Anthropology

On successful completion of this major, students will be able to:

• Apply critical and comparative analytical skills to the identification and resolution of problems within complex changing social and cultural contexts;
• Demonstrate a detailed knowledge and understanding of selected fields and intellectual debates in social and cultural anthropology;
• Articulate the relationship between diverse and contested forms of knowledge and practice and the social, historical and cultural contexts that produced them;
• Apply an independent and creative approach to knowledge based on an appreciation of interplay between theory and ethnographic inquiry;
• Communicate effectively in a variety of written and oral formats; and act as intellectually informed and ethically aware participants within a community of scholars, as citizens and in the workforce;
• Collaborate effectively in groups to meet a shared goal with people whose disciplinary and cultural backgrounds may differ from their own;
• Work with independence, self-reflection and an appreciation of cultural diversity to meet goals and challenges in the workplace and personal life.