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Why Study Sociology and Anthropology at Trinity
Anthropology and sociology offer complementary ways to understand human life.
Anthropology examines people and cultures across time and place. Students explore areas such as archaeology, health, migration, language, identity, material culture, and relationships between people and their environments.
Sociology focuses on social relationships, institutions, and systems. Students investigate topics such as inequality, families, organizations, health and illness, migration, cities, crime, and social change.
Across both disciplines, students learn to develop research questions, gather and interpret evidence, and communicate their findings. Courses may involve interviews, fieldwork, statistical analysis, archival research, internships, independent study, and collaborative research.
The Bigger Picture
...I like getting the bigger picture of how the human mind interacts with culture as well. This field is really beneficial just for learning about global perspectives and underrepresented groups of people. I think everything that sociology does is very important to understanding our world.
Areas of Study
Trinity offers a major and minor in both anthropology and sociology. Students may concentrate in one discipline or use courses from both to examine human experience from multiple perspectives.
Anthropology (B.A., Minor)
Study cultures and societies through cultural anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, language, and field-based research.
Archaeology (Minor)
The Archaeology minor combines the humanities and social, natural, and computer sciences to study human behavior through the material remains people left behind
Sociology (B.A., Minor)
Examine how institutions, communities, relationships, and systems influence individual experiences and social life.