Undergraduate Studies Anthropology is concerned with how humans and human societies evolve, with the differences and similarities among human cultures, and with the cultural and biological basis for human behavior.
Anthropology integrates a wide range of perspectives on human behavior, culture, and society.
Museum collections, internships in cultural resource management, and an annual summer field school provide opportunities for student involvement in archaeological work. The physical anthropology program offers classes on evolutionary theory, sociobiology, human genetics, osteoarchaeology, and human and nonhuman primate evolution, anatomy and morphology. Cultural anthropology is represented by a wide variety of courses on culture 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, sex roles, kinship, ethnicity, folklore, and religion. Anthropological linguistics addresses the nature of languages around the world, focusing on the relationship of language to other aspects of culture and society.