Earn your BA in anthropology

The Bachelor of Arts 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 major is designed to offer a comprehensive overview of anthropology's four main subfields and the broadest possible cross-cultural background. Students may choose to complete one of four specialized tracks: cultural resource and heritage management, gender and culture, 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.