Heritage and Global Engagement Minor
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.
In addition to the program requirements listed below, students must:
- take at least nine hours of their minor course requirements at UNC–Chapel Hill
- earn a minimum of 12 hours of C or better in the minor (some minors require more
Select 5 courses from the following list. At least once course must involve engaged anthropological research
| First-Year Seminar: The Indians’ New Worlds: Southeastern Histories from 1200 to 1800 | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Crisis & Resilience: Past and Future of Human Societies H | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Indian Country Today | ||
| First-Year Seminar: The Lives of Others: Exploring Ethnography 1 | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Public Archaeology in Bronzeville, Chicago’s Black Metropolis 1 | ||
| Anthropology of Globalization | ||
| Anthropology through Expressive Cultures | ||
| Ancient Cities of the Americas | ||
| Local Cultures, Global Forces 1, H | ||
| Archaeology and the Media | ||
| Introduction to World Prehistory | ||
| Anthropological Perspectives on Food and Culture | ||
| Introduction to Folklore | ||
| Global Issues and Globalization | ||
| Archaeology of South America | ||
| Ancestral Maya Civilizations H | ||
| Prehistory of Southwest Asia and Egypt: From the Earliest Humans to the Rise of Civilization | ||
| Action Research 1 | ||
| Anthropology and Public Interest 1 | ||
| Archaeology of North America H | ||
| Archaeology of Food | ||
| Culture and Identity 1 | ||
| Culture and Consumption 1 | ||
| Melancholy Japan: Myth, Memory, and Everyday Life | ||
| The Anthropology of Memory 1 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Native Writers | ||
| Public Archaeology | ||
| Public Archaeology Practicum 1 | ||
| Culture and Power in Southeast Asia | ||
| Migration and Health 1 | ||
| The Past in the Present | ||
| The Archaeology of African Diasporas | ||
| Colonialism and Postcolonialism: History and Anthropology 1 | ||
| Visual Anthropology | ||
| Archaeology of the American South | ||
| Ethnography and Life Stories 1 | ||
| Issues in Cultural Heritage 1 |