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Advance knowledge and understanding of human diversity and adaptation - past, present, and future - while seeking answers to the most vexing issues and problems affecting our species and our planet.

Understanding What it Means to be Human - Celebrating Diversity

Located on Treaty 6 territory and the homeland of the Metis, the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology is a vibrant department of engaged students and scholars working to advance knowledge and understanding of human diversity and adaptation—past, present, and future—while seeking answers to the most vexing issues and problems affecting our species and our planet. Our mission is to conjoin extraordinary teaching and research to provide students with learning experiences that will contribute to their life-long intellectual and personal development.

What you will learn

Anthropology is the comprehensive study of human beings, past and present, in comparative, cross-cultural, and holistic light. Archaeology is a sub-discipline of Anthropology that focuses on the study of artifacts and other physical remains of past peoples in order to explore adaptation and cultural diversity over time. The Archaeology and Anthropology program at the University of Saskatchewan offers training that emphasizes the role of culture in past and present human behaviour and diversity, and that exposes students to human evolutionary, environmental, and social development and adaptation. The program demonstrates particular expertise in medical anthropology, environmental anthropology, applied (practicing) anthropology, anthropological archaeology, environmental archaeology, and bioarchaeology. We emphasize community-based and engaged learning, a commitment to reconciliation, and a broad disciplinary foundation in both anthropology and archaeology.

Careers

Government sector, working for departments such as health, environment, and cultural resources, social services.

Non-government, social services, and business sectors, working for a range of private companies and organizations focused on, for example:

• research with Indigenous communities and agencies
• social service delivery
• social and cultural policy and program development and implementation
• health and environmental issues
• social and cultural impact assessment
• counseling
• urban planning

Communications

Education, as teachers, professors and researchers

Museum and archives curator