Anthropology

Ancient Egyptian mummies and hieroglyphics. Thousands of miles of Roman aqueducts. The Bunlap people’s tower diving ritual. Million-year-old pre-human hominid fossils. The still-unsurpassed precision of the ancient Mayan calendar. These are only a few examples of the kinds of things Anthropologists study.

Anthropology is the study of humanity. It is a broad and diverse discipline that examines the origin, behavior, and development of humans and what it means to be human in the cultural, biological, and historical sense.

In the MCC Anthropology program, you’ll learn about who you are as a participant in a culture, where and when human life arose, and how you fit into nature. You’ll learn what we humans share in the ways we behave and the ways we’ve come to play such a major role in the world. You’ll examine what past societies and civilizations were like, what drives us to war, how religion is shaped differently across different societies, and how unequal distribution of resources and wealth within societies can impact those societies.