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Anthropology and ArchaeologyDepartment Chairperson: Bankoff, Arthur H.Location: 3307 James Hall Phone: 718-951-5507 Fax: 718-951-3169 
Anthropology studies how people live, how they develop physically and culturally, and how they interact within their own group and with others. Round the world, in the remains of an ancient civilization, the isolated mountains of New Guinea, an industrialized modern urban area, and the turmoil of the Middle East, anthropologists and archaeologists study the human experience. Using a four-field approach that includes cultural anthropology, archaeology, physical anthropology, and linguistics, anthropology combines the sciences with the humanities to understand the physical, social, and cultural factors contributing to the commonalities and differences of historical and contemporary human behavior. It considers humans living in hunter and gatherer, horticultural, herding, nomadic, peasant, island, urban, industrial, and postindustrial societies. Employing a methodology developed over the past 150 years, anthropologists do their work by living with the subjects of their study and experiencing their own lives as those people do, thereby developing an empathetic knowledge, which informs their work. The Brooklyn College Department of Anthropology and Archaeology offers a bachelor of arts degree in anthropology, a minor in anthropology and archaeology, and an interdisciplinary minor in law and society. It also offers a bachelor of arts degree in adolescence education for social studies teachers, and a concentration for students in the early childhood education program (birth-grade 2) and the childhood education program (grade 1-6). The department's course offerings present the richness of human diversity and encourage students to employ a cross-cultural, holistic perspective to analyze experiences and solve problems. For many of our students, anthropology becomes a lifelong framework for integrating and organizing knowledge. Undergraduate majors in our department have ongoing opportunities to do hands-on research in laboratory and fieldwork studies conducted by full-time faculty members. Our graduates find employment in education, business, nonprofit, and governmental settings that require a background in the diversity of human behavior and lifestyle. Many of our students pursue graduate degrees to further their career goals. A doctorate in anthropology is offered by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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