Anthropology is the broadest and most international of all the social sciences. A diverse but comprehensive discipline, anthropology investigates the biological, social and cultural life of human beings in all times and all places. A concentration in anthropology provides students with an appreciation of other ways of life, different systems of belief and knowledge, and, perhaps most importantly, a better understanding of the world in which they live.

Anthropology encompasses four sub-fields: 1) social/cultural anthropology, the study of contemporary peoples; 2) archaeology, the investigation of the history of human groups, both preliterate and literate, through analysis of material remains; 3) anthropological linguistics, the study of the structure and use of languages; and 4) physical anthropology, the science of human variation and evolution.

For more information contact the undergraduate concentrator advisor, Professor Patricia Rubertone.