Undergraduate Program


Declaring a major and advising

Welcome to the Anthropology Department! We are excited that you are considering or have chosen anthropology as your undergraduate major—a field that both prepares you for a wide range of professional careers and (we hope) inspires you to do some creative independent work.  To learn more about anthropology outside of the classroom, we encourage you to become active in the undergraduate Anthropology Club and to attend the department’s programs in career planning.

The Anthropology Department offers both B.A. and B.S. degrees in anthropology. To declare an anthropology major, you need to visit 120 Schaeffer Hall, which are the offices of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Academic Programs & Services, and fill out the appropriate paperwork. CLAS students who are advised by the Academic Advising Center can declare or change majors there.

New majors must also visit the Anthropology Department's main office in 114 Macbride Hall and inform the department secretary that you are picking up anthropology.  The secretary will then assign you a departmental advisor.  Finally, you should plan to meet with your departmental advisor as soon as possible to learn about requirements for the major as well as the advisor's own procedures for registration.

At any point in the effort to declare a major, your are welcome to meet with the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies to get information or work through any complications.

The current Director of Undergraduate Studies is Erica Prussing .

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