THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE

                         FACULTY SENATE 


                                                             
                              Senate Document Number   1595S
                                                              
                              Date of Senate Approval  2/9/95

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Statement of Faculty Senate Action:


APC Document #15:  Anthropology as a Social Science General
                    Education Requirement

Effective Date:  Fall 1995

Add:

On page 50, paragraph one under the heading Social Science, insert
anthropology into the second sentence to read:

     "Two courses must be chosen from two different disciplines to
     include Anthropology, Economics, Political Science,
     Psychology, Sociology, or interdisciplinary courses developed
     from these."

Also on page 50, change the title Soc 215 Introduction to Cultural
Anthropology to Anth 2xx Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.

Impact Statement:

     Adding Anthropology to the list of distinct disciplines
     offering Social Science General Education credit may slightly
     reduce enrollment in other disciplines, but the overall effect
     will be very little.  Students who had taken one of the other
     Sociology General Education course previously would have had
     to take an Economics, Psychology or Political Science offering
     for their second requirement rather than use Cultural
     Anthropology, yet of the 1060 Social Science General Education
     seats offered in 1993-94 only 70 or 6.6% were Cultural
     Anthropology.  Even if all the students who took Sociology
     general education courses take Cultural Anthropology, the loss
     to the other departments would be small.

Rationale:

     The Social Science General Education Requirement requires
     course work in separate disciplines.  The Sociology department
     contains two disciplines.


     Anthropology is a separate and distinct discipline from
     Sociology.  While both fields originated at about the same
     time, they had unique origins.  They are distinct in scholarly
     interests and maintain different theoretical paradigms. 
     Research methods may overlap, yet most frequently
     anthropologists pursue different data collection techniques. 
     The disciplines have separate professional societies and
     graduate education occurs in distinct departments.