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2025-26 Catalog
International Affairs with a Concentration in Anthropology
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Students must complete all of the following requirements to graduate with a bachelor of arts in this program. Some courses may apply toward multiple requirements. College Requirements: Students are required to complete all standard college requirements.
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Major Requirements:
Total major units: 15-20 This program requires an application to declare the major, approved by the ICPS IA/PP committee. The application should include at least one and ideally more than one recomended Comparative Analysis course (listed at bottom). Six to Seven Units of International Affairs:
One Unit of International Relations:
Three to Four Units of International Affairs from One of the Following Subjects:
Three Additional Units of Economics From:
A Minimum of Three Units of History From:
One Additional Unit of History (excluding 470)
Three Additional Units of Empirical Politics From:
⇒A minimum of two at the 300 level or higher (excluding 470) Three Additional Units of Sociology From:
One to Two Additional Units of International Affairs from the Following, in a Different Subject Than Used Above:
One Additional Unit of Economics From:
Two Units of History From:
One Unit of Empirical Politics From:
One Additional Unit of Sociology From:
Six Units of Anthropology:
Introductory Anthropology
A Minimum of One Unit in a Specific Geographic Area
A Minimum of One Unit at the 400 Level (excluding 470)
A Minimum of Three Anthropology Units From:
- ANTH 201 - Topics in Contemporary Anthropology -only when offered as “Global Political Ecology,” or as “Global Health”
- ANTH 320 - Social Movements, Protests, and Historical Change in South Asia
- ANTH 324 - Sport and Society
- ANTH 330 - Decolonizing Material Culture and Museums
- ANTH 333 - Local and Global Indigenous Archaeologies
- ANTH 334 - Queer Politics and Pleasures
- ANTH 336 - Anthropology through Morocco
- ANTH 337 - Black Ecologies in the Americas
- ANTH 341 - Medical Anthropology
- ANTH 343 - African Pasts, African Futures
- ANTH 347 - Outbreak, Emergency, Pandemic: Anthropology of Health Systems
- ANTH 361 - The Middle East: Culture and Politics
- ANTH 363 - Race and Transnational China
- ANTH 364 - Global Tibet through Film
- ANTH 365 - The Anthropology of Development in Post-Mao China
- ANTH 374 - Urban Anthropology
- ANTH 375 - Anthropology of Science
- ANTH 376 - Situating Climate Change
- ANTH 378 - Nature, Culture, and Environmentalism
- ANTH 379 - Power, Resources, Extractivism
- ANTH 395 - Globalization
One Unit of Junior Seminar
- See “Junior Year Requirements” below.
Proficiency in a Non-English Language, Demonstrated by One of the Following:
- Successful completion of Reed language courses:
⇒ Two units at a second-year level,
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⇒ One unit at a higher level; - Committee approval of language courses taken elsewhere, which may include:
⇒ Successful completion of language courses taken in secondary (high) school or at another college/university,
AND/OR
⇒ Successful completion of a language placement examination at Reed; - Committee approval following an assessment of language proficiency in a non-English language, including heritage languages, commensurate with at least two years of college-level coursework.
One Unit of Statistics from the Following:
Junior Year Requirement:
One unit of junior seminar (included in the “Six units of anthropology” requirement above), which may be taken either fall or spring semester of the junior year. See the Anthropology department for more information. Junior qualifying examination
Recommended, but not Required
- One additional unit of Anthropology in a specific geographic area
Comparative Analysis
A minimum of one unit (and preferably two units) of comparative analysis courses listed below. May apply toward the above requirements.
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