Overview

Students in the Anthropology program of Case Western Reserve University may choose from four major concentrations:

The General Anthropology Concentration

The program provides training in three subdisciplines of anthropology. The first, sociocultural anthropology, emphasizes relationships among socioeconomic institutions, cultural ecology, health and medicine, religion and symbolism, individual psychological variables, and language. The second, physical anthropology, emphasizes human ecology and adaptability, human growth and development, nutritional adaptation, epidemiology, and human and nonhuman primate evolution. The third, archaeology, deals with the long sequences of independent sociocultural, technological, and ecological evolution that have taken place under diverse conditions.

The Medical Anthropology Concentration

Provides training in the three subdisciplines discussed above, but with a focus on their relationship to physical and mental health, illness, disease, and medicine.

The Physical Anthropology Concentration

The program deals with the biological nature of humans past and present. Physical anthropologists look beyond purely biological phenomena to understand how biology, behavior, and environment interact. Most course work is in the subdiscipline of human biology, which seeks to understand those interactions by studying physiology, genetics, nutrition, and epidemiology in modern human populations throughout the world. The concentration also provides training in paleoanthropology, which documents the biological history of humans and, in conjunction with archaeology, analyzes those interactions for past humans.

The Archaeology Concentration

Focuses on the customs and daily life of people who lived in the past. Anthropologists excavate and analyze the material remains of the sites of human occupation. At the same time, archaeological research seeks to understand the evolution of culture and society by determining how and why changes in human society have occurred.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Being Human: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

Health, Culture, and Disease: An Introduction to Medical Anthropology

Ethnography of Southeast Asia

Cultures of the United States

Chinese Culture and Society

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-01-12 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-11-15 00:00:00
Starting 2027-08-25 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-15 00:00:00

Language

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

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Campus Location

Cleveland Heights, United States

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General requirements

We look for students who have been successful in a variety of challenging courses, especially those that are above and beyond what’s required for graduation. And we understand every school is different, so we evaluate your transcript specifically against your high school’s curriculum.

Prior to highschool graduation, we require you to complete a minimum of:

English: 4 years
Math: 3 years
Science: 3 years
Social Studies: 3 years
Foreign language: 2 years

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The General Anthropology Concentration

The Medical Anthropology Concentration

The Physical Anthropology Concentration

The Archaeology Concentration

Programme Structure

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