Anthropology is the holistic study of what it means to be human. Four subfields are surveyed: biological anthropology (the study of human evolution, diversity, and environmental adaptation), ...

What is culture and how does it affect our understanding of the world and the ways we behave? How do cultural anthropologists approach the study of human societies and what methods do they use to do ...

Many anthropologists avoid teaching introductory courses. Yet those courses are crucial to the discipline for several reasons. First, they meet the general-education requirements of many colleges and ...

Anthropology is the study of humankind, past and present. There are many reasons to pursue studies in anthropology, including the following: Anthropology provides a broad understanding of humanity ...

Exceptional students currently enrolled in an undergraduate degree program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham may apply for an accelerated path to the completion of an accompanying master’s ...

Not everyone who takes Anthropology courses is planning to major in the discipline. Any member of the Anthropology faculty will be glad to talk to you informally about the field and our class ...

This course is designed to provide a foundation in museum management - in both its operations and administrative mechanics and the hierarchies and power structures that shape critical museum discourse ...

What prompted the idea for the course? A few years ago, I came across the architect Joyce Hwang’s artificial habitat for bats at the Griffis Sculpture Park in upstate New York. Titled “Bat Tower,” ...

What prompted the idea for the course? “Multimodal” simply means using more than academic written text to present research findings. My first multimodal science project was a third grade project on ...

“Study long and prosper” might be one mantra used in Daryl Frazetti’s anthropology of “Star Trek” class for the upcoming spring quarter at Lake Tahoe Community College. Frazetti is more than able to ...