • ANTH 4730 Feminist Anthropology
  • ANTH 4760 - Inequality, Social Justice and the City

List B

    • ANTH 3130 - African-American Anthropology
    • ANTH 3140 - Latinos in the U.S.
    • ANTH 3700 - Peoples and Cultures of South Asia
    • ANTH 4060 - Community Engagement through Action Research
    • ANTH 4130 - Anthropology of Non-Governmental Organizations
    • ANTH 4210 - Culture and Human Sexuality
    • ANTH 4310 - Citizenship, Borders and Belonging in the United States
    • ANTH 4400 - Environmental Anthropology
    • ANTH 4450 - Advocacy, Power, and Politics: The Anthropology of Policy (Contact Professor Nelson for Approval)
    • ANTH 4720 - Human Rights Anthropology
    • CJUS 3500 - Inequality, Crime, and Justice
    • CJUS 3600 - Criminology
    • CJUS 4250 - Law and Social Problems
    • COMM 3260 - Storytelling, Narrative and Everyday Life
    • COMM 4140 - Gender and Communication
    • COMM 4240 - Rhetoric and Popular Culture
    • COMM 4540 - Communication Theories of Sexuality
    • COMM 4640 - Latin@ Rhetorics
    • ECON 3150 - Economics of Inequality and Discrimination
    • ENGL 4220 - Contemporary North American Indigenous Literature
    • ENGL 4245 - Postcolonial Literature and Theory
    • ENGL 4250 - Latinx Literature
    • ENGL 4255 - Mexican American Non-Fiction and Criticism
    • ENGL 4260 - African American Literature
    • ENGL 4270 - Modern Jewish Literature
    • ENGL 4670 - Gender and Sexuality in Literature
    • GEOG 4245 - Geography of International Development
    • GEOG 4420 - Capitalism, Nature and Climate Change
    • HIST 3060 - History of Sexualities in U.S.
    • HIST 3160 - Latinx Civil Rights Movements (Contact Professor Nelson for Approval)
    • HIST 4174 - Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Latin America
    • HIST 4248 - Palestinian History
    • HIST 4320 - Anti-Semitism in Europe, French Revolution to Present
    • HIST 4391 - War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice
    • HIST 4455 - History of Black Women in America
    • HIST 4890 - Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in the U.S.
    • PHIL 3120 - Social and Political Philosophy
    • PHIL 3130 - Philosophy of Race and Racism
    • PHIL 3475 - Philosophy of Climate Change
    • PHIL 4150 - Feminism
    • PHIL 4740 - Environmental Justice
    • PSCI 3101 - Latino Politics
    • PSCI 3103 - U.S. Immigration Politics
    • PSCI 3104 - Race and Ethnic Politics
    • PSCI 3105 - Political Economy of Race, Gender and Immigration
    • PSCI 3106 - African-American Politics
    • PSCI 3120 - Women and Politics
    • PSCI 3140 - LGBT Politics
    • PSCI 4210 - Constitutional Law: Rights and Liberties
    • PSCI 4520 - International Human Rights
    • PSCI 4823 - International Criminal Tribunals and War Crimes
    • SOCI 3330 - Social Inequality and Stratification
    • SOCI 3540 - Racial and Ethnic Minorities
    • SOCI 4240 - Sociology of Sexuality
    • SOCI 4250 - Gender and Society
    • SOCI 4580 - Immigration and Race in Contemporary U.S.
    • WGST 3100 - LGBTQ Studies
    • WGST 3500 - Feminist Foundations
    • WGST 4100 - Feminist and Womanist Theories

Social Science and Popular Culture Certificate

This certificate spans multiple disciplines in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, emphasizing the unique perspectives that social sciences and humanities provide for understanding the deeper meanings and processes within popular culture. Covering topics such as video games, fantasy and fiction, sports, and mass media, this certificate helps students analyze how societies express and influence change. It highlights how activities often viewed as “recreational” contribute to deeper understandings of culture and knowledge production. Through an interdisciplinary approach, students will gain the skills to understand the multifaceted processes of social knowledge production and be able to translate that thinking in ways that transcend academic boundaries. 

