Anthropology Major Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

1. identify and articulate human differences and similarities, both cultural and biological, throughout the world and across time
2. apply the concepts of ethnocentrism and cultural relativism to the analysis of the human condition
3. evaluate the impact of stereotypes and biases on people
4. demonstrate proficiency in the history and theory of anthropology
5. illustrate the interplay of the subfields of anthropology and express the centrality of a holistic approach
6. describe how anthropology is linked to a liberal arts curriculum, and to regional, national and international issues
7. contextualize and understand anthropology’s historical roots and complicity in creating colonial structures of knowledge and power
8. develop a self-reflexive approach to challenge structural inequalities and to work inclusively toward a decolonizing, anti-racist, anti-patriarchal world