For more information on the admission process, please visit the Office of Undergraduate Admissions website. Applications may be submitted via the Common Application.

Supporting documents not submitted online should be mailed to:
Office of Undergraduate Admissions
The George Washington University
800 21st Street NW, Suite 100
Washington DC 20052

Contact for questions:
gwadm@gwu.edu or 202-994-6040

The following requirements must be approved: 19 to 21 credits, including one 4-credit required course, at least 12 credits in selected courses, and 3 or 4 credits in a field experience or related coursework.

Required
ANTH 1001Biological Anthropology
Selected courses
At least four additional ANTH courses for a minimum total of 12 credits, selected from the following:
ANTH 1005The Biological Bases of Human Behavior
ANTH 2406Human Evolutionary Genetics
ANTH 3401Human Functional Anatomy
ANTH 3402Human Evolutionary Anatomy
ANTH 3403Forensic Anthropology Laboratory
ANTH 3404Human Variation
ANTH 3406Advanced Human Osteology
ANTH 3407Conservation in a Changing World: Human and Animal Behavior
ANTH 3408The Evolution of Human Families
ANTH 3409Evolution of Primate Life Histories
ANTH 3411Primatology
ANTH 3412Hominin Evolution
or ANTH 3412W Hominin Evolution
ANTH 3412WHominin Evolution
ANTH 3413Evolution of the Human Brain
ANTH 3491Topics in Biological Anthropology
ANTH 3802Human Cultural Beginnings
or ANTH 3802W Human Cultural Beginnings
Field experience or related coursework
3 or 4 credits in an approved field experience, which may be ANTH 3832 or ANTH 3839 or, with the prior approval of the undergraduate advisor, a course in a related field, such as biological sciences, geology, psychology, or statistics. The following courses are suggestions, other courses can be approved:
ANTH 3832Paleoanthropological Field Program
ANTH 3839Lab Research Methods in Archaeology
BISC 1005The Biology of Nutrition and Health
BISC 1006The Ecology and Evolution of Organisms
BISC 1111Introductory Biology: Cells and Molecules
BISC 1112Introductory Biology: The Biology of Organisms
GEOL 1001Physical Geology
GEOL 1002Historical Geology
GEOL 1005Environmental Geology
PSYC 2014Cognitive Psychology
PSYC 2015Biological Psychology
PSYC 3112Psychology of Adolescence
PSYC 3118Neuropsychology
PSYC 3122The Cognitive Neuroscience
STAT 1127Statistics for the Biological Sciences