Anthropology
专业介绍
The undergraduate Anthropology Program emphasizes the commitment of this department to four-field anthropology, providing exposure to Anthropological Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology and Linguistic Anthropology. This approach serves Anthropology’s intellectual goal to achieve a comprehensive, comparative, and innovative understanding of humanity.
An undergraduate major in Anthropology contributes to a liberal arts education, offering a disciplined awareness of human behavior that forms the basis for problem solving in an increasingly complex world, wherever the major takes you.
As an Anthropology major, you will learn about
- the importance of human diversity (biological and cultural) in the past and present and why diversity matters for our future
- how human bodies and minds are shaped both by our present environments, and our species’ evolutionary past
- the ways in which race is socially constructed and how that translates to real-world biological consequences
You will also learn important skills, such as
- The ability to incorporate different cultural perspectives in your critical thinking
- Cultural competency
- The diversity of methods anthropologists use to study our human past and present, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches
The department also offers six optional sub-majors for students who want to pursue deeper knowledge in a specific aspect of Anthropology.
Optional Sub-majors:
- Archaeology
- Culture and Media
- Environment and Conservation
- Medical Anthropology
- Politics, Law, and Economy
- Power, Identity, and Inequality