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Cultural anthropology focuses on the study of cultures around the world. Understanding and living with diversity is one of today's urgent challenges. Our planet has grown much more interconnected. Yet people everywhere continue to maintain different languages and customs, from places as diverse as Pakistan and Zimbabwe to Kansas and New York. Cultural anthropology is the discipline that studies how people create and define these distinct ways of living.

The undergraduate program at Duke encourages an international perspective to the examination of such key questions with course offerings on diverse areas of the world. Through the study of cultural anthropology, students gain valuable tools to analyze and solve problems in an increasingly global society.

The Cultural Anthropology Department at Duke has a deep commitment to its undergraduate majors. The nineteen members of the faculty have research interests in a variety of issues spanning across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States. All are leading national and international experts in their fields and two Cultural Anthropology professors have recently won the prestigious Trinity College Awards for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching. The size of most courses is small, and majors receive personal attention from their faculty advisors in selecting courses and developing career plans.