15 Total Hours 

  • 9 hours must be advanced 
  • No more than 6 hours from one department 
Anthropology 
Communication Studies 
  • COMM 3240 - Rhetoric of Japanese Popular Culture and Public Memory
  • COMM 3540 - The Zombie as Rhetorical Figure
  • COMM 4120 - Communication and Sport 
  • COMM 4240 - Rhetoric and Popular Culture 
  • COMM 4320 - Communications and Virtual Gaming
  • COMM 4340 - Rhetoric and Politics
  • COMM 4345 - The Rhetoric of Other Worlds
English
  • ENGL 2326.001 - American Literature: American Demonology (Contact Professor Nelson for Approval)
  • ENGL 3225 - Games, Play and Stories
  • ENGL 4620 - Studies in Literature and Film
  • ENGL 4670 - Gender and Sexuality in Literature
  • ENGL 4680 - Game Narratives as Literature
History 
  • HIST 3010 - History Through Video Games
  • HIST 3400 - History of American Country Music
  • HIST 3900 - American Horror History
International Studies
  • INST 4860 - Asian Youth: Cultures, Activism, Media
Media Arts 
Philosophy
  • PHIL 3225 - Philosophy and Film
Political Science
Sociology 
  • SOCI 1520 - Contemporary Social Problems 
  • SOCI 2050 - Sociology of Sport
  • SOCI 4600 - Internet and Society
  • SOCI 4620 - Sociology of Culture
World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 
  • WLLC 3100 - Arab Cultures in Film and Music 
  • WLLC 3310 - The Best of French Pop Culture 
  • WLLC 3320 - Pop Culture and Everyday Life in the Francophone World 
  • WLLC 3410 - German Popular Culture 
  • WLLC 3600 - Japanese Popular Culture

Medical Anthropology Certificate

The certificate in Medical Anthropology underscores an understanding for the complex relationships that exist between social, cultural, psychological, biological, economic, and environmental determinants and health in terms of analyzing and evaluating how contemporary health services are organized and delivered. This certificate highlights the "health" domain of applied anthropology as well as underscores the learning goals of pre-professional students seeking careers in medicine, health, and mental health with a nuanced layer of anthropological thinking. The impact of the anthropological perspective is that it will enable students to become competitive, humanistic applicants to programs that continue their graduate education, such as medical school, nursing school, physician assistant programs, occupational therapy, clinical psychology, or graduate programs in anthropology, sociology, international and public health, community development, and more. 

15 Total Hours 
 
Required (9hrs):
  • ANTH 1010 - Introduction to Anthropology 
    or  
    ANTH 2300 - Culture and Society
  • ANTH 4000 - Applied Anthropology
  • ANTH 4200 - Health, Healing, and Culture: Medical Anthropology
Elective Course Options (6 hours total, 3 hours must be advanced):
Anthropology:
  • ANTH 2700 - Human Variation: Biological Anthropology, Evolution, and Forensics
  • ANTH 4210 - Culture and Human Sexuality
  • ANTH 4220 - Anthropology in Public Health
  • ANTH 4230 - Psychological Anthropology
Biology:
  • BIOL 1710/1711 - Biology I for Science Majors
  • BIOL 2301 - Human Anatomy and Physiology I
  • BIOL 3331 - Biomedical Criminalistics
Chemistry:
  • CHEM 1410/1412 - General Chemistry I for Science Majors
Criminal Justice:
  • CJUS 3330 - Introduction to Criminalistics
  • CJUS 4360 - Criminal Investigation
Communications:
  • COMM 3220 - Health Communication
Humanities:
  • HUMA 3020 - Introduction to the Medical and Health Humanities
Kinesiology:
  • KINE 3020 - Movement for Individuals with Disabilities
  • KINE 3150 - Psychology of Exercise
  • KINE 3400 - Administrative Theory and Practice in Athletic and Sport Regulatory Organizations
Philosophy:
  • PHIL 3160 - Philosophy of Death and Dying
Psychology:
  • PSYC 3490 - Psychology of Women and Gender
  • PSYC 4030 - Multicultural Psychology
  • PSYC 4040 - Psychology of Race in the U.S. 
  • PSYC 4670 - Behavioral and Biopsychosocial Challanges within LGBTQIA+ Communities
Public Health:
  • PUBH 1010 - Introduction to Public Health
  • PUBH 3010 - Social Justice and Behavioral Foundations in Public Health
  • PUBH 4015 - Ethics in Public Health
  • PUBH 4050 - Public Health and Health Policy
Rehabilitation Studies:
  • RHAB 3000 - Active Listening in the Helping Professional
  • RHAB 3100 - Disability and Society
  • RHAB 4200 - Physical and Psychosocial Aspects of Disability
Sociology:
  • SOCI 4240 - Sociology of Sexuality
  • SOCI 4250 - Gender and Society
  • SOCI 4550 - Sociology of Aging