Admission to the program requires:
- 3.0 GPA overall and a 3.3 grade point average in the major, maintained until graduation
- Enrollment in the senior seminar, Cultural Anthropology 498S and Distinction Independent Study Cultural Anthropology 499S, in the fall and spring of their senior year
- Senior thesis on a topic of a student’s own choice in close collaboration with an advisor from the Cultural Anthropology faculty.