Heritage and Global Engagement Minor

Introduction

The heritage and global engagement minor offers students the opportunity to engage two critical issues of our times: globalization and heritage. Students will learn a wide range of culturally aware approaches to understanding the role of globalization and heritage in the modern world. Emphasizing experiential learning, the minor offers students guided training in a range of anthropological methodologies including ethnography, oral life-history, heritage conservation, and community-based, participatory research. Through designated engagement courses, student completing the minor will have developed a portfolio of extended cases studies, ethnographic projects, and designs for participatory heritage and globally-concerned projects. This emphasis on engagement—i.e. first-hand anthropological research—teaches students to connect new ideas about culture, history, globalization, and identity with real communities. This course of study therein prepares students to navigate the complex issues of globalization and heritage that they will encounter in their personal and professional lives beyond UNC. The minor is designed to complement other majors and careers, where cultural awareness is a must. Affording undergraduates the opportunity to anthropologically engage their world, the heritage and global engagement minor brings together UNC faculty, students, and communities—both abroad and here in North Carolina—to create locally grounded, globally aware understandings of an increasingly interconnected world.

Graduate School and Career Opportunities

There are multiple career paths open to students with a minor in heritage and global engagement. The minor is designed to augment a range of courses of study and careers. From medical and health professions to business, government, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), anthropological perspective is increasingly at a premium in the world writ large. This minor gives students the global awareness and first-hand research skills to distinguish themselves in a variety of local and global fields.

Requirements

In addition to the program requirements listed below, students must:

  • take at least nine hours of their minor "core" requirements at UNC–Chapel Hill
  • earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.000 in the minor core requirements. Some programs may require higher standards for minor or specific courses.

For more information, please consult the degree requirements section of the catalog.

Core Requirements
Select five (5) courses from the following list. At least one course must involve engaged anthropological research. 115
IDEAs in Action General Education logo First-Year Seminar: The Indians' New Worlds: Southeastern Histories from 1200 to 1800
IDEAs in Action General Education logo First-Year Seminar: Crisis & Resilience: Past and Future of Human Societies H
IDEAs in Action General Education logo First-Year Seminar: Indian Country Today
IDEAs in Action General Education logo First-Year Seminar: The Lives of Others: Exploring Ethnography 1
IDEAs in Action General Education logo First-Year Seminar: Public Archaeology in Bronzeville, Chicago's Black Metropolis 1
Anthropology through Expressive Cultures
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Ancient Cities of the Americas
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Local Cultures, Global Forces 1, H
Archaeology and the Media
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Introduction to World Prehistory
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Anthropological Perspectives on Food and Culture
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Everyday Cultures: Folklore in America
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Global Issues and Globalization
IDEAs in Action General Education logo The Inca and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Andean South America
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Ancestral Maya Civilizations H
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Archaeology of Ancient Turkey
Action Research 1
Anthropology and Public Interest 1
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Archaeology of North America H
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Archaeology of Food
Culture and Identity 1
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Culture and Consumption 1
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Melancholy Japan: Myth, Memory, and Everyday Life
IDEAs in Action General Education logo The Anthropology of Memory 1
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Artisans and Global Culture: Economic, Historical, Experiential, and Cross-Cultural Dimensions 1, H
Community in India and South Asia
Memory, Massacres, and Monuments in Southeast Asia
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Native Writers
Public Archaeology
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Public Archaeology Practicum 1
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Culture and Power in Southeast Asia
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Migration and Health 1
The Past in the Present
The Archaeology of African Diasporas
Colonialism and Postcolonialism: History and Anthropology 1
Visual Anthropology
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Archaeology of the American South
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Ethnography and Life Stories 1
IDEAs in Action General Education logo Issues in Cultural Heritage 1
Total Hours15
H

Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply.

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 Courses involving engaged anthropological research.

Special Opportunities

See the program page here for special opportunities. Students should also meet with the Department of Anthropology’s undergraduate career advisor to explore opportunities that are beyond the classroom yet relevant to this minor.

Department of Anthropology

Visit Program Website

301 Alumni Building, CB#3115

(919) 962-1243

Chair

Amanda Thompson

althomps@email.unc.edu

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Colin West

ctw@email.unc.edu