The General Social Sciences Program provides students the flexibility to design a major that combines courses from several departments across campus into a thematic concentrations. All concentrations combine career training with the analytical skills of a liberal arts education. Each concentration has its own core courses and a range of relevant electives.
The University of Oregon course catalog offers degree plans and a complete list of undergraduate courses in the General Social Sciences program.
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Anthropology houses three (3) subfields: archaeology, biological anthropology, and cultural anthropology. Within each concentration, students have the option to structure their curriculum around clusters of courses related to their particular interests within the department. All courses are subject to availability on a term-by-term basis. Please check our course catalog for current offerings.
ANTH 479 Taphonomy: Bones, Bugs, and Burials
Description: Application of taphonomic studies in the fields of paleontology, archaeology, and forensic-medicolegal anthropology.
GEOG 468 Contemporary Food Systems
Description: Explores contemporary food systems at local, national, and global scales. Emphasis on the political economy and sociocultural dynamics linking agriculture, food industries, and consumption.
ENVS 335 Allocating Scarce Environmental Resources
Description: Considerations for the design of environmental and natural resources policies and regulations: balancing society's preferences and the costs of environmental protection and resource conservation.