Some topics that program from Humboldt State University cover include colonization and post-colonial reality, the cultural construction of race and ethnicity, ritual and religion, gender and sexuality, economic anthropology, anthropology of development, cultural resource management, environmental archaeology, North American and Mesoamerican archaeology, evolution, nonhuman primate behavior and ecology, human biology, paleoanthropology, forensic anthropology, and evolutionary medicine.?

Students have the opportunity to participate in summer field schools and in internships as part of the major. The regional areas we cover include Asia (China, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), Africa, Oceania (Australia and the Pacific), North America and Latin America.

Students at Humboldt have an opportunity to make international or applied experience an integral part of their anthropology undergraduate degree. Many students have spent time at universities in China (learning the language and culture or taking courses in archaeology), in Costa Rica (engaged in field primatology), in Belize (engaging in field archaeology), or on international exchange or independent study programs.?

At Humboldt, archaeology students have the opportunity to participate in local surveys and excavations, and work with local museums, government agencies, and Native American Tribes.?