Anthropology integrates a wide range of perspectives on human behavior, culture, and society. Pitt anthropology majors learn the basic concerns and approaches of subfields of anthropology: archaeology, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology, and anthropological linguistics.

• The archaeology program offers courses covering many geographic regions techniques of analysis, and issues in prehistory. Museum collections, internships in cultural resource management, and summer field projects provide opportunities for student involvement in archaeological work.

• The physical anthropology program offers classes on evolutionary theory, osteoarchaeology, and human and nonhuman primate evolution, anatomy, and morphology.

• Cultural anthropology is represented by a wide variety of courses on culture areas including the Pacific, Latin America, China, Japan, and South Asia, Eastern Europe, and the United States.