Temple University's Department of Anthropology offers programs of study at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Our undergraduate curriculum is organized according to two thematic areas of concentration that have both historical and contemporary relevance in the discipline of anthropology: Evolution and Human Environments and Mobility and Global Inequality. These two areas of thematic concentration offer students the tools they need to work and thrive in an increasingly multicultural and multilingual globalized world. We offer courses in the four subfields of anthropology (archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology), with a focus on how humans make sense and meaning of their worlds, in the present and throughout time.

The Graduate Programs in Anthropology provide students with training that integrates the four traditional subfields of the discipline and organizes their engagement with anthropology around two thematic areas. The first, Mobility and Global Inequality, emphasizes social processes and institutions that underlie the impact of peoples’ movement and the experiences they encounter in terms of social inequalities, resource distribution and power inequities. It is marked by the emphasis on ethnographic, linguistic, and visual data and analytical methods grounded in contemporary theory in the social sciences. The second thematic area, Evolution and Human Environments emphasizes the origins and development of all forms of human adaptations in the biosocial realm. It is marked by an emphasis on ecological, geographic and spatial-historical data, and quantitative analyses grounded in evolutionary theory. All students in the program complete a set of core courses, which include foundational courses in the thematic areas and history of the discipline. Additional core courses provide professional training in ethics and grant writing in the discipline. Students complete elective courses allowing them to specialize in the literature, theory, and unique sub-disciplinary perspectives most relevant to their intended career goals or dissertation research. Faculty from the subfields of Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Biological Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, and Medical Anthropology contribute to the program.