Anthropology is the science that studies the human species, its relatives and antecedents. Anthropology is a diverse discipline that combines the social sciences, biological sciences, earth sciences, humanities, and the health sciences. Often conceived of as a set of sub-disciplines: cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, physical anthropology, and archaeology, it is necessarily interdisciplinary.
Consequently, anthropology students are sometimes encouraged to take courses outside the major that relate to the particular area of anthropology that they are emphasizing. For example, biological anthropology students may take biology courses, while linguistic anthropology students may take courses in the Linguistics Department. As a result of our field's interdisciplinary interests, many anthropology undergraduate students may double major, or combine the anthropology major with a minor in a complementary discipline. Anthropology graduate students use their degrees for a variety of purposes, from university teaching and research, to research and action in local, regional, and global community contexts. Students in the past have found it to be a useful preparatory degree for a variety of professions that benefit from a multi- and interdisciplinary study of the human condition (for example, business, law, medicine, education, and others).
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