Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology

At Stetson University, a major or minor in sociology or a minor in anthropology invites students to learn about social and cultural worlds while challenging them to question the obvious and customary, to ponder provocative questions, to investigate social issues and cultural phenomena, and to learn how to make our rapidly changing and globalizing world a better place..As a sociology or anthropology student, you benefit from a variety of small classes, close faculty-student mentorship, a challenging curriculum and various teaching and learning approaches, including seminars, experiential and collaborative learning, community-based research, independent research, faculty-student scholarly collaborations and internships in diverse settings, including the medical examiner's office, local law enforcement agencies, the Rape Crisis Center, the Domestic Abuse Council, the Council on Aging, local schools and social service and nonprofit agencies. These experiences will help prepare you for a broad range of graduate programs and careers.With a sociology major or minor, you will investigate facets of society, including social institutions such as family, law, work, health and medicine, and sport; social issues and inequality such as criminology, social deviance, social inequality, race and ethnicity, and gender; and social change such as population and the environment, developing societies, work and globalization or pandemics. As a major in sociology, you are trained as social scientists in the core areas of sociological theory, social research methods and statistics and data analysis, and you apply your knowledge and skills in designing and executing your own independent empirical research study for your senior project.The anthropology minor focuses on two aspects of anthropology: cultural anthropology and archaeology. Cultural anthropologists describe and explain human behavior within a social context. Archaeologists unravel the mysteries of cultures that no longer exist.