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Anthropology is a discipline concerned with how humans and human societies evolve through cultural and biological processes. Anthropology integrates a wide range of perspectives on human behavior, culture, and society. Students of anthropology at Florida Gulf Coast University learn the basic concerns and approaches through four sub-fields of the discipline: archaeology, physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, and anthropological linguistics.

Both a major and minor in anthropology are offered in this program. The anthropology major is for anyone interested in working with people in all of their cultural diversity, solving social problems, teaching social sciences, and examining human behavior and biology from an evolutionary point of view.

The Anthropology Program at Florida Gulf Coast University prioritizes learning through experiences within and beyond the classroom. The degree requires a total of 120 credit hours. During the first 60 credit hours, students complete lower division and general education requirements. The balance of program occurs in the context of core courses in the discipline, theory and research courses, topic and area courses and internship or study abroad experiences. Anthropology students are required to take 8 credit hours of appropriate college-level courses in foreign language and they will experience and reflect on life and language through cross-cultural immersion. Students will provide appropriate accounts of these experiences as a part of their course of study.

Anthropology at FGCU

Upcoming Events:

FGCU Anthropology Club presents: 

Nutritional Balancing Acts: New Insights into the Foraging Decisions of Wild Primates

A lecture by Dr. Jessica Rothman   

Tuesday, October 9th, 5 pm. 

Sugden Hospitality & Mgt. Building, Ballroom 114   

Student Opportunities:

Field School at the Myakka City Lemur Reserve: Spring break 2013

      Contact: Dr. Alison Elgart, Anthropology Program. 

      More information about Dr. Elgart's work can be found at her Faculty Website.

      More information about the Myaka City Lemur Reserve: Lemur Conservation Foundation

 Students at work:

 African Art in Transition: From Cultural Treasures to Commercial Products

   

          Spring 2011

     

Anthropology and Museum Studies students preparing materials for the exhibit

 

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