Major Requirements

Anthropology Requirements

Credits Required: 

Total semester credits: 120

Semester credits in the major: 31-43

You officially begin the major by co-enrolling in SBS 300: Major/ProSem:Theo/Meth/SBS and SBS 300L: Professional Skills Soc Sci. In SBS 300L: Professional Skills Soc Sci, you will create an Individualized Learning Plan (ILP) tailored to your personal academic and career goals. Then you will complete a curriculum designed to meet four Major Learning Outcomes (MLOs).  This curriculum includes a set of broad courses that integrate all the social sciences, and a set of focused courses for a concentration consisting of 20 units in a specific social science discipline (or an Associated Minor listed on the SBS Major Overview page, consisting of 12-16 units plus 8 more units of SBS courses). SBS majors may complete their upper-division service learning requirement by taking any 300 or 400-level SBS course with an "S" designation.  In two seminars ( SBS 400: Senior Capstone Seminar I and either SBS 402: Senior Capstone Seminar II or SBS 404S: Service Learning Capstone) you will design your own capstone project and conduct original research under close advisement from the SBS faculty. Your final course in the major will be SBS 405: Assessment Lab/Grad/Srs, which will prepare you to present your capstone publicly to demonstrate your cumulative learning in the Major Learning Outcomes (MLOs) described below [Learn more at CSUMB.EDU/capstone].

Major Requirements and Learning Outcomes are identified below. In order to graduate, students must also meet all general education and university requirements. 

Core Courses

  • Lower-division requirements
  • STAT 100: Introduction to Statistics (4 units)

MLO 1: Social theory

The SBS major requires successful completion of two courses in social theory: the Major Proseminar, with a co-requisite lab; and an advanced social theory module of at least 2 units.

Required Courses

  • SBS 300/L: Major/ProSem:Theo/Meth/SBS (4 to 6 units)
  • SBS 328: Social Science Theory Module (2 to 4 units)

MLO 2: Research methods

The SBS major requires two courses in research methods. Each concentration requires a specific research methods course. Students take one additional research methods course chosen from SBS courses in the SBS 360-369 series, or GS 316: Historical Approaches, or PSY 302/L: PSY/Resear/Methods/Data/Analys.

Required Courses

MLO 3: Specialized Disciplinary and Area Studies Competency

The SBS major requires students to demonstrate competency in a specific field or discipline of the social or behavioral sciences. They may do this in one of four ways: 1) Complete a designed curriculum in one of seven core concentrations offered by the Social and Behavioral Sciences; 2) Complete the Teaching Track for “single-subject” preparation in History/Social Science certified by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC); 3) Complete an Associated Minor listed on the SBS Overview catalog page, plus two 300-level SBS courses approved for one of the concentrations; or 4) Complete a “customized specialization” of at least 16 units approved by an SBS faculty member.

Required Courses

  • Anthropology Concentration
  • Lower division pre- or corequisite:
  • SBS 101: Intro Cultural Anthropology (3 to 4 units)
  • or comparable transfer course
  • Required courses:
  • SBS 345: Cultural Anthropology (4 units)
  • SBS 379: Tattoos Makeup & Burkas (4 units)
  • SBS 384S: Anthrop of Education (4 to 6 units)
  • SBS 388: Crisis/Develop/Mexican/Society (4 units)
  • At least one of the following with advisor approval:
  • SBS 304: California Indian Societies (4 units)
  • SBS 314: Global Migrant Workers (2 to 4 units)
  • SBS 325: Art of the Aztec Empire (4 units)
  • SBS 333: Forensic Anthropology (1 to 4 units)
  • SBS 336: Advan/Topics/Cult/Anthro (4 units)
  • SBS 370: App/Research/Writing/Soc/Sci (4 units)
  • SBS 383: African Civilizations (3 to 4 units)
  • SBS 348: Maya Civilization (4 units)
  • SBS 356: Intro/Geog/People/Places/Envir (2 to 4 units)
  • SBS 480: The Queretaro Project (2 to 4 units)
  • SBS 485: Applied Research/Rural Com (1 to 6 units)
  • GS 320: Global Issues & 3rd World (4 units)
  • GS 322: Dilemmas in Humanitarianism (4 units)
  • GS 325: International Development (4 units)
  • GS 332: Religion/Post Secular World (4 units)
  • GS 340: Social Medial and Global Comm (4 units)
  • GS 343: Global Film & Film Indust (4 units)
  • GS 350: Gender/Violence in Global Life (4 units)
  • GS 360: Religion/Violence/Peacemaking (4 units)
  • HCOM 324: African American Narratives (4 units)
  • HCOM 325: 20th Cent Narr Amer Immgr (4 units)
  • HCOM 328: Latina Life Stories (4 units)
  • HCOM 329: Auto/Biografias (4 units)
  • HCOM 335: Amer Ethnic Lit & Culture (4 units)
  • HCOM 345: Chicano Life & Culture (4 units)
  • HCOM 346: African American Life/History (4 units)
  • HCOM 348: Race, Colonialism & Film (4 units)
  • HCOM 350: Oral Hist/Comm Mem (4 units)
  • HCOM 426: Travel Narratives (4 units)
  • HCOM 445: Slavery & Race in the Americas (4 units)
  • HCOM 446: EthnograpPortraits/Culture Cit (4 units)
  • JAPN 308: Japanese Pop-Culture (4 units)
  • JAPN 310: Japanese Cinema (4 units)
  • JAPN 313: Manga, Anime & Modern Japan (4 units)
  • JAPN 380: Japan: Land and People (4 units)
  • SPAN 306: Cultur/Civ Span Ltn Amer (4 units)
  • SPAN 308: Hist/Cultr Aztlan:SW US (4 units)
  • SPAN 325: Hispanic Cinema (2 to 6 units)
  • SPAN 328: Latina Life Stories (4 units)
  • SPAN 329: Auto/Biografias (4 units)
  • SPAN 370: The Chicano Community (4 units)

MLO 4: Application of social science principles and practices in real world contexts

Students complete the B.A. in SBS by producing a senior capstone project that demonstrates their ability to apply the skills and knowledge acquired in the SBS curriculum to real world social problems or issues.

Required Courses

  • SBS 400: Senior Capstone Seminar I (1 to 4 units)
  • SBS 402: Senior Capstone Seminar II (1 to 4 units)
  • SBS 405: Assessment Lab/Grad/Srs (1 to 4 units)
  • Optional: Upper-Division Capstone Service Learning (When SBS 404S is offered at 4 units, it may be taken in substitution of SBS 402).
  • SBS 404S: Service Learning Capstone (2 to 4 units)

Concentrations

Anthropology

Archaeology

Geographic Information Systems

Native American Studies

Political Economy

Social History

Sociology

Subject Preparation for Teaching Credential in History and Social Science

The Social and Behavioral Sciences major offers a pathway into a teaching credential program for prospective high school teachers. If you choose this, Social History will be your official concentration, but you should follow the special teaching track pathway. This pathway is currently under review for approval by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. If it is approved, you will receive a waiver from completing the comprehensive qualifying exam (CSET) in order to be admitted to a single-subject (high school) teacher credential program after you complete your B.A.