人类学

Open doors to exciting careers in areas from archaeology to genetic counseling. In UNC’s 人类学 bachelor’s degree program, you’ll explore diverse cultures 和 examine how, when 和 where human life arose. At the same time, you’ll gain critical thinking skills that will be an asset in every area of your career 和 life.

Rooted in the Past, Solving 今天’s Problems

Courses blend h和s-on laboratories, original Research in the community 和 field experience to provide excellent preparation for whatever direction you choose to take 你的人类学Research. Studying in small classes, you’ll also be mentored by professors who are both caring educators 和 highly regarded Researchers 和 experts in their 各自的领域.

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B.A. 在人类学

UNC’s 人类学 department offers an 人类学 major 和 two minors. 学生 can customize their academic programs through their elective course choices.

跨学科Research

As an 人类学 major at UNC, you’ll learn about the four main fields of 人类学:

考古: Exploring the behavior of ancient cultures.
文化人类学: Considering modern culture 和 attempting to underst和 cross cultural differences 和相似之处.

生物人类学: Delving into the ways humans have biologically adapted to their environment.
语言人类学: Learning about the evolution of languages 和 how languages shape our world view.

The degree program is h和s-on 和 active, taking you beyond textbook learning 和 into the world where you can put your knowledge to work. 一路走来，你会成功的 exciting discoveries 和 set a career path that is all your own.

主要的需求

小的选择

人类学小

An excellent complement to a major in the social sciences, humanities 和 many of the natural sciences, the 21-credit hour 人类学 minor enhances your skills of anthropological inquiry 和 analyzing complex 问题 relating to human development. You’ll also gain a deeper underst和ing of the dynamics of modern cultural relationships.

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Multicultural 人类学小

The 18-credit hour Multicultural 人类学 minor explores cultural diversity in the United States 和 abroad, focusing on group dynamics in contemporary society. The minor delves into ethnic group experiences, social classes 和 gender 和 sexuality 问题. Your program could include such diverse classes as The Black Family; Gender, Race, Class 和 Sexuality; 和 Mexican American Politics 和领导.

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The Tools of Discovery at Your Fingertips

One of the advantages of attending a renowned Research university such as UNC is that you have the opportunity to collaborate with leaders in your discipline on groundbreaking Research.

You also have access to incredible resources: Our biological, anthropological, archaeological 和 archaeogeophysics labs include valuable collections of artifacts 和 human skeletal remains, as well as state-of-the-art computing systems that support ArcGIS, SPSS 和其他分析软件.

In addition, Associate Professor Andy Creekmore, Ph.D., recently received a National Science Foundation grant that resulted in the acquisition of $157,000 in scientific instrumentation—including ground-penetrating radar 和 other instruments to enable geophysical exploration of archaeological sites.

法医人类学 student Nicole Arizmendi identifies a human skeleton by matching it to it's dental records.

UNC 法医人类学 students excavate a mock skeleton at the Poudre Learning Center.

UNC students Jennifer Wright 和 Katelyn McEachern work with Albanian student Marlon to analyze skeletons in Albania.

“The great thing about UNC’s 人类学 program is its professors, a small group of top-notch scholars who, through close interaction, lectures, discussions 和 applied Research, encourage students to be both scientists 和 humanists – which is the essence 我们的领域."

- Ryan Lambert, UNC 人类学 student

你在人类学的未来

Great care is taken to ensure that our 人类学 students explore the career 和 Research possibilities of the field 和 make choices that reflect their interests. The options are exceptionally broad 和 have included such paths as working to improve the lives of disadvantaged populations, excavating ancient civilizations, curating in a museum 和 going on to graduate school.

Consider UNC's 人类学 B.A. 如果你是:

Curious about the world around you
Interested in travel 和 Research
Someone who loves to learn about other cultures

你将学习:

Critical thinking skills that will develop your abilities to analyze situations 和 data
To gain insight into complex situations, diverse cultures 和 scientific phenomena

样本课程:

世界考古
法医人类学
Quantitative Methods for 人类学
北美印第安人
医学人类学
公众考古学
现代人类变异
人类进化解剖学

课堂之外

The field experiences shared by 人类学 majors are some of the most fascinating 和 engaging available to students anywhere. 最近，学生们:

Surveyed clients at the Salud Family Health Clinic (which strives to provide services for migrants, refugees 和 members of other vulnerable populations) in Greeley to discover if the community’s needs were being met 和 how services could be improved.

访问ed Iraq to create a map of an ancient city to better underst和 how cities were organized 和 shed light on the rise of urban civilization.

Used ground-penetrating radar 和 magnetometry to locate unmarked graves 和 survey a cemetery in Brighton, Colorado.

Designed lesson plans 和 activities on nutrition for children K-12 和 presented these lessons in Greeley, Colorado K-12 classrooms.

Traveled to Greece 和 Albania to collect data from skeletal materials to better underst和 what happens during periods of major social transitions. 然后他们展示了他们的 findings at national scientific conferences.

As an 人类学 student you might intern at a Greeley museum, the Museo de las Americas in Denver, Northern Colorado AIDS project, the Weld County Coroner’s Office, Poudre Learning Center, in refugee communities through local aid agencies 和 in dozens of other locations throughout the Northern Colorado region 和 beyond.

Where can your degree take you?

The career 和 graduate school opportunities open to you when you hold a bachelor’s degree in 人类学 from UNC are many 和 varied. These are some of the many places our graduates may find employment:

博物馆
Cultural Resource Management (CRM) firms
顾问公司
State, federal or local government agencies
Non-governmental organization (NGOs)
非营利组织

公共卫生机构
Research生院
Coroner’s or medical examiner’s offices
动物园
和平队
Genetic counseling organizations

目前的Research in 人类学

Research 和 field study are at the heart of the UNC 人类学 program. 你会 study with faculty who are both excellent classroom educators 和 gifted student mentors who will work side-by-side with you on Research that uncovers exciting new information across the broad field of 人类学. The 根项目 is just one example of Research currently underway in the UNC 人类学 department:

根项目

迈克尔·金博尔博士.D. (Associate Professor of 人类学)

Michael Kimball’s "根项目" focuses on exploring common ground between the life experience of recent immigrants, or newcomers, to Weld County 和 the agricultural heritage of those who came earlier. From its earliest beginnings, this Research has included 人类学 majors from Kimball’s classes, giving valuable field experience that will be an asset in graduate school 和 beyond.

"Greeley's history is a remarkable story of immigration that stretches back more than two centuries 和 includes newcomers from both Europe 和 the Americas," Michael Kimball 说. "Recently, this story has been enriched with more newcomers – immigrants 和 refugees from Latin American countries like Mexico, Guatemala 和 El Salvador; African countries like Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya 和 Eritrea; 和 Southeast Asian countries like Thail和和 Burma (Myanmar)."

学生 in Kimball's Applied 人类学 class have partnered with Greeley Central 和 West high school students 和 their families to discover connections between their 过去和格里利的历史. Through photos taken by the high school students during a tour of the Centennial Village Museum 和 interviews with them 和 their families about their experience, UNC students are learning anthropological perspectives 和 methods, building cross-cultural bridges 和 helping the City of Greeley 博物馆 continue to improve their outreach 和 programming. Find out more about the "根项目".