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- Anthropology is critical
for thinking through contemporary issues.
Students understand the complexities
and nuances of human behavior,
and they do that through
the unique methods
in anthropology.
- An important subfield of
anthropology is archeology.
Archeology allows us to
reach down into the past
to answer many questions
about the human condition,
who we are, and how the
past shaped our lives.
- One of the important things
is that students work
very closely with faculty
throughout their time here at the college.
It's the combination of doing internships
or micro internships while they're here,
field schools during the summer,
and the skills that they acquire in class
that really prepares them
for life after college.
- I took my first anthropology class,
and I'm like, this is awesome!
And I kept taking more classes
within the anthropology department.
I love them.
I decided I'm anthropology major.
I think this is great.
I really enjoy the cultural
anthropological mindset in field.
One of the benefits we have
about St. Mary's anthropology
in particular is,
we're surrounded by
historical St. Mary cities
so we're able to actually go out there
and do the archeology here
and I think it's incredible to
see what is right beneath us.
