Anthropology
Study what makes us unique as human beings, as well as the qualities and characteristics that unify such diverse groups of people.
The anthropology program at Laurentian University offers a range of essential and specialized courses that complement the expertise of its instructors and the culture and geography of northern Ontario.
The program offers courses organized around the following themes:
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Environment and Human Ecology
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Health, Culture and Community
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Visual and Material Culture
Dr. Micheal Edward Roach Scholarship
Conseiller aux études
Dr. Patrick Julig, Coordinator
Téléphone : 705.675.1151 x 4220
Courriel : pjulig@laurentian.ca
Bureau :
Administrative assistant:
Pauline Bégin
705.675.1152 x 4108
pbegin@laurentian.ca
Students have the opportunity to take classes that help them develop valuable relationships with community organizations and experts. While studying anthropology at Laurentian, students will have the opportunity to engage in a number of intellectual, cultural and social activities and initiatives including, but not limited to:
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Regional and international field schools
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Class field trips
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Academic conferences
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Applied community projects
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Anthropology student club
Our program strives to support the educational goals of our students through financial awards and bursaries, travel grants and a student lab.
Given the program's presence within Anishinaabe territory, we are a proud contributor of several courses that integrate Indigenous perspectives and content currently offered within the Faculty of Arts.
Ontario High School Applicants
| Bachelor of Arts (BA) | Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) |
|---|---|
| 1 grade 12 English U/M course | 1 grade 12 English U/M course |
| 5 other grade 12 U/M courses | 1 grade 12 4U Advanced Functions |
| 1 additional grade 12 U/M Math course | |
| 3 other grade 12 U/M courses | |
| A minimum overall average of 70% in the 6 best grade 12 U/M courses | A minimum overall average of 70% in the 6 best grade 12 U/M courses |
Additional information for applicants who have completed Advanced Placement courses.
Additional information for applicants who have completed the International Baccalaureate.
Applicants from outside an Ontario High School
Canadian High School Applicants from outside Ontario
Note pour les étudiants actuels
Les options de grade ci-dessous seront offertes lors de la prochaine année universitaire et ne le sont pas cette année. Si vous cherchez les cours à suivre afin de compléter les options d'un programme d'une année universitaire antérieure, svp consultez avec un conseiller académique.
Admissions have been suspended to ALL programs in Anthropology, effective September 2020.
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Anthropology
Students must follow these regulations in order to meet graduation requirements for the BA or B.Sc.
All students entering a BA program as of September 2017 are required to take 6 credits each of linguistic awareness, scientific literacy and indigenous content as per the regulations.
Although the requirements have been slotted in first year in the description below, students may fulfill them at any time during their studies.
Eligible courses are available at the 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 levels and students should take them at the appropriate time in their studies.
Courses fulfilling these requirements may be taken as electives or as part of a minor, concentration, major or specialization.
Specialization in Anthropology for BA
First Year
ANTR 1007E Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
6 elective credits of linguistic awareness (see regulations)
6 elective credits in the Sciences
6 elective credits in Indigenous content (starting 2017)**
9 credits electives
Upper Years
STAT 2126E Introduction to Statistics
ANTR 3016E Anthropological Theories
ANTR 3026E Anthropological Research: Project Design OR SOCI 3126 Qualitative Methods
15 credits in Anthropology 2000 level courses
33 credits in Anthropology 3000 or 4000 level courses, 9 credits of which may come from the Approved Anthropology Elective Courses List (at least 9 credits must be at the 4000 level)
33 elective credits
It is recommended students take ARCL 1006.
Notes:
- Students may substitute FORS 3036 for ANTR 3036 but may not retain credit for both.
- Students may substitute SOCI 3126 for ANTR 3026 but may only use one of these courses toward completion of their program.
- Students may not exceed 42 credits at the 1000 or 9100 level in their degree program.
Major in Anthropology for BA
a) ANTR 1007E Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
b) 39 credits in ANTR, at least 6 of which must be at the 4000 level, 9 credits of which may come from the Approved Anthropology Elective Courses List#
c) 78 elective credits (must include 6 credits in linguistic awareness, 6 credits of Indigenous content, and 6 credits in the Sciences if not part of the other minor or second major)
It is recommended students take ANTR 3016, 3017, 3026 and 3027. It is also recommended that students take ARCL 1006.
