The Anthropology Department's mission is to advance understanding about the evolution and cross-cultural diversity of human nature and culture, and to share that knowledge with students and the wider community.

Learning Outcomes

• Describe variation among humans and their closest relatives across the world and through time.
• Specify each of the major sub-fields in anthropology and Contrast each of their approaches to studying and measuring variation.
• Apply anthropological research methods to answer a question or solve a problem.
• Explain aspects of human variation using evolutionary and social theory.
• Evaluate and Synthesize scientific hypotheses about human variation using empirical data.