As a prospective international first-year student, you are required to submit all of the following materials in order to be considered for admission:
Completed UMass Boston online admission application
An official high school record, leaving certificate and/or graduation examination results or their notarized copies. All documents in foreign languages must be translated by a certified professional. Records must be sent directly from the institution to be considered official.
Academic recommendation letter (from a school-based counselor and/or teacher)
500-word essay
Test scores
All non-native speakers of English must demonstrate English language proficiency. Students can demonstrate proficiency by submitting the following exams:
TOEFL (79+)
IELTS (6.0+)
SAT (Evidence Based Reading & Writing (ERWS) component of 480+)
ACT (Reading and English component scores totaling 34)
Duolingo English Test (100+)
UMass Boston must receive your official test scores directly from the testing agency. You may request scores be sent to UMass Boston at the time you register for the test. If you have already taken the test, you may request official scores by contacting the College Board, ACT, TOEFL, IETLS or Duolingo directly.
The UMass Boston SAT/TOEFL and IELTS code is 3924 and the ACT code is 1925.
Our goal as a program is to engage UMass Boston students actively with Anthropology's long-standing attention to issues of cultural diversity and to economic stability in both Western and non-Western regions combines with the discipline's holistic, evolutionary, deeply historical, critical, and cross-cultural approaches to offer students powerful resources for understanding current trends that affect their workplaces and their communities.
The first step in becoming an anthropology major is to enroll in Anthropology 105, 106, or 107. These courses provide an overview of the various subfields of anthropology, and all majors are required to take all three courses, although the order in which they are taken is up to the student. One of these courses, and in some cases all three, are prerequisites to nearly all upper level anthropology courses.
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Anthropology Major Requirements
Subfield Introductory Courses
Sociocultural Theory
Area Studies
Metholodogy
Comparative Analysis
Seminar
Additional Courses
1) Subfield Introductory Courses (3 courses required)
The following courses provide an overview of the various subfields of anthropology. All majors are required to take all three courses (the order in which they are taken is up to the student):
Anth 105 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Anth 106 Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
Anth 107 Introduction to Archaeology
2) Sociocultural theory (1 course required)
Anth 345 Sociocultural Theory in Anthropology
3) Area studies (1 course required).
Students may choose from:
Anth 232 The Viking World
Anth 270L Native Peoples of North America
Anth 271 Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East
Anth 272 Peoples and Cultures of Africa
Anth 273 Peoples and Cultures of Mesoamerica
Anth 274 Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean
Anth 275L Peoples and Cultures of China
Anth 334 Ancient North America
Anth 336L Ancient Mesoamerica: The Aztecs and their Predecessors
Anth 338L Ancient Peru: The Incas and their Predecessors
Anth 374 Culture and Politics of Indigenous Peoples of Latin America
Anth 376 Native Peoples of New England: Contemporary Issues
Anth 476L Native Americans: Contemporary Issues
4). Methodology (1 course required).
Students may choose from:
Anth 277 US Immigration: Contemporary Issues and Debates
Anth 316 Nutrition, Growth, and Behavior
Anth 317 Human Epidemiology
Anth 340 Historical Archaeology
Anth 341 Archaeological Method and Theory
Anth 348 Ethnographic Inquiry: Introduction to Qualitative Field Research
Anth 352 Applied Social Anthropology
Anth 353 Urban Anthropology
Anth 412 Issues in Biological Anthropology
Anth 413 Forensic Anthropology
Anth 432 Archaeological Science
5). Comparative analysis (1 course required).
Students may choose from:
Anth 211 Human Origins
Anth 230 Archaeology Myth and Mystery
Anth 238 Exploring Empires and Imperialism
Anth 247 Ancient Cities and States
Anth 260 Watching Film/Seeing Culture
Anth 262 Dreams, Dreaming, and Culture
Anth 263 Environmental Anthropology
Anth 264 Shamanisms
Anth 269L Anthropology of the Object
Anth 278L Introduction to Indigenous Studies
Anth 295L Introduction to Human Rights
Anth 301L Childhood in America
Anth 310 Primate Behavior
Anth 312 Human Variation
Anth 313 Developmental Models in Human Evolution
Anth 324 A Biocultural Approach to Warfare
Anth 330 Archaeology of Colonialism in North America
Anth 343L African Diaspora Archaeology
Anth 346 Culture, Globalization, and the Environment
Anth 349 Anthropology of Development
Anth 357 Culture, Disease, and Healing
Anth 358 Comparative Health Care Systems
Anth 359 Economic Anthropology
Anth 360 Gender, Culture, and Power
Anth 364 Anthropology of Adolescence: Biocultural Interactions
Anth 366 Anthropology of Religion
Anth 367 Social and Cultural Perspectives on Witchcraft and Healing
Anth 368 Myth in Cultural Context
Anth 372 Anthropology of Death
Anth 385 Language and Culture
6) Proseminar (1 course required)
Anth 425 Contemporary Issues in Anthropology
7) Additional courses for the Major (3 courses required).
Anth 220/221/222/223/224/227 Intermediate Seminars
Anth 444 Cooperative Education for Anthropology Majors
Anth 477 LLOP Seminar
Anth 478/479 Directed Study
Anth 483-486 Field Research courses
Anth 488 Internship
Anth 490/491 Independent Research (Honors)
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