Required Units

Total number of units required for major, excluding any required Intensive(s): 10

Required Intensive units, if any: 1

Total units required: 11

Total Number of Specific Courses Required

• GEOG 102 - Global Geography: People, Places, and Regions
• GEOG 304 - Senior Seminar: Issues in Geographic Theory and Method
• ANTH 140 - Cultural Anthropology
• ANTH 201 - Anthropological Theory
• ANTH 301 - Senior Seminar

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• A Geography methods course chosen from:

• GEOG 220 - Cartography: Spatial Data Visualization with GIS
• GEOG 224 - GIS: Spatial Analysis
• GEOG 230 - Research Methods: Studying Sustainability at Vassar

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• An Anthropology methods course chosen from:

• ANTH 220 - Topics in Biological Anthropology
• ANTH 223 - Primate Behavior and Ecology
• ANTH 224 - Race and Human Variation
• ANTH 245 - The Ethnographer’s Craft
• ANTH 230 - Topics in Archaeology
• ANTH 233 - Museums, Collections, Ethics
• ANTH 255 - Language, Gender, and Media

Distributional Content Area Units Required

• One additional 200-level course in Geography or an Intensive
• One additional 100- or 200-level course in Anthropology or an Intensive
• One additional 300-level course in Geography or a Thesis
• One additional 300-level course in Anthropology
• All Geography-Anthroplogy majors must complete at least eight units of coursework outside the social sciences division

Intensives

One of the courses above must be a Geography or Anthropology Intensive or Thesis.