Anthropology is the only discipline that seeks to understand all aspects of human life, including past and present social and cultural processes and biological adaptations. It does so by focusing on human variation in time and space, with four traditionally recognized subdisciplines: anthropological archaeology, physical/biological anthropology, social and cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. As a consequence of its broad focus, anthropology is also an integrative discipline that brings together scholarly work in the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. In the CSUS Department of Anthropology, our mission is threefold
1) to advance knowledge about anthropology through the instruction of undergraduate and graduate students
2) to promote and cultivate original scholarship on issues of anthropological interest; and
3)to disseminate anthropological knowledge to the broader Sacramento community.
We aspire to give students the means to understand and respect the variety of human experiences and to develop the critical thinking skills that are necessary for participation in and active engagement of contemporary society. |
