The Department of Anthropology offers undergraduate major programs in Anthropology , including an Honors Degree option , and in Anthropology Education . In addition, interdepartmental majors with other departments are possible, and an Anthropology minor is also available.
Anthropology is the study of humans and their works.
The field includes both the comparative study of worldwide variations in culture and the development of humankind from prehistoric to contemporary times. Social and cultural anthropologists undertake holistic comparative studies of communities throughout the world, studying their art forms, religions, social organizations, and political and economic institutions. Physical anthropology addresses itself to the evolutionary differentiation of primates, the emergence of hominid populations, primate behavior and processes of adaptation in modern populations. Archaeological work is directed toward recovering the physical remains of prehistoric and historic communities and retracing their many different forms of cultural development and adaptation. The undergraduate program at the University emphasizes a variety of subspecialties in social and cultural anthropology, but provides, nevertheless, a broad perspective on the fields of archaeology and physical anthropology.