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Anthropology

Nutritional anthropology students expand their research on milk by conducting lactose measurements in UD's Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Laboratory.

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.

Get involved

Anthropology Club

Archaeology and Biological Anthropology Field and Laboratory Opportunities

Sample curriculum

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

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)

ANTH302

Medical Anthropology

ANTH316

Islam and Gender

ANTH342

Issues in American Culture

ANTH375

Modern Latin America

 

University Breadth Courses

 

Elective Courses

ANTH329

Archaeology of Agriculture

ANTH401

Idea of Race

ANTH466

Independent Anthropology Research

ANTH48X

Anthropology Tutorial

 

Elective Courses

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This major is eligible for the following programs:

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