Anthropology

Tracks

The General Anthropology track offers the most flexibility among the Anthropology concentration tracks. Students choose from the core course offerings that best fit their interests. The remaining five tracks offer more specialized pathways through those same requirements. Course options in the specialized tracks are more restricted and ensure a student is more deeply trained in one of the core areas of anthropology, while still broadly trained in the discipline.

Students who wish to specialize in an area of anthropology outside of these tracks also have the option of designing their own track, with the approval of the DUS. Self-designed anthropology tracks must include the core requirements outlined in the General Anthropology track.

Socio-cultural anthropology engages the full breadth of the contemporary human experience through the lens of ethnography, the long-term qualitative study of social processes in a particular context.
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Medical anthropology is a subfield of anthropology that seeks to understand human experiences of health, illness, and suffering.
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Anthropological archaeologists study the human past through the medium of material culture and are especially interested in exploring social processes through time and throughout the world.
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Biological anthropology focuses on the biological aspects of the human condition, emphasizing especially our evolutionary legacy and the role of social processes in shaping biological phenomena.
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