Academic Program Goal One:
Effective Written and Oral Communication
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will write with proper grammar and appropriate academic language and context.
- Students will be able to speak effectively and communicate ideas and concepts to others.
Program Specific Learning Outcomes: Anthropology
- Demonstrate the ability to write clearly and to formulate well organized arguments that are grounded in supporting evidence while countering evidence that contradicts the student’s claims.
- Synthesize anthropological theory, methods, and data to formulate oral arguments, narratives, and descriptions.
- Articulate anthropology to non-specialists and explain anthropological concepts across subfields and disciplines.
Academic Program Goal Two:
Apply critical thinking by engagement in research, analysis, and interpretation.
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will acquire research skills relevant to the respective discipline.
- Students will learn to form arguments and analytical points.
- Students will learn their respective discipline’s methods of citation and documentation.
Program Specific Learning Outcomes: Anthropology
- Demonstrate a knowledge of basic steps involved in scholarly research, including locating and critically evaluating scholarly and other information sources relevant to the chosen topic.
- Employ anthropological theory and qualitative/quantitative research methods to describe, analyze, and interpret human biological and cultural variation over time and across space.
- Illustrate an understanding of Anthropological ethics.
Academic Program Goal Three:
Knowledge and understanding of what it means to be human in a changing world.
Learning Outcomes: The Student will
- Students will learn about changing human values and relationships over time and place.
Program Specific Learning Outcomes: Anthropology
- Demonstrate familiarity with the history of anthropological thoughts, theories, and current debates within the discipline.
- Articulate the core concepts in the four sub-fields of anthropology: archaeology, biological anthropology, cultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology.
- Examine diversity and global processes and how they relate and contribute to the understanding of humanity and the human experience.
- Apply an anthropological perspective to real life situations.