- Hi, I am Professor Stan Thangaraj
and I am the departmental
advisor for Anthropology.
I work at the City College of New York.
If you're watching this
video, this is just one way
to know what anthropology
is at City College,
know what the major entails,
and more so get to know the
faculty and know that
this is just one moment of
knowing the department.
But our offices are always
open for you to meet
with us as majors and students
interested in the department.
So, welcome.
You might want to ask
yourself, what are the central
foundations of anthropology at CCNY?
For us, it is social justice.
Social justice becomes the
foundation through which
we engage with the four
subfields of anthropology
which are, of course,
Each of them is a different
way to have a much more
wholistic human understanding
of our social world.
Within that, our department
itself is an expression
of social justice with
the diversity within.
We have women and also
communities of color and yet,
we're so small that we can give
you the intimate, personal,
compassionate mentoring
and teaching that you need.
With this, you have just one
snapshot of what we do and
also what we can do for you.
With that, let us talk about the major.
What does the major entail?
It involves 30 credit hours of which
four are in 200 level courses.
You have to take the Archeology class,
Linguistic Anthropology, Human Origins,
and Sociocultural
Perspectives for the major.
Those are the required classes.
But then we also have 15 credit hours
that can be used on any of our electives
including classes such as
Race and Racism, Urban Areas,
Anthropology of Childhood.
And, of course, some of my
classes like Anthropology of
sport, Anthropology of gender
and sexuality, and then
Anthropology of Asian America.
We are in New York, right?
Finally, we offer a minor
in Medical Anthropology.
If you're interested in a minor by itself,
it involves just 15 credit hours
which you may use as you wish
and also incorporate other
programs that we have such as
Black Studies, Asian Studies,
Latin American Studies,
and of course Women and Gender Studies.
With this, it is a way
to give you all the tools
you need to not only understand diversity,
but to engage with
diversity in productive ways
in which you can be a
tool for social justice.
So I ask you to come to our
offices, our doors are open.
Talk to us.
Let's put on our gloves, put on the hat,
and let's be agents of change.
