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Undergraduate Program

Combine fascinating study with practical career training.

  • Enjoy the use of state-of-the-art facilities
  • Travel the world
  • Be marketable to a wide array of industries
  • Pursue a variety of career paths
  • Fulfill your LER, College Diversity or Writing Intensive requirements

Geoffrey Niumama poses on half-fallen coconut palm in 2007.Students performing experiments in a lab.A Ph.D. student researching embryonic development.A degree in anthropology gives you a strong liberal arts background combined with an awareness and understanding of ethnic and cultural differences and similarities-- skills sought after by businesses worldwide. An anthropology degree from Â鶹´«Ã½ can open the door for a career in academia, with a museum, as a documentary filmmaker, in a government agency, as a research analyst, in the field of sustainable development and much more. Check out our programs via the links in the left-hand navigation of this web page.

Â鶹´«Ã½â€™s Anthropology department has a team of faculty experienced in three disciplines of anthropology: archaeologycultural anthropology and biological anthropology. Our courses are taught in our well-equipped and configured Lowry Hall facility. We have two small seminar rooms, a 40-seat teaching classroom and a 140-seat auditorium available for standard courses. There is also a teaching lab for undergraduate courses focusing on analytical and laboratory methods. A computer lab with up to date statistical software is available for graduate students and Anthropology majors.

The Department of Anthropology at Â鶹´«Ã½ offers both Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees, minors in Anthropology and Forensic Anthropology, as well as three LER’s, three writing-intensive courses, and seven courses that meet University Diversity course standards. Students accepted into the M.A. program focus on one of the three fields. Biological anthropology students can earn a Ph.D. in the Biomedical Sciences, Biological Anthropology Program.

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UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE ROADMAPS

These can be found on the respective academic program page.