The Undergraduate UMass Boston Navitas GSSP is the first year of a bachelor’s degree program at UMass Boston. The Navitas GSSP consists of for-credit coursework and provides an academic and cultural bridge from the high school experience to studying at a university in the United States. When students successfully complete the UMass Boston Navitas GSSP, they will progress directly into the second year of their undergraduate degree program.

For anthropologists, people’s activities reflect the changing cultural, social, ecological, and historical contexts in which they have lived, whether in the past or the present. Anthropologists ask questions about why people do, think, and believe what they do, and offer explanations or interpretations embracing cultural and historical frameworks. Anthropology helps students understand the cultural and economic connections that link people, neighborhoods, nations, and the global system. Looking at the biological side of human adaptation, anthropologists try to understand how social and cultural environments "get under the skin" to affect health and well-being, as well as studying human biological variation and evolution.