B.A./B.S. in Anthropology

Southern Utah University

Southern Utah University’s anthropology program has two principal goals: 1) to prepare students interested in pursuing graduate work in anthropology or professional degrees in the related fields of international business, criminology, education, medicine, and law; and 2) to provide an interesting and rigorous course of study for students seeking to understand the human cultural and biological experience through time and space. Students will master a broad range of research, critical reasoning, and oral and written communication skills designed to prepare them for life and work in an increasingly multicultural world.

Students pursuing anthropology at SUU will study in a program with a four-field approach that emphasizes anthropology’s dominant sub-disciplines: archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and anthropological linguistics. With a curriculum rooted in the liberal arts and sciences tradition, the anthropology program supports the university’s academic mission and core themes by embracing project-based learning, emphasizing experiential and service learning inside and outside of the classroom, and preparing students for life in an increasingly diverse and multicultural world. By the end of their course of study students will master research, critical thinking and reasoning, scientific and quantitative literacy, ethical reasoning, intercultural competence, and oral and written communication skills. Through courses dealing with human evolution, prehistoric culture change, sociolinguistics, and the cultural and biological diversity of contemporary humans, students will study the incredible biological and cultural diversity that characterizes the human species and learn to question ethnocentric beliefs, attitudes, and prejudices.