Anthropology is both an applied and an academic discipline.
A B.A. in anthropology provides students with a solid liberal arts background coupled with the foundations for cross-cultural literacy. In a world that is increasingly multicultural and rapidly globalizing, anthropological skills and knowledge are useful for understanding and negotiating a complex, rapidly changing world. Anthropologists find themselves in a wide range of non-academic jobs in such areas as criminal justice, education, business, health care, museums, and economic development, as well as in academic settings. We are committed to a four-field approach both philosophically and pragmatically. Philosophically, the different branches of anthropology are committed to understanding and explaining what it is to be human.