Anthropology integrates a wide range of perspectives on human behavior, culture, and society.
Museum collections, internships in cultural resource management, and summer field school provide opportunities for student involvement in archaeological work. Physical anthropology offers classes on evolutionary theory, sociobiology, human genetics, osteoarchaeology, and human and nonhuman primate evolution, anatomy, and morphology. Cultural anthropology offers a wide variety of courses on cultural areas including the Pacific, Latin America, China, Japan and South Asia, Eastern Europe, and the United States. Classes provide cross-cultural studies of topics such as medical anthropology, food, social and political organization, gender roles, kinship, ethnicity, folklore, and religion. Anthropological linguistics offers courses on the nature of languages around the world, focusing on the relationship of language to other aspects of culture and society.