Robert K. Merton
Sociology and Anthropology
270 Millett Hall
Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Email: Soc_Anth@wright.edu
Phone: (937) 775-2667
Fax: (937) 775-4228
Wright State University
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy
Dayton, Ohio 45435-0001
Last updated April 21, 2010
Anthropology Degree Requirements
Bachelor of Arts Degree
| General Education Requirements (CST 241 required) | 56 hrs. |
| Departmental Requirements | 56 hrs. |
| ATH 241, 242, 448 or 468 | 12 hrs. |
| Cultural electives | 12 hrs. |
| Archaeology electives | 12 hrs. |
| Physical Anthropology electives | 8 hrs. |
| Open Anthropology electives | 12 hrs. |
| Related electives (designated courses in other departments that are closely related to the anthropology major) |
12 hrs. |
| Foreign Language and Research Methods Requirement | 24-32 hrs. |
| Electives | 36-44 hrs. |
| TOTAL | 192 hrs. |
Anthropology Honors Program
The department encourages qualified students to conduct independent research through the department's honors program. Students are eligible for the program if they have an overall grade point average of 3.0 and an average of 3.5 in anthropology by the end of their junior year. Departmental honors are awarded at graduation. Under ATH 492, students are required to complete an honors project under the guidance of a faculty honors advisor. Interested students should contact the departmental office for further information.
Minor in Anthropology
The minor in sociology allows students to supplement their education in many fields. Students take SOC 306 (Sociological Methods) and five courses at the 300 - 400 level, four of them from one of the following concentrations: social organizations; deviance/criminology; social change; family/socialization. The minor in anthropology contains 32 credit hours. This includes 12 hours in three introductory courses (ATH 241, 242, CST 241) which expose students to the subfields of cultural and physical anthropology and archaeology. Upper-level courses are structured to allow students to examine the content of each subfield in greater depth. The required course in theory can be taken in either archaeology (ATH 468) or cultural anthropology (ATH 448).