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Department of Anthropology

Certificate in the Ethnography of Communication

Students on Summer 2019, Fall 2019, or Spring 2020 requirements ETHCOMACRT

Requirements

The certificate requires at least 24 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
  1. Introductory Sequence. Two (2) courses:
    • ANTH-A 122 Interpersonal Communication
    • ANTH-L 222 Global Communication
  2. Electives. Additional credit hours to complete remaining requirements (may include only one additional 200–299 level course) from the Electives list.
    • ANTH-A 200 Topics in Anthropology of Culture and Society (Approved topics: "BAD LANGUAGE" (TPC 33))
    • ANTH-A 208 Topics in the Anthropology of the Arts and Expressive Behavior (Approved topics: "ARTS POLITICS & GLOBAL ENCOUNTERS" (TPC 20); "SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK N ROLL" (TPC 15))
    • ANTH-E 206 Chanting Down Babylon: Protest and Popular Culture in the Afro-Caribbean
    • ANTH-E 208 Global Jazz, Reggae, and Hip-Hop: African Diasporic Music Beyond the African Diaspora
    • ANTH-E 220 Performing Human/Nature: Defining Relationships with the Environment
    • ANTH-E 270 Captivity Narratives
    • ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
    • ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
    • ANTH-E 383 A World of Work
    • ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa
    • ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • ANTH-E 415 Topics in Communication and Culture in Comparative Perspective
    • ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
    • ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
    • ANTH-E 437 Power and Violence: Political Systems in Ethnographic Perspective
    • ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
    • ANTH-E 454 India Lost and Found in Diasporic Feminist Films
    • ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
    • ANTH-E 463 Anthropology of Dance
    • ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
    • ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
    • ANTH-L 208 Ways of Speaking
    • ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
    • ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
    • ENG-R 212 Communicating Sustainability
    • ENG-R 228 Argumentation and Public Advocacy
    • ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
    • FOLK-F 141 Urban Legend
    • FOLK-F 205 Folklore in Video and Film
    • FOLK-F 252 Folklore and the Humanities
    • FOLK-F 253 Folklore and the Social Sciences
    • FOLK-F 256 The Supernatural and Folklore
    • FOLK-F 307
    • HIST-E 340 African Popular Culture (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • HIST-J 300 (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • MSCH-F 392 Media Genres (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • MSCH-J 460 Topics Colloquium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • 15 credit hours must be at the 300–499 level.
  3. Anthropology. 18 credit hours must be in Anthropology (includes the Introductory Sequence courses).
  4. Residency. 18 credit hours must be completed in courses taken though the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
  5. Certificate GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
    1. At least 9 credit hours in the certificate 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 9 credit hours in the certificate 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 certificate.
    4. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the certificate—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
    5. Exceptions to certificate 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.