2024-2025 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
Applied Anthropology, Undergraduate Certificate
Requirements
A certificate in applied anthropology is a strong curricular addition to the degrees offered at GVSU. This 15-credit-hour certificate in applied anthropology provides students at Grand Valley with a foundational knowledge of applied anthropology, its principles, and actual experience through an internship. This certificate can be completed in three semesters (winter, summer, fall), if all prerequisites were completed previously.
A certificate in applied anthropology is neither a major nor a minor; it is a focused investigation into an area of cultural resource management, medical anthropology, development, or conservation. Anthropology accepts applications for the certificate in applied anthropology on October 15 and March 15 of each year.
Core Courses
- ANT 400 - Ethnographic Methods (3 credits)
- ANT 420 - Applied Anthropology (3 credits)
- ANT 490 - Practicum: Career-Service (1 to 9 credits)
Additional Course
Select one of the following courses:
- ACC 408 - Governmental and Not-for-Profit Accounting (3 credits)
- ANT 421 - Anthropology of Social Movements (3 credits)
- ANT 331 - Issues in Contemporary Anthropology (3 credits)
- ANT 431 - Historical Perspectives in Anthropology (3 credits)
- BUS 301 - International Business and Culture (3 credits)
- ECO 343 - Health Economics (3 credits)
- ECO 345 - Environmental and Resource Economics (3 credits)
- ECO 349 - Emerging Markets Issues (3 credits)
- ECO 365 - Comparative Economic Systems (3 credits)
- ECO 369 - International Economic Issues (3 credits)
- ENS 401 - Environmental Problem Solving (3 credits)
- GPY 335 - Globalization and Development (3 credits)
- GPY 362 - Farmers, Crops, and Our Challenging Agricultural World (3 credits)
- GPY 363 - World Forests and Their Use (3 credits)
- AHS 330 - Health Care: A Global Perspective (3 credits)
- AHS 352 - Introduction to Holistic Health Care (3 credits)
- MGT 303 - International Business and Culture (3 credits)
- NRM 320 - Introduction to Resource Systems (3 credits)
- PLS 301 - Poverty, Inequality, and U.S. Public Policy (3 credits)
- PLS 302 - Women, Politics, and Public Policy (3 credits)
- PLS 304 - Political Parties and Interest Groups (3 credits)
- PLS 310/PNH 310 - Politics and Health Policy (3 credits)
- PLS 313 - International Organization (3 credits)
- PLS 316 - Human Rights in International Politics (3 credits)
- PLS 327 - Politics of Developing Countries (3 credits)
- PSY 362 - Environmental Psychology (3 credits)
- PSY 367 - Health Psychology (3 credits)
- PNH 335 - Grant Writing (3 credits)
- PNH 360 - Voluntarism and the Nonprofit Sector (3 credits)
- PNH 372 - International and Comparative Administration (3 credits)
- WGS 335 - Women, Health and Environment (3 credits)