The  Intersegmental Major Preparation Articulated Curriculum  (IMPAC) project is a unique intersegmental,  faculty-designed and faculty-run project to ensure that  students transferring from the community colleges to UC  and CSU are prepared for work in their chosen major and  can avoid having to repeat coursework. The project is funded by a five year, $2.75 million grant that enables  faculty from the three higher education systems to meet regionally to discuss issues, concerns, and academic  procedures that impinge upon the transfer of students in those majors. Specifically, the grant funds regional and  state-wide faculty disciplinary and interdisciplinary discussions to address prerequisite and lower division  courses students must complete prior to transfer to  either CSU or UC. You can visit the main IMPAC site here or view an informative PowerPoint on what IMPAC is. Here is a link that describes how IMPAC is organized by disciplines.

IMPAC allows Anthropology faculty to get together to discuss important issues. In addiition to focusing on new CAN courses in the discipline, we have strategized about approaches to the discipline, considered pedagogical parallels in cross-disciplinary discussions with faculty from other fields, shared ideas about teaching and made some new colleagues. If you get a chance, please thank Academic Senate director Julie Adams for supporting the Anthropology teachers' conferences in San Luis. Let's have another successful year!

Click here for the reimbursement forms for IMPAC meetings.




2003 was  the first year for considering transfer issues and  disciplinary trends in Anthropology. Meetings occured in Sacramento, Pasadena, and Los Angeles. 2003 was a very  productive year for the IMPAC Anthropology Project, with  excellent feedback from members of anthropology programs across the state of California. The major concerns of the  project included: (1) the revision of CAN Anthropology  courses, (2) identified trends/future directions, (3) recommendations to the discipline. You can read the report from 2003 to get caught up on things. In 2004, more successful meetings occurred in the north and south. In addition, progress on IMPAC and other statewide anthropology issues was made at the Anthropology Teachers Consortium meeting in San Luis. Plan to attend the 2005 San Luis meeting!

Read the 2002-2003 Anthropology IMPAC Report here.

Read the DRAFT 2003-2004 Anthropology IMPAC Report here.



During the first two years of the IMPAC meetings, we have forwarded the following new descriptors:

CAN ANTH 3  Magic, Witchcraft and Religion
 This course is an anthropological introduction to forms,  functions, origins and expressions of belief systems and rituals within their cultural contexts. Topics include  religious symbolism, myth, magic, divination, animism, animatism, shamanism, totemism, ancestor worship,  religious specialists, witchcraft, syncretism,  millenarian and other religious movements.

CAN ANTH 5 Native Peoples of North America
 This course is an introductory survey of the culture  areas of native North American peoples. Topics include ecological adaptations, language, social organization,  belief systems, artistic representations, post-contact  history and cultural changes, and native peoples’  current positions in society.






Tentative dates for the 2004-2005 IMPAC meetings can be located at this website.  More specific information about the Anthropology meetings will be updated on this page.



The previous two years of IMPAC meetings have had some major impacts in terms of new anthropology courses, sharing of departmental ideas and expanding collegiality of anthropologists statewide.  Review the minutes as they will help you get caught up on things. Click here for the minutes page. It will feature current minutes for this year's review, those of previous years, as well as reports.





Currently, I have produced  grids for the UC, CSU and CCC Anthropology programs. These grids give us a quick look at course offerings, requirements and the like. We ask that they not be given to students as guidelines because courses are subject to change. The grids are in Excel format.

Click for CSU  & UC Anthropology Course Grid (.xls)
Click for CCC  Anthropology Course Grid (.xls)



Course  Offerings: a very large word file is available here.  It offers course descriptions for all of the UCs and  CSUs. 
Click here for Qualified Courses Catalog for Anthropology




Very shortly, a listserv will be developed for the Anthropology IMPAC project.




Currently this selection offers the UC and  CSU Anthropology departments. Also included are links to the CCC Anthropology departments. If your program's homepage is not listed, please contact me and I will post it.  Here are some additional links as well:

Click for Anthropology Department Links

Handbook of California Articulation Policies and Procedures

Other IMPAC links (general)