Anthropology BA

Anthropology is the study of humankind through culture, archaeology, biological processes, and language. It is the only discipline that addresses our human experience from global and temporal perspectives.

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Anthropology is the study of humans in all of our complexity, both past and present. It is a discipline concerned with studying the cultural, social, historical, and anatomical aspects of our collective human experience. Students of anthropology at Florida Gulf Coast University learn the basic concerns and methods of the four sub-fields of the discipline: archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistics. The major is for anyone interested in working with people in all of their cultural diversity, solving social problems, teaching social sciences, and learning human biology from an evolutionary point of view. Our minor pairs well with many other majors.

Our Anthropology Program faculty are teaching-oriented practitioners who partner with students for experiential learning and to conduct independent research leading to skills and abilities necessary for life and work in an increasingly global and dynamic world. Anthropology graduates find employment in public archaeology, education, cultural resource management, museums, nonprofit institutions, and in corporations.

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Stein, Max

Program Coordinator/Associate Professor, Anthropology

MERWIN 0263 /239-590-7745 / mstein@fgcu.edu

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Anthropology B.A. Academic Learning Compact

Consistent with its mission and guiding principles, Florida Gulf Coast University is committed to academic excellence and continuous quality improvement, as supported by a sound teaching-learning process. Within this process, students and instructors share responsibility for learning that is a movement from the simple to the complex, the concrete to the abstract, and the dependent to the independent. The Academic Learning Compact (ALC) initiative supports the teaching-learning process by clearly identifying expected core student learning outcomes in the areas of content/discipline knowledge and skills, communication skills, and critical thinking skills; aligning curricula with expectations; and using assessment to guide continuous improvement.

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Graduates will be able to master concepts and theoretical constructs central to the anthropological perspective, and effectively employ and apply the concepts and terminology of anthropology.

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Graduates will be able to show ability to conduct basic anthropological research utilizing to address local and global issues.

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Graduates will be able to create and deliver effective oral presentations, employing key terms, concepts, and forms of argumentation used in anthropological discourse and evaluating their validity.

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Graduates will be able to write critically about anthropological topics, employing the key terms, concepts, and forms of argumentation used in anthropological discourse following the conventions of writing.

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Graduates will be able to consider strengths and weaknesses of other perspectives, communicating informed judgments on anthropological issues through oral and written work.

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Graduates will be able to demonstrate critical thinking and analytical abilities, and constructs arguments on topics germane to the discipline of anthropology.

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Graduates will be able to demonstrate sound and ethical use of research methods and techniques to advance an understanding of an anthropologically relevant question or problem.

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Graduates will be able to achieve competence in technologies used by anthropologists in collecting, managing, and analyzing data, including critical assessment of web-based data.

Outcomes will be assessed in the following courses:

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