Anthropology
The Department of Anthropology, awarded top honors as a High Quality Learning Environment, excels in providing student-centered learning opportunities at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Students have a wide range of possibilities for working closely with department faculty on research, service-learning, and civic engagement projects. Anthropology houses the Ethnography Lab, Human I.D. Lab, Archaeology Lab, Zooarchaeology Lab, Conservation Lab, and the Museum of Anthropology which also serves as a lab for students. Anthropology students, and students majoring in other disciplines, may choose from four certificate programs that offer hands-on training that can lead to future careers in applied cultural anthropology, cultural resource management, forensics, and museum studies. Internships in these fields annually place an average of 40 students in professional institutions, and government agencies locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally.
Anthropology service learning and internship partners include
| Alaska State Museum Arizona State Museum Bay Area Discovery Museum Butte County Area Agency on Aging Butte County Health Department Butte County Sheriff Department Butte County Historical Society California Academy of Sciences California Department of Parks and Recreation California Railroad Museum City of Chico Fire Department Chico Museum Department of Justice Criminalistics Laboratory Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum Gold Nugget Museum Houston Museum of Natural Science Jekyll Island House Museum, Georgia |
Migrant Clinicians Network The National Trust for Scotland Nevada State Museum New York City Medical Examiner’s Office Oakland Museum Physical Anthropology Human ID Laboratory Sacramento County Coroner’s Office San Diego Museum of Man San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles Smithsonian Institution Shasta County Coroner’s Office Tallac Historic Site, Lake Tahoe Turtle Bay Exploration Park United States Forest Service United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Whitney Museum |