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If you are excited by the idea of rummaging for million-year-old fossils; talking to people about food, television, or health care; or finding out when people built the first cities of Europe or migrated to the Caribbean, you’ll be right at home in the Department of Anthropology. Using a four-field approach—sociocultural anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, and linguistic anthropology—this degree combines the sciences with the humanities to understand the biological, social, and cultural factors contributing to human behavior, past and present.
There are many career paths in anthropology, including teaching, museum curating, zoos, social services, nature conservation, government, forensic pathology, and international development, to name a few. In the major, you develop skills and abilities that make you very marketable in a wide variety of jobs. For example, cultural competence, which is the ability to understand and communicate about and across cultural differences, is a key skill anthropology majors learn, which is particularly necessary in today’s global world.
Anthropology 1100 Culture and Society, 1200 Human Origins, 1300 People and Language, 1400 Digging the Past.
Field courses: Anthropology 3015 Anthropology Abroad, 3016 Fieldwork in Anthropology, 3470 Summer Archaeological Field School, 3475 Archaeological Field School: Site Supervision, 3480 Intersession Archaeological Field School, 4110 Summer Ethnographic Field School, 4635 Seminar in Museum Techniques.
Laboratory courses: Anthropology 3156 India Global Health: Ethnography, 3180 Visual Anthropology, 3190 Anthropology of Media, 3240 Osteology, 3301 Language and Culture, 3440 Zooarchaeology, 3460 Historical Archaeology.
Anthropology 3120W Ethnography, 3245W Research Methods in Anthropology.
Anthropology 4601 Anthropological Theory, 4000 Senior Seminar in Anthropology, 4001 Selected Topics in Anthropology, Co-requisite with Anthropology 4000.
Elective courses for the four subfields of anthropology:
The department chair, with the approval of the department curriculum committee, may allow substitutions for one or more of these requirements consistent with the educational goals of the program.
Majors should consult a department adviser each year in planning their programs.
After completing the introductory course sequence, students should take a field or laboratory course. Majors should take 4601 Anthropological Theory and either 3120W Ethnography or 3245W Research Methods in Anthropology in the fall of their senior year; and 4000 Senior Seminar and its co-requisite 4001 in the spring of their senior year.
GPA of 3.50 or higher in anthropology. Honors in two courses (with a grade of B or higher): one an upper-level (3000 or above) elective course and the other Senior Seminar (ANTH 4000).
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Brooklyn College is an integral part of the cultural and artistic energy of New York City. Our faculty members in Anthropology offer incomparable expertise and tremendous talent, and each brings a unique perspective to their teaching and mentoring in and out of the classroom.
Rhea Rahman is assistant professor of anthropology. Her research and teaching focus on transnatio...
Kelly M. Britt, Ph.D., RPA focuses on community-based historical and contemporary archaeology of ...
Jillian Cavanaugh grew up in Colorado and lived in Italy and Indonesia for extended stretches, wh...
Shahrina Chowdhury is a biological anthropologist who studies the behavioral ecology of nonhuman ...
Meghan Ference is assistant professor of anthropology at Brooklyn College. She teaches undergradu...
Katherine (Katie Rose) Hejtmanek is a cultural and psychological anthropologist. She has a joint ...
Naomi Schiller is associate professor of anthropology. Schiller’s research and teaching foc...
Stephen Chester is a biological anthropologist and paleontologist who studies the evolution of pr...
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