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Anthropology courses contribute to undergraduate education in two ways. First, the scope of the discipline's interests effectively bridges the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Anthropology asks basic questions concerning the origins and development of humans and their cultures and divergent systems of thought, belief, and social order. By systematically analyzing various cultural traditions - contemporary as well as historically known - anthropology raises critical questions concerning the bases of both world civilizations. An understanding of the distinctive way anthropology formulates and attempts to answer its basic questions is a necessary component of a comprehensive liberal education.

Second, the department offers concentrated programs of study for the minor, major, or honors student. A minor usually emphasizes one of the four subdisciplines. For the major, the department encourages study in all of the sub-disciplines, because each supplements and complements the others in presenting humans as both biological and social beings. An honors program includes in-depth research in one aspect of physical, archaeological, linguistic, or cultural anthropology. The director of undergraduate studies works closely with minors and majors students in designing programs of study that integrates the goals of individual students with the offerings and intellectual goals of the department and complementary disciplines.

The department prides itself on its graduate and undergraduate programs' integrated nature, which enables minors, majors, and honors students to participate in a variety of challenging graduate courses and seminars. There is an active Anthropology Undergraduate Student Association (AUSA) that connects students to one another through events and E-mail forum (listserv).