Program Description
The Anthropology major at the University of Central Missouri is for students planning to attend graduate school or seeking employment in museums, forensic science labs, or cultural resource management.
Anthropology’s goal is to explore and describe the nature of humans as evolving, cultural beings. It helps students become more than an intellectual tourist, isolated from others. Instead, they become eager and able to contribute to the rich diversity of the rapidly changing world.
Students will work to showcase human variation in culture and biology through the practice of the five subfields of anthropology: applied, archaeology, cultural, linguistics, and physical. Anthropology is a discipline constantly focused on working in the field, whether with archaeological specimens in field schools and excavations, or doing ethnographic interviews among chosen populations, serving as a museum intern or working in the lab. All students in Anthropology at UCM are encouraged to do some field-based coursework, and for the Anthropology majors such field-based experience is required.
