B.S. In Anthropology

Learning Outcomes

Students should be able to:

describe a broad range of changing and diverse human experiences and activities across time and space;

relate one’s cultural background, including the social constructs of race, gender and other categories of inequality, to one’s perceptions and experiences;

understand the evolutionary perspective as it applies to primates, including human origins, behavior, ecology, and biocultural variation;

apply anthropological research tools from the four fields of anthropology—linguistic anthropology, biological anthropology, archaeology, and sociocultural anthropology—to collect and interpret data; and

effectively communicate anthropological concepts and findings in speech and writing.