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Anthropology explores the rich variety of human existence across the globe. The discipline's signature method involves extended ethnographic research, offering insights into how individual experiences connect to broader human contexts. Modern anthropology investigates the physical, communal, and symbolic dimensions of human existence through a "globally local" lens. This field introduces students to diverse cultural systems while teaching them to analyze their own lives anthropologically. Students develop skills to interpret contrasting social frameworks within both familiar and foreign cultures.
Anthropology stands apart through two key features: its comprehensive, comparative approach to human societies and its focus on how people within specific cultures perceive and navigate their world. Practitioners seek universal patterns in human social organization beneath surface variations. They often conduct immersive fieldwork, living among communities to develop deep cultural comprehension through firsthand observation and interaction.
Applicants who complete the equivalent of Grade 12 in high school (secondary school) will be considered for admission. Applicants who have completed secondary qualifications in other countries will be considered for admission under the High School Admission Route. Applicants to undergraduate programs who have completed post-secondary study will be considered for admission under the Post-Secondary Admission Route.
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