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Anthropology Minor

General Requirements

Students must satisfy all requirements as outlined below and by the department offering the minor.

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Program Requirements

  1. Students must complete a minimum of 18 ANTH credit hours.
  2. Students must complete a minimum of nine upper division (3000-level and above) ANTH credit hours. Most upper division courses have lower division prerequisites.
  3. Students must earn a minimum grade of C- (1.7) in all courses that apply to the minor and must achieve a minimum cumulative minor GPA of 2.0. Courses taken using P+/P/F or S/U grading cannot apply to minor requirements.
  4. Students must complete a minimum of nine ANTH credit hours with CU Denver faculty.

Program Restrictions, Allowances and Recommendations

  1. All upper division required courses must be taken from CU Denver faculty in order to count for specific requirements. Upper division courses from other schools will only count as electives.
Complete a minimum of nine credit hours from the following required courses:9
Introduction to Archaeology
Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Culture and the Human Experience
Foundations of Cultural Anthropology
World Prehistory
Human Evolution
Complete a minimum of nine elective credit hours from the Anthropology Department.9
Total Hours18

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