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Progress Through the Major

KEY:
Bold
= required course
Italicized = Off-campus (Guatemala and Australia programs)

100-level courses

SOAN 100 Myths of Crime

SOAN 110

  or

SOAN 111

Introduction to Anthropology

or 

Introduction to Sociology

MATH 115

or

MATH 215

or

SOAN 239

Introduction to Statistics

 or

Introduction to Statistics

or

Explorations in Social Data Analysis

or a score of 4 or 5 on the AP Stats Exam

SOAN 150 Who Cares and Who Gets Care?
SOAN 157 Culture & Politics in India

Pick 5 ELECTIVES that are not bold from the 200/300 level course lists.

200-level courses

SOAN 202 Girls Gone Bad
SOAN 205 Guatemala Program: Indigenous Language Instruction
CCST 210 Global/Local Perspectives
SOAN 210 Principles of Demography
SOAN 215 Social Welfare
SOAN 220 Class, Power and Inequality in America
SOAN 221 Law and Society
SOAN 222 Anthropology of Humor
SOAN 225 Social Movements
SOAN 226 Anthropology of Gender
SOAN 229 Demography of the Family
SOAN 230 Human Evolution and Prehistory
SOAN 231 Transnational Migration and Diasporic Communities
SOAN 233 (3 cr. = 1/2 elective) The Lifework of an Anthropologist: Marshall Sahlins
SOAN 234 Ecology, Economy, and Culture
SOAN 236 Introduction to Peace Studies
SOAN 240 Methods of Social Research
SOAN 241 Guatemala Program: Mesoamerican Cultures
SOAN 242 Qualitative Thinking
ARCN 246 Archeological Methodology
SOAN 250 Ethnography of Latin America
SOAN 251 Guatemala Program: Community Development, Cultural Empowerment and Social Change in Guatemala
SOAN 256 Ethnography of Africa
SOAN 259 Comparative Issues in Native North America
SOAN 260 Myth, Ritual, and Symbolism
SOAN 261 Imagining Indonesia
SOAN 262 Anthropology of Health and Illness
SOAN 266 Urban Sociology
SOAN 274 Language, Culture & Society
SOAN 275
Australia Program: Community Needs Assessment
SOAN 276
Australia Program: Comparative Welfare Systems
SOAN 280 Statistical Tools for Quantitative Reasoning
SOAN 290 (2 cr.) Guatemala/Australia Program: Directed Reading
SOAN 295 Guatemala Program: Field Methods and Individual Research Project

300-level Courses

SOAN 302 Anthropology and Indigenous Rights
SOAN 308 Working Across the Life Course
SOAN 311 Anthropology and/of Globalization
SOAN 330 Sociological Thought and Theory
SOAN 331 Anthropological Thought and Theory
SOAN 332 Contemporary Social Theory
SOAN 393 (4 cr.)
Australia Program: Policy Internship
ARCN 395 Archeology Capstone Seminar
SOAN 395 Ethnography of Reproduction
SOAN 395 Public Sociology
SOAN 396 Advanced SOAN Writing
SOAN 400 Integrative Exercise: Comps