Education Program Requirements

  • EDU 340: Research and Methods in Teaching the Young Adult
  • EDU 343: Research and Methods in Teaching and Learning in the Social Sciences
  • EDU 460: Seminar in Teaching the Young Adult
  • EDU 469.03: Laboratory Practice and Practicum in Secondary Teaching

Anthropology Requirements

Students can pursue the following path through the education program with an anthropology endorsement.

Options 2 and 3 (of 24 and 30 semester hours, respectively) are not presently being offered at Grinnell College. Interested students may pursue these paths for a second (minor) endorsement and should contact the education program department chair for further information. 

Completion of a 32 semester hour teaching major which must minimally include the following courses (note: this option fulfills the requirements for a major in anthropology):

  • ANT 104: Introduction to Anthropology (4 credits)
  • ANT 280: Theories of Culture (4 credits)
  • Three electives in anthropology (including two 300-level courses or one 300-level course and a senior thesis) (12 credits)
  • Archaeology or Biological Anthropology--one of the following courses (4 credits):
    • ANT 205: Human Evolution
    • ANT 221: Primate Behavior and Taxonomy
    • ANT 225: Human Variation
    • ANT 261: Agriculture, Religion, and Empire: Old World Prehistory
    • ANT 262: Archaeology of North America
    • ANT 267: Aztecs, Incas, and Mayas
    • ANT 321: Human Ethology
    • ANT 325: Biological Basis of Human Society
    • ANT 375: Experimental Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology
  • Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics--one of the following courses (4 credits):
    • ANT 200: Cultural Politics of Hybridity
    • ANT 210: Illness, Healing, and Culture
    • ANT 235: The Anthropology of American Culture
    • ANT 238: Cultural and Political Ecology
    • ANT 240: Intentional Communities
    • ANT 242: African Cultures
    • ANT 246: Anthropology of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
    • ANT 247: Contemporary Europe
    • ANT 251: Native North American Indian Culture
    • ANT 252: Culture and Agriculture
    • ANT 253: Anthropology of Ethnicities
    • ANT 257: Latin American Cultures
    • ANT 260: Language, Culture, and Society
    • ANT 265: Ethnography of Communication
    • ANT 310: Postmodernism and Beyond
    • ANT 326: Anthropology of Religion
  • Methodology--one of the following courses (4 credits):
    • ANT 290: Archaeology Field Methods
    • ANT 291: Methods of Empirical Investigation
    • ANT 292: Ethnographic Research in Complex Societies
  • Total Credits: 32

NOTE: One year of language study and a semester of statistics is required for the anthropology major. Off-campus study and/or an internship are strongly recommended.