Guidebooks

A resource for Arts & Sciences students, the guidebook focuses on policies, the majors, experiential education, the core curriculum and major requirements. Copies are available in the dean's office, or as PDFs, below.

Cultural Anthropology
Department's Website

Anthropology is the study of humanity in all its cultural diversity. The broad concerns of anthropology are with culture – the meaning people create and share to make sense of their conditions of life. There are four sub-fields of anthropology:

• ethnology (cultural anthropology)
• biological anthropology (the relationship of social life and culture to our physical beings)
• archaeology (the study of past cultures)
• linguistics (the study of language)

The anthropologists at Northeastern specialize in cultural anthropology and social anthropology – the relationship of culture to the institutions, interpersonal relations and practices that make up their social structure.