Anthropology, BA

Learning Outcomes

Graduates with a bachelor's degree in anthropology should be able to:

  • describe a broad range of changing and diverse human experiences, practices, and challenges 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 and historical perspective as it pertains to human and nonhuman primates, including origins, behavior, ecology, biocultural variation, and material culture;
  • apply anthropological research tools to collect and interpret data; and
  • communicate anthropological concepts and findings.