Anthropology
Major & Minor
Bachelor of Arts
Have you ever found yourself wondering about the strange and unique behavior of our species, Homo sapiens? Would you like to discover how people live and think by digging deeper into world cultures, languages, and artifacts that we produce together as human beings? If you answered “yes,” then you may be especially well-suited to a major or minor in anthropology.
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As an anthropology major,
you will cultivate your powers of communication, empathy, and social and cultural analysis. Upon graduation, you will be able to:
- reason deeply about the people around you by thinking with and through anthropological theories;
- analyze everyday challenges with the key advantage of the cumulative perspectives of hundreds of societies; and
- identify those otherwise invisible cultural assumptions that everyone makes based on their unique origins and upbringings.
Explore our Graduate Outcomes to learn more about what our graduates are doing today.
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Popular Courses
- Medical Anthropology
- Anthropology of Sex and Gender
- Race and Ethnicity
- Human Rights and Social Justice
- Latin America Through an Anthropological Lens
- Native North America