Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology

Dickinson College Pennsylvania, USA / 717-243-5121, hillan@dickinson.edu http://dickinson.edu/academics/program.cfm?anthropology The Admission’s Committee at Dickinson College evaluates student’s: high school academic records, to weigh in the type and quality of classes taken, high school ranking, and the quality of the school; an official recommendation of the student’s guidance counselor, headmaster, principal, or college adviser, and a recommendation letter or letters form teachers; SAT I or ACT scores are not required for admission, but are required for those students applying for scholarships; and extra-curricular and leadership activities. The BA in Anthropology emphasizes fieldwork as its main focus. Students are encouraged to do fieldwork abroad and in the department’s ethnographic field school, a state-of-the-art facility that allows for students to do fieldwork inside of the college buildings. The program covers all the anthropology subfields, in order for students to understand human diversity; cultural anthropology, biological anthropology, and archaeology. Courses include: African Diaspora, Gender and Colonialism, Principles of human Variation, and Medical Anthropology, among many others. Students are encouraged to study abroad, in order to be able to study native populations in Queensland (Australia), Toulouse (France), and Queretaro (Mexico). The department also offers a six-week ethnographic field school at a site abroad, where each student designs his or her own fieldwork project and executes it. The program is highly exciting and hands-on, it offers students an opportunity to not only learn form theory, but form practice, from their own projects in the field. Bachelor's Degree