Anthropology

MIT Anthropology offers undergraduate students exposure to diverse human cultures, providing perspectives relevant to other fields in the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and engineering. Our courses also offer intensive introduction to areas of faculty specializations, including social and political organization, the organization and cultures of science and technology, environmental movements and policies, agriculture and food production, religion and symbolism, photography and film, ethics, law and human rights, gender studies, nationalism and ethnic identity, and the profession of medicine and public health.

Undergraduates can major, minor, or concentrate in Anthropology. Students create programs of study with the aid of their primary academic advisors, and their minor or major advisor in Anthropology. Anthropology also offers joint degree programs in combination with engineering, science, or management fields.

FULL MAJOR (Leading to a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology)

Twelve subjects:

• Four required subjects: 21A.00, 21A.01, 21A.802, and 21A.155
• AND Six anthropology subjects that make up a coherent program
• AND EITHER 21A.ThT and 21A.ThU (with faculty approval, an honors thesis)
  OR
  Two additional anthropology subjects