人类学文学硕士-生物人类学

研究生课程中的生物人类学研究集中于现代人类生物多样性以及导致这种多样性的进化史。集中精力的学生对导致人类和非人类身体和行为变异的进化过程有了深刻的了解，并使用定量方法探索和解释这种变异。学生可以参加包括进化生物学，遗传学，生态学，民族生物学，流行病学，营养学，医学人类学，灵长类动物学和古生物学在内的各个领域的课程。此外，由于生物人类学本质上是多学科的，因此鼓励学生考虑在该系课程之外提供的课程。人类学面临的独特的智力挑战是整合来自许多学科的知识，以便对过去和现在的文化和生物多样性有全球性的了解。文化人类学，
Anthropology is the study of human origins and evolution, present conditions of human life, and future prospects. The Anthropology Department offers an undergraduate degree, a graduate degree, as well as a minor. The undergraduate degree provides students with a rich overview of human life as well as a variety of skills and research methods which anthropologists apply in laboratory and field studies of the ecological constraints on human existence, the cultural basis of individual and organizational behavior, and, in general, problems and circumstances relating to the maintenance of healthy, productive human action in the world today.<br>Students in our terminal Master's program have the benefit of receiving the faculty's full attention. Our program is unique in several respects. First, our extracurricular activities help build community among graduate students, including our active Anthropology Club. Second, Our program also offers students a range of opportunities for professional development that are unusual in programs that focus on MA students. For students wishing to find employment after their MA, the department offers a mentorship program that pairs them with alumni who have forged careers in students' fields of interest. . For students considering the possibility of doctoral-level work in anthropology, the department has an excellent record in placing students in top-tier graduate programs. Students with residency in 14 states are eligible for in-state tuition, and funding opportunities in the form of Teaching Assistantships and graduate fellowships are available to students on a competitive basis.<br>The biological anthropology concentration within the graduate program is concerned with modern human biological diversity and the evolutionary history that has led to that diversity. Students in this concentration develop a firm understanding of the evolutionary processes that lead to physical and behavioral variation in humans and non-humans, and quantitative methods used to explore and explain this variation. Students may take courses in diverse areas including evolutionary biology, genetics, ecology, ethnobiology, epidemiology, nutrition, medical anthropology, primatology and paleontology. Additionally,<br>because biological anthropology is multidisciplinary in nature, students are encouraged to consider courses offered outside the department's curriculum.