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 | | By offering a thorough grounding in human origins, archaeology, language, geography, folklore, and the diversity of cultures, it provides the intellectual breadth necessary to appreciate and cope with the increasingly global context of economic, social, scientific, technological, and political issues, and the evolving multicultural dimensions of contemporary society. |
 | | Because a faculty at the forefront of knowledge is indispensable to the education of students and the creation and dissemination of knowledge that will improve the lives of students and Maine citizens in their full social, economic, and cultural diversity, the department places as strong an emphasis on research as on teaching. |
 | | Many faculty members are cross-appointed or work closely with the Canadian-American Center, the Climate Change Institute (formerly Quaternary Studies), the Hudson Museum of Anthropology, Native American Studies and the School of Marine Sciences. |
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