Phone: 616-331-3132
Fax: 616-331-2328
Cindy Hull
hullc@gvsu.edu

1153 Au Sable Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401

Welcome - Winter 2009!

Special Welcome
from the Chair

Anthropology Lab and Winter Hours

New!
2009 Spring Semester
Ethnographic Field School
Sign Up Now! (application) 
Informational Flyer (pdf)

 New!
Internship Program and Opportunities

Field School 2007 Report
"Link Food to Community: Farmers' Markets in Grand Rapids, MI" (2008) (pdf)

This site provides students, parents, and the regional community with useful information on the GVSU undergraduate anthropology major and minor programs. Anthropology is the study of humans. The sub-fields within anthropology are Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Linguistics and Applied anthropology. Anthropology as a discipline teaches/promotes:
  •  holism - the concept that all aspects of human behavior are interrelated and important in understanding what it means to be human,
  • cross-cultural analyses - to understand the wide range of diversity in human behavior in order to eliminate prejudice and bias,
  • human diversity  - uses a variety of methods to observe and measure the range of human behavior and culture. 

Anthropological perspectives provide students with unique abilities to contribute to standard job skills such as: diversity sensitivity, management, interviewing techniques, research/program design, statistical/survey techniques, teaching/training, communication. 

 

At this site, you can find out about:

Anthropology Club
Current Events

New! Student Scholarship Day 2009

Internship Program

  Last Modified Date: March 31, 2009
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