Pacific Lutheran University Anthropology Course Offerings Anthropology as a discipline tries to bring all of the world's people into human focus. This makes the study of anthropology a complex task, for it involves aspects of many disciplines, from geology and biology to art and psychology. Anthropology is composed of four fields. Cultural or social anthropology studies living human cultures in order to create a cross-cultural understanding of human behavior. Archaeology has the same goal, but uses data from the physical remains of the past cultures to reach it.
Linguistic anthropology studies human language.
Physical anthropology studies the emergence and subsequent bio-logical adaptations of humanity as a species. Demonstration of active interest in anthropological projects and activities outside of class work. Completion of a senior thesis. A paper describing indepen-dent research must be conducted under the supervision of departmental faculty. A proposal must be approved by the faculty by the third week of class of the fall semester for May and summer graduates, and the third week of class of the spring semester for December graduates.