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Why Anthropology?
The Program
Careers in Anthropology
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Why study Anthropology?

As an anthropology student you may study such things as: the way culture influences the process of communication between people of different cultures; the relationship between individuals and their ecological and socio-cultural environments throughout the life cycle; major societal forms from foraging, through horticultural and agrarian, to industrial and post-industrial; and, issues of development at the global and local levels around questions such as “What is development” and “Who benefits from development”.

The Program

The Department offers a Minor, a Major and an Honours program in anthropology. A distinctive feature of the Mount Allison program is a series of world ethnography courses which provide regional overviews. Courses include the study of theory, method and areas such as social inequality, belief, folklore, family and kinship, health and culture. This creates the lens through which anthropologist view the world.

Anthropology also complements other scientific and liberal arts courses by helping students understand the interconnectivity of knowledge about people and their cultures. Inter-disciplinary study enables students to understand issues that will affect the future and the information that will be needed to thrive in the global world.

Students participate in enrichment activities such as a field trip to a Gurdwara -- Sikh temple, a cultural exchange organized in partnership with an Aboriginal community, a workshop at an Aboriginal Healing Lodge, and a Henna workshop. The department also offers fieldwork opportunities through faculty initiated summer research projects.

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Careers in Anthropology

Career Orientation of Graduates

The study of anthropology is essential training for careers in an increasingly global workplace. Business is being conducted internationally and employees and markets are increasingly diverse. Anthropology also develops the critical thinking and communication skills needed to succeed in research, teaching, advocacy, and public service.

As a graduate you may pursue a career in the following areas: as museum curators, cultural resource managers, and in applied research either as consultants or employees within corporations or NGO’s. Mount Allison graduates have also achieved advanced degrees in anthropology and law.

Graduate School Options

Sandy Barron is a recent graduate who completed the Honours thesis option and is pursuing graduate studies in anthropology at University of Calgary. Rachel Roy, by contrast, completed the Honours course-based option and is pursuing graduate work in museum studies at the University of Toronto. Other students are completing graduate work in archaeology and classics at the University of British Columbia and in anthropology at Carleton University and at the University of New Brunswick.

For other Honours graduates, anthropology has cultivated an interest in and prepared them for work in other parts of the world. Laurel Dietz and Jennifer Graham are teaching English in Japan and South Korea.

For more information on careers in anthropology click here.

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