Anthropology at Western Carolina University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate ANTH coursework.

• ANTH 120Introduction to Cultural Anthropologyopens 13 courses (12.5 directly)
• ANTH 110Introduction to Archaeologyopens 11 courses (10 directly)
• ANTH 251Introduction to Forensic Anthropologyopens 5 courses (5 directly)
• ANTH 115Introduction to Biological Anthropologyopens 5 courses (4.5 directly)
• ANTH 300Human Osteologyopens 4 courses (4 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate ANTH work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 33 ANTH and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 14 more ANTH courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in ANTH. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at ANTH 320

  1. ANTH 110Introduction to Archaeology
  2. ANTH 320Experimental Archaeology

• 2 courses deep, ending at ANTH 327

  1. ANTH 120Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
  2. ANTH 327Economic Anthropology

• 2 courses deep, ending at ANTH 333

  1. ANTH 251Introduction to Forensic Anthropology
  2. ANTH 333Medicolegal Death Investigation

• 2 courses deep, ending at ANTH 370

  1. ANTH 115Introduction to Biological Anthropology
  2. ANTH 370Human Biological Variation

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for ANTH yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under ANTH yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

Anthropology does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the WCU campus feed.