Human Ecology Minor

HUMAN ECOLOGY MINOR

The Minor in Human Ecology focuses on understanding the relationship between humans and their environment, including long-term human adaptation and evolution, human impacts on the environment, responses to climate change, the emergence of social complexity, agriculture, food security, and resource extraction and environmental degradation such as mining and pollution. The Minor in Human Ecology prepares students to address pressing issues involving the human-environment relationship and obtain employment in public archaeology, ecology, natural history, education, public health, social ecology, and related fields. 

The Minor in Human Ecology consists of six courses totaling 18 credits . This includes two required courses that provide basic knowledge of the human-environmental interface. Students can then choose among three intermediate courses depending upon their interests within Human Ecology. Finally, students can choose three electives from a number of other courses within the department that address human ecology, listed below. 

The Minor in Human Ecology 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.

Two required courses:

ANTH 102 Introduction to Human Evolution 
ANTH 103 Introduction to Archaeology

ANTH 201 Essentials of Cultural Anthropology 
ANTH 240 Essentials of Archaeology 
ANTH 241 The Aztecs, Maya, and Olmecs 
ANTH 243 Archaeology of North America 
ANTH 246 Archaeology of the Near East 
ANTH 246W Archaeology of the Near East Writing Intensive 
ANTH 256 Archaeology of Food 
ANTH 259 Topics in Archaeology 
ANTH 260 Essentials of Biological Anthropology 
ANTH 262 The Nonhuman Primates 
ANTH 264 Faunal Analysis 
ANTH 279 Topics in Biological Anthropology 
ANTH 290 Topics in Anthropology 
ANTH 290W Topics in Anthropology Writing Intensive