<p>A wide variety of individualized special programs are made possible by a close working relationship with other departments that complement such core specialties as: Urban and Political Anthropology, Social Change and Modernization, Evolution and Human Biology, Archaeology of Complex Societies, and Ecological Anthropology. Active linkages exist with departments of History, Religion, Linguistics, Sociology and Biological Sciences; and with the Schools of Education, Music, Speech (Performance Studies) and the Northwestern Medical School. There is also a close relationship with the Program of African Studies, Gender Studies Program, Latin American &amp; Caribbean Studies Program, the Center for International and Comparative Studies, and The Field Museum, Chicago. All second-year graduate students participate in the undergraduate teaching program. The Northwestern Field Museum Research Collaboration in Anthropology: The Field Museum and Northwestern University offer a collaborative program of research and training. The program provides opportunities for faculty, graduate and undergraduate students to participate in field and collections research projects directed by Northwestern University and/or Field Museum anthropologists. Joint Programs exist in two areas; 1) the archaeology of complex society with a focus on Sub-Sahara Africa, the Middle East, Europe, South America, Mesoamerica, Midwestern and Southwestern US, East Asia and Oceania. And 2) through the Center for Cultural Understanding and Change, research on Chicago communities, community organizations and urban culture.</p>