Sociology and Anthropology investigate basic processes, structures, culture and change in social reality and what it means to be human in that complex reality. This investigation encompasses: (1) method and theory ” the logic of inquiry; (2) vocation ” the ethically self-conscious examination of actions; and (3) the intended and unintended consequences of social action. While this investigation entails challenge and intellectual risk, it also promotes...
The anthropological perspective provides a broad understanding of the origins as well as the meaning of physical and cultural diversity in the world--past, present, and future. As such, the program in anthropology offers the opportunity for understanding world affairs and problems within the total context of the human experience and for constructing solutions to world problems which are firmly grounded in that context. Specifically, the department...
This joint program offers the student numerous ways to understand how religion works as a dynamic aspect of culture, and how individuals interact with their social environments to create systems of belief and ritual in their efforts to make sense of the world.
Six courses in religion and six courses in anthropology are required with a grade of C or higher, as specified below. Those twelve courses must include Anthropology of Religion (taken either...
The Cultural Anthropology concentration in Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a concentration in Cultural Anthropology focuses on the rich diversity of human cultures through cross-cultural analyses of a wide variety of topics and perspectives including religion, music, food, environmental studies, area studies, symbolic systems, cultural materialism, and globalism.
The courses are designed to expose students to the crucial influences culture has...
Biological anthropology studies humans as the products of biology, culture, environment, and organism (developmental history). It takes a comparative and evolutionary approach to understanding humans and their closest primate relatives. It deals with important questions about human existence: Where did we come from? How did we get here? What is our relationship to the rest of nature? These and other concerns of the discipline go to the very...
Students interested in exploring the complexities of human behavior find this interdisciplinary major valuable. Courses focus on the ways in which societies influence individual and group behavior. Students are introduced to cultures other than their own, developing a cross-cultural perspective. Study Abroad is highly encouraged.
At Elmira College, students pursue an interdisciplinary major in Sociology and Anthropology, which is based on four foundational...
The Biological Anthropology program at Harvard takes a strongly comparative and evolutionary approach to understanding the evolution of humans and our closest primate relatives.
We teach and engage in field and laboratory research in human reproductive biology, primate and human behavioral ecology, primate evolutionary genetics, functional and developmental morphology, and the paleontological evidence for hominoid and hominid evolution.
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