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Anthropology is one of the few major fields to combine fascinating course work and practical career training in one academic package. The material is intellectually exciting and pre-pares students for excellent jobs and opens doors to various career paths: the course of study provides global information and thinking skills critical to succeeding in the 21st century in US and international business, medicine, law, research, teaching, advocacy, and public service. Anthropology may be combined as a double major with subjects such as biology, business, computer science, environmental studies, museum studies, history, foreign service, or a pre-professional program, to name only a few. This combination of major fields of study often leads to a better understanding of life and increases the chance for successful communications in personal relationships, essential elements to the career minded student.
A new 30 hour track of courses leads to a specialized major in forensic anthropology. Course work in human osteology, forensic anthropology, criminal investigation, and forensic entomology lead to several career paths. Internships are offered through Medical Examiners' offices in areas of pathology, crime scene investigation and toxicology that open the way to important job opportunities in law enforcement. The training received with the forensic track also allows for exciting hands on experience for entrance into the diverse medical fields of forensic medicine.
Introduction to Anthropology, which fulfills a basic University social science requirement, touches on all three subdisciplines, examines societies and lifeways of people around the world and throughout time. Films, slides, lectures and open discussions are used to provide students with a vivid and visual understanding of human diversity from the most ancient past to the dynamic present.
For students majoring in anthropology, the emphasis is on learning by doing. Students work in medical research, community studies, appropriate technology in the third world, archeological excavations, cultural surveys in the United States and abroad and environmental analysis in Texas. The program offers field schools in cultural anthropology, forensic science, primatology and archaeology, conducted in Central America, Greece, Scandinavia and Texas.