Bachelor 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.
College of William and Mary
Bachelor degree
Anthropology
Socio-Cultural Anthropology | College of William and Mary |
Socio-cultural Anthropology is the study of the social and cultural dimensions of living peoples. Such study often involves the method called participant observation, often complemented with other sorts of data gathering methods. Language learning and study often compel us to use the tools of linguistics. Relevant social and cultural topics encompass all of human experience- immigrants' memories of loss, the maintenance of common fishing grounds or... |
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College of William and Mary
Bachelor degree
Anthropology
Biological Anthropology | College of William and Mary |
Biological Anthropology seeks to understand biological and biocultural similarities and differences among populations of nonhuman primates, extinct human ancestors, and modern humans. This type of study may shed light on human culture, communication, society and behavior. Such efforts may range from studies of great ape foraging or modeling the evolution of technology and language, to researching pathologies observed in human skeletal remains or study... |
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