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Anthropology

Did modern humans first evolve in Africa and scatter throughout the globe, or did we evolve simultaneously in multiple regions? What can we learn from 2-million-year-old human fossils and stone tools buried for millennia? How do we understand contemporary cultural and physical diversity? Anthropologists tackle these and countless other questions by studying the history, biology and behavior of human beings through the centuries and around the world.

THE MARQUETTE ADVANTAGE

CULTURAL AND PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY. You can focus your studies by choosing elective courses that concentrate on one of these areas.

IT'S ALL CULTURAL. Through a focus on ethnology and a "peoples and cultures" series, you'll analyze the evolutionary convergence and divergence of the world's cultures

The Student Perspective

DIG IT. Join your professors on archaeology digs as far away as Egypt and Jordan or right here in Wisconsin. You'll help excavate burial grounds in a manner respectful of the society's culture. You'll learn about the earliest Americans by unearthing skeletons of the woolly mammoth they hunted.

FOCUS ON ARCHAEOLOGY. You'll learn the scientific theories and methods that will help you locate, analyze and classify everything from the fossils, tools, buildings and writings left by our earliest ancestors to the things we leave behind today.

FOCUS ON THE PHYSICAL. You'll study the origins and physical developments of the human species from Australopithecus to Homo Sapiens.

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Suggested curriculum

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Freshman

Introductory Anthropology
Rhetoric and Composition I & II
Growth of Western Civilization I or II
Science and Nature Elective
Introduction to Theology
Foreign Language I & II
History Elective
Natural Science Elective

Sophomore

Cultural Anthropology
Mathematical Reasoning Elective
Literature Elective
Philosophy of Human Nature
Math, Logic or Computer Science Elective
Foreign Language III & IV

Junior

Language and Culture
Archaeology and Prehistoric Cultures
Human Evolutionary Process
Anthropology Elective
Theory of Ethics
Theology Electives
Philosophy Elective

Senior

Development of Anthropological Theory
Three Anthropology Electives
Senior Experience
Electives

WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH IT

Marquette anthropology graduates are well-prepared to succeed in a variety of fields. Our graduates are working all over the world: as cultural liaisons for international businesses; in medicine, public health and education; conducting studies in the United States and abroad on the cultural impact of urban development; and in government and foreign service.