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Department of Anthropology

Minor in Ethnography of Communication

Students on Summer 2023, Fall 2023, or Spring 2024 requirements ETHCOMMMIN

Requirements

The minor requires at least 15 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
  1. Introductory Course. One (1) course:
    • ANTH-A 122 Interpersonal Communication
    • ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
  2. Electives. At least four (4) courses:
    • 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))
    • ANTH-A 288 Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll (Subversive Culture)
    • ANTH-E 203 Stigma and the Expressive Arts: Cultivating Compassion
    • 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 210 Rethinking Race Globally
    • ANTH-E 212 The Anthropology of Youth and Adolescence
    • ANTH-E 220 Performing Human/Nature: Defining Relationships with the Environment
    • ANTH-E 317 Ethnographies of Media Worlds
    • ANTH-E 338 Stigma and Taboo
    • ANTH-E 358 Photography and Ethnography
    • 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: "HUMOR IN USE" (TPC 122))
    • ANTH-E 422 Native American and Indigenous Media
    • ANTH-E 424 Sense of Place
    • ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
    • ANTH-E 434 Food Communication and Performance
    • ANTH-E 438 Communication in the Digital Age
    • ANTH-E 442 Ethnographic Memoir
    • ANTH-E 460 The Arts in Anthropology
    • ANTH-E 485 Art and Craft of Ethnography
    • ANTH-L 204 Language and (In)Tolerance in the US
    • ANTH-L 208 Ways of Speaking
    • ANTH-L 314 Performance as Communicative Practice
    • ANTH-L 340 Language and Globalization
    • ANTH-L 400 Topical Seminar in the Ethnography of Communication
    • ANTH-L 402 Language in/of Media
    • ANTH-L 410 Language and Society in Central Eurasia
    • One of:
      • ENG-W 240 Community Service Writing
      • FOLK-F 131 Folklore in the United States
      • FOLK-F 225 Forms of Commemoration
      • FOLK-F 370 Memory, Art, and Aging: Life Stories and the Expressive Lives of Elders
      • INTL-I 220 Global Connections
      • INTL-I 421 Human Rights and the Arts
  3. Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
    1. Minor GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
    2. Minor Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the minor.
    3. Minor Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed at the 300–499 level.
    4. Minor Residency. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.

Minor Area Courses
  • Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:

    • Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken—as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent—except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
    • Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception

This program of study cannot be combined with the following:

  • Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology (ANTHBA)
  • Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Linguistics (ANTHLNGBA)
  • Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Anthropology (LINGANTBA)
  • Certificate in Global Human Diversity (GLHMDVACRT)
  • Minor in Anthropology (ANTHMIN)
  • Minor in Archaeology (ARCHMIN)
  • Minor in Medical Anthropology (MEDANTHMIN)
  • Minor in the Anthropology of Food (FOODMIN)
  • [Name unavailable] (ETHCOMACRT)

Exceptions to and substitutions for minor requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.