人类学系提供课程和培训，导致他们在两个主要专业领域（考古学和社会人类学）获得博士学位，这两个领域都有自己的学习计划和考试程序。该部门还提供医学人类学的医学硕士学位。考古学研究生课程提供有关核心问题的知情的，批判性的考试，面向人类学的考古学的主要方法和理论的全面培训，以及指导和支持博士学位候选人准备在各种考古实践领域中进行研究和教学的工作。学生选择专业的主要领域：复杂社会考古学，种族和语言考古学，考古学，艺术和宗教学，人类进化考古学和环境考古学/考古学。
The Department of Anthropology offers coursework and training leading to the PhD in two principal fields of specialization-archaeology and social anthropology-that have their own programs of study and examination procedures. The department also offers an AM in medical anthropology. The graduate program in archaeology provides informed, critical examinations of core issues, comprehensive training in principal methods and theories of anthropologically-oriented archaeology, and direction and support for PhD candidates preparing for research and teaching positions in a wide variety of domains of archaeological practice. Students choose a primary area of specialization: Archaeology of complex societies, Archaeology of ethnicities and languages, Archaeology, art, and religion, Archaeology of human evolution and Environmental archaeology/archaeological science. In addition, all students acquire a basic understanding of the archaeology of both less and more complex societies in both the Old and New Worlds as well as general knowledge of those aspects of ethnography, ethnology, and biological anthropology that have particular relevance to their areas of interest. The extensive archaeology and ethnology collections of the Peabody Museum provide an important resource for both research and teaching.