The Anthropology program is offered as a major, minor, honours, joint honours and double major as part of a Bachelor of Arts degree. Arts is a four-year degree that covers a broad range of subject areas concerned with the study of human beings and the evolution and nature of global societies, ideas, and institutions. In your first two years of Arts, you will select courses in fields like humanities, languages, social sciences as well as science and business to provide you with a broad foundation for advanced study in your chosen subject area during the final two years. When you finish, you'll be prepared to go on to graduate school, professional schools, or straight into careers like the creative arts, the civil service, administration, business or journalism.

Anthropology is the study of humankind, past and present. Anthropology examines humankind’s evolutionary history, its global cultural manifestations, and its patterns of social organization. The discipline of Anthropology is considered a social science; however, anthropologists draw upon information and techniques from a broad range of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and physical sciences, in their studies of humankind. Traditionally, Anthropology has been divided into four subfields: Social and cultural anthropology examines contemporary and recent cultures around the world. This discipline also examines socially relevant issues from a holistic and cross-cultural perspective in order to better understand the problems that confront our modern world. Biological anthropology explores human evolution and biological diversity; and bio-medical anthropology examines how human cultural practices influence the spread of infectious disease, the effects of urbanized lifestyle on people who have lived until recently under more traditional conditions, including the long-term evolutionary consequences of disease on human populations. Anthropological archaeology is the study of human history and culture through the material remains left by people who lived in the past. Archaeology is among the most interdisciplinary of studies, bridging the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and physical sciences. Anthropological linguistics is the study of how languages are constructed and the ways language affects thought. The Department of Anthropology at UNB Fredericton offers education in the first three of these sub-fields.