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Career Skills

Valuable Career Skills

Anthropology prepares you in many ways for the future. The following chart presents a number of valuable skills, and shows which courses in the anthropology major help develop each skill.

Note: This chart includes required courses in the major and some elective courses.

Anthropology Careers Skills Chart
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Analytical Thinking and Innovation  
Active Learning and Learning Strategies ●    ●  ●  ●  ●  ●  ● 
Complex Problem 
Solving, Reasoning,
and Ideation
● 
Critical Thinking
and Analysis
Creativiity, 
Originality, and
Initiative
   ●
Communication:
Written, Oral
        ●   ●  
Cultural
Responsiveness
    ●    ●   
Quantitative and
Qualitative Research
Design and 
Implementation
●  ●    ●    ●   
Resilience, Stress
Tolerance and 
Flexibility
   ●    
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Courses

ANTH 116 Intro to Anthropology
ANTH 376 Culture Theory
SOC 383 Statistics
ANTH 482 Ethnographic Theory and Method
ANTH 494 Capstone
ANTH 353 Biculturalism
ANTH 431 Cuture, Enonmoy and Morality
ANTH 435 Power and Gender in SE Asia
ANTH 481 Anthropological Writing