Anthropology, BA

This is the first version of the 2023–24 General Catalog. Please check back regularly for changes. The final edition and the historical PDF will be published during the fall semester.

Learning Outcomes

Students should be able to:

  • describe a broad range of changing and diverse human experiences and practices across time and space;
  • demonstrate how diverse cultural backgrounds and structural inequalities, including race, gender, class, and other socially constructed categories of difference, relate to peoples’ beliefs, experiences, and practices;
  • explain the evolutionary perspective as it pertains to human and nonhuman primates, including origins, behavior, ecology, and biocultural variation;
  • apply anthropological research tools to collect and interpret data; and
  • communicate anthropological concepts and findings.