Anthropology

Overview

Students of the Anthropology program from University of La Verne can choose to emphasize forensic anthropology through an emphasis on Forensic Investigation and Identification. The Core Courses provide students with a combination of theoretical, methodological, applied and research design knowledge and skills that are the foundation of anthropology’s four fields. The Breadth Requirements ground students in all of the content areas that inform the anthropological quest to understand the essence of humanness. Electives allow them to continue in the four field tradition, or to explore one of the four fields in more depth.

Key facts:

The program includes opportunities for hands-on experience doing fieldwork in both local communities and abroad, and with anthropological collections including:

• contemporary and fossil ape and human skeletal casts/materials,
• 2 to 10,000 year old stone tools from local Paleo-Indian sites,
• Tarahumara cultural artifacts from Mexico,
• prehistoric materials from Micronesia in the Pacific, and
• local historical artifacts dating from the early days of the university.