Schools That Offer Anthropology

Harvard University

• Incorporating archeology and social anthropology, Harvard University offers undergraduate and graduate courses in anthropology that currently focus on the prehistoric and historic cultures of West, Central, South and East Asia and North, Central and South America. The courses looks at gender issues, ethnicity, personal identity and the impact of religion, human rights, environment and globalism on Japanese, Italian, Senegalese, Filipino, Yemeni, Pakistani, French, Thai, Indonesian, Peruvian, Chinese or American societies in these regions. With close ties to other Harvard disciplines, the Department of Anthropology offers special programs in Medical Anthropology with the Harvard Medical School and Visual Anthropology with the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.

  Harvard University

  Peabody Museum

  Department of Anthropology

  11 Divinity Ave.

  Cambridge, MA 02138

  617-495-5820

  fas.harvard.edu

University of California, Berkeley

• UC Berkeley offers undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as Ph.D. programs in archaeology, biological anthropology, socio-cultural anthropology and medical anthropology. It also has an interdisciplinary master's program in folklore. Courses in the undergraduate program include modules in sexuality, culture and colonialism, food and identity, global values and medical ethics. The department's faculty has the highest number of J.I. Staley Prize, anthropology book award winners and many distinguished lecturers. Lectures are kept at a manageable size and undergraduates can also participate in research work with faculty members through the Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program.

  University of California Berkeley

  Anthropology Department

  232 Kroeber Hall

  Berkeley, CA 94720

  510-642-3392

  anthropology.berkeley.edu

Duke University

• Duke University's Department of Cultural Anthropology has been ranked one of the best in the country. Cultural Anthropology faculty members examine topics like Pokemon and global culture, the Israel - Palestine conflict and tourism and the case of the Tiger Woods scandal and how it relates to race, gender and sexuality in American culture. The 18 faculty members work at imparting cross-cultural skills and social awareness that will be useful in careers in law, social work, medicine, education, government and more. Duke also has a Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, which focuses on the place of humankind in nature. This department is concerned with how humans developed from primates and how we developed attributes like cognition, walking on two legs and our relationship with culture and technology.

  Department of Cultural Anthropology

  Duke University

  205 Friedl, Box 90091

  Durham, NC 27708

  919-684-5012

  culturalanthropology.duke.edu