Anthropology foster a critical consciousness of how different cultures and social groups organize and make sense of their world. Major explore the ways in which social interaction, social practices, culture and social structures promote solidarity, mark differences, legitimate power, create inequality, police deviance, maintain social order, promote resistance, and lead to movements for change. Major discover the patterns, rules and logic that undergird...
Dickinson's anthropology major is a unique undergraduate program characterized by an emphasis on fieldwork and the use of interdisciplinary approaches. Fieldwork, the hallmark of anthropology as a social science, is built into the department's methods courses and is encouraged in student work abroad, especially in the department's ethnographic field school. The department covers anthropology's subfields of cultural anthropology, biological anthropology...
Dowling‘s School of Arts and Sciences degree programs are constructed upon a well-rounded core curriculum of arts and humanities, natural science, math, and social sciences. These are the classic building blocks that ensure career versatility in an ever-changing world. Students majoring in sociology and anthropology explore and learn to understand the social and personal dimensions of human experience. Students in the anthropology/sociology track...
PROGRAM OVERVIEW The major in anthropology and sociology offers a multidimensional perspective on self and society. These fields, concerned as they are with meaning, difference and power, cultivate reflexive, interpretive and empathetic forms of cultural analysis. Drawing together biography, history and ethnography, the major encourages students to critically reflect on the cultural and social diversity of human experience and to seriously engage...
Anthropology is the study of humankind in cross-cultural and evolutionary perspectives. With one foot in the sciences (both social and biological) and the other in the humanities, anthropology takes a holistic approach and consists of four sub-disciplines: cultural anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, and linguistics. Anthropologists emphasize fieldwork as a means to investigate cultural diversity and human biology in our species, past,...
The Anthropology major is a small, highly specialized program that provides students with an exceptional background in theory, methodology, and field experience for the workplace or graduate training.
The Bachelor of Arts degree is a four year program, with a single six month internship in the junior year.
About Cultural anthropology focuses on the study of cultures around the world. Understanding and living with diversity is one of today's urgent challenges. Our planet has grown much more interconnected. Yet people everywhere continue to maintain different languages and customs, from places as diverse as Pakistan and Zimbabwe to Kansas and New York. Cultural anthropology is the discipline that studies how people create and define these distinct ways...
About Evolutionary Anthropology Evolutionary Anthropology (EvAnth) is the study of humankind's place in nature. Its central questions revolve around how humans arose from our primate ancestors, how our distinctive attributes - such as enhanced cognitive abilities, striding bipedal locomotion, and our extraordinary connections with culture and technology - came to be, and why, from an evolutionary perspective, we behave the way we do. Our focus on...
BA in Anthropology Minimum degree requirement is 126 s.h. of credit as follows:
1. Foundations curriculum (See Section 4, Foundations Curriculum Requirements for all Baccalaureate Degree Programs.) - 42 s.h.
2. Foreign language through level 1004 - 12 s.h.
3. Core - 16-17 s.h.
ANTH 2000. Archaeology Around the World (3) (F,S) (FC:SO)
ANTH 2010. Societies Around the World (3) (F,S,SS) (FC:SO) or ANTH 2200. Introduction to Cultural Anthropology...
Sociology and Anthropology are social science disciplines that focus on the study of humans, social institutions and culture. Our faculty consists of four full-time Anthropologists and seven full-time Sociologists. Geographical expertise among faculty includes Ecuador, Brazil, China, France, Mexico, Russia, and Southern Appalachia. Teaching and research strengths in the department include Medical Anthropology; Applied Sociology/Anthropology; Research...
The Anthropology minor helps the student understand cultures throughout the world. The study of cross cultural issues is important for many fields, and anthropology has long been recognized as a leading discipline in the development of concepts and knowledge regarding culture, prehistory, evolution and linguistics. The Anthropology minor is an ideal complement to many majors, including history, psychology, sociology, political science, communications,...
Anthropology is the study of humankind from a broad viewpoint. Over time and through space, anthropology examines human biological and cultural diversity, and its interaction with the environment. The sub-fields of anthropology that investigate this vast human diversity in both the past and present, are archaeology, physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistics. The anthropology program at EKU offers a student-centered, high-quality,...
Mission Statement We prepare students to become effective servants of Christ‘s Kingdom in cross-cultural settings by providing students with the principles and practices emerging from two disciplines, missiology and anthropology. We guide and encourage them to apply these practices to a single purpose, cross-cultural Christian ministry.
Instruction in anthropology provides the ethnographic skills and understanding that are necessary for appreciating,...
Offers students the opportunity to explore the human condition in every part of the world and all periods of history and prehistory. Specifically, the Bachelor of Arts degree Anthropology is designed to meet the needs of students who wish to:
1. Broaden their undergraduate exposure to other peoples and cultures of the world as a part of their general education;
2. Prepare for graduate studies in anthropology; or
3. Undertake an undergraduate...
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Earn your Bachelor of Arts in Health Care Studies degree and demonstrate your knowledge and skills to provide quality service in the health care industry. Personalize your Bachelor of Arts in Health Care Studies degree when you pair it with a transfer concentration. Use previous education or work experience to enhance your degree and customize it more...
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