ANTH 400: Anthropology Senior Seminar

Course Description

This course serves as the culminating capstone experience for Anthropology majors by integrating students’ training throughout their career in the program. Students will identify, evaluate, apply, and synthesize theory, research methods, and ethics. In consultation with the instructor, students will conduct an original project that involves research design, literature review and citation, data collection, analysis and theoretical application, conclusions, and contributions. Ideally, the project should build on previous data collection work begun in one of the program’s research methods courses. However, with agreement from the instructor, students may launch a new research project to collect data, analyze an existing data set, or critically analyze a body of Anthropological literature. Research projects will relate to one of the subfields of Anthropology (Archeology, Biological, Cultural, or Linguistic Anthropology, Ethnohistory, or other subfield). Students will also reflect on skills and concepts learned over their career as a major and develop an understanding of related academic and non-academic careers post-graduation. Prerequisites: ANTHRO 202, 204, 206, 208, 301 and one of the following research methods courses: ANTHRO 350, 362, 363, 377, or 394; or instructor consent.