Bachelor of Arts with Anthropology Major

About this programme

You appreciate other cultures and want them to be valued. You recognize and respect human diversity. You are a big picture thinker with the patience and desire to analyze new situations and contexts. When you study anthropology, you delve into the fascinating world of human history and contemporary human issues. As an anthropology major, you gain insight into some of the most important questions facing humanity today. You use your understanding of cultural differences to explore topics such as social inequality, material culture, human connection to the physical world, human evolution and language. Anthropologists work in a wide variety of careers, including professional archaeology, forensic science, market research, language revitalization projects, medicine, government, intercultural education and climate change responses. As you progress through the anthropology major, you refine critical thinking skills while developing research skills (including learning and applying methods) and analytical skills. You choose one or two subfields that interest you the most and begin to study them more deeply. In the first and second year of the program, you learn key terms, approaches and theories of anthropology. You are introduced to the big questions that drive the discipline, examining cross-cultural and biological perspective on what it means to be human. You become familiar with the historical and contemporary underpinnings of each of the four subfields of anthropology: social/cultural anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology and linguistic anthropology. In the sec