人类学 and 考古
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
- 露丝本尼迪克特
Our program allows students to directly engage with contemporary anthropological topics and applied research. Core courses added over the past three years include Visual 人类学, Medical 人类学, Cultural Ecology, Climate and Society, Applied 人类学, and Prisons, Punishment and Control. Our department focuses on modern issues of inequality, environmental and social justice, cultural heritage ownership, 和行动. Geographic areas of focus include the Caribbean, Central and South America, the Chesapeake Bay Region, and several other areas of the United States.
We emphasize learning by doing and offer many options for experiential education. Our new course with the national Inside-Out program engages students in collaborative learning with incarcerated 女性 in Delaware. 与 Digital Scholarship in Museum Partnerships (DSMP), students in the Museum Studies course collaborate with local communities to curate and conserve cultural materials and oral histories while developing online virtual reality (VR) exhibits.
Students who participate in our faculty-led trips study the interrelationship between culture and environment in the Southwestern United States, the intersection of music and culture in Cuba, and international development in Tanzania. There are many opportunities for 出国留学 or participating in a departmental archaeology field school. Students engage in hands-on internships at the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Program, Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience，并通过 Museum, Field, and Community Education minor.
人类学 students and faculty participate in the following interdisciplinary majors and programs: American Studies; Communication and Media Studies; Environmental Studies; International Studies; and the 切萨皮克学期. 人类学 also offers an 人种音乐学 minor and contributes to the following minors: Arts Management and Entrepreneurship; Black Studies; Gender Studies; Justice, Law, and Society; Latin American Studies; Museum, Field, and Community Education; and Public Health.
What can I do with an anthropology degree?
2024 考古 Field School*
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新闻中的学生
Cultural Immersion in South Africa
2019年9月6日A double major in anthropology and psychology, Sidney Stone ’18 traveled on her own to South Africa to intern with SAVE, South African Volunteering Experiences, where she saw first-hand the poverty, violence, and social dislocation facing the people living in the townships.
世界公民
二零一八年十一月三十日Hannah Foster ’19 has spent much of her young adult life abroad, and now the international studies and anthropology major plans to return to China for graduate studies.
透过他们的眼睛
2016年4月12日Traveling on the Cuba Experience class over winter break, Rachel Brown ’16 used a Cater Society grant to develop a unique project with the help of three local Havana 女性.
