ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology is the study of human beings — the cultures, traditions, and daily practices that define, separate, and unite us. Through detailed study and field experience, anthropologists strive to gain a thorough understanding of the world’s populations.

The Anthropology major at Drexel is a four-year internship major with one co-op. This program has three foci:

• it will introduce students to the classic work in cultural anthropology and contextualize that work through a focus on technology, the information society and the processes of globalization.
• it will have very strong training in methodology.
• the program will integrate fieldwork directly into the curriculum.

These three foci will be achieved through the different course sequences set out in the major. The Core sequence and the Theory sequence will introduce students to both the classical work in anthropology but also point to new directions in the field. The Methods sequence is designed to give anthropology majors a strong background in quantitative and qualitative data collection techniques, and the Writing sequence will help students develop research proposals and write research reports. Finally the Community Research sequence along with the co-op will make anthropological fieldwork a direct part of the training. The fieldwork experience as well as training in ethnographic techniques, other qualitative methods, and quantitative methods will give students the skills to get jobs that other students will only get through graduate training.