Anthropology and human biology
专业详情
The Bachelor of Science in Anthropology is a concentration in biological anthropology. It is designed to cultivate one of the particular strengths of Emory’s Anthropology department. While the degree requires training in general Anthropology, it has a clear emphasis in the area of human biology.
Emory’s Anthropology department specializes in Biological Anthropology and Cultural Anthropology. This two-field approach reflects the common intellectual interest of the department to promote the interaction between biology and culture. This major is designed, in part, to establish an alternative pre-medical curriculum. The Anthropology department believes that future physicians will benefit from exposure to (at least) three perspectives in anthropology:
- A biological perspective emphasizes the importance of our evolutionary heritage in shaping behavior, the developmental process, and social relations.
- A social scientific perspective provides a methodology for understanding the complex interactions between human behavior and biology.
- A humanistic perspective emphasizes the cultural coherence of human values, beliefs and symbols and their importance for particular social groups.
