1. Introductory courses.
   1. Bioanthropology. One (1) course:
      • ANTH-B 200 Bioanthropology i
   2. Social and Cultural Anthropology. One (1) course:
      • ANTH-E 200 Social and Cultural Anthropology i
   3. Linguistic Anthropology. One (1) course:
      • ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture i
   4. Archaeology. One (1) course:
      • ANTH-P 200 Introduction to Archaeology i
2. Advanced courses. Choose an option:
   • Option 1. One advanced course from three (3) of the four (4) subfields.
     • Bioanthropology subfield
       • ANTH-B 301 Laboratory in Bioanthropology i
       • ANTH-B 310 Bioanthropology: A History of Ideas i
       • ANTH-B 312 Evolutionary Medicine i
       • ANTH-B 333 Chimpanzee Biology: Anatomy, Evolution, Ecology, and Physiology i
       • ANTH-B 340 Hormones and Human Behavior i
       • ANTH-B 343 Evolution of Human Ecological Footprint i
       • ANTH-B 368 The Evolution of Primate Social Behavior i
       • ANTH-B 370 Human Variation i
       • ANTH-B 400 Undergraduate Seminar i
       • ANTH-B 464 Human Paleontology i
       • ANTH-B 466 The Primates i
       • ANTH-B 470 Human Adaptation: Biological Approaches i
       • ANTH-B 472 Bioanthropology of Aboriginal America i
       • ANTH-B 480 Human Growth and Development i
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     • Social and Cultural Anthropology subfield
       • ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups i
       • ANTH-E 302
       • ANTH-E 309 Problems in African Ethnography i
       • ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds i
       • ANTH-E 318 Nature/Culture: Global Perspectives in Environmental Anthropology i
       • ANTH-E 319 Native American Religions i
       • ANTH-E 320 Indigenous Populations of North America i
       • ANTH-E 321 Peoples of Mexico i
       • ANTH-E 322 Peoples of Brazil i
       • ANTH-E 323 Indigenous Peoples of Indiana i
       • ANTH-E 327 Native Amazonians and the Environment i
       • ANTH-E 328 Ecological Anthropology i
       • ANTH-E 331
       • ANTH-E 333 Peoples of the Andes i
       • ANTH-E 335 Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica i
       • ANTH-E 337 Food, Sex and Gender i
       • ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo i
       • ANTH-E 340 Indigenous Populations of Mexico and Central America i
       • ANTH-E 344 On The Move Across Asia: Gender, Migration, Mobility i
       • ANTH-E 345 Changing China i
       • ANTH-E 346 Global Anarchy i
       • ANTH-E 347 The Anthropology of Contemporary Japan i
       • ANTH-E 349 Identity and Difference i
       • ANTH-E 358 Photography and Ethnography i
       • ANTH-E 366 Commodities and Culture i
       • ANTH-E 373 Plagues and People i
       • ANTH-E 380 Urban Anthropology i
       • ANTH-E 381 Ethnographic Analysis of Family, Work, and Power i
       • ANTH-E 382 Memory and Culture i
       • ANTH-E 383 A World of Work i
       • ANTH-E 385
       • ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa i
       • ANTH-E 387 The Ethnography of Europe i
       • ANTH-E 388 Ethnicity, Class, and the Model U.S. Citizen i
       • ANTH-E 393 World Fiction and Cultural Anthropology i
       • ANTH-E 397 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East i
       • ANTH-E 398 Peoples and Cultures of Central Asia i
       • ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar i
       • ANTH-E 404 Field Methods in Ethnography i
       • ANTH-E 407 Visual Anthropology: Filmmaking i
       • ANTH-E 408 Talk, Tales, and Television: Africa, Europe, the United States i
       • ANTH-E 412 Anthropology of Russia and Eastern Europe i
       • ANTH-E 413 Global Africa i
       • ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective i
       • ANTH-E 416 Anthropology of Tourism i
       • ANTH-E 417 African Women i
       • ANTH-E 418 Globalization and Consumer Culture i
       • ANTH-E 420 Economic Anthropology i
       • ANTH-E 421 Food and Culture i
       • ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media i
       • ANTH-E 423 Life Histories i
       • ANTH-E 424 Sense of Place i
       • ANTH-E 426 Coffee Culture, Production, and Markets i
       • ANTH-E 428 Contemporary Latin American Social Movements i
       • ANTH-E 431 Ethnography as Cultural Critique i
       • ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy i
       • ANTH-E 434 Food Communication and Performance i
       • ANTH-E 435 Fashion, Beauty, Power i
       • ANTH-E 436 The Politics of Marriage i
       • ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective i
       • ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age i
       • ANTH-E 442 Ethnographic Memoir i
       • ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas: Theories of Conservation i
       • ANTH-E 445 Seminar in Medical Anthropology i
       • ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films i
       • ANTH-E 456 Anthropology of Race i
       • ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology i
       • ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance i
       • ANTH-E 464 Body, Power, and Performance i
       • ANTH-E 474 The Anthropology of Human Rights i
       • ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography i
       • ANTH-E 490 Development and Anthropology i
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     • Linguistic Anthropology subfield
       • ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice i
       • ANTH-L 320 Native American Languages i
       • ANTH-L 330 Mesoamerican Languages: Structure, History, Social Context i
       • ANTH-L 340 Language and Globalization i
       • ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication i
       • ANTH-L 402 Language in/of Media i
       • ANTH-L 407 Language and Prehistory i
       • ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia i
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     • Archaeology subfield
       • ANTH-P 301 Archaeological Methods and Analyses i
       • ANTH-P 302 Invention and Technology i
       • ANTH-P 305 Underwater Archeology i
       • ANTH-P 330 Historical Archaeology i
       • ANTH-P 332 Industrial Archaeology i
       • ANTH-P 350 Archaeology of Mexico i
       • ANTH-P 361 Archaeology of the Midwestern United States i
       • ANTH-P 363 North American Prehistory through Fiction i
       • ANTH-P 370 Archaeology of the Andes i
       • ANTH-P 375 Food in the Ancient World i
       • ANTH-P 380 Prehistoric Diet and Nutrition i
       • ANTH-P 385 Lithic Technological Organization i
       • ANTH-P 390 Geoarchaeology i
       • ANTH-P 399 Undergraduate Seminar i
       • ANTH-P 401 Cultural Resource Management i
       • ANTH-P 406 Laboratory Methods in Archaeology i
       • ANTH-P 407 Archaeological Curation i
       • ANTH-P 409 Archaeological Ethics i
       • ANTH-P 411 Archaeology of Magic, Witchcraft and Religion i
       • ANTH-P 425 Faunal Osteology i
       • ANTH-P 426 Problems in Zooarchaeology i
       • ANTH-P 430 Archaeology of Violence and Conflict i
       • ANTH-P 440 Archaeology of Space and Place i
       • ANTH-P 445 Pots and People i
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   • Option 2. One advanced course from two (2) of the four (4) subfields and the Capstone course.
     • ANTH-A 410 Anthropology Capstone Seminar i
3. Methods Component. One (1) additional course from the Methods Component list.
   • ANTH-A 306 Anthropological Statistics i
   • ANTH-A 405 Museum Methods i
   • ANTH-B 301 Laboratory in Bioanthropology i
   • ANTH-E 302
   • ANTH-E 423 Life Histories i
   • ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography i
   • ANTH-P 301 Archaeological Methods and Analyses i
   • ANTH-P 380 Prehistoric Diet and Nutrition i
   • ANTH-P 385 Lithic Technological Organization i
   • ANTH-P 390 Geoarchaeology i
   • ANTH-P 401 Cultural Resource Management i
   • ANTH-P 406 Laboratory Methods in Archaeology i
   • ANTH-P 407 Archaeological Curation i
   • ANTH-P 425 Faunal Osteology i
   • ANTH-P 426 Problems in Zooarchaeology i
   • ANTH-X 476 Museum Practicum i
   • ANTH-X 477 Fieldwork in Anthropology i
   • ANTH-X 478 Practicum in Anthropology i
   • ANTH-X 479 Fieldwork in Bioanthropology i
   • ANTH-X 480 Fieldwork in Archaeology i
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4. Electives. Additional credit hours distributed across advanced courses (300–499 level) in any of the four subfields according to student interest. A student may count one additional course at the 200–299 level.
5. Major GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
   1. At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
   2. At least 18 credit hours in the major must be completed at the 300–499 level.
   3. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the major.
   4. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the major—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
   5. Exceptions to major requirements may be made with the approval of the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.

