Departmental Self Review - UCLA Academic Senate

(www.anthro.ucla.edu) is frequently updated to include detailed information about theundergraduate program and links to important documents. Information aboutupcoming activities of relevance to undergraduate participation in the life of thedepartment is available on the departmental website. For example, all upcoming talksin different interest groups are listed on the departmental homepage. Undergraduatesalso increasingly receive pertinent and timely information about their classeselectronically from their professors via the UCLA Classweb system (e.g.,http://www.sscnet.uda.edu/07S/anthr08-1/). The percentage of classes disseminatinginformation directly to students via Classweb has risen from 59% in 1998-99 to 83%today. Some classes also have their own websites where students can obtain specializedmaterials and resources used for preparing assignments and studying for exams (e.g.,Anth 33, www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthrolfaculty/duranti/anthr033D. Anthropology facultyalso use UCLA's full electronic gradebook at a high rate. Compared with universitywideparticipation of around 10%, more than 48% of the lower division and larger upperdivision classes in anthropology make use of this service. Finally, some facultymembers have started "podcasting" their lower division classes (e.g., Smith in Anth 8).2.2. The MinorThe department offers undergraduate students the opportunity to minor in anthropology andencourages students to choose a program of study that enhances their major. Minors must taketwo of the lower division foundation courses (from Anth 7 or 12,8,9, and 33), one of the coreupper division courses (Anth Ill, 120, 130, M140 or 150) and a total of four upper divisionelectives. It is envisioned that students gain good exposure to one or two of the subfields ofanthropology by formally declaring a minor. The number of minors has risen from a low of 49students in 1998-99 to as many as 93 in 2004-05 (Figure 2), behind only Political Science andChicana and Chicano studies in the division according to taw numbers.7