Greetings and welcome to the Department of Anthropology at the University of Central Florida (UCF)! Our faculty, staff, and students remain dedicated to the anthropological mission of advancing understandings of human diversity across time, culture, and geography. With 19 core faculty representing the discipline’s primary subfields of archaeology, biological anthropology, and cultural anthropology, we engage in high-impact fieldwork both locally and around the world. Together, our curriculum and research seeks to answer enduring questions about what it means to be human with highly relevant implications for today’s world.
Our undergraduate program provides students rigorous, holistic, and engaging instruction with opportunities for hands-on learning in and around central Florida and abroad. To accommodate different learning styles and work-life situations, we offer classes in multiple formats including: (1) face-to-face classroom and lab instruction; (2) mixed-mode teaching that merges traditional in-person learning with web-based components; and (3) fully online instruction that offers students flexibility in how they engage instructor-directed coursework and learning. Notably, our program is nationally recognized for providing one of the top online Anthropology BA degrees currently available.
Our program offers two different graduate degrees. The first is a broad-based Anthropology MA degree that combines required core classes with elective coursework. Students concentrate studies in one of the three primary subfields (archaeology, biological anthropology, or cultural anthropology), choosing to complete their MA either through a thesis or non-thesis option. Our second degree is a Ph.D. in Integrative Anthropological Sciences which focuses on the dynamics of transformational change shaping the human experience in societies past and present, imparting scientific, technological, and sociocultural skills, through empirically based approaches applicable to both academic and non-academic jobs.
Please take the time to explore our department website or follow us on social media. Information about faculty, labs & research, and upcoming events can all be accessed through these online resources. In closing, feel free to contact me or any of our faculty and staff if you have questions about our department, programs, or research.
Go Knights, Charge On!
Ty Matejowsky
Professor and Interim Department Chair