Student Learning Objectives Anthropology

Bachelor of Arts

• Acquire Increased awareness and understanding of human biological, linguistic and cultural diversity.
• Understand principles, assumptions, terminology of human evolutionary studies, human fossil record, primate anatomy/ behavior, evolutionary forces/ bio. bases of human behaviors, scientific method applied to human past.
• Understand principles, assumptions, terminology used in major sub-areas of linguistics: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, acquisition and socio-linguistics.
• Acquire ability to perform written anthropological analysis of a particular topic.
• Understand basic assumptions, principles, terminology, and methods of cultural anthropology, (culture, holism, ethnographic fieldwork, comparative method in ethnology).
• Understand methods and approaches of archaeological study of past societies, and data for outlines of world prehistory.
• Gain an understanding of what is a four-field approach to anthropology.

Bachelor of Arts, Linguistics

• Acquire ability to collect data from a primary source (native speaker) and analyze it using techniques learned from previous coursework.
• Acquire ability to effectively collect linguistic data from secondary sources such as grammars, dictionaries, other linguistic sources.
• Acquire oral and written presentation skills to present linguistic analysis.
• Understand and critically evaluate descriptions of grammatical structure from the linguistic literature.
• Understands basic principles, assumptions and terminology used in major sub-areas: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, acquisition and sociolinguistics, and apply this knowledge to analysis of data within theoretical frameworks for phonological, morphological and syntactic analyses and their applications and contributions.

Bachelor of Science, Human Biology

• Develops a knowledge of the principles of human evolution , adaptation, and population biology.
• Gains knowledge of biological and social aspects of health and disease.
• Develops an awareness of the variation in human experience in such areas as nutrition, disease, biological adaptation, and biological structure.
• Develops knowledge of the interaction of human biology and culture, through time and across space.

Master of Arts

• Evaluate and conduct new anthropological research.

• Understand anthropology as an interdisciplinary field including archaeology, biology, cultural anthropology and linguistics and the integration into a holistic discipline.

Ph.D.

• Evaluate and conduct new anthropological research.