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    Department of Anthropology

Learning Goals

 Undergraduate Level

The goal of the department at the undergraduate level is to offer students a program that prepares them for future academic or professional opportunities.  The program reflects current substantive and theoretical content of the discipline as well as the department’s continued commitment to a diverse anthropology.  It ensures that all majors are adequately exposed to contemporary developments in archaeology, physical/biological anthropology, social/cultural anthropology and linguistic anthropology, at the same time offering them sufficient exposure to practical skills needed in applied contexts following graduation.  The department is committed to providing our majors the personal enrichment that is possible only through a liberal arts education.
 
Graduate Level

The goal of the department at the graduate level is to prepare students to take on higher levels of responsibility in the work force than is possible with a BA degree.  Our graduate students continue to have successful careers in both the private sector and in governmental agencies (e.g., Caltrans, NPS).  Several are also employed in community colleges throughout the region.  Finally, for those wishing to go on for a PhD, our program has proven to be an excellent jumping-board from which to make the transition.  Within the 30 units required for an MA, the focus continues to be providing a broad base to make certain that students will have numerous options in choosing a career.  

General Education

The goal of the department regarding the general education program is to provide non-majors ample opportunities for exposure to the anthropological perspective in its many guises.  We offer 20 courses spread over the five areas (A-E) of the general education program (Table I.A.1).  Three of these courses also satisfy the Race+Ethnicity and the writing graduation requirements.  Since our last program review we have added three lower division courses (ANTH 4, 16, 17) and one upper division offering (ANTH 149) in four different GE subareas while losing one upper division course (ANTH 132) from subarea C4 because of retirement.  We also have course sections of ANTH 2 and 3 in several learning communities that serve freshmen.