The 应用人类学与地理学 major combines academic preparation with practical skills in GIS (geographic information system), 考古学和法医人类学. Uniting these fields is the emphasis on spatial data, which is broadly defined to include cultural 和 physical l和scapes as well as the human body.
Our students receive practical training in archeological, geographic 和 forensic anthropological field research. The biological anthropology program includes the 法医调查研究站. Geography courses provide experience using GIS to analyze datasets derived from the social sciences. The archeology program provides knowledge of regional prehistory 和 cultural resource/heritage management.
The inclusion of GIS sets our program apart from traditional anthropology programs. The combination of cultural resource management with GIS prepares graduates for work managing heritage resources on federal or state l和s. Should students aspire to graduate education, our program will also prepare them to conduct research independently.
我们提供B.A. in 应用地理与人类学 未成年人 考古 和 法医人类学.
职业发展机会
The BA in 应用人类学与地理学 is more than another liberal arts major. 它的设计是跨学科的 和 技能. 特别是, expertise in GIS sets the student up for a broad variety of careers in the public 和 private sectors in our outside of archaeology. 几个刚毕业的学生, 例如, 目前在KAART工作吗, 本地地理空间数据管理公司. The biological/ forensic anthropology component has been used by graduates in their work as coroners 和 in law enforcement, as well as those who go on to graduate school. The archaeology component is designed to give students the backgrounds they need to excel in cultural research management or in graduate studies.
教师
All full-time faculty hold PhDs 和 are active scholars 和 researchers, 把他们的工作带进教室, 和 bringing the students outside the classroom into active research projects.
梅丽莎·康纳, BA, MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison; PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Professor of 法医人类学 和 Director of the 法医调查研究站. Research interests: The role of exhumations in transitional justice situations, measuring post-mortem interval in desiccated remains, pedagogy combining STEM 和 social science fields.
约翰Seebach南卫理公会大学博士. 考古学副教授. Research interests: Western Slope prehistory 和 the anthropology of hunter-gatherers, public archaeology in collaboration with Native American nations, 文化景观.
参与
- We have two active clubs: the Anthropology Club 和 the Forensic Science Club.
- The summer archaeology field school gives students the h和s-on opportunity to participate in research projects exploring the outst和ing archaeology of the region.
- 在…实习 法医调查研究站 give select undergraduate students a highly unusual opportunity to work with both the remains of the recent dead 和 modern osteological material.
- 实习 in Geography provide h和s-on experience in applied GIS.
Graduates of this major will be able to do the following:
应用 basic research methodology sufficient to evaluate research in the discipline to include the ability to articulate the difference between qualitative 和 quantitative research methods, 和 describe 和 use descriptive statistics 和 basic analytical statistics (quantitative fluency).
Demonstrate tools to be life-long learners to include evaluation of information from other students’ research, 在互联网上找到的材料, 和 scholarly journal articles (critical thinking).
Demonstrate the ability to create maps in a geographical information system program 和 do basic spatial analysis.
Demonstrate a set of tools appropriate to the sub-discipline (specialized knowledge): 考古 students: demonstrate a basic set of field archaeological skills 和 法医人类学 students: macerate remains 和 conduct a basic osteological analysis.