MacEwan University is a prominent institution of higher education located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. With a history dating back to 1971, the university offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs across various disciplines, including arts, sciences, business, health, and social sciences. MacEwan University is known for its emphasis on hands-on learning, practical experience, and industry partnerships, ensuring students are well-prepared for their chosen careers. The university's supportive and inclusive environment fosters critical thinking, creativity, and community engagement. MacEwan University is committed to providing quality education, advancing research, and making a positive impact on its students and the community.

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You appreciate other cultures and want them to be valued. You recognize and respect human diversity. You are a big picture thinker with the patience and desire to analyze new situations and contexts. When you study anthropology, you delve into the fascinating world of human history and contemporary human issues. As an anthropology major, you gain insight into some of the most important questions facing humanity today. You use your understanding of cultural differences to explore topics such as social inequality, material culture, human connection to the physical world, human evolution and language. Anthropologists work in a wide variety of careers, including professional archaeology, forensic science, market research, language revitalization projects, medicine, government, intercultural education and climate change responses. Show less

As you progress through the anthropology major, you refine critical thinking skills while developing research skills (including learning and applying methods) and analytical skills. You choose one or two subfields that interest you the most and begin to study them more deeply.

In the first and second year of the program, you learn key terms, approaches and theories of anthropology. You are introduced to the big questions that drive the discipline, examining cross-cultural and biological perspective on what it means to be human. You become familiar with the historical and contemporary underpinnings of each of the four subfields of anthropology: social/cultural anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology and linguistic anthropology. In the second year, you begin to conduct work in the lab.

In your third year, you learn how humans live in, have adapted to and participate in our physical and social environments. The courses you take, including those that focus on research methods, prepare you for special topics courses that expand on and deepen your knowledge of anthropology subdisciplines. By the final year of the program, you are creating and disseminating original research, communicating anthropological concepts using a variety of media and evaluating your peers using a variety of techniques. When you encounter an unfamiliar cultural situation, you are able to respond to and interpret it from an anthropological perspective. You have learned to listen, ask questions and evaluate the world from a biocultural, holistic point of view.

Bachelor of Arts - Anthropology Major
Course List
Specific Major Requirements
ANTH 101 Introduction to Anthropology
ANTH 206 Introduction to Archaeology
ANTH 207 Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 208 Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
ANTH 209 Introduction to Biological Anthropology
ANTH 399 Ecological Perspectives in Anthropology
ANTH 394 Ethnographic Research Methods
or ANTH 395 Archaeological Method Issues
ANTH 415 Anthropological Theory
or ANTH 481 Archaeological Theory History

General Major Requirements
Choose 18 to 36 credits from junior- and senior-level ANTH with a minimum of 15 credits at the 300- or 400-level and a minimum of 3 credits at the 400-level. 18-36
Secondary Major or Minor(s)
Students have the option of completing a second Arts major, or one or two minors. Minor courses must be completed at the senior-level.

Options
Students can complete up to 15 credits in out-of-faculty options, with no more than 3 credits in physical activity (PACT) courses. 0-60
Total Credits 120

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You will need to book the accommodation after you have been accepted.

You can choose to live on campus or off campus in private accommodation.

How to book:

• Make a booking online after you have been accepted (in this case please let us know your choice when you apply).
• Register when you arrive - its not possible to reserve a room before arriving. You can arrive a few days before and book it

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