undergraduate program

About the Department

What We Do

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If you have asked or are interested in any of the above questions, then you should consider studying Anthropology.

Anthropology is the study of different societies around the world - their origins, development and cultural similarities and differences. The goal of Anthropology is to advance knowledge of who and what we are, how we came to be, and where we might be going in the future.

York University 's Anthropology Department focuses on the theories and methods of anthropology to explore how people in the world are subjected to, participate in, and contest the processes of living in a world that is interconnected by new and powerful economic, cultural and technological forces. We ask our students to think critically and productively about how concepts such as class, race, gender, health, and ethnic identities are produced and expressed in shifting local and global contexts of power.

These themes are explored in a wide variety of courses and engage such topics as: development and the environment, media and popular culture, health, illness and disability, gender and sexualities, tourism, religion and science, diasporic communities and displaced peoples, violence and conflict, and the colonial process. Other courses focus on processes of change in the prehistoric and historic past.

Our overall goal is to prepare our students to ask questions about contemporary, past and future social life and to provide you with the critical analytic tools to understand our place in the social and cultural diversity of the world, past and present. York 's Anthropology program ranks as one of the best in North America. (Undergraduate Program Review - 2003)

What You Can Do With A Degree In Anthropology

Students who graduate with a B.A. Degree in anthropology from York University have gone on to a wide variety of professions. In our society, where adaptability and flexibility are increasingly necessary to succeed in the workplace, anthropology can provide a set of critical skills for a variety of jobs. A number of our students go on to postgraduate (M.A., Ph.D.) studies, but most go on to quite different careers in which they find their anthropological knowledge and skills to be great assets. Some of these careers may include: