INTRODUCTION
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Marshall University offers a supportive environment for undergraduate and Masters level students who wish to pursue training in sociology and anthropology. Our accomplished faculty place a strong emphasis on teaching and mentoring while also striving to maintain an active research agenda. The curriculum is designed to provide our students with a wide range of options in pursuit of their academic and professional goals and interests, while also providing solid training in core foundations of the two disciplines. Students learn both qualitative and quantitative research methods and are exposed to a variety of subfields and theoretical perspectives.
Faculty core strengths include: social movements and social change, gender, race, inequality, stratification, deviance, cultural diversity, social interaction and group processes, migration, world systems/globalization, social institutions (religion, family, work and occupations, health care, politics and the economy), criminology, gerontology, qualitative and quantitative research methods, and advanced statistical analysis.
Course ANNOUCEMENTS
ANT|SOC 362 - Health, Culture, & Society
Interested in information on career options for a track combining the health sciences and anthropology? Please see an informational article on Careers in Medical Anthropology. You might also want to have a look at an interesting (brief) article by Cecil Helman titled "Should family doctors be anthropologists?" Helman is the author of the primary text used by Dr. Hoey in his course Health, Culture, & Society.
ANT 201 - Cultural Anthropology [ONLINE - Fall 2010; Spring 2011]
NOTES TO STUDENTS
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Past Course ANNOUCEMENTS
DEPT SUMMER 2010 COMPLETE COURSE SCHEDULE
ANT 465 - Anthropology of Global Problems
An anthropological study of contemporary environmental and social problems with global impact emphasizing the emergence of a culture of capitalism.
For more general information on career opportunities in anthropology, please see the Careers in Anthropology pages [leaving this site], the brochure What do Anthropologists Do?, or an overview of the value of an anthropology degree to business all of which have been prepared by the American Anthropological Association. The National Association for Practicing Anthropologists has also created a very useful guide that is tellingly titled Anthropologists at Work: Responses to Student Questions About Anthropology Careers. Finally, you can have a look at an Essay on Careers in Anthropology (with video clips) prepared by Gary Ferraro for Wadsworth Publishing.