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College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Anthropology

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DISCOVER WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN

Anthropologists study us. We learn how and why people and their cultures are both similar and different over time and around the world. Anthropologists study people and primates face-to-face and we study past peoples by exploring fossils and digging archaeological sites. We examine the evolutionary and historical formation of humans as cultural beings and the ways in which cultures change as people, things and ideas move and intermingle. In today's globalized world, we ask how the local shapes and is shaped by regional, national and global processes. Every career requires rich understandings of cultures in the context of our complicated, rapidly changing, interconnected human experience. There is no limit to where you can go with that kind of understanding of our world and its peoples.

AREAS OF STUDY

Globalization
Technology
Human Nature
Culture
Gender and Race
Heritage and Tourism
Evolution and Human Health

CAREER OPTIONS

Educator
International Business
Social Worker
Public Advocate
Health Care Professional
Cultural Heritage Specialist
Lawyer
Forensic Anthropologist
Cultural Journalist

What’s special about this program?

At Delaware, Anthropology is an undergraduate department that offers you the opportunity to explore a variety of subspecialties in social and cultural anthropology, archaeology and biological anthropology. Our faculty are fully committed to mentoring you as you pursue your interests through classwork, independent research, and community scholarship and service. Department funding awards support, training and research opportunities around the world in the regular academic year and during the summer, especially the one preceding your senior year. This focus of faculty and resources on undergraduates is virtually unique among top universities.

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Anthropology Club

Archaeology and Biological Anthropology Field and Laboratory Opportunities

Sample curriculum

FRESHMAN

ANTH101	Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
ANTH202	Genes, Bones, and Human Evolution
ENGL110	Seminar in Composition
FLLL105	Language course
FLLL106	Language course
UNIV101	First Year Experience
	MATH (according to placement)
	University Breadth Course

SOPHOMORE

ANTH204	Introduction to Social Science Research in Anthropology
ANTH200-level	Group Elective
ANTH200-level	Group Elective
	Foreign Language Requirement
	University Breadth Requirement
	University Breadth Requirement (Laboratory)

JUNIOR

ANTH302	Medical Anthropology
ANTH316	Islam and Gender
ANTH342	Issues in American Culture
ANTH375	Modern Latin America
	University Breadth Courses
	Elective Courses