# ANTR 3026 is recommended, as well as completing 2000 level Anthropology courses in at least two sub-disciplines:
Archaeology: ANTR 2095E
Biological/Physical Anthropology: ANTR 2016E; ANTR 2017E
Sociocultural Anthropology: ANTR 2005E; ANTR 2036E; ANTR 2046E; ANTR 2906E
Notes:
- Students may substitute FORS 3036 for ANTR 3036 but may not retain credit for both.
- Students may substitute SOCI 3126 for ANTR 3026 but may only use one of these courses toward completion of their program.
- Students must complete a minimum of a minor (24 credits) or a second major (42 credits) from among their elective credits.
- Students may not exceed 42 credits at the 1000 or 9100 level in their degree program.
- Students must include 6 credits in linguistic awareness, 6 credits of Indigenous content, and 6 credits in the Sciences if not part of the other minor or second major. Eligible courses are available at the 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 levels and students should take them at the appropriate time in their studies.
Bachelor of Arts (General) in Anthropology
Students must follow these regulations in order to meet graduation requirements for the BA or B.Sc.
Concentration in Anthropology for BA
All students entering a BA program as of September 2017 are required to take 6 credits each of linguistic awareness, scientific literacy and indigenous content as per the regulations.
Although the requirements have been slotted in first year in the description below, students may fulfill them at any time during their studies.
Eligible courses are available at the 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 levels and students should take them at the appropriate time in their studies.
Courses fulfilling these requirements may be taken as electives or as part of a minor, concentration, major or specialization.
First Year
ANTR 1007E Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
6 elective credits of linguistic awareness (see regulations)
6 elective credits in the Sciences
6 elective credits in Indigenous content (starting 2017)**
9 credits of electives
Upper Years
a) 15 credits from 2000 level ANTR courses
b) 18 credits of ANTR at the 3000 or 4000 level, 9 credits of which may come from the Approved Anthropology Elective Courses List
c) 27 elective credits
It is recommended that students take ANTR 3016, 3017, 3026 and 3027. It is also recommended that students take ARCL 1006.
Note:
- Students may substitute FORS 3036 for ANTR 3036 but may not retain credit for both.
- Students may substitute SOCI 3126 for ANTR 3026 but may only use one of these courses toward completion of their program.
- Students may not exceed 42 credits at the 1000 or 9100 level in their degree program.
Minor in Anthropology
a) ANTR 1007E Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
b) 21 credits in ANTR (at least 6 credits at the 3000 or 4000 level), 9 credits of which may come from the Approved Anthropology Elective Courses List.
It is recommended students take ARCL 1006, ANTR 2016 and ANTR 2906.
Minor in Medical Anthropology
a) ANTR 2016E Human Biological Variation, Adaptations and Health
b) ANTR 3086E Medical Anthropology: Medicine, Culture and Society
c) 18 credits from the following, 9 credits of which may come from the Approved Anthropology Elective Courses List:
ANTR 1007E Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
ANTR 3046E Environmental Anthropology
ANTR 3047E Public Health and Epidemiology
ANTR 3087E Ethnomedicine: Cross-cultural Healing
ANTR 4006E Food and Disease Prevention
ANTR 4007E Origins of Sickness and Medicine
ANTR 4116E Critical Perspectives in Medical Anthropology
ANTR 4136E Ethnopsychiatry and Cross-Cultural Mental Health
ENVI 2526E Environment and Human Health
GERO 3207E Health Challenges in Aging
INDG 3256E Indigenous Health and Wellness
RLST 3245E Health, Healing and Spirituality
SOCI 4157E Critical Analysis of Global Health Issues
Students may take a maximum of two (2) non-ANTR elective from the above list.
Minor in Decolonial Praxis
a) 12 credits from the following list:
ANTR 1007E ntroduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
ANTR 2046E Peoples of the World: Tribes, States and the Global Village
ANTR 2146E The (De)Colonial Struggle
HIST 2466E Indigenous Representations from Colonialism to Sovereignty
HIST 2616E The First Nations in Canada in Historical Perspective (OR HIST 3216FL L’histoire des Premières Nations au Canada)
HIST 3136F Histoire de l’Ontario français
HIST 3276E History of Northern Ontario (OR HIST 3276 Histoire du Nord de l’Ontario)
HIST 3376E Les pays d'Amérique à l'ère colonial
ISWK 1006E Introduction to Indigenous Social Welfare
ISWK 2006E Indigenous Social Welfare Issues
SOCI/POLI 3437E The Colonizer and the Colonized
b) 12 credits from the following list:
ANTR 2026E Anthropology and the World Today
ANTR 4306E Indigenous Photography and Decolonization
ISWK 1007E Introduction to Indigenous Social Welfare and Social Work Practice
ISWK 4406E Colonizing/Decolonizing Issues of Violence in Indigenous Communities
ISWK 4416E Conflict Resolution and Peace-Making in Indigenous Social Work Practice
GEOG 3497E Geography of Northern Canada: Development Issues
SOCI 2276F Enjeux autochtones contemporains
SOCI/HIST/INDG 3087E Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Indigenous Issues: Selected Topics
SOCI 4256E Aboriginal Peoples and Society
Minor in Community Leadership
a) ANTR 2206E Foundations of Community Leadership
b) Community Leadership Foundations (6 credits)
6 credits from the following list:
ANTR 1007E Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
ANTR 2126E Anthropology and the World Today
ECON 1006E Introduction to Microeconomics
ECON 1007E Introduction to Macroeconomics
ENVI 1507E Introduction to Environmental Studies
INDG 1116E Foundations of Indigenous Peoplehood
LBST 2246E What Do Unions Do?
