Associate degrees in Anthropology: A program that focuses on the systematic study of human beings, their antecedents and related primates, and their cultural behavior and institutions, in comparative perspective. Includes instruction in biological/physical anthropology, primatology, human paleontology and prehistoric archeology, hominid evolution, anthropological linguistics, ethnography, ethnology, ethnohistory, socio-cultural anthropology, psychological anthropology, research methods, and applications to areas such as medicine, forensic pathology, museum studies, and international affairs.
Anthropology is the study of humankind around the world and throughout time, with the goal of understanding our evolutionary origins, our biological distinction as a species, and our diverse manifestations of culture. A degree anthropology provides the student with basic skills in critical analysis, application of the scientific method, and cross-cultural understanding.
Cultural Anthropology deals with the social lives of people around the world, including our own society: economic systems, legal practices, kinship, religions, medical practices, folklore, arts and political systems, as well as the interrelationship of these systems in environmental adaptation and social change.
Anthropological Linguistics deals with varied aspects of human language and the characteristics of nonhuman communication systems, to achieve an understanding of past and present human language systems and their significance in social life.
Physical Anthropology describes and compares world human biology. Focuses on humans and their primate order, and seeks to document and understand the interplay of culture and biology in the course of human evolution and adaptation.
Visual anthropology includes everything visual having to do with anthropology. Visual anthropology is a sub discipline of cultural anthropology that developed out of the study and production of ethnographic photography and film. While the term is sometimes used interchangeably with ethnographic film, visual anthropology also encompasses the anthropological study of representation, including areas such as museums, art, and the production and reception...
We seek to provide students with excellent preparation for majors in a wide array of social and behavioral sciences and to provide the general education student with a keen awareness of, and value for, the diverse richness and continuity of human society. We seek to engage students actively in the life of the college and to demonstrate to them how learning about human behavior contributes to a productive, fulfilling career and life experience.
Anthropology is the study of people, ranging from the origin and biological evolution of our species to tracing the prehistory and history of cultures to defining group behavior in non-western and western cultures. Thus, anthropology is considered to be the most holistic of the social sciences. The goal of anthropology is to answer the question, "What is humankind?" from a biological, prehistoric, and behavioral perspective. The integrative approach...
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