- The Anthropology and Sociology program is committed to familiarizing students with the systematic analysis of culture and social life.
- While anthropology once tended to focus on pre-industrial peoples and sociology on peoples in industrial societies, both disciplines are now thoroughly involved in understanding the contemporary, globalizing world--albeit through the use of somewhat distinctive methodologies.
- Moreover, both disciplines share a common theoretical and epistemological history such that insights garnered from one are relevant to the other.