The Bachelor of Arts degree requires at least 120 credit hours, to include the following:

1. College of Arts and Sciences Credit Hours. At least 100 credit hours must come from College of Arts and Sciences disciplines.
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2. Upper Division Courses. At least 42 credit hours (of the 120) must be at the 300–499 level.
3. College Residency. Following completion of the 60th credit hour toward degree, at least 36 credit hours of College of Arts and Sciences coursework must be completed through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
4. College GPA. A cumulative grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.000 is required for all courses taken at Indiana University.
5. CASE Requirements. The following College of Arts and Sciences Education (CASE) requirements must be completed:
   1. CASE Foundations
      1. English Composition: 1 course
      2. Mathematical Modeling: 1 course
   2. CASE Breadth of Inquiry
      1. Arts and Humanities: 4 courses
      2. Natural and Mathematical Sciences: 4 courses
      3. Social and Historical Studies: 4 courses
   3. CASE Culture Studies
      1. Diversity in the United States: 1 course
      2. Global Civilizations and Cultures: 1 course
   4. CASE Critical Approaches: 1 course
   5. CASE Foreign Language: Proficiency in a single foreign language through the second semester of the second year of college-level coursework
   6. CASE Intensive Writing: 1 course
   7. CASE Public Oral Communication: 1 course
6. Major. Completion of the major as outlined in the Major Requirements section above.

Most students must also successfully complete the Indiana University Bloomington General Education program.