Anthropology is a vibrant discipline that explores the diversity of ways of life and the commonality of the human condition across the world. Attending to these facets of human life, anthropology at Wellesley encompasses socio/cultural studies, historical work, archeology, and biological analysis of human characteristics and practices. Putting these methods into conversation, an education in anthropology orients students to understand and analyze human nature and how culture operates in their own everyday lives, as well as the lives of others.