Bachelor of Arts in English and Cultural Anthropology

Northeastern University

The Department of English and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology offer an interdisciplinary combined major in English and cultural anthropology. Broadly speaking, students in the combined major in English and cultural anthropology at Northeastern integrate the study of literature, language, and writing with the study of human culture and its intersections with structures of inequality (e.g., race, class, and gender) and contemporary global issues. In the Department of English, we explore how literary expression and rhetorical action shape and are shaped by the worlds in which they were created. Literature, language, and rhetoric offer powerful tools for understanding the ideas and beliefs that construct our lives, including present and historical formations of aesthetics, race, gender, sexuality, disability, class, colonialism, health, and the environment across a wide variety of media.