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Anthropology at Southeast
Anthropology is unique in its holistic, cross-cultural, and time-depth approach to the study of
what it means to be a human being. Anthropologists are holistic in that they deal with all parts of culture, such as interrelationship between economic,
political, religious, kinship, and child rearing practices of a society. Major subfields taught at Southeast Missouri State University include
archaeology which studies the traces or remnants
of human behavior and gives anthropology its unique time-depth to
studying humans; physical anthropology, which deals with humans as biological organisms; and social/cultural anthropology, which studies
human cultures, particularly, but not exclusively, non-Western, non-urbanized societies.
Career Opportuntities
The anthropology program at Southeast is designed to prepare students for either employment or
graduate school and to be educated members of the "global village" of the 21st century.
Students are prepared for employment through a sound, first-rate liberal arts education which prepares
them for jobs in a number of diverse fields. Specific training for undergraduate degree level jobs in anthropology is provided in the fields of contract
archaeology and government service. Contract archaeology is a rapidly expanding industry. Numerous job opportunities exist in
both the public and private sectors. Government jobs can be found on the state and federal levels and include employment in agencies such as the National Parks
Service, the Army Corps of Engineers, the National Forest Service, Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service, Bureau of Land Management, and various
state agencies such as State Historic Preservation Offices and the Highway Department. Non-governmental employment includes
administration, planning and development, human factor studies, health and education studies, environmental studies, museum research, international
banking, marketing and journalism. Other private-sector positions occur in archaeological consulting firms, engineering firms, and cultural resource
management agencies.
Academic employment usually requires a master's or a doctoral
degree and may involve research in conjunction with teaching in social/
cultural anthropology, archaeology, or physical anthropology and anthropological
linguistics.
Southeast prepares students for graduate studies through classroom instruction, research
opportunities and interaction with outside scholars who lecture on subjects as diverse as primate evolution, plantation archaeology and Native American
lifeways. Southeast anthropology students have been successful in competing for undergraduate research awards and graduate fellowships.
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Educational Preparation & Degree Requirements
The anthropology program offers a Bachelor of Arts major and a minor in both anthropology and
archaeology.
Major in ANTHROPOLOGY
36 Hour Major - Minor
Required
Required Courses:
AN 180 Introductory Anthropology: Physical Anthropology & Archaeology (3)
AN 181 Intro to Cultural Anthropology (3)
AN 241 Intro to Linguistic Anthropology (3)
AN 242 Statistics for Social Scientists (3)
AN 311-313 Archaeological Fieldwork (1-6, 3 hrs required)
OR
AN 331-333 Applied Anthropology (1-6, 3 hrs required)
AN 317 Ethnographic Field Methods (3)
OR
AN 345 Methods of Social Research (3)
AN 380 Human Evolution and Adaptation (3)
AN 382 Archeology: Method and Theory (3)
AN 493 Senior Seminar in Anthropological Theory (3)
Choose 6-9 Hours in Anthropology or
Other Courses (As Approved by Advisor)
Additional Requirement:
XX XXX 12 Hours
total in ONE OR MORE Foreign Languages
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Minor in ANTHROPOLOGY
18 Hours Required
Required Courses:
AN 181 Intro to Cultural Anthropology (3)
AN 241 Intro to Linguistic Anthropology (3)
AN 317 Ethnographic Field Methods (3)
Choose 9 Hours From:
AN 101 Observing Other Cultures (3)
AN 180 Intro to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (3)
AN 260 World Cultures (3)
AN 280 Economic Anthropology (3)
AN 360 Meso-American Civilizations (3)
AN 383 Cultures of the Third World (3)
AN 493 Seminar in Anthropological Theory (3)
SO 345 Methods of Social Research (3)
Minor in ARCHAEOLOGY
18 Hours Required
Required Courses:
AN 180 Intro to Physical Anthropology & Archaeology (3)
AN 382 Archaeology: Method & Theory (3)
AN 313 Archaeological Fieldwork (3)
OR
AN 551 Historic Archaeology Fieldwork (3)
Choose 9 Hours From:
AN 181 Intro to Cultural Anthropology (3)
AN 250 World Archaeology (3)
AN 319 Archaeological Laboratory (3)
AN 321 Midwestern Archaeology (3)
AN 360 Meso-American Civilizations (3)
AN 381 North American Archaeology (3)
AN 493 Seminar in Anthropological Theory (3)
AN 540 Culture Resource Management (3)
AN 550 Historic Archaeology (3)
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Faculty and Facilities
The faculty in the department have obtained advanced degrees at a variety of outstanding graduate
schools, and represent a broad range of interests in anthropology.
Joint cooperation for research and study exists between the anthropology program and the University
Museum, which houses a substantial collection of prehistoric North American artifacts.
Every summer the anthropology program conducts an archaeological field school which teaches
excavation methods and procedures at a site in the region. Special emphasis is
placed on excavation and survey techniques. For more information on archaeology
and available fieldwork opportunities click HERE.
For more information about programs in sociology and anthropology, contact:
Department of Foreign Languages and Anthropology
Southeast Missouri State University
One University
Plaza
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701-4799
(573) 651-2182
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