Anthropology

Department Chair: R. Scott Wilson

Department Office: Faculty Office FO3-305
Telephone: (562) 985‑5171
FAX: (562) 985-4379
Website: Anthropology Department

Faculty: Jayne Howell, Wendy Klein, Barbara LeMaster, Ron Loewe, Kara Miller, Karen Quintiliani, Steven Rousso-Schindler, Sachiko Sakai, R. Scott Wilson, Jeanelle Uy, Melissa Wrapp.

Administrative Coordinator: Gabriele Anton

College: College of Liberal Arts

Courses: ANTH

Career Possibilities

Anthropologist • Archaeologist • Archivist • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion • Physician Lawyer • Curator • Writer • Researcher • Linguist • Social Worker • Tour Guide • Cultural Resource Manager • Urban Planner • Foreign Service Officer • Corporate Ethnography and Marketing • User Experience (UX) Researcher • Personnel Manager • Documentary Production • Health Researcher • Teacher (Some of these, careers, may require additional education or experience. For more information, see Career Development Center website.)

Introduction

The Department of Anthropology is a vibrant, four-field program offering courses and research opportunities designed to train students in the four subfields: sociocultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology, and archaeology. As a holistic discipline focused on human evolution, culture, language, and pre-history, anthropology gives students the tools they need to understand and constructively engage with an increasingly globalized and complex world. The Department’s diverse faculty are experts in cutting-edge applied, visual, linguistic, and digital ethnographic methods.

The Department offers two M.A. degrees: the M.A. in Anthropology and the Applied Option. Each of these programs is described below.

Programs

Graduate and Professional Degrees

Undergraduate Degrees

Anthropology, B.A.

Minor

Anthropology Minor

Courses

Anthropology

Note: General Education Category A must be completed prior to taking any upper-division course except upper-division language courses where students meet formal prerequisites and/or competency equivalent for advanced study.