Minor in Cultural Heritage and Memory
Many students in Anthropology are interested in cultural heritage, museums, and how people make sense of and recall the past. The Minor in Cultural Heritage and Memory is designed for students who are interested in the ways the past is remembered and activated in the present, sometimes as a mechanism to construct narratives and make political or legal claims about community and/or national identities. The Minor also examines culturally shaped forms of remembering and commemoration. The Minor in Cultural Heritage and Memory is ideal for students interested in law and policy, development, museum studies, archives, cultural preservation, material culture studies, and the arts. The courses in the Minor will provide training for students interested in how the past is recalled and represented as well as the ethical dilemmas of commemoration.
The Minor in Cultural Heritage & Memory consists of consists of six courses totaling 18 credits : three required courses designed to give students a foundation in anthropological approaches to the past, heritage, commemoration, and memory and three additional electives that explore cultural diversity. The Minor in Cultural Heritage and Memory can be easily combined with Majors in other departments. If combined with a Major in Anthropology, four of the six courses (12 of the 18 credits) can overlap between the Major and the Minor and only 2 extra courses (6 extra credits) are required.
Requirements for the Minor in Cultural Heritage and Memory
One of the following courses:
ANTH 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 103 Introduction to Archaeology
ANTH 104 Language, Culture, and Society
One of the following courses:
ANTH 201 Essentials of Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 240 Essentials of Archaeology
One of the following courses:
ANTH 252 Historical Archaeology
ANTH 258 Cultural Property, Heritage, & the Law
ANTH 332 Anthropology of Memory
Three elective courses:
Note: only one of these may be an “area” course, i.e., Anth 205, 206, 207, 208, 208W, 210, 211, 212, 215W, 216; and only one of these may be a “topics” or “seminar” course, i.e., Anth 239, 259, 330, 350
ANTH 201 Essentials of Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 204 Anthropology of Islam
ANTH 205 Peoples of Mexico & Central America
ANTH 206 Peoples of South America
ANTH 207 Native North Americans
ANTH 208 Peoples of South Asia
ANTH 208W Peoples of South Asia (W)
ANTH 210 Peoples of East Asia
ANTH 211 Peoples of Africa
ANTH 212 Peoples of the Middle East
ANTH 215W Peoples of the Caribbean (W)
ANTH 216 Peoples of Southeast Asia
ANTH 232 Photography and the Visual World
ANTH 233 Race, Class, and Ethnicity
ANTH 239 Topics in Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 240 Essentials of Archaeology
ANTH 241 Archaeology of Mesoamerica
ANTH 243 Archaeology of North America
ANTH 246 Archaeology of the Near East
ANTH 246W Archaeology of the Near East (W)
ANTH 247 Archaeology of Africa
ANTH 248 World of the Vikings
ANTH 249 Topics in Archaeological Area Studies
ANTH 250 Field Methods in Archaeology
ANTH 252 Historical Archaeology
ANTH 258 Cultural Property, Heritage, & the Law
ANTH 259 Topics in Archaeology
ANTH 280 Language and Social Identity
ANTH 282 Linguistic Subjectivities in Latin America
ANTH 304 Anthropology of Development
ANTH 306 Anthropology of Religion
ANTH 332 Anthropology of Memory
ANTH 350 Seminar in Archaeology
ANTH 354 Time
ANTH 388 Voices of New York