The major gives an overview of human evolution and is designed to prepare students for careers in anthropology and the health sciences, including medicine, dentistry, public health, and nursing.

Required: Anthropology 1, 2, 3, 4; Chemistry and Biochemistry 14A, 14B, 14BL, and 14C, or 20A, 20B, 20L, 30A, and 30AL; Life Sciences 7A, 7B, 7C, 23L; Life Sciences 30A, 30B, and 40 or Statistics 13, or Mathematics 3A, 3B, 3C, and Statistics 12, or Mathematics 31A, 31B, and Statistics 12; Physics 5A, 5B, and 5C.

The honors program offers research-oriented students an opportunity to engage in original research and analysis under the close supervision of faculty members and culminates in an honors thesis. To be admitted students should have a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 overall and a 3.5 cumulative GPA in their upper-division Anthropology courses. The application for admission must be submitted during fall quarter. Ideal candidates should have junior or senior standing and have completed at least two upper-division anthropology courses. The proposal, research, analysis, and writing of the paper take place over four terms via Anthropology 191HA through 191HD. Course 191HA is taken in winter quarter and 191HB in spring quarter. Research should be done in summer, and courses 191HC and 191HD are taken in fall and winter quarters of the graduation year. Students should contact the departmental honors adviser early in their studies for more information.

Transfer applicants to the Anthropology BS major with 90 or more units must complete as many of the following introductory courses as possible prior to admission to UCLA: one human evolution course, one archaeology course, one sociocultural anthropology course, one culture and communication course, two general biology courses for majors, one year of calculus, one year of general chemistry with laboratory, one year of general physics with laboratory, and one lower-division organic chemistry course.
Refer to the <a href="https://admission.ucla.edu/apply/transfer">UCLA transfer admission guide</a> for up-to-date information regarding transfer selection for admission.

Each course must be taken for a letter grade, and students must have an overall grade-point average of 2.0 or better.

Students must complete nine courses as follows: (1) two upper-division courses in the sociocultural anthropology field (130–149) and one in each of the other three fields: archaeology (100-119), biological anthropology (120–129), and linguistic anthropology (150–159); (2) one upper-division regional cultures course (160–169); (3) one upper-division history/theory course selected from 100, 110, 111, 120, 124Q, 130, 131, 136A, 140, M150; and (4) two additional upper-division anthropology courses.
Students are strongly encouraged to enroll in 3 to 4 units of 89 and/or 189 courses to gain small seminar experience. Ideally, at least one of the units should be at the upper-division level.

College of Letters and Science

Proficiency formulating and answering relevant questions through critical reasoning, making use of current primary scientific literature, database searches, identification of appropriate sources, reading and understanding of papers, and discriminating research quality

Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of mathematics, physical sciences, and life sciences to meet pre-medical-school requirements

Familiarity with the history, methods, and current theoretical debates in the field

Broad knowledge of archaeological, biological, sociocultural, and linguistic anthropology

Proficiency in library research, interpreting data, synthesis, and writing

General knowledge of, and developed skills working with, empirical and anthropological evidence