MGMT 1006E Foundations of the Management of Organizations I
MGMT 1007E Foundations of the Management of Organizations II
SOCI 1015E Understanding Society
c) Communication and Advocacy (3 credits)
3 credits from the following list:
ANTR 2136E Workplace Culture
ANTR 3216E Visual Ethnography
COST 1117E Introduction to Communication Theory and Semiotics
COST 2246E The Dynamics of Interpersonal Communication I
COST 2247E The Dynamics of Interpersonal Communication II
COST 2526E New Culture
ENGL 2016E Science Writing in the Public Sphere
ENGL 2546E Rhetorical Principles
ENGL 3556E Principles and Practices of Workplace Communication
ENGL/FILM 2846E Rhetoric of Film and Image
ENGL 3536E Environmental Communication
LBST 3246E Workplace Rights Advocacy
SCOM 4006E Presenting and Communicating Research
THEA 2127E Voice I
d) Social Justice and Change (3 credits)
3 credits from the following list:
ANTR 2106E Cultural Dynamics and Change
ENVI 2516E Ecological Footprints and Demographic Change
INDG 2136E Indigenous Political Resistance in Canada: An Integrated Media Analysis
ISWK 1006E Introduction to Indigenous Social Welfare
PHIL 2876E Business Ethics
POLI 2426E Individual, Community and Political Order
SOCI 2656E Social Inequality: Gender, Race, Class and Power
SWLF 1006E Introduction to Social Welfare
e) Socioeconomic Foundations (6 credits):
6 credits from the following list:
ANTR 3047E Public Health and Epidemiology
ANTR 3086E Medical Anthropology: Medicine, Culture and Society
ECON 2026E Introduction to Urban Economics
ECON 2027E Introduction to Regional Economics
GEOG 2247E Economic Geography: Canadian Issues
HIST 3276E History of Northern Ontario
INDG 3116E Indigenous People and the Criminal Justice System
ISWK 2006E Indigenous Social Welfare Issues
SOCI 2306E Introduction to Globalization/POLI 2306E International Relations
SWLF 2106E Political Economy of Social Welfare
WGSX 2036E Gender, Work and Families
f) Research and Applications (3 credits):
3 credits from the following list:
ANTR 4086E Applied Anthropology
COST 3127E Communication Research
ENVI 3506E The Living City
ENVI 3516E Greening the Built Environment
GEOG 2017E Applied Cartography and Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
INDG 3117E Social Policy and Family Law with Indigenous People
ISWK 2007E Applied Indigenous Social Work Issues
ISWK 4416E Conflict Resolution and Peace-Masking in Indigenous Social Work Practice
LBST 2106E Occupational Health and Safety, Level I
LBST 3056E Collective Bargaining
SOCI 2127E Research Methods and Data Analysis
Approved Anthropology Elective Course List:
ARCL 1006E Introduction to Archaeology
ENGL 3546E Media-Indigenous People-N.A.
