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Academic Calendar
2026/27
Academic Calendar 2026/27
Anthropology
ufv.ca/scmsAnthropology minor
This section specifies minor discipline requirements only. Information on additional Bachelor of Arts requirements begins in this section and includes the requirements for declaring a minor. Please check the Bachelor of Arts residency section of the calendar for how many upper-level credits must be completed at UFV in order to graduate with this program.
Lower-level requirements: 12 credits
| Course | Title | Credits |
| ANTH 102 | Culture and Society | 3 |
| ANTH 202 | Ethnographic Toolkit | 3 |
| One of: | 3 | |
| ANTH 111 | First Nations of British Columbia – Traditional Cultures | |
| ANTH 130 | Religions and Cultures | |
| or | One course from List 1A or List 2A | |
| Plus: | One course from List 1A | 3 |
Upper-level requirements: 16 credits
| Course | Title | Credits |
| One of: | 4 | |
| ANTH 301 | Thinking Through Culture | |
| ANTH 368/ SOC 368 | Power, Inequality, and the Environment | |
| ANTH 470E/ SOC 470E | Ethnicity, Race, and Nationalism | |
| Plus: | One course from List 1B | 4 |
| Plus: | One course from List 1B or List 2B | 4 |
| Plus: | One course from List 3 | 4 |
Note: A single course may not be used to satisfy more than one program requirement.
Elective lists
Elective lists
List 1A
| Course | Title | Credits |
| ANTH 210 | Gender and Sexuality Across Cultures | 3 |
| ANTH 220/ GDS 220 | Globalization and Development | 3 |
| ANTH 260/ SOC 260 | Food for Thought: Food, Culture, and Society | 3 |
| ANTH 268 | Culture and Environment | 3 |
| ANTH 275 | Fantastic and Speculative Worlds | 3 |
List 1B
| Course | Title | Credits |
| ANTH 325/ SOC 325 | Cities and Culture | 4 |
| ANTH 368/ SOC 368 | Power, Inequality, and the Environment | 4 |
| ANTH 375/ MACS 375 | Global Mediascapes | 4 |
| ANTH 388/ SOC 388 | Global Indigeneity (formerly also offered as LAS 388) | 4 |
| ANTH 470E/ SOC 470E | Ethnicity, Race, and Nationalism | 4 |
List 2A
| Course | Title | Credits |
| ANTH 299 | Special Topics in Anthropology I | 3 |
| ENGL 215 | Creative Writing: Creative Non-Fiction | 3 |
| GDS 260 | Gender and Global Development | 3 |
| GEOG 241 | Social Geography: The Urban Experience | 3 |
| MACS 201 | Popular Music and Society (formerly also offered as MUSC 201) | 3 |
| MACS 221 | Media and Popular Cultures | 3 |
| SOC 205 | Comparative Societies | 3 |
| SOC 247 | Culture of Capitalism | 3 |
| SOC 254 | Writing for the Social Sciences | 3 |
| SOC 255/ MACS 255 | Introduction to Social Research (formerly also offered as ANTH 255) | 3 |
| SOC 270/ ANTH 270/ MACS 270 | Dynamics of Racism in Canada | 3 |
List 2B
| Course | Title | Credits |
| ANTH 360/ SOC 360 | Eating and Thinking: Food, Identity, and Power in Global Societies | 4 |
| ANTH 367/ ENGL 367 | Culture and Theory of Diaspora | 4 |
| FILM 313 | Indigenous Film | 3 |
| GD 304 | User Experience Design | 3 |
| GDS 330 | Humanitarianism and Complex Emergencies (formerly also offered as ANTH 330) | 3 |
| GDS 332 | Refugees, Displacement, and Development | 4 |
| GEOG 312 | Nature, Power, and Place | 4 |
| GEOG 323 | Geography of War, Terrorism, and Peace (discontinued) | 4 |
| GEOG 340 | Geographies of Development: Landscapes of Inequality (formerly also offered as GDS 340) | 4 |
| GEOG 346 | Geography of Religion and Peacebuilding (discontinued) | 4 |
| IPK 344 | Research in Action: Indigenous Meaning Making (formerly also offered as ANTH 344/SOC 344) | 3 |
| MACS 337/ SOC 337 | Taste and Culture | 4 |
| MACS 385/ SOC 385 | Television and Social Values | 4 |
| POSC 300 | Research Design and Methods | 3 |
| SOC 330 | Culture and Cognition | 4 |
| SOC 346 | Environmental Justice | 4 |
| SOC 356/ MACS 356 | Qualitative Research Methods (formerly also offered as ANTH 356) | 4 |
| SOC 363/ ANTH 363/ GDS 363/ LAS 363 | Processes of Development and Underdevelopment: Latin America | 4 |
| VA 365/ FILM 365/ JRNL 365 | Documentary Video Storytelling | 3 |
List 3 (Indigenous competency)
| Course | Title | Credits |
| AH 321 | Canada: Contact Zone | 4 |
| ANTH 388/ SOC 388 | Global Indigeneity (formerly also offered as LAS 388) | 4 |
| FILM 313 | Indigenous Film | 3 |
| IPK 302 | Colonial Trauma, Residential Schools, and Resilience | 3 |
| IPK 331/ POSC 331 | History of Indigenous Leadership | 4 |
| IPK 332 | Indigenous Governance and Leadership | 3 |
| IPK 344 | Research in Action: Indigenous Meaning Making (formerly also offered as ANTH 344/SOC 344) | 3 |
| IPK 401 | Indigenous Worldviews and Spirituality | 3 |
| IPK 477/ BIO 477 | Traditional Ecological Knowledges | 4 |
| POSC 301 | Indigenous Politics in Canada | 3 |
| POSC 321 | Global Issues in Indigenous Politics | 3 |
Course listings
For complete details on courses see the course descriptions section.