Anthropology is the holistic study of what it means to be human. Four subfields are surveyed: biological anthropology (the study of human evolution, diversity, and environmental adaptation), ...

What is culture and how does it affect our understanding of the world and the ways we behave? How do cultural anthropologists approach the study of human societies and what methods do they use to do ...

Many anthropologists avoid teaching introductory courses. Yet those courses are crucial to the discipline for several reasons. First, they meet the general-education requirements of many colleges and ...

Anthropology is the study of humankind, past and present. There are many reasons to pursue studies in anthropology, including the following: Anthropology provides a broad understanding of humanity ...

The anthropology program leads to a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree. Coursework for the major begins with three courses that introduce the three subfields of anthropology: Introduction to Archaeology, ...

This course is designed to provide a foundation in museum management - in both its operations and administrative mechanics and the hierarchies and power structures that shape critical museum discourse ...

What prompted the idea for the course? A few years ago, I came across the architect Joyce Hwang’s artificial habitat for bats at the Griffis Sculpture Park in upstate New York. Titled “Bat Tower,” ...

Anthropology — or the study of humans and human behavior — can reveal a lot about the social and cultural factors that may influence patients’ access to or relationship with healthcare. Therefore, a ...

“Study long and prosper” might be one mantra used in Daryl Frazetti’s anthropology of “Star Trek” class for the upcoming spring quarter at Lake Tahoe Community College. Frazetti is more than able to ...

This is a list of courses that satisfy the Linguistic Anthropology sub-field course requirements. Several courses are listed under more than one subfield. A course may fulfill one, and only one ...