Student Opportunities & Services

Student organizations

• The Anthropology Club is a registered student organization that meets regularly, invites guest speakers, organizes trips and events, and conducts fundraising activities.
• The Gerontology Club helps you interact with older adults through volunteer and service events. You can also find job leads and improve your professional skills.
• Lambda Alpha is a national honorary society for anthropology majors.
• The Sociology Club cultivates students' sociological imagination. This imagination promotes critical thinking skills, which are essential for effective participation in professional, personal and public affairs. The Sociology Club interacts with the community by volunteering with nonprofit organizations.
• Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) is the international honor society for undergraduate sociology majors. The society sponsors student travel to regional meetings, helps with scholarly presentations and provides learning opportunities from speakers and from the scholarly presentations of others. The national honors society sponsors annual student paper contests, presenting awards which include monetary prizes, travel support and scholarships.

Research

Directed, independent research

Advanced students can pursue independent study projects or work one-on-one with a faculty mentor in directed readings and in directed research courses. These students often present the findings of their research at student and professional conferences.

Archeological field schools

The anthropology program offers one or more archaeological field schools for undergraduate students every year. In addition to 3-6 hours of course credit as ANT 351, the field school gives you an opportunity to acquire the basic skills required of a field archaeologist and to see if this is a career for you.

Community engagement