Majors & Minors

Since anthropology is the study of who we are and how we came to be, our program highlights evolutionary, historical, and cultural, and linguistic perspectives from human societies across the world, and emphasizes human relationships with the nonhuman world. 

Our department offers a diverse curriculum that examines humanity through multiple subdisciplinary fields, emphasizing themes such as politics, history, race, diversity, gender, biology, and language.

Our faculty teaches in all four of the primary four fields of anthropology (archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology) and both BA and BS students are required to take courses in at least three of the four subfields.

Once you’ve taken the required courses, you may choose to focus your elective coursework on a particular subfield. However, as a four-field program, we recommend that you explore courses in at least three of four subfields to take full advantage of the breadth of training that anthropology offers.

Our Courses

In addition to meeting the major requirements for the anthropology BA or the anthropology BS degrees, many of our courses also satisfy CLA degree requirements, such as diversity credits and writing-intensive curriculums. With the breadth and depth of anthropology courses available, you are guaranteed to find classes that interest you and fulfill graduation requirements.

Regardless of which courses you take, you can be confident that you will graduate with a well-rounded education, keen writing and critical thinking skills, and a broadened view of our world and the people who inhabit it.