Anthropology explores the variety of human groups and cultures that have developed across the globe and throughout time. Anthropologists hope that by seeing ourselves in the mirror of alternative cultural possibilities, we can come to a better understanding of our own assumptions, values and patterns of behavior.

The anthropology program at Wooster stresses, above all, the value of learning how to deal with contemporary social and cultural issues and how to develop problemsolving and research skills.

The basic challenge in sociology is to understand ourselves and others more fully. The discipline asks us to probe beneath the surface and to question why people behave as they do, especially in group situations. The sociological perspective asks us to question what we often take for granted, to ask why our society operates as it does and how our social arrangements could be different.

The sociology program at Wooster stresses, above all, the value of learning how to deal with contemporary social issues and how to develop problem-solving and research skills.