Anthropology

Department Website: http://anthropology.uchicago.edu Program of Study Anthropology offers a distinctive set of intellectual tools to understand and navigate the complex world of the 21st century. Focused on the intensive study of human diversity across time and space, it is a field that is both eclectic and rigorous. Anthropologists explore topics as varied as human experience, employing methods such as ethnography, linguistic and semiotic analysis, and archaeology. At the undergraduate level, there are courses in all four traditional subfields: sociocultural, linguistics, archaeology, and biological anthropology. Geographical orientations range from South Asia and East Asia to North America, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Current topical strengths of the department include science and technology, medicine, environment, capitalism, material culture, urbanism, migration, indigenous studies, racial inequality, gender and sexuality, language and meaning, media studies, populism, political violence, genomics, heritage, critical global studies, and cross-cultural approaches to law, empire, and religion. Anthropology provides unparalleled training for further graduate study in the social sciences, humanities, and biological studies, and for professional careers in academic teaching and research, business, communications, governmental and non-governmental organizations, law, medicine, museum and arts administration, tech industries, social services, and other fields.