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The Center for Urban Anthropology
was founded in 1988 to provide an institutional base to promote
anthropological research on urban social problems. The Center's
goals are to train students from anthropology and related fields
in anthropological method and theory through investigations in the
Bay Area conurbation.
Computer Facilities. E-mail
accounts on the Internet are available free of charge for
anthropology students as are accounts on the university computers
for research purposes. We also share SCI 269 with the History
Department and the Child and Adolescent Development Program. Here
there are computers and printers for student use. In addition, the
University maintains numerous computer laboratories for student
use. Access to the Treganza Museum computerized catalogues may be
arranged in consultation with Dr. Yoshiko Yamamoto, the Museum
Director. The Treganza Museum maintains a WWW page with its
current (and past) exhibitions.
The Resource Room (SCI 270)
contains books and journals for student use and materials related
to course work. In addition the Resource Room serves as a facility
for student study, for faculty and student meetings and for
special events. We share this room with History and Child and
Adolescent Development. It can be reserved for special meetings
and programs.
Laboratory Facilities. The
anthropology department maintains a laboratory for human
biological studies and for archaeological methodological training.
The laboratory is located in SCI 273 and contains human and
non-human osteology materials and hominid fossil cast collections
in addition to equipment for a wide range of anthropological
investigations. The department laboratory facilities also include
the Bioanthropology lab, located in SCI 395, which is a
dedicated research laboratory for human skeletal research. This
state of the art facility provides space for NAGPRA related
skeletal analysis and forensic skeletal analysis in a secure
environment. An archaeology laboratory for NAGPRA-related work
is located in SCI 115.
The Sutro Collection of
Egyptian antiquities is housed by the Classics Department. Annual
exhibits from this collection are put on by students in the
Becker-Colonna Gallery on campus.
SFSU/UC Consortium. A special
consortium agreement between SFSU and the University of California
enables students to take classes not offered at SFSU at UCB or
UCSF. This consortium was specifically organized for Pacific Rim
Studies, although other areas may be served as well. SFSU students
may purchase UCB library cards at reduced rates and use the UC
library facilities for their research.
Students for Critical Anthropology is a
student group organized and directed by anthropology students. SCA
holds regular meetings and events, and brings speakers to the
campus. Please visit the SCA website at
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~sca/.
Other Off-Campus Facilities.
The California Academy of Sciences is located close to campus in
Golden Gate Park. Students may use collections here in their
research and may volunteer for internships in collections
management in the Departments of Anthropology,
Geology/Paleontology, and Biology as well as in external programs
and educational programs.
The San Francisco Zoo is located
also quite close to campus and is available for field trips and
primate research.
The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of
Anthropology on the University of California, Berkeley campus
provides research and internship opportunities for SFSU students
and has an active anthropology exhibition program. |
