Earn your BS in anthropology

The Bachelor of Science in Anthropology prepares individuals for advanced training or careers in anthropology, allied fields, and professional programs. Students who complete an anthropology major gain special understanding of human relations and expertise for jobs involving international or cross-cultural work, cultural resource management, and in responding to social and ethnic diversity, whether in the United States or globally.

The BS is appropriate for students with interests in any of anthropology's subfields; it offers enhanced opportunities to gain experience and develop skills in research methods and scientific reasoning. Students may choose to complete one of four specialized tracks: gender and culture, cultural resource and heritage management, environmental anthropology, or medical anthropology.

Learning outcomes

• Knowledge of a broad range of changing and diverse human experiences and activities across time and space;
• Relation to one’s cultural background, including the social constructs of race, gender and other categories of inequality, to one’s perceptions and experiences;
• Understanding of the evolutionary perspective as it applies to primates, including human origins, behavior, ecology, and biocultural variation; and
• Apply anthropological research tools from the four fields of anthropology - linguistic anthropology, biological anthropology, archaeology, and sociocultural anthropology - to collect and interpret data.