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.
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
- Increase awareness of the principles of human evolution and adaptation.
- Increase awareness of the variation in human experience in such areas as nutrition, disease, biological adaptation, and biological structure.
- Acquire knowledge of biological and social aspects of health and disease
Master of Arts
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Evaluate and conduct new anthropological research.
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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.
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