Anthropology - B.A., B.S.

• Application 1) Thinking and Creating: This involves three broad elements: 1) Thinking critically and reflexively (reflective), which interrogates common sense reasoning and one’s relationship to it, 2) Examining empirical research, which requires learning research methodologies, epistemologies, analysis and interpretation, and 3) Conducting original research, which applies acquired skills to the exploration of a particular scholarly question, though not all students will have this opportunity. 2) Communication: Promotes the refinement of writing skills; the retention of disciplinary principles and their comprehension; the articulation of positions through a variety of media, such as presentations, group work, creative work, etc.
• Comprehension 1) Diversity and Inequality: Explore the cultural and biological complexities of human kind and the manifestations of inequality and equality. Appreciate and understand the implications of human differences and learn to communicate cross-culturally, gaining cultural competency. 2) Process: Learn how social structural and cultural practices contribute to lived experience, both personal and collective in nature. 3) Connecting: Learn through an interdisciplinary environment, linking individual experience to social issues and social alternatives, relating events to broader social contexts and cultural landscapes/worldviews of others.
• Engagement The department shares a commitment to student and faculty engagement. Building on the disciplinary content and skills acquired in Teaching and Learning Goals 1 and 2, engagement involves personal and civic exercise in at least some of the following: - Self reflection and self-critique - Citizenship: connection between self and community - Social critique - Social justice - Worldviews and Cultural Perspectives