CSUF Dept. of Anthropology

Student Learning Goals

We expect students completing our program to emerge with the following skills:

• Apply the holistic and comparative perspective inherent in anthropological knowledge to real world problems
• Demonstrate leadership and teamwork in a diverse environment
• Undertake data collection and analysis ‑both quantitative and qualitative‑specific to all four subfields of anthropology
• Use information resources and technology to research current issues in all four subfields of anthropology
• Apply critical thinking and reading to current issues in anthropology
• Communicate through writing in an effective manner characterized by clarity, insight, the proper citation of sources and strict adherence to the basic rules of grammar, syntax, and spelling
• Synthesize and integrate theoretical perspectives specific to anthropology and general to the social and natural sciences
• Function in an ethical manner with respect to human and animal participants in research, colleagues, and students

Students completing our program will have competency in the following subject areas:

• History of anthropological thought and anthropological theory

• Research design and methods
• Evolutionary theory and the history of humankind and the nonhuman primates
• Cultural relativism and cultural identity
• Human communication and language
• Recovery and interpretation of past human activity
• Interrelatedness between humans and ecological systems
• Ethics