Cultural Anthropology and Philosophy, BA (Boston)

Undergraduatemajor2027 catalogSocial Sciences HumanitiesBoston128 semester hours totalunverified parse — check the source

Official catalog page for this program

BA Language Requirements

12 semester hours.

From the catalog

All BA students are required to complete the BA degree language requirements, for a total of 12 semester hours of language study or demonstrated equivalent proficiency, as described in Additional Requirements for BA students. Successful demonstration of proficiency does not reduce total minimum semester hours of study required to earn the BA degree.

Foundation Courses

• ANTH 1101 — Peoples and Cultures
• ANTH 2305 — Global Markets and Local Culture
• ANTH 3410 — Ethnographic Field Experience
• ANTH 3421 — Foundations of Anthropological Theory

Area Courses

8 semester hours.

From the catalog

Complete two area courses in the range from ANTH 4101–ANTH 4520 not used to satisfy other requirements. One study-abroad course may be substituted as an area studies course with prior permission from the department. Additional area courses taken may count as anthropology electives.

Capstone

• One of:
  • ANTH 4600 — Senior Seminar
  • ANTH 4100 — Making Anthropology and Sociology Public

Electives

12 semester hours.

From the catalog

Complete three 4-semester-hour courses not used to satisfy another requirement in addition to the above requirements. One study-abroad course may also count toward this requirement with prior permission from the department.

Required Courses

• PHIL 1115 — Introduction to Logic
• One of:
  • PHIL 2325 — Ancient Philosophy and Political Thought
  • POLS 2325 — Ancient Philosophy and Political Thought
• PHIL 2330 — Modern Philosophy

Foundational Philosophy of Science Elective

From the catalog

Complete one of the following:

• One of:
  • PHIL 1105 — Science and Pseudoscience
  • PHIL 2001 — Ethics and Evolutionary Games
  • PHIL 3050 — Information and Uncertainty
  • PHIL 3360 — Scientific Approaches to Philosophy

Advanced Philosophy Electives

8 semester hours.

From the catalog

Complete two PHIL courses with a designation of 3000 or above not used to satisfy another requirement and at least one at the 4000 or 5000 level, except 5110.

Critical Philosophy Elective

From the catalog

Complete one of the following not used to fulfill other requirements:

• One of:
  • AFCS 1101 — Introduction to African American and Africana Studies
  • PHIL 1104 — Goddesses, Witches, Saints, and Sinners: Women and Religion
  • PHIL 1271 — Sex in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
  • PHIL 2155 — Human Rights
  • PHIL 2410 — Possession, Sacrifice, and Divination in African Diasporic Religions
  • PHIL 2619 — Race and Religion in Film
  • PHIL 3492 — Indigenous Philosophy
  • PHIL 3500 — Sexuality, Gender, and the Law
  • PHIL 3512 — Religion, Race, and Politics
  • PHIL 3822 — Philosophy of Race and Racism

Philosophy Electives

8 semester hours.

From the catalog

Complete two additional courses from the philosophy department.

Integrative Requirement

From the catalog

One integrative course is required from each discipline. Courses taken as electives above may not be used as integrative courses.

• One of:
  • ANTH 2315 — Religion and Modernity
  • ANTH 3417 — Political Anthropology
  • ANTH 3442 — Anthropology of Law
• One of:
  • PHIL 4500 — Theory of Knowledge
  • PHIL 4510 — Philosophy of Science
  • PHIL 4550 — Philosophy of Economics
  • PHIL 4555 — Philosophy of Biology
  • PHIL 4903 — Seminar in Religion

GPA requirements

• Minimum 2.000 GPA required in anthropology and philosophy courses

Substitutions

Possible equivalents for this program — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:

• PHIL 2325 ↔ POLS 2325 (tier B)

What the tiers mean

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under cultural-anthropology-and-philosophy-ba-boston, and the official page is the authority.