ENGL 3566E Indigenous Oral Storytelling
ENVI 2506E Cultural Representations of the Environment
GEOG 2216E Cultural Geography
GEOG 3496E Geography of Northern Canada: Social and Political Perspectives
GEOG 3826E Brazil and South America
GEOG 3827E Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean
INDG 2285E North American Indigenous People: Tradition and Culture
INDG 3285E Living with the Land: Indigenous Knowledge in Theory and Practice
INDG 4405E Seeing with an Indigenous Eye
INDG 4587E From the Fourth World: International Indigenous Perspectives on Current Global Issues
LBST 2026E The World of Work
RLST 2205E The World’s Living Religions
SOCI 2656E Social Inequality: Gender, Race, Class and Power
SOCI 4086E Class, Race, Gender and Ethnicity in the Workplace
WOMN 2046E Gender, Race and Racism
Certificate in Community Leadership (30 credits)
a) ANTR 2206E Foundations of Community Leadership
b) Community Leadership Foundations (9 credits):
ANTR 1007E Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
ANTR 2126E Anthropology and the World Today
ECON 1006E Introduction to Microeconomics
ECON 1007E Introduction to Macroeconomics
ENVI 1507E Introduction to Environmental Studies
INDG 1116E Foundations of Indigenous Peoplehood
LBST 2246E What Do Unions Do?
MGMT 1006E Foundations of the Management of Organizations I
MGMT 1007E Foundations of the Management of Organizations II
SOCI 1015E Understanding Society
WGSX 1005E Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
WGSX 2066E Introduction to Critical Sexuality Studies
c) Communication and Advocacy (3 credits):
ANTR 2136E Workplace Culture
ANTR 3216E Visual Ethnography
ARCL 3207E Indigenous and Collaborative Archaeology
COST 1117E Introduction to Communication Theory and Semiotics
COST 2246E The Dynamics of Interpersonal Communication I
COST 2247E The Dynamics of Interpersonal Communication II
COST 2526E New Culture
ENGL 2016E Science Writing in the Public Sphere
ENGL 2546E Rhetorical Principles
ENGL 3556E Principles and Practices of Workplace Communication
ENGL/FILM 2846E Rhetoric of Film and Image
ENGL 3536E Environmental Communication
LBST 3246E Workplace Rights Advocacy
PSYC 4066E Culture and Psychology
SCOM 4006E Presenting and Communicating Research
THEA 2127E Voice I
WGSX 3316E Women's Activism, Global and Local
d) Social Justice and Change (6 credits):
ANTR 2106E Cultural Dynamics and Change
ENVI 2507F Empreinte écologique et développement durable
ENVI 2516E Ecological Footprints and Demographic Change
HIST 3416E Protest and Political Change
INDG 2136E Indigenous Political Resistance in Canada: An Integrated Media Analysis
ISWK 1006E Introduction to Indigenous Social Welfare
PHIL 2876E Business Ethics
POLI 2426E Individual, Community and Political Order
SOCI 2656E Social Inequality: Gender, Race, Class and Power
SWLF 1006E Introduction to Social Welfare
WGSX 2046 Gender, Race and Racism
e) Socioeconomic Foundations (6 credits):
ANTR 3047E Public Health and Epidemiology
ANTR 3086E Medical Anthropology: Medicine, Culture and Society
ECON 2026E Introduction to Urban Economics
ECON 2027E Introduction to Regional Economics
GEOG 2247E Economic Geography: Canadian Issues
HIST 3276E History of Northern Ontario
INDG 3116E Indigenous People and the Criminal Justice System
ISWK 2006E Indigenous Social Welfare Issues
SOCI 2306E Introduction to Globalization/POLI 2306E International Relations
SWLF 2106E Political Economy of Social Welfare
WGSX 2036E Gender, Work and Families
f) Research and Applications (3 credits):
ANTR 4086E Applied Anthropology
COST 3127E Communication Research
ENVI 3506E The Living City
ENVI 3516E Greening the Built Environment
GEOG 2017E Applied Cartography and Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
INDG 3117E Social Policy and Family Law with Indigenous People
ISWK 2007E Applied Indigenous Social Work Issues
ISWK 4416E Conflict Resolution and Peace-Masking in Indigenous Social Work Practice
LBST 2106E Occupational Health and Safety, Level I
LBST 3056E Collective Bargaining
SOCI 2127E Research Methods and Data Analysis
STAT 2126E Introduction to Statistics
WGSX 2016E The Production of Knowledge
Liste des membres du corps professoral
Cross Appointments
Dr. Stephen Meyer
Geography Program
School of Northern and Community Studies
Telephone: 705-675-1151 Ext. 3431 Email: smeyer@laurentian.ca
Dr. Jorge Virchez
Geography Program
School of Northern and Community Studies
Telephone: 705-675-1151 Ext. 3359 Email: jvirchez@laurentian.ca
Professor Emeritis
Dr. Miguel Bombin
Dr. Kathyn Molohon
Sessional Professors
Prof. Andrée Beauchamp
Dr. Marinus Dieleman
Dr. Roger Spielmann
Patrick Julig
School of Northern and Community Studies