Anthropology Major

If you’re curious about the world, care about human diversity, history, and culture, and want to address social and cultural issues, a major in anthropology could be right for you. This program teaches you how to use anthropological methods to solve cultural heritage and preservation, forensics, archaeology, immigration, and environmental sustainability.

Faculty in anthropology have research concentrations with a range of diverse populations around the world, including refugees, Native Americans, pregnant women, LGBTQA populations, and chimpanzees. We teach classes on topics related to these issues such as religion, technology, ethnohistory, race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, culture and medicine, human growth and development, ecological dimensions of culture, archaeology, and primatology.