人类学是对世界范围内人类社会的生物学，史前文化的研究。人类学家在任何时间，任何地方研究人们。人类学关注人类和非人类灵长类动物的进化，方法是研究生存的和灭绝的人类和灵长类动物的行为（物理人类学）。它着眼于文化历史和过去的生活方式，研究人类社会如何从古代变为现代（考古学）。它还研究了生存社会的行为，以了解当代文化（文化人类学和语言人类学）的差异。这包括语言，亲属关系，宗教，生态学，城市化以及文化和个性等主题的研究。学院提供的两个人类学专业课程之一，人类学专业获得文学学士学位，旨在为三个主要人类学子领域的学生提
Anthropology is the study of the biology, prehistory and culture of human society in a worldwide setting. Anthropologists study people from all times and all places. Anthropology focuses on human and non-human primate evolution by studying the behavior of living and extinct human and primate groups (physical anthropology). It looks at cultural history and past lifeways and studies how human societies have changed from ancient to modern times (archaeology). It also examines the behavior of living societies in order to understand differences in contemporary cultures (cultural anthropology and linguistic anthropology). This includes the study of topics such as language, kinship, religion, ecology, urbanism, and culture and personality. One of two anthropology major programs offered by the college, the anthropology major leads to a Bachelor of Arts degree and is designed to broadly prepare students in each of the three major anthropological subfields. This major provides training for a variety of career options includingbut not limited tothose in the humanities and the natural, social and behavioral sciences.