Degree in Anthropology

Format: In person on the Statesboro Campus
Credit Hours: 124

Gain the knowledge and skills to make a difference in local and global communities by earning your degree in Anthropology!

Georgia Southern University’s Anthropology program is a vibrant community of passionate students, award-winning teachers and renowned scholars. Combining comprehensive coursework with practical career training, our program of study gives you the vision to know the questions to ask, the research tools to find the answers, and the skills to turn your findings into social solutions.

Major in Anthropology

The Anthropology degree program at Georgia Southern offers broad, multidisciplinary training in general anthropology, as well as concentrations in four subfields: cultural anthropology, linguistics, archaeology and biological anthropology. Anthropology majors can choose between three tracks of study:

• The Field School Experience Track: Anthropology majors participate in the excavation of an archaeological site.
• The Internship Experience Track: Anthropology majors complete a supervised internship in a professional setting relevant to anthropology.
• The Four-Field Track: Anthropology majors gain broad-based training in the four fields of Anthropology with flexible choices in course offerings.

Work alongside world-class faculty in the field and in our state-of-the-art labs and archaeological repository while pursuing one of four concentrations.

Program Requirements

In addition to a strong liberal arts base of classes, our majors are required to take 30 hours of upper-division anthropology courses.

Download the program of study for a complete overview of all the courses you will need to complete.

Student Learning Outcomes

Anthropology Minor

Students may also minor in Anthropology by completing 15 credit hours in Anthropology classes.

Field Experience and Anthropology Internship Opportunities

At Georgia Southern, Anthropology students discover the past through hands-on fieldwork and laboratory analysis, learning practical, career-focused professional skills. Recent archaeological projects include survey and testing of

• Camp Lawton (a Confederate Army military prison near Millen, Georgia)
• Prehistoric Native American encampments, villages and mound sites (along the Savannah River and its tributaries)
• Locations in the Savannah national Historic Landmark District (as part of projects with the Digging Savannah public archaeology initiative)

Anthropology majors can earn course credit working in nonprofit organizations, government agencies and other organizations, applying their anthropology training to real-world problems and settings. These experiences allow them to master applied anthropology — when anthropologists connect their research to problems or concerns identified by communities and work with communities toward a solution.

Students gain work experience in archaeological curation and artifact conservation as volunteers and paid employees in our archaeological labs and the R M Bogan Archaeological Repository. Anthropology students may also take their studies abroad, learning in places such as Botswana, Panama and Ireland.

Additionally, students can join the Georgia Southern Anthropological Society, a student organization that builds students’ peer networks and professional connections, arranges field trips to anthropological events and places of interest, helps organize and fund student attendance at anthropology conferences, sponsors guest speakers and explores how we can see anthropology in everything.

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Last updated: 9